A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 84: what you’re looking at

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76 A SERVANT OF SATAN. sleeping-car, taking with him a small leather dressing-case. When he emerged therefrom a few minutes later it was to be seen that he had shaven off the short beard which he had allowed to grow during his stay at Baroda. Anxious, however, to avoid attracting the attention of the conductor to this metamorphosis, he threw alight Inverness cape over- coat over his shoulders, pulled the collar over his ears, and, drawing his soft felt traveling hat low down over his eyes, sat motionless in a corner, apparently fast asleep. Lhe morning after his arrival at Calcutta, Frederick took passage on asailing ship bound for Havre. -He was dressed in the garb of a workingman, and gave his name as Franz Werner, and his trade as that of a painter and decorator. He informed the skipper that, his health having been broken by a long stay in the murderous climate of Bengal, the doctor had prescribed the long sea voyage round the Cape as his only hope of recovery. He gave this asthe . reason for his preferring to return to Europe by a sailing ship instead of by one of the mail steamers via the Suez Canal. : Once again Frederick had succeeded in evading capture and arrest for his crimes. €omicboo! ‘S.CO tA am taketh en ACY? Ns 7%,