A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 85: what you’re looking at

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A SERVANT OF SATAN. 77 CHAPTER VIII. A COMPACT WITH ROSE. Toward the end of September, 1871, Count Frederick von Waldberg, alias Franz Werner, arrived in Paris and took up his quarters at a well-known hotel in the Rue de Rivoli FREDERICK AT THE JARDIN MABILLE, under the name of Baron F. Wolff. He stated that he had just arrived from Japan, a country in which he claimed to have resided for over two years. As he spent his money very liberally he was taken at his word and treated with great respect and consideration at the hotel, where hesoon made the acquaintance of several American and English families who proposed to spend the winter at Paris. Fred- erick’s personal appearance had undergone such a change during the twelve months which had elapsed since he left — Paris that there was not much fear of his being recognized (e(oy payiel exeXe) S) (el) <7)