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Title: Arsene Lupin

Author: Edgar Jepson
Maurice Leblanc

Posting Date: June 4, 2009 [EBook #4014]
Release Date: May, 2003
First Posted: March 15, 2002

Language: English

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ARSENE LUPIN

BY

EDGAR JEPSON AND MAURICE LEBLANC

Frontispiece by H. Richard Boehm

CONTENTS

I. THE MILLIONAIRE'S DAUGHTER
II. THE COMING OF THE CHAROLAIS
III. LUPIN'S WAY
IV. THE DUKE INTERVENES
V. A LETTER FROM LUPIN
VI. AGAIN THE CHAROLAIS
VII. THE THEFT OF THE MOTOR-CARS
VIII. THE DUKE ARRIVES
IX. M. FORMERY OPENS THE INQUIRY
X. GUERCHARD ASSISTS
XI. THE FAMILY ARRIVES
XII. THE THEFT OF THE PENDANT
XIII. LUPIN WIRES
XIV. GUERCHARD PICKS UP THE TRUE SCENT
XV. THE EXAMINATION OF SONIA
XVI. VICTOIRE'S SLIP
XVII. SONIA'S ESCAPE
XVIII. THE DUKE STAYS
XIX. THE DUKE GOES
XX. LUPIN COMES HOME
XXI. THE CUTTING OF THE TELEPHONE WIRES
XII. THE BARGAIN
XXIII. THE END OF THE DUEL

ARSENE LUPIN

CHAPTER I

THE MILLIONAIRE'S DAUGHTER

The rays of the September sun flooded the great halls of the old
chateau of the Dukes of Charmerace, lighting up with their mellow glow
the spoils of so many ages and many lands, jumbled together with the
execrable taste which so often afflicts those whose only standard of
value is money. The golden light warmed the panelled walls and old
furniture to a dull lustre, and gave back to the fading gilt of the
First Empire chairs and couches something of its old brightness. It
illumined the long line of pictures on the walls, pictures of dead and
gone Charmeraces, the stern or debonair faces of the men, soldiers,
statesmen, dandies, the gentle or imperious faces of beautiful women.
It flashed back from armour of brightly polished steel, and drew dull
gleams from armour of bronze. The hues of rare porcelain, of the rich
inlays of Oriental or Renaissanc