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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Either I know nothing of men, or he will come back; he is bound by every interest; he has more to look for at my hands than he has to give." Bibi-Lupin walked in. "Monsieur le Comte," said he, "I have good news for you. Jacques Collin, who had escaped, has been recaptured." "And this," said Jacques Collin, addressing Monsieur de Granville, "is the way you keep your word!
Monsieur de Saint-Esteve, like his predecessor, Bibi-Lupin, has had misfortunes; but he is to-day the head of the detective police, the important functions of which office he fulfils with rare capacity.
The prisoner had not put on his coat after Bibi-Lupin had removed it, and at a sign from the judge he obligingly opened his shirt. "Yes, that is his fur trimming, sure enough! But it has worn gray, Monsieur Vautrin," cried Madame Poiret. "What have you to say to that?" asked the judge of the prisoner. "That she is mad," replied Jacques Collin. "Bless me!
Bibi-Lupin bravely flew at Jacques Collin's throat; but he, keeping his eye on the foe, gave him a straight blow, and sent him sprawling on his back three yards off; then Trompe-la-Mort went calmly up to Bibi-Lupin, and held out a hand to help him rise, exactly like an English boxer who, sure of his superiority, is ready for more.
Here a digression is necessary; for Jacques Collin's appearance in the prison-yard in the midst of his foes, as had been so cleverly contrived by Bibi-Lupin and the examining judge, and the strange scenes to ensue, would be incomprehensible and impossible without some explanation as to the world of thieves and of the hulks, its laws, its manners, and above all, its language, its hideous figures of speech being indispensable in this portion of my tale.
He exchanged a few hurried words with the examining judge; and after telling him what had been done at the Conciergerie with regard to Jacques Collin, he went on to witness the meeting of Trompe-la-Mort and Madeleine; and he did not allow the so-called priest to see the condemned criminal till Bibi-Lupin, admirably disguised as a gendarme, had taken the place of the prisoner left in charge of the young Corsican.
You see me with three roads open to me suicide, America, and the Rue de Jerusalem. Bibi-Lupin is rich; he has served his turn; he is a double-faced rascal. And if you set me to work against him, I would catch him red-handed in some trick within a week. If you will put me in that sneak's shoes, you will do society a real service. I will be honest.
"He is at this moment shut up with your condemned murderer, who, on the hulks, was to him what Lucien has been in Paris a favorite protege. Bibi-Lupin, disguised as a gendarme, is watching the interview." "What business has the superior police to interfere?" said the public prosecutor. "He has no business to act without my orders!"
I will be even with them." "But if it should be Jacques Collin are you not afraid of his recognizing you and throttling you?" said the governor to Bibi-Lupin. "As a gendarme I shall have my sword," replied the other; "and, besides, if he is Jacques Collin, he will never do anything that will risk his neck; and if he is a priest, I shall be safe."
We will transfer those of La Force here for a few days, and you will let me know whether this so-called Spanish priest is known to them as Jacques Collin, otherwise Trompe-la-Mort." "Very good, Monsieur Camusot. But Bibi-Lupin is come..." "What, already?" said the judge. "He was at Melun. He was told that Trompe-la-Mort had to be identified, and he smiled with joy. He awaits your orders."
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