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At last , he said to Lupin : `` If I change the sense of the article , if I confirm the version of your death and if I undertake never to contradict the false version which I shall have sanctioned , do you swear that my father will be free ? '' `` I swear it . My friends have taken your father by motor car to another provincial town . At seven o'clock to-morrow morning , if the article in the Grand Journal is what I want it to be , I shall telephone to them and they will restore your father to liberty . '' `` Very well , '' said Beautrelet . `` I submit to your conditions . '' Quickly , as though he saw no object in prolonging the conversation after accepting his defeat , he rose , took his hat , bowed to me , bowed to Lupin and went out .