A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 177: what you’re looking at

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ty} < A SERVANT OF SATAN, | 169 feuille and three or four letters, handed them to him, say- ing: ‘“Look at these first, colonel, so as to convince yourself before anything else that you are not now harboring a thief and assassin under your roof.” Colonel Clery, throwing his hat and overcoat on a chair, j and taking the documents from Frederick, sat down on a low arm-chair in front of the table for the purpose of exam- ining them by the light of the lamp. Had he been able to as behind his chair he would ae < FREDERICK KILLS COLONEL CLERY. scarcely have been reassured by the expression which came over Frederick’s features as soon as he felt that he was no longer observed. But the colonel was so absorbed in the perusal of one of the letters handed to him that he did not even notice that Frederick had softly approached and was bending over him as if to read over his shoulder. Noiselessly Frederick removed from his collar a long and slender pearl-headed platinum pin with a very sharp point, which the habitually wore in the evening to keep his white tie in place. After a rapid glance at the nape of the GEomichoo (Elo)