title: Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
author:  Maurice Leblanc 
description: Short excerpt: At dinner the evening before our dear old captain had said that we should see the revolving light on the nearest headland about eight oclock that evening and so we did.
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  # The Escape of Arsene Lupin
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Maurice Leblanc
  
  
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  ARSENE LUPIN finished his mid-day meal, took a good cigar from his pocket, and
  complacently studied the gold-lettered inscription on its band. At that moment
  the door of his cell opened. He had just a second in which to throw the cigar
  into the drawer of the table and to move away. The warden came in to tell him
  that it was time to take his exercise.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "I was waiting for you, old chap!" cried Lupin, with his unfailing good-humor.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  They went out together. Hardly had they turned the corner of the passage when
  two men entered the cell and began to make a minute examination. One of these
  was Inspector Dieuzy, the other Inspector Folenfant.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  They wanted to have the matter settled once and for all. There was no doubt
  about it: Arsene Lupin was keeping up a correspondence with the outside world
  an