Now look at the dress of the victim; the body of it is off.

In order to open the door more quickly, she did not wait to put it on again, but hastily threw this old shawl over her shoulders." "By Jove!" exclaimed the corporal, evidently struck.
"The widow," continued the old fellow, "knew the person who knocked.
Her haste to open the door gives rise to this conjecture; what follows proves it.

The assassin then gained admission without difficulty.

He is a young man, a little above the middle height, elegantly dressed.

He wore on that evening a high hat.