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Updated: June 21, 2025
They must have wondered why it was standing in front of a half-built house. Somebody may have actually seen the burglars loading it, though it was so early in the morning. Bonavent had better inquire at every house in the street on which that half-built house faces. Did you happen to notice the name of it?" said M. Formery. "It's Sureau Street," said Guerchard.
"If I haven't telephoned to you before half-past eight to-morrow morning, come straight to my house," said the Duke, scribbling the telephone number on his shirt-cuff. "Yes, yes," said Sonia. "But this card.... When Guerchard knows ... when he discovers.... Oh, I can't let you get into trouble for me." "I shan't.
"Now, tell me, did the man who took a picture from the walls carry it down the ladder himself, or did he hand it through the window to a man who was standing on the top of a ladder ready to receive it?" he said. Victoire paused as if to recall their action; then she said, "Oh, he got through the window, and carried it down the ladder himself." "You're sure of that?" said Guerchard.
It seemed to the Duke that he paid very little attention to him, that his mind was still working hard on the solution of the mystery, seeking the missing facts which would bring him to the bottom of it. In the middle of one of M. Formery's more elaborate dissertations the telephone bell rang. Guerchard rose hastily and went to it.
"Of no importance," said M. Guerchard decisively. "For the present, M. Formery is everything. I'm only an assistant." He stepped into the drawing-room and stood looking about it, curiously still. It was almost as if the whole of his being was concentrated in the act of seeing as if all the other functions of his mind and body were in suspension.
When Guerchard came to the end of his questions, the Duke said: "You have given me a very strong feeling that it is going to be a deuce of a job to catch Lupin. I don't wonder that, so far, you have none of you laid hands on him." "But we have!" cried Guerchard quickly. "Twice Ganimard has caught him. Once he had him in prison, and actually brought him to trial.
He came back upstairs, and on the landing called to Victoire and Bernard. They came hurrying down; and the three of them went into the smoking-room. "Now we know where we are," said Lupin, with cheerful briskness. "Guerchard will be here in ten minutes with a warrant for my arrest. All of you clear out." "It won't be so precious easy. The house is watched," said Charolais.
"Oh, is it?" said the Duke sharply, and there was a sudden faint glitter in his eyes. "Yes; rogues have very poor qualities," sneered Guerchard. "One can't have everything," said the Duke quietly; but his languid air had fallen from him. "Their ambushes, their attacks, their fine tactics aren't up to much," said Guerchard, smiling contemptuously.
"Oh, dear no, not yet," said Lupin. "Yes," said Guerchard, in a decisive tone. "And ever so much more than you think." He bent forwards towards him, with his hands on his knees, and said, "Do you know where Sonia Kritchnoff is at this moment?" "What?" said Lupin sharply. "I ask if you know where Sonia Kritchnoff is?" said Guerchard slowly, lingering over the words. "Do you?" said Lupin.
Guerchard's head popped up above the window-sill: "My dear M. Formery," he said, "I beg that you will not take the trouble." M. Formery's mouth opened: "What! You, Guerchard?" he stammered. "Myself," said Guerchard; and he came to the top of the ladder and slipped lightly over the window-sill into the room. He shook hands with M. Formery and nodded to the inspector.
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