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"And if I betrayed an intention of leaving, to prevent me?" "Yes." "By every means?" "Yes." "Even by putting a bullet through my skin?" "Yes." Perenna reflected; and then, in a serious voice: "Would you have fired, Mazeroux?" The sergeant lowered his head and said faintly: "Yes, Chief."
Mechanically he observed Perenna, who passed him a slip of paper, saying: "Mme. d'Ersingen's telephone number." M. Desmalions murmured: "Yes, true, they may know " And, taking down the receiver, he asked for number 325.04. He was connected at once and continued: "Who is that speaking?... The butler? Ah!
I've just heard " "Don Luis Perenna, late of the Foreign Legion." "Enough of that, Monsieur " "Medaled and decorated with a stripe on every seam." "Once more, Monsieur, enough of that; and come along with me to the Prefect." "But, let me finish, hang it!
Everybody was afraid of Lupin; and the journalists maintained a certain reserve in their articles, confined themselves to comparing dates and pointing out coincidences, and refrained from speaking too positively of any Lupin that might lie hidden under the mask of Perenna.
Acting, to Don Luis Perenna, during those hours of forced inactivity, consisted solely in perpetually repeating to himself Gaston Sauverand's account of the events. He tried to reconstitute it in all its details, to remember the very least sentences, the apparently most insignificant phrases.
Fauville returned, two hours later." There was a fresh silence, which evidently meant: "So, during the two hours when Sergeant Mazeroux was asleep, it was physically possible for you to open the door and kill the two Fauvilles." The examination was taking the course which Perenna had foreseen; and the circle was drawing closer and closer around him.
But it must have taken a goodish amount of pluck." "But how did she do it?" Perenna asked. "I'll tell you another time. They're calling me. Whatever you do, Chief, don't come." "Yes," he replied, firmly, "I'm coming. After all, the least I can do is to be in at the death, seeing that it was I who found the scent. But don't be afraid. I shall keep in the background." "Then hurry, Chief.
Many subjects are taken from the life of tradesmen; there appear the here also inevitable "Fuller," then the "Ropemaker," the "Dyer," the "Salt-man," the "Female Weavers," the "Rascal"; other pieces give sketches of character, as the "Forgetful," the "Braggart," the "Man of 100,000 sesterces"; or pictures of other lands, the "Etruscan Woman," the "Gauls," the "Cretan," "Alexandria"; or descriptions of popular festivals, as the "Compitalia," the "Saturnalia," "Anna Perenna," the "Hot Baths"; or parodies of mythology, as the "Voyage to the Underworld," the "Arvernian Lake."
She had been the Hungarian count's reader as well as his secretary; and Perenna had trained her to pick out in the newspapers anything that referred to him, and to give him each morning an exact account of the proceedings that were being taken against Mme. Fauville. Always dressed in black, with a very elegant and graceful figure, she had attracted him from the first.
And, when the light flooded the room, he saw the face of Hippolyte Fauville all swollen, stained with brown patches. "Oh," he said, under his breath, "he's dead!" "Dash it all! Dash it all!" spluttered the detective sergeant. For two or three minutes they stood petrified, stupefied, staggered at the sight of this most astonishing and mysterious phenomenon. Then a sudden idea made Perenna start.
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