Belle Vue
“Oh, you are in here. I can arrange it to be permanent. Now, I have better ways to spend my time. Goodbye.”
He tucked his book under his arm and turned away when the woman’s quiet words stopped him dead.
“I ask your favor, O prince of the East, Beelzebub, monarch of burning Hell, and Demogorgon, that Mephistopheles may appear and rise.”
Surely this was trickery. There was no way she could know this incantation. Perhaps she had some actor friends who knew lines about Mephistopheles, the one word she knew of the club. He would not be bled by this harlot who ought never to have left Belle Vue when they’d finished with her. She had shown her hand and now left herself vulnerable. He remembered, t
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