A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 139: what you’re looking at

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A SERVANT OF SATAN, 131 of reproaches and abuse against the man for whom she had sacrificed husband, rank, and position. She taunted him bitterly with his ingratitude, and it was only with the greatest difficulty that he at length succeeded in restoring her to anything like calm. Had she but known the true character and the past rec- ord of the man to whom she had so rashly confided her happiness, it is probable that she would have exercised a greater restraint over her temper. Frederick had now lost all sense of her charms and attractions, and was determined to cut himself loose from bonds which, though gilded, had become irksome to him. Moreover, he lived in constant dread that her husband, Mr. Van der Beck, would end by discovering their place of refuge. ‘This last encounter with his mistress brought matters to aclimax, and he determined to put into execution, without any further delay, the pro- jects which he had been maturing for some time past. A few days later, he rode into Yokohama and took the train up to Tokio. ‘There he directed his jinrikisha, as the little two-wheeled carriages (drawn at a sharp trot by one, two, or three coolies, harnessed tandem fashion) are called, to take him to the quarter of the metropolis inhabited by the merchants dealing in furs. After considerable trouble, he succeeded in finding some skins of the wild-cat, with which he returned to the railway station and thence to Yoko- hama. On reaching home, he seized the earliest possible moment to lock himself up in his room, where he spent an hour in cutting off the short, hard hairs of the furs which he had purchased, and, locking them away in a small box, he then destroyed the skins. | While stationed in the interior of Java, a native sol- dier to whom he had shown some acts of kindness had . displayed his gratitude by making him acquainted with the © properties of the chopped hair of a wild-cat when mixed “S (@( 0) a) : Gomicboo mn