The Vatican swindle

“What!” cried Julius de Baraglioul, his brother-in-law. “Is it your body you are going to treat in Rome? Pray Heaven you may realise when you get there that your soul is in far...

While Marguerite was getting ready for the night, Julius, with a small lamp in his hand and slippers on his feet, went to his study--a room to which he never returned without pl...

The Countess Guy de Saint-Prix, Julius’s younger sister, who had been suddenly summoned to Paris by Count Juste-Agénor’s death, had not long since returned to Pezac (an elegant...

Amédée Fleurissoire had left Pau with five hundred francs in his pocket. This, he thought, would certainly suffice him for his journey, notwithstanding the extra expenses, to wh...

After Lafcadio, with the solicitor’s help--Julius acting as intermediary--had come into the 40,000 francs a year left him by the late Count Juste-Agénor de Baraglioul, his chief...