Produced by Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) THE THREE EYES [Illustration: Bérangère stopped.... (The Three Eyes) Frontispiece] The Three Eyes BY MAURICE LEBLANC TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS AUTHOR OF "_The Secret of Sarek_." [Illustration] FRONTISPIECE BY G. W. GAGE A. L. BURT COMPANY Publishers New York Published by arrangement with The Macaulay Company Copyright, 1921, by THE MACAULAY COMPANY _All rights reserved_ _PRINTED IN U. S. A._ CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I BERGERONNETTE 9 II THE "TRIANGULAR CIRCLES" 23 III AN EXECUTION 39 IV NOËL DORGEROUX'S SON 51 V THE KISS 66 VI ANXIETIES 86 VII THE FIERCE-EYED MAN 99 VIII "SOME ONE WILL EMERGE FROM THE DARKNESS" 113 IX THE MAN WHO EMERGED FROM THE DARKNESS 132 X THE CROWD SEES 148 XI THE CATHEDRAL 161 XII THE "SHAPES" 174 XIII THE VEIL IS LIFTED 192 XIV MASSIGNAC AND VELMOT 214 XV THE SPLENDID THEORY 227 XVI WHERE LIPS UNITE 247 XVII SUPREME VISIONS 262 XVIII THE CHÂTEAU DE PRÉ-BONY 275 XIX THE FORMULA 293 THE THREE EYES CHAPTER I BERGERONNETTE For me the strange story dates back to that autumn day when my uncle Dorgeroux appeared, staggering and unhinged, in the doorway of the room which I occupied in his house, Haut-Meudon Lodge. None of us had set eyes on him for a week. A prey to that nervous exasperation into which the final test of any of his inventions invariably threw him, he was living among his furnaces and retorts, keeping every door shut, sleeping on a sofa, eating nothing but fruit and bread. And suddenly he stood before me, livid, wild-eyed, stammering, emaciated, as though he had lately recovered from a long and dangerous illness.