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Updated: June 11, 2025
Lupin took down the receiver: "Hullo!" A woman's voice, a breathless voice, said: "M. Michel Beaumont?" "You are speaking to him, madame. To whom have I the honour..." "Quick, monsieur, come at once; Madame Mergy has taken poison." Lupin did not wait to hear details. He rushed out, sprang into his motor-car and drove to Saint-Germain.
Madame Mergy could keep silent no longer and, slowly at first, with all the anguish of that past which had to be called up, she told her story: "Twenty-five years ago, when my name was Clarisse Darcel and my parents living, I knew three young men at Nice. Their names will at once give you an insight into the present tragedy: they were Alexis Daubrecq, Victorien Mergy and Louis Prasville.
His arrest would have involved a scandal, the reopening of the whole case..." "So..." "So they made terms." Lupin laughed: "That's funny, making terms with Daubrecq!" "Yes, very funny," said Madame Mergy, bitterly. "During this time he acted and without delay, shamelessly, making straight for the goal.
And, in a genial, good-natured and rather shy tone, he said: "No, monsieur le depute, there are cases in which a doctor's duty becomes very complex... very puzzling... And you may think that, in taking this step... However, to cut a long story short, while I was attending Mme. Mergy, she made a second attempt to poison herself... Yes; the bottle, unfortunately, had been left within her reach.
A patrol-path edged the cliff in front; and, at one of the ends of this patrol-path, there were the remains of a formidable donjon-keep razed almost level with the ground. Lupin returned to Clarisse Mergy in the evening. And from that time he went backward and forward between Amiens and Mortepierre, leaving the Growler and the Masher permanently on the watch. And six days passed.
And it remained unknown where the denunciation came from and in whose hands the incriminating documents were." "Daubrecq," suggested Lupin. "No, no!" cried Madame Mergy. "Daubrecq was nothing at that time: he had not yet appeared upon the scene.
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