A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 201: what you’re looking at

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A SERVANT OF SATAN, 193 . tween, and in course of time Eugenie found it necessary to dispose of her jewels; and even of her fine laces and dresses, in order to keep the wolf from the door. It was during this period of penury that Frederick spent much of his time in dictating to Eugenie letters to her American friend, in which terms of endearment and deyo- tion were most artistically blended with requests for money. Clever as were these compositions, they ended by dispelling any feelings of affection which might have existed on the part of her ex-lover, and in the month of October he sent her from New Orleans a draft on a bank at Boulogne- sur- Mer for a couple of thousand francs, announcing to her at the same time that it would be impossible for him to make any further remittances. Within a few weeks the money was spent, and in the month of January, 1886, almost every article of any value possessed by Eugenie or by Frederick had found its way to the mont-de-piete (pawnshop). Frederick’s companion during most of this time was a ‘Spaniard of the name of Ybanez, his accomplice in many of his schemes for raising the wind by all kinds of question- able means. One night about the 15th or 16th of January, 1886, Ybanez came to Frederick and informed him that an Italian friend of his had a certain number of jewels in his possession which he(Ybanez) believed to be the proceeds of a robbery, and which his friend the Italian was anxious to — getrid ofon the sly. Ybanez added that as he himself had been afraid to take any action in the matter, and that as his friend had fully realized the danger of disposing of the jewels at Paris, he had advised him to sell them either at Marseilles, Bordeaux, or some other large provincial town at a distance from the metropolis. ‘Well, where has he finally decided to take them to?” inquired Frederick, quickly. <©To Marscilles,” replied Yabanez. ‘¢ When is he going to start?” Go mn ww?) ecomicbooks