CHAPTER PAGE
I. A Royal Jag [3]
II. Mother Citron's Tenants [12]
III. The Tragedy of the Rue De Monceau [21]
IV. Who Do They Think I Am? [33]
V. By the Singing Fountains [42]
VI. The Investigation Begins [49]
VII. The King Receives [63]
VIII. Marie Pascal [69]
IX. A Party of Three [76]
X. Wulfenmimenglaschk [86]
XI. One Hundred and Twenty-Seven Stations [98]
XII. Camouflage [110]
XIII. The Kingdom of Hesse-Weimar [118]
XIV. Queen Hedwige Receives [127]
XV. The Mysterious Prison [137]
XVI. The Theft of the Diamond [146]
XVII. On the Right Trail [155]
XVIII. A Sleeper [165]
XIX. Free! [174]
XX. Frederick-Christian [180]
XXI. Horrible Certainty [190]
XXII. Between Us Three—Fantômas! [195]
XXIII. Official Opinions [210]
XXIV. Juve's Lies [218]
XXV. "I Want to Live!" [224]
XXVI. The Accusing Waistcoat [227]
XXVII. The Explosion of the Nord-Sud [234]
XXVIII. Innocent or Guilty? [243]
XXIX. Compromising Discoveries [250]
XXX. Shadowed [256]
XXXI. The Death Watch [264]
XXXII. The Arrest of Fantômas [270]
A ROYAL PRISONER
CHAPTER I
A ROYAL JAG
"After all, why not celebrate? It's the last day of the year and it won't come again for twelve months."
It was close upon midnight.
Jerome Fandor, reporter on the popular newspaper, La Capitale, was strolling along the boulevard; he had just come from a banquet, one of those official and deadly affairs at which the guests are obliged to listen to interminable speeches. He had drowsed through the evening and at the first opportunity had managed to slip away quickly.