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He was entitled to conclude that, if Lupin drew a comparison between his own efforts and Beautrelet's in pursuit of the truth about the Hollow Needle, it was because the two of them possessed identical means of attaining their object, because Lupin had no elements of success different from those possessed by his adversary. The chances were alike.
The pretty girl whom Lupin coveted, to secure whom he had contrived his most Machiavellian schemes, snatched from his claws! Free also Beautrelet's father, whom Lupin had chosen as a hostage in his extravagant longing for the armistice demanded by the needs of his passion! They were both free, the two prisoners!
Rouen, Dieppe, the Havre the Cauchois triangle everything lies there. On one side, the sea; on another, the Seine: on the third, the two valleys that lead from Rouen to Dieppe. A light flashed across Beautrelet's mind.
If the walls that surround our private lives be not respected, what is to safeguard the rights of the citizen? Will those who differ plead the higher interest of truth? Yes, Mlle. de Saint-Veran is alive. Yes, I love her. Yes, I have the mortification not to be loved by her. Yes, the results of the boy Beautrelet's inquiry are wonderful in their precision and accuracy.
Without another word, he turned his back on the two girls and went his way, tottering like a drunken man. Beautrelet's resolve was soon taken: he would act alone. To inform the police was too dangerous.
Then Lupin stepped forward and, in muttered tones, with his eyes on Beautrelet's: "You shall go straight to the Grand Journal." "No." "Tear up your article." "No." "See the editor." "No." "Tell him you made a mistake." "No." "And write him another article, in which you will give the official version of the Ambrumesy mystery, the one which every one has accepted." "No."
Every day, his subordinates searched the quadrilateral of the ruins. Almost every day, he came to direct the explorations. But between that and discovering the refuge in which Lupin lay dying if it were true that Beautrelet's opinion was correct there was a gulf fixed which the worthy magistrate did not seem likely to cross.
"What have you to say, sir?" "That mademoiselle is mistaken, as I can easily show you with one word. Yesterday, at the time stated, I was at Veules." "You will have to prove it, you will have to. In any case, the position is not what it was. Sergeant, one of your men will keep monsieur company." Isidore Beautrelet's face denoted a keen vexation. "Will it be for long?"
The question was put to him by a member of the staff of the Grand Journal, who had obtained admission to the Lycee Janson by assuming the name of Bernod, the friend of Beautrelet's father. And Isidore very sensibly replied: "My dear sir, there are other things besides Lupin in this world, other things besides stories about burglars and detectives.
These words, uttered by Lupin after leaving the Chateau de Velines, had no little influence on Beautrelet's conduct.
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