A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 98: what you’re looking at

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90 A SERVANT OF SATAN. ushered into the witness-box. Frederick gazed at her in- quiringly, but was unable to recall to mind ever having met her before. | : ; «Your name, madam?” inquired the president. ‘Cora de St. Augustin.” ~ «Your residence?” | «©206 Rue Blanche.” “Your age?” (After a moment’s hesitation), ‘* Nineteen.” ‘< Your profession ?” (A long pause). ‘‘ Premiere danseuse. — The Judge—‘‘ Of what theater? Is it of the Grande Opera?” (A little longer pause). ‘‘ Non, mon President—du—du Jardin Mabille.” | This announcement appeared to create a considerable amount of amusement in court. After furnishing the court with information on all these _ points, ‘Mme. de St. Augustin” proceeded to relate that she had been on terms of great intimacy with Rose Hart- mann, whose acquaintance she admitted, after some pressure on the part of the president, to having made at St. Lazarre. Meeting Rose a few days after the lotter’s migration from the Rue de Constantinople to the Avenue de 1’Imperatrice, she had congratulated her on her altered fortunes, and had questioned her about her new ‘‘ Protecteur.” Rose, it ap- peared, had replied, that, as far as the material advan- tages were concerned, she had nothing to complain of, but that her lover was a peculiar kind of man, with whom she did not feel altogether safe, and that, if she listened to her presentiments, she would certainly decline to have any- thing further todo with him. ‘‘She added,” declared the - fair Cora, ‘**I havea queer, uncanny feeling about that man. Indeed, I shouldn’t be surprised if I came to grief through him some day. Remember, ma chere, if anything a comicbooks.com |