Alias the Lone Wolf

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Louis Joseph Vance. Alias the Lone Wolf

Alias the Lone Wolf

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WALKING PAPERS

II

ONE WALKS

III

MEETING BY MOONLIGHT

IV

EVE

V

PHINUIT & CO

VI

VISITATION

VII

TURN ABOUT

VIII

IN RE AMOR ET AL

IX

BLIND MAN'S BUFF

X

BUT AS A MUSTARD SEED …

XI

AU REVOIR

XII

TRAVELS WITH AN ASSASSIN

XIII

ATHENAIS

XIV

DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND

XV

ADIEU

XVI

THE HOUSE OF LILITH

XVII

CHEZ LIANE

XVIII

BROTHER AND SISTER

XIX

SIX BOTTLES OF CHAMPAGNE

XX

THE SYBARITES

XXI

SOUNDINGS

XXII

OUT OF SOUNDINGS

XXIII

THE CIGARETTE

XXIV

HISTORIC REPETITION

XXV

THE MALCONTENT

XXVI

THE BINNACLE

XXVII

ÇA VA BIEN!

XXVIII

FINALE

THE END

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Louis Joseph Vance

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Not five figures but four only were waiting beside the cirque when, wheeling the barouche as near the group as the lay of the ground permitted, he climbed down. A man lay at length in the coarse grass, his head pillowed in the lap of one woman. Another woman stood aside, trembling and wringing aged hands. The third knelt beside the supine man, but rose quickly as Duchemin drew near, and came to meet him.

In this one he recognised her to whose salvation Chance had first led him, and now found time to appreciate a face of pallid loveliness, intelligent and composed, while she addressed him quietly and directly to the point in a voice whose timbre was, he fancied, out of character with the excellent accent of its French. An exquisite voice, nevertheless. English, he guessed, or possibly American, but much at home in France. …

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