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Updated: May 9, 2025
They met a boat containing a couple locked in each other's arms, floating at random, and another in which a number of people were singing at the top of their voices. And that was all. Lupin shifted closer to his companion and said, under his breath: "Tell me, Gilbert, did you think of this job, or was it Vaucheray's idea?"
His object, in thus linking his fate with Gilbert's, was to force Lupin to take identical measures for the rescue of both his accomplices. Gilbert, on the other hand, whose frank countenance and dreamy, melancholy eyes won every sympathy, was unable to protect himself against the traps laid for him by the judge or to counteract Vaucheray's lies.
Lupin, who had the inconceivable audacity to be present on the last day of the trial, the Thursday, had no doubt as to the result. A verdict of guilty was certain in both cases. It was certain because all the efforts of the prosecution, thus supporting Vaucheray's tactics, had tended to link the two prisoners closely together.
Otherwise...!" And he added, "For that matter, we have a talisman which, to judge by Gilbert and Vaucheray's behaviour, should be enough, with Lupin's help, to frustrate bad luck and secure the triumph of the good cause. Let's have a look at that crystal stopper!" He sprang out of bed to take the thing and examine it more closely. An exclamation escaped him. The crystal stopper had disappeared...
Though the police, fortunately, have not been able to solve the riddle of his past, though the real name of Vaucheray's accomplice has not leaked out, there is one man, at least, who knows it: isn't that so? Daubrecq has recognized your son Antoine, through the alias of Gilbert, has he not?" "Yes, yes..." "And he promises to save him, doesn't he?
Moreover, his counsel, one of the Leaders of the bar, was taken ill at the last moment and here again Lupin saw the hand of Daubrecq and he was replaced by a junior who spoke badly, muddied the whole case, set the jury against him and failed to wipe out the impression produced by the speeches of the advocate-general and of Vaucheray's counsel.
They would send Vaucheray's accomplice for trial under his name of Gilbert or any other name and visit him with the same inevitable punishment. "Poor boy!" repeated Lupin. "They're persecuting him like this only because of me. They are afraid of his escaping and they are in a hurry to finish the business: the verdict first and then... the execution.
And then came this staggering thing: a shot, a shot fired from the other side, from one of the houses opposite. The assistants stopped short. The burden which they were dragging had collapsed in their arms. "What is it? What's happened?" asked everybody. "He's wounded..." Blood spurted from Vaucheray's forehead and covered his face. He spluttered: "That's done it... one in a thousand!
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