Book the devil rides out7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() There had been others too in that strange adventure young Richard Eaton, and the little Princess Marie Lou whom he had brought out of Russia as his bride but as Rex accepted a long Hoyo de Monterrey from the cedar cabinet, which the Duke’s man presented to him, his thoughts were not of the Eatons, living now so happily with their little daughter Fleur in their lovely country home. Together they had learned the dangerous secret of ‘The Forbidden Territory’ and travelled many thousand verst pursued by the merciless agents of the Ogpu. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some few years earlier Rex’s foolhardiness had landed him in a Soviet prison, and the elderly French exile had put aside his peaceful existence as art connoisseur and dilettante to search for him in Russia. The Duke de Richleau and Rex Van Ryn had gone in to dinner at eight o’clock, but coffee was not served till after ten.Īn appetite in keeping with his mighty frame had enabled Van Ryn to do ample justice to each well-chosen course and, as was his custom each time the young American arrived in England, the Duke had produced his finest wines for this, their reunion dinner at his flat.Ī casual observer might well have considered it a strange friendship, but despite their difference in age and race, appearance and tradition, a real devotion existed between the two. ![]()
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