[Illustration: The girl gasped as Renine (Arsene Lupin) drew forth the
mysterious telescope.]


THE EIGHT STROKES OF THE CLOCK

BY

MAURICE LE BLANC




AUTHOR'S NOTE

These adventures were told to me in the old days by Arsene Lupin, as
though they had happened to a friend of his, named Prince Renine. As for
me, considering the way in which they were conducted, the actions, the
behaviour and the very character of the hero, I find it very difficult not
to identify the two friends as one and the same person. Arsene Lupin is
gifted with a powerful imagination and is quite capable of attributing to
himself adventures which are not his at all and of disowning those which
are really his. The reader will judge for himself.

M. L.




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