I uploaded this to the Kindle library some time ago, but not here. This is an improved edition with better cover, and active table of contents. Hence v2.
Major Strickland, a fortyish bachelor, returns from the east with beautiful sapphire he bought for the woman he wishes to marry, Ariadne Ferne; but Ariadne, he discovered, is betrothed to another, a rising politician. And she has become innocently involved with Corinne, the beautiful but frivolous dancer and her dubious boyfriend.
None but Corinne know that her former criminal man friend is serving life in a French colonial prison; and Corinne has mindlessly frittered away the entire fortune that the man friend entrusted to her to look after for him.
And now the former man friend has escaped and is closing in....
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