THE LONG ARM OF FANTÔMAS A NEW FANTÔMAS DETECTIVE NOVEL THE LONG ARM OF FANTÔMAS BY PIERRE SOUVESTRE AND MARCEL ALLAIN CREATORS OF “FANTÔMAS” NEW YORK THE MACAULAY COMPANY _Translated into English by_ A. R. ALLINSON Copyright, 1924, By THE MACAULAY COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. A Promising Job 7 II. A Night Affray 23 III. Shady Schemes 32 IV. An Epileptic Seizure 37 V. Disappointed Hopes 46 VI. Prisoner of the Lantern 57 VII. Fantômas’ Ultimatum 66 VIII. A Wireless from Mid-Atlantic 72 IX. The “Blue Chestnut” 77 X. Tom Bob on the Spot 88 XI. Mad as a Hatter 102 XII. A Stroke of Genius 115 XIII. The Wall that Bled 129 XIV. In the Bois de Boulogne 141 XV. In a Private Room 157 XVI. Next Morning! 168 XVII. Fantômas Meets Fantômas 182 XVIII. “Fantômas Speaking!” 196 XIX. The Prisoner of the _Santé_ 210 XX. A Woman’s Self-Sacrifice 220 XXI. Joy Can Kill 230 XXII. A Volunteer Waiter 239 XXIII. The Wedding Breakfast 249 XXIV. Plots and Counterplots 258 XXV. Assault and Battery 270 XXVI. Juve Hears Confessions 278 XXVII. Juve’s Bag 290 XXVIII. The Decoy 297 XXIX. The “Ever-Evasive” Escapes Again 309 THE LONG ARM OF FANTÔMAS CHAPTER I A PROMISING JOB “... Six, seven, eight, nine, ten; there you are!” “And there’s your bill back in exchange; Monsieur Moche, I thank you.” “It’s _I_ should thank _you_!” “Not at all, not at all!... Your leave, Monsieur Moche, to count them over again on my side? Ten thousand francs, quite a sum of money!” “My word, yes, my man; so that clears your budget, eh?” “Please don’t think I mistrust you because I check the notes; it’s the usual thing.” “Go on, go on; don’t apologise.” The bank collector deposited his peaked cap on a straw-bottomed chair beside him, mopped his streaming brow, and moistening his thumb with a rapid, eminently professional movement, passed one by one between his fingers the ten big blue bank notes his debtor had just paid over to him.