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Ibong are the master, minde behind the epidemic of crime which bas startled Londoni kas time in the Daily Express.Jewel rubberies and fur thefja on AR- sisuplad ngale, have been reported to Sortland-yap, and the smartest minds of the Criminal Investigation, Department ars, baffled by the facility and ease with which juscemiye coups have been, socom-" plished.It is women who are playing an important, rile in connection with these unosary, mysteries of the West Eat "The nitra-fashionable woman thief har come- into-bers kingdom, andr Scotland-yard is becoming quote, mystifed ne the extra- ordinary success which aticods her daily enterprises

The War infused a new spirit of seven- Eure, daring, and resourcefulness into the “pronika esoek/"and things, which in former times she hesitated to attempt are now mere contumonplaces in bar-daily life: «She has "odáhod to be the pawn lof erstwhile, ariminals, and to-day she plays a living park" in the?" baffling mystery dramar which are now and again brought to light in Londen

What manner of creature is the woman crook of Mayfair No She is not the petty pickpocket, the purse anstober, of whom ona rends in police court reports; on the contrary, she is a cultivated, accomplish- ed travelled adventures; a woman' of afairs, who dreams, no dreams, but deals in hard facta. You would never, guess ibess women adventurers for what "they"

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Take a peep with me into one of the many fashionable Mayfair Aste, where Live the genuine women of fashion-and zie spurious. A Yell-gowned" woman is anting on a confortable sola warming her will clay feet before a fire. The walls of the room are hung with £ze.old prints, the ascende cartsins, the carpets, the Lacquer writing-desk,ki] -aavour of the refined, cultured city woman. And the woman: beraelf... Ta look at her you would think she was sitting there plan- pingi dintier party or a week-end. Ar

matter of fact she is working out in that 'quick brain of hers the details of one of the most daring jewel robberias ever foisted on a great city.

A knock as the door. A man-servant *ahem in a well-groomed: yanng man, And retires The two sits chatting.com fortably together on the salt for all the world like other and sister. By and byt iha watoa rises, - adjusta "her cloak; which the man bolds out for her, and wings & boll. "My car"- Down the stel post the silent footman, into the gering Landaulette, and into the whirl of traffic Where are they bound Maybe it is to some West End restaurant, perhaps to the dark alleys and streets of Limehouse: Chinatown..

These women work-outwardly alone. In reality they harbour a host of under- lings, bogus cab drivers, street hawkers, nawries, footmen-men who know the anderworld as well as 'you' or I know

They watch the doings of the big thieves and the little, the master crook aurd the petty purie snatcher, and bring their reports daily to the master brain. Hence your crackswoman is always posted with details she knows who is planning fur robberies, and who has eye on dia mond, who would flch motor-cars, and who will receive the stolen" goods. She knows That is the great point," and thon whom she watches realise this to the full Blackmail is a handy weapon to the woman with the master mind. She

has but to enmmand aid it is bers. If itis refused 1 Well, there is that little matter of the theft of a pearl necklance.

Not even the most astate investigator at Boodland-yard is it times aware of the superwoman orook, for she trader under a variety of alissen, while her manner of diving disaring.spicion.

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Beores of society, robberies are reported from time to time, but the modus ope.. kaddi of the thieves is such that detection exceedingly difficult. With the assist ance of accomplices the disposal of booty and loot becomes a simple process, and any society thief, deputed by the master kind, en enter a pawnbroker's, realisa considerable sum of money on stolen property, and leave again without even exciting the slightest suspición.

If the story of the orackswomen of London were written in detail, society would open its mouth-wide.

"AN-ARCHANGEL IN PLUSH.”

The Bishop of London, who was the Deincipal Speaker, recently, at a meeting at Kentish Town on the housing ques Loon, toh an amusing story of the time when be was Art Appointed Bishop of London To

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ined the Atheneum, Club, and lunching Khere was much alarmed to and that he ww being waited upon by a glorified archangel in plush laughter) young We very much afraid of humid the bishop. After lunch Beard #vo100 behind me saying."

Don' Food, Papamber me, Mr. Ingram 1 It was changel in plush speaking, and I red: that he was a son of one of my old parishioners in Bethnal-green, who had lived with his Temily-seven in n'amberin dune room. What would have "become" of "that young man if he had not been rescued from his surroundings I "don't tay that's footman at the Atheneunt Club li as good as the Archbishop of terbury but it is a start anyway.

Can (Langalor.) Bad housing in London said the bishop, was physically, morally

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