BY GASTON LEROUX Author of "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" Copyright, 1909, by JOHN E. KEARNEY
HISTORICAL PREFACE
CHAPTER I M. ThEophraste Longuet Wishes to Inform Him-self and Visits Historical Monuments
CHAPTER II An Explanation from ThEophraste
CHAPTER III A Search and a Discovery
CHAPTER IV Some Philosophy and a Song
CHAPTER V ThEophraste Remembers Himself
CHAPTER VI M. Lecamus Expresses His Views.
CHAPTER VII ThEophraste and His Black Plume
CHAPTER VIII An Appeal for Help
CHAPTER IX The Portrait
CHAPTER X Cartouche's Past
CHAPTER XI Signor Petito Appears
CHAPTER XII ThEophraste's Memory Is Refreshed
CHAPTER XIII The Cat
CHAPTER XIV Petito Loses His Ears
CHAPTER XV Adolphe Consulted
CHAPTER XVI On Private Ground
CHAPTER XVII They Decide to Kill
CHAPTER XVIII The Operation
CHAPTER XIX The Torture Chamber
CHAPTER XX In the Charnel House
CHAPTER XXI The Result of the Operation
CHAPTER XXII Visits to a Butcher's Shop
CHAPTER XXIII A Newspaper Report
CHAPTER XXIV The Murder in the Rue Guenegaud
CHAPTER XXV The Calf's Revenge
CHAPTER XXVI ThEophraste Again Hears of His Treasures
CHAPTER XXVII The Express Train's Disappearance
CHAPTER XXVIII Not To Be Explained!
CHAPTER XXIX M. Milford Recognizes Cartouche
CHAPTER XXX M. Mifroid's Theory
CHAPTER XXXI Lost in the Catacombs
CHAPTER XXXII A Dissertation on Fish
CHAPTER XXXIII The Meeting of the Talfa
CHAPTER XXXIV M. Mifroid Performs on the Stage
CHAPTER XXXVI A New Trade
CHAPTER XXXVI A Robber is Caught
CHAPTER XXXVII The Escape from the Catacombs
CHAPTER XXXVII An Old Friend
CHAPTER XXXIX The Final Tragedy
