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Max Brand. The Black Rider
The Black Rider
Table of Contents
I. — BEGINNING THE JOURNEY
II. — THE FLUTE PLAYER
III. — TAKI
IV. — A WAGER THAT TAKI WINS
V. — BEGINNING A FORTNIGHT OF SERVICE
VI. — LUCIA'S SERVANT INTERVIEWED
VII. — GUADALMO
VIII. — THE BLACK RIDER
IX. — FLASHING BLADES
X. — TRAPPED
XI. — THE CHASE
XII. — LUCIA FACES THE MASTER
XIII. — THE SEVENTH ENCOUNTER!
XIV. — A RESCUER
XV. — ESCAPE
THE END
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Max Brand
Published by Good Press, 2021
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But Carlos was already at the side of the carriage, comforting his lady and assuring her that it was only a jest of his father's. She had not uttered an outcry, but she sat stiff and straight in the carriage and looked at her fiancé with a very strange expression in her eyes—a strange, level glance that went through and through the soul of Don Carlos like the cold steel of a rapier—and out again at a twitch.
"Ah," she said without a smile, "was that a joke? What if the man had been killed?"
