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Daubrecq!" "We can't suppose that Mme. Mergy has been amusing herself by cutting out those two words. Daubrecq has been here. Mme. Mergy thought that she was watching him. He was watching her instead." "How?" "Doubtless through that hall-porter who did not tell us that Mme. Mergy had been to the hotel, but who must have told Daubrecq. He came. He read the letter. And, by way of getting at us, he contented himself with cutting out the essential words." "We can find out... we can ask..." "What's the good? What's the use of finding out how he came, when we know that he did come?" He examined the letter for some time, turned it over and over, then stood up and said: "Come along." "Where to?" "Gare de Lyon." "Are you sure?" "I am sure of nothing with Daubrecq. But, as we have to choose, according to the contents of the letter, between the Gare de l'Est and the Gare de Lyon, [*] I am presuming that his business, his pleasure and his health are more likely to take Daubrecq in the direction of Marseilles and the Riviera than to the Gare de l'Est." * These are the only two main-line stations in Paris with the word de in their name. The others have du, as the Gare du Nord or the Gare du Luxembourg, d' as the Gare d'Orleans, or no participle at all, as the Gare Saint-Lazare or the Gare Montparnasse.--Translator's Note. It was past seven when Lupin and his companions left the Hotel Franklin. A motor-car took them across Paris at full speed, but they soon saw that Clarisse Mergy was not outside the station, nor in the waiting-rooms, nor on any of the platforms. "Still," muttered Lupin, whose agitation grew as the obstacles increased, "still, if Daubrecq booked a berth in a sleeping-car, it can only have been in an evening train. And it is barely half-past seven!" A train was starting, the night express. They had time to rush along the corridor. Nobody... neither Mme. Mergy nor Daubrecq... But, as they were all three going, a porter accosted them near the refreshment-room: "Is one of you gentlemen looking for a lady?" "Yes, yes,... I am," said Lupin. "Quick, what is it?" "Oh, it's you, sir! The lady told me there might be three of you or two of you.... And I didn't know..." "But, in heaven's name, speak, man! What lady?" "The lady who spent the whole day on the pavement, with the luggage, waiting." "Well, out with it! Has she taken a train?" "Yes, the t
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