A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 184: what you’re looking at

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176 A SERVANT OF SATAN. CHAPTER XXI. PLANS FOR THE FUTURE. The morning papers on the following day contained the announcement of Colonel Charles Clery’s sudden death, and after devoting some space to a brief outline of his career, concluded with the following sentences: ‘The late colonel dined the night before his death at the house of the Marquis of Kingsbury, in Park lane. He ap- peared to be in excellent health and spirits, and left some time after midnight with the Comte de Vaugelade, in whose ~ _ company he walked up Piccadilly. The count is reported to be the last person who saw him alive. A couple of days later, and before Frederick had had an opportunity of calling again at Park lane, a well-known society paper, renowned for the venom of its attacks and for the correctness of its information, published the follow- ing paragraph: ‘Who is the Comte de Vaugelade, the foreign nobleman, in whose company the late Colonel Clery was last seen alive? We are informed, both at the Belgian Legation and at the French Embassy, that the name and the title are extinct.” | These words caught Frederick’s eye as he was glancing over the papers after his early breakfast in the privacy of his own room three days after Colonel Clery’s death. He im- mediately realized that this, together with Lady Alice’s mys- terlous words, was making London too hot for him. It was a great disappointment to have to leave England just as he believed that he was on the point of obtaining his heart’s fondest wish—namely, a wife belonging to a wealthy and a ‘EComicbooks.co mn