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Adrien Leroy
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Title: Adrien Leroy
Author: Charles Garvice
Release Date: September 11, 2005 [EBook #16682]
Language: English
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ADRIEN LEROY
CHARLES GARVICE
LONDON
GEORGE NEWNES, LIMITED SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND, W.C.
CHAPTER I
It was a cold night in early spring, and the West End streets were nearly deserted. The great shutters of the shops were being drawn down with a dull rumble, and every moment the pavements grew more dreary looking as the glories of the plate-glass windows were hidden.
Tired workers with haggard faces were making their way homeward; to them the day was at an end. But to the occupants of the whirring taxis and smart motors, as they sped westward, the round of their day was but half-way through; for them, the great ones of the earth, the all-important hour of dinner was at hand.
At the entrance of one of the most luxurious clubs in Pall Mall two men, in immaculate evening dress, stood carelessly surveying