Chapter

  1 I    |              members of the force, a man who had proved his worth.
  2 I    |              of holy water.~He was a man about forty-six years of
  3 I    |              Occasionally, a drunken man staggered along the pavement,
  4 I    |             and almost immediately a man came out. This was another
  5 I    |         French slang is applied to a man who has left his good sense
  6 I    |        horror-stricken accent of the man who had been peering through
  7 I    |        adjoining room, stood a young man, in front of whom a heavy
  8 I    |        Surrender!” cried Gevrol.~The man’s lips moved, but in spite
  9 I    |             innocent,” exclaimed the man, in a hoarse, strained voice.~“
 10 I    |         betrayed itself on the young man’s features. He held Gevrol’
 11 I    |            murderer darted out, this man sprang upon him, seized
 12 I    |            the other one.”~The third man still breathed. He was a
 13 I    |         gaping wound which the young man had received in the back
 14 I    |             in a month.”~The wounded man smiled sadly. “I have received
 15 I    |                continued the wounded man, in a voice that was growing
 16 I    |             this thought the wounded man clenched his hands threateningly. “
 17 I    |              myself, here is a young man who has profited by leave
 18 I    |             a quarrel with the young man you have arrested; the poor
 19 I    |          refuse an explanation.”~The man hesitated for a moment. “
 20 I    |       innocent; and this woman and a man on the point of death who
 21 I    |            unnecessary.”~The younger man appeared to deliberate for
 22 II   |     naturally moral and honest young man spent much of his time in
 23 II   |         comrade Lecoq selected was a man of about fifty, who, after
 24 II   |              his duties like a blind man, like an old horse trained
 25 II   |        vagabond.”~“That is to say, a man belonging to the lowest
 26 II   |           showed you that this young man had received an excellent,
 27 II   |           quite wrong. And that this man has an education superior
 28 II   |              comical perplexity of a man who is so thoroughly mystified
 29 II   |        exclaimed, “I understand. The man’s words were only an allusion.”~“
 30 II   |             thousand men. So if this man’s allusion was exact and
 31 II   |             the shutters.”~The young man shook his head. “Upon my
 32 II   |         exclaimed the astonished old man.~“I will add that reflection
 33 II   |    suspicions. I ask myself why this man, instead of flying at once,
 34 III  |       unworthy passion might cause a man even of birth and breeding
 35 III  |          These words stung the young man as deeply as the keenest
 36 III  |            this opinion. This worthy man, who was far from suspecting
 37 III  |       moments before. It was the old man who had suddenly become
 38 III  |             then!” he sighed, like a man who, while foreseeing defeat,
 39 III  |             extreme caution. The old man carefully held the lantern
 40 III  |           revived; so eagerly does a man welcome any supposition
 41 III  |         there!” cried Lecoq.~The old man bent down, and his surprise
 42 III  |            he in a stifled voice, “a man’s footprint!”~“Exactly.
 43 III  |           nearer—yes, here it is—our man placed his large foot upon
 44 III  |         continued Lecoq, “could this man have been the accomplice
 45 III  |              have struck the younger man, for he suddenly paused. “
 46 III  |            position of the gate, the man knew it only by hearsay.”~“
 47 III  |              demonstrated. Study the man’s footprints, and you, who
 48 III  |       railing of the fence.”~The old man would have been glad to
 49 III  |      returning, had been made by the man. On several occasions the
 50 III  |                our fugitives met the man and took counsel with him.
 51 III  |          here to wait. He was a tall man of middle age; he wore a
 52 III  |             on, then,” said the good man, in a tone of resignation.~“
 53 III  |            proved,” ventured the old man, “by the great difference
 54 III  |            can scarcely blame an old man for being a little like
 55 III  |             and, as he listened, the man leaned upon the snow-covered
 56 III  |          woman was explaining to the man the immensity and imminence
 57 III  |            of her companion. Did the man indicate the route they
 58 III  |          clever? I told you that the man was of middle age. It was
 59 III  |            in height, consequently a man who could rest his elbow
 60 IV   |            chances.~“If I follow the man I shall learn nothing that
 61 IV   |          women,” continued the young man, “to what would that lead?
 62 IV   |      Animated by the cold anger of a man who sees the object which
 63 IV   |           the police force, the good man—to use his own expression—
 64 IV   |            himself was not this good man’s forte; he soon grew weary
 65 IV   |         surprising result of the old man’s reflections would have
 66 IV   |             seen the footprints of a man and of two women, the investigating
 67 IV   |              these words the younger man stopped short. “You know—
 68 IV   |            evident satisfaction of a man who has gained his revenge. “
 69 IV   |           first impulse of the older man would have been to rest
 70 IV   |             in the garden, the young man sought for the deepest and
 71 V    |           cry of surprise.~The young man turned; he saw that his
 72 V    |     resemblance to those left by the man who had entered the garden.
 73 V    |              for example.”~The older man was not listening; he had
 74 V    |              the report.~The younger man seated himself at the table,
 75 V    |             to call attention to the man who had shown himself so
 76 V    |              plan amazed that worthy man. He had seen a great deal;
 77 V    |            if possible, the murdered man who wore a uniform, for
 78 V    |             a sphinx.~“Ah, well, old man!” cried Gevrol, “have you
 79 V    |             He stopped short, like a man whose impulse had exceeded
 80 V    |           was not unlike that of the man described by Lecoq. This
 81 V    |             described by Lecoq. This man seemed to be very intoxicated,
 82 V    |          order to detain the drunken man—”~Lecoq interposed with
 83 V    |          think that you alone, young man, have judged correctly in
 84 VI   |            at the bedside of a dying man ever took place in the presence
 85 VI   |              One of them, a tall old man with a bald head, wearing
 86 VI   |           the gracious calmness of a man who, having seen so much
 87 VI   |          body, since the unfortunate man, who was still alive when
 88 VI   |           and look carefully at this man.”~It was with very evident
 89 VI   |              worn by the unfortunate man bore a different number.~“
 90 VI   |             that some clue as to the man’s identity would be forthcoming.
 91 VI   |      articles he found upon the dead man’s person. In the right hand
 92 VI   |           reveal? Only that the dead man’s name was Gustave; that
 93 VI   |           had some connection with a man named Lacheneur, who had
 94 VI   |         noted the height of the dead man, his supposed age, the nature
 95 VI   |    examination of the other murdered man required different but even
 96 VI   |            doctor declared that this man must have been instantly
 97 VI   |             mentioned that the elder man had sixty-seven francs about
 98 VI   |           approached. He was not the man to yield even to the strongest
 99 VI   |             because he was an honest man, and more than that, because
100 VI   |            save in the brains of the man who imagined them.” Perhaps
101 VI   |              may see you.”~The young man advanced, his lips tightly
102 VI   |           perhaps fathomed the young man’s motive. “Then, let it
103 VII  |           woman in one cell, and the man in the other. This has been
104 VII  |     interrupted.”~“You had a drunken man here, however.”~“No—yes—
105 VII  |           hadn’t been for Gevrol the man would certainly have been
106 VII  |             afterward. I never saw a man so vexed as he was. He wept,
107 VII  |             standstill. “I hope this man has had no communication
108 VII  |              blush; even the drunken man was so shocked that he went
109 VII  |             this was really the same man he had seen some hours previously
110 VII  |            murmured Lecoq, “no, this man is not what he seems to
111 VII  |            he was really the kind of man he pretended to be.~At all
112 VII  |            probable on the part of a man, endowed with considerable
113 VII  |            perfect indifference of a man accustomed to such ordeals.~
114 VII  |              Lecoq’s forehead. “This man,” thought he, “has certainly
115 VII  |             he added: “Here are this man’s papers.”~The registrar
116 VII  |          place your foot there?”~The man did not comply with the
117 VII  |           the keepers. “Conduct this man to No. 3 of the secret cells,”
118 VII  |         declared the governor. “This man is certainly a dangerous
119 VIII |              s theory. This wretched man’s secret must be a terrible
120 VIII |         still trying to discover our man’s identity, I suppose?”~“
121 VIII |        fortifications belonging to a man named Trigault. Here he
122 VIII |            proved to be a little old man, with a ruddy complexion,
123 VIII |           want.”~“Aha!” said the old man sneeringly, “you know two
124 VIII |              with satisfaction. This man was certainly the one he
125 VIII |        attention to them; for when a man is as old as I am, women—”~“
126 VIII |              shoes as big as a gouty man’s. You should have seen
127 VIII |      imagined that this polite young man was making fun of her. “
128 VIII |          course, in his office?”~The man shook his head. “No,” said
129 IX   |            further connection with a man whose superciliousness and
130 IX   |              stop moving because one man is disabled? The news only
131 IX   |              whether he was a likely man to espouse his views.~“Yes,”
132 IX   |             know him. He is a worthy man, not quite so grim as most
133 IX   |          himself face to face with a man of some forty years of age,
134 IX   |         glove.~By the side of such a man as M. Segmuller a grave
135 IX   |          that you are an intelligent man, and that we can trust you.”~“
136 IX   |      expression which seldom fails a man well acquainted with his
137 IX   |            found a tall, big-bearded man, who had just come in. He
138 IX   |              screamed. Just then the man who had come in alone drew
139 IX   |            contrary, it was not this man who first attacked the others?”
140 IX   |         youngest of the victims, the man who was attired as a soldier,
141 IX   |              of Gustave’s friends, a man called Lacheneur?”~On hearing
142 IX   |       comprise a letter sent by this man to Gustave, and written,
143 IX   |          confront you with an honest man, who will tell you to your
144 X    |           extort a confession from a man interested in preserving
145 X    |              she knows Lacheneur—the man upon whom the dying soldier
146 X    |              key to the enigma. That man must be found.”~“Ah!” replied
147 X    |             crush the most obstinate man; he gives up the struggle,
148 X    |              to be; he is simply the man he seems to be.”~This argument
149 X    |          with a powerful effort, the man had recovered his self-possession.
150 X    |             eaten nothing since that man”—and so saying he pointed
151 X    |              he seemed quite another man.~Eighteen out of every twenty
152 X    |           the seeming sincerity of a man giving expression to some
153 X    |            with the same idea. “This man,” they thought, “is very
154 X    |             saying: ‘What a terrible man! What an awful rascal!’”~
155 X    |              Indeed!” ejaculated the man with an astonished air, “
156 X    |              unfortunately—”~Was the man jesting, or was he in earnest?
157 X    |           Tringlot was an uneducated man, entirely ignorant of the
158 X    |             hear, prisoner?”~But the man was already transformed.
159 XI   |         prisons and with prisoners—a man whom it was most difficult
160 XI   |          prisoner, May.~And yet this man, characterized as a most
161 XI   |                 M. Simpson is a rich man,” replied the prisoner,
162 XI   |             shadow of a smile on the man’s lips.~“I remarked nothing,”
163 XI   |               I seized the remaining man, the soldier, round the
164 XI   |             a little surprising in a man in his position, he proceeded
165 XII  |            soldier’s statement.”~The man hesitated, as if conscious
166 XII  |           culprit out of an innocent man!”~“I advise you, in your
167 XII  |       magistrate. “Then, who is this man who was waiting for you
168 XII  |         crushing scorn, he added: “A man must have great confidence
169 XII  |        advancement, to try and get a man guillotined on such evidence
170 XII  |             Here,” thought he, “is a man of brain, who understands
171 XII  |        Lacheneur faltered by a dying man; a few footprints on some
172 XII  |         pitilessly! I am an innocent man, and you are trying to deprive
173 XII  |       seeking either for an innocent man or for a culprit; I merely
174 XII  |            Who am I then? Some great man in disguise? Ah! I wish
175 XII  |             with the urbanity that a man of the world displays when
176 XII  |            very superior gentleman—a man endowed with remarkable
177 XII  |              may hurl even an honest man. To-day I freely offer you
178 XIII |             a thoughtful tone, “that man is not a knave. When I spoke
179 XIII |             everything.”~“Ah, he’s a man of wonderful power!” observed
180 XIII |         strenuous struggle with this man, and he hoped to conquer
181 XIII |           the illusion, whereas this man, entirely unaided, almost
182 XIII |          this conclusion—either this man is really May, the stroller,
183 XIII |           long ago.”~“But, sir, this man is surely not the buffoon,
184 XIII |           taciturn and haughty. This man, at least, understood, appreciated,
185 XIII |              to me evident that this man is a criminal of the worst
186 XIII |              you have to deal with a man who has been sentenced to
187 XIII |           twenty-four hours that our man will have been identified,
188 XIV  |              Unfortunately, however, man can only place organs of
189 XIV  |          Absinthe’s search after the man who had recognized one of
190 XIV  |        friend of yours a middle-aged man, of medium size, of very
191 XIV  |            very good portrait of the man.”~“Ah, well! he came here
192 XIV  |            to worry yourself, as the man would no doubt return.”~“
193 XIV  |             certain that this is the man I am seeking for.”~“Unfortunately,
194 XIV  |           you remember the name this man gave you? Was it May? Try
195 XIV  |           happened that I forgot the man’s name and strange profession—‘
196 XIV  |             Who made it, then?”~“The man himself, while I was finding
197 XIV  |             asked, “that this is the man’s handwriting?”~In his anxiety
198 XIV  |              question. Have you this man’s trunk in your possession?”~“
199 XIV  |            came to inform me of this man’s disappearance,” said the
200 XIV  |              occupy my time. Now, my man, how can I serve you?”~“
201 XIV  |      informed me yesterday that this man was missing, so—”~Lecoq
202 XIV  |           all went up to the missing man’s room, and Lecoq sprang
203 XIV  |              stumbled like a drunken man as he went down the stairs.~
204 XV   |           that we had to deal with a man of superior talent—with
205 XV   |            of superior talent—with a man of consummate penetration
206 XV   |             his defense. With such a man as he is, the more appearances
207 XV   |              s I!” replied the young man, somewhat surprised; “but
208 XV   |             a candle. Then the young man could see his colleague,
209 XV   |          escaped you, then?”~The old man nodded his head affirmatively.~“
210 XV   | encouragement only increased the old man’s evident embarrassment.
211 XV   |           when a respectable-looking man entered, and took a seat
212 XV   |             nothing either about the man I had been playing with
213 XV   |              he was a tall, stoutish man, with a broad, red face,
214 XV   |              Why, the accomplice—the man whose footprints we discovered—
215 XV   |         consternation. “You wretched man!” exclaimed the young detective, “
216 XV   |           little sleep.”~Lecoq was a man of considerable forethought.
217 XV   |             dissipated-looking young man, afflicted with a terrible
218 XV   |              however, for suddenly a man’s head peered in. The intruder,
219 XV   |         Father Absinthe had seen the man’s face. “Yes,” said he, “
220 XV   |            he, “yes, it was the same man who made me drink with him
221 XV   |          nail—anything!”~The younger man was making frantic efforts
222 XV   |     bystanders. Having described the man as best they could, they
223 XV   |                But Lecoq was not the man to tell his business on
224 XV   |              started in pursuit of a man who is implicated in the
225 XV   |            did not tell was that the man who had led the child out
226 XV   |          will leave you. Was there a man named Gustave among the
227 XV   |              the truth. What kind of man is he?” he asked with intense
228 XV   |             me: ‘Do you see that old man there? He will make all
229 XVI  |              And, assisted by such a man as Lecoq, who had a positive
230 XVI  |              coals of fire, and that man dares to keep me waiting.
231 XVI  |      immediately,” said he.~When the man had started, M. Segmuller
232 XVI  |       cunning that distinguished the man’s features, the impudence
233 XVI  |             of the photograph—in the man M. Segmuller was examining,
234 XVI  |           appear before him, and the man must come even if he lives
235 XVI  |              so unequally armed, the man in the secret cell not unfrequently
236 XVI  |          moment though, here comes a man who can perhaps tell us.
237 XVI  |              Ferraud, this way!”~The man to whom the governor called
238 XVI  |             Lecoq, “wasn’t he a tall man; very red in the face—”~“
239 XVII |             s visiting card, and the man made some excuse to borrow
240 XVII |          Lecoq was acquainted with a man whose knowledge of the trade
241 XVII |            his snuffbox.~This worthy man greeted Lecoq very affably.
242 XVII |             pipe from his mouth, the man pointed to the mansion which
243 XVII |               as by enchantment, the man’s hitherto silent tongue.
244 XVII |           beneath the weight of this man’s words as completely as
245 XVII |        affable tone. “Ah, well young man,” said she, “what brings
246 XVII |              francs. Ah! Doisty, the man who sold me those diamonds,
247 XVII |             as red as a poppy, young man. I sold these diamonds to
248 XVII |            frail clue, as a drowning man clutches at the merest fragment
249 XVII |             young detective what the man he was seeking was like,
250 XVII |              Did she apply it to the man’s age, to his personal aspect,
251 XVIII|       Tringlot, who was probably the man referred to in May’s story.
252 XVIII|              for truth and logic one man’s opinion, correct though
253 XVIII|          with his Casper Hauser, his man in the Iron Mask, in a word,
254 XVIII|        diminutive proportions that a man of average height could
255 XVIII|             insect, I will do with a man!”~“Oh, ho!” said the governor
256 XVIII|              of a naturally cheerful man terribly bored.~Such was
257 XVIII|             he, “I guessed that this man was in communication with
258 XVIII|           not been discovered, every man connected with this prison
259 XIX  |              not be advised of it? A man of rank, such as you suppose
260 XIX  |             that separated the young man from the decisive moment
261 XIX  |     gentlemen, whether I’m an honest man or not. The profession matters
262 XIX  |           show, and yet be an honest man—a man of honor.”~“Oh, spare
263 XIX  |           and yet be an honest man—a man of honor.”~“Oh, spare us
264 XIX  |         absolutely determined that a man shall be found guilty, they
265 XIX  |       confess ourselves beaten. This man will always remain what
266 XIX  |             afterward. “Suppose this man were released from prison,”
267 XIX  |            or assume the manner of a man of the world, or of some
268 XIX  |          that enshrouds this strange man. We have both admired his
269 XIX  |   imagination. Do you believe that a man of his penetration would
270 XIX  |              willing to suffer long. Man must have food and shelter,
271 XIX  |           only have my revenge. This man has outwitted me as if I
272 XIX  |       fingers?”~Lecoq laughed like a man that was sure of himself. “
273 XIX  |        despairing gesture, the young man interrupted M. Segmuller. “
274 XIX  |            to Casper Hauser, and the Man with the Iron Mask—allusions
275 XIX  |             a bold accusation, but a man is not master of his presentiments:
276 XIX  |           you any proofs?”~The young man shook his head. “No,” said
277 XIX  |               Precisely. He sent his man to me two or three days
278 XIX  |              M. Segmuller, who was a man of his word, a man who never
279 XIX  |             was a man of his word, a man who never rested until he
280 XIX  |            tell him that there was a man in the vestibule who had
281 XIX  |          presence and proved to be a man of forty or thereabouts,
282 XIX  |              the proffered coin, the man, with a sudden change of
283 XX   |             of success: and only one man actually succeeded in alighting
284 XX   |          entrusted to an intelligent man with the most minute instructions.~
285 XX   |            wondering if this strange man would refuse the dangerous
286 XX   |    sufficient time had elapsed for a man of his intellect and discernment
287 XX   |              appearance of a working man of the better class taking
288 XX   |                said he, “there’s our man changing his fine clothes
289 XX   |            the anguish of a drowning man who sees the frail plank
290 XX   |             his card to acquaint the man with his profession, and
291 XX   |              Lecoq, surprised at the man’s hesitation.~“Oh, it’s
292 XX   |              About twelve days ago a man entered my shop with a bundle
293 XX   |               Well, I went with this man to the wine-shop at the
294 XX   |           way. Well, you never saw a man so vexed and so surprised.
295 XX   |          about the matter until that man came in here just now, and
296 XX   |             a tall, rather corpulent man, with a ruddy complexion,
297 XX   |          mysterious accomplice was a man of foresight. He had even
298 XX   |   old-clothes dealer; but he isn’t a man to be disheartened by one
299 XX   |             silence this unfortunate man whom after all he could
300 XX   |         success. Then he addressed a man who was passing with a lot
301 XX   |             on his shoulder: but the man wouldn’t even answer him.”~
302 XX   |           has disappeared; while the man remains—the man who has
303 XX   |            while the man remains—the man who has always been rich,
304 XX   |          brisk, determined step of a man who has a definite aim in
305 XX   |              as you go along. If our man doesn’t come to the Hotel
306 XX   |             do?”~“Oh, very little. A man is coming here in a moment:
307 XX   |          that?” exclaimed the worthy man, greatly astonished.~“Ah!
308 XX   |              and get closer to their man, so that they might not
309 XX   |              us if we two allow this man to escape us? He can’t be
310 XXI  |              the cushions to rest, a man was running; and this man
311 XXI  |            man was running; and this man was Lecoq. Poor Father Absinthe
312 XXI  |              he could do to keep his man in sight without stopping
313 XXI  |           himself at a table where a man of unusually stalwart build,
314 XXI  |             class.~And yet May, that man who was so strongly suspected
315 XXI  |              by the fugitive and the man in the slouch hat, he called
316 XXI  |         certain!”~For the moment the man in the slouch hat was giving
317 XXI  |           bundle.~At these words the man in the tattered felt hat
318 XXI  |   surrounding an immense garden. The man in the slouch hat now did
319 XXI  |            drop into the garden. The man in the slouch hat remained
320 XXI  |          bounds he was upon him. The man in the slouched hat attempted
321 XXI  |          what is to be done with the man who is lying there?”~“Leave
322 XXI  |            the most dangerous kind—a man who has the blood of three
323 XXI  |       perhaps succeed in finding our man. Warn the servants, but
324 XXI  |            him go out; therefore the man was in the house and he
325 XXI  |            hands. We hold the crafty man who has hitherto defeated
326 XXII |             to his assistance. “That man is not Couturier.”~“Oh,
327 XXII |        taking these precautions, the man was removed from the cage
328 XXII |           some information about the man who accompanied you last
329 XXII |        undertaking such a job with a man, one finds out something
330 XXII |          there was nothing about the man to make me suspect that
331 XXII |                 You are mistaken, my man,” said Lecoq. “The individual
332 XXII |            Rue Mouffetard, when that man came in and took a seat
333 XXII |        surprising in the fact that a man of the world, such as he
334 XXII |              he added: “There is one man who can save us, a man who
335 XXII |           one man who can save us, a man who will see what I haven’
336 XXII |           hard to tell,” replied the man: “it is his old complaint—
337 XXII |            had come to consult was a man celebrated for wonderful
338 XXII |         understood, but this strange man had never consented to receive
339 XXII |        liberality. Of course, such a man had many enemies. He did
340 XXII |        mistake which this remarkable man once made. Inclined to obstinacy,
341 XXII |             career of this eccentric man, when the buxom housekeeper
342 XXIII|            clothes.”~“What! was your man such a very cunning fellow?”~
343 XXIII|             devil himself.”~The sick man’s face wore a comical expression
344 XXIII|              Oh, yes, I recollect: a man named May. The murders were
345 XXIII|        scholar, and was not this old man his master?~“I will now
346 XXIV |          possibility, that the young man could not conceal a gesture
347 XXIV |            forgiveness for the young man’s stupidity. “And it was
348 XXIV |              trying to discover this man’s identity. Let them do
349 XXIV |        investigate the offenses of a man I hate!’ He was certainly
350 XXIV |          information. I admit that a man may have a passion for his
351 XXIV |           Well, I am only a poor old man, but I should have interviewed
352 XXIV |            Alas!” murmured the young man, now completely discouraged; “
353 XXIV |             probable!”~But the young man listened to the oracle’s “
354 XXIV |     falsehood!” interrupted the sick man. “You know as well as I
355 XXV  |         emphatic voice that the sick man then read: “Escorval (Louis-Guillaume,
356 XXV  |             with his life.”~The sick man closed the book, and with
357 XXV  |              if you please?”~“If the man who took part in the broil
358 XXV  |             intense dismay. “Unhappy man!” he exclaimed; “do you
359 XXV  |               Poor Lecoq! Free, this man is almost omnipotent, and