"Some servant or spendthrift heir." "He has no heir but young Bellanger, who will be riche a millions, and is now but a schoolboy at Lyons.

No; it seems that the window was left open, and that it communicates with the rooftops.

There the murderer had entered, and by that way escaped; for they found the leads of the gutter dabbled with blood.

The next house was uninhabited,--easy enough to get in there, and lie perdu till night." "Hum!" said the lawyer.

"But the assassin could only have learned Dalibard's habits from some one in the house.