A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 192: what you’re looking at

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184 _A SERVANT OF SATAN. The first weeks of the honey-moon were delightful. Through his wife’s relatives Frederick became acquainted with ail the leaders of society at Madrid. ‘The life of the ~ young couple was a whirl of perpetual excitement and pleasure; they were invited everywhere and attended court receptions, embassy balls, and official entertainments. Frederick was very proud of Dolores, and she became every day more and more infatuated with her handsome and gifted husband. Frederick, who had a love for everything beautiful, and who was a born artist, had arranged their apartment of the Calle del Barquillo with such exquisite taste and elegance that it was the talk of the whole town. The luxury displayed in every detail, from the magnificent Gobelin tapestries which lined the walls down to the dinner services of priceless Sevres and Japanese porcelain, the mar- velous toilets which he insisted that his wife should wear, and the splendid dinners and entertainments they gave all cost a great dealof money, and at the end of the winter season Frederick could once more foresee the moment when not only his own fortune but also his wife’s dowry would have vanished. He had been made a member of several clubs, and with a view of reimbursing himself for what his daily life cost, he began to risk large sums at the card table. Six months after his marriage he met with a rather serious accident. His horses took fright while he was being driven home one morning from witnessing the execution by the ‘‘ garrote” of the regicide Francisco Otero, and he wag flung with such violence to the pavement that his ankle — was broken. MHisvictoria- having been shattered to pieces, he was driven to his house by a young stranger who had witnessed the catastrophe and had offered his assistance. ‘An intimacy soon sprang up between the two, and the affection which Frederick displayed toward the stranger, whose name was Louis Berard, was one of the only as disinterested ones in his life, ¢ comicbooks co