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  1 I    |       then passing along the Rue de Choisy. The people on the
  2 I    |          shortest way to the Rue de Chevaleret.”~From this point
  3 III  |         the direction of the Rue de Patay. There was now no
  4 IV   |          had not gone up the Rue de Patay, as might have been
  5 IV   |   crossed it, just below the Rue de la Croix-Rouge, and had
  6 IV   |         for, on quitting the Rue de Patay, they had immediately
  7 V    |         the Poivriere to the Rue de Chevaleret, even by way
  8 VI   |        old habitue of the Palais de Justice, mechanically murmured
  9 VII  |         Pont Neuf on to the Quai de l’Horloge that the young
 10 VII  |          my office in the Palais de Justice.”~Lecoq wished to
 11 VIII |         drive them?”~“To the Rue de Bourgogne. I have forgotten
 12 VIII |          finding them in the Rue de Bourgogne was purely chimerical.
 13 VIII |        her pace, so that the Rue de Choisy was speedily reached.
 14 VIII |        now rolling along the Rue de Bourgogne. Half-way down
 15 VIII |      were running toward the Rue de Varennes.”~Lecoq was baffled
 16 VIII |        ought to be at the Palais de Justice; but it is only
 17 VIII |       cab in front of the Palais de Justice, he experienced
 18 VIII |    corridor known as the Galerie de l’Instruction, when, finding
 19 IX   |         just beyond the Barriere de Fontainebleau.”~“Eh! Why
 20 IX   |         the concierge in the Rue de Bourgogne, and then read
 21 X    |        As they say at the Palais de Justice, one might as well
 22 X    |     stood a private of the Garde de Paris who remained respectfully
 23 X    |  frequently quoted at the Palais de Justice. It does, indeed,
 24 XII  |         cab was hired in the Rue de Chevaleret by the two fugitives,
 25 XIV  |        Instruction at the Palais de Justice whereby admittance
 26 XIV  |          Lecoq reached the Hotel de Mariembourg, at the corner
 27 XIV  |        proprietress of the Hotel de Mariembourg. Had the prisoner
 28 XIV  |       the room, ran to the Place de Roubaix, jumped into a cab,
 29 XIV  |        woman who keeps the Hotel de Mariembourg?”~“Yes, indeed,
 30 XV   |        When Lecoq left the Hotel de Mariembourg about midnight,
 31 XV   |     after his visit to the Hotel de Mariembourg.~“However,”
 32 XV   |          the suburbs, in the Rue de la Butte-aux-Cailles. He
 33 XV   |      charcoal-burners of the Puy de Dome. She was hardly more
 34 XV   |     returned to the cab. The Rue de la Butte-aux-Cailles, whither
 35 XV   |       near the corner of the Rue de la Butte-aux-Cailles, that
 36 XV   |       little comedy at the Hotel de Mariembourg. His diligence
 37 XVI  |         on his way to the Palais de Justice. He had quite forgotten
 38 XVI  |        point of fact, the Palais de Justice was scarcely awake
 39 XVI  |       the vicinity of the Palais de Justice, and dependent on
 40 XVI  |  information obtained in the Rue de la Butte-aux-Cailles.~“That
 41 XVI  |        connected with the Palais de Justice by a narrow passage,
 42 XVII |          of the house in the Rue de Bourgogne—where the two
 43 XVII |    Milner, landlady of the Hotel de Mariembourg. In addition,
 44 XVII |        the landlady of the Hotel de Mariembourg—that clever
 45 XVII |         to-night, one in the Rue de la Butte-aux-Cailles, and
 46 XVII |         at the door of the Hotel de Mariembourg. If the accomplice
 47 XVII |        set by Doisty, in the Rue de la Paix.”~Twenty minutes
 48 XVII |       Austrian lady—the Baroness de Watchau.”~“And where does
 49 XVII |    insisted Lecoq, “the Baroness de Watchau must have left some
 50 XVII |          s registry at the Hotel de Mariembourg, it was absurd
 51 XVII |         occupied by the Baroness de Watchau, and there found
 52 XVIII|         Depot, at the Prefecture de Police, and at the Palais
 53 XVIII|        Police, and at the Palais de Justice.~M. Segmuller’s
 54 XVIII|         trunk found at the Hotel de Mariembourg, and evinced
 55 XVIII|         bureau of the Prefecture de Police found positive traces
 56 XVIII|      once started for the Palais de Justice. On their way, Lecoq
 57 XIX  |         and rushed to the Palais de Justice to acquaint M. Segmuller
 58 XIX  |         are not like the Marquis de Lavalette, protected by
 59 XIX  |      accompany you to the Palais de Justice. I will see the
 60 XIX  |    required of him at the Palais de Justice, and that he knew
 61 XX   |        our cabinet at the Palais de Justice.” No more, no less,
 62 XX   |         seen waiting on the Quai de l’Horloge, or in the courtyard
 63 XX   |         or linesmen of the Garde de Paris installed in the passage
 64 XX   |         despatched to the Palais de Justice. He could be placed
 65 XX   |       the van reached the Palais de Justice and discharged its
 66 XX   |        latter waited on the Quai de l’Horloge until the hour
 67 XX   |        be expected at the Palais de Justice before noon, it
 68 XX   |       overgrown, overaged “gamin de Paris” might have been seen
 69 XX   |     hanging about the Prefecture de Police. He wore a tattered
 70 XX   |         quay opposite the Palais de Justice, threw a covering
 71 XX   |        running toward a sergeant de ville, who was just coming
 72 XX   |         coming out of the Palais de Justice, he gave him a letter
 73 XX   |          and turned into the Hue de la Cite.~Nothing in his
 74 XX   |        to have left at the Hotel de Mariembourg—had been returned
 75 XX   |          and walked down the Rue de l’Ancienne-Comedie. He strode
 76 XX   |        doesn’t come to the Hotel de Mariembourg, as I think
 77 XX   |         cab stopped at the Place de Roubaix than the young detective
 78 XX   |         and ran toward the Hotel de Mariembourg, where, as on
 79 XX   |          messenger at the Palais de Justice,” replied Lecoq
 80 XX   |          he burst into the Hotel de Mariembourg like a bombshell.~
 81 XXI  |        the landlady of the Hotel de Mariembourg had given May
 82 XXI  |           Reaching the Boulevard de Sebastopol, he turned to
 83 XXI  |         he covered the Boulevard de Sebastopol, crossed the
 84 XXI  |           In front of the Palais de Justice he paused, exhausted
 85 XXI  |          or the boy at the Hotel de Mariembourg has described
 86 XXI  |     worst intentions. In the Rue de Varrennes, at only a few
 87 XXI  |         a few steps from the Rue de la Chaise, they suddenly
 88 XXI  |        front entrance in the Rue de Grenelle.~“Bah!” growled
 89 XXI  |         to the corner of the Rue de la Chaise. No sound had
 90 XXI  |       same moment, two sergeants de ville, whose attention had
 91 XXI  |        will run round to the Rue de Grenelle and give the alarm.
 92 XXI  |          the gardens of the Duke de Sairmeuse, the famous duke
 93 XXI  |         escape by way of the Rue de Grenelle, which he hoped
 94 XXI  |    guests.~On reaching the Hotel de Sairmeuse, a princely dwelling,
 95 XXI  |    personage: “Is this the Hotel de Sairmeuse?” he inquired.~
 96 XXI  |         in the rear of the Hotel de Sairmeuse.”~“A crim-in-al?”~
 97 XXI  |        and kitchens of the Hotel de Sairmeuse were gathered
 98 XXI  |        Absinthe and the sergeant de ville on the other side
 99 XXI  |        Monseigneur’s first valet de chambre,” the Suisse murmured
100 XXI  |         the gardens of the Hotel de Sairmeuse could not have
101 XXI  |           the duke’s first valet de chambre, showed itself. “
102 XXI  |         exclaimed the head valet de chambre. “How could any
103 XXI  |          honor of seeing the Duc de Sairmeuse through the half-open
104 XXI  |  respectfully replied.~The valet de chambre did not share his
105 XXI  |      refused, and left the Hotel de Sairmeuse, reluctantly followed
106 XXII |         he told you that the Duc de Sairmeuse received every
107 XXII |          What if May and the Duc de Sairmeuse should be one
108 XXII |         day set aside by the Duc de Sairmeuse for the reception
109 XXII |         inquired; “to the Palais de Justice, or to the Prefecture
110 XXII |    Justice, or to the Prefecture de Police?”~Lecoq shuddered
111 XXII |          the offices of the Mont de Piete, just managing to
112 XXII |        on foot to the Prefecture de Police, humbly begged employment
113 XXIII|         in the rear of the Hotel de Sairmeuse.~While the young
114 XXIV |          heard that the Baroness de Watchau was dead, and that
115 XXIV |        of the sale, the Baroness de Watchau could not have possessed
116 XXIV |       when he had left the Hotel de Mariembourg, I should have
117 XXIV |      Milner still owns the Hotel de Mariembourg, and I will
118 XXIV |      that May resides in the Rue de Grenelle-Saint-Germain,
119 XXIV |      that he is known as the Duc de Sairmeuse.”~On hearing these
120 XXIV |   drinking den should be the Duc de Sairmeuse. Hence, the murderer
121 XXIV |    pretended buffoon, is the Duc de Sairmeuse!”~
122 XXV  |          the First Counsel by M. de Talleyrand, he began his
123 XXV  |     Sairmeuse (Anne-Marie-Victor de Tingry, Duc de).—A French
124 XXV  | Anne-Marie-Victor de Tingry, Duc de).—A French general and politician,
125 XXV  |  politician, born at the chateau de Sairmeuse, near Montaignac,
126 XXV  |          of the Revolution, Anne de Sairmeuse began by serving
127 XXV  |        father of the present Duc de Sairmeuse tried to have
128 XXV  |          my boy; the present Duc de Sairmeuse also has his article
129 XXV  |       remarked, “that if the Duc de Sairmeuse had disappeared
130 XXV  |      with his wife and his valet de chambre for accomplices,
131 XXV  |       Poivriere had been the Duc de Sairmeuse, he would have
132 XXV  |     grand seigneur, like the Duc de Sairmeuse, to whom life
133 XXV  |          going to arrest the Duc de Sairmeuse! Poor Lecoq! Free,
134 XXV  |         if May be really the Duc de Sairmeuse, I shall have