LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

["You won't improve his chances by keeping anything back."]

[I saw a bedizened beauty go mad before my eyes.]

[I drove Delavoye before me.]

[A handsome, sinister creature, in a brown flowing wig and raiment as fine as any on the walls.]

[Trying to tug the fierce moustache out of his mild face.]

[A heavy blackthorn held in murderous poise.]

[His thin arms locked round the neck of the young nurse.]

[Delavoye fired over my head.]


CHAPTER I