Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-06
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scent a force somewhere that l 90
not grasp" And the great criminal
was right In the course of robbing
the villa of Deputy Daubrecq, his
secretary. Leon. was encountered uE-
eXpectedly Leon was bound and left
helpless on the floor of the pantry.
In the struggle the telephone was
knocked over and the secretary was
able to bring his lips to the trans
mitter and give the alarm. Too late,
Gilbert and Vaucheray heard the faint
voice on the wire in reply. They
lost their heads, and Vaucheray kill
ed Leon. Taking Of life was always
forbidden by Lupin, but in the midst
of his rebuke to the two confederates
the police arrived.
1t took all of Lupin's consummate
cunning to escape. and his two con-
federates were marched away to Jail.
At the last moment Gilbert handed
Lupin a crystal decanter stopper of
no intrinsic value.
The last thing before going to bed,
Lupin examined the stopper and
guessed intuitively that this stopper
was the reason for which his con-
fedcrates planned the robbery.
In the morning Lupin found his fiat
had been entered and the stopper
stolen. He bent every effort TO save
his comrades in prison, but everything
was against him.
For the first time accomplices of
| Lupin had been caught in the act and
not merely Of robbery, but of muir
| der. The trial was conducted with
| speed, conviction was never for
moment in doubt, and the guillOtinc
was only a few weeks off. Still Lu-
| pin had made no progress. The crys-
| tai stopper seemed to him the clew
| Of the whole mystery, and entering
| Daubrecqs residence a second time
| he found the stopper had been re-
! turned. Once more he stole il only
| TO have his pocket picked and find the
| stopper back in Daubrecq's desk.
| Lupin turned detective. ond soon
unearthed strange tangle.. The
| crystal stopper was supposed TO be
| the hiding place of a tiny scrap Of
paper which, written in blood by a
man who had killed himself, was the
| famous list Of the %" These p
We're the men who were guilty of the
/ great frauds in the DeLesseps canal
scandal
! Daubrecq being in possession Of
/ the list was able to blackmail all the
| % alive and had driven the father
| of Gilbert to suicide, as he was one
| of the list Gilhert's widowed moth
| err Clarisse, was behind the scheme
| Of rObbing DaubreCq's villa, and it
| was she who had returned the stop
| per as often as Lupin removed it, Lu-
! pin joined forres with Clarisse. She
/ explained to Lupin that the crystal
| stopper was only a deCOy. and that
/ there was "a second crystal stopper
/ just like it hidden somewhere, and
that this contained the real list.
Lupin made up his mind TO kidnap
| the deputy and torture him into re-
! vealing the hiding place of the list,
| for he saw clearly that with this dan
| gerous document in his hands he
! could force the great men on the list
/ to obtain the pardon of his Confed-
| crates.
His plans were forestaued by the
! Marquis d'Albufex. a member of THE
% who kidnapped the deputy on his
| own account More precious time
! was lost by Lupin in locating Dau-
| brecq as a prisoner in a lonely half
/ A4lfN iAAltlhA ipAAt- I1ulllil AtH'utAi
! DauDTeCq. and was rewarded by "a
| stab from the deputy which almost
I killed him
More valuable time was lost. but
Lupin got on his feet in time 10 chic
] rotorm Daubrecq and discover tile
/ real stopper containing the list on
the day before the execution ne hur-
ried to the office of the project OF
| police at Paris, NJ PTasvile. another
of "the p" NJ. Prasyille at once
agreed to have Lupin freed in eX-