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"It was he, beyond a doubt, Monsieur le Comte," declared Beautrelet; "it was he, believe me, who fell in the ruins under the shot fired by Mlle. de Saint-Veran; it was he whom she saw rise and who fell again and dragged himself toward the cloisters to rise again for the last time this by a miracle which I will explain to you presently to rise again for the last time and reach this stone shelter which was to be his tomb."
I feel confident that the facts, when they are known, will confirm my surmise in every respect. So Isidore Beautrelet, mastered for a moment by Arsene Lupin, distressed by the abduction of his father and resigned to defeat, Isidore Beautrelet, in the end, was unable to persuade himself to keep silence.
"I will ask you to act with the most extreme prudence and not to inform the police until you are quite sure. Can you picture the situation, supposing my tenant were not Arsene Lupin?" Beautrelet set forth his plan. He would go alone at night; he would climb the walls; he would sleep in the park Louis Valmeras stopped him at once: "You will not climb walls of that height so easily.
He was already at the foot of the stairs, within a few steps of the man. What was he going to do? To pass in spite of all? To go upstairs alone and release the prisoner? But could he pass? Beautrelet no longer saw him and he had an impression that something was about to take place, something that seemed foreboded also by the silence, which hung heavier, more awful than before.
Still, you have only to think. As the water before your eyes is no other than the water of the sea, which filters into this excavation each high tide, the result is that I have a safe little private roadstead all to myself." "But it's closed," Beautrelet protested. "No one can get in or out." "Yes, I can," said Lupin; "and I'm going to prove it to you." He began by handing Raymonde in.
"Because, if I do not say so ?" "Your father will be kidnapped to-night, as Ganimard and Holmlock Shears were." Beautrelet gave a smile. "Don't laugh answer!" "My answer is that I am very sorry to disappoint you, but I have promised to speak and I shall speak." "Speak in the sense which I have told you." "I shall speak the truth," cried Beautrelet, eagerly.
Kneel, Beautrelet, kneel; all womankind stands before you in this picture." There was a long silence between them. Below, the sound of blows drew nearer. Two or three doors, no more, separated them from Ganimard. In the offing, they saw the black back of the torpedo-boat and the fishing-smacks cruising to and fro. The boy asked: "And the treasure?"
The last four, commanded by their chief and accompanied by Beautrelet and Valmeras, marched to the main entrance of the castle. Too late. The door was wide open. A peasant told them that he had seen a motor car drive out of the castle an hour before. Indeed, the search led to no result. In all probability, the gang had installed themselves there picnic fashion.
One of them wrote to me, 'If Beautrelet declares that he knows, you must believe him; and, whatever he says, you may be sure that it is the exact expression of the truth. M. Isidore Beautrelet, now or never is the time to vindicate the confidence of your friends. I beseech you, give us the exact expression of the truth."
Beautrelet adopted a listening attitude and Lupin began, in measured, but harsh and masterful tones: "Let us throw off the mask what say you? and have done with hypocritical compliments. We are two enemies, who know exactly what to think of each other; we act toward each other as enemies; and therefore we ought to treat with each other as enemies."
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