grandcross

Updated: May 29, 2025

I had even imagined that the public would never know the whole truth of the prodigious case known as that of The Yellow Room, out of which grew so many mysterious, cruel, and sensational dramas, with which my friend was so closely mixed up, if, propos of a recent nomination of the illustrious Stangerson to the grade of grandcross of the Legion of Honour, an evening journal in an article, miserable for its ignorance, or audacious for its perfidy had not resuscitated a terrible adventure of which Joseph Rouletabille had told me he wished to be for ever forgotten.

Gaston Leroux - Mystery of the Yellow Room