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Updated: June 11, 2025
We will arrange to kidnap him." "What next?" said the Masher. "At which station? And where's the sleeping-car for? She has cut out just the words we wanted!" "Yes," said the Growler. "Two snips with the scissors in each place; and the words which we most want are gone. Who ever saw such a thing? Has Mme. Mergy lost her head?" Lupin did not move.
I fell in love with Victorien Mergy from the first. Perhaps I was wrong not to declare myself at once. But true love is always timid, hesitating and shy; and I did not announce my choice until I felt quite certain and quite free. Unfortunately, that period of waiting, so delightful for those who cherish a secret passion, had permitted Daubrecq to hope. His anger was something horrible."
He breathes quicker... He gasps... He recovers consciousness...his lips move.... Already, Clarisse Mergy whispers, 'It's I... it's I, Clarisse... Will you answer, you wretch? She has put her finger on Daubrecq's chest, at the spot where the heart stirs like a little animal hidden under the skin.
Mergy and the kid; and she no longer runs the risk of diverting the struggle through her intervention. By Jingo, we have made blunders enough! First, I have had to disclose myself to Daubrecq. Secondly, I have had to surrender my share of the Enghien movables. True, I shall get those back, sooner or later; of that there is not the least doubt.
"By giving me, to-morrow, those particulars about the Marquis d'Albufex which it would take me personally several days to collect." Prasville seemed to hesitate and turned his head toward Mme. Mergy. Clarisse said: "I beg of you to accept M. Nicole's services. He is an invaluable and devoted ally. I will answer for him as I would for myself."
Have the staircases and passages searched... in case of accomplices." He returned, settled himself comfortably, as though for a long and interesting conversation, and began: "You were saying, M. Nicole?" "I was saying, monsieur le secretaire-general, that I must apologize for keeping you waiting yesterday evening. I was detained by different matters. First of all, Mme. Mergy...."
Our friend appears to have been doing well at the club. Off with you, Masher!" The two men went out through Clarisse's room. Lupin availed himself of a moment when Clarisse Mergy was not looking to stow away the pocketbook with the greatest satisfaction: "I shall have done a fair stroke of business," he said to himself.
Clarisse Mergy entered at once and introduced the gentleman with her, a gentleman in a black frock-coat, which was too tight for him and which looked as though it had not been brushed for ages. He was shy in his manner and seemed greatly embarrassed how to dispose of his old, rusty top-hat, his gingham umbrella, his one and only glove and his body generally.
But the doctor had to be hurriedly called in, for the child, upset by all those happenings, showed great signs of excitement and terror. It was more than a fortnight before he was sufficiently recovered to bear the strain of the removal which Lupin considered necessary. Mme. Mergy herself was only just fit to travel when the time came.
The three were old acquaintances, had gone to college in the same year and served in the same regiment. Prasville, at that time, was in love with a singer at the opera-house at Nice. The two others, Mergy and Daubrecq, were in love with me. I shall be brief as regards all this and, for the rest, as regards the whole story, for the facts tell their own tale.
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