Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes

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Leblanc Maurice. Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes

CHAPTER I. LOTTERY TICKET NO. 514

CHAPTER II. THE BLUE DIAMOND

CHAPTER III. HERLOCK SHOLMES OPENS HOSTILITIES

CHAPTER IV. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS

CHAPTER V. AN ABDUCTION

CHAPTER VI. SECOND ARREST OF ARSÈNE LUPIN

CHAPTER VII. THE JEWISH LAMP

CHAPTER VIII. THE SHIPWRECK

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On the evening of March 27, at number 134 avenue Henri-Martin, in the house that he had inherited from his brother six months before, the old general Baron d'Hautrec, ambassador at Berlin under the second Empire, was asleep in a comfortable armchair, while his secretary was reading to him, and the Sister Auguste was warming his bed and preparing the night-lamp. At eleven o'clock, the Sister, who was obliged to return to the convent of her order at that hour, said to the secretary:

"Mademoiselle Antoinette, my work is finished; I am going."

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There was a short silence. The countess was standing, smiling, but pale from excitement. She was leaning against the back of the chair in front of her. She knew, and so did everyone present, that the issue of the duel was certain; logically, inevitably, it must terminate to the advantage of the capitalist, who had untold millions with which to indulge his caprices. However, the countess made another bid:

"Three hundred and five thousand."

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