A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 33: what you’re looking at

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A SERVANT OF SATAN. 20 After the first greetings had been exchanged, the gen- eral sat down on a couch, and said, laughingly: ‘“Now, my dear “boy, tell me by what trick you have managed to obtain from your new colonel a leave of absence after such a short service in his regiment. I know you of old. What fresh deviltry have you been up to? Come, | make a clean breast of it at once, and let us have it Lover.” Tr, t i ' 2 Ne prs ZG . — “4 oS ne oh, rin on Me - FREDERICK CONFESSES TO HIS:-FATHER. “*My dear father,” murmured the young man, with downeast eyes, ‘‘l am afraid that the confession which I have to make will pain you very much. The fact is, I—I —took French leave.” ““Come, come, that is more serious than I thought,” ex- claimed the general, whose genial smile had suddenly given — EComicbooks:;com a