A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 82: what you’re looking at

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74 A SERVANT OF SATAN. quite a number of weeks. ‘The only return which the cursed scoundrel saw fit to make for all the hospitality and kindness lavished on him by the colonel was to betray the latter’s daughter under a promise of marriage. ‘<Unable to conceal her shame any longer, and driven to desperation by the sudden disappearance of her lover from Baroda, the poor girl committed suicide. She was seen by some natives, who were on their way down the river, to throw herself into the stream, but on quickly rowing to the spot they were unable to find any trace of her body, which had evidently been dragged under by the crocodiles which infest the Wishwamitra. It is said that she left a letter imploring her father’s par don, and stating the reasons which had led her to put an end to her life. ‘The old man’s grief, I hear, is something heart-rending, and in the agony of the first moments, he al- lowed the secret of his danghter’s rnin by Count von Wald- ~ berg to escape his lips. His frenzy against the latter is beyond all description, and he has sworn to hunt him down, wherever he may have fled to, to bring him to account.” While Captain Clery—for it was he—was in the act of thus describing the fate of poor Florence Fitzpatrick, the curtains of the upper berth were slightly pushed aside, and the head of a man might have been seen to bend forward as he listened intently to the story. But at the last words thereof he hurriedly closed the curtains again and disap- peared from view. This incident had escaped the notice of the two officers, and Captain Clery continued as follows: « But this is notall. There are some very ugly suspicions concerning Waldberg in connection with the murder of a rich Hindoo widow, who was found dead, with her skull <a e > aoa i oe See Si 7 ae sy fractured, among the ruins of an ancient temple, in a wood adjoining the Fitzpatrick bungalow. Her servants have since made disclosures which conclusively prove that Wald- comicbooks.co m re ae ee a