제목 : III. The Escape Of Arsene Lupin Page 08 of 14.작성자 : joker   

He then narrated at length the various thefts, swindles and forgeries charged against Lupin. Sometimes he questioned the prisoner, but the latter simply grunted or remained silent. The examination of witnesses commenced. Some of the evidence given was immaterial; other portions of it seemed more important, but through all of it there ran a vein of contradictions and inconsistencies. A wearisome obscurity enveloped the proceedings, until Detective Ganimard was called as a witness; then interest was revived.


From the beginning the actions of the veteran detective appeared strange and unaccountable. He was nervous and ill at ease. Several times he looked at the prisoner, with obvious doubt and anxiety. Then, with his hands resting on the rail in front of him, he recounted the events in which he had participated, including his pursuit of the prisoner across Europe and his arrival in America. He was listened to with great avidity, as his capture of Arsene Lupin was well known to everyone through the medium of the press. Toward the close of his testimony, after referring to his conversations with Arsene Lupin, he stopped, twice, embarrassed and undecided. It was apparent that he was possessed of some thought which he feared to utter. The judge said to him, sympathetically:


"If you are ill, you may retire for the present."


"No, no, but---"


He stopped, looked sharply at the prisoner, and said:


"I ask permission to scrutinize the prisoner at closer range. There is some mystery about him that I must solve."


He approached the accused man, examined him attentively for several minutes, then returned to the witness-stand, and, in an almost solemn voice, he said:


"I declare, on oath, that the prisoner now before me is not Arsene Lupin."


A profound silence followed the statement. The judge, nonplused for a moment, exclaimed:


"Ah! What do you mean? That is absurd!"


The detective continued:


"At first sight there is a certain resemblance, but if you carefully consider the nose, the mouth, the hair, the color of skin, you will see that it is not Arsene Lupin. And the eyes! Did he ever have those alcoholic eyes!"


"Come, come, witness! What do you mean? Do you pretend to say that we are trying the wrong man?"


"In my opinion, yes. Arsene Lupin has, in some manner, contrived to put this poor devil in his place, unless this man is a willing accomplice."


This dramatic denouement caused much laughter and excitement amongst the spectators. The judge adjourned the trial, and sent for Mon. Bouvier, the gaoler, and guards employed in the prison.


When the trial was resumed, Mon. Bouvier and the gaoler examined the accused and declared that there was only a very slight resemblance between the prisoner and Arsene Lupin.


"Well, then!" exclaimed the judge, "who is this man? Where does he come from? What is he in prison for?"


Two of the prison-guards were called and both of them declared that the prisoner was Arsene Lupin. The judged breathed once more.

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