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Updated: June 8, 2025
We ought either to have trusted in your experience entirely, or else to have left you out altogether, taking the risk of fatal mistakes and dangerous hesitations. But we could not help ourselves. Vaucheray ruled us. I agreed to meet Daubrecq at the theatre. During this time the thing took place.
He closed the door, came back to Clarisse and said: "In any case, my intervention is limited to submitting your proposal." "Once you submit it, it will be accepted." A long silence followed. Clarisse's features expressed so profound a delight that Prasville was struck by it and looked at her with attentive curiosity. For what mysterious reason did Clarisse wish to save Gilbert and Vaucheray?
He had thrown himself flat on the floor, on seeing Leonard raise his arm at him. Three shots were fired in the dusk of the pantry; and then the valet came tumbling to the ground, seized by the legs by Lupin, who snatched his weapon from him and gripped him by the throat: "Get out, you dirty brute!" he growled. "He very nearly did for me... Here, Vaucheray, secure this gentleman!"
I fired at this one," pointing to Vaucheray, "and seized hold of his pal." How could he have been suspected? He was covered with blood. He had handed over the valet's murderers. Half a score of people had witnessed the end of the heroic combat which he had delivered. Besides, the uproar was too great for any one to take the trouble to argue or to waste time in entertaining doubts.
"Well, it's like this: we were told of an old reliquary, something stunning..." "Well?" "We can't lay our hands on it. And I was thinking... There's a cupboard with a big lock to it in the pantry... You see, we can't very well..." He was already on his way to the villa. Vaucheray ran back too. "I'll give you ten minutes, not a second longer!" cried Lupin. "In ten minutes, I'm off."
It was as though Gilbert and Vaucheray figured only as supernumeraries, while the real criminal undergoing trial was he, Lupin, Master Lupin, Lupin the burglar, the leader of a gang of thieves, the forger, the incendiary, the hardened offender, the ex-convict, Lupin the murderer, Lupin stained with the blood of his victim, Lupin lurking in the shade, like a coward, after sending his friends to the foot of the scaffold.
But, all the same, we are not getting on; and, in a week from now, Gilbert and Vaucheray will be up for trial." What Lupin felt most in the whole business was Daubrecq's revelation of the whereabouts of the flat. The police had entered his place in the Rue Chateaubriand.
"I must remind you, Prasville, that you gave me your word..." "Yes... yes... I know... But the thing is so unexpected..." "Why?" "Why? For all sorts of reasons!" "What reasons?" "Well... well, but... think! Gilbert and Vaucheray have been sentenced to death!" "Send them to penal servitude: that's all you have to do." "Impossible! The case has created an enormous sensation.
"What about Vaucheray?" asked Gilbert. "Sorry, can't be helped!" But Vaucheray, waking from his torpor, entreated him as he passed: "Governor, you wouldn't leave me like this!" Lupin stopped, in spite of the danger, and was lifting the wounded man, with Gilbert's assistance, when a loud din arose outside: "Too late!" he said. At that moment, blows shook the hall-door at the back of the house.
"I cast about for another method." "What method?" "Why, surely, monsieur le secretaire-general, you know as well as I do!" "How do you mean?" "Why, weren't you at the execution?" "I was." "In that case, you saw both Vaucheray and the executioner hit, one mortally, the other with a slight wound. And you can't fail to see..." "Oh," exclaimed Prasville, dumbfounded, "you confess it?
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