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"If you please, sir, the servants have arrived from Charmerace," he said. "Let them wait in the kitchen and the servants' offices," said M. Formery. He stood silent, buried in profound meditation, for a couple of minutes. Then he turned to the Duke and said, "What was that you said about a theft of motor-cars at Charmerace?"
"To begin with, here in this pocket-book you'll find all the documents relating to the death of the Duke of Charmerace. In it you will also find the receipt of the Plantin furniture repository at Batignolles for the objects of art which I collected at Gournay-Martin's.
"Nobody else? ... No one but the Duke of Charmerace? ... Are you sure?... quite sure?... absolutely sure? ... Yes, that's all I wanted to know ... thank you." He turned to the Duke and said, "Did you hear that, your Grace? The gardener says that you were the only person in his hot-houses yesterday, the only person who could have plucked any pink salvias." "Does he?" said the Duke carelessly.
Your name isn't Valmeras any more than it's Lupin: you stole the name just as you stole the name of Charmerace. And the woman whom you pass off as your mother is Victoire, your old accomplice, the one who brought you up " Arsene Lupin, play in four acts, by Maurice Leblanc and Francis de Croisset. Shears made a mistake.
"Can you arrest me? ... You can arrest Lupin ... but arrest the Duke of Charmerace, an honourable gentleman, member of the Jockey Club, and of the Union, residing at his house, 34 B, University Street ... arrest the Duke of Charmerace, the fiance of Mademoiselle Gournay-Martin?" "Scoundrel!" cried Guerchard, pale with sudden, helpless fury. "Well, do it," taunted the Duke.
What luck it is for you that I'm so soft, so little of a Charmerace, so human! Truly, I can't be much of a man of the world, to be in love like this!" "Come, come, hold out your hands!" said Guerchard, jingling the handcuffs impatiently. "I should like to see that child for the last time," said Lupin gently. "All right," said Guerchard. "Arsene Lupin and nabbed by you! If you aren't in luck!
I stayed there out of sheer bravado, just to score off Guerchard.... And then I ... I, who pride myself on being as cool as a cucumber ... I did the one thing I ought not to have done.... Instead of going quietly away as the Duke of Charmerace ... what do you think I did? ... I bolted ... I started running ... running like a thief.... In about two seconds I saw the slip I had made.
And that me was ever so much more me than the man they followed. And then the proofs ... they must have proofs. There aren't any or rather, what there are, I've got!" He pointed to a small safe let into the wall. "In that safe are the coronet, and, above all, the death certificate of the Duke of Charmerace ... everything that Guerchard must have to induce M. Formery to proceed.
"Excuse me, excuse me. I am conducting this inquiry," he said. And then, turning to Irma, he added, "Now, don't be frightened, Mademoiselle Irma; I want to ask you a question or two. Have you brought up to Paris the pendant which the Duke of Charmerace gave your mistress yesterday?" "Me, sir? No, sir. I haven't brought the pendant," said Irma. "You're quite sure?" said M. Formery.
"A moment ago you said something.... You said that the mere presence of a thief would overwhelm you with disgust. Is that true?" "Yes, I swear it is," cried Sonia. Guerchard appeared in the doorway. "And if I were not the man you believe?" said Lupin sombrely. "What?" said Sonia; and a faint bewilderment mingled with her grief. "If I were not the Duke of Charmerace?" "Not the Duke?"
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