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Updated: May 7, 2025
Some gaily-dressed lady at a ball would suddenly find she had lost some valuable gems; and that would be the end of the affair, for none ever recovered her gems. The gentleman-thief was still at large, and had gathered to his account a comfortable fortune; that is, if he were not already rich and simply a kleptomaniac.
If I have not, pardon me. Many an old sleeve was going to be turned upside down. Fudge! The train was rattling through the yards. Another page crackled. Ha! Here was that unknown gentleman-thief again, up to his old tricks. It is remarkable how difficult it is to catch a thief who has good looks and shrewd brains. I had already written him down as a quasi-swell.
I exclaimed, when he had given me the paper to read. "Exactly. It was quite right that Varin should redeem his treachery." And that is how I made the acquaintance of Arsene Lupin. That is how I learned that Jean Daspry, a member of my club, was none other than Arsene Lupin, gentleman-thief.
It is worth sixty thousand francs to a clever thief like you." "You hound!" he cried, livid with rage, and raised his cane as if he would strike me. "Aye, it was cleverly done, M. Jean Duval, whoever you may be. I know that the gentleman-thief is a modern product of the old regime, but I did not know that the fraternity could show such a fine specimen as yourself.
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