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 The story told by the pair was certainly alarming.

Once again I recognized here the evil finger-prints of the Invisible Hand.

'You saw the men who attacked you?' Roseye said to Mulliner when we were again in the house. 'Describe them to us.'

'Well, miss. There's the difficulty. There were two men, I know, as well as a woman—a tallish woman, dressed in a fur-coat and a small motor-hat. She had a thin, dark-looking face and funny eyes, and she spoke to the men in some foreign language—Italian, I think.'

'Ah!' gasped Roseye, turning to me terrified. 'The woman! I feared it—I knew it! The woman with the Leopard's Eyes!'

'And the men?' I asked. 'Did you not see them?'

'I only caught a glimpse of one of them,' and the description she gave of him almost tallied with that of the man whom we had seen in the woman's company at the roadside. The pair had evidently been on the watch ever since afternoon. They no doubt had seen us leave, and also watched Teddy and Theed's son go away.

'But the second man?' I demanded eagerly. 'Can't you give us any description of him?'

The maid hesitated, and fidgeted slightly. I saw that she was undecided and a little unwilling. Her hair was still awry from her attack, and she had forgotten, in her excitement, to replace her well-starched Dutch-cap.

'Well, sir,' she answered at last, 'I have a suspicion—but only a very faint one—remember I