THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE

CONTENTS


CHAPTER PAGE
I. CORALIE 11
II. RIGHT HAND AND LEFT LEG 27
III. THE RUSTY KEY 43
IV. BEFORE THE FLAMES 59
V. HUSBAND AND WIFE 74
VI. NINETEEN MINUTES PAST SEVEN 91
VII. TWENTY-THREE MINUTES PAST TWELVE 107
VIII. ESSARÈS BEY'S WORK 124
IX. PATRICE AND CORALIE 140
X. THE RED CORD 156
XI. ON THE BRINK 174
XII. IN THE ABYSS 188
XIII. THE NAILS IN THE COFFIN 206
XIV. A STRANGE CHARACTER 221
XV. THE BELLE HÉLÈNE 241
XVI. THE FOURTH ACT 263
XVII. SIMÉON GIVES BATTLE 283
XVIII. SIMÉON'S LAST VICTIM 304
XIX. FIAT LUX! 332




THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE

CHAPTER I

CORALIE


It was close upon half-past six and the evening shadows were growing
denser when two soldiers reached the little space, planted with trees,
opposite the Musée Galliéra, where the Rue de Chaillot and the Rue
Pierre-Charron meet. One wore an infantryman's sky-blue great-coat; the
other, a Senegalese, those clothes of undyed wool, with baggy breeches
and a belted jacket, in which the Zouaves and the native African troops
have been dressed since the war. One of them had lost his right leg, the
other his left arm.

They walked round the open space, in the center of which stands a fine
group of Silenus figures, and stopped. The infantryman threw away his
cigarette. The Senegalese picked it up, took a few quick puffs at it,
put it out by squeezing it between his fore-finger and thumb and stuffed
it into his pocket. All this without a word.