Adrian Savage: A Novel

CHAPTER I

IN WHICH THE READER IS INVITED TO MAKE THE ACQUAINTANCE OF THE HERO OF THIS BOOK

Adrian Savage--a noticeably distinct, well-groomed, and well-set-up figure, showing dark in the harsh light of the winter afternoon against the pallor of the asphalt--walked rapidly across the Pont des Arts, and, about half-way along the _Quai Malaquais_, turned in under the archway of a...