A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 203: what you’re looking at

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‘A SERVANT OF SATAN. 195 CHAPTER XXIV. HIS SINS FOUND HIM OUT. That same evening at the Gare de Lyons, a minute before the train started out of the station, a man dressed in a gray overcoat and wearing a soft felt traveling hat was hustled by the conductor into a coupe which until then had been tenanted by one solitary traveler. A shade of annoyance _ passed over the face of the latter as the door opened. It was evident that he had hoped to remain in undisturbed possession of the compartment. But he soon regained his equanimity. For from the fussy manner in which the in- truder collected and arranged in the netting his impedi- ments, among which was a lunch-basket, he surmised that — he had to deal with a petit bourgeois, probably a small shop- keeper, who was totally unaccustomed to travel any farther than Bougival or Asnieres. _ A conversation quickly sprang up between the two, and the man in gray displayed the greatest interest and un- feigned astonishment at the recital of his companion’s ad- ventures in foreign lands, and especially in Egypt and the Soudan. In response to a further inquiry, the latter ex- plained that his knowledge of those countries was due to the fact of his having held a high position on the staff of General Lord Wolseley during the Nile expedition of 1884. for the rescue of Gordon. | In return for these confidences the man in gray stated that he was a wholesale grocer in the Faubourg Montmartre, and that he was on his way to visit a married sister who was established at Avignon. He added confidentially that he co =) Gomicbooks