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The next day Clarisse Mergy , who was nearly breaking down under the strain of events and who herself needed repose , lest she should fall seriously ill , went , with her son , to board with a friend who had a house on the skirt of the Forest of Saint-Germain . She felt very weak , her brain was haunted by visions and her nerves were upset by troubles which the least excitement aggravated . She lived there for some days in a state of physical and mental inertia , thinking of nothing and forbidden to see the papers . One afternoon , while Lupin , changing his tactics , was working out a scheme for kidnapping and confining Daubrecq ; while the Growler and the Masher , whom he had promised to forgive if he succeeded , were watching the enemy 's movements ; while the newspapers were announcing the forthcoming trial for murder of Arsene Lupin 's two accomplices , one afternoon , at four o'clock , the telephone-bell rang suddenly in the flat in the Rue Chateaubriand . Lupin took down the receiver : `` Hullo ! '' A woman 's voice , a breathless voice , said : `` M. Michel Beaumont ? '' `` You are speaking to him , madame .