A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 135: what you’re looking at

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A SERVANT OF SATAN, 127 CHAPTER XIV. SUICIDE. A fortnight later, the snow-capped peak of the lordly and beautiful Mount Fusiyama appeared in sight, and a few hours afterward the steamer rounded the promontory and cast anchor in the port of Yokohama. The ship was soon surrounded by some score of native boats, and having taken their place in the ‘‘sampan” of the Grand Hotel, Fred- erick and his inamorata were rowed on shore. The first few days were spent in visiting the various sights and curiosities of the place, and so enchanted were-the couple with the beauty and picturesque aspect of the environs that they determined to remain for a time in Japan. With the assistance of the hotel officials, they secured a very pretty Japanese ‘‘ yashiki,” or villa, situated at about half an hour’s distance from the town, and caused such Kuropean furniture as they were likely to require to be transported thither. When all was ready, they took up _ their residence there, with a large retinue of native ser- vants, both male and female. ‘These were under the orders of an ex-Samurai (member of the lower grades of the no- bility), who spoke both English and German, and who was to act as their interpreter and major-domo, The secrecy with which it had been necessary to observe all their relations until the moment when they left Ba- tavia, had imbued their intrigne with a certain degree of piquancy, and the constant change of scene which had passed before their eyes like a kaleidoscope, since they left Java, had prevented any danger of monotony and ennui. The experiment which they were now, however, Eomicbooks €o =)