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Updated: May 11, 2025
I gave Juve the commission because he is our most expert detective." "That I don't deny, and therefore Juve is certain to discover the truth! It is an unpardonable blunder." At this moment a clerk entered with a telegram. M. Annion opened it quickly and read it. "Ah! this is enough to bring about the fall of the Ministry. Listen!"
A sudden thought struck him: "The delay accorded me by M. Annion expires to-day, and the arrest of the false Frederick-Christian is about due. I don't suppose Fandor has taken any steps, but I'd better find out what is happening." Juve consulted his watch: "Half-past seven, I can call on the Minister of the Interior." He sprang into a taxi and cried: "Number eleven, Rue des Saussaies!"
An article reserved in tone, but giving sufficient details, announced the arrest of Fantômas, the mysterious criminal of the Palace Royal of Glotzbourg, while attempting to steal the diamond which constituted the private fortune of Prince Frederick-Christian II. "Good God!" cried M. Annion, "Fantômas arrested, the diamond stolen, and Juve doesn't return or send any word!"
"I have, but I couldn't get anything out of him; he was three-quarters drunk, and furious with his Majesty who had just struck him." M. Annion stared in amazement. "But Frederick-Christian was his friend his intimate friend ... they were pals ... and you say he struck him?" Crossing quickly to the telephone, he called up: "Hello! Are inspectors 42, 59 and 63 there? What? Then send them up."
Consequently it will be scarcely possible to deceive him." "What is his name?" asked M. Annion. "It's rather complicated; he calls himself Wulfenmimenglaschk, which we may cut to Wulf for all practical purposes. What should you think of his testimony?" M. Annion hesitated. "Of course, if this individual knows the King ..." "He is attached to the King's person."
The other person is one of his friends, the Marquis de Sérac, who happens to be away from Paris just now." Juve smiled. "You forget one man, Monsieur Annion, who knows the King better than either of these. I refer to the head of the Secret Service of Hesse-Weimar ... one of my colleagues. He is at present staying at the Royal Palace and sees the King every day.
Marie was wrong in what she did, but under the stress of emotion she raised the whole hotel and made such a row that M. Louis advised her to come and see me." "Very good, and then?" "Why, M. Annion, I hurried to the Royal Palace and made an investigation, where I confirmed what Mademoiselle had told me. I then decided I had better lay the matter before you."
During his last interview with Monsieur Annion he had put forward the opinion that an investigation in Hesse-Weimar would do much to clear up the mystery surrounding the affair. As a matter of fact, it was more to gain time than for any other reason that Juve had suggested this.
M. Annion slept badly, haunted by a nightmare in which he was constantly pursuing an extraordinary Fantômas, whom he would seize and bind and who would then suddenly vanish into thin air. At eight o'clock in the morning he appeared at his office. There a surprise awaited him. Upon his desk lay a telegram. Rapidly tearing it open, he glanced at the text. "Ah!... Good God! Can it be true!
"A young attaché of the Embassy arrived immediately after luncheon, and the director of his bank." "And these men found nothing unusual?" "No, chief, nothing at all." M. Annion turned to Marie Pascal. "You see, Mademoiselle, that is conclusive, isn't it?
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