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Updated: May 6, 2025
Rouletabille and Frederic Larsan experienced a cruel disappointment at the result of the night's adventure. They could only look in consternation and stupefaction at the body of the Green Man. Daddy Jacques showed a stupidly sorrowful face and with silly lamentations kept repeating that we were mistaken the keeper could not be the assailant. We were obliged to compel him to be quiet.
Monsieur Stangerson asked us to go back to our rooms and thanked us. Frederic Larsan and I bowed to him and, followed by Daddy Jacques, we regained the gallery. I heard Larsan murmur: 'Strange! strange! He made a sign to me to go with him into his room. On the threshold he turned towards Daddy Jacques. "'Did you see him distinctly? he asked. "'Who? "'The man?
That was how I interpreted his final words when we parted: 'You may mention your suspicions of the expected attack to Monsieur Stangerson, to Daddy Jacques, to Frederic Larsan, and to anybody in the chateau. "The poor fellow left me hardly knowing what he was saying. My silence and my eyes told him that I had guessed a large part of his secret.
It's a bore to have to do it, for I should have liked to work alone and to have carried off all the honors of this affair myself, right under the very nose of the sleeping detective. But Daddy Jacques and Monsieur Stangerson are old men, and I am not yet fully developed. I might not be strong enough. Larsan is used to wrestling and putting on the handcuffs.
Suddenly I exclaimed to myself: 'I wonder if he is long-sighted? I had never seen Larsan write. He might, then, be long-sighted. They would certainly know at the Surete, and also know if the glasses were his. Such evidence would be damning. That explained Larsan's return. I know now that Larsan, or Ballmeyer, is long-sighted and that these glasses belonged to him. "I now made one mistake.
This man who, four years ago, introduced himself to the Surete, and became celebrated as Frederic Larsan, is notorious under another name a name well known to crime. Frederic Larsan, Monsieur President, is Ballmeyer!" "Ballmeyer!" cried the President. "Ballmeyer!" exclaimed Robert Darzac, springing to his feet. "Ballmeyer! It was true, then!" "Ah!
The ordinary trains were so full that special trains had to be made up. The article in the "Epoque" had so excited the populace that discussion was rife everywhere even to the verge of blows. Partisans of Rouletabille fought with the supporters of Frederic Larsan.
Since he disappeared from the gallery without passing through any door or window, he must have escaped by some other opening." Rouletabille looked at me pityingly, smiled carelessly, and remarked that I was reasoning like a postman, or like Frederic Larsan. Rouletabille had alternate fits of admiration and disdain for the great Fred.
"But the third evidence puzzled me altogether. Having placed Larsan at the end of the 'off-turning gallery, I could not explain how he had taken advantage of the moment when I had gone to the left wing of the chateau to find Monsieur Stangerson and Daddy Jacques, to return to Mademoiselle Stangerson's room. It was a very dangerous thing to do. He risked being captured, and he knew it.
He pushed open the park gate, reclosed and locked it, raised his head and, through the bars, perceived us. Rouletabille rushed after him, and I followed. Frederic Larsan waited for us.
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