Dante.
CONTENTS.
| THE LOOT OF CITIES | [ 7] |
| MR. PENFOUND’S TWO BURGLARS | [ 157] |
| MIDNIGHT AT THE GRAND BABYLON | [ 173] |
| THE POLICE STATION | [ 193] |
| THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIMA DONNA | [ 214] |
| THE EPISODE IN ROOM 222 | [ 225] |
| SATURDAY TO MONDAY | [ 235] |
| A DINNER AT THE LOUVRE | [ 244] |
THE LOOT OF CITIES.
CHAPTER I.
THE FIRE OF LONDON.
“YOU’RE wanted on the telephone, sir.”
Mr. Bruce Bowring, managing director of the Consolidated Mining and Investment Corporation, Limited (capital two millions, in one-pound shares, which stood at twenty-seven-and-six), turned and gazed querulously across the electric-lit spaces of his superb private office at the confidential clerk who addressed him. Mr. Bowring, in shirt-sleeves before a Florentine mirror, was brushing his hair with the solicitude of a mother who has failed to rear most of a large family.