"How do you know? You haven't even examined him."
The Englishman sneered:
"Do you think Arsène Lupin is the man to kill himself?"
"Still, we believed we knew him outside."
"We believed, because we wanted to believe. The fellow besets our minds."
"Then it's one of his accomplices."
"Arsène Lupin's accomplices do not kill themselves."
"Then who is it?"
They searched the body. In one pocket, Holmlock Shears found an empty note-case; in another, Ganimard found a few louis. There were no marks on his linen or on his clothes.
The trunks—a big box and two bags—contained nothing but personal effects. There was a bundle of newspapers on the mantel-piece. Ganimard opened them. They all spoke of the theft of the Jewish lamp.