Excerpt: ... left alone. "Bruce, old man," said Kendric, "let's come down to earth. Put your sentimental heart in your pocket and use your brains a while. You know me well enough to know that I won't lie to you. Will you listen to me?" "Yes. But tell me only what you know, not what you surmise. What do you know against Zoraida Castelmar?" "I know she is an adventuress, playing for big stakes, stakes so big that in the end they are bound to crush her." "Speculation, old chap." Bruce smiled faintly. "Keep away from doping out ...
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Excerpt: ... left alone. "Bruce, old man," said Kendric, "let's come down to earth. Put your sentimental heart in your pocket and use your brains a while. You know me well enough to know that I won't lie to you. Will you listen to me?" "Yes. But tell me only what you know, not what you surmise. What do you know against Zoraida Castelmar?" "I know she is an adventuress, playing for big stakes, stakes so big that in the end they are bound to crush her." "Speculation, old chap." Bruce smiled faintly. "Keep away from doping out the future and stick to facts." "So you want facts? All right: She is planning a revolution; she has the mad idea that she can rip Lower California away from the government and make of it a separate empire, herself its queen!" "Why not? Wilder things have been done. And where would you find a more likely queen?" "When I first saw her she came, disguised as a man, into Ortega's gaming hell, Rios with her. She played dice with me for twenty thousand dollars." Bruce's eye brightened. "She's wonderful!" he said eagerly. "She's hand and fist with Rios and Escobar and a lot of other riff-raff I don't know. She is instrumental in Betty Gordon's being held for ransom
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Very Good. Book New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1921. Reprint. Very Good. Clean decorated American trade binding. Brown cloth boards with orange and black decoration, black lettering. No fading or fraying. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean. No complete dust jacket, but beautiful illustration from the dust jacket is pasted to front free endpaper. Frontispiece illustration in black and white. 271 pages.
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