The Tempting of Tavernake
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    The Tempting of Tavernake
                                            
                            By E. Phillips Oppenheim
                            
                                18 Oct, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Brief Extract: Slowly her hand stole into the depths of her pocket and emerged. Something flashed for a moment high over her head. The young man caught her wrist just in time, caught it in a veritable grip of iron. Then, indeed, the evil fires flashe
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                                                Brief Extract: Slowly her hand stole into the depths of her pocket and emerged. Something flashed for a moment high over her head. The young man caught her wrist just in time, caught it in a veritable grip of iron. Then, indeed, the evil fires flashed from her eyes, her teeth gleamed white, her bosom rose and fell in a storm of angry, unuttered sobs. She was dry-eyed and still speechless, but for all that, she was a tigress. Less