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THE CLUE OF THE TWISTED CANDLE

something between a head waiter and a pack of cards. Have you lost anything?"

Mansus was searching his pockets.

"I made a few notes, some questions I wanted to ask you about—and Lady Bartholomew was the subject of one of them. I have had her under observation for six months; do you want it kept up?"

T. X. thought awhile, then shook his head.

"I am only interested in Lady Bartholomew in so far as Kara is interested in her. There is a criminal for you, my friend!" he added, admiringly.

Mansus busily engaged in going through the bundles of letters, slips of paper and little notebooks he had taken from his pocket, sniffed audibly.

"Have you a cold?" asked T. X. politely.

"No, sir," was the reply, "only I haven't much opinion of Kara as a criminal. Besides, what has he got to be a criminal about? He has all that he requires in the money department, he's one of the most popular people in London, and certainly

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