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The Widow Lerouge

CHAPTER IX
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The tips of the fingers have been worn as if by rubbing.

Upon the backs of both gloves are some scratches, apparently made by finger-nails.
4.

There were also found in the dressing-room two pairs of boots, one of which, though clean and polished, was still very damp; and an umbrella recently wetted, the end of which was still covered with a light coloured mud.
5.

In a large room, called the library, were found a box of cigars of the trabucos brand, and on the mantel-shelf a number of cigar-holders in amber and meerschaum.
The last article noted down, M.Tabaret approached the commissary of police.
"I have everything I could desire," he whispered.
"And I have finished," replied the commissary.

"Our prisoner does not appear to know exactly how to act.


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