What have you done with it ?" said the Duke.
"You're making fun of us again," said Germaine.
"Surely your Grace knows what happened," said Sonia.
"We wrote all the details to you and sent you all the papers three years ago.

Didn't you get them ?" said Germaine.
"Not a detail or a newspaper.

Three years ago I was in the neighbourhood of the South Pole, and lost at that," said the Duke.
"But it was most dramatic, my dear Jacques.

All Paris was talking of it," said Germaine.

"Your portrait was stolen." "Stolen?
Who stole it ?" said the Duke.
Germaine crossed the hall quickly to the gap in the line of pictures.
"I'll show you," she said.
She drew aside the piece of tapestry, and in the middle of the panel over which the portrait of the Duke had hung he saw written in chalk the words: ARSENE LUPIN "What do you think of that autograph ?" said Germaine.
"'Arsene Lupin ?'" said the Duke in a tone of some bewilderment.
"He left his signature.