A Prince of Sinners
                                            
                            By E. Phillips Oppenheim
                            
                                18 Oct, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Brief Extract: Already the sweepers were busy in the deserted hall, and the lights burned low. Of the great audience who had filled the place only half-an-hour ago not one remained. The echoes of their tumultuous cheering seemed still to linger among
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                                                Brief Extract: Already the sweepers were busy in the deserted hall, and the lights burned low. Of the great audience who had filled the place only half-an-hour ago not one remained. The echoes of their tumultuous cheering seemed still to linger amongst the rafters, the dust which their feet had raised hung about in a little cloud. But the long rows of benches were empty, the sweepers moved ghostlike amongst the shadows, and an old woman was throwing tea leaves here and there about the platform. Less