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Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux. The Man with the Black Feather
The Man with the Black Feather
Table of Contents
M. Theophrastus Longuet Desires to Improve His Mind and Visits Historical Monuments
CHAPTER I
The Scrap of Paper
CHAPTER II
Theophrastus Longuet Bursts into Song
CHAPTER III
Adolphe Lecamus is Flabbergasted but Frank
CHAPTER IV
Theophrastus Shows the Black Feather
CHAPTER V
The Portrait
CHAPTER VI
The Young Cartouche
CHAPTER VII
The Wax Mask
CHAPTER VIII
Strange Position of a Little Violet Cat
CHAPTER IX
The Explanation of the Strange Attitude of a Little Violet Cat
CHAPTER X
Theophrastus Maintains that He Did Not Die on the Place de Grève
CHAPTER XI
The House of Strange Words
CHAPTER XII
The Cure that Missed
CHAPTER XIII
The Operation Begins
CHAPTER XIV
The Operation Ends
CHAPTER XV
The Drawbacks of Psychic Surgery
CHAPTER XVI
Theophrastus Begins to Take an Interest in Things
CHAPTER XVII
The Evening Paper
CHAPTER XVIII
The Story of the Calf
CHAPTER XIX
The Strange Behaviour of an Express Train
CHAPTER XX
The Earless Man with His Head Out of the Window
CHAPTER XXI
In which the Catastrophe which Appears on the Point of Being Explained, Grows yet More Inexplicable
CHAPTER XXIII
The Melodious Bricklayer
CHAPTER XXIII
The Solution in the Catacombs
CHAPTER XXIV
M. Mifroid Takes the Lead
CHAPTER XXV
M. Longuet Fishes in the Catacombs
CHAPTER XXVI
M. Mifroid Parts from Theophrastus
CHAPTER XXVII
Theophrastus Goes into Eternal Exile
CHAPTER XXVIII
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Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Little as the selling of rubber stamps fits man for historical research, he betook himself to libraries and hunted for that personage. He studied the lives of the chief men of the period. Since he was at it, nothing was too grand for him: Princes, Peers, Statesmen, and Generals, he studied the lives of all. He paused for a while at the great financier Law, but found him too dissipated; the same objection applied to the Comte du Barry; and he was positively horrified by the thought that he might have been the Comte de Charolais, renowned for his debaucheries, whose hobby was to shoot thatchers at work on the house-roofs. For forty-eight hours he was the Cardinal de Polignac before he was disgusted to learn that that great Churchman had not been a man of stainless virtue. Whenever he did find a person whom the historians painted in the most engaging colours and adorned with the most solid virtues, that personage invariably disobliged him by not having been shut up in the Conciergerie or betrayed on the First of April.
However he had just discovered, in the Journal de Barbier, a favourite of the Regent who, strangely enough, was exactly the man he was looking for, when there came a development of his case which plunged him into a profound consternation.
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