“However that may be, Friend Trowbridge tells me he have seen the count, and that he seems to have aged greatly. The man who visited the clergyman and the man who bought the garlic was also much older than the count as we knew him. ‘Ah ha, he is coming to the end of his century,’ I tell me; ‘now look out for devilment, Jules de Grandin. Certainly, it is sure to come.’
“And then, my Sergent, come you with your tale of Mademoiselle Norman’s disappearance, and I, too, think perhaps she has run away from home voluntarily, of her own free will, until you say the Italian shopkeeper recognized the old man who accosted her as one who has the evil eye. Now what old man, save the one who bought the garlic and who lives at Rupleysville, would that Italian accuse of the evil eye? Pardieu, has he not already told you the same man once bought his garlic? But yes. The case is complete.
“The girl has disappeared, an old, old man has accosted her; an old, old man who was so strong he could overcome a policeman; the count is nearing his century mark when he must die like other men unless he can secure the blood of a virgin to revivify him. I am more than certain that the count and baron are one and the same and that they both dwell at Rupleysville. Voilà, we go to Rupleysville, and we arrive there not one little minute too soon. N’est-ce-pas, mes amis?"
“Sure,” Costello agreed, rising and holding out his hand in farewell, “you’ve got th’ goods, doc. No mistake about it.”
To me, as I helped him with his coat in the hall, the detective confided, "An’ he only had one shot o’ licker all evenin’! Gosh, doc, if one drink could fix me up like that I wouldn’t care how much prohibition we had!”
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