I. The Drama of the Rue Norvins
II. Thomery's Two Loves
III. Unexpected Complications
IV. A Surprising Itinerary
V. Mother Toulouche and Cranajour
VI. In the Opposite Sense
VII. Pearls and Diamonds
VIII. End of the Ball
IX. Finger Prints
X. Identity of a Navvy
XI. An Audacious Theft
XII. Investigations
XIII. Rue Raffet
XIV. Someone Telephoned
XV. Vague Suspicions
XVI. Discussions
XVII. An Arrest
XVIII. At the Bottom of the Trunk
XIX. Criminal or Victim?
XX. Under the Hooded Mask
XXI. In a Prison Van
XXII. An Execution
XXIII. From Vaugirard to Montmartre
XXIV. At Saint Lazare
XXV. A Mouse Trap
XXVI. In the Trap
XXVII. The Imprint
XXVIII. Courage
On Monday, April 4th, 19—, the evening paper La Capitale publishedthe following article on its first page:—
A drama, over the motives of which there is a bewildering host ofconjectures, was unfolded this morning on the heights of Montmartre. TheBaroness de Vibray, well known in the Parisian world and among artists,whose generous patroness she was, has been found dead in the studio ofthe ceramic painter, Jacques Dollon. The young painter, renderedcompletely helpless by a soporific, lay stretched out beside her whenthe crime was discovered. We say 'crime' designedly, because, when thepreliminary medical examination was completed, it was clear that thedeath o