The Man with the Black Feather

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The Man with the Black Feather (1912)
by Gaston Leroux, translated by Edgar Jepson
Preface
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"A shilling shocker from the hands of the man who wrote that excellent tale, "The Mystery of the Yellow Room." [...] The soul of Cartouche, a brigand who attained notoriety under the Regency in France, and a man of a hundred murders, finds reincarnation in the body of M. Theophrastus Longuet, retired manufacturer of rubber stamps, resident in the suburbs of Paris. M. Longuet, impelled by this metaphysical motive power within him, casts aside his green umbrella at regular intervals to reproduce under modern conditions the career of eighteenth-century Cartouche." —extracted from a review in The Nation, April 1912.

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THE MAN WITH THE BLACK
FEATHER

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In horror I recognized my own handwriting

See page 21

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THE
MAN WITH THE BLACK
FEATHER

BY
GASTON LEROUX

Author of "The Mystery of the Yellow Room,"
"The Phantom of the Opera"

TRANSLATED BY
EDGAR JEPSON

ILLUSTRATED BY
CHARLES M. RELYEA

BOSTON
SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

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Copyright, 1912

By Small, Maynard and Company

(incorporated)

Entered at Stationers' Hall

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.

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CONTENTS


  1. Page
  2. Historical Preface—The Sandalwood Box v
  3. Chapter
  4. I M. Theophrastus Longuet Desires to Improve His Mind and Visits Historical Monuments 1
  5. II The Scrap of Paper 13
  6. III Theophrastus Longuet Bursts into Song 22
  7. IV Adolphe Lecamus is Flabbergasted but Frank 48
  8. V Theophrastus Shows the Black Feather 55
  9. VI The Portrait 67
  10. VII The Young Cartouche 89
  11. VIII The Wax Mask 105
  12. IX Strange Position of a Little Violet Cat 116
  13. X The Explanation of the Strange Attitude of a Little Violet Cat 124
  14. XI Theophrastus Maintains that He Did Not Die on the Place de Grève 135
  15. XII The House of Strange Words 144
  16. XIII The Cure that Missed 155
  17. XIV The Operation Begins 171
  18. XV The Operation Ends 186
  19. XVI The Drawbacks of Psychic Surgery 200
  20. XVII Theophrastus Begins to Take an Interest in Things 206
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  21. XVIII The Evening Paper 212
  22. XIX The Story of the Calf 221
  23. XX The Strange Behaviour of an Express Train 234
  24. XXI The Earless Man with His Head Out of the Window 242
  25. XXII In which the Catastrophe which Appears on the Point of Being Explained, Grows yet More Inexplicable 246
  26. XXIII The Melodious Bricklayer 253
  27. XXIV The Solution in the Catacombs 261
  28. XXV M. Mifroid Takes the Lead 273
  29. XXVI M. Longuet Fishes in the Catacombs 288
  30. XXVII M. Mifroid Parts from Theophrastus 300
  31. XXVIII Theophrastus Goes into Eternal Exile 308

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ILLUSTRATIONS

  1. In horror I recognized my own handwriting. See page 21 Frontispiece

  2. PAGE

  3. Theophrastus still gazed in wonder. See page 157 100
  4. "Theophrastus Longuet, awake!" 200


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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