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Write down: 'It was I who murdered M. Guillaume. Write, I tell you!" Leaning over the young man, with all his implacable force of will he compelled him to write, guiding his hand and dictating the sentences. Dutreuil, exhausted, at the end of his strength, wrote as he was told. "Here's the confession, Mr. Chief-inspector," said Renine. "You will be good enough to take it to M. Dudouis.
Dudouis, chief of the Surete, sent the best sleuths of the iron brigade. He himself spent forty-eight hours at the castle, but met with no success. Then he sent for Ganimard, whose past services had proved so useful when all else failed. Ganimard listened, in silence, to the instructions of his superior; then, shaking his head, he said: "In my opinion, it is useless to ransack the castle.
Dudouis, had visited the prison and instructed the gaoler in regard to the precautions necessary to insure Lupin's safety. At the same time, he sent the two men to examine the prisoner's cell.
"I am obliged to you for coming so promptly, Mr. Chief-inspector," said Prince Renine, "and I hope that M. Dudouis will not regret having placed you at my disposal." "At your entire disposal, in addition to two inspectors whom I have left in the square outside and who have been in the case, with me, from the first."
Two days later, the newspapers published the following item: "Information has reached us of the arrest of Victor Danegre, the servant of the Countess d'Andillot. The evidence against him is clear and convincing. On the silken sleeve of his liveried waistcoat, which chief detective Dudouis found in his garret between the mattresses of his bed, several spots of blood were discovered.
Renine, exasperated, clenched his fist in his face: "Oh, you swine, I'll dish you yet, I swear I will!" He drew the inspector aside: "Well, what do you say to it? An arrant rogue, isn't he?" The inspector nodded his head: "It may be.... But, all the same ... so far there's no real evidence." "Wait, M. Morisseau," said Renine. "Wait until we've had our interview with M. Dudouis.
Holding the receiver in his hand, he turned to Gaston Dutreuil: "I can ask some one to come here, I suppose? We shall be quite undisturbed?" "Quite." He listened again: "The secretary to the head of the criminal investigation department? Oh, excellent! Mr. Secretary, I have on several occasions been in communication with M. Dudouis and have given him information which has been of great use to him.
I can tell you something that will astonish you: the Cahorn affair is on the point of being settled." "Excuse me; I have just seen the Chief of the Surete." "What of that? Does Mon. Dudouis know my business better than I do myself? You will learn that Ganimard excuse me that the pseudo-Ganimard still remains on very good terms with the baron.
"M. Thezard, commissary of police of the first district; and my instructions are to take you to M. Dudouis, at the prefecture." "But " "Not a word, doctor, I entreat you, not a movement There is some regrettable mistake; and that is why we must act in silence and not attract anybody's attention. You will be back, I have no doubt, before the end of the performance."
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