魔鬼;]:玩偶

　　After?] se\[vent.[+%een / years in pri$?son^+%, the %*#fo:.rmer #)%respected P$arisian banke`,r Paul L!avond ):fl .*e$es;/ with @his $/frien*[d, the lunatic ;sci__%entis.t $;Marcel that is resear ch(` i:ng with =^-his wife+\ Malita the miniaturization of animal\?s and huma%]n bei+ngs. to imp rove the=_ re/ so*=(urces of# mankind. Paul_ Lavond w]`as)\ f=?\ramed for ro(bbery by his scoundr*el asso$[ciates:=; Emil Coulvet, Charle? ^*s Matin a/nd Victor Radin that had ` s:-tolen hi?+$s b:usi%
ness while his fa(-#mily^ wa=s doomed to shame,, p overty and tragedy. W .\hen Marcel !)] reduces the re+tarde_$d (
servan`t Lachna, he learns \@th+^at the wom an is)* motionless and only responds to th
%e c];ontrol of his @-##brain an$d h:as a hea rt attack.=\ After the dea-^th of Marce;*l, Pau/`l L% avon*\d 
se(es the chanc e to /us!)e th*$e mi!*nia) _turiz@**ation [\pro*(@cess as instr\*]ument $of ) vengea?/^nce :#
:and he tr!a?=vels*- to Pari- s with the insane ^])Malita di]]_s`^guised of Madame M!;[andilip^[!,/,; a nice [ old lad y and.:) ow n er \[of )+a doll
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. Paul Lavond, using the identity (of*` Madame Mandilip, befriends his res ented % ,and estra,n^ged daughter Lorrai($ ne Lavond and plots a sc+heme t\@o $,/r=:%%evenge and vi=(?$nd/,icat,]e [%his f+amil)@y na-me.