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Updated: June 27, 2025
What further devil's work was now in progress? We watched the hotel in patience, until just before three o'clock the trio came forth laughing airily. "Why, look!" gasped Rivero. "Despujol is with your great English financier, Señor De Gex!" I smiled triumphantly. "I told you that I had a surprise in store for you," I exclaimed. "But if Despujol is with him it must be with some evil intent!"
In a few moments more than half the lurking police agents had disappeared to make inquiries at the railway station and in various quarters, and when he rejoined us Moroni having returned upstairs he said: "Despujol cannot yet have gone very far. I have given orders for all railway stations within two hundred kilomètres to be warned. Let us return to my bureau and await reports."
"I've had a swift and weary journey. Sanz has been alarmed by the girl. Why, I cannot tell. Did she go to see Despujol?" "No," I replied. "She didn't see him, but went straight home." "You have not ventured near Despujol, I hope?" "No. I have hardly ventured into the town." "Good. Well, we shall make a double arrest," he went on.
Rizal's arrest had put an end to all hope of progress under Governor-General Despujol. It had left the political field in possession of those countrymen who had not been in sympathy with his campaign of education.
He crossed the room to the telephone, and a few minutes later spoke in Spanish into the instrument in sharp, authoritative tones. I understood him to be speaking to the police commissary at Zaragoza, explaining that the much-wanted criminal Despujol had left Madrid for that city, and giving the train by which he was supposed to be travelling.
"I mean that De Gex hired Despujol to make that attempt upon my life, and I have a suspicion one not yet entirely verified that Moroni prepared that deadly orosin by the agency of which it was hoped that I should meet with my death."
"Ah!" exclaimed Rivero. "Despujol would not risk the train. He always arranges a secret means of escape. In this case he prepared it on the day before. Without a doubt he knew that watch was being kept." "Or was it that De Gex knew that I was here?" I suggested.
From Barcelona you can get direct to Nîmes, and on to Montauban. And," he added, "I only hope you will be successful in arresting the notorious Despujol." I thanked him, and suggested that if we should be fortunate enough to identify him, we should watch for the keeping of the appointment at the Hôtel Luxembourg at Nîmes on the following Monday.
It seems that Sanz is also wanted in France for a motor-car exploit outside Orleans. Therefore our discovery is indeed a lucky one!" "Will Sanz be arrested?" I asked. "Yes. I have already reported by telegram to Señor Andrade in Madrid. He will at once ask them in Paris to order the arrest." "And Despujol?"
If so, was it possible that he had hired the notorious Despujol to attack me in secret! "Of course we know that there is a secret traffic in poisons. Medico-legists, with the police, have established that fact over and over again," said Professor Vega. "But the vendors are very difficult to trace. One was found only six months ago a doctor living in a suburb of Copenhagen.
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