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Harrogate's friends would be far likelier to fear for his fate if they thought the thieves were poor and desperate.

What may be the third objection to the King of the Thieves?" "The third objection," said Father Brown, still in meditation, "is this bank we are sitting on.

But even as the two short blades crossed and clashed the King of Thieves deliberately dropped his point and laughed.

Another order was given; there was a noise of dismounting, and a tall officer with cocked hat, a grey imperial, and a paper in his hand appeared in the gap that was the gate of the Paradise of Thieves. There was a momentary silence, broken in an extraordinary way by the banker, who cried out in a hoarse and strangled voice: "Robbed!

Encountering the King of the Thieves in his path, he clapped him on the shoulder with something between a caress and a buffet and gave him a push that sent him staggering away.

"In short," said Muscari, "to the real Paradise of Thieves."