They opened the drawer, and Dieuzy exclaimed:

"Ah! we have him this time."

Folenfant stopped him.

"Wait a moment. The chief will want to make an inventory."

"This is a very choice cigar."

"Leave it there, and notify the chief."

Two minutes later Mon. Dudouis examined the contents of the
drawer. First he discovered a bundle of newspaper clippings
relating to Arsene Lupin taken from the `Argus de la Presse,' then
a tobacco-box, a pipe, some paper called "onion-peel," and two
books. He read the titles of the books. One was an English
edition of Carlyle's "Hero-worship"; the other was a charming
elzevir, in modern binding, the "Manual of Epictetus," a German
translation published at Leyden in 1634. On examining the books,
he found that all the pages were underlined and annotated. Were
they prepared as a code for correspondence, or did they simply
express the studious character of the reader? Then he examined
the tobacco-box and the pipe. Finally, he took up the famous
cigar with its gold band.

"Fichtre!" he exclaimed. "Our friend smokes a good cigar. It's a
Henry Clay."

With the mechanical action of an habitual smoker, he placed the