Arsene Lupin was going in search of Arsene Lupin!
Modest guardians of social order--Gaston Delivet and Honore Massol--
how valuable was your assistance! What would I have done without
you? Without you, many times, at the cross-roads, I might have
taken the wrong route! Without you, Arsene Lupin would have made a
mistake, and the other would have escaped!
But the end was not yet. Far from it. I had yet to capture the
thief and recover the stolen papers. Under no circumstances must
my two acolytes be permitted to see those papers, much less to
seize them. That was a point that might give me some difficulty.
We arrived at Darnetal three minutes after the departure of the
train. True, I had the consolation of learning that a man wearing
a gray overcoat with a black velvet collar had taken the train at
the station. He had bought a second-class ticket for Amiens.
Certainly, my debut as detective was a promising one.
Delivet said to me:
"The train is express, and the next stop is Monterolier-Buchy in
nineteen minutes. If we do not reach there before Arsene Lupin, he
can proceed to Amiens, or change for the train going to Cleres,
and, from that point, reach Dieppe or Paris.
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