A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 159: what you’re looking at

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A SERVANT OF SATAN, 151 to accompany them to Canada, instead of going straight to New York, as had been originally his intention. In due time they arrived at Ottawa, having spent a few days en route at Salt Lake City, Omaha, and Chicago. During the two weeks which they spent in the Canadian capital, they were most hospitably entertained by various persons of high birth and breeding in that city. ‘They were also included among the guests at the ball given by the goy- ernor-general at Rideau Hall, where the man who, as ‘‘ Prado,” was some years later to suffer an ignominious death at the hands of M. Deibler (the Paris executioner) had the honor of dancing with the illustrious personage who at that time graced the vice-regal mansion with her presence. At the conclusion of their visit to Ottawa, the three young men started for Niagara Falls, which they were anxious to see, and on arriving there, took up their residence at one of the principal hotels on the Canadian side of the cataract. The day after their arrival was spent in visiting the Cave of the Winds, and other sights of the place. That same evening, after dinner, Frederick, leaving his two friends playing billiards at the hotel, hghted a cigar, and strolled down toward the Falls. As he was walking along the edge of the precipitous bank of the mighty torrent, he suddenly heard footsteps advancing toward him from the opposite direction. Raising his eyes to see who the stranger might be, he recognized, to his horror, in the bright moonlight, the last person on earth whom he wished to meet—the hus- band of Nina, “Mr. Van der Beck. Frederick hoped that Nina’s husband would fail to recog- nize him, and pulling his hat down over his eyes quickened his pace for the purpose of preventing the latter from ob- taining a glimpse of his features. His onward course, how- ever, was brought to a sudden stop by Mr. Van der Beck, who, courteously raising his hat, requested him to give. 8) ‘ EOmMIcbOoKsS:co m