He lives by vice for vice, and there are many deaths upon his hands.

But he has never prospered in his evil-doing, and to-day he is but an adventurer without a name, who lives by blackmail, and by ruining women that he may rob them at his leisure.

Give me those books from the strong box yonder, and I will tell you of this de Garcia.' I did as he bade me, bringing the heavy parchment volumes, each bound in vellum and written in cipher.
'These are my records,' he said, 'though none can read them except myself.

Now for the index.

Ah! here it is.