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"Now," he said, "my conscience is at ease. France and I are quits." The attackers were striking with all their might. One of the panels burst in two. A hand was put through and fumbled for the lock. "Thunder!" said Lupin. "That idiot of a Ganimard is capable of effecting his purpose for once in his life." He rushed to the lock and removed the key. "Sold, old chap! The door's tough.
And it was like the heavy silence that goes before the mortal blow. Which of the two was to strike it? Lupin said, between his teeth: "Failing my instructions to the contrary, two of my friends have orders to enter your father's room to-night, at three o'clock in the morning, to seize him and carry him off to join Ganimard and Holmlock Shears."
If you only knew my budget....living in the city comes very high." Ganimard arose. His ill humor had disappeared. He reflected for a moment, glancing over the whole affair in an effort to discover a weak point; then, in a tone and manner that betrayed his admiration of the prisoner, he said: "Fortunately, we do not have a dozen such as you to deal with; if we did, we would have to close up shop."
With Beautrelet free, one could also form a precise idea concerning the disappearance of Ganimard and the kidnapping of Shears. How was it possible for two attempts of this kind to take place? Neither the English detectives nor their French colleagues possessed the slightest clue on the subject.
I pledge my oath that, at that solemn moment, when I was in the grasp of Ganimard and his two assistants, I was perfectly indifferent to everything, to my arrest, the hostility of the people, everything except this one question: what will Miss Nelly do with the things I had confided to her?
It is unworthy Ah! What's the matter?" Ganimard did not reply. That escape for which he deemed himself responsible was it not he, Ganimard, who, by his sensational evidence, had led the court into serious error? That escape appeared to him like a dark cloud on his professional career. A tear rolled down his cheek to his gray moustache. "Oh! mon Dieu, Ganimard, don't take it to heart.
"Because, if I do not say so ?" "Your father will be kidnapped to-night, as Ganimard and Holmlock Shears were." Beautrelet gave a smile. "Don't laugh answer!" "My answer is that I am very sorry to disappoint you, but I have promised to speak and I shall speak." "Speak in the sense which I have told you." "I shall speak the truth," cried Beautrelet, eagerly.
Ganimard regarded the prisoner with a bewildered air. "And how do you know all that?" "I have just received the telegram I was expecting." "You have just received a telegram?" "This very moment, my dear friend. Out of politeness, I did not wish to read it in your presence. But if you will permit me " "You are joking, Lupin."
Lupin's position was a terrible one for all that, because the outlet on which he was relying, the little door behind the triptych, opened right in front of Ganimard. To try to escape meant to expose himself to the detective's fire; and there were five bullets left in the revolver. "By Jove," he said, laughing, "there's a slump in my shares this afternoon! You've done a nice thing.
"I am wasting my time. Ganimard will never grasp the use of my historic words." He took a piece of red chalk, put a pair of steps to the wall and wrote, in large letters: Arsene Lupin gives and bequeaths to France all the treasures contained in the Hollow Needle, on the sole condition that these treasures be housed at the Musee du Louvre in rooms which shall be known as the Arsene Lupin Rooms.
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