By-and-by I shall offer my humble opinion as to the real motive.

In the second place, the assassin arrived here before half-past nine; that is to say, before the rain fell.

No more than M.Gevrol have I been able to discover traces of muddy footsteps; but under the table, on the spot where his feet rested, I find dust.

We are thus assured of the hour.
The widow did not in the least expect her visitor.

She had commenced undressing, and was winding up her cuckoo clock when he knocked." "These are absolute details!" cried the commissary.
"But easily established," replied the amateur.