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Title: The Confessions of Arsene Lupin

Author: Maurice Leblanc

Release Date: February 15, 2009 [EBook #28093]
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[Illustration: "_Suddenly he rushed at her and caught her by the arm_"]

THE INTERNATIONAL
ADVENTURE LIBRARY

THREE OWLS EDITION

THE CONFESSIONS
OF ARSENE LUPIN

An Adventure Story

BY
MAURICE LEBLANC
Author of "Arsene Lupin"

W. R. CALDWELL & CO.
NEW YORK

_Copyright, 1912, 1913, by_
Maurice Leblanc

_All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian_

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 ARSENE LUPIN

THE CONFESSIONS OF ARSENE 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 fact