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      There has been some confusion about the authors of
      this book. The cover credits Pierre Souvestre and
      Marcel Allain, but the title page lists Emile
      Souvestre and Marcel Allain. Pierre Souvestre
      (1874-1914) and Marcel Allain (1885-1969) were
      contemporaries, while Emile Souvestre (1806-1854)
      was the great-uncle of Pierre and died before
      Marcel Allain was born.





THE EXPLOITS OF JUVE

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

by

EMILE SOUVESTRE and MARCEL ALLAIN







New York
Brentano's
1917

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




I

THE COMRADES' TRYST


"A bowl of claret, Father Korn."

The raucous voice of big Ernestine rose above the hubbub in the
smoke-begrimed tavern.

"Some claret, and let it be good," repeated the drab, a big, fair damsel
with puckered eyes and features worn by dissipation.

Father Korn had heard the first time, but he was in no hurry to comply
with the order.

He was a bald, whiskered giant, and at the moment was busily engaged in
swilling dirty glasses in a sink filled with tepid water.

This tavern, "The Comrades' Tryst," had two rooms, each with its
separate exit. Mme. Korn presided over the first in which food and drink
were served. By passing through the door at the far end, and crossing
the inner courtyard of the large seven-story building, the second "den"
was reached--a low and ill-lit room facing the Rue de la Charbonniere,
a street famed in the district for its bad reputation.

At a third summons, Father Korn, who had sized up the girl and the crowd
she was with, growled:

"It'll be two moons; hand over the stuff first."

Big Ernestine rose, and pushing her way to him, began a long argument.
When she stopped to draw a breath, K