Caught In The Net

CONTENTS PAGE I. PUTTING ON THE SCREW 1 II. A REGISTRY OFFICE 25 HI. THE OPINION OF DR. HORTEBISE... 40 IV. A TRUSTWORTHY SERVANT .... 52 V. A FORGOTTEN CRIME 61 VI. A MEDICAL ADVISER 78 VII. IN THE STUDIO 96 Vni. MADEMOISELLE DE MUSSTOAN . . .105 DC. ROSES PROMOTION 114 X. You ARE A THIEF 122 XL THE MAN-MILLINER 140 XII. A STARTLING REVELATION .... 158 XIII. HUSBAND AND WIFE 173 XIV. FATHER AND DAUGHTER 181 XV. MASTER CHUPIN . . 192 vi CHAPTEB CONTENTS PAGE XVI. A TURN OF THE SCREW . . . .201 XVII. SOME SCRAPS OF PAPER . . . .214 XVIII. AN INFAMOUS TRADE XIX. A FRIENDLY RIVAL XX. A COUNCIL OF WAR 225 241 253 XXI. AN ACADEMY OF Music . . . .268 XXII. DIAMOND cur DIAMOND . . . .278 XXIII. FATHER AND SON . . . . . . 293 XXIV. AN ARTFUL TRICK XXV. A NEW SKIN . . . ... . 304 320 XXVI. AT THE GRAND TURK . . . . .343 XXVII. THE LAST LINK 358 CAUGHT IN THE NET CHAPTER I. PUTTING ON THE SCREW. THE cold on the 8th of February, 186, was more intense than the Parisians had experienced during the whole of the severe winter which had preceded it, for at twelve oclock on that day Chevaliers thermometer, so well known by the denizens of Paris, registered three degrees below zero. The sky was overcast and full of threatening signs of snow, while the moisture on the pavement and roads had frozen hard, rendering traffic of all kinds exceedingly hazardous. The whole great city wore an air of dreariness and desolation, for even when a thin crust of ice covers the waters of the Seine, the mind involuntarily turns to those who have neither food, shelter, nor fuel. This bitterly cold day actually made the landlady of the Hotel de Perou, though she was a hard, grasping woman from Auvergne, give a thought tothe condition of her lodgers, and one quite different from her usual idea of obtaining the maximum of rent for the minimum of accommodation. The cold, remarked she to her husband, who was busily engaged in replenishing the stove with fuel, is enough to frighten the wits out of a Polar bear. In