But the Coroner was saved replying by Mr.Roberts remarking: "But this is not an answer to my question.

Why should the Coroner of Greene County want to see _me_ ?" Coroner Price proffered him a cigar, during the lighting of which the former remarked: "It's certainly very odd.

You say that you didn't know Madame Duclos." "No; how should I?
She was a foreigner, was she not ?" "Yes; a Frenchwoman, both by birth and marriage.

Her husband, a professor of languages, was located some sixteen years ago, in New Orleans." "I never knew him.

Indeed, I find it hard to understand why I should be expected to show any interest in him or his wife." "Well, I will tell you.