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Title: Alias The Lone Wolf
Author: Louis Joseph Vance
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Language: English
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[Illustration: "And who would ever believe anybody else guilty who knew
your guest was Michael Lanyard, alias 'The Lone Wolf'?"]
ALIAS
THE LONE WOLF
BY
LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE
[Illustration: FRUCTUS QUAM FOLIA ]
1921
TO
ROBERT AITKEN SWAN
WHOSE FRIENDSHIP I HAVE TRIED
IN MANY OTHER WAYS, THIS
YARN WITH DIFFIDENCE IS
DEDICATED
NOTE: This is the fourth of the Lone Wolf stories. Its predecessors
were, in chronological sequence, "The Lone Wolf," "The False Faces,"
"Red Masquerade."
Each story, however, is entirely self-contained and independent of the
others.
If it matters....
LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE
Westport--9 September, 1921.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I WALKING PAPERS
II ONE WALKS
III MEETING BY MOONLIGHT
IV EVE
V PHINUIT & CO
VI VISITATION
VII TURN ABOUT
VIII IN RE AMOR ET AL
IX BLIND MAN'S BUFF
X BUT AS A MUSTARD SEED
XI AU REVOIR
XII TRAVELS WITH AN ASSASSIN
XIII ATHENAIS
XIV DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND
XV ADIEU
XVI THE HOUSE OF LILITH
XVII CHEZ LIANE
XVIII BROTHER AND SISTER
XIX SIX BOTTLES OF CHAMPAGNE
XX THE SYBARITES
XXI SOUNDINGS
XXII OUT OF SOUNDINGS
XXIII THE CIGARETTE
XXIV HISTORIC REPETITION
XXV THE MALCONTENT
XXVI THE BINNACLE
XXVII CA VA BIEN!
XXVIII FINALE
ALIAS
THE LONE WOLF
I
WALKING PAPERS
Through the suave, warm radiance of that afternoon of Spring in England
a gentleman of modest and commonly amiable deportment bore a rueful
countenance down Piccadilly and into Halfmoon street, where presently
he introduced it to one whom he found awaiting him in his lodgings,
much at ease in his easiest chair, making free with his whiskey and
tobacco, and reading a slender brown volume selected fr
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