A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 63: what you’re looking at

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~ A SERVANT OF SATAN. 55 terrified glances behind him from time to time as he ran. But all was still; and the noise of his footsteps was the only sound which disturbed the quiet hour of dawn. Gradually he slackened his speed, and, turning down into a dark side- _ street, cautiously threaded his way among the maze of nar- row passages and by-ways of the Hebrew quarter. At last he arrived at the gate of the Esbekieh Gardens, and a few minutes afterward reached the Hotel Shepheard. ‘Ten minutes later he was seated in his own room, hardly able to realize that he was, OE the moment, at any rate, out of danger. Te remain at Cairo was out of the question. This last adventure was likely to involve more serious consequences than any of his previous scrapes. Seizing a time-table, he discovered, to his unspeakable relief, that a steamer bound for Bombay was leaving Suez the very same day. He hur- riedly packed up his belongings, and, summoning the por- ter, informed him that he had been called away on matters of the utmost importance, and ordered his trunks to be con- veyed without delay to the railway station. That afternoon at four o’clock a majestic steamer of the Peninsular and Oriental Company weighed its anchor at Suez, and proceeded down the Red Sea. She carried among the passengers on board Count Frederick von Wald- berg, who had been fortunate enough to escape arrest for the murder of M. Pasha’s second wife. CHAPTER V. MAKING NEW ACQUAINTANCES. Frederick’s fellow-passengers on board the mail steamer comprised the usual contingent of Calcutta and Bombay merchants; of judges, collectors, and other members.of the | Eomichboo cS (E(@) =]