The long arm of Fantômas

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Title: The long arm of Fantômas

Author: Pierre Souvestre

Marcel Allain

Translator: A. R. Allinson

Release date: September 7, 2023 [eBook #71587]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: The Macauley Company, 1924

Credits: Charlene Taylor, David Wilson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	A Promising Job	7
II.	A Night Affray	23
III.	Shady Schemes	32
IV.	An Epileptic Seizure	37
V.	Disappointed Hopes	46
VI.	Prisoner of the Lantern	57
VII.	Fantômas’ Ultimatum	66
VIII.	A Wireless from Mid-Atlantic	72
IX.	The “Blue Chestnut”	77
X.	Tom Bob on the Spot	88
XI.	Mad as a Hatter	102
XII.	A Stroke of Genius	115
XIII.	The Wall that Bled	129
XIV.	In the Bois de Boulogne	141
XV.	In a Private Room	157
XVI.	Next Morning!	168
XVII.	Fantômas Meets Fantômas	182
XVIII.	“Fantômas Speaking!”	196
XIX.	The Prisoner of the Santé	210
XX.	A Woman’s Self-Sacrifice	220
XXI.	Joy Can Kill	230
XXII.	A Volunteer Waiter	239
XXIII.	The Wedding Breakfast	249
XXIV.	Plots and Counterplots	258
XXV.	Assault and Battery	270
XXVI.	Juve Hears Confessions	278
XXVII.	Juve’s Bag	290
XXVIII.	The Decoy	297
XXIX.	The “Ever-Evasive” Escapes Again	309

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CONTENTS

THE LONG ARM
OF FANTÔMAS