The League of the Leopard
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Bindloss Harold. The League of the Leopard
CHAPTER I. A DANGEROUS BEQUEST
CHAPTER II. AN UNDERSTANDING
CHAPTER III. AT THE ELBOW POOL
CHAPTER IV. THE POACHER
CHAPTER V. THE TRYST AT HALLOWS BRIG
CHAPTER VI. DANE'S SILENCE
CHAPTER VII. A WARNING
CHAPTER VIII. TREACHERY
CHAPTER IX. TEMPTATION
CHAPTER X. RIDEAU'S BARGAIN
CHAPTER XI. THE TRAIL OF THE LEOPARD
CHAPTER XII. WEALTH IN SIGHT
CHAPTER XIII. PESTILENCE
CHAPTER XIV. AN EVENTFUL DECISION
CHAPTER XV. THE BOARDING OF THE KABUNDA
CHAPTER XVI. ILLUMINATION
CHAPTER XVII. IN NEED OF HELP
CHAPTER XVIII. MAXWELL'S CONFIDENCE
CHAPTER XIX. THE DANGEROUS SEÑORITA
CHAPTER XX. MAXWELL'S LAST MARCH
CHAPTER XXI. RELIEF
CHAPTER XXII. ON TO THE COAST
CHAPTER XXIII. AN EYE FOR AN EYE
CHAPTER XXIV. THE ESCAPE
CHAPTER XXV. THE HEART OF BONITA CASTRO
CHAPTER XXVI. REWARDED
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It was a pleasant summer evening when Hilton Dane leaned against a beech trunk outside Thomas Chatterton's villa which stands upon a hillside above the Solway shore. He was a tall, fair-haired man who looked older than his age, twenty-five, with steady blue eyes, and usually a somewhat masterful air; but just then his eyes were wistful, and his face, which betokened an acquaintance with the tropical sun, expressed somewhat tempered satisfaction. He had certainly cause for the latter feeling, because, after toiling hard at railroad building in a foreign land, it was comforting to know that he had earned the right to rest a while in that peaceful retreat.
The sun still touched the velvet lawn, though the shadows lengthened across it, and the larch wood behind the red-tiled building diffused resinous odors. The grass sloped to a river which came down amber-tinted from the stretch of heather growing black against the east, and, curving round two meadows, flashed through the gloom of fir branches into a deep pool. All this was pleasant to the wanderer newly returned from the glare of the desolate pampa and the turmoil of dusty construction camps; but Dane found the keenest pleasure in watching his companion.
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Lilian regarded him with some uneasiness.
"Such speeches do not become you," she said. "No doubt there are idle men who consider that they prove irresistible to most of us; but you – you are different."
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