"What an incredible piece of good fortune! Gevrol may dispute it if he likes, but after all, chance is the cleverest agent of the police.

Who would have imagined such a history?
I was not, however, very far from the reality.

I guessed there was a child in the case.

But who would have dreamed of a substitution ?--an old sensational effect, that playwrights no longer dare make use of.

This is a striking example of the danger of following preconceived ideas in police investigation.