CHAPTER XIII. THE BLOODHOUND

CHAPTER XIV. SUNSET GOLD AND PURPLE

CHAPTER XV. THE FATAL TOKEN

CHAPTER XVI. CONCLUSION





MY YOUNG ALCIDES

A FADED PHOTOGRAPH




CHAPTER I. THE ARGHOUSE INHERITANCE.



One of the children brought me a photograph album, long ago finished
and closed, and showed me a faded and blurred figure over which there
had been a little dispute. Was it Hercules with club and lion-skin,
or was it a gentleman I had known?

Ah me! how soon a man's place knoweth him no more! What fresh