Two men stood outside a bird-fancier's shop in the East End of London. The shop was not far from the docks, and had a great traffic with sailors. Tiny emerald and gamboge love-birds squawked in their cages, there was a glass box of lizards with eyes like live rubies set in the shop window, while a hideous little ape--chained to a hook--clattered in an impish frenzy. Outside the shop door hung a cage containing a huge parrot, and it was this at which the two men were looking.…
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