A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 42: what you’re looking at

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84 | A SERVANT OF SATAN. : the suffering depicted on the lad’s face, and what between his loyalty and devotion to his master and his affection for the young man whom he had carried about in hisarms asa child, he was in great distress. Frederick groaned, and picking up his father’s letter read it over once more. It ran as follows: ‘You have betrayed androbbed me! You are not only a deserter, but alsoa thief. J intercepted your letter to the woman you call your wife, and feeling myself justified under _ the circumstances to open it I found therein the proofs of your crime. You will leave my house to-night forever. The proceeds of your robbery will keep you for some time from want. It will be all that you will have to depend on, for having become an outlaw by your desertion, and your attack on your colonel, the Prussian Government will never permit you to enter into possession of your mother’s fortune. You never need hope to see me again, or to hold any further communication with meor mine. You are no longer a child of mine. Isolemnly renounce you as my son. . May God Almighty keep you from further crime. ‘“CounT H. VON WALDBERG.” That night at 10 o’clock Frederick embarked at Naples on a Marseilles-bound steamer, being escorted to the wharf ~ by Franz. ; He never saw his father again. CHAPTER ITI. A HORRIBLE PREDICAMENT. — The strains of a beautiful old German -melody, ren- dered by arich contralto voice, floated through the night air and caused many a -passer-by to linger beneath the open windows of a house in the Avenue Friedland whence they proceeded. It was a singularly beautiful woman who was singing, seated at the piano, in the half comicbooks.co - are et