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From the very first I felt that, owing to my passionate love for Lola, I was treading upon very thin ice.
As the cat's-paw of her father I was being drawn into such subtle devilish schemes that I felt to draw back must only bring upon my head the vengeance, through fear, of a man who was so entirely unscrupulous and so elusive that the police could never trace him.