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Updated: June 5, 2025
"Yes, sir; I haven't seen the pendant. Didn't Mademoiselle Germaine leave it on the bureau?" said Irma. "How do you know that?" said M. Formery. "I heard Mademoiselle Germaine say that it had been on the bureau. I thought that perhaps Mademoiselle Kritchnoff had put it in her bag." "Why should Mademoiselle Kritchnoff put it in her bag?" said the Duke quickly.
The inspector came into the room: "Mademoiselle Kritchnoff will be here in a moment. She was just going out." "She was going out?" said M. Formery. "You don't mean to say you're letting members of the household go out?" "No, sir," said the inspector. "I mean that she was just asking if she might go out."
M. Formery went over all the matters about which he had already questioned the Duke. He questioned the millionaire and his daughter about the Charolais, the theft of the motor-cars, and the attempted theft of the pendant. He questioned them at less length about the composition of their household the servants and their characters. He elicited no new fact.
"I have that feeling I have that feeling," said Guerchard quietly. The Duke smiled. They were silent. The Duke walked to the fireplace, stepped into it, and studied the opening. He came out again and said: "Oh, by the way, M. Formery, the policeman at the front door wanted to stop me going out of the house when I went home to change. I take it that M. Guerchard's prohibition does not apply to me?"
"Well, now to examine the rest of the house," said M. Formery. "I'll come with you, if I may," said the Duke. "By all means, by all means," said M. Formery. "I find it all so interesting," said the Duke, Leaving a policeman on guard at the door of the drawing-room M. Formery, the Duke, and the inspector set out on their tour of inspection.
"Yes; I've found plenty of traces," said Guerchard. "Of Lupin?" said M. Formery, with a faint sneer. "No; not of Lupin," said Guerchard. A smile of warm satisfaction illumined M. Formery's face: "What did I tell you?" he said. "I'm glad that you've changed your mind about that." "I have hardly changed my mind," said Guerchard, in his husky, gentle voice.
M. Formery looked through his notes; Guerchard seemed to be going to sleep where he stood against the wall. The inspector came back with Irma. She wore the frightened, half-defensive, half-defiant air which people of her class wear when confronted by the authorities. Her big, cow's eyes rolled uneasily. "Oh, Irma " Germaine began. M. Formery cut her short, somewhat brusquely.
"To bring it up to Paris for Mademoiselle Germaine," said Irma. "But what made you think that?" said Guerchard, suddenly intervening. "Oh, I thought Mademoiselle Kritchnoff might have put it in her bag because I saw her standing by the bureau," said Irma. "Ah, and the pendant was on the bureau?" said M. Formery. "Yes, sir," said Irma. There was a silence.
The millionaire gazed at the card with stupefied eyes, the inspector gazed at it with extreme intelligence, the Duke gazed at it with interest, and M. Formery gazed at it with extreme disgust. "It's part of the same ruse it was put there to throw us off the scent. It proves nothing absolutely nothing," he said scornfully. "No; it proves nothing at all," said Guerchard quietly.
Where did these noises come from?" said M. Formery. "From the room over our heads the big drawing-room," said the concierge. "Didn't you hear any noise of a struggle, as if somebody was being dragged about no screaming or crying?" said M. Formery. The concierge and his wife looked at one another with inquiring eyes. "No, I didn't," said the concierge. "Neither did I," said his wife.
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