The Evil Shepherd (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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A novel of English life of a melodramatic character, so fascinating and so stirring that the most hardened reader can hardly fail to receive a series of thrills.
THE EVIL SHEPHERD CHAPTER I FRANCIS LEDSAM, alert, well-satisfied with liimself and the world, the echo of a little buzz of congl'atulations still in his ears, paused on the steps of the modern Temple of Justice to light a cigarette' before calling for a taxi to take him to his club, Visions of a whisky and soda - his throat was a little parched - and a rubber of easy-going bridge at his favourite table, we}'e already before his eye~. A woman who had follOved him from the Court touched him on the shoulder. " Can I speak to you for a moment, Mr. Ledsam? " The barrister frowned slightly as he swung around to confront his questioner. It was such a familiar form of address. " Vhat do you want? " he asked, a little curtly. " A few minutes' conversation with you," was the calm reply. "The matter is important." The woman's. tone and manner, notwithstanding her plain, inconspicuous clothes, commanded attention. Francis Ledsam was a little puzzled. Small t

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