At ten fifty, that is, in twenty-two minutes
from now, he will take the train that goes from Rouen to Amiens."
"Do you think so? How do you know it?"
"Oh! it is quite simple. While we were in the car, Arsene Lupin
consulted my railway guide. Why did he do it? Was there, not far
from the spot where he disappeared, another line of railway, a
station upon that line, and a train stopping at that station? On
consulting my railway guide, I found such to be the case."
"Really, monsieur," said the commissary, "that is a marvelous
deduction. I congratulate you on your skill."
I was now convinced that I had made a mistake in displaying so
much cleverness. The commissary regarded me with astonishment, and
I thought a slight suspicion entered his official mind....Oh!
scarcely that, for the photographs distributed broadcast by the
police department were too imperfect; they presented an Arsene
Lupin so different from the one he had before him, that he could
not possibly recognize me by it. But, all the same, he was
troubled, confused and ill-at-ease.
"Mon Dieu! nothing stimulates the comprehension so much as the
loss of a pocketbook and the desire to recover it.
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