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I was no longer free. It was impossible to attempt one of my usual tricks. In one of the compartments, the commissary of police would find Mon. Arsene Lupin, bound hand and foot, as docile as a lamb, packed up, all ready to be dumped into a prison-van. He would have simply to accept delivery of the parcel, the same as if it were so much merchandise or a basket of fruit and vegetables.
And the public also learned an extraordinary thing which demonstrated the infinite variety of resources that Lupin possessed: the prison-van, in which he was being carried, was prepared for the occasion and substituted by his accomplices for one of the six vans which did service at the prison. The next escape of Arsene Lupin was not doubted by anyone.
"That prison-van is extraordinarily neat." "I'll prison-van him!" cried Guerchard. "But what fools I have to work with. If I could get hold of people of ordinary intelligence it would be impossible to play such a trick as that." "I don't know about that," said the Duke thoughtfully. "I think it would have required an uncommon fool to discover that trick." "What on earth do you mean?
In her present cheerfulness there was something childish and naïve, as though all the joy which had been suppressed and dulled during our childhood by a strict upbringing, had suddenly awakened in her soul and rushed out into freedom. But when evening came and the fly was brought round, my sister became very quiet and subdued, and sat in the fly as though it were a prison-van.
Finally, under clever and gentle questioning, he succeeded in framing a few phrases from which the following story was gleaned: Two months ago he had been taken to the Depot, examined and released. As he was leaving the building, a free man, he was seized by two guards and placed in the prison-van. Since then he had occupied cell 24.
I confess everything in a lump, everything and even ten times more than you know nothing about." Wearied by his fruitless task, the judge had suspended his examinations, but he resumed them after the two intercepted messages were brought to his attention; and regularly, at mid-day, Arsene Lupin was taken from the prison to the Depot in the prison-van with a certain number of other prisoners.
Too shrewd not to discern the trap that had been set for him, he endured some moments of horrible hesitation in the prison-van. He decided to accept the risk, however, commending himself to his lucky star.
Handcuffed, and pushed about by one and another, we reached the bottom of the slope, where a prison-van was waiting for us a vile box, without ventilation and full of vermin into which we were thrown and driven to Bastia, escorted by gendarmes with drawn swords. A nice position for a Government official! It was broad daylight when we reached Bastia.
Who was conveyed from the dock to the cell and from the cell to the dock by warders and policemen, rumbling through back streets and unfrequented ways in a shiny prison-van.
He walked quickly across the room and stretched himself comfortably at full length on the couch. "Come, get up," said Guerchard roughly. "The prison-van is waiting for you. That ought to fetch you out of your dream." "Really, you do say the most unlucky things," said Lupin gaily.
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