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Updated: June 23, 2025
Louis Valmeras, my wedded wife, married to me in accordance with the strictest forms of law; and all thanks to you, my dear Beautrelet." He held out his hand to him. "All my acknowledgements and no ill will on your side, I trust?" Strange to say, Beautrelet felt no ill will at all, no sense of humiliation, no bitterness.
Beautrelet took the train for Paris at the nearest station. On the next day but one, after three fruitless calls, he at last found Louis Valmeras at home. He was a man of about thirty, with a frank and pleasing face.
But, in the end, the ceremony was performed at the appointed hour and day and Raymonde de Saint-Veran became Mme. Louis Valmeras. It was as though Fate herself had taken sides with Beautrelet and countersigned the news of victory. This was so apparent to the crowd that his admirers now conceived the notion of entertaining him at a banquet to celebrate his triumph and Lupin's overthrow.
At last, on the fourth evening, the sky was covered with heavy black clouds and Valmeras decided that they should go reconnoitring, at the risk of having to return again, should circumstances prove unfavorable. All four crossed the little wood.
"Yes," Beautrelet confessed, frankly, "it's my nerves giving way I generally manage to control them but, to-day, the silence the excitement And then, since I was stabbed by that magistrate's clerk But it will pass off There, it's passing now " He succeeded in rising to his feet and Valmeras dragged him out of the room.
"Yes but in a different disguise." "Did he see you?" "No. He saw your mother. Mme. Valmeras caught him as he was just going away." "Well?" "He told her that he was looking for Louis Valmeras, that he was a friend of yours." "Then?" "The madame said that her son had gone abroad for years." "And he went away?"
Beautrelet returned to the friend with whom he was staying and began to make his preparations. But, late in the day, as he was getting ready to go, he received a visit from Valmeras. "Do you still want me?" "Rather!" "Well, I'm coming with you. Yes, the expedition fascinates me. I think it will be very amusing and I like being mixed up in this sort of thing. Besides, my help will be of use to you.
Just so, my boy Raymonde's abduction, her imprisonment, were mere humbug: we loved each other. But neither she nor I, when we were free to love, would allow a casual bond at the mercy of chance, to be formed between us. The position, therefore, was hopeless for Lupin. Fortunately, it ceased to be so if I resumed my identity as the Louis Valmeras that I had been from a child.
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