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Wilhelmine, with a look of sorrowful disappointment, closed her lips: she was resolutely mute. Henri de Loubersac brightened up, thanked her with a frankness so spontaneous, so sincere, that it would have touched the hardest woman's heart, and Wilhelmine's was a supremely tender and sensitive one.
Had he been happily inspired to speak so to him of the girl he loved, the enigmatic Wilhelmine? Suppose de Loubersac, instead of questioning her, broke with her? "It would be abominable of me to spoil this child's love affair for what are less than suspicions on my part only the vaguest hypothesis!" Juve smoked and ruminated as he paced the lonely quay. "I need not worry," concluded he at last.
The colonel was staring fixedly at de Loubersac. "I do not see what you are driving at!" said he. "I am coming to it, Colonel.... Nichoune was found dead on Saturday, November 19th, but on the evening of November 18th Nichoune received a visit from our agent, Vagualame, whom I had sent to Châlons by your own orders to occupy himself with the V. affair." "Well?"
He told her that some day she would have to go to a foreign country to take possession of this fortune the baron did not say where. Wilhelmine stopped her narrative, jumped up, pointing to a shadow moving across an altar. "Did you see?" she questioned anxiously. "I think I did," answered Henri de Loubersac. "It is the shadow of some passer-by thrown into relief on the light background."
Well, there is no harm in telling you this Aunt Palmyra was one of my colleagues!" "I suspected as much," thought Juve, "but I wanted him to confirm it." De Loubersac was again the questioner. "Vagualame! You spoke just now of Brocq's mistress: if, as you seem to think, Nichoune had no such relation with the captain, where are we to look for his mistress?"
Dancing went gaily on in the warm, perfumed atmosphere of the ball-rooms; but Fandor and Monsieur Havard, Colonel Hofferman and Lieutenant de Loubersac had had their serious interviews and had gone their respective ways. The curtain with its pictured red cock was down, lights were up in the modern Cinema Concert Hall, rue des Poissonniers. Most of the spectators were on the move.
Her meeting with Lieutenant de Loubersac and the sight of the false Vinson's arrest at the Saint Lazare station showed the terrified girl that things had gone mysteriously, hopelessly wrong!... Without resources, Bobinette had pawned her few jewels. Then a letter from Vagualame had reached her.
Just then, the harsh sarcastic tones of de Loubersac broke in afresh: "In conclusion," exclaimed the lieutenant, "I maintain that Fantômas is an invention, a more or less original one, I am ready to admit, but an invention of not the least practical interest.
Juve knew it was useless to say this to de Loubersac, blinded by love as he was; but his aim a rather Machiavellian one was to sow seeds of suspicion in the heart of this lover, which would drive him to provoke an explanation, and force Wilhelmine to speak out, for she must surely know the facts relating to her identity!
The corporal and the abbé, leaving Rouen, had taken the road to Barentin, had dined at The Flowery Crossways Hotel, and, according to the chauffeur's statement, they would pass the night there: they would reach Dieppe next morning at the earliest possible moment. Juve hurried with the news to de Loubersac.
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