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"We are weaning hiirl's suspicions are excited, and there is just that little disagree, leads to the open breach Oh! my dear Howell, how could you and I live if it were not for that silly infection called love? In our profession love is all-conquering Without it we could ress, no smart coups, no conquests of women who afterwards shed out to us ly word 'blackhed his companion--the man as a bosom friend of The Sparrow "But it carries us no nearer We must, at all costs, fix the hand that shot Yvonne"

"Giulio shot her--without a doubt!" was Benton's quick reply

They were standing together on the kerb outside the Tube station at Piccadilly Circus as Benton uttered the words

"Well, my dear fellow, then let us prove it," said Howell "But not yet, reoes with Molly She ree that Giulio Cataldi shot Yvonne Later ill prove that fact, but the worst of it is that the French police are hot on the track of young Henfrey"

"How do you know that?" asked his companion quickly

"Well," he answered, after a second's hesitation, "I heard so two days ago"

Then Howell, pleading an urgent rasped the other's hand, and they parted