The League of the Leopard

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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