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Title: Red Masquerade

Author: Louis Joseph Vance

Release Date: December 18, 2003 [eBook #10496]

Language: English

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RED MASQUERADE

Being the Story of THE LONE WOLF'S DAUGHTER

BY

LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE

1921

[Illustration: "_Prince Victor gave a gesture of pain and reluctance. 'Must
I tell you?_'"]

TO J. PARKER READ, JR., ESQ. THE CINEMA THAT WAS HIS

APOLOGY

This tale quite brazenly derives from the author's invention for motion
pictures which Mr. J. Parker Read, Jr., produced in the autumn of 1919
under the title of "The Lone Wolf's Daughter."

It is only fair to state, however, that the author has in this version
taken as many high-handed liberties with the version used by the photoplay
director as the latter took with the original.

The chance to get even for once was too tempting....

Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Company in the first instance, and then Mr.
Arthur T. Vance, editor of _The Pictorial Review_, in which the story was
published as a serial, were equally guilty of the encouragement which
results in its appearance in its present guise.

L.J.V.

Westport--31 December, 1920.

Books by Louis Joseph Vance

CYNTHIA-OF-THE-MINUTE

JOAN THURSDAY

NOBODY

NO MAN'S LAND

POOL OF FLAME

PRIVATE WAR

SHEEP'S CLOTHING

THE BANDBOX

THE BLACK BAG

THE BRASS BOWL

THE BRONZE BELL

THE DARK MIRROR

THE DAY OF DAYS

THE DESTROYING ANGEL

THE FORTUNE HUNTER

THE ROMANCE OF TERENCE O'ROURKE

TREY O' HEARTS

_Stories About "The Lone Wolf"_

THE LONE WOLF

THE FALSE FACES

RED MASQUERADE

ALIAS THE LONE WOLF

CONTENTS

BOOK ONE: A CHAPTER FROM THE YOUTH OF MONSIEUR MICHAEL LANYARD

I PLEBEIAN AND PRINCE

II THE PRINCESS SOFIA

III MONSIEUR QUIXOTE

IV THE FOOL AND HIS MONEY

V IMPOSTOR

VI THERESE

VII FAMILY REUNION

VIII GREEK VS. GREEK

IX PAID IN FULL