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Updated: May 11, 2025
I am going to meet Monsieur and Madame d'Androl and a young lady of their acquaintance who are to arrive by the midnight train." Then addressing the officers, Devanne added: "Gentlemen, I shall expect to see all of you at breakfast to- morrow." The invitation was accepted. The company dispersed, and a few moments later Devanne and Velmont were speeding toward Dieppe in an automobile.
"And remember, Velmont, you have no time to lose; in fact, to-night is the last chance you will have." "How so?" asked the painter, who appeared to regard the affair as a joke. Devanne was about to reply, when his mother mentioned to him to keep silent, but the excitement of the occasion and a desire to interest his guests urged him to speak. "Bah!" he murmured. "I can tell it now.
This speech evoked another round of laughter, and the guests then passed into the ancient "Hall of the Guards," a vast room with a high ceiling, which occupied the entire lower part of the Tour Guillaume William's Tower and wherein Georges Devanne had collected the incomparable treasures which the lords of Thibermesnil had accumulated through many centuries.
By that order, the second company of the fourth battalion were commanded to proceed to the crossroads of Halleux in the forest of Arques, gather up the furniture and other articles deposited there, and deliver same to Monsieur Georges Devanne, owner of the Thibermesnil castle, at three o'clock. Signed: Col. Beauvel.
"No, but I supposed it was from a certain ironical speech he made." "And you allowed him to escape?" "Of course I did. And yet I had everything on my side, such as five gendarmes who passed us." "Sacrableu!" cried Devanne. "You should have taken advantage of the opportunity."
During the night, he found time to solve the problem, collect his men, and rob the castle. I shall be quite as expeditious." He walked from end to end of the room, in deep thought, then sat down, crossed his long legs and closed his eyes. Devanne waited, quite embarrassed. Thought he: "Is the man asleep? Or is he only meditating?"
Then he remembered that, at one end of the gallery, there was a stairway leading to an unoccupied apartment, but which was probably occupied that night by the young lady whom Mon. Devanne had brought from Dieppe with his other visitors.
They were army-wagons, such as are used for the transportation of provisions, tents, and other necessary military stores. They stopped in front of the main entrance, and a commissary-sergeant leaped from one of the wagons and inquired for Mon. Devanne.
It contained ancient chests, credences, andirons and chandeliers. The stone walls were overhung with magnificent tapestries. The deep embrasures of the four windows were furnished with benches, and the Gothic windows were composed of small panes of colored glass set in a leaden frame. When the guests had lighted their cigars, Devanne resumed the conversation.
One of the officers then remarked: "I understand that an exact description of Arsene Lupin has been furnished to all the police along this coast since his daring exploit on the Paris-Havre express." "I suppose so," said Devanne.
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