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* * * * * 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 . And , by a sheer coincidence -- for the two gentlemen were not acquainted -- M. Dubreuil , the expert , who had knocked into one the fifth-floor flat of No. 8 and the fifth-floor flats of the two adjoining houses , had selected the same day on which to send off the collection of furniture and antiques which used to be visited daily by one or other of his many foreign correspondents . A peculiarity which attracted notice in the neighbourhood , but which was not mentioned until later , was that none of the twelve vans bore the name and address of the firm of removers and that none of the men in charge of them loitered in the wine-shops round about .