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It was unnecessary that she should be drugged and set in the fireplace quite unnecessary." "It might have been to put off an examining magistrate," said the Duke. "Having found Victoire in the fireplace, M. Formery did not look for anything else." "Yes, it might have been that," said Guerchard slowly.
Then he looked at the Duke with an air of inquiry. "Let me introduce you," said M. Formery. "Chief-Inspector Guerchard, head of the Detective Department the Duke of Charmerace." The Duke shook hands with Guerchard, saying, "I'm delighted to make your acquaintance, M. Guerchard. I've been expecting your coming with the greatest interest.
The inspector reported the arrival of the Duke at the police-station with Arsene Lupin's letter to M. Gournay-Martin; the discovery that the keys had been changed and would not open the door of the house; the opening of it by the locksmith; the discovery of the concierge and his wife gagged and bound. "Probably accomplices," said M. Formery.
"Lend a hand, inspector," he said. "And you too, Bonavent. She looks a good weight." The three of them raised the mattress, and carried it and the sleeping woman to a broad couch, and laid them on it. They staggered under their burden, for truly Victoire was a good weight. M. Formery rose, with recovered breath, but with his face an even richer purple.
"The doctor said that she would not really be sensible and have her full wits about her much before ten o'clock to-night," said the inspector; but he went to examine her present condition. M. Formery proceeded to discuss the effects of different anesthetics. The others heard him with very little attention. The inspector came back and reported that Victoire showed no signs of awaking.
And that me was ever so much more me than the man they followed. And then the proofs ... they must have proofs. There aren't any or rather, what there are, I've got!" He pointed to a small safe let into the wall. "In that safe are the coronet, and, above all, the death certificate of the Duke of Charmerace ... everything that Guerchard must have to induce M. Formery to proceed.
"Be so good as to keep quiet, my good woman," said M. Formery; and, turning to her husband, he went on: "At your first conviction you were sentenced to a day's imprisonment with costs; at your second conviction you got three days' imprisonment." "I'm not going to deny it, sir," said the concierge; "but it was an honourable imprisonment." "Honourable?" said M. Formery.
"At least, my future father-in-law and my fiancee had both of them the greatest confidence in her. Yesterday she telephoned to us at the Chateau de Charmerace. All the jewels were left in her charge, and the wedding presents as they were sent in." "And these jewels and wedding presents have they been stolen too?" said M. Formery.
"Mademoiselle Kritchnoff," said Guerchard, in a tone of the most good-natured courtesy, "there is a matter on which M. Formery needs some information. The pendant which the Duke of Charmerace gave Mademoiselle Gournay-Martin yesterday has been stolen." "Stolen? Are you sure?" said Sonia in a tone of mingled surprise and anxiety. "Quite sure," said Guerchard.
"Never mind never mind," said M. Formery solemnly. And, turning to Germaine, he went on: "You say, Mademoiselle, that these thefts began about three years ago?" "Yes, I think they began about three years ago in August." "Let me see.
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