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"Laugh as much as you please, monsieur," said Father Gelis, "but I am confident the solution is contained in those two sentences, and some day we will find a man able to interpret them." "Sherlock Holmes is the man," said Mon. Devanne, "unless Arsene Lupin gets ahead of him. What is your opinion, Velmont?"
I had never seen them look so large before; I had never before observed in them such fixity of expression; but her gaze otherwise remained what it always is artless, frank, and brave. Gelis evidently pleased her; she like Gelis, and her eyes betrayed the fact. They would have published it to the entire universe!
"Have you read," said Boulmier, "the article of Tamisey de Larroque in the 'Revue des Questions Historiques'?" "Good!" I thought to myself, for the second time. "Yes," replied Gelis, "it is full of things."... "Good!" I said to myself, for the third time. "Mai foi! no!" replied Gelis. "Bonnard is an idiot!" Turning my head, I perceived that the shadow had reached the place where I was sitting.
It was then that I pricked up my ears. They spoke at first of original sources; and I must confess they did so in a satisfactory manner, despite their innumerable and detestable puns. Then they began to speak about contemporary studies on the subject. "Have you read," asked Boulmier, "the notice of Courajod?" "Good!" I thought to myself. "Yes," replied Gelis; "it is accurate."
Generalities are sometimes extremely serviceable. I try to inculcate into Monsieur Gelis some respect for that generation of historians to which I belong. I say to him, "History, which was formerly an art, and which afforded place for the fullest exercise of the imagination, has in our time become a science, the study of which demands absolute exactness of knowledge."
As I observe the young man it occurs to me that I have seen him somewhere before, or else I must be very much mistaken. His name is Gelis. That is a name which I have heard somewhere, I can't remember where.
When that miserable notary Mouche who subsequently committed his rascalities at so opportune a moment paid you the honour of a visit, you explained to him your ideas of education with all the fervour of high enthusiasm. Then you attempted to put that system of yours into practice; Jeanne is certainly an ungrateful girl, and Gelis a much too seductive young man!
How is it that no one has ever solved the mystery?" "Because no one has ever united the essential elements, that is to say, the two books and the two sentences. No one, but Arsene Lupin and myself." "But, Father Gelis and I knew all about those things, and, likewise " Holmes smiled, and said: "Monsieur Devanne, everybody cannot solve riddles."
He tells me this with the additional information that my own words, which were incidentally referred to in the course of the examination, had been spoken of by the college professors in terms of the most unqualified praise. "That is very nice," I replied; "and it makes me very happy, Gelis, to find my old reputation thus associated with your own youthful honours.
I exclaim, zealous to defend the magnificent creator of 'The Bride of Lammermoor' and 'The Fair Maid of Perth, "the whole past lives in those admirable novels of his; that is history, that is epic!" "It is frippery," Gelis answers me.
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