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"Quite naturally I quite appreciate it Since Made an honest life?"

"Yes I have tried to do so At present I aarding the affair at the Villa Aret, signore, I can tell you nothing further," replied the staid, rather sad-looking old hed

"Why?" asked the man whose tentacles were, like an octopus, upon a hundred scheht a solution of the proble

He had strained every effort, but he could ascertain nothing

That Cataldi knew the key to the whole problem The Sparrow felt assured Yet why did not the old fellow tell the truth?

At last The Sparrow rose and left, and Hugh followed him Both were bitterly disappointed The old norant of the whole affair

Cataldi's attitude annoyed the h, at great risk of recognition and arrest

On the fourth day they went together in a hired car along the winding road across the Var to Cannes

At a big white villa a little distance outside the pretty winter town of flowers and palms, they halted The house, which was on the Frejus road, was once the residence of a Russian prince

With The Sparrow Hugh was ushered into a big, sunny rooeraniums ran riot with carnations and violets, and for some minutes they waited From the s spread a wide view of the calm sapphire sea

Then suddenly the door opened