I have read the newspapers and I will frankly state
that you have made very little progress."
"And that is the reason I have come to see you."
"I am entirely at your service."
"In the first place, the Cahorn affair was managed by you?"
"From A to Z."
"The letter of warning? the telegram?"
"All mine. I ought to have the receipts somewhere."
Arsene opened the drawer of a small table of plain white wood
which, with the bed and stool, constituted all the furniture in
his cell, and took therefrom two scraps of paper which he handed
to Ganimard.
"Ah!" exclaimed the detective, in surprise, "I though you were
closely guarded and searched, and I find that you read the
newspapers and collect postal receipts."
"Bah! these people are so stupid! They open the lining of my
vest, they examine the soles of my shoes, they sound the walls of
my cell, but they never imagine that Arsene Lupin would be foolish
enough to choose such a simple hiding place."
Ganimard laughed, as he said:
"What a droll fellow you are! Really, you bewilder me. But, come
now, tell me about the Cahorn affair."
"Oh! oh! not quite so fast! You would rob me of all my secrets;
expose all my little tricks.
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