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  THE EXPLOITS OF JUVE

  Being the Second of the Series of the "Fantomas" Detective Tales

  by

  EMILE SOUVESTRE and MARCEL ALLAIN

  New YorkBrentano's1917

  Copyright, 1917, by Brentano's

  CONTENTS

  CHAPTER PAGE

  I. THE COMRADES' TRYST 1

  II. ON THE TRACK 14

  III. BEHIND THE CURTAIN 22

  IV. A WOMAN'S CORPSE 33

  V. LOUPART'S ANGER 42

  VI. THE LARIBOISIERE HOSPITAL 50

  VII. A REVOLVER SHOT 58

  VIII. THE SEARCH FOR THE CRIMINAL 64

  IX. IN THE REFRIGERATORY 70

  X. THE BLOODY SIGNATURE 75

  XI. THE SHOWER OF SAND 81

  XII. FOLLOWING JOSEPHINE 90

  XIII. ROBBERY; AMERICAN FASHION 99

  XIV. FLIGHT THROUGH THE NIGHT 107

  XV. THE SIMPLON EXPRESS DISASTER 113

  XVI. A DRAMA AT THE BERCY WAREHOUSE 118

  XVII. ON THE SLABS OF THE MORGUE 131

  XVIII. FANTOMAS' VICTIM 142

  XIX. THE ENGLISHWOMAN OF BOULEVARD INKERMANN 147

  XX. THE ARREST OF JOSEPHINE 153

  XXI. AT THE MONTMARTRE FETE 165

  XXII. THE PUGILIST'S WHIM 176

  XXIII. "STATE'S EVIDENCE" 185

  XXIV. A MYSTERIOUS CLASP 192

  XXV. THE TRAP 204

  XXVI. AT THE HOUSE OF BONARDIN, THE ACTOR 212

  XXVII. THE MOTHER SUPERIOR 222

  XXVIII. AN OLD PARALYTIC 230

  XXIX. THROUGH THE WINDOW 238

  XXX. UNCLE AND NEPHEW 245

  XXXI. LOVERS AND ACCOMPLICES 256

  XXXII. THE SILENT EXECUTIONER 268

  XXXIII. A SCANDAL IN THE CLOISTER 280

  XXXIV. FANTOMAS' REVENGE 291

  EXPLOITS OF JUVE