Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 16, 2025
To me she is a mystery." "No doubt. She is to everybody." "What did you mean by that expression?" he demanded. "Do tell me. I am very anxious to know your opinion of her, and something about her. I have a very earnest motive in trying to discover who and what she really is." "If I told you I should offend Il Passero," replied the girl simply.
Go to your hotel, pay them for your room and get your valise. I shall be waiting for you at noon in a car in the Rue Gretry, close to the Palais d'Ete. Then we can slip away to Malines. Have you sufficient money? If not, I can give you some. Il Passero has ordered me to do so." "Thanks," replied Hugh. "I have enough for the present. My only desire is to be back again in London." "Ah!
"Then am I correct in assuming that you are actually the person of whom I have heard so much up and down Europe the man of whom certain men and women speak with admiration, and with bated breath the man known in certain circles as as Il Passero?"
"Il Passero very often assists those against whom a false charge is laid," the woman remarked. "There is no better friend when one is in trouble, for so clever and ubiquitous is he, and so many friends in high quarters does he possess, that he can usually work his will. His is the master-mind, and we obey without question."
Then, re-entering the park by the small iron gate, Dorise led him to a fallen tree where, as they sat together, he related all he had been told concerning the notorious head of a criminal gang known to his confederates, and the underworld of Europe generally, as Il Passero, or The Sparrow.
Il Passero has several messengers who travel to and fro in secret. Mademoiselle Lisette was once one of them. She has travelled many times the length and breadth of Europe. But nowadays she is an indicator and a very clever one indeed," he added with a laugh. "I suppose I had better get away to Malines without delay?" Hugh remarked. "Yes.
"Well, you know him surely. Il Passero, or The Sparrow. We call him so because he is always flitting about Europe, and always elusive." "The police want him, I suppose." "I should rather think they do. They have been searching for him for these past five years, but he always dodges them, first in France, then here, then in Spain, and then in England."
Hugh became more than ever satisfied that Il Passero was one of the greatest and most astute criminals who have graced the annals of our time. Everyone sang his praise.
It is far too dangerous for you to remain here in Brussels. I have already written that you are coming. Her house is one of the sanctuaries of the friends of Il Passero. Remember the name and address." "The Sparrow seems to be ubiquitous," Hugh remarked. "He is. No really great robbery can be accomplished unless he plans and finances it." "I cannot think why he takes so keen an interest in me."
It was her share of the recent robbery that Il Passero had paid her three days before at the Concordia Restaurant in the Via Garibaldi, in Genoa. Hugh pressed her many times to tell him something concerning the mysterious Mademoiselle, but he failed to elicit any further information of interest. "Her fortune at the Rooms is wonderful, they say," Lisette said. "She must be very rich."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking