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Title: Red Masquerade
Author: Louis Joseph Vance
Release Date: December 18, 2003 [eBook #10496]
Language: English
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RED MASQUERADE
Being the Story of THE LONE WOLF'S DAUGHTER
BY
LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE
1921
[Illustration: "_Prince Victor gave a gesture of pain and reluctance. 'Must
I tell you?_'"]
TO J. PARKER READ, JR., ESQ. THE CINEMA THAT WAS HIS
APOLOGY
This tale quite brazenly derives from the author's invention for motion
pictures which Mr. J. Parker Read, Jr., produced in the autumn of 1919
under the title of "The Lone Wolf's Daughter."
It is only fair to state, however, that the author has in this version
taken as many high-handed liberties with the version used by the photoplay
director as the latter took with the original.
The chance to get even for once was too tempting....
Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Company in the first instance, and then Mr.
Arthur T. Vance, editor of _The Pictorial Review_, in which the story was
published as a serial, were equally guilty of the encouragement which
results in its appearance in its present guise.
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