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Instead of this, what steps did the High Court take? We have just seen. "Be off with you!" "We are going." We can imagine, after a very different fashion, the dialogue between Mathieu Molé and Vidocq. This line was left blank. It was filled in later on with the name of M. Renouard, Councillor of the Court of Cassation.
In the fitful naps I had caught during the night I had suffered from most painful dreams; but all I could remember of them were the faces of Guyon Vidocq and John Bar, and no sight of the camp or of the other men, only heaps of cinders where the log-houses stood. As soon as we had had our breakfast I urged my companions to get under way quickly.
I will wait until I have more facts before me before I venture an opinion. It is only in detective novels that the heaven-born Vidocq can guess the truth on a few stray clues. But what were you going to tell me?" "Will you keep what I say to yourself?" "Yes," said Jennings, readily enough, "so long as it doesn't mean the escape of the person who is guilty."
Finally the door opened, and Vidocq himself, the Chief of Police, entered. Robeccal, in a state of suppressed delight, had the audacity to wink at him. "At last!" said the prisoner. "Really, sir, I think I have had about enough of this. When am I to leave France?" "I think, my dear sir," answered Vidocq, in a somewhat sarcastic voice, "that you will not leave France." "Ah! I am glad to hear that."
It is astounding!" But Charles Rambert was not the least impressed. "But it is life, sir; it is history, it is the real thing!" he insisted. "Why, you yourself, in just a few words, have thrown an atmosphere round this Fantômas which makes him absolutely fascinating! I would give anything to have known Vidocq and Cartouche and Rocambole, and to have seen them at close quarters. Those were men!"
But it would seem impossible for actors to understand that he is not a would- be detective, an aspirant for the honours of a Vidocq, a candidate for the laurels of a Vautrin: that he is no less than Lepidus, or than Antony's horse, "a tried and valiant soldier."
In these "Memoirs" of Vidocq there is a man named Christian, or Caron, with a reputation for removing charms cast on animals, and he takes Vidocq to his Gypsy friends at Malines: "Having traversed the city, we stopped in the Faubourg de Louvain, before a wretched looking house with blackened walls, furrowed with wide crevices, and many bundles of straw as substitutes for window glasses.
Destiny had made a plaything of his efforts. "As a matter of fact, Monsieur Juve, did not the celebrated Vidocq before he was a detective begin life as a murderer?" Wulf, book in hand and comfortably installed in a large armchair, addressed the question to Juve, who answered in brief monosyllables, without turning his head: "That's true, Monsieur Wulf."
Middle height, square build, firm mouth, keen eyes the very picture of a sharp and successful business genius. I have only known one rogue impose upon Sir Charles, and that one rogue, as the Commissary of Police at Nice remarked, would doubtless have imposed upon a syndicate of Vidocq, Robert Houdin, and Cagliostro. We had run across to the Riviera for a few weeks in the season.
Then the chief took notes and promised, Vidocq and his spies aiding, to send in a report within a few days to the Maulincour family, assuring them meantime that there were no secrets for the police of Paris. A few days after this the police official called to see the vidame at the Hotel de Maulincour, where he found the young baron quite recovered from his last wound.
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