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ARSENE LUPIN
BY
EDGAR JEPSON AND MAURICE LEBLANC
Frontispiece by H. Richard Boehm
CONTENTS
I. THE MILLIONAIRE'S DAUGHTER
II. THE COMING OF THE CHAROLAIS
III. LUPIN'S WAY
IV. THE DUKE INTERVENES
V. A LETTER FROM LUPIN
VI. AGAIN THE CHAROLAIS
VII. THE THEFT OF THE MOTOR-CARS
VIII. THE DUKE ARRIVES
IX. M. FORMERY OPENS THE INQUIRY
X. GUERCHARD ASSISTS
XI. THE FAMILY ARRIVES
XII. THE THEFT OF THE PENDANT
XIII. LUPIN WIRES
XIV. GUERCHARD PICKS UP THE TRUE SCENT
XV. THE EXAMINATION OF SONIA
XVI. VICTOIRE'S SLIP
XVII. SONIA'S ESCAPE
XVIII. THE DUKE STAYS
XIX. THE DUKE GOES
XX. LUPIN COMES HOME
XXI. THE CUTTING OF THE TELEPHONE WIRES
XII. THE BARGAIN
CHAPTER I
ARSENE LUPIN
THE MILLIONAIRE'S DAUGHTER
The rays of the September sun flooded the great halls of the old chateau of the Dukes of Charmerace, lighting up with their mellow glow the spoils of so many ages and many lands, jumbled together with the execrable taste which so often afflicts those whose only standard of value is money. The golden light warmed the panelled walls and old furniture to a dull lustre, and gave back to he fading gilt of the First Empire chairs and couches something of its old brightness. It illumined the long line of pictures on the walls, pictures of dead and gone Charmeraces, the stern or debonair faces of the men, soldiers, statesmen, dandies, the gentle or imperious faces