The Temptress
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Le Queux William. The Temptress
Chapter One. Handfast
Chapter Two. The Charing Cross Mystery
Chapter Three. In Bohemia
Chapter Four. The Nectar of Death
Chapter Five. Under St. Clement Danes
Chapter Six. Valérie Dedieu
Chapter Seven. Aut Tace, aut Pace
Chapter Eight. Under Seal
Chapter Nine. Denizens of Soho
Chapter Ten. Deadly Pair
Chapter Eleven. The Fourth Passenger
Chapter Twelve “A Crooked Bit of Business.”
Chapter Thirteen. Studio Secrets
Chapter Fourteen. On Cornish Cliffs
Chapter Fifteen. Queen of the Silent Kingdom
Chapter Sixteen. Dolly’s Indiscretion
Chapter Seventeen. Laroche
Chapter Eighteen. Lips Forsworn
Chapter Nineteen. A Strange Compact
Chapter Twenty. Winged Hours
Chapter Twenty One. Purely Fin de Siècle
Chapter Twenty Two. The Pretty Artist’s Model
Chapter Twenty Three. Without the Queen’s Proctor
Chapter Twenty Four. Truth in Masquerade
Chapter Twenty Five. Shekels of Judas
Chapter Twenty Six. And You – A Clergyman
Chapter Twenty Seven. Silken Sackcloth
Chapter Twenty Eight. At La Nouvelle
Chapter Twenty Nine. Gilded Sorrow
Chapter Thirty. The Englishman of the Boulevard Haussmann
Chapter Thirty One. A Wanderer
Chapter Thirty Two. Gabrielle Debriège
Chapter Thirty Three. La Petite Hirondelle
Chapter Thirty Four. Dregs of Life
Chapter Thirty Five. Devil’s Dice
Chapter Thirty Six. Conclusion
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Two years later. A frosty evening, clear and starlit – one of those dry nights in early spring so delightful to the dweller in London, too familiar with choking fog, drizzling rain, and sloppy mire.
In the vicinity of Charing Cross the busy stream of traffic had almost subsided. At ten o’clock the Strand is usually half deserted – the shops are closed, foot passengers are few, and the theatres have not yet disgorged their crowds of pleasure-seekers anxious to secure conveyances to take them to the suburbs. For half an hour previous to eleven o’clock the thoroughfare, notwithstanding the glare of electricity at theatre entrances and the blaze of garish restaurants and public-houses, assumes an appearance of almost dismal solitude. Boys who have hitherto indefatigably cried “special editions,” congregate at corners to chat among themselves, the few loungers stroll along dejectedly, and cadgers slink into doorways to await the time when they can resume their importunities among returning playgoers.
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“Yes, that’s the only way I can account for it.”
“It is certainly an extraordinary case,” the officer said, bending down and re-examining the dead man’s wound. “From the time he got into the ’bus until you discovered him dead could not have been more than six or seven minutes?”
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