t figure on his short legs.

"This has been a fine night's work," he said steadily, "the last of
Fagin's gang."

"Dead?"

"Ay, and Grant with him--begging your pardon, mistress."

Her eyes glanced from his face into mine, and my hand-clasp tightened. It
was thus we went in together, and stood beside the Colonel's bed.

THE END

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

1. Punctuation has been normalized to contemporary standards.

2. List of books "By Mr. Parrish" moved to end of text.

3. Frontispiece illustration moved to after title page.

4. Typographic errors corrected from original:
p. 31 seen to see ("you can see")
p. 59 surpressed to suppressed ("suppressed excitement")
p. 202 addresed to addressed ("The man addressed as Colonel")
p. 367 SEACHING to SEARCHING ("SEARCHING FOR CLAIRE")

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