“Is it wise of the English excellency to walk abroad alone,—here?” he asked earnestly, in a voice and patois that sounded queerly familiar. I stopped short and stared at him, and then, in a flash, I knew him, though as yet he had not recognized me, save as a foreigner.

He was the old Jew who had come to my flat on the night of Cassavetti’s murder!

Then, in a flash, I knew him. Page [228]


CHAPTER XXXV

A BAFFLING INTERVIEW