"Can it be possible that those few
words were sufficient for you?"
"Bah!" declared Holmes, "they weren't even necessary. In the chart
in the book of the National Library, the drawing terminates at the
left, as you know, in a circle, and at the right, as you do not
know, in a cross. Now, that cross must refer to the chapel in
which we now stand."
Poor Devanne could not believe his ears. It was all so new, so
novel to him. He exclaimed:
"It is incredible, miraculous, and yet of a childish simplicity!
How is it that no one has ever solved the mystery?"
"Because no one has ever united the essential elements, that is to
say, the two books and the two sentences. No one, but Arsene Lupin
and myself."
"But, Father Gelis and I knew all about those things, and,
likewise--"
Holmes smiled, and said:
"Monsieur Devanne, everybody cannot solve riddles."
"I have been trying for ten years to accomplish what you did in ten
minutes."
"Bah! I am used to it."
They emerged from the chapel, and found an automobile.
"Ah! there's an auto waiting for us."
"Yes, it is mine," said Devanne.
"Yours? You said your chauffeur hadn't returned.
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