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Brocq's mistress was not a society woman, as you thought: on the contrary, she was a girl of the lower orders ... a music-hall singer, called Nichoune ... of Châlons!" "You have proof of it?" The colonel, with a superior air, held out a packet of letters to Juve. "Here is the correspondence letters written by Brocq to the girl! One of my collaborators seized them at girl's place."...
But I do not see what you are driving at." "At this," replied the detective. "Captain Brocq's mistress must be looked for, not among women of the lower orders, but among those of a higher class, who are more outwardly correct, at any rate, more women of the world. Among those with whom Brocq was on friendly terms, was the family of an old diplomat of Austrian extraction, a Monsieur de Naarboveck.
This de Naarboveck has a daughter: she is twenty. This Mademoiselle Wilhelmine was terribly distressed, and in a state of profound grief, the day after Brocq's death. I am not going so far as to pretend that Mademoiselle de Naarboveck was Brocq's mistress; but one might easily think so." "How do you know that Mademoiselle de Naarboveck showed grief at the death of Captain Brocq?"
Monsieur de Naarboveck said he never saw your signature in La Capitale now that most probably you were travelling." "I have, in fact, just returned to Paris. Are all well at Monsieur de Naarboveck's? Has Mademoiselle Wilhelmine recovered from the sad shock of Captain Brocq's death?... His end was so sudden!" "Oh, yes, Monsieur."
He looked so despairing that Wilhelmine, offended, hurt though she was by her lover's suspicions, pitied his anguish and reassured him: "If you had been following me for some time past, you would have seen that I have been in the habit of going to this cemetery have gone there regularly long before Captain Brocq's death consequently."...
It was, obviously, of the first importance that I should learn every detail regarding his private life, get to know with whom he had intercourse, who his correspondents were, find out where he was accustomed to go, so that, being thoroughly posted up regarding his personality, I could discover to whose interest it would be that he should disappear.... I went to Brocq's flat in the rue de Lille to collect evidence from various sources.
Fandor recalled his conversation with Juve the day after Captain Brocq's assassination: in the course of their conversation Juve had asserted that Fantômas was the criminal.
If Captain Brocq had an irregular love affair, it was assuredly with the best intentions; Brocq, who perhaps had not been able to resist his senses, was too straight a man to willingly entertain the idea of not regularising the union later on. Is that your opinion, Colonel?" Hofferman frankly replied: "It is my opinion, Monsieur Juve. That was certainly Captain Brocq's character.
Brocq's chauffeur did not seem to have noticed this: he continued in the direction of the Bois de Boulogne. "Oh, you idiot!" shouted the captain. And, in order to give his instructions as rapidly as possible, he leaned almost entirely out of the vehicle. But a second or two had passed when the chauffeur stopped dead, that he might see what had happened to his fare.
He rose, stood close to Wilhelmine, who also rose, instinctively, looked her straight in the face, and asked, point-blank: "Wilhelmine de Naarboveck, or Thérèse Auvernois it matters little to me I wish to know the real truth.... Confess, then, that you were Captain Brocq's mistress!" "Monsieur!" exclaimed the startled girl. She met de Loubersac's inquisitorial look proudly.
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