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It was just by going to Gurn's place to pump him, rather than anything else, that I found the noble lord's remains locked away in the trunk." "Your modesty is delightful, Juve," said M. Fuselier with an approving nod. "You present things as if they were all matters of course, whereas really you are proving your extraordinary instinct.
He took out his watch and looked at the time. "I must go," he said; "it's quite time I was at my own work. Well, we may not have been wasting our time, M. Fuselier. I admit I had not paid much attention to the Royal Palace Hotel robbery. You have really interested me in it.
Arriving in good time at the little station at Verrières, where he was about to take a train to Paris to keep his appointment at the Law Courts, the old steward Dollon gave his parting instructions to his two children, who had come to see him off. "I must, of course, call upon Mme. de Vibray," he said, "and I don't yet know what time M. Fuselier wants to see me at his office.
If it turns out, as I expect, that the two fragments of map, when placed together, form a single and complete whole, I shall conclude logically that X, who was the owner of fragment number 1, is the same as the owner of fragment number 2, to wit, Gurn." "How are you going to find out?" enquired M. Fuselier. "It is in order to find it out that we have sent for Dollon," Juve replied.
"I always base my arguments on the balance of probabilities," Juve replied. "What emerges from this Royal Palace story is that some common hotel thief conceived the ingenious idea of casting suspicion on Fantômas: it was just a trick to mislead the police: at least, that is my opinion." But M. Fuselier declined to be convinced. "No, you are wrong, Juve: it was no common hotel thief who stole Mme.
"Why, man," M. Fuselier retorted, "you have heard that detail about the card the man left, haven't you? the visiting card that was blank when the Princess found it, and on which the name of Fantômas afterwards became visible?" "There's no Fantômas about that, in my opinion." "Why not?" "Well, it isn't one of Fantômas' little ways to leave clear traces behind him.
"He was steward to the late Marquise de Langrune, and has all the circumstantial evidence relating to that case. If he has still got the fragment of map, it will be simplicity itself to prove what I have suggested, and perhaps to make the identification I suggest." "Yes," said M. Fuselier, "but if you do succeed, will it be of really great importance in your opinion?
"Solved it!" M. Fuselier flicked the ash off his cigarette, and leant forward towards the detective. "Of course you know that I know you were at the Cahors Assizes, Juve? What was your impression of the whole affair of the verdict, and of Etienne Rambert's guilt or innocence?" Juve got up and began to walk up and down the room, followed by the magistrate's eyes.
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