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There was no doubt about Daubrecq's reply. To him, the kidnapping of little Jacques had represented only a means of working upon Clarisse Mergy's feelings and perhaps also a warning for her to cease the contest upon which she had engaged. But the threat of a suicide must needs show Daubrecq that he was on the wrong track.
Lupin gathered, from what Victoire reported, that the deputy had an appointment with a lady for half-past eight and that he was going to take her to a theatre: "I shall get a pit-tier box, like the one we had six weeks ago," Daubrecq had said. And he added, with a laugh, "I hope that I shall not have the burglars in during that time." There was not a doubt in Lupin's mind.
I say, Polonius, you really are unlucky, each time you come up against Bibi Daubrecq! For it was you who were hiding behind that curtain, wasn't it, my ill-starred Polonius?" Lupin did not stir a muscle.
Lupin never ceased repeating to himself, with the inward belief that, by so doing, he could influence the course of his illness: "I will get well... I will get well..." And he lay for days on end without moving, so as not to disturb the dressing of his wound nor increase the excitement of his nerves in the smallest degree. He also strove not to think of Daubrecq.
His one and only diversion from the search was to go to Enghien, where the Growler and the Masher lived, and make sure that nothing had been seen of them since the murder at the Villa Marie-Therese. Apart from this, he applied himself to the question of Daubrecq and nothing else.
"Yes... yes," M. Nicole confessed, "most puzzling." "Then you have no little theory of your own upon the matter?" "Well, monsieur le secretaire-general, I'm thinking that Daubrecq has many enemies." "Ah, capital!" "And that several of those enemies, who are interested in his disappearance, must have banded themselves against him." "Capital, capital!" said Prasville, with satirical approval.
It consisted of a few lines in bad English; and I was able to read this: 'Empty the crystal within, so as to leave a void which it is impossible to suspect. Perhaps I should not have attached to this sentence all the importance which it deserved, if Daubrecq, who was out in the garden, had not come running in and begun to turn out the waste-paper-basket, with an eagerness which was very significant.
Mistress in my turn of the talisman, keeping it to myself, without telling Prasville, I had absolute power over Daubrecq. I could make him do all that I wanted; he would become the slave of my will and, instructed by me, would take every step in Gilbert's favour and obtain that he should be given the means of escape or else that he should not be sentenced. It meant my boy's safety." "Well?"
Daubrecq, then and not till then will I ask for his pardon, that is to say, the commutation of his sentence. And make yourself quite easy: they'll grant it." "I accept... I accept," she stammered. He laughed once more: "Yes, you accept, because that will happen in a month's time... and meanwhile you reckon on finding some trick, an assistance of some kind or another... M. Arsene Lupin..."
"Are they certain that he has not been inside Daubrecq's house?" "As certain as they can be." "Nor Daubrecq?" "Nor Daubrecq." "Have you seen Prasville?" "Prasville is away on leave.
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