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Updated: May 7, 2025
All she said was: "Have our brothers been warned, Vagualame?" "They have not been told yet; but I shall present my friend to them at the first opportunity." There was loud knocking at the shutters! Voices were heard shouting: "Open! Open! Open! The police!" Bobinette grew ashen with terror. "It is all up!" thought the desperate girl: "They will see Vagualame is free! They will find me with him!
The way in which the old man pronounced the word "now" puzzled the girl. "What do you mean?" "Captain Brocq is dead." "Dead!" Although she did not love her lover much, at this startling piece of news Bobinette had jumped up, wringing her hands in horror. She grew strangely pale. "Yes, dead!" replied Vagualame coldly. "Kindly sit down please! See to it that you play your part!
She recognised it as a repetition of the sound she had heard when nearing her sinister rendezvous. Bobinette understood!... She knew!... It was a bear!... It had been asleep. She had waked it! Fantômas had shut her in with a bear: she was to be devoured alive! Bobinette softly withdrew to the other side of the van. She waited. No growling sound reached her. The bear must have gone to sleep again.
A shrill-sounding bell warned spectators that the interval was over. Juve-Vagualame returned to his seat. He was saying to himself: "I must know exactly what Vinson is coming to Paris for." After several attempts, he drew an important statement from Bobinette. He played the part of sceptic.
After a little we noticed he was wearing the tape-measure out, and so we tried to substitute it with an old ribbon or piece of cotton tape. But Bobinette would have none of them.
The telegram Juve had received at Dieppe must have been false!... Vinson and Bobinette, discovering that they were under observation, had found means to send Juve a telegram announcing that Vinson had been met in London: having thus drawn Juve over to England they had returned to Paris.... The traitors must have separated: this would lessen their chances of being recognised.... They must have arrested Vinson as he was leaving the train.... Bobinette, become unrecognisable when her cassock was hidden, must have escaped!"
Remember, Brocq left his flat in great haste on the afternoon of his assassination; he took a taxi at the des Saints-Pères, and drove off in pursuit of someone.... Why, we do not know, yet; but this someone was a woman, and I am convinced the woman was Bobinette." "What is Bobinette's social position?"
"You do not understand me! You are afraid?... Ah! If you are afraid it is because you understand well enough!... Bobinette! You know well enough what I have to reproach you with!... What I have to force you to expiate!"... A hoarse cry escaped the girl's parched lips: "You are mad, mad, Vagualame!... Pity!... Pity!"
A counter weight closed it over his head. Juve rolled into the cellar but a few seconds after Vagualame and Bobinette had escaped from it!... To tell the truth, Juve did not know of the hidden entrance to the secret room. Dizzy from his rapid glide downwards, Juve raised his lantern. He was not surprised to find this retreat empty. He knew the slide led to second and lower series of cellars....
"Is that species of giant your brother?" he asked. Bobinette nodded. "You are free, then?" she asked, breathing hard. "It looks like it!" "Who released you?" "Let us hurry!" said Vagualame: "Let us seek shelter." "Where?" "You will see with friends." What did it matter to Bobinette where they were going while strange doubts and horrid fears filled her mind? "Who released you?"
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