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Updated: May 27, 2025
But his mind was poisoned by this brutal revelation of the wide, deep gulf that yawned between the Lone Wolf of yesterday and Pierre Lamier of today; between Michael Lanyard the debonnaire, the amateur of fine arts and fine clothing, the beau sabreur of gentlemen-cracksmen and that lean, worn, shabby and dispirited animal who had glared back at him from the jeweller's mirror.
Engaging obscure lodgings close by the rue des Acacias, he slept till nearly noon of the following day, then rose to put into execution a design which had sprung full-winged from his brain at the instant of wakening. He had not only his car but a chauffeur's license of long standing in the name of Pierre Lamier was free, in short, to range at will the streets of Paris.
And when he had levied on the stock of a second-hand clothing shop and a chemist's, he felt tolerably satisfied it would need sharp eyes whether the Pack's or the Prefecture's to identify "Pierre Lamier" with either Michael Lanyard or the Lone Wolf.
With this accomplished and the facts established through discreet interrogation of madame la concierge that no enquiries had been made for "Pierre Lamier," and that she had noticed no strange or otherwise questionable characters loitering in the neighbourhood of late he was ready for his first real step toward rehabilitation....
They know me, monsieur and madame of the conciergerie, as Pierre Lamier; and I think they're safe not only trustworthy and of friendly disposition, but quite simple-minded; I don't believe they gossip much. So the chances are De Morbihan and his gang know nothing of the arrangement. But that's all speculation a forlorn hope!" "I understand," the girl observed.
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