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At ten o'clock on the non for Paris, The Sparrow stood at theof his cozy little flat in the Rue des Petits Champs, where he was known to his elderly housekeeper--a worthy old soul from Yvetot, in the north--as Guillaureat old ones built in the days of the First Empire, with a narrow entrance and square courtyard into which the stage coaches with postilions rumbled before the days of the PLM and aircraft In the Napoleonic days it had been the residence of the Dukes de Vizelle, but in modern times it had been converted into a series of very cohtly and alert, stood, after taking his cafe au lait, looking down into the courtyard He had been reading through several letters and telegra azed out of the"I'm certain of it--quite certain! But, Gad! If they do I'll be even with theiven Henfrey away in London--and why?"

He paced the length of the rooht they were all loyal after what I have done for them--after the fortunes I have put into their pockets Fancy! One of them a well-known member of Parliament--another a director of one of the soundest insurance coreat crooks It is only the little clueback to the , he said aloud: "Lisette ought to be here! She was due in fro further has happened One thing is satisfactory--young Henfrey is safe"

As a irl had spoken to The Sparrow froht, and told hih" was in Marseilles

Even to the ly co Henfrey, because of the ainst hi fellow to evade arrest, because he had no desire that there should be a trial in which he and his associates ht be implicated

The Sparrow hated trials of any sort With hiolden, and very wisely he would pay any sum rather than court publicity

Half an hour went past, but the girl he expected did not put in an appearance

Monsieur Gautier--the loved hand--was believed by his old housekeeper to be a rich and somewhat eccentric bachelor, as interested in old clocks and antique silver, and who travelled extensively in order to purchase fine speciistered in the archives of the Surete, with the observation that notwithstanding his foreign na