E-text prepared by Woodie4, Suzanne Shell, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from digital material generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/exploitsofjuvebe00souviala There has been some confusion about the authors of this book. The cover credits Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain, but the title page lists Émile Souvestre and Marcel Allain. Pierre Souvestre (1874-1914) and Marcel Allain (1885-1969) were contemporaries, while Émile Souvestre (1806-1854) was the great-uncle of Pierre and died before Marcel Allain was born. THE EXPLOITS OF JUVE Being the Second of the Series of the "Fantômas" Detective Tales by EMILE SOUVESTRE and MARCEL ALLAIN New York Brentano's 1917 Copyright, 1917, by Brentano's CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE COMRADES' TRYST 1 II. ON THE TRACK 14 III. BEHIND THE CURTAIN 22 IV. A WOMAN'S CORPSE 33 V. LOUPART'S ANGER 42 VI. THE LÂRIBOISIÈRE HOSPITAL 50 VII. A REVOLVER SHOT 58 VIII. THE SEARCH FOR THE CRIMINAL 64 IX. IN THE REFRIGERATORY 70 X. THE BLOODY SIGNATURE 75 XI. THE SHOWER OF SAND 81 XII. FOLLOWING JOSEPHINE 90 XIII. ROBBERY; AMERICAN FASHION 99 XIV. FLIGHT THROUGH THE NIGHT 107 XV. THE SIMPLON EXPRESS DISASTER 113 XVI. A DRAMA AT THE BERCY WAREHOUSE 118 XVII. ON THE SLABS OF THE MORGUE 131 XVIII. FANTÔMAS' VICTIM 142 XIX. THE ENGLISHWOMAN OF BOULEVARD INKERMANN 147 XX. THE ARREST OF JOSEPHINE 153 XXI. AT THE MONTMARTRE FÊTE 165 XXII. THE PUGILIST'S WHIM 176 XXIII. "STATE'S EVIDENCE" 185 XXIV. A MYSTERIOUS CLASP 192 XXV. THE TRAP 204 XXVI. AT THE HOUSE OF BONARDIN, THE ACTOR 212 XXVII. THE MOTHER SUPERIOR 222 XXVIII. AN OLD PARALYTIC 230