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The last person in the world that Danty Morell wished to see was Inspector Bird. If there was any compensation for that meeting in Green Park, it was that Mr. Bird was accompanied by a very pretty girl, whose face was curiously familiar to the connoisseur of beauty.
Danton was strolling aimlessly along the margin of the pond watching the ducks, his mind intent upon a scheme which he had formulated that morning. When he saw that the Sparrow had a companion, he hoped that the detective would have sufficient sense of decency to pass him; but apparently Mr. Bird was deficient in this quality. He stood, a stout, stolid figure, his eyes twinkling through his puffed eyelids, a smirk of satisfaction on his face, as though he were meeting a long-lost friend.