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Title: Aladdin of London
or Lodestar

Author: Sir Max Pemberton

Release Date: March 15, 2009 [eBook #28326]

Language: English

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ALADDIN OF LONDON

Or

Lodestar

by

MAX PEMBERTON

Author of "The Hundred Days," "A Gentleman's Gentleman," "Doctor
Xavier," "The Lady Evelyn," etc., etc.

Illustrated by Frank Parker

New York Empire Book Company Publishers

[Illustration: A very orgy of blood and slaughter; a carnival of
whips.--Page 198]

Copyright, 1907, by Max Pemberton.
Entered at Stationers' Hall.
All rights reserved.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE HALL BY UNION STREET 5

II. ALBAN KENNEDY MAKES A PROMISE 14

III. WITHOUT THE GATE 23

IV. THE CAVES 33

V. DISMISSAL 45

VI. THE STRANGER 56

VII. THE HOUSE OF THE FIVE GABLES 62

VIII. ALBAN KENNEDY DINES 71

IX. ANNA GESSNER 79

X. RICHARD GESSNER DEBATES AN ISSUE 90

XI. WHIRLWIND 109

XII. ALBAN SEES LIFE 121

XIII. ALBAN REVISITS UNION STREET 132

XIV. THERE ARE STRANGERS IN THE CAVES 145

XV. A STUDY IN INDIFFERENCE 152

XVI. THE INTRUDER 160

XVII. FATHER AND DAUGHTER