Penny Dreadfuls, 1895 · page 54 of 313
A Gentleman from Gascony: A Romance of the Huguenots — page 54: what you’re looking at
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Bot) A GENTLEMAN FROM GASCONY, The young girl understood. The mother would be alone with her son. Quietly, Gabrielle made her way to her own apart- ment, there to lie awake half the night, dreading she knew not what, but with a clear conviction in her mind that a double white cross in the hat and a white scarf upon the arm would be, in some mysterious way, a safe- guard against impending evil. Gomie boo <S) (e(o inn