croix-blanche

Updated: May 21, 2025

At the little old-world Croix-Blanche at Briey a stout, middle-aged, ruddy-faced English tourist had had his headquarters; while, again, at the unpretending Cloche d'Or in the Place St. Paul at Verdun another Englishman, a young, active, clean-shaven man, had been moving about the country in constant communication with "Mr. Maltwood."

William Le Queux - The Doctor of Pimlico: Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime