Edgar Wallace

“ For just what reason had Cæsar taken him under his wing? Cæsar had witnessed the affair on the Quai des Fleurs and knew that by harboring the man who had committed the act he had rendered himself guilty by the laws of France. The project ahead must be of vast importance or Cæsar would not have run the risk. If the girl had seen—the girl in black whom Smith had seen peering into the river. She must have seen, or why would she have been standing on that spot, leaning over the parapet? Smith rubbed his chin and frowned. The girl might spoil everything. ”

“ The silk pajamas which had. been left for him were rather long in the leg, but he turned them up, and, switching out the light, pulled aside the heavy velvet curtains which covered the window and looked out. The windows were of the French type which open outward and these he swung wide. There was an easy drop from the window to a flower bed beneath, so that there was no need. to worry about a get-away. ”