The Man with the Black Feather
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Гастон Леру. The Man with the Black Feather
HISTORICAL PREFACE THE SANDALWOOD BOX
CHAPTER I. M. THEOPHRASTUS LONGUET DESIRES TO IMPROVE HIS MIND AND VISITS HISTORICAL MONUMENTS
CHAPTER II. THE SCRAP OF PAPER
CHAPTER III. THEOPHRASTUS LONGUET BURSTS INTO SONG
CHAPTER IV. ADOLPHE LECAMUS IS FLABBERGASTED BUT FRANK
CHAPTER V. THEOPHRASTUS SHOWS THE BLACK FEATHER
CHAPTER VI. THE PORTRAIT
CHAPTER VII. THE YOUNG CARTOUCHE
CHAPTER VIII. THE WAX MASK
CHAPTER IX. STRANGE POSITION OF A LITTLE VIOLET CAT
CHAPTER X. THE EXPLANATION OF THE STRANGE ATTITUDE OF A LITTLE VIOLET CAT
CHAPTER XI. THEOPHRASTUS MAINTAINS THAT HE DID NOT DIE ON THE PLACE DE GRÈVE
CHAPTER XII. THE HOUSE OF STRANGE WORDS
CHAPTER XIII. THE CURE THAT MISSED
CHAPTER XIV. THE OPERATION BEGINS
CHAPTER XV. THE OPERATION ENDS
CHAPTER XVI. THE DRAWBACKS OF PSYCHIC SURGERY
CHAPTER XVII. THEOPHRASTUS BEGINS TO TAKE AN INTEREST IN THINGS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE EVENING PAPER
CHAPTER XIX. THE STORY OF THE CALF
CHAPTER XX. THE STRANGE BEHAVIOUR OF AN EXPRESS TRAIN
CHAPTER XXI. THE EARLESS MAN WITH HIS HEAD OUT OF THE WINDOW
CHAPTER XXII. IN WHICH THE CATASTROPHE WHICH APPEARS ON THE POINT OF BEING EXPLAINED, GROWS YET MORE INEXPLICABLE
CHAPTER XXIII. THE MELODIOUS BRICKLAYER
CHAPTER XXIV. THE SOLUTION IN THE CATACOMBS
CHAPTER XXV. M. MIFROID TAKES THE LEAD
CHAPTER XXVI. M. LONGUET FISHES IN THE CATACOMBS
CHAPTER XXVII. M. MIFROID PARTS FROM THEOPHRASTUS
CHAPTER XXVIII. THEOPHRASTUS GOES INTO ETERNAL EXILE
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M. Theophrastus Longuet was not alone when he rang the bell of that old-time palace prison, the Conciergerie: he was accompanied by his wife Marceline, a very pretty woman, uncommonly fair for a Frenchwoman, of an admirable figure, and by M. Adolphe Lecamus, his best friend.
The door, pierced by a small barred peephole, turned heavily on its hinges, as a prison door should; the warder, who acts as guide to the prison, dangling a bunch of great old-fashioned keys in his hand, surveyed the party with official gloom, and asked Theophrastus for his permit. Theophrastus had procured it that very morning at the Prefecture of Police; he held it out with the air of a citizen assured of his rights, and regarded his friend Adolphe with a look of triumph.
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Theophrastus was not a rich man. He had retired from business with a moderate competence: a cottage in the country, with its little garden, its fountain, and its lawn. It was not much, with Marceline's occasional fits of extravagance. Decidedly the treasures would come in very useful.
At the same time we must give him the credit of being far more interested in the mystery of his personality than in the mystery of the treasures. He decided to postpone his search for them till he could definitely give a name to the personage who had been Theophrastus in 1721. To his mind this discovery, which was of chief interest to him, would be the key to all the rest.
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