The first sitting was over. M. Weber led the prisoner away.
As he went down the stairs of the "mouse-trap," between the two Doudevilles, Lupin said, in short, imperative sentences:
"Watch Steinweg. . . . Don't let him speak to anybody. . . . Be there to-morrow. . . . I'll give you some letters . . . one for you . . . important."
Downstairs, he walked up to the municipal guards surrounding the taxi-cab:
"Home, boys," he exclaimed, "and quick about it! I have an appointment with myself for two o'clock precisely."
There were no incidents during the drive. On returning to his cell, Lupin wrote a long letter, full of detailed instructions, to the brothers Doudeville and, two other letters.
One was for Geneviève:
"Geneviève, you now know who I am and you will understand why I concealed from you the name of him who twice carried you away in his arms when you were a little girl.
"Geneviève, I was your mother's friend, a distant friend, of whose double life she knew nothing, but upon whom she thought that she could rely. And that is why, before dying, she wrote me a few lines asking me to watch over you.