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