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A fantastic novel by Ernest William Hornung, the author most famous as the creator of the Raffles series of novels. Set in a Swiss hotel, an Eton boy has fallen in love with an 'adventuress', and the protagonist, a friend of the boy's mother, attempts to disillusion the boy.
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