"He can't have vanished into thin air. We must find him if it is humanly possible."
"That's my opinion, Fandor, but I am wondering how."
And then suddenly to each of them the same thought occurred.
Fantômas!
Was it not probable that the strange crime of which Susy d'Orsel was the victim, the mysterious disappearance of the King, might be attributed to this enigmatic and redoubtable bandit?
It would not have been the first time that the journalist and the detective had put forth a similar hypothesis.
Fantômas had always symbolized the very essence of crime itself.