The Saint Meets His Match (She was a Lady)

Gugliemi was duly located in Brixton Prison half an hour later, and Cullis, receiving the information, spoke personally to the governor of the prison over the tele­phone.

Within the hour Gugliemi arrived at Scotland Yard in a taxicab between two warders, and was taken straight to the assistant commissioner's room. And a little while later the two warders returned alone.

Teal, an inquisitive man, returned to the assistant com­missioner's room later in the afternoon, and found that Gugliemi had mysteriously disappeared, although no escort had been detailed to conduct him back to the prison.

"The deportation order will be stayed for seven days," said Cullis in answer to Teal's inquiry.

"What's the big idea?" asked Teal.

"Gugliemi," said Cullis heavily, "is an enthusiastic collector of butterflies. I've told him that a very rare specimen of butterfly, called Trelawney, has been seen in England, and I have agreed to let him go out with his butterfly net and try to find it before he's sent back to Italy."

Mr. Teal was not amused.

 

 

 

Chapter X

HOW SIMON TEMPLAR SPOKE OF BIRDS-

NESTING,    AND   DUODECIMO   GUGLIEMI

ALSO BECAME AMOROUS