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y, it's too childish! What are we doing? We ought to be in Paris, not here!... Just think!..." He was on the point of opening the door and jumping out on the permanent way. But his companions held him back. The train started. He sat down again. And they continued their mad pursuit, travelling at random, toward the unknown... And this happened two days before the inevitable execution of Gilbert and Vaucheray. CHAPTER X. EXTRA-DRY? On one of the hills that girdle Nice with the finest scenery in the world, between the Vallon de Saint-Silvestre and the Vallon de La Mantega, stands a huge hotel which overlooks the town and the wonderful Baie des Anges. A crowd flocks to it from all parts, forming a medley of every class and nation. On the evening of the same Saturday when Lupin, the Growler and the Masher were plunging into Italy, Clarisse Mergy entered this hotel, asked for a bedroom facing south and selected No. 130, on the second floor, a room which had been vacant since that morning. The room was separated from No. 129 by two partition-doors. As soon as she was alone, Clarisse pulled back the curtain that concealed the first door, noiselessly drew the bolt and put her ear to the second door: "He is here," she thought. "He is dressing to go to the club... as he did yesterday." When her neighbour had gone, she went into the passage and, availing herself of a moment when there was no one in sight, walked up to the door of No. 129. The door was locked. She waited all the evening for her neighbour's return and did not go to bed until two o'clock. On Sunday morning, she resumed her watch. The neighbour went out at eleven. This time he left the key in the door. Hurriedly turning the key, Clarisse entered boldly, went to the partition-door, raised the curtain, drew the bolt and found herself in her own room. In a few minutes, she heard two chambermaids doing the room in No. 129. She waited until they were gone. Then, feeling sure that she would not be disturbed, she once more slipped into the other room. Her excitement made her lean against a chair. After days and nights of stubborn pursuit, after alternate hopes and disappointments, she had at last succeeded in entering a room occupied by Daubrecq. She could look about at her ease; and, if she did not discover the crystal stopper, she could at least hide in the space between the partition-doors, behind the hanging, see Daubrecq, spy upon hi
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