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THE INTERNATIONAL ADVENTURE LIBRARY

THREE OWLS EDITION

THE CONFESSIONS OF ARSENE LUPIN

An Adventure Story

BY MAURICE LEBLANC Author of "Arsene Lupin"

W. R. CALDWELL & CO. NEW YORK

Copyright, 1912, 1913, by Maurice Leblanc

All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND FRANCS REWARD! 1

II. THE WEDDING-RING 36

III. THE SIGN OF THE SHADOW 66

IV. THE INFERNAL TRAP 101

V. THE RED SILK SCARF 138

VI. SHADOWED BY DEATH 177

VII. A TRAGEDY IN THE FOREST OF MORGUES 210

VIII. LUPIN'S MARRIAGE 228

IX. THE INVISIBLE PRISONER 266

X. EDITH SWAN-NECK 291

THE CONFESSIONS OF ARSENE LUPIN

THE CONFESSIONS OF ARSENE LUPIN

TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND FRANCS REWARD!...

"Lupin," I said, "tell me something about yourself."

"Why, what would you have me tell you? Everybody knows my life!" replied Lupin, who lay drowsing on the sofa in my study.

"Nobody knows it!" I protested. "People know from your letters in the newspapers that you were mixed up in this case, that you started that case. But the part which you played in it all, the plain facts of the story, the upshot of the mystery: these are things of which they know nothing."

"Pooh! A heap of uninteresting twaddle!"