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"But you speak of Cataldi How can he know?"

"When I entered the house I told hi me I ordered him to watch This no doubt he did He has ever been faithful to uilt upon Mr Henfrey?" asked The Sparrow "In doing so he was defeating his own aims If Mr Henfrey were sent to prison he could not marry Louise Lambert, and if he had married Louise he would have benefited Howell! Therefore the whole plot was nullified"

"Exactly, m'sieur Howell atte that if I told Mr Henfrey the truth he would inform the police of the circu the attempt he defeated his own ends--a fact which he only realized when too late!"

CONCLUSION The foregoing is perhaps one of the most remarkable stories of the underworld of Europe

Its details are set down in full in three big portfolios in the archives of the Surete in Paris--where the present writer has had access to them

In that bald official narrative which is docketed under the heading "No 23489/263--Henfrey" there is no h Henfrey of Woodthorpe

But the true facts are that within three days of Mademoiselle's recovery of her mental balance, old Giulio Cataldi made a sworn stateendarht to a slishht was safe hiding

The arrest took place atcornered in his bedroo an automatic pistol, which he had under his pillow, shot and wounded one of the gendarmes Whereupon his colishman dead

Benton, a few months later, was sentenced to forced labour for fifteen years, while his accomplice, Molly Bond, received a sentence of ten years Only one case--that of jewel robbery--was, however, proved against her

Dorise, about six weeks after Mademoiselle Yvonne's explanation, h became reconciled Her jealousy of Louise Lambert disappeared when she knew the actual truth, and she ad, when the Probate Court had set aside the false will, that he would settle a coirl

This, indeed, he did