Chapter I: Front Matter

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ALADDIN OF LONDON

Or

Lodestar

by

MAX PEMBERTON

Author of "The Hundred Days," "A Gentleman's Gentleman," "Doctor Xavier," "The Lady Evelyn," etc., etc.

Illustrated by Frank Parker

New York Empire Book Company Publishers

Copyright, 1907, by Max Pemberton. Entered at Stationers' Hall. All rights reserved.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE HALL BY UNION STREET 5

II. ALBAN KENNEDY MAKES A PROMISE 14

III. WITHOUT THE GATE 23

IV. THE CAVES 33

V. DISMISSAL 45

VI. THE STRANGER 56

VII. THE HOUSE OF THE FIVE GABLES 62

VIII. ALBAN KENNEDY DINES 71

IX. ANNA GESSNER 79

X. RICHARD GESSNER DEBATES AN ISSUE 90

XI. WHIRLWIND 109

XII. ALBAN SEES LIFE 121

XIII. ALBAN REVISITS UNION STREET 132

XIV. THERE ARE STRANGERS IN THE CAVES 145

XV. A STUDY IN INDIFFERENCE 152

XVI. THE INTRUDER 160

XVII. FATHER AND DAUGHTER 167

XVIII. FATE IRONICAL 182

XIX. THE PLOT HAS FAILED 192

XX. ALBAN GOES TO WARSAW 198

XXI. THE BOY IN THE BLUE BLOUSE 209

XXII. A FIGURE IN THE STRAW 224

XXIII. AN INSTRUCTION TO THE POLICE 231

XXIV. THE DAWN OF THE DAY 240

XXV. COUNT ZAMOYSKI SLEEPS 247

XXVI. AN INTERLUDE IN PICCADILLY 259

XXVII. THE PRISON YARD 268

XXVIII. THE MEETING 276

XXIX. ALBAN RETURNS TO LONDON 285

XXX. WE MEET OLD FRIENDS 294

XXXI. THE MAN UPON THE PAVEMENT 303

XXXII. IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY 307

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"You love another woman, Alban Kennedy, and you have wished to forget my daughter." 132

A very orgy of blood and slaughter; a carnival of whips. 198

"Why do you come here?" she asked him wildly. 267

ALADDIN OF LONDON

OR

LODESTAR