Surely he would have been too small fry for the intriguers of such a place!" "One would think so," Spencer answered musingly.

"You are sure that he was only what you say ?" "He was barely twenty-one," Duncombe answered, "and he had never been out of England before." "What about the girl ?" "She is two years older.

It was her first visit to Paris." Spencer nodded.
"The disappearance of the boy is of course the riddle," he remarked.

"If you solve that you arrive also at his sister's whereabouts.

Upon my word, it is a poser.