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Updated: June 7, 2025
He perceived that good may come out of evil: perhaps through Vinson and his relations with this nefarious nest of spies, they would succeed in clearing up the dark mystery surrounding the death of Captain Brocq. Evidently all these happenings were interconnected!... With his mind's eye, Fandor saw this foreign spy system under the form of an immense a vast spider's web.
Hofferman paused. He continued, in a low tone and with a grave air: "In the newspapers oh, in ambiguous terms, but clear enough to the initiated the public has been given to understand that not only has an important document been stolen from Captain Brocq before, or at the time of his assassination, or after it, but that this document was none other than the distribution chart of the concealed works in and about the girdle of forts on the east of Paris.... This is inaccurate.
The deceased was a captain isn't that so? The papers found in his portfolio and the name written on it let us know that he was called Brocq, and that he was attached to the Ministry. So much for his identity. We will not trouble about his domicile, the Place will tell us that! Now let us go into the details of the accident tell me, my man, exactly how his death occurred!"
Amidst his despair, Corporal Vinson stammered out: "Yes, Monsieur, it's because of a woman you will understand you who write articles in which you say that there should be pity for such unfortunates as I am for one is a miserable wretch when a woman has you in her clutches, and you have no money and then, with that sort, once you have started getting mixed up in their affairs, you are jolly well caught you have to do as you are told and always they ask more and more of you.... Ah, Monsieur, the death of Captain Brocq is a frightful disaster!
Brocq jumped up. "Good-day, Captain!" "Good-day, Captain!" The man in charge at the cabstand, on the quay des Saints-Pères, at the corner of the bridge, saluted Brocq cordially. Brocq, ghastly pale, his face showing signs of intense anxiety, gasping for breath, asked: "Tell me! Just now, ten, five minutes ago did you not see a lady young she had red hair did she not pass this way? Come now!"
"It is your hobby which always inspires you," he repeated.... "Beyond question I am the first to believe in the audacity of Fantômas ... and if I do not know all the secrets of terror hidden in this word 'spying, I am ready enough to be convinced.... But, look here, Juve, I know the world of spies, I have studied them, I know what they are capable of attempting, ... and I do not speak lightly when I tell you that the assassination of Brocq is a political crime."
It was the contrary as regards Captain Brocq, an artillery staff-officer and attached to the Ministry of War.
Fandor considered Juve had a perfect right to take his own initiative in this particular matter he had earned the right if ever a man had. He answered his aggrieved chief with a question. "But suppose Juve is right?" "Right?... But he deceives himself.... I have proof of it!" "You have proof of it?... But who then, according to you, Chief, has killed Brocq?"
A most valuable officer, to whom we were greatly attached." Captain Muller bent his head. He murmured: "We were men of the same year, comrades at the school Brocq and I."
As former Under-Secretary at the Second Bureau he had the affair at his finger ends, and well knew how tangled, how obscure it was, how bristling with dangers, how rich in complications.... The Vinson affair, it was the Captain Brocq affair, the singer Nichoune affair ... the story of a plan of mobilisation stolen, of a gun piece lifted from the Arsenal!... He was in for a big affair a sensational case!...
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