This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...By this method the Count de Gilbert saw unlimited means at his disposal. But once the girl was found, Wilson, not Bassino, should have her, provided he handed over "The Necklace of Tears." CHAPTER XXV DESIREE'S NEW HOME Each day, from eight in the morning until it was dark, Wilson scoured the country round ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...By this method the Count de Gilbert saw unlimited means at his disposal. But once the girl was found, Wilson, not Bassino, should have her, provided he handed over "The Necklace of Tears." CHAPTER XXV DESIREE'S NEW HOME Each day, from eight in the morning until it was dark, Wilson scoured the country round Nice trying to find some clew to Desiree's whereabouts. Often he would leave his car at a tiny wayside farm, and with his interpreter tramp along rough mountain tracks and plunge into deep, secluded valleys, visiting lonely homesteads set far away from the world. Most of the little farms had heard of the young chatelaine. She was very beautiful, but blind, "la pauvre mignonne." Occasionally one met her walking on the roads with her wolf dog. She lived at the Domaine de Mailly, two, four, or ten kilometers away, as the case might be. All her life she had lived there with a couple of old servants, except when she was in America with her uncle. At first when the peasants started this rigamarole Wilson's hopes would rise. But she had left her home, he would explain through his interpreter. Did they know where she had gone? Then they would shrug their shoulders. How could they know where she had gone? Who could account for the sudden whims and caprices of the aristocracy? And this was all Wilson had gathered by lunch-time on the fifth day. Sometimes, as he walked along the stony tracks, he would close his eyes for a moment to see what the world was like to Desiree. A world of night, of ghastly loneliness, which he knew he had made even blacker. Once he met the Gilberts, undoubtedly on the same errand as himself. The two search-parties vouchsafed one another no acknowledgment beyond scowls. One day after lunch, as he wandered down one of the cobbled...
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in very attractive fine second printing dustwrapper (so stated on the spine) with light overall soiling. Englishman visiting France discovers a beautiful young woman in an abandoned chateau. Jacket art by A.D. Rahn.
