Frontispiece by
GEORGE W. GAGE

NEW YORK
THE MACAULAY COMPANY

Copyright, 1925,
By THE MACAULAY COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America

PREFACE

This is the story of the first adventure of Arsène Lupin, and undoubtedly it would have been published before the stories of the others if he had not so often and so resolutely opposed it.

“No,” he would say, “there are one or two little matters yet to be settled between the Countess of Cagliostro and me. We must wait.”

The waiting lasted longer than he foresaw. More than a quarter of a century passed before the final settlement; and only to-day am I permitted to relate the frightful duel of love and hate which brought a boy of twenty to grips with Cagliostro’s daughter.

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I Arsène Lupin at Twenty[ 11]
II Josephine Balsamo Born in 1788[ 30]
III A Tribunal of the Inquisition[ 46]
IV The Sinking Boat[ 66]
V One of the Seven Branches[ 84]
VI Detectives and Policemen[ 102]
VII The Delights of Capua[ 123]
VIII Two Wills[ 143]
IX The Tarpeian Rock[ 166]
X The Mutilated Hand[ 189]
XI The Old Lighthouse[ 209]
XII Madness and Genius[ 229]
XIII The Strong-Box of the Monks[ 259]
XIV The Infernal Creature[ 282]
Epilogue[ 312]

MEMOIRS OF
ARSÈNE LUPIN