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Updated: June 16, 2025
Juve flung down a coin, seized two coupons and without waiting for the change hurried onto the platform. The first morning train was waiting, due to start in five minutes. A quick search through the carriages disclosed the object of Juve's search. He was standing in the first carriage by the door of the driver's compartment.
Fandor himself had not followed the mysterious evolutions of this sinister accordion player as had Juve; but now he wondered whether there might not be a connection between Vagualame and Fantômas.... All this was obscure: Fandor felt he was groping amid dark mysteries....
"What can Juve be doing?" he repeated for the hundredth time. The continual obscurity of the place began to weigh him down. This was relieved each day for a few moments by a thin shaft of light. Fandor was quick to account for the phenomenon. "It happens exactly at noon when the sun is directly overhead," he reasoned, "and finds an entrance through a crack in the bronze."
Juve made it clear to Monsieur Heberlauf that he wished to obtain an entry to the Court as soon as possible. Monsieur Heberlauf replied that nothing would be easier than a presentation to the Queen. It happened that she was receiving in the afternoon, and Madame Heberlauf would take the necessary steps for his introduction. He ended by saying: "Do come and lunch with us without ceremony.
How often, and often, in the course of his investigation, in the midst of his struggles with criminals during his long talks and conferences with Juve, had he not thought that he had run the bandit to earth, identified him, was going to drag his personality out into the broad light of day and then, suddenly, Fantômas had disappeared.
"Why, you're very clever, Monsieur Juve," replied Wulf, "but I don't see how that helps. Even if you prove that the King's diamond was kept for a certain time in the pocket of that waistcoat, still you don't know to whom the waistcoat belongs, and that's the most important point." Juve, still engrossed in his examination, vouchsafed no reply, and Wulf with folded arms stood contemplating him.
A thorough search on the ice and among the crowd on shore failed to discover the lady, who had doubtless left at the same time as the King. While skating from group to group Juve was brought up by a conversation in low tones between M. Annion and M. Lepine. Hiding behind a tree, he listened attentively. "Well, you know the last news?" "Yes," declared M. Annion, "but it seems very extraordinary."
Just fancy, that beast Juve, the marvellous detective whom the newspapers rave about, went to your place yesterday afternoon to make another official search!" "Alone?" enquired Gurn, much interested. "Quite alone. Now what do you suppose he found; the place has been ransacked dozens of times, you know; of course I mean something sensational in the way of a find. I bet you a thousand "
The lieutenant, having recorded the answer brought him, had just that moment returned to the commandant's office. Lieutenant Servin looked upset. "Commandant!" he gasped out. He turned to our detective. "Monsieur Juve!" He continued staring first at one man, then at the other.
Fandor could personate Vinson with every chance of success, because the 257th of the line had never set eyes on the corporal. After a week of perplexity, Fandor had come to a decision the previous night. Wishing to let his "dear master" know of his audacious project, he had telephoned to Juve on the Sunday evening to ask him to come to the flat. Then Vagualame had appeared on the scene.
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