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The Crystal Stopper by Maurice Leblanc
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green."

"Green? I dare say I do. So would you look green..."

She had to sit down and it was only after making repeated efforts that
she succeeded in stuttering:

"A man... a man spoke to me... at the fruiterer's."

"By jingo! Did he want you to run away with him?"

"No, he gave me a letter..."

"Then what are you complaining about? It was a love-letter, of course!"

"No. 'It's for your governor,' said he. 'My governor?' I said. 'Yes,'
he said, 'for the gentleman who's staying in your room.'"

"What's that?"

This time, Lupin had started:

"Give it here," he said, snatching the letter from her. The envelope
bore no address. But there was another, inside it, on which he read:

"Monsieur Arsene Lupin,
c/o Victoire."

"The devil!" he said. "This is a bit thick!" He tore open the second
envelope. It contained a sheet of paper with the following words,
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