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Updated: June 7, 2025
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!
Colonel Hofferman, misinterpreting the detective's attitude, turned triumphantly to the Under-Secretary: "Not only that," he continued, "I think there has been far too much talk made about the death of Captain Brocq. This officer was the victim of an accident. We cannot discuss it. That is all there is to be said. It really does not matter much.
I can't bring out the title-deeds and pedigree of my ancestors for inspection!" "It's not a question of that," observed Brocq. Bobinette had launched forth. She continued: "But that is the question. You are always imagining that I have things given me to do which lower me. I have told you a hundred times how it was I went to the Naarboveck's.
"Juve, I assert that if Captain Brocq is dead it is because there is a spy in the pay of a foreign power, who, being under supervision, perhaps on the point of being arrested, has resolved that the captain must die in order to save himself.... A document has been stolen, and it is precisely this fact which makes me disbelieve in the intervention of Fantômas."... "You do not believe me, Juve?"
"I rendered due homage to your perspicacity just now," continued the colonel: "you were absolutely right in your prognostication that Brocq had a mistress; unfortunately I am sorry for the wound to your self-esteem the correctness of your version stops there!
No doubt she had carried off with her this secret plan of mobilisation but if the plan got lost? If it were dropped in the street! Brocq cursed his untidy ways once more. He would never forgive himself for having allowed that girl to ransack his drawers but he must act, and at once! He must, without fail, find that mislaid document. Of one thing he was sure the document was not on the premises.
The death of her first son, whom the Emperor wished to adopt, and whom he had intended to be his successor in the Empire, the divorce of her mother, the tragic death of her best-loved friend, Madame de Brocq, who, before her eyes, slipped over a precipice; the overturning of the imperial throne, which caused her the loss of her title and rank as queen, a loss which she, however, felt less than the misfortunes of him whom she regarded as her father; and finally, the continual annoyance of domestic dissensions, of vexatious lawsuits, and the agony she suffered in beholding her oldest surviving son removed from her by order of her husband, such were the principal catastrophes in a life which might have been thought destined for so much happiness.
The waters in the docks reflected the light from the quay lamps on their shining, heaving, surface. Now, for some time, Henri de Loubersac had been longing to ask Juve a question, longing yet fearing to voice it a question relating to his personal affairs. Had not Juve, as Vagualame, clearly insinuated that Wilhelmine de Naarboveck must have been the mistress of Captain Brocq?
But the captain felt relieved; only one cab, drawn by a horse, now separated him from Bobinette's taxi, and assuredly her vehicle and his would be abreast, side by side at the entry to the avenue of the Bois de Boulogne. Brocq loved Bobinette dearly, but frankly, if for a joke or inadvertently she had carried off the document, he would give her a piece of his mind.
If you don't I shall cry!" Already she was beginning to sob, and great tears were dropping. Captain Brocq, struck dumb, gazed at her sorrowfully. And whilst he clasped her in his arms, anxiety strained at his heart, anguish convulsed his soul. Did she really love him, this woman with her whimsical ways, her independent attitude, this elusive woman who never gave herself entirely?
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