The Washington herald., 1915-04-04

he stammered.
And in sudden access of rare h.
caught him by the throat and tried To
throw him down. Notwiths tand;nS
his fifty years, he was still a man a
uncommon vigor, whereas his adver-
sary seemed quite out of condition.
And what a master stroke If world
pc II ne succeeded in bringing him
back! '
The struggle was short. Ar,.n.
Lupin hardly made a movement in
defense and Ganimard let 90 40
promptly as he had attacked HE
right arm hung numbed and Iifclrss
by his side.
If they taught you jiu-jitsu at the
Quai des Orevres." said Lupin, you
would know that they call this move
ment udi-shi-ghi in Japanese"
IanImard was silent. This escape,
tor which he held himself response.
ole-was it not he who, by his sensa-
tional evidence. had diverted the ends
OF JaStice:-thls escape seemed to
HIM to mark the disgrace of his ca
reer. A tear trickled slowly down
ms cheek toward his gray mustache.
Whv, goodness me. Ganimard.
don't take on like that! If you hadn't
spoken l should have arranged for
some one else to speak Come, come.
how could | have allowed them to
hnd verdict against Desire Bau-
so it was you that were there"
muttered Ganimard. And it is YOU
that are here"
Yes, ], |, no one but me-
But your faceo Your cyesr
You can modify your appearance
as you please. A hypodern1ic injec-
ton OF paraffin puffs up your skin to
Just the extent desired. Pyrogallic
acid turns you into a Cherokee In
dian. Celandine juice adorns you
with blotehes and pimples of the
most pleasing kind. A certain chemi-
cal process affects the growth of
your hair and beard, another the
sound of your voice. Add to that,
two months of dieting in Cell "a, in
cessant practice at opening my mouth
with this particular grimace and car
rrying my head at this angle and my
back at this stoop. Lastly, five drops
of atropine in the eyes to make them
haggard and dilated, and the trick is
don.P
But Desire Baudru
"BaudrG is a real person. He is q
poor, harmless beggar whom l met
last year, and whose features are
really not quite unlike my own.
Foresceing an always possible arrest.
| placed him in safekeeping, and ap-
piled myself from the first to picking
out the points of dissimilarity be-
tween us, so as to diminish these in
myself as far as l could. My friends
made him pass a night at the police
station in such a way that he left at
about the same time as did and the
coincidence could be easily estab-
lished. For, observe, it was neces-
sary that his passage should be
traceable. else the lawyers would
have wanted to know who ! was;
whereas, by offering them that excel
lent Baudru l made it inevitable do
you follow mes-ineivtable that they
should jump at him, in spite of the in
surmountable difficulties of a substi-
tution-prefer to believe in that sub
stitution rather than admit their ig-
norance."
Eyes, yes. that's true" muttercd
Ganimard
'Arsene Lupin suddenly seized Can
inlard's hand.
Look here, GanImard. confess
that. week after our interview at the
Sante prison, YOU stayed in for me, al
4 o'clock, as | asked you to-"
And your prison van?" said Cant
mard, evading the question.
Bluff. mere bluff. MY friends had
faxed up that old discarded van and
substituted it for the other, and they
wanted to try the experiment. But l
knew that it was impracticable with
out the corporation of exceptional
circumstances. Only | thought it
useful to complete this attempted cs-
cape and to give it the proper pub
licity. A first escape, boldly planned,
gave to the second the full value OF
an escape realized in advance"
$50 the cigar :"
"Was scooped out by myself; and
the knife. too
"And the notes."
Written by me-
And the mysterious correspon-
dent,"
"She and l were ono. l can write
any hand | please"
Canimard thought for a moment,
and said:
and what arc you going to do
now"
Nov" exclaimed Lupin. az am
going to take rest, feed myself up,
and gradually become myself again.
It's ali very we'll to be Baudru or an
other, to change your personality As
you would your boots, and to select
your appearance, your voice, your
your handwriting. But
there comes a time when you cease
to know yourself amid all these
changes. and that is very sad ! feel
at present as the man must have tcIt
who lost MS shadow. / am gong TO
look for myself and to find
myself"
He walked up and down. The day
light was waning. He stopped in
front OF Ganimard.
We've said all that VIC had to say
to each other. ! supposc:"
mo, replied the Inspector. 81
should like to know if you intend to
publish the truth about your escape
and the mistake I made
"Oh. no ono will ever know that it
was Arsene Lupin that was released.
have too great an interest to serve
in heaping up the most mysterious
darkness around me, and I should
not dream of depriving my fight OF
its almost miraculous character. So