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"I forgive you, Made her slim, white hand

"Mademoiselle will, I hope, meet Miss Ranscomb, Mr Henfrey's fiancee, and tell her the whole truth," said The Sparrow

"That I certainly will," Yvonne replied "Now that I can think I shall be allowed to leave this place--eh?"

"Of course I will see after that," said the man known as Mr Peters "You must return to the Villa Amette--for you are still Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo, rehed happily

"But we are no nearer the solution of the h remarked

"There can be but one person Old Cataldi knoho it is," she answered

"Cataldi? Then why has he not told me? I questioned him closely only the other day," said The Sparrow

"For certain reasons," Mademoiselle replied "He dare not tell the truth!"

"Why?" asked Hugh

"Because--well----" and she turned to The Sparrow "You will recollect the affair we brought off in Brussels at that house of the Belgian baroness close to the Bois de la Cambre A servant was shot dead Giulio Cataldi shot him in self-defence But Howell knows of it"

"Well?" asked The Sparrow

"Hoas in Monte Carlo on the night of the attempt upon me I met him in the Casino half an hour before I left to walk honized Mr Henfrey, as also there, as the son of the man whom he had murdered, watched him, and followed him up to my villa He suspected that Mr Henfrey's object was to face asped Hugh

"Of that I feel positive Only Cataldi can prove it"

"Why Cataldi?" inquired Hugh

"See hiain and tell him what I have revealed to you," answered Madeainst you by that letter posted in Tours?"

"It was part of Howell's scheme, no doubt I have no idea of the identity of the writer of any anonymous letter But Howell, no doubt, saw that if he rid hie"

"Then Cataldi will not speak the truth because he fears Howell?" remarked the notorious chief of Europe's underworld

"Exactly Now that I can think, I can piece the whole puzzle together It is all quite plain Do you not recollect Howell's curious rifle fashioned in the forer on the steps of the Casino as I ca that stick Indeed, he is seldouised rifle I was shot!"