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as fast as he possibly can! Jacques Dollon is Fantomas, or I should say, Fantomas is Jacques Dollon. Monsieur Havard will not hesitate to put himself to any inconvenience in order to effect such a capture! I am going to call him up at once, messieurs, thanks to this telephone!" And profiting by the bewilderment of his hearers, Fandor, then and there, telephoned to Police Headquarters; he spoke to one of the officials, who undertook to inform his chief that he was wanted at the telephone on most urgent business. A minute or two later, Fandor was telling Monsieur Havard what had happened. He terminated his narrative thus: "I myself had locked the door of the room in which the struggle took place. No one left the room, nor shall anyone leave it before your arrival, I give you my word of honour on that! Come, post-haste. It is of the utmost urgency. Bring a locksmith. He must open the great door of the house. He will have to force open the door of the room in which we now are. I must keep an incessant watch over this room. I do not see Fantomas--Jacques Dollon--in this room; but in this room he must inevitably be--he _is_ in it!" Fandor, listening to Monsieur Havard's answer, repeated it to his companions. "In a very short time, the chief will be here; in a very short time, messieurs, we shall witness the arrest of Fantomas, that is, of the most inhuman monster that has ever existed!" "It seems to me you are going too fast!" remarked Monsieur Barbey. "All is mystery--yet you talk of making an arrest!" "But what do you consider mysterious now?" asked Fandor, laughing. "Why, everything! Take one thing: do you know what were the motives of the different Fantomas-Dollon crimes?" Juve replied to this: "Oh, as for that, perfectly! The motives are clear as crystal!... Madame de Vibray was ruined, and really committed suicide because--you will pardon me, I am sure--because the Bourse transactions you advised were not successful.... She poisoned herself, and went to Jacques Dollon's studio to die: perhaps she felt for him a secret attachment! Fate willed it that the assassins should choose this very evening to make their way into the painter's studio ... by means of this first corpse they created an alibi for themselves, and prepared the scene which was bound to mislead justice and make lawyers and police believe in the murder of Madame de Vibray and the suicide of her murderer.... Unfortunately for them, Doll
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