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Updated: June 11, 2025
In spite of the established rule, he had been deprived of his New Year holiday, which he usually spent in visits to governmental officials capable of influencing his advancement. He had been ordered to his office. His morning had been spent in endless discussions with M. Annion, his director. Numerous telegrams, interviews, work of all kinds instead of his customary rest.
Marie Pascal had recovered her self-control, and she gave M. Annion a detailed account of the audience she had obtained with Frederick-Christian. She hid nothing, neither his former warmth of feeling nor his recent coldness.
Furthermore, that he was acting in a manner totally different from that of former occasions. He now scarcely moves from his room, whereas previously he spent most of his time out of doors." M. Annion handed Juve the documents and begged him to look them over himself. After returning them Juve realized that his best chance would be to gain time. "This is going to cause a great deal of trouble.
M. Annion sat deep in thought for a few moments. Then he burst out: "Hang it! Your accusation of imposture is absurd, Mademoiselle, utterly impossible!" Then, turning to M. Vicart, he added: "Haven't we the formal declaration, irrefutable, of that Secret Service man ... Glaschk..." "Wulfenmimenglaschk." "That's it!... Have you seen him, M. Giraud?"
M. Annion evinced no surprise. "Unless I am mistaken you are the lace-maker who was so tragically mixed up in the death of Susy d'Orsel?... It was you who found the chemise ... it was you who ... however, go ahead, Mademoiselle, you were received by a secretary, by a chamberlain?" "No! no! I was received by the King, but by a King who wasn't the real one, but an impostor!"
Yesterday I learned that the director of the bank had had an interview with him, and he also received a visit from an intimate friend, an attaché of the Embassy." Juve heard these words with growing uneasiness. The King was Fandor. How had Fandor managed the affair? M. Annion continued: "And what do you think happened yesterday afternoon?
"What was it?" "They discovered that the King is not the King. The individual who is posing as Frederick-Christian II is an impostor. Rather sensational news, isn't it?" "So sensational that I don't believe it." "And why not, if you please?" Juve avoided a direct reply. He asked: "Upon what do you place this supposed imposture?" M. Annion took up the papers before him.
The public's calling for the murderer. I place myself in your hands. What do you suggest?" Juve thought a moment. For the time being Fandor was safe, but he was still very far from being out of the woods. "Monsieur Annion," he replied at length, "there is just one method of procedure in this case.
The conversation continued and, as he listened, Juve could not help smiling. "They are all right! They realize the work I've done and they want me to reap the reward of it." M. Lepine had, in fact, asked M. Annion: "You are quite sure Juve will be at the Gare du Nord this evening?" "Quite sure; I have given him orders to that effect."
And so, my dear Juve, you had better take two men with you, and without delay go to the hotel and arrest the man who is passing for the King, and who is, besides, the murderer of Susy d'Orsel." This is what Juve feared; he determined to make every effort to prevent the arrest of Fandor. "All this is very well, but I think you will agree with me that it is a romance, Monsieur Annion."
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