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`` Well , of course , if you 're bent on it -- '' `` I am , very much . '' * * * * * The preliminaries were entered upon without delay . The editor of the _ Echo de France _ declared that the article had been sent in without a signature , typewritten , and that it had been published without his knowledge ; but he accepted the entire responsibility . That same day , at three o'clock , Don Luis Perenna , accompanied by Major d'Astrignac , another officer , and a doctor , left the house in the Place du Palais-Bourbon in his car , and , followed by a taxi crammed with the detectives engaged in watching him , drove to the Parc des Princes . While waiting for the arrival of the adversary , the Comte d'Astrignac took Don Luis aside . `` My dear Perenna , I ask you no questions . I do n't want to know how much truth there is in all that is being written about you , or what your real name is .