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The Secret of Sarek

By Maurice Leblanc

2021-05-24 21:24:26

Into the picturesque village of Le Faouet, situated in the very heart of Brittany, there drove one morning in the month of May a lady whose spreading gray cloak and the thick veil that covered her face failed to hide her remarkable beauty and perfect ... Read more

Into the picturesque village of Le Faouet, situated in the very heart of Brittany, there drove one morning in the month of May a lady whose spreading gray cloak and the thick veil that covered her face failed to hide her remarkable beauty and perfect grace of figure . The lady took a hurried lunch at the principal inn. Then, at about half-past eleven, she begged the proprietor to look after her bag for her, asked for a few particulars about the neighborhood and walked through the village into the open country. The road almost immediately branched into two, of which one led to Quimper and the other to Quimperle. Selecting the latter, she went down into the hollow of a valley, climbed up again and saw on her right, at the corner of another road, a sign-post bearing the inscription, "Locriff, 3 kilometers." "This is the place," 

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File size380.685 KB
Print pages149
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-2253004738
Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (11 December 1864 – 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Ars...

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