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The Secret of Sarek
Arsène Lupin, Master Mind versus Vorski, Master Criminal
by Maurice Leblanc
Author of "The Golden Triangle," "The Woman of Mystery," "Arsène Lupin," etc
Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
1920
CONTENTS
* CHAPTER I. THE DESERTED CABIN
* CHAPTER II. ON THE EDGE OF THE ATLANTIC
* CHAPTER III. VORSKI'S SON
* CHAPTER IV. THE POOR PEOPLE OF SAREK
* CHAPTER V. "FOUR WOMEN CRUCIFIED"
* CHAPTER VI. ALL'S WELL
* CHAPTER VII. FRANCOIS AND STEPHANE
* CHAPTER VIII. ANGUISH
* CHAPTER IX. THE DEATH-CHAMBER
* CHAPTER X. THE ESCAPE
* CHAPTER XI. THE SCOURGE OF GOD
* CHAPTER XII. THE ASCENT OF GOLGOTHA
* CHAPTER XIII. "ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!"
* CHAPTER XIV. THE ANCIENT DRUID
* CHAPTER XV. THE HALL OF THE UNDERGROUND SACRIFICES
* CHAPTER XVI. THE HALL OF THE KINGS OF BOHEMIA
* CHAPTER XVII. "CRUEL PRINCE, OBEYING DESTINY"
* CHAPTER XVIII. THE GOD-STONE
FOREWORD
The war has led to so many upheavals that not many people now remember the Hergemont scandal of seventeen years ago. Let us recall the details in a few lines.
One day in July 1902, M. Antoine d'Hergemont, the author of a series of well-known studies on the megalithic monuments of Brittany, was walking in the Bois with his daughter Veronique, when he was assaulted by four men, receiving a blow in the face with a walking-stick which felled him to the ground.
After a short struggle and in spite of his desperate efforts, Veronique, "the beautiful Veronique" as she was called by her friends, was dragged a