His place, then, is vacant!" "Why, it seems that Dalibard, who had been brought up to medicine, was still fond of chemical experiments.

He hired a room at the top of the house for such scientific amusements.

He was accustomed to spend part of his nights there.

They found him at morning bathed in his blood, with three ghastly wounds in his side, and his fingers cut to the bone.

He had struggled hard with the knife that butchered him." "In his own house!" said a lawyer.