Madame Quéro was startled.


CONTENTS

[Chapter I][Chapter II]
[Chapter III][Chapter IV]
[Chapter V][Chapter VI]
[Chapter VII][Chapter VIII]
[Chapter IX][Chapter X]
[Chapter XI][Chapter XII]
[Chapter XIII][Chapter XIV]
[Chapter XV][Chapter XVI]
[Chapter XVII][Chapter XVIII]
[Chapter XIX][Chapter XX]
[Chapter XXI][Chapter XXII]
[Chapter XXIII][Chapter XXIV]
[Chapter XXV][Chapter XXVI]
[Chapter XXVII]

THE INTRIGUERS

CHAPTER I

The scene was Dean Street, Soho, and this story opens on a snowy winter night in the January of 1888. The modern improvements of Shaftesbury Avenue were as yet unmade, and the foreign district of London had still to be opened up.