The Wicked Marquis
                                            
                            By E.Phillips Oppenheim
                            
                                16 Oct, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Brief Extract: The lawyer searched his trousers pockets and produced a couple of pink notes and a few half-crowns. In some mysterious fashion, the whole seemed to pass into the Marquis's long, aristocratic hand. He turned to the porter who was standi
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                                                Brief Extract: The lawyer searched his trousers pockets and produced a couple of pink notes and a few half-crowns. In some mysterious fashion, the whole seemed to pass into the Marquis's long, aristocratic hand. He turned to the porter who was standing bare-headed and slipped a ten-shilling note into his palm. Less