ALIAS
THE LONE WOLF
BY
LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE
1921
TO
ROBERT AITKEN SWAN
WHOSE FRIENDSHIP I HAVE TRIED
IN MANY OTHER WAYS, THIS
YARN WITH DIFFIDENCE IS
DEDICATED
NOTE: This is the fourth of the Lone Wolf stories. Its predecessorswere, in chronological sequence, "The Lone Wolf," "The False Faces,""Red Masquerade."
Each story, however, is entirely self-contained and independent of theothers.
If it matters....
LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE
Westport--9 September, 1921.
Contents
ALIAS
THE LONE WOLF
I
WALKING PAPERS
Through the suave, warm radiance of that afternoon of Spring in Englanda gentleman of modest and commonly amiable deportment bore a ruefulcountenance down Piccadilly and into Halfmoon street, where presentlyhe introduced it to one whom he found awaiting him in his lodgings,much at ease in his easiest chair, making free with his whiskey andtobacco, and reading a slender bro