THE CONFESSIONS OF ARSÈNE LUPIN

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 ARSÈNE LUPIN




THE CONFESSIONS OF ARSÈNE LUPIN




I

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!"

"What! Your present of fifty thousand francs to Nicolas Dugrival's wife!
Do you call that uninteresting? And what about the way in which you
solved the puzzle of the three pictures?"

Lupin laughed: