“This is Saturday. If the execution takes place on Monday, there’s nothing to be done. But Monday is not a likely day.... What I have to do is to lay hands on Daubrecq to-night and to be in Paris on Monday, with the document. It’s our last chance. Let’s take it.”
The Growler went to the booking-office and returned with three tickets for Genoa.
The engine whistled.
Lupin had a last hesitation:
“No, really, it’s too childish! What are we doing? We ought to be in Paris, not here!... Just think!...”
He was on the point of opening the door and jumping out on the permanent way. But his companions held him back. The train started. He sat down again.
And they continued their mad pursuit, travelling at random, toward the unknown....
And this happened two days before the inevitable execution of Gilbert and Vaucheray.
FOOTNOTES:
[D] These are the only two main-line stations in Paris with the word de in their name. The others have du, as the Gare du Nord or the Gare du Luxembourg, d’ as the Gare d’Orleans, or no participle at all, as the Gare Saint-Lazare or the Gare Montparnasse.—Translator’s Note.