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"Shall we give him something to drink?" suggested the huntsman. "Yes, that's it, give him a drink." Sebastiani and his sons undid the leather straps, rubbed the bruised wrists, dressed them with an ointment and bandaged them. Then Daubrecq swallowed a few drops of brandy. "Feeling better?" said the marquis. "Pooh, it's nothing much!
Yes, think, follow the trend of my suppositions: 'As the list is not to be discovered away from Daubrecq, I said to myself, 'it cannot exist away from Daubrecq. And, as it is not to be discovered in the clothes he wears, it must be hidden deeper still, in himself, to speak plainly, in his flesh, under his skin..." "In his eye, perhaps?" suggested Prasville, by way of a joke... "In his eye?
Prasville looked at her for a moment, hesitated and sat down. He understood. In pursuing Daubrecq, Clarisse Mergy had not acted only from hatred and the desire for revenge. Another motive prompted her. The paper would not be handed over except upon conditions. "Sit down, please," he said, thus showing that he accepted the discussion.
"Something very serious." "Quick, speak." "Daubrecq has returned." "Eh, what!" exclaimed Lupin, with a start. "Daubrecq returned? Is he here?" "No, he has gone." "And did he come in here, in the study?" "Yes." "This morning." "And you did not prevent him?" "What right had I?" "And you left him alone?" "By his positive orders, yes, we left him alone." Lupin felt himself turn pale.
He gave them some dinner; then he smoked a cigar and they set off again in the car and went the round of the theatres, beginning with those which were giving light operas and musical comedies, for which he presumed that Daubrecq and his lady would have a preference. He took a stall, inspected the lower-tier boxes and went away again.
Since then I had certainly thought of this word, but with the preconceived notion that it was spelt M A R I E. Well, it was really the first two syllables of another word, which I guessed, so to speak, only at the moment when I was struck by the absence of the packet of tobacco." "What word do you mean?" "Maryland, Maryland tobacco, the only tobacco that Daubrecq smokes."
Daubrecq gave a chuckle: "So that's it... I thought something was up... Ah, the telephone-trick: a little out of date, sir! I had not gone half-way when I turned back." He pushed Lupin to the front of the box and, sitting down beside the lady, said: "And, now my lord, who are we? A servant at the police-office, probably? There's a professional look about that mug of yours."
My knickknacks?... Never mind about all that... You be off. See you presently." Lupin quietly pushed away the telephone. Then, taking Daubrecq by the arm, he made him sit in a chair by his side and said: "And now listen to me, Daubrecq." "Oho!" grinned the deputy. "Calling each other by our surnames, are we?" "Yes," said Lupin, "I allowed you to."
He must have taken his precautions. The paper would remain. And then there is no revenge in killing a man... My hatred went further than that... It demanded his ruin, his downfall; and, to achieve that, there was but one way: to cut his claws. Daubrecq, deprived of the document that gives him his immense power, ceases to exist.
What decided Lupin to start at once was, first, a letter in which Clarisse told him that she had found Daubrecq's traces, and, also, a telegram, published in the Amiens papers, which stated that the Marquis d'Albufex had been arrested for his complicity in the affair of the canal. Daubrecq was taking his revenge.
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