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Updated: May 14, 2025
Amid the mysteries that enveloped it, after the double discovery of the seven of hearts pierced with seven holes, after the two inscrutable events that had happened in my house, that visiting card promised to throw some light on the affair. Through it, the truth may be revealed. But, contrary to our expectations, Mon. Andermatt furnished no explanation. He said: "I have told you all I know.
"Have you a telephone, monsieur?" "Yes, in the vestibule. Come with me." He looked in the directory, and then asked for number 415.21. "Is Mon. Andermatt at home?....Please tell him that Mon. Dudouis wished him to come at once to 102 Boulevard Maillot. Very important." Twenty minutes later, Mon. Andermatt arrived in his automobile.
There is another hiding-place. Where is it?" "There is none." "Is it money you want? How much?" "Ten thousand." "Monsieur Andermatt, are those letters worth then thousand francs to you?" "Yes," said the banker, firmly. Varin closed the safe, took the seven of hearts and placed it again on the sword at the same spot. He thrust the awl into each of the seven holes.
I shouldn't like to miss it." We were interrupted by the sound of the door-bell. "Here already?" said Daspry, "twenty minutes ahead of time! Incredible!" I went to the door and ushered in the visitor. It was Madame Andermatt. She was faint and nervous, and in a stammering voice, she ejaculated: "My husband....is coming....he has an appointment.... they intend to give him the letters...."
We should come out into this great main roadway this roadway like an urban avenue and look up it and down, hesitating whether to go along the valley Furka-ward, or down by Andermatt through the gorge that leads to Goschenen.... People would pass us in the twilight, and then more people; we should see they walked well and wore a graceful, unfamiliar dress, but more we should not distinguish.
"How do you explain his disappearance?" "I cannot explain it." "And Mon. Andermatt?" "I do not know." "Yet the article published in the `Echo de France' indicates " "Yes, that the Varin brothers had something to do with his disappearance." "Is that your opinion?" "Yes." "On what do you base your opinion?"
The advice was bold, dangerous even at first sight, but Madame Andermatt had no choice. Besides, as Daspry had said, she ran no risk. If the unknown writer were an enemy, that step would not aggravate the situation. If he were a stranger seeking to accomplish a particular purpose, he would attach to those letters only a secondary importance.
He marched on, then, without worrying about that which was behind him, reached Andermatt, cleared Trou d'Ury, and found Lecourbe guarding the defile of the Devil's Bridge with fifteen hundred men. There the struggle began again; for three days fifteen hundred Frenchmen kept thirty thousand Russians at bay.
Ah! there is but one class of folks whose faith in spirits nothing can shake the guilty, the bloody-handed. He came to a perturbed rest at the huge, half-hospitable Hospice, to the enthusiasm of the postilions. "Will the gentleman have a saddle-horse?" "A chariot?" "A cabriolet?" "Ten francs to Andermatt!" "Thirty francs to Fluelen!"
We should come out from our mountain valley into the minor road that runs down the lonely rock wilderness of the San Gotthard Pass, we should descend that nine miles of winding route, and so arrive towards twilight among the clustering homes and upland unenclosed gardens of Realp and Hospenthal and Andermatt. Between Realp and Andermatt, and down the Schoellenen gorge, the greater road would run.
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