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Updated: June 18, 2025
By association of ideas the sight of the Prince brought to Juve's mind the figure of the Grand Duchess Alexandra, who was no other than Lady Beltham. And Lady Beltham suggested Fantômas, whom Juve was inclined to credit not only with his arrest but also with his liberation.
Stooping down, he began feeling the foot of one of the bedposts, which at this point formed a bulge. In an instant the wood parted and disclosed a hollow in which lay a jewel case. The jewel case contained the famous red diamond. Juve's heart began to thump as he watched the man open the case and take out the diamond.
But the fact remains that someone did climb up the embankment, someone who was making for the railway." The magistrate did not seem to be impressed by Juve's discovery. "And pray what conclusion do you think ought to be drawn from that?" he enquired.
Thus Fandor, in Juve's company, was drawn into the hurly-burly, into the troubles and torments of criminal affairs so mysterious, so phenomenal, that, for several years in succession, they created a sensation, not only in Paris but throughout France. He constituted himself one of the most implacable enemies of Fantômas.
While he undoubtedly ran the risk of a bullet in his body, yet the carefully drawn plan he had left in Juve's rooms would enable the detective to find his prison without difficulty. The first problem that presented itself was to get the drunken King away. Frederick-Christian lay, an inert mass, quite incapable of rendering any assistance.
The detective now felt some cause for anxiety. There were two alternatives to consider. Either the King was absent, and in that case Juve's business would be to discover the hiding place of the diamond and clear up the question whether the King had taken it with him, or, if he had been sequestered, to discover his prison.
They arrived at the corner of the Boulevard Malesherbes and the Avenue de Villiers, and Juve's excitement grew, for he knew that not far away was the America Hotel, where Lady Beltham had put up under the name of the Grand Duchess Alexandra. Ah! If it were possible to connect the Primitive Man with her!
The next step was to invite Wulf to dine with him, to show him the waistcoat and prove beyond doubt that it had been made by a tailor of Glotzbourg. Juve's opinion had now become a solid conviction. Fantômas had worn the garment, and had carried the diamond in the pocket of the waistcoat he found in the Marquis de Sérac's apartment. Hence the Marquis de Sérac was Fantômas.
The journalist seized half a dozen of the empty bottles, climbed out and filled them with water; returning, he drew from his pocket a thin silk cord he had taken from Juve's room. By its aid and with a strength of which his slender figure gave no evidence, he succeeded in hauling the King up to the open air. "And now for another foot bath," exclaimed Fandor; "saving Kings is a sorry business."
The death of Captain Brocq coincides with the loss of a certain secret document: is it for you or for us to institute an enquiry into it?" After a pause, Juve's retort was: "You must permit me to leave that question unanswered."
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