"To find him again is indispensable: you must see to this, M.Gevrol." "Before eight days, I shall have him," replied the chief of detective police, "if I have to search every boat on the Seine, from its source to the ocean.

I know the name of the captain, Gervais.

The navigation office will tell me something." He was interrupted by Lecoq, who rushed into the house breathless.

"Here is old Tabaret," he said.

"I met him just as he was going out.