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A Crooked Path, by Mrs. Alexander
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Title: A Crooked Path A Novel
Author: Mrs. Alexander
Release Date: May 18, 2006 [EBook #18418]
Language: English
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A CROOKED PATH
A NOVEL
BY MRS. ALEXANDER,
Author of "The Wooing O't," "A Life Interest," Etc.
NEW YORK THE F. M. LUPTON PUBLISHING COMPANY, NOS. 72-76 WALKER STREET.
CHAPTER I.
"GATHERING CLOUDS."
The London season had not yet reached its height, some years ago, before the arch admitting to Constitution Hill had been swept back to make room for the huge, ever-increasing stream of traffic, or the plebeian 'bus had been permitted to penetrate the precincts of Hamilton Place. It was the forenoon of a splendid day, one of the earliest of June, and at that hour the roadway between the entrance to Hyde Park and the gate then surmounted by the statue of the Duke of Wellington on his drooping steed was comparatively free, when two gentlemen coming from opposite directions recognized each other, and pau