"Good God!" he cried in tones of anguish.
"It isn't Gurn who has just been put to death!" Juve panted brokenly. "This face has not gone white because it is painted! It is made up—like an actor's! Oh, curses on him! Fantômas has escaped! Fantômas has got away! He has had some innocent man executed in his stead! I tell you Fantômas is alive!"
Transcriber's Notes
Page [25]: comma added after "why" ("Why, the park enclosure has been altered")
Page [136]: taper amended to tapered ("long, tapered fingers")
Page [265]: Treteau sic
Accents have been standardised.
Hyphenation has generally been standardized. However, when a word appears hyphenated and unhyphenated an equal number of times, both versions have been retained (maidservants/maid-servants).