[V5] Diluvio Londinium qum Sanguis | Meet the Character
art by kavalyera Riley Halaghan is the toast of West London, landing butter-side-down in the East. Equally at home in the pleasure gardens of Southwark, the warrens of St. Giles', or the bar-rooms and ballrooms of Mayfair. Silverware and pocket-books and jewels disappear from the one, reappear in the other, are returned anonymously to the third. Tall, rakishly handsome, delightfully Irish, walks with a limp - that cane is not for show. End-of-season debutantes and pretty serving girls, wives and daughters of fathers at the war or the factory: nobody is safe, and no seething menfolk have ever understood what the fair sex see in this dandiprat. Clearly an educated man, claiming to have been sent down from Trinity and come to London for a second chance; living by wits, and credit, and with calling cards from fine hotels. Riley Halaghan is a lie. Riley Halaghan, the real one, committed suicide in the summer of 1876, overwhelmed by success and study and expectations, his c...