Red Masquerade: Being the Story of the Lone Wolf's Daughter

“ Prince Victor gave a gesture of pain and reluctance. ‘Must I tell you? ’”
This tale quite brazenly derives from the author’s invention for motion pictures which Mr. J. Parker Read, Jr., produced in the autumn of 1919 under the title of “The Lone Wolf’s Daughter.”
It is only fair to state, however, that the author has in this version taken as many high-handed liberties with the version used by the photoplay director as the latter took with the original.
The chance to get even for once was too tempting....
Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Company in the first instance, and then Mr. Arthur T. Vance, editor of The Pictorial Review , in which the story was published as a serial, were equally guilty of the encouragement which results in its appearance in its present guise.
L.J.V.
Westport—31 December, 1920.
CYNTHIA-OF-THE-MINUTE JOAN THURSDAY NOBODY NO MAN’S LAND POOL OF FLAME PRIVATE WAR SHEEP’S CLOTHING THE BANDBOX THE BLACK BAG THE BRASS BOWL THE BRONZE BELL THE DARK MIRROR THE DAY OF DAYS THE DESTROYING ANGEL THE FORTUNE HUNTER THE ROMANCE OF TERENCE O’ROURKE TREY O’ HEARTS
Stories About “The Lone Wolf”
THE LONE WOLF THE FALSE FACES RED MASQUERADE ALIAS THE LONE WOLF
The gentleman was not in the least bored who might have been and was seen on that wintry afternoon in Nineteen hundred, lounging with one shoulder to a wall of the dingy salesroom and idly thumbing a catalogue of effects about to be put up at auction; but his insouciance was so unaffected that the inevitable innocent bystander might have been pardoned for perceiving in him a pitiable victim of the utterest ennui.
In point of fact, he was privately relishing life with enviable gusto. In those days he could and did: being alive was the most satisfying pastime he could imagine, or cared to, who was a thundering success in his own conceit and in fact as well; since all the world for whose regard he cared a twopenny-bit admired, respected, and esteemed him in his public status, and admired, respected, and feared him in his private capacity, and paid him heavy tribute to boot.