The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-21

| he mas been beside me during my in
qhry, calmly following the progress
made -
Did YOU recognize himl''
one doesn I recognize him. lie has
q khack of making up his face and al
| teIIng the proportions OF his body SO
as 10 prevent any one from knowing
INN. Besides, 1 was miles from sus,
! pectlhg. But, this evening, as
J was watching Sonia IN the shadow of
the stairs, 1 heard Vicfoire gpeak 70
the man servant and call him, 'Dearie.'
a hight flashed IN upon me- 'Dearie!'
/ hat was what she always used TO call
him. And j knew where / was. -
NJ. Dudouis seemed flustered in his
turn, by the presence of the enemy, so
OFTEN pursued ANA always so intangi-
We've got him, this time" he said,
between his teeth. Eve We got him;
and he can I escape us.
NO, chief. he can Z; neither he nor
the two women. -
| - w here are theyP'
- Sonia and Victoire arc on the sec
ond floor; Lupin is on the third. -
| Nj. Dudouis suddenly became anxious:
| why, il was through the windows
OF one OF those floors that the tapes
tres were passed when they disap
| peared!''
That so, chief. -
In that case Lupin can get away,
| too: The windows look out on the Rue
| Dufresnov.
| ''Of course they do, chief; but I have
taken my precautions The moment YOU
arrived, | sent four OF our men TO keep
watch under the windows in the Rue
| Dufresnoy. They have strict instruc-
| tions 10 shoot, II any one appears at
! the windows and looks like coming
! down. Blank cartridges for the first
| shot, ball cartridges for the next. -
Good, Ganimardl Gou have thought
of everything. Wen wait here; and,
| Immediately after sunrise -
Wait, chiefl Stand on ceremony
with that rascali Bother about rules
| and regulations, legal hours and all that
| rot? And suppose he's not quite SO
polite. 10 us and gives us the slip mean
while? Suppose he plays US one of his
Lupin tricksl No, no, we must have
no nonsense! We've got him; let S
collar him; and that without delay"
And Ganimard, all a-quiver with in
diOnant lmpatience, went out, walked
across the garden and presently re-
turned with half a dozen men
t's all rioht chief. I've told them,
in the Rue Dufresnoy, to get their re
volvers out and aim at the windows,
Come along
These alarums and excursions had not
been effected without a certain amount
of noise. which was bound TO be heard
by the inhabitants Of the house NJ.
Dudouis felt that his hand was forced.
He made up his mind TO act:
'Come on, then he said.
The thing did not take long The
hand. went up the stairs without over
much precaution, eager 10 surprise Lu-
pin before he had time to organize his
defenc es
"0pen the door'' roared Ganimard,
rushing at the door of Nine. Sparmien-
TO s bedroom.
A policeman smashed il in with his
shoulder.
There was no one in the room; and no
one in Victoire IS bedroom either.
"They re all .upstairs!" shouted Gan
imard "They've gone up to Lupin in
his attic Be careful now.''
All the eight ran up the third flight
of stairs. To his great astonishment,
Ganimard found the door of the attic
open and the attic empty. And the
other rooms were empty, too.
"Blast them!' he cursed. "What's
become of them?'
But the chief called him. NJ. Du-
douis, who mad gone down again to the
second floor, noticed that ono of the
windows was not latched, but Just
pushed to:
- lncTe, no selu TO NanlnlafIs
that's the road they took, the road
OF the tapestries. J. told you as much.
the Rue Dufresnoy.
but our men would have fired on
them protested Ganimard, grinding
his teeth with rage. 1.-The street S
guarded -
''Tbey must have gone before the
street was guarded,
"They were all three of them in their
-hnF nh tnf'
'Tbcy must have gone while YOU
were waiting for me in the garden.
"But wby7 Why's There was no
reason why they should go today rather
than tomorrow, or the next day, or next
week for that matter, when they had
pocketed all the insurance money!"
Yes. there was a reason; and Gani.
mard knew it when he saw, on the ta-
ple, a letter addressed to himself and
opened it and read it. The letter was
worded in the style of the testimonials
which we hand 20 people in our service
who have given satisfaction:
81. the undersigned. Arsene Lupin,
ex-colonel ex-man-
Of .all-work, ex-corpse, hereby certify
nard gave proof of the most remark
lblc qualities during his stay in this
house. He was exemplary in his be-
lavior, thoroughly devoted and atten-
i've; and, unaided by the least clew, he
foiled part OF my plans and saved
he insurance companies four hundred
md fifty thousand francs. / congratu-
ate him: and / am quite willing TO
overlook his blunder in not anticipating
hat the downstair telephone commn,
licates with the telephone in Sonia
{ritchnoff s bedroom and that, when
elephoning 70 Mr.. Chief detective, he
vas at the same time telephoning to ME
o clear out as fast as ] could, 1t was
pardonable slip, which must not be
llowcd to dim the glamour Of his serv-
ces nor TO detract from the merits OF
is victory.
"Having said this, ! beg him to ac-
ept the homage of my admiration and
Z M sincere friendship.
90 RSENE IITpIN -