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By three o'clock they had left the estuary of the Seine and entered the Channel . At that moment , Holmlock Shears lay sound asleep in the berth to which he was fastened down . * * * * * On the following morning , the tenth and last day of the war between the two great rivals , the _ Écho de France _ published this delicious paragraph : `` A decree of expulsion was pronounced by Arsène Lupin yesterday against Holmlock Shears , the English detective . The decree was published at noon and executed on the same day . Shears was landed at Southampton at one o'clock this morning . '' By eight o'clock on Wednesday morning , a dozen pantechnicon vans were blocking the Rue Crevaux from the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne to the Avenue Bougeaud . M. Félix Davey was leaving the flat which he occupied on the fourth floor of No. 8 .