The Man with the Black Feather

CONTENTS

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HISTORICAL PREFACE--THE SANDALWOOD BOX		v
Chapter
I	M. Theophrastus Longuet Desires to Improve His Mind and Visits Historical Monuments	1
II	The Scrap of Paper	13
III	Theophrastus Longuet Bursts into Song	22
IV	Adolphe Lecamus is Flabbergasted but Frank	48
V	Theophrastus Shows the Black Feather	55
VI	The Portrait	67
VII	The Young Cartouche	89
VIII	The Wax Mask	105
IX	Strange Position of a Little Violet Cat	116
X	The Explanation of the Strange Attitude of a Little Violet Cat	124
XI	Theophrastus Maintains that He Did Not Die on the Place de GrÈve	135
XII	The House of Strange Words	144
XIII	The Cure That Missed	155
XIV	The Operation Begins	171
XV	The Operation Ends	186
XVI	The Drawbacks of Psychic Surgery	200
XVII	Theophrastus Begins to Take an Interest in Things	206
XVIII	The Evening Paper	212
XIX	The Story of the Calf	221
XX	The Strange Behaviour of an Express Train	234
XXI	The Earless Man with His Head Out of the Window	242
XXII	In Which the Catastrophe which Appears on the Point of Being Explained, Grows yet More Inexplicable	246
XXIII	The Melodious Bricklayer	253
XXIV	The Solution in the Catacombs	261
XXV	M. Mifroid Takes the Lead	273
XXVI	M. Longuet Fishes in the Catacombs	288
XXVII	M. Mifroid Parts from Theophrastus	300
XXVIII	Theophrastus Goes into Eternal Exile	308

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