A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 140: what you’re looking at

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132 | A SERVANT OF SATAN, with food. These hairs are swallowed without being no- ticed, but remain stuck by their points in the intestines. Any attempts to remove them or to relieve the patient by means of medicines are useless, since the hairs merely bend in order to give way to the medicament and then resume their former position. In avery short space of time, they produce terrible and incurable ulcerations of the intestines, and in the course of a few weeks the victim, who is unable to take any further food or nourishment, wastes away and finally dies of exhaustion and inanition. It was of this fiendish method that Frederick was about to avail himself for the purpose of getting rid of his rich inamorata, whose money, however, he was determined at all costs to retain. Mme. Van der Beck soon began to notice an agreeable change in the conduct of Frederick. His indifference and coldness vanished entirely and he became once more an at- tentive and devoted lover. He no longer spent his days at the ‘‘chaya,” but remained at home, and only left the house to accompany her on her drives in the lovely -en- virons of Yokohama. Nina was at first at a loss to under- stand the reason of so radical a reformation, but finally made up her mind that it was to be attributed to the sorrow she had manifested at his neglect; and her love for him re- vived in all its former intensity. One day while driving in the neighborhood their atten-— tion was suddenly attracted by cries for assistance which proceeded from the banks of a smallstream. On approach- ing the spot they found that an English phaeton of some- what antiquated build, and drawn by an exceedingly vicious looking pair of half-broken Japanese ponies, had been over- turned into the water. The carriage was imbedded in the mud, and the grooms were making frantic efforts to extri- cate the terrified horses from the tangle of harness and reins. On the bank stood a Japanese gentleman in native costume, comicbooks.co