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Title: The Teeth of the Tiger

Author: Maurice Leblanc

Release Date: July 30, 2004 [EBook #13058]

Language: English

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THE TEETH OF THE TIGER

An Adventure Story

BY MAURICE LEBLANC

Author of "Arsene Lupin," "The Hollow Needle," "The Crystal Stopper"

1914

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. D'ARTAGNAN, PORTHOS ... AND MONTE CRISTO
II. A MAN DEAD
III. A MAN DOOMED
IV. THE CLOUDED TURQUOISE
V. THE IRON CURTAIN
VI. THE MAN WITH THE EBONY WALKING-STICK
VII. SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS, VOLUME VIII
VIII. THE DEVIL'S POST-OFFICE
IX. LUPIN'S ANGER
X. GASTON SAUVERAND EXPLAINS
XI. ROUTED
XII. "HELP!"
XIII. THE EXPLOSION
XIV. THE "HATER"
XV. THE HEIR TO THE HUNDRED MILLIONS
XVI. WEBER TAKES HIS REVENGE
XVII. OPEN SESAME!
XVIII. ARSENE I EMPEROR OF MAURETANIA
XIX. "THE SNARE IS LAID. BEWARE, LUPIN!"
XX. FLORENCE'S SECRET
XXI. LUPIN'S LUPINS

The Teeth of the Tiger

CHAPTER ONE

D'ARTAGNAN, PORTHOS ... AND MONTE CRISTO

It was half-past four; M. Desmalions, the Prefect of Police, was not yet
back at the office. His private secretary laid on the desk a bundle of
letters and reports which he had annotated for his chief, rang the bell
and said to the messenger who entered by the main door:

"Monsieur le Prefet has sent for a number of people to see him at five
o'clock. Here are their names. Show them into separate waiting-rooms, so
that they can't communicate with one another, and let me have their cards
when they come."

The messenger went out. The secretary was turning toward the small door
that led to his room, when the main door opened once more and admitted a
man who stopped and leaned swaying over the back of a chair.

"Why, it's you, Verot!" said the secretary. "But what's happened? What's
the