The Devil's Elixir - Tapa blanda

Excerpt: ...commercial town to which I was now drawing near. In due time it lay visibly before me. Without being questioned, nay, without even being rudely stared at, I rode at once into the suburbs. A large house, with bright plate-glass windows, over the door of which there was a golden lion, immediately struck my attention. Crowds of people were here streaming in and out at the gate