Transcriber's Notes:
1. Page scan source: The Internet Archive
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(The Library of Congress.)
2. Chapter XVII. (Nemesis) is misnumbered as XV. in this edition.

A CREATURE OF THE NIGHT

A CREATURE OF THE NIGHT

AN ITALIAN ENIGMA

BY

FERGUS HUME

AUTHOR OF
"THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB," "MADAME MIDAS,"
"MISS MEPHISTOPHELES," "MONSIEUR JUDAS"

Yea, out of the womb of the night

For evil a rod,

With vampire wings plumed for a flight