The Man with the Black Feather

In horror I recognized my own handwriting
See page 21
BY GASTON LEROUX
Author of The Mystery of the Yellow Room, The Phantom of the Opera, etc.
TRANSLATED BY EDGAR JEPSON
ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES M. RELYEA
BOSTON SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1912 By Small, Maynard and Company (INCORPORATED)
Entered at Stationer's Hall
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.
One evening last year I perceived in the waiting-room of my newspaper, Le Matin , a man dressed in black, his face heavy with the darkest despair, whose dry, dead eyes seemed to receive the images of things like unmoving mirrors.