A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest

· 1892

A NIGHT ON THE BORDERS OF THE BLACK FOREST THE STORY OF SALOME IN THE CONFESSIONAL THE TRAGEDY IN THE PALAZZO BORDELLO THE FOUR-FIFTEEN EXPRESS SISTER JOHANNA'S STORY ALL-SAINTS' EVE My story (if story it can be called, being an episode in my own early life) carries me back to a time when the world and I were better friends than we are likely, perhaps, ever to be again. I was young then. I had good health, good spirits, and tolerably good looks. I had lately come into a snug little patrimony, which I have long since dissipated; and I was in love, or fancied myself in love, with a charming coquette, who afterwards threw me over for a West-country baronet with seven thousand a year.…

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