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 Would you like a bobby to find that book on you?'

"You should have seen him start as I mentioned his real name.

"'Hush I hush! for God's sake speak a little lower! What do you want? I'll send you the money.'

"'No you won't! I'll call for it anywhere you like to leave a hundred quid for me; but you must give me the rings off your fingers as security, to be returned when I get the money, on my word of honour.'

"He was too frightened not to comply at once, and told me to take them to a certain house in a little street out of Harley Street, any time after ten o'clock the next Sunday evening.

"I knew the house very well. It was kept by a great big bully, who had been