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08 - Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes by Maurice Leblanc · Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes

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Speaker 1: Chapter eight, The Shipwreck. That's what I don't like, Wilson,
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Speaker 1: said herloc Sholmes, after he had read Arsan Lupin's message.
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Speaker 1: That is what exasperates me in this affair, to feel
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Speaker 1: that the cunning, mocking eye of that fellow follows me everywhere.
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Speaker 1: He sees everything, he knows everything, He reads my inmost thoughts.
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Speaker 1: He even foresees my slightest movement. Ah, He's possessed of
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Speaker 1: a marvelous institution, far surpassing that of the most instinctive woman. Yes,
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Speaker 1: surpassing even that of herloc Schomes himself. Nothing escapes him.
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Speaker 1: I resemble an actor whose every step and movement are
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Speaker 1: directed by a stage manager who says this and does
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Speaker 1: that in obedience to a superior will. That is my position.
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Speaker 1: Do you understand, Wilson? Certainly Wilson would have understood if
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Speaker 1: his faculties had not been deadened by the profound slumber
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Speaker 1: of a man whose temperature varies between one hundred and
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Speaker 1: one hundred and three degrees. But whether he heard or
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Speaker 1: not was a matter of no consequence to Herlock Scholmes,
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Speaker 1: who continued, I have to concentrate all my energy and
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Speaker 1: bring all my resources into action in order to make
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Speaker 1: the slightest progress. And fortunately for me, those petty annoyances
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Speaker 1: are like so many pricks from a needle, and serve
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Speaker 1: only to stimulate me. As soon as the heat of
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Speaker 1: the wound is appeased and the shock to my vanity
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Speaker 1: has subsided, I say to myself, amuse yourself, my dear fellow.
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Speaker 1: But remember that he who laughs last laughs best. Sooner
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Speaker 1: or later you will betray yourself. For you know, Wilson,
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Speaker 1: it was Lupin himself who, by his first despatch and
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Speaker 1: the observation that it suggested to little Henriette, disclosed to
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Speaker 1: me the secret of his correspondence with Alice de Moon?
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Speaker 1: Have you forgotten that circumstance, dear boy? But Wilson was asleep,
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Speaker 1: and Sholmes, pacing to and fro, resumed his speech. And
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Speaker 1: now things are not in a bad shape. A little obscure, perhaps,
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Speaker 1: but the light is creeping in. In the first place,
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Speaker 1: I must learn all about Monsieur Bresson Jeannie Mardin, and
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Speaker 1: I will visit the bank of the river at the
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Speaker 1: spot where Brosson threw away the package, and the particular
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Speaker 1: role of that gentleman will be known to me. After
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Speaker 1: that the game will be played between me and Alice
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Speaker 1: Demon rather a lightweight opponent. Hein, Wilson, and do you
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Speaker 1: not think that I will soon know the phrase represented
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Speaker 1: by the letters clipped from the alphabet book, and what
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Speaker 1: the isolated letters the sea and the H mean. That
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Speaker 1: is all I want to know, Wilson. Mademoiselle entered at
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Speaker 1: that moment, and observing Scholmes gesticulating, she said, in her
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Speaker 1: sweetest manner, Monsieur Sholmes, I must scold you if you
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Speaker 1: waken my patient. It isn't nice of you to disturb him.
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Speaker 1: The doctor has ordered absolute rest. He looked at her
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Speaker 1: in silence, astonished, as on their first meeting, at her
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Speaker 1: wonderful self possession. Why do you look at me so,
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Speaker 1: Monsieur Shalms. You seem to be trying to read my thoughts? No, then,
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Speaker 1: what is it? She questioned him, with the most innocent
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Speaker 1: expression on her pretty face and in her frank blue eyes.
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Speaker 1: A smile played upon her lips, and she displayed so
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Speaker 1: much unaffected candor that the Englishman almost lost his temper.
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Speaker 1: He approached her and said, in a low voice, Bresson
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Speaker 1: killed himself last night. She affected not to understand him.
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Speaker 1: So he repeated, Bresson killed himself yesterday. She did not
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Speaker 1: show the slightest emotion. She acted as if the matter
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Speaker 1: did not concern nor interest her in any way. You
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Speaker 1: have been informed, said Sholmes, displaying his annoyance. Otherwise the
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Speaker 1: news would have caused you to start at least. Ah,
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Speaker 1: you are stronger than I expected. But what's the use
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Speaker 1: of your trying to conceal anything from me? He picked
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Speaker 1: up the Alpha book, which he had placed on a
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Speaker 1: convenient table, and opening it at the mutilated page, said,
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Speaker 1: will you tell me the order in which the missing
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Speaker 1: letters should be arranged? In order to express the exact
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Speaker 1: wording of the message you sent to Bresson four days
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Speaker 1: before the theft of the Jewish lamp? The order Boisson
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Speaker 1: the theft of the Jewish lamp. She repeated the words slowly,
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Speaker 1: as if trying to grasp their meaning. He continued, Yes,
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Speaker 1: here are the letters employed on this bit of paper.
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Speaker 1: What did you say to Bresson? The letters employed? What
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Speaker 1: did I say? Suddenly she burst into laughter. Ah, Ah,
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Speaker 1: that is it. I understand. I am an accomplice in crime.
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Speaker 1: There is a monsieur Boisson who stole the Jewish lamp,
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Speaker 1: and who has now committed suicide? And I am a
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Speaker 1: friend of that gentleman. Oh, how absurd you are. Whom
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Speaker 1: did you go to see last night on the second
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Speaker 1: floor of a house in the Avenue de Terence. Who
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Speaker 1: my modeste, Mademoiselle Langier. Do you suppose that my modiste
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Speaker 1: and my friend Monsieur Persons are as the same person.
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Speaker 1: Despite all he knew, Scholmes was now in doubt. A
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Speaker 1: person can feigned terror, joy, anxiety, in fact, all emotions,
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Speaker 1: but a person cannot feign absolute indifference or light careless laughter.
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Speaker 1: Yet he continued to question her. Why did you accost
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Speaker 1: me the other evening at the Northern Railway station? And
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Speaker 1: why did you entreat me to leave Paris immediately without
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Speaker 1: investigating this theft ah? You ought too inquisitive, Monsieur Scholmes,
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Speaker 1: she replied, still laughing in the most natural manner to
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Speaker 1: punish you, I will tell you nothing, and besides, you
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Speaker 1: must watch the patient while I go to the pharmacy
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Speaker 1: on an urgent message. Au vai. She left the room.
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Speaker 1: I am beaten by a girl, muttered Sholmes. Not only
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Speaker 1: did I get nothing out of her, but I exposed
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Speaker 1: my hand and put her on her God, and he
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Speaker 1: recalled the affair of the Blue Diamond and his first
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Speaker 1: interview with Clotille de d'stange. Had not the blonde lady
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Speaker 1: met his question with the same unruffled serenity. And was
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Speaker 1: he not once more face to face with one of
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Speaker 1: those creatures who, under the protection and influence of Arsan Lupin,
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Speaker 1: maintained the utmost coolness in the face of a terrible danger. Sholmes, Sholmes.
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Speaker 1: It was Wilson who called him. Sholmes approached the bed and,
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Speaker 1: leaning over, said, what's the matter, Wilson, Does your wound
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Speaker 1: pain you? Wilson's lips moved, but he could not speak.
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Speaker 1: At last, with a great effort, he stammered, No, Shones,
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Speaker 1: it is not she. That is impossible. Come Wilson, what
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Speaker 1: do you know about it? I tell you that it
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Speaker 1: is she. It is only when I meet one of
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Speaker 1: Lupin's creatures, prepared and instructed by him, that I lose
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Speaker 1: my head and make a fool of myself. I bet
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Speaker 1: you that within an hour Lupine will know all about
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Speaker 1: our interview. Within an hour. What am I saying? Why
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Speaker 1: he may know already the visit of the pharmacy urgent
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Speaker 1: message all nonsense. She has gone to telephone to lupin
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Speaker 1: Chan's left the house hurriedly went down the Avenue the Misscene,
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Speaker 1: and was just in time to see Mademoiselle and toer
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Speaker 1: a pharmacy. Ten minutes later she emerged from the shop
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Speaker 1: carrying some small packages and a bottle wrapped in white paper.
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Speaker 1: But she had not proceeded far when she was accosted
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Speaker 1: by a man, who, with hat in hand and a
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Speaker 1: sequious air, appeared to be asking for charity. She stopped,
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Speaker 1: gave him something, and proceeded on her way. She spoke
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Speaker 1: to him, said the Englishman to himself. If not a certainty,
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Speaker 1: it was at least an intuition, and quite sufficient to
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Speaker 1: cause him to change his tactics. Leaving the girl to
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Speaker 1: pursue her own course, he followed the suspected mendicant, who
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Speaker 1: walked slowly to the Avenue de Ternes and lingered for
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Speaker 1: a long time around the house in which Barsan had lived,
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Speaker 1: sometimes raising his eyes to the window of the second
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Speaker 1: floor and watching the people who entered the house. At
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Speaker 1: the end of an hour, he climbed to the top
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Speaker 1: of a tram car going in the direction of Neelie.
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Speaker 1: Shulmes followed and took a seat behind the man and
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Speaker 1: beside a gentleman who was concealed behind the pages of
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Speaker 1: a newspaper at the fortifications. The gentleman lowered the paper
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Speaker 1: and Shulms recognized Johnny Mard, who thereupon whispered as he
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Speaker 1: pointed to the man in front the man who followed
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Speaker 1: Bresson last night. He's been watching the house for an hour.
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Speaker 1: Anything new in regard to Bersson, asked Cholmes. Yes, a
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Speaker 1: letter came to his address this morning this morning. Then
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Speaker 1: it was posted yesterday before the center could know of
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Speaker 1: Perisson's death. Exactly it is known the possession of the
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Speaker 1: examining magistrate. But I read it. It says he will
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Speaker 1: not accept any compromise. He wants everything the first thing
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Speaker 1: as well as those of the second affair. Otherwise he
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Speaker 1: will proceed. There is no signature, added Jennimard. It seems
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Speaker 1: to me those few lines won't help us much. I
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Speaker 1: don't agree with you, Monsieur Jannimard. To me, those few
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Speaker 1: lines are very interesting. Why so I can't see it
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Speaker 1: for reasons that are personal to me, replied Scholmes, with
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Speaker 1: the indifference that he frequently displayed toward his colleague. The
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Speaker 1: tram car stopped at the Rue de Chateau, which was
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Speaker 1: the terminus. The man descended and walked away quietly. Scholmes
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Speaker 1: followed at so short a distance that Jaennimard protested, saying,
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Speaker 1: if he should turn around, he will suspect us. He
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Speaker 1: will not turn round. How do you know he is
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Speaker 1: an accomplice of our sin lupin And the fact that
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Speaker 1: he walks in that manner with his hands in his
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Speaker 1: pockets proves in the first place that he knows he
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Speaker 1: is being followed, and in the second place that he
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Speaker 1: is not afraid. But I think we are keeping too
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Speaker 1: close to him, not too close to prevent his slipping
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Speaker 1: through our fingers. He is too sure of himself.
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Speaker 2: Ah, Look there in front of that cafe, there are
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Speaker 2: two of the bicycle police.
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Speaker 1: If I summon them to our assistants, how can the
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Speaker 1: man slip to our fingers. Well, our friend doesn't seem
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Speaker 1: to be worried about it. In fact, he is asking
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Speaker 1: for their assistants himself. Mon Dieu, exclaimed Jennimard. He has
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Speaker 1: a nerve The men approached the two policemen just as
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Speaker 1: they were mounting their bicycles. After a few words with them,
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Speaker 1: he leaped on a third bicycle, which was leaning against
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Speaker 1: the wall of the cafe, and rode away at a
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Speaker 1: fast pace, accompanied by the two policemen. Humph one, two,
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Speaker 1: three and away, growled Sholmes. And through whose agency, Monsieur Jeanniemard,
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Speaker 1: two of your colleagues. Ah, but Arsain Lupin has a
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Speaker 1: wonderful organization bicycle policemen in his service. I told you
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Speaker 1: our man was too calm, too sure of himself. Well, then,
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Speaker 1: said Johnny Mard, quite vexed. What are we to do now?
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Speaker 2: It is easy enough to laugh. Anyone could do that. Come, come,
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Speaker 2: don't lose your temper. We will get our revenge, but
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Speaker 2: in the meantime we need reinforcements. The foreign fance is
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Speaker 2: waiting for me at the end of the avenue, d Nili,
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Speaker 2: Well go and get him and join me later.
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Speaker 1: I will follow our fugitive. Sholms followed the bicycle tracks,
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Speaker 1: which plainly visible in the dust of the road, as
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Speaker 1: two of the machines were furnished with striated tires. Very
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Speaker 1: soon he ascertained that the tracks were leading him to
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Speaker 1: the edge of the Seine, and that the three men
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Speaker 1: had turned in the direction taken by Boisson on the
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Speaker 1: preceding evening. Thus he arrived at the gateway where he
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Speaker 1: and Johanni mart had concealed themselves, and a little farther
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Speaker 1: on he discovered a mingling of the bicycle tracks which
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Speaker 1: showed that the men had halted at that spot. Directly
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Speaker 1: opposite there was a little point of land which projected
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Speaker 1: into the river, and at the extremity thereof an old
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Speaker 1: boat was moored. It was there that Bresson had thrown
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Speaker 1: away the package, or rather had dropped it. Shulms descended
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Speaker 1: the bank and saw that the declivity was not steep
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Speaker 1: and the water quite shallow, so it would be quite
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Speaker 1: easy to recover the package, provided the three men had
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Speaker 1: not forestalled him. No, that can't be, he thought, They
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Speaker 1: have not had time a quarter of an hour at
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Speaker 1: the most. It Yet, why did they come this way?
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Speaker 1: A fisherman was seated on the old boat. Shulmes asked him,
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Speaker 1: did you see three men on bicycles a few minutes ago?
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Speaker 1: The fisherman gave a negative gesture, but Shulmes insisted three
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Speaker 1: men who stopped on the road just on top of
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Speaker 1: the bank. The fisherman rested his pole under his arm,
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Speaker 1: took a memorandum book from his pocket, wrote on one
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Speaker 1: of the pages, tore it out, and handed it to Sholmes.
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Speaker 1: The Englishman gave a start of surprise. In the middle
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Speaker 1: of the paper, which he held in his hand, he
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Speaker 1: saw the series of letters cut from the alphabet book
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Speaker 1: C D E H N O P r z E
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Speaker 1: O two three seven. The man resumed his fishing, sheltered
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Speaker 1: from the sun by a large straw hat, with his
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Speaker 1: coat and vest lying beside him. He was intently watching
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Speaker 1: the cork attached to his line as it floated on
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Speaker 1: the surface of the water. There was a moment of silence.
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Speaker 1: Solemn and terrible is it? He conjectured Sholmes, with an
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Speaker 1: anxiety that was almost pitiful. Then the truth burst upon him.
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Speaker 1: It is he, It is he. No one else could
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Speaker 1: remain there so calmly, without the slightest display of anxiety,
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Speaker 1: without the least fear of what might happen, And who
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Speaker 1: else would know the story of those mysterious letters Alice
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Speaker 1: had warned him by means of her messenger. Suddenly the
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Speaker 1: englishman felt that his hand, that his own hand had
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Speaker 1: involuntarily seized the handle of his revolver, and that his
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Speaker 1: eyes were fixed on the man's back, a little below
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Speaker 1: the neck. One movement and the drama would be finished.
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Speaker 1: The life of the strange adventurer would come to a
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Speaker 1: miserable end. The fisherman did not stir. Shulms nervously toyed
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Speaker 1: with his revolver and experienced a wild desire to fire
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Speaker 1: it and end everything. But the horror of such an
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Speaker 1: act was repugnant to his nature. Death would be certain
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Speaker 1: and would end all ah, he thought, Let him get
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Speaker 1: up and defend himself. If he doesn't, so much the
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Speaker 1: worse for him. One second more and I fire. But
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Speaker 1: a sound of footsteps behind him caused him to turn
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Speaker 1: his head. It was Jeannie Mard, coming with some assistance. Then,
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Speaker 1: quickly changing his plans, Schulms leaped into the boat, which
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Speaker 1: was broken from its moorings by his sudden action. He
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Speaker 1: pounced upon the man and seized him around the body.
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Speaker 1: They rolled to the bottom of the boat together well now,
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Speaker 1: exclaimed Lepan, struggling to free himself.
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Speaker 2: What does this mean?
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Speaker 1: What one of us has conquered the other. What good
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Speaker 1: will it do? You will not know what to do
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Speaker 1: with me, nor i with you. We will remain here
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Speaker 1: like two idiots. The two oars slipped into the water,
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Speaker 1: the boat drifted into the stream. Good lord, what a
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Speaker 1: fuss you make. A man of your age ought to
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Speaker 1: know better. You act like a child. Lupan succeeded in
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Speaker 1: freeing himself from the grasp of the detective, who thoroughly
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Speaker 1: exasperated and ready to kill, put his hand in his pocket.
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Speaker 1: He uttered an oath. Lupin had taken his revolver. He
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Speaker 1: then knelt down and tried to capture one of the
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Speaker 1: lost oars in order to regain the shore. While Lupan
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Speaker 1: was trying to capture the other oar in order to
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Speaker 1: drive the boat down the river. It's gone. I can't
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Speaker 1: reach it, said Lupan. But it's of no consequence. If
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Speaker 1: you get your oar, I can prevent your using it,
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Speaker 1: and you could do the same to me. But you see,
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Speaker 1: that is the way in this world we act without
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Speaker 1: any purpose or reason, as our efforts are in vain,
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Speaker 1: since fate decides everything. Now, you don't see Fate is
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Speaker 1: on the side of his friend. Lupin the game is mine.
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Speaker 1: The current favors me. The boat was slowly drifting down
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Speaker 1: the river. Look out, cried Lupan. Quickly, someone on the
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Speaker 1: bank was pointing a revolver. Lupan stooped, a shot was fired.
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Speaker 1: It struck the water beyond the boat. Lupan burst into laughter.
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Speaker 2: God bless me.
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Speaker 3: It's my friend, Johanny Maud. But it was very wrong
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Speaker 3: of you to do that, Johnny Mard. You have no
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Speaker 3: right to shoot except in self defense. Does poor Lupin
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Speaker 3: wearry you so much that you forget yourself? Now be
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Speaker 3: good and don't shoot again. If you do, you will
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Speaker 3: hit our English friend. He stood behind shums, facing Joanny
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Speaker 3: Mard and said, now, Johnny Mard, I am ready aim
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Speaker 3: for his heart high little to the left.
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Speaker 1: Ah, you missed that.
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Speaker 2: Time, dearest, bad shot. Try again your hands shit cks Jennimard.
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Speaker 2: Now once more one, two, three.
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Speaker 1: Fire missed, parbleu.
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Speaker 2: You saw it is furnishing with toy pistols.
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Speaker 1: Lupan drew a long revolver and fired without taking aim.
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Speaker 1: Jennimard put his hand to his hat. The bullet had
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Speaker 1: passed through it. What do you think of that, Jennimard?
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Speaker 2: That that's a real revolver, a genuine English bulldog. It
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Speaker 2: belongs to my friend Hrlock Sholmes. And with a laugh
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Speaker 2: he threw the revolver to the shore, where it landed
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Speaker 2: at Jannimard's feet. Sholmes could not withhold a smile of admiration.
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Speaker 1: What a torrent of youthful spirits, And how he seemed
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Speaker 1: to enjoy himself. It appeared as if the sensation of
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Speaker 1: peril caused him a physical pleasure. And this extraordinary man
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Speaker 1: had no other purpose in life than to seek for dangers,
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Speaker 1: simply for the amusement it afforded him in avoiding them.
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Speaker 1: Many people have now gathered on the banks of the river,
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Speaker 1: and Joannimard and his men followed the boat as it
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Speaker 1: slowly floated down the stream. Lupin's capture was a mathematical certainty,
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Speaker 1: confess old fellow, said Lupin, turning to the Englishman, that
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Speaker 1: you would not exchange your present position for all the
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Speaker 1: golden transval. You are now in the first row of
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Speaker 1: the orchestra chairs. But in the first place we must
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Speaker 1: have the prolog, after which we can leap at one
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Speaker 1: bound to the fifth act of the drama, which will
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Speaker 1: represent the capture or escape of our sun Loupin. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: I am going to ask you a plain question, to
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Speaker 1: which I request a plain answer, a simple yes or no.
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Speaker 1: Will you renounce this affair at present I can prepare
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Speaker 1: the damage you have done. Later it will be beyond
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Speaker 1: my power. Is it a bargain? No. Lupin's face showed
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Speaker 1: his disappointment and annoyance. He continued, I insist more for
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Speaker 1: your sake than my own. I insist because I am
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Speaker 1: certain you will be the first to regret your intervention
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Speaker 1: for the last time. Yes or no. No. Lupin stooped down,
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Speaker 1: removed one of the boards in the bottom of the boat,
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Speaker 1: and for some minutes was engaged in a work, the
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Speaker 1: nature of which Schulmes could not discern. Then he arose,
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Speaker 1: seated himself beside the Englishman and said, I believe, monsieur,
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Speaker 1: that we came to the river to day for the
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Speaker 1: same purpose, to recover the object which Poisson threw away.
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Speaker 1: For my part, I had invited a few friends to
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Speaker 1: join me here, and I was on the point of
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Speaker 1: making an examination of the bed of the river when
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Speaker 1: my friends announced your approach. I confess that the news
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Speaker 1: did not surprise me, as I have been notified every
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Speaker 1: hour concerning the progress of your investigation. That was an
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Speaker 1: easy matter. Whenever anything occurred in the room, Marialot that
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Speaker 1: might interest me, simply a ring on the telephone, and
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Speaker 1: I was informed he stopped. The board that he had
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Speaker 1: displaced in the bottom of the boat was rising and
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Speaker 1: water was working into the boat all around it their deus.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know how to fix it. I was afraid
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Speaker 1: this old boat would leak. Hm, you are not afraid,
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Speaker 1: Monsieur Sholmes shrugged his shoulders lupin continued. You will understand, then,
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Speaker 1: in those circumstances, and knowing in advance that you would
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Speaker 1: be more eager to seek a battle than I would
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Speaker 1: be to avoid it, I assure you I was not
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Speaker 1: entirely displeased to enter into a contest of which the
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Speaker 1: issue is quite certain, since I hold all the trump
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Speaker 1: cards in my hand, and I desired that our meeting
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Speaker 1: should be given the widest publicity in order that your
22:01
Speaker 1: defeat may be universally known, so that another Countess de
22:05
Speaker 1: Croison or another Baron Dimberval may not be tempted to
22:09
Speaker 1: solicit your aid against me. Besides, my dear monsieur. He
22:15
Speaker 1: stopped again, and using his half closed hands as a lorgnette,
22:19
Speaker 1: he scanned the banks of the river. Monsieur, they have
22:23
Speaker 1: chartered a superb boat, a real war vessel, and see
22:28
Speaker 1: how they are rowing. In five minutes they will be alongside,
22:33
Speaker 1: and I am lost. Monsieur shown a word of advice.
22:39
Speaker 1: You seize me, bind me, and deliver me to the
22:42
Speaker 1: officers of the law. Does that program please you unless
22:48
Speaker 1: in the meantime we are shipwrecked, in which event we
22:51
Speaker 1: can do nothing but prepare our wheels. What do you think?
22:57
Speaker 1: They exchanged looks. Shawn now understood Lupin's scheme. He had
23:03
Speaker 1: scuttled the boat, and the water was rising. It had
23:06
Speaker 1: reached the soles of their boots. Then it covered their feet,
23:10
Speaker 1: but they did not move. It was half way to
23:13
Speaker 1: their knees. The Englishman took out his tobacco, rolled a
23:17
Speaker 1: cigarette and lighted it. Lupin continued to talk. But do
23:22
Speaker 1: not regard that offer as a confession of my weakness.
23:26
Speaker 1: I surrender to you when a battle in which I
23:28
Speaker 1: can achieve a victory, in order to avoid a struggle
23:32
Speaker 1: upon a field not of my own, shoosing in so doing,
23:36
Speaker 1: I recognize the fact that Schomes is the only enemy
23:40
Speaker 1: I fear, and announced my anxiety that Schoms will not
23:44
Speaker 1: be diverted from my track. I take this opportunity to
23:48
Speaker 1: tell you these things, since fate has accorded me the
23:51
Speaker 1: honor of a conversation with you, I have only one regret.
23:56
Speaker 1: It is that our conversation should have occurred while we
23:58
Speaker 1: are taking a foot a situation that is lacking in dignity.
24:03
Speaker 1: I must confess, what did I say? A foot bath?
24:08
Speaker 1: It is worse than that the water had reached the
24:11
Speaker 1: board on which they were sitting, and the boat was
24:14
Speaker 1: gradually sinking. Sholmes, smoking his cigarette, appeared to be calmly
24:19
Speaker 1: admiring the scenery for nothing in the world, while face
24:24
Speaker 1: to face with that man, who, while threatened by dangers,
24:27
Speaker 1: surrounded by a crowd followed by a posse of police,
24:30
Speaker 1: maintained his equanimity and good humor. For nothing in the
24:34
Speaker 1: world would he Sholmes display the slightest sign of nervousness.
24:40
Speaker 1: Each of them looked as if he might say, should
24:42
Speaker 1: a person be disturbed by such trifles? Are not people
24:46
Speaker 1: drowned in a river every day? Is it such an
24:49
Speaker 1: unusual event as to deserve special attention. One shouted whilst
24:54
Speaker 1: the other dreamed, both concealing their wounded pride beneath a
24:58
Speaker 1: mask of indifference. One minute more and the boat would sink.
25:03
Speaker 1: Lupin continued his chatter. The important thing to know is
25:08
Speaker 1: whether we will sink before or after the arrival of
25:11
Speaker 1: the champions of the Law. That is the main question.
25:15
Speaker 1: As to our shipwreck, that is a foregone conclusion. Now, monsieur,
25:20
Speaker 1: the hour has come in which we must make our wheels.
25:23
Speaker 1: I give devise and bequeath all my property to her
25:27
Speaker 1: Lark shomes, a citizen of England, for his own use
25:31
Speaker 1: and benefit. But mon dieu, how quickly the champions of
25:35
Speaker 1: the law are approaching. Hah, the brave fellows. It is
25:38
Speaker 1: a pleasure to watch them observe the precision of the oars.
25:43
Speaker 3: Ah, is it you, Brigadier fallen Font a parfo The
25:47
Speaker 3: idea of a war vessel is.
25:49
Speaker 2: An excellent one.
25:51
Speaker 1: I commend you to your superior's Brigadier fallen Font. Do
25:54
Speaker 1: you wish the meadow? You shall have it? And your
25:57
Speaker 1: comrade d'uzille where is he? Ah? Yes, I think I
26:02
Speaker 1: see him on the left bank of the river at
26:04
Speaker 1: the head of a hundred natives, so that if I
26:09
Speaker 1: escape shipwreck, I shall be captured on the left by
26:12
Speaker 1: Deozy and his natives, or on the right by Jeannie
26:16
Speaker 1: Mard and the populace of Nuili hah ah. An embarrassing dilemma.
26:23
Speaker 1: The boat entered an eddy, It swung around, and Shomes
26:26
Speaker 1: caught hold of the oarlocks. Lupan said to him, Monsieur,
26:31
Speaker 1: you should remove your coat. You will find it easier
26:33
Speaker 1: to swim without a coat. No, you refuse, then I
26:38
Speaker 1: shall put on my own. He donned his coat, buttoned
26:42
Speaker 1: it closely the same as Sholme's, and said, what a
26:46
Speaker 1: discourteous man you are, and what a pity that you
26:49
Speaker 1: should be so stubborn? Is this affair in which, of
26:52
Speaker 1: course you display your strength, but oh so vainly really
26:58
Speaker 1: you ma your monsieur le Pinne, interrupted Cholmes, emerging from
27:03
Speaker 1: his silence. You talk too much, and you frequently air
27:09
Speaker 1: through excess of confidence and through your frivolity. That is
27:15
Speaker 1: a severe reproach. Thus, without knowing it, you furnished me
27:21
Speaker 1: only a moment ago with the information I required. What
27:27
Speaker 1: you required some information, and you didn't tell me, I
27:31
Speaker 1: had no occasion to ask you for it. You volunteered it.
27:35
Speaker 1: Within three hours, I can deliver the key of the
27:37
Speaker 1: mystery to Monsieur de Balval. That is the only reply.
27:42
Speaker 1: He did not finish the sentence. The boat suddenly sank,
27:46
Speaker 1: taking both of the men down with it. It emerged
27:49
Speaker 1: immediately with its keel in the air. Shouts were heard
27:53
Speaker 1: on either bank, succeeded by an anxious moment of silence.
27:57
Speaker 1: Then the shouts were renewed. One of the ships wrecked
28:00
Speaker 1: party had come to the surface. It was herloc Sholmes.
28:04
Speaker 1: He was an excellent swimmer and struck out with powerful
28:07
Speaker 1: strokes for fallen Fant's boat. Courge. Monsieur Schames shouted, fallen Fant,
28:13
Speaker 1: we are here. Keep it up. We will get you
28:17
Speaker 1: a little more. Monsieur Schames, catch the rope. The Englishman
28:22
Speaker 1: seized the rope they had thrown to him, but while
28:25
Speaker 1: they were hauling him into the boat, he heard a
28:27
Speaker 1: voice behind him saying, the key of the mystery, monsieur, Yes,
28:33
Speaker 1: you shall have it. I am astonished that you haven't
28:35
Speaker 1: got it already. What then, what good will it do you?
28:40
Speaker 1: By that time you would have lost the battle. Now
28:44
Speaker 1: comfortably installed astride the keel of the boat. Leupin continued
28:48
Speaker 1: his speech with solemn gestures, as if he hoped to
28:51
Speaker 1: convince his adversary. You must understand, my dear Sholmes, there
28:56
Speaker 1: is nothing to be done, absolutely nothing. You find yourself
29:00
Speaker 1: in a deplorable position of a gentleman. Surrender, Lupin, shouted,
29:04
Speaker 1: fallen fant.
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Speaker 2: You are an ill bred fellow foreign fant to interrupt
29:11
Speaker 2: me in the middle of his sentence, I'm saying, surrender, Lupin, Oh,
29:18
Speaker 2: poh blu briga, dear fallen fat. A man surrenders only
29:23
Speaker 2: when he is in danger. Surely you do not pretend
29:27
Speaker 2: to say that I am in any danger. For the
29:30
Speaker 2: last time, Lupin, I call on you to surrender, brigad,
29:35
Speaker 2: dear foreign fant, to have no intention of killing me.
29:38
Speaker 2: You may wish to wound me, since you are afraid
29:40
Speaker 2: I may escape, But if I chance the wound prove mortal,
29:45
Speaker 2: just think of your remorse. It would embitter your old age.
29:49
Speaker 1: The shot was fired, Lupin staggered, clutched at the keel
29:54
Speaker 1: of the boat for a moment, then let go, then disappeared.
30:01
Speaker 1: It was exactly three o'clock when the foregoing events transpired
30:05
Speaker 1: precisely at six o'clock, as he had foretold Herlock Schomes,
30:09
Speaker 1: dressed in trousers that were too short and a coat
30:12
Speaker 1: that was too small, which he had borrowed from an
30:14
Speaker 1: innkeeper at Nuili, wearing a cap and a flannel shirt,
30:18
Speaker 1: entered the boudoir and the room Merillou, after having sent
30:21
Speaker 1: word to Monsieur and Madame Dimbeval that he desired an interview.
30:26
Speaker 1: They found him walking up and down the room, and
30:29
Speaker 1: he looked so ludicrous in his strange costume that they
30:31
Speaker 1: could scarcely suppress their mirth with pensive air and stooped shoulders.
30:36
Speaker 1: He walked like an automaton from the window to the door,
30:39
Speaker 1: and from the door to the window, taking each time
30:42
Speaker 1: the same number of steps, and turning each time in
30:45
Speaker 1: the same manner. He stopped, picked up a small ornament,
30:50
Speaker 1: examined it mechanically, and resumed his walk. At last, planting
30:55
Speaker 1: himself before them, he asked, is Mademoiselle here, yea, she
31:00
Speaker 1: is in the garden with the children. I wish Mademoiselle
31:04
Speaker 1: to be present at this interview. Is it necessary have
31:07
Speaker 1: a little patience Monsieur, from the fact I am going
31:10
Speaker 1: to present you, you will see the necessity for her present
31:13
Speaker 1: here very well, Suzanne, will you call her Madame Dimbleval.
31:20
Speaker 1: Arose went out and returned almost immediately, accompanied by Alice
31:24
Speaker 1: de Mont. Mademoiselle, who was a trifle paler than usual,
31:29
Speaker 1: remained standing leaning against the table, and without even asking
31:33
Speaker 1: why she had been called. Sholmes did not look at her,
31:37
Speaker 1: but suddenly turning toward Monsieur Dimbleval, he said, in a
31:41
Speaker 1: tone which did not admit of a reply. After several
31:45
Speaker 1: days investigation, Monsieur, I must repeat what I told you
31:48
Speaker 1: when I first came here. The Jewish lamp was stolen
31:51
Speaker 1: by some one living in the house. The name of
31:55
Speaker 1: the guilty party. I know it. Your proof I have
32:00
Speaker 1: sufficient to establish that fact. But we require mozenzat we
32:06
Speaker 1: desire the restoration of the stolen goods. The Jewish lamp,
32:10
Speaker 1: it is in my possession, the open necklace, the snuff box,
32:16
Speaker 1: the open necklace, the snuff box, and all the goods
32:19
Speaker 1: stolen on the second occasion are in my possession. Shulms
32:23
Speaker 1: delighted in these dramatic dialogs, and it pleased him to
32:26
Speaker 1: announce his victories in that curt manner. The Baron and
32:30
Speaker 1: his wife were amazed and looked at Shulmes with a
32:33
Speaker 1: silent curiosity, which was the highest praise. He related to
32:37
Speaker 1: them very minutely what he had done during those three days.
32:42
Speaker 1: He told of his discovery of the alphabet book, wrote
32:45
Speaker 1: upon a sheet of paper the sentence formed by the
32:48
Speaker 1: missing letters. Then related the journey of Bresson to the
32:51
Speaker 1: bank of the river, and the suicide of the adventurer,
32:54
Speaker 1: and finally his struggle with Loupan, the shipwreck, and the
32:58
Speaker 1: disappearance of Lupenn. When he had finished, the Baron said,
33:03
Speaker 1: in a low voice, now you have told us everything
33:07
Speaker 1: except the name of the guilty party. Whom do you accuse?
33:12
Speaker 1: I accused the person who cut the letters from the
33:14
Speaker 1: alphabet book and communicated with ar San Lupin by means
33:18
Speaker 1: of those letters. How do you know that such correspondence
33:22
Speaker 1: was carried on with usan Lupin. My information comes from
33:26
Speaker 1: Lupin himself. He produced a piece of paper that was
33:29
Speaker 1: wet and crumpled. It was the page which Lupin had
33:33
Speaker 1: torn from his memorandum book, and upon which he had
33:36
Speaker 1: written the phrase And you will notice said Sholmes, with
33:40
Speaker 1: satisfaction that he was not obliged to give me that
33:43
Speaker 1: sheet of paper and in that way disclose his identity.
33:48
Speaker 1: Simple childishness on his part, And yet it gave me
33:51
Speaker 1: exactly the information I desired. What was it, asked the Baron.
33:56
Speaker 1: I don't understand. Shoulmes took a pencil and made a
34:00
Speaker 1: fresh copy of the letters and figures C D E,
34:05
Speaker 1: H N O p r Z E O two three seven. Well,
34:12
Speaker 1: said the Baron, it is the formula you showed me yourself. No,
34:17
Speaker 1: if you had turned and returned that formula in every
34:20
Speaker 1: way as I have done, you would have seen at
34:22
Speaker 1: first glance that this formula is not like the first one.
34:26
Speaker 1: In what respect does they differ? This one has two
34:30
Speaker 1: more letters, an E and an O. Really, I had
34:35
Speaker 1: noticed that join those two letters to the C and
34:39
Speaker 1: the H which remained after forming the word reponde. And
34:43
Speaker 1: you will agree with me that the only possible word
34:45
Speaker 1: is echo. What does that mean? It refers to the
34:51
Speaker 1: Echo de France, Lupin's newspaper, his official organ, the one
34:55
Speaker 1: in which he publishes his communications reply in the Ecadiffrance
35:00
Speaker 1: in the personal advertisements under number two three seven that
35:04
Speaker 1: is the key to the mystery, and Arsan Lupin was
35:07
Speaker 1: kind enough to furnish it to me. I went to
35:10
Speaker 1: the newspaper office. What did you find there? I found
35:14
Speaker 1: the entire story of the relations between Arsan Lupin and
35:18
Speaker 1: his accomplice. Schulms produced seven newspapers, which he opened at
35:22
Speaker 1: the fourth page and pointed to the following lines. One
35:28
Speaker 1: rse Loop Lady implorer's protection five forty two five forty
35:36
Speaker 1: awaiting particulars A L three A L under damin enemy
35:44
Speaker 1: lost four five forty write address, We'll make investigation five
35:53
Speaker 1: A L. Murillo six Park three o'clock violence seven two
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Speaker 1: thirty seven. Understand sat will be sun Morne Park. And
36:11
Speaker 1: you call that the whole story, exclaimed the baron. Yes,
36:16
Speaker 1: And if you will listen to me for a few minutes,
36:18
Speaker 1: I think I can convince you. In the first place,
36:21
Speaker 1: a lady who signs herself five forty implores the protection
36:25
Speaker 1: of Arsan Lupin, who replies by asking for particulars. The
36:30
Speaker 1: lady replies that she is under the domination of an
36:32
Speaker 1: enemy who is bresson no doubt, and that she is
36:36
Speaker 1: lost if someone does not come to her assistance. Lupin
36:40
Speaker 1: is suspicious and does not yet venture to appoint an
36:42
Speaker 1: interview with the unknown woman demands the address and proposes
36:46
Speaker 1: to make an investigation. The lady hesitates for four days
36:50
Speaker 1: look at the dates. Finally, under stress of circumstances and
36:54
Speaker 1: influenced by Brossan's threats, she gives the name of the street,
36:58
Speaker 1: Marillay Arsin. Lupin announces that he will be in the
37:02
Speaker 1: park Monceaux at three o'clock and asks his unknown correspondents
37:06
Speaker 1: to wear a bouquet of violets as a means of identification.
37:10
Speaker 1: Then there is a lapse of eight days in the correspondence. Arsan,
37:14
Speaker 1: Lupin and the lady do not require to correspond through
37:17
Speaker 1: the newspaper now as they see each other or write directly.
37:21
Speaker 1: The schemes arranged in this way in order to satisfy
37:24
Speaker 1: Brassan's demands, the lady is to carry off the Jewish lamp.
37:28
Speaker 1: The date is not yet fixed. The lady, who as
37:31
Speaker 1: a matter of prudence, corresponds by means of letters cut
37:34
Speaker 1: out of a book, decides on Saturday and adds reply
37:38
Speaker 1: echo two three seven. Lupin replies that it is understood
37:43
Speaker 1: that he will be in the park on Sunday morning.
37:46
Speaker 1: Sunday morning, the theft takes place. Really, that is an
37:51
Speaker 1: excellent shame of circumstantial evidence, and every link is complete,
37:55
Speaker 1: said the baron. The theft has taken place, continued Chong.
38:00
Speaker 1: The lady goes out on Sunday morning, tells Lupan what
38:03
Speaker 1: she has done, and carries the Jewish lamp to Bresson.
38:06
Speaker 1: Everything occurs then exactly as Lupin had foreseen. The officers
38:10
Speaker 1: of the law, deceived by an open window, four holes
38:13
Speaker 1: in the ground, and two scratches on the balcony railing,
38:16
Speaker 1: immediately advanced the theory that the theft was committed by
38:19
Speaker 1: a burglar. The lady is safe. Yes, I confess the
38:24
Speaker 1: theory was a logical one, said the baron. But the
38:27
Speaker 1: second theft, the second theft, was provoked by the first.
38:31
Speaker 1: The newspapers having related how the Jewish lamp had disappeared,
38:35
Speaker 1: some one conceived the idea of repeating the crime and
38:38
Speaker 1: carrying away what had been left. This time it was
38:41
Speaker 1: not a simulated theft, but a real one, a genuine
38:45
Speaker 1: burglary with ladders and other paraphernalia. Lupin, of course, no
38:51
Speaker 1: Lupan does not act so stupidly. He doesn't fire at
38:54
Speaker 1: people for trifling reasons. Then who was it? Bresson, no doubt,
39:01
Speaker 1: and unknown to the lady whom he had menaced. It
39:04
Speaker 1: was Bresson who entered here. It was Bresson that I pursued.
39:08
Speaker 1: It was Bresson who wounded poor Wilson. Are you sure
39:12
Speaker 1: of it? Absolutely? One of Bresson's accomplices wrote to him
39:17
Speaker 1: yesterday before his suicide, a letter which proves that negotiations
39:21
Speaker 1: were pending between this accomplice and Lupin for the restitution
39:24
Speaker 1: of all the articles stolen from your house. Lupan demanded
39:28
Speaker 1: everything the first thing, that is the Jewish lamp, as
39:32
Speaker 1: well as those of the second affair. Moreover, he was
39:36
Speaker 1: watching Bresson when the latter returned from the river last night.
39:40
Speaker 1: One of Lupin's men followed him as well as we
39:43
Speaker 1: What was Breison doing at the river? Having been worn
39:47
Speaker 1: of the progress of my investigations, wanned by whom by
39:51
Speaker 1: the same lady, who justly feared that the discovery of
39:55
Speaker 1: the Jewish lamp would lead to the discovery of her
39:57
Speaker 1: own adventure. Thereupon, Bresson, having been warned, made into a
40:02
Speaker 1: package all the things that could compromise him, and threw
40:05
Speaker 1: them into a place where he thought he could get
40:07
Speaker 1: them again when the danger was past. It was after
40:10
Speaker 1: his return, tracked by Jannimard and myself, having no doubt
40:14
Speaker 1: other sins on his conscience, that he lost his head
40:17
Speaker 1: and killed himself. But what did the package contain? The
40:22
Speaker 1: Jewish lamp and your other ornaments? Then they are not
40:26
Speaker 1: in your possession. Immediately after Lupan's disappearance, I, profited by
40:31
Speaker 1: the bath he had forced upon me, went to the
40:34
Speaker 1: spot selected by Brosson, where I found the stolen articles
40:37
Speaker 1: wrapped in some soiled linen. They are there on the table.
40:42
Speaker 1: Without a word. The baron cut the cord, tore open
40:45
Speaker 1: the wet linen, picked out the lamp, turned a screw
40:48
Speaker 1: in the foot, then divided the bowl of the lamp,
40:51
Speaker 1: which opened in two equal parts, And there he found
40:54
Speaker 1: the golden chimera, set with rubies and emeralds. It was
40:58
Speaker 1: intact there was in that scene so natural an appearance,
41:05
Speaker 1: and which consisted of a simple exposition of facts, something
41:09
Speaker 1: which rendered it frightfully tragic. It was the formal, direct,
41:14
Speaker 1: irrefutable accusation that Scholmes launched in each of his words
41:18
Speaker 1: against Mademoiselle. And it was also the impressive silence of
41:22
Speaker 1: Alice Dmond during that long, cruel accumulation of accusing circumstances
41:27
Speaker 1: heaped upon one another. Not a muscle of her face
41:30
Speaker 1: had moved, not a trace of revolt or fear had
41:34
Speaker 1: marred the serenity of her limpid eyes. What were her thoughts,
41:38
Speaker 1: and especially what was she going to say at the
41:41
Speaker 1: solemn moment when it would become necessary for her to
41:44
Speaker 1: speak and defend herself in order to break the chain
41:47
Speaker 1: of evidence that Herlock Schulmes had so cleverly woven around her.
41:51
Speaker 1: That moment had come, but the girl was silent. Speak Speak,
41:58
Speaker 1: cried Monsieur dimbarval. She did not speak, so he insisted
42:03
Speaker 1: one word will clear you, one word of denial, and
42:06
Speaker 1: I will believe you that word. She would not utter.
42:11
Speaker 1: The Baron paced to and fro in his excitement. Then,
42:14
Speaker 1: addressing Sholmes, he said, no, Monsieur, I cannot believe it.
42:19
Speaker 1: I do not believe it. There are impossible crimes, and
42:23
Speaker 1: this is opposed to all I know and to all
42:26
Speaker 1: that I have seen during the past year. No, I
42:29
Speaker 1: cannot believe it. He placed his hand on the englishman's
42:32
Speaker 1: shoulder and said, but you yourself, monsieur, are you absolutely
42:37
Speaker 1: certain that you are right? Sholmes hesitated, like a man
42:41
Speaker 1: on whom a sudden demand is made and cannot frame
42:44
Speaker 1: an immediate reply. Then he smiled and said, the only
42:49
Speaker 1: person whom I accuse, by reason of her situation in
42:52
Speaker 1: your house, could know that the Jewish lamp contained that
42:56
Speaker 1: magnificent jewel. I cannot believe it, repeated the Baron, ask
43:02
Speaker 1: her it was really the very thing he would not
43:06
Speaker 1: have done. Blinded by the confidence the girl had inspired
43:10
Speaker 1: in him, but he could no longer refrain from doing it.
43:14
Speaker 1: He approached her, and, looking into her eyes, said, was
43:18
Speaker 1: it you, mademoiselle? Was it you who took the jewel?
43:22
Speaker 1: Was it you who corresponded with Arcain Lupin and committed
43:25
Speaker 1: the theft? It was I, monsieur, she replied. She did
43:31
Speaker 1: not drop her head. Her face displayed no sign of
43:34
Speaker 1: shame or fear. Is it possible, murmured monsieur dimbarval, I
43:40
Speaker 1: would never have believed it. You are the last person
43:43
Speaker 1: in the world that I would have suspected. How did
43:45
Speaker 1: you do it? I did it exactly as Monsieur Chommes
43:49
Speaker 1: has told it, on Saturday night, I came to the boudoirs,
43:53
Speaker 1: took the lamp, and in the morning I carried it
43:56
Speaker 1: to that man. No, said the Baron. Would you pretend
44:01
Speaker 1: to have done is impossible? Impossible? Why because in the
44:07
Speaker 1: morning I found the door of the boudoirs bolted. She
44:11
Speaker 1: blushed and looked at Shulmes as if seeking his counsel.
44:15
Speaker 1: Shulmes was astonished at her embarrassment. Had she nothing to say?
44:20
Speaker 1: Did the confessions which had corroborated the report that he
44:23
Speaker 1: Shulmes had made concerning the theft of the Jewish lamp
44:27
Speaker 1: merely served to mask a lie? Was she misleading them
44:31
Speaker 1: by a false confession? The baron continued, That door was locked.
44:37
Speaker 1: I found the door exactly as I had left it
44:39
Speaker 1: the night before. If you entered by that door as
44:43
Speaker 1: you pretend, someone must have opened it from the interior,
44:47
Speaker 1: that is to say, from the boudoirs or from our chamber.
44:51
Speaker 1: Now there was no one inside these two rooms. There
44:54
Speaker 1: was no one except my wife and myself. Shulmes bowed
44:58
Speaker 1: his head and covered his face with his hands in
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Speaker 1: order to conceal his emotion. A sudden light had entered
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Speaker 1: his mind that startled him and made him exceedingly uncomfortable.
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Speaker 1: Everything was revealed to him like the sudden lifting of
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Speaker 1: a fog from the morning landscape. He was annoyed as
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Speaker 1: well as ashamed, because his deductions were fallacious and his
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Speaker 1: entire theory was wrong. Alastai Munn was innocent. Alasta Munn
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Speaker 1: was innocent. That proposition explained the embarrassment he had experienced
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Speaker 1: from the beginning in directing the terrible accusation against that
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Speaker 1: young girl. Now he saw the truth, He knew it.
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Speaker 1: After a few seconds, he raised his head and looked
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Speaker 1: at Madame Dimbeval as naturally as he could. She was
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Speaker 1: pale with that unusual pallor which invades us in the
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Speaker 1: relentless moments of our lives. Her hands, which she endeavored
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Speaker 1: to conceal, were trembling, as if stricken with palsy. One
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Speaker 1: minute more, thought Scholmes, and she would betray herself. He
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Speaker 1: placed himself between her and her husband in the desire
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Speaker 1: to avert the awful danger which, through his fault, now
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Speaker 1: threatened that man and woman. But at sight of the baron,
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Speaker 1: he was shocked to the very center of his soul.
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Speaker 1: The same dreadful idea had entered the mind of Monsieur
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Speaker 1: de Bauval. The same thought was at work in the
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Speaker 1: brain of the husband. He understood also he saw the
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Speaker 1: truth In desperation. Alice de Munn hurled herself against the
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Speaker 1: implacable truth, saying, you all write, Monsieur, I made a mistake.
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Speaker 1: I did not enter by this door. I came to
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Speaker 1: the garden and the vestibule by aid of a ladder.
46:47
Speaker 1: It was a supreme effort of true devotion, but a
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Speaker 1: useless effort. The words rang false, The voice did not
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Speaker 1: carry conviction, and the poor girl no longer displayed those clear,
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Speaker 1: fearless eyes and that natural air of innocence which had
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Speaker 1: served her so well. Now she bowed her head, vanquished.
47:07
Speaker 1: The silence became painful. Madame Dimbeval was waiting for her
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Speaker 1: husband's next move, overwhelmed with anxiety and fear. The baron
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Speaker 1: appeared to be struggling against the dreadful suspicion, as if
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Speaker 1: he would not submit to the overthrow of his happiness. Finally,
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Speaker 1: he said to his wife, speak, explain, I have nothing
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Speaker 1: to tell you. She replied, in a very low voice
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Speaker 1: and with features drawn by anguish sousenne Mademoiselle. Mademoiselle saved
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Speaker 1: me through devotion, through affection and accused herself. Saved you
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Speaker 1: from what? From whom? From that man Bassan. Yes, it
47:57
Speaker 1: was I whom he held in fear threat. I met
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Speaker 1: him at one of my friends, and I was foolish
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Speaker 1: enough to listen to him. Oh, there is nothing that
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Speaker 1: you cannot pardon. But I wrote him two letters let
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Speaker 1: us what she will see. I had to buy them back.
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Speaker 1: You know how, oh have pity on me. I have
48:19
Speaker 1: suffered so much. Who you, Susanne. He raised his clenched fists,
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Speaker 1: ready to strike her, ready to kill her. But he
48:30
Speaker 1: dropped his arms and murmured, you, Suzanne, you is it possible?
48:40
Speaker 1: By short, detached sentences, she related the heart rending story,
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Speaker 1: her dreadful awakening to the infamy of the man, her remorse,
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Speaker 1: her fear, and she also told of Alice's devotion, how
48:52
Speaker 1: the young girl divined the sorrow of her mistress, wormed
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Speaker 1: a confession out of her, wrote to Lupan, and devised
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Speaker 1: the skin of the theft in order to save her
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Speaker 1: from Bossan. J sussin you, repeated Monsieur de Beauval bowed
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Speaker 1: with grief and shame. How Couldieu On the same evening,
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Speaker 1: the steamer city of London, which plies between Calais and Dover,
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Speaker 1: was gliding slowly over the smooth sea. The night was dark,
49:26
Speaker 1: the wind was fainter than a zephyr. The majority of
49:29
Speaker 1: the passengers had retired to their cabins, but a few
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Speaker 1: more intrepid were promenading on the deck or sleeping in
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Speaker 1: large rocking chairs, wrapped in their traveling rugs. One could
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Speaker 1: see here and there the light of a cigar, and
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Speaker 1: one could hear mingled with the soft murmur of the breeze,
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Speaker 1: the faint sound of voices which were carefully subdued to
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Speaker 1: harmonize with the deep silence of the night. One of
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Speaker 1: the passengers, who had been pacing to and fro upon
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Speaker 1: the deck, stopped before a woman who was lying on
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Speaker 1: a bench. Scrutinized her, and when she moved a little,
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Speaker 1: he said, I thought you were asleep, Mademoiselle Alice, No,
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Speaker 1: monsieur charmes, I am not sleepy. I was thinking of
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Speaker 1: what if I may be so bold as to inquire.
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Speaker 1: I was thinking of Madame Dimberval. She must be very unhappy.
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Speaker 1: Her life is ruined. Oh no, no, he replied quickly.
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Speaker 1: Her mistake was not a serious one. Monsieur Dimbleval will
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Speaker 1: forgive and forget it. Why even before we left, his
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Speaker 1: manner toward her had softened. Perhaps, but he will remember
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Speaker 1: it for a long time, and she will suffer a
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Speaker 1: great deal. You love her very much. It was my
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Speaker 1: love for her that gave me strength to smile when
50:49
Speaker 1: I was trembling from fear, that gave me courage to
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Speaker 1: look in your face when I desired to hide from
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Speaker 1: your sight. And you are sorry to leave her, Yes,
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Speaker 1: very sorry. I have no relatives, no friends, but her.
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Speaker 1: You will have friends, said the Englishman who was affected
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Speaker 1: by her sorrow. I have promised that I have relatives
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Speaker 1: and some influence. I assure you that you will have
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Speaker 1: no cause to regret coming to England. That may be, monsieur,
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Speaker 1: but Madame Dimberval will not be there her luck. Schoms
51:27
Speaker 1: resumed his promenade upon the deck. After a few minutes,
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Speaker 1: he took a seat near his traveling companion, filled his
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Speaker 1: pipe and struck four matches in a vain effort to
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Speaker 1: light it. Then, as he had no more matches, he
51:40
Speaker 1: arose and said to a gentleman who was sitting near him,
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Speaker 1: may I trouble you for a match? The gentleman opened
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Speaker 1: a box of matches and struck one. The flame lighted
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Speaker 1: up his face. Schoms recognized him. It was Arsan Lupin.
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Speaker 1: If the Englishman had not given an almost imperceptible movement
51:58
Speaker 1: of surprise, Lupin would have supposed that his presence on
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Speaker 1: board had been known to Cham's. So well did he
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Speaker 1: control his feelings, and so natural was the easy manner
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Speaker 1: in which he extended his hands to his adversary. How's
52:11
Speaker 1: the good health, Monsieur Lupin. Bravo, exclaimed Lupin, who could
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Speaker 1: not repress a cry of admiration that the Englishman's sang fraud. Bravo?
52:22
Speaker 1: And why why? Because I appear before you like a ghost,
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Speaker 1: only a few hours after you saw me drowned in
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Speaker 1: the Seine, and through pride a quality that is essentially English,
52:35
Speaker 1: you evinced not the slightest surprise you greet me as
52:38
Speaker 1: a matter of course, Ah, I repeat, bravo, admirab there
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Speaker 1: is nothing remarkable about it. From the manner in which
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Speaker 1: you fell from the boat, I knew very well that
52:50
Speaker 1: you fell voluntarily, and that the bullet had not touched you,
52:54
Speaker 1: and you went away without knowing what had become of me,
52:58
Speaker 1: what had become of you. I knew that there were
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Speaker 1: at least five hundred people on the two banks of
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Speaker 1: the river within a space of half a mile. If
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Speaker 1: you escaped death, your capture was certain. And yet I
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Speaker 1: am here, Monsieur Lupin. There are two men in the
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Speaker 1: world at whom I am never astonished, in the first place,
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Speaker 1: myself and then Arsain Lupin. The treaty of peace was concluded.
53:25
Speaker 1: If Schulmes had not been successful in his contests with
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Speaker 1: Arsain Lupin, if Lupin remained the only enemy whose capture
53:31
Speaker 1: he must never hope to accomplish, If in the course
53:34
Speaker 1: of their struggles he had not always displayed a superiority,
53:38
Speaker 1: the Englishman had none the less, by means of his
53:41
Speaker 1: extraordinary intuition and tenacity, succeeded in recovering the Jewish lamp
53:46
Speaker 1: as well as the Blue Diamond. This time, perhaps the
53:50
Speaker 1: finish had not been so brilliant, especially from the standpoint
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Speaker 1: of the public spectators. Since Scholmes was obliged to maintain
53:57
Speaker 1: a discreet silence in regard to the circumstance dancewers in
54:00
Speaker 1: which the Jewish lamp had been recovered, and to announce
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Speaker 1: that he did not know the name of the thief,
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Speaker 1: but as man to man Arsan Lupin against Herlock Scholmes
54:10
Speaker 1: detective against Burglar, there was neither victor nor vanquished. Each
54:15
Speaker 1: of them had one corresponding victories. Therefore they could now
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Speaker 1: converse as courteous adversaries who had lain down their arms
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Speaker 1: and held each other in high regard. At Sholmes's request,
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Speaker 1: Arsan Lupin related the strange story of his escape. If
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Speaker 1: I may dignify it by calling it an escape, he said,
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Speaker 1: it was so simple. My friends were watching for me,
54:39
Speaker 1: as I had asked them to meet me there to
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Speaker 1: recover the Jewish lamp. So, after remaining a good half
54:44
Speaker 1: hour under the overturned boat, I took advantage of an
54:48
Speaker 1: occasion when Follenfaut and his men were searching for my
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Speaker 1: dead body along the bank of the river, to climb
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Speaker 1: on top of the boat. Then my friends simply picked
54:56
Speaker 1: me up as they passed by in their motor boat,
54:59
Speaker 1: and we sailed away under the staring eyes of an
55:01
Speaker 1: astonished multitude. Including Jeanie Mardin and vallignfand very good, exclaimed Cholmes,
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Speaker 1: very neatly played. Now you have some business in England, yes,
55:14
Speaker 1: some accounts to square up. But I forgot what about
55:18
Speaker 1: Monsieur Dimberval. He knows everything all, My dear Chames, what
55:24
Speaker 1: did I tell you? The wrong is now irreparable? Would
55:29
Speaker 1: it not have been better to have allowed me to
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Speaker 1: carry out the affair in my own way? In a
55:34
Speaker 1: day or two more, I should have recovered the stolen
55:37
Speaker 1: goods from Bresson, restored them to Monsieur Dimberval, and those
55:41
Speaker 1: two honest citizens would have lived together in peace and
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Speaker 1: happiness ever after. Instead of that, Instead of that, said Cholmes, sneeringly,
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Speaker 1: I have mixed the cards and sown the seeds of
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Speaker 1: discord in the bosom of a family that was under
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Speaker 1: your protection.
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Speaker 2: Mon Dieu.
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Speaker 1: Of course I was prett them. Must a person steal,
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Speaker 1: cheat and wrong all the time? Then you do good
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Speaker 1: also when I have the time. Besides, I find it
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Speaker 1: amusing now. For instance, in our last adventure, I found
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Speaker 1: it extremely diverting that I should be the good genius
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Speaker 1: seeking to help and save unfortunate mortals, while you were
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Speaker 1: the evil genius who dispensed only despair and tears. Tears, tears,
56:32
Speaker 1: protested Cholms. Certainly the dimbelvow household is demolished, and Alice
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Speaker 1: DuMond weeps. She could not remain any longer. Jeannie Mard
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Speaker 1: would have discovered her some day, and through her reached
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Speaker 1: Madame Dimbeval. Quite right, monsieur, But whose fault is it?
56:53
Speaker 1: Two men passed by, Champs said to Lupin in a
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Speaker 1: friendly tone. Do you know those gentlemen? I sought to
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Speaker 1: recognize one of them as the captain of the steamer,
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Speaker 1: and the other I don't know. It is Ostin Gilette,
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Speaker 1: who occupies in London a position similar to that of
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Speaker 1: Monsieur Dudoirs in Paris. Ah, how fortune et, would you
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Speaker 1: be so kind as to introduce me, Monsieur DUDOI is
57:20
Speaker 1: one of my best friends, and I shall be delighted
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Speaker 1: to say as much of Monsieur Ostin Gilette. The two
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Speaker 1: gentlemen passed again, and if I should take you at
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Speaker 1: your word, Monsieur Leupinn, said Cholmes, rising and seizing Lupin's
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Speaker 1: wrist with a hand of iron. Why do you grasp
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Speaker 1: me so tightly, Monsieur, I am quite willing to follow you.
57:43
Speaker 1: In fact, he allowed himself to be dragged along without
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Speaker 1: the least resistance. The two gentlemen were disappearing from sight.
57:50
Speaker 1: Chalmmes quickened his pace. His finger nails even sank into
57:53
Speaker 1: Lepin's flesh. Come come, he exclaimed, with a sort of
57:57
Speaker 1: feverish haste, in harmony with his action. Come quicker than that,
58:03
Speaker 1: But he stopped Suddenly. Alice de Monde was following them.
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Speaker 1: What are you doing, mademoiselle. You need not come, You
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Speaker 1: must not come. It was Leupinne who replied, you, notice, monsieur,
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Speaker 1: that she is not coming of her own free will.
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Speaker 1: I am holding her wrist in the same tight grasp
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Speaker 1: you have on mine. Why because I wish to present
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Speaker 1: her also. Her part in the affair of the Jewish
58:28
Speaker 1: lamp is much more important than mine, accomplice of Arsan Lupine,
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Speaker 1: accomplice of Bresson. She has a right to tell her
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Speaker 1: adventure with the Baroness Dimbervar, which will deeply interest Monsieur
58:39
Speaker 1: Geillette as an officer of the law. And by introducing
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Speaker 1: her also, you will have carried your gracious intervention to
58:46
Speaker 1: the very limit, my dear Schmes, the Englishman released his
58:51
Speaker 1: hold on his prisoner's wrist. Leupinne liberated mademoiselle. They stood
58:56
Speaker 1: looking at each other for a few seconds, silently and motionless.
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Speaker 1: Then Scholmes returned to the bench and sat down, followed
59:04
Speaker 1: by Lupin and the girl. After a long silence, Lupin said,
59:09
Speaker 1: you see, monsieur, whatever we may do, we will never
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Speaker 1: be on the same side. You are on one side
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Speaker 1: of the fence, I am on the other. We can
59:20
Speaker 1: exchange greetings, shake hands, converse a moment, but the fence
59:24
Speaker 1: is always there. You will remain her Lock Shomes detective,
59:29
Speaker 1: and I Arsan Lupin, gentleman burglar and her Lock Shomes
59:35
Speaker 1: will ever obey, more or less spontaneously, with more or
59:39
Speaker 1: less propriety, his instinct as a detective, which is to
59:44
Speaker 1: pursue the burglar and run him down if possible, and
59:48
Speaker 1: our San Lupin, in obedience to his burglarious instinct, will
59:53
Speaker 1: always be occupied in avoiding the reach of the detective
59:57
Speaker 1: and making sports of the detective. If he can do
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Speaker 1: and this time he can do it.
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Speaker 2: Ha ha ha ha.
1:00:06
Speaker 1: He burst into a loud laugh, cunning, cruel and odious.
1:00:11
Speaker 1: Then suddenly becoming serious, he addressed Alice Dumont. You may
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Speaker 1: be sure, mademoiselle, even when reduced to the last extremity,
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Speaker 1: I shall not betray you, ar Saint Lupin never betrays anyone,
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Speaker 1: especially those whom he loves and admires. And may I
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Speaker 1: be permitted to say, I love and admire the brave,
1:00:33
Speaker 1: dear woman you have proved yourself to be. He took
1:00:38
Speaker 1: from his pocket a visiting card, tore it in two
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Speaker 1: gave one half of it to the girl, as he
1:00:43
Speaker 1: said in a voice shaken with emotion. If Monsieur shows
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Speaker 1: his plans for you do not succeed, mademoiselle, go to
1:00:51
Speaker 1: Lady Strongborough. You can easily find her address and give
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Speaker 1: her that half of the card. And at the same
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Speaker 1: time say to her faithful friend, Lady Strongborough will show
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Speaker 1: you the true devotion of a sister. Thank you, said
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Speaker 1: the girl. I shall see her tomorrow. And now, Monsieur Shonons,
1:01:15
Speaker 1: exclaimed Lupin, with the satisfied air of a gentleman who
1:01:18
Speaker 1: has fulfilled his duty. I will say good night. We
1:01:22
Speaker 1: will not land for an hour yet, so I will
1:01:25
Speaker 1: get that much rest, he lay down on the bench
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Speaker 1: with his hands beneath his head. In a short time,
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Speaker 1: the high cliffs of the English coast loomed up in
1:01:35
Speaker 1: the increasing light of a new born day. The passengers
1:01:39
Speaker 1: emerged from the cabins and crowded the deck, eagerly gazing
1:01:42
Speaker 1: on the approaching shore. Austin Gillette passed by, accompanied by
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Speaker 1: two men whom Schulms recognized as Sleuth's from Scotland. Yard
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Speaker 1: Lupin was asleep on his bench. End of arsa En
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Speaker 1: Loupan versus Herlock Shomes by Maurice LeBlanc, translated by George Morehead,
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Speaker 1: Recording by Andy Harrington,