A servant of Satan

a dark night at the beginning of the rainy season. On reaching Allahabad two English officers boarded the train, and on displa

cally closed gauze musquito curtains of one of the upper b

hed themselves on their couches without undressi

rrible business at Baroda?" i

the hills and have hardly seen a newspaper or spo

t young German Count whom we had on board on our v

luck. Wasn't his name Dalberg or Waldberg, or something of the kind? He was awfully spooney on

ead, poo

g

oked the very embodiment of health and happi

met in Europe, to visit him at Baroda, and had him staying at his house for [Pg 74] quite a number of weeks. The only return which the cursed scoundr

ted suicide. She was seen by some natives, who were on their way down the river, to throw herself into the stream, but on quickly rowing to t

ITZPATRICK

I hear, is something heart-rending, and in the agony of the first moments, he allowed the secret of his daughter's ruin by Count von Waldberg to escape h

of the upper berth were slightly pushed aside, and the head of a man might have been seen to bend forward as he listen

tice of the two officers, and Ca

nt of money and jewels are ascertained to have been abstracted therefrom. Moreover, in the letter which Florence left for her father she hinted that one of the reasons of her suicide was that she believed her lover to have been guilty of a terrible crime and declared that her last interview with him had taken place near the ruins of the temple above mentioned, just before the body of the murdered woman was discovered. An unfortunate Bengalee beggar, who was found hovering over the corpse of the widow as if about to rob it of its jewels, was publicly

of Allahabad, and the two officers, gathering up their

revealed the features of Frederick von Waldberg. As soon as he had finished dressing he repaired to the cabinet de toilette of the [Pg 76] sleeping-car, taking with him a small leather dressing-case. When he emerged therefrom a few minutes later it was to be seen that he had shaven off the short beard which he had allowed to gro

de as that of a painter and decorator. He informed the skipper that, his health having been broken by a long stay in the murderous climate of Bengal, the doctor had prescribed the long sea vo

ed in evading capture and arrest