Thus dismissed, Hugh walked along Ellerston Street into Curzon Street towards Piccadilly, not knowing where to go to spend the intervening hours.
The instant he had gone, however, The Sparrow turned to his companion, who said:
“I wonder if Lisette has revealed anything?”
“By Jove!” remarked The Sparrow, for once suddenly perturbed. “I never thought of that!”
TWENTY-SECOND CHAPTER
CLOSING THE NET
“Well—recollect how much the girl knows!” Howell remarked as he stood before The Sparrow in the latter’s room.
“I have not forgotten,” said the other. “The whole circumstances of old Henfrey’s death are not known to me. That it was an unfortunate affair has long ago been proved.”
“Yvonne was the culprit, of course,” said Howell. “That was apparent from the first.”