CONTENTS
Page Historical Preface—The Sandalwood Box v Chapter I M. Theophrastus Longuet Desires to Improve His Mind and Visits Historical Monuments 1 II The Scrap of Paper 13 III Theophrastus Longuet Bursts into Song 22 IV Adolphe Lecamus is Flabbergasted but Frank 48 V Theophrastus Shows the Black Feather 55 VI The Portrait 67 VII The Young Cartouche 89 VIII The Wax Mask 105 IX Strange Position of a Little Violet Cat 116 X The Explanation of the Strange Attitude of a Little Violet Cat 124 XI Theophrastus Maintains that He Did Not Die on the Place de Grève 135 XII The House of Strange Words 144 XIII The Cure that Missed 155 XIV The Operation Begins 171 XV The Operation Ends 186 XVI The Drawbacks of Psychic Surgery 200 XVII Theophrastus Begins to Take an Interest in Things 206
