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THE THREE EYES
Bérangère stopped. . . .
(The Three Eyes) Frontispiece
The Three Eyes
By
MAURICE LEBLANC
Translated by
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Author of
"The Secret of Sarek."
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.
He was really altered beyond recognition! For the first time I saw him wear unbuttoned the long, threadbare, stained frock-coat which fitted his figure closely and which he never discarded even when making his experiments or arranging on the shelves of his laboratories the innumerable chemicals which he was in the habit of employing. His white tie, which, by way of contrast, was always clean, had become unfastened; and his shirt-front was protruding from his waistcoat. As for his good, kind face, usually so grave and placid and still so young