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He had known how to take in Michel, because Michel had arrested Juve when disguised as Vagualame at de Naarboveck's house.... Michel would naturally think his chief had again assumed the Vagualame disguise for a purpose! Oh, it was the devil's own cleverness! Juve glared at Michel.
"Proofs?... I have none," replied the mysterious old fellow. "But I have intuitions; better still, my confidence is grounded on a strong probability." This statement came to de Loubersac with the force of a stunning blow: it came from one whom he considered his best agent: he knew Vagualame always weighed his words: his information was generally correct.
Lowering his voice still more, de Loubersac added: "It is a lost document!... Perhaps it is a case of theft ... a list of the distribution of artillery operatives Document Number Six!" "But," cried Vagualame, who feigned sudden comprehension of this document's importance, "but that is equivalent to a complete plan of mobilisation?"...
They were piercing eyes, full of life and intelligence, not the fierce furtive eyes of Vagualame, for this Vagualame was Juve! The day following the famous evening he had passed in Fandor's flat, Juve, as we know, had discovered that Vagualame, agent of the Second Bureau, was cleverly disguised, and was none other than Fantômas!
"Yes, I have given away to the vile suggestions of Vagualame, if I have let myself be drawn by him into horrible by-paths of spying and treason, it is owing to the spite and rage of an unrequited love, of an intense passion, intense beyond expression, which I have felt for a man a man whose heart was given to another for the betrothed of Mademoiselle de Naarboveck for Lieutenant Henri de Lou "
"In the name of the law! Open! Open! Open!... The police!" A bare three minutes had elapsed between Juve's first summons and the opening of the library door. Vagualame had made profitable use of the three minutes. "Don't utter a sound! Don't be afraid!" Vagualame had repeated to Bobinette: "They will not take us this time!"
She went white as a sheet.... An old man had just entered the wine-shop. His steps were uncertain, his back was bent under the weight of an old accordion. It was Vagualame.... Bobinette's astonishment was so evident that Hogshead Geoffrey, whose powers of observation were small, was struck by his sister's expression. "You know that old fellow?" he asked.
All she said was: "Have our brothers been warned, Vagualame?" "They have not been told yet; but I shall present my friend to them at the first opportunity." There was loud knocking at the shutters! Voices were heard shouting: "Open! Open! Open! The police!" Bobinette grew ashen with terror. "It is all up!" thought the desperate girl: "They will see Vagualame is free! They will find me with him!
The waters in the docks reflected the light from the quay lamps on their shining, heaving, surface. Now, for some time, Henri de Loubersac had been longing to ask Juve a question, longing yet fearing to voice it a question relating to his personal affairs. Had not Juve, as Vagualame, clearly insinuated that Wilhelmine de Naarboveck must have been the mistress of Captain Brocq?
Vagualame slipped his hand, spare and delicately formed, under the counterpane. "Little idiot!" he exclaimed in a satisfied tone. "She has not even hidden it inside the mattress! She has just slipped it in between the palliasse, and the hair mattress on top why, she's a child!" He drew out two envelopes and eagerly read the addresses.
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