As the work went on it was made clear that the “Ambrose Shedlock” of London was the “Baron von Hentschel” of Brussels. But in London he appeared with a clean-shaved face, save a small and graceful moustache. Associated with him in that wondrous piece of villainy, which had for its object the carrying off the tiara of diamonds which should have been worn by the Empress of Brazil, were at least a dozen men. Amongst them were two clever rogues, who passed under the names respectively of John Smithson and Robert Arkwright, and they managed to secure the services of a very ingenious mechanic named Job Fallowfield, who was a native of Manchester, and was employed for a long time in a big engineering establishment there. Growing dissatisfied, however, he shifted his quarters to London, and starte
