In the Name of a Woman: A Romance

IN THE NAME OF A WOMAN
A Romance
By A. W. MARCHMONT Author of “By Right of Sword,” “A Dash for a Throne,” etc.
Illustrated by D. MURRAY SMITH
Third Edition.
NEW YORK Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers
Copyright, 1900, by
ARTHUR W. MARCHMONT.
IN THE NAME OF A WOMAN
“Help!”
The cry, faint but strenuous, in a woman’s voice, rang out on the heavy hot night air, and told me that one of those abominable deeds that were so rife in the lawless Bulgarian capital was in progress, and I hastened forward in angry perplexity trying to locate the sound.
I knew what it meant. I had been strolling late through the hot, close streets between the Park and the Cathedral, when a woman closely hooded had hurried past me, dogged by a couple of skulking, scuttling spies, and I had turned to follow them. Across the broad Cathedral Square I had lost sight of them, and, taking at random one of the streets on the opposite side of the square, I was walking and listening for some sound to guide me in their direction.