He put aside also the part of the dress upon which the assassin had wiped his weapon.

These with the bundle recovered from the Seine, and the different casts taken by the old fellow, were all the traces the murderer had left behind him.
It was not much; but this little was enormous in the eyes of M.Daburon; and he had strong hopes of discovering the culprit.

The greatest obstacle to success in the unravelling of mysterious crimes is in mistaking the motive.

If the researches take at the first step a false direction, they are diverted further and further from the truth, in proportion to the length they are followed.

Thanks to old Tabaret, the magistrate felt confident that he was in the right path.
Night had come on.