When the lean brown hero with the hawk lip extends an arm of steel from the six-cylinder Rolls-Royce in which he is lounging and snatches the beautiful mannequin from between the very jaws of an omnibus, we realise that we are in the presence of Romance in its purest form.

Bedient would not have said so; but there is no doubt that her importance in his life was that of a mannequin upon which to drape his ideals.

It was only an accident which led to the arrest of a well-known milliner whose afternoon-tea parties among her mannequins were attended by many Germans with business in Paris of a private character.

Le mannequin assassine.

The flaxen haired mannequin.

Le mannequin assassine.

The flaxen haired mannequin.