![]() ![]() Francis subsequently turns up dead and Leila is implicated as a prime suspect. Sitting for a portrait session with Francis’s wife complicates matters because these he is attracted to Leila Beaumont and this could jeopardize his mission. He infiltrates Francis’ debauched circle of acquaintances hoping to find a way to stop him. Francis has been blackmailing some important men in the government that patronize his brothel in France and that just won’t do. Ismal Delvina, the Comte, has a longer memory than her, however. Leila remembered spying as her father argued with a handsome young man shortly before his death, and she remembered enough to sketch the face of this young man.īut that was long ago, and today, she doesn’t recognize the Comte d’Esmond, apparently one of her husband’s acquaintances, as the young man she overheard arguing with her father. When Leila was a young girl, her father died under mysterious circumstances in Italy and she was taken under the wing of the kindly solicitor Andrew Herriard and the seemingly charming young man Francis Beaumont. ![]()
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