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"Out of that carafe?"
"Yes."
"So did I," declared the other.
Ganimard smelled and tasted it. It had no particular taste and no
odor.
"Come," he said, "we are wasting our time here. One can't decide
an Arsene Lupin problem in five minutes. But, morbleau! I swear
I will catch him again."
The same day, a charge of burglary was duly performed by Baron
Cahorn against Arsene Lupin, a prisoner in the Prison de la Sante.
* * * * *
The baron afterwards regretted making the charge against Lupin
when he saw his castle delivered over to the gendarmes, the
procureur, the judge d'instruction, the newspaper reporters and
photographers, and a throng of idle curiosity-seekers.
The affair soon became a topic of general discussion, and the name
of Arsene Lupin excited the public imagination to such an extent
that the newspapers filled their columns with the most fantastic
stories of his exploits which found ready credence amongst their
readers.
But the letter of Arsene Lupin that was published in the `Echo de
France' (no once ever knew how the newspaper obtained it), that
letter in which Baron Cahorn was impudently warned of the coming
theft, caused considerable excitement.
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