Chapter 5 - THE TWENTY-SEVEN-3

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Clarisse wrung her hands and shivered from head to foot. What suffering can compare with that of a mother trembling for the head of her son? Stirred with pity, Lupin said: "We shall save him. Of that there is not the shadow of a doubt. But, it is necessary that I should know all the details. Finish your story, please. How did you know, on the same night, what had happened at Enghien?" She mastered herself and, with a face wrung with fevered anguish, replied: "Through two of your accomplices, or rather two accomplices of Vaucheray, to whom they were wholly devoted and who had chosen them to row the boats." "The two men outside: the Growler and the Masher?" "Yes. On your return from the villa, when you landed after being pursued on the lake by the commissary of police, you said a few wo

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