Chapter

  1 I    |      party of detectives left the police station near the old Barriere
  2 I    |          the district was for the police an immense trap, constantly
  3 I    |          officer in charge of the police post called to the squad
  4 I    |        that of a fire. One of the police agents darted to one of
  5 I    |      woman.~“Horrible!” cried the police agent, who was peering through
  6 I    |        moans. Finally, facing the police, and with his back turned
  7 I    |          was superfluous. All the police agents had now gathered
  8 I    |            Oh! how I suffer.”~The police agent, who had cut off the
  9 I    |         is nothing,” declared the police agent, but as he spoke there
 10 I    |         my just deserts.”~All the police agents turned toward the
 11 I    |           yet,” replied the young police agent, who had shown himself
 12 I    |        nothing.”~The inspector of police had risen from the floor
 13 I    |         since the entrance of the police, but her moans had not been
 14 I    |         what could I do! I cried ‘Police!’ with all my might.”~After
 15 I    |       daunted by any inspector of police. Criminals frequently preserve
 16 I    |          arouse the commissary of police, and inform him of the affair;
 17 II   |                      II~The young police agent to whom Gevrol abandoned
 18 II   |        advice?” he asked himself. Police service did not inspire
 19 II   |         with Gevrol and the other police agents. While he was clinging
 20 II   |           hours the commissary of police, the legal physician, and
 21 II   |           but pleasing to the old police agent. “Eh! what is the
 22 II   |         the word “reward” the old police agent pricked up his ears.
 23 III  |      bounds of reason.~Hence, the police veteran was now much more
 24 III  |       coming of the commissary of police.~But Father Absinthe was
 25 III  | Disappointed as he was, the young police officer could not repress
 26 III  |        evidence stupefied the old police agent.~“Now,” continued
 27 III  |           in the snow led the two police agents. Some now thought
 28 III  |        with his wishes, the young police agent explored the surroundings
 29 III  |         to follow you.”~The young police agent could not, indeed,
 30 III  |      might enter the minds of the police. It was to the lady with
 31 IV   |          by frightful dreams of a police raid, those who remained
 32 IV   |           a collision between the police and some of their comrades,
 33 IV   |        the light of which the two police agents were pursuing their
 34 IV   |         road?” grumbled the young police agent.~Certainly they could
 35 IV   |           been connected with the police force, the good man—to use
 36 IV   |           us make haste!”~The old police agent followed him as in
 37 V    |          on his return, the young police agent remembered this neglect
 38 V    |           than a second the young police agent had weighed all these
 39 V    |        the stairs; neither of the police agents had since touched
 40 V    |           door forced open by the police, they discovered in the
 41 V    |      himself simply as one of the police. This was not so much modesty
 42 V    |         the officers of judiciary police; it was a simple report,
 43 V    |        the explosion of the young police agent’s vanity, nor his
 44 V    |   comrades with the commissary of police and two other gentlemen.”~
 45 V    |          monsieur,” which the old police agent used in speaking of
 46 V    |        certainly become the young police agent’s godfather. From
 47 V    |         way for the commissary of police.~This commissary was far
 48 V    |       however,” replied the young police agent, having recourse to
 49 VI   |     accompanied the commissary of police to the Poivriere.~One of
 50 VI   |            said the commissary of police, “to begin your duties by
 51 VI   |     Absinthe and another agent of police, they lifted the body and
 52 VI   |          was still alive when the police entered the cabin, had been
 53 VI   |           shako,” added the young police agent. “It bears the number
 54 VI   |             The eyes of the young police agent sparkled. “We must
 55 VI   |         silent. The commissary of police had handed him the letter,
 56 VI   |          moment when the squad of police heard the shrieks of despair
 57 VI   |         two louis.~Rarely had the police found themselves in the
 58 VI   |         Perhaps the commissary of police thought he would spend a
 59 VI   |            and nervous, the young police agent tried to read upon
 60 VII  |        minutes, Lecoq reached the police station near the Barriere
 61 VII  |         to each other.”~The young police agent had grown very thoughtful. “
 62 VII  |         swear in his turn. “These police agents are all alike,” he
 63 VII  |        holding the whole squad of police agents in check by the intense
 64 VIII |           the markets, whence the police generally return with a
 65 IX   |       also allows the presence of police agents. Accordingly, M.
 66 IX   |         furnished by the chief of police at the magistrate’s request.~
 67 IX   |       Chupin; take care. When the police entered your cabin, after
 68 X    |        But how could he, a humble police agent, venture to express
 69 XI   |          me, and said: ‘You are a police agent; you’ve come here
 70 XI   |          answered that I wasn’t a police agent. He replied that I
 71 XI   |          my hand upon them?”~“The police can assist you—our agents
 72 XI   |        your assailants before the police entered the place? Answer
 73 XI   |           revolver leveled at the police, as if to keep them at bay?”~
 74 XI   |       know whether these men were police agents or friends of the
 75 XII  |        sticking to your feet. The police agent who collected it has
 76 XII  |         effectually that even the police were deceived, and thoughtlessly
 77 XII  |           a mere invention of the police!”~However faithfully one
 78 XII  |           romance invented by the police is very plausible, I don’
 79 XII  |         from the Poivriere?”~“The police agent you see here followed
 80 XII  |        testimony collected by the police until it has examined and
 81 XII  |           having once escaped the police, for, according to your
 82 XII  |      shall I send this officer of police away? Would you like me
 83 XIII |         identified, either by the police or by one of his fellow-prisoners.”~
 84 XIV  |      identified, and that the old police agent had not been seen
 85 XIV  |     orders that the commissary of police should be informed of the
 86 XIV  |        the district commissary of police, promised him a hundred
 87 XV   |       obtain her address from the police commissary of the district
 88 XV   |        not forget that he, an old police agent, had been duped as
 89 XV   |    secretary of the commissary of police for the thirteenth arrondissement
 90 XV   |            I know him.”~The young police agent could not repress
 91 XVI  |       that name.”~“Take care. The police have means of finding out
 92 XVI  |    proceeded to the Prefecture of Police, going the longest way round
 93 XVI  |    telling us? Do you suppose the police are ignorant of your acquaintance
 94 XVI  |       give him orders. The entire police force is at his disposal.
 95 XVI  |          Run to the Prefecture of Police,” he said as soon as they
 96 XVII |     indorsed by the commissary of police of her district.”~The magistrate’
 97 XVII |     employed by the Prefecture of Police as an expert in all such
 98 XVII |        which, strange to say, the police seldom employ, save in extreme
 99 XVIII|       Depot, at the Prefecture de Police, and at the Palais de Justice.~
100 XVIII|        innumerable members of the police force, to whom were added
101 XVIII|       sent to all the prisons and police stations of the empire,
102 XVIII|       bureau of the Prefecture de Police found positive traces of
103 XVIII|          among the members of the police force; and whenever Lecoq
104 XVIII|      added aloud: “The prefect of police must have more money than
105 XIX  |          could disappear, and the police not be advised of it? A
106 XIX  |           Ah! it is this agent of police who says the letter was
107 XIX  |          no hope for me. When the police are absolutely determined
108 XIX  |       that no one could equal the police in such machinations.~What
109 XIX  |      cases of necessity, have the police closed their eyes and opened
110 XIX  |         confessing their guilt to police spies or auxiliaries who
111 XIX  |      criminals. For instance, the police perhaps arrest one of a
112 XIX  |           of the Chaboiseaus. The police soon succeeded in capturing
113 XX   |           about the Prefecture de Police. He wore a tattered black
114 XX   |        agent of the Prefecture of Police,” said the visitor, showing
115 XXI  |          a hundred paces from the police station in which he had
116 XXII |      feeling of anger against the police. They are not unlike those
117 XXII |     question didn’t belong to the police force. I pledge you my word
118 XXII |           or to the Prefecture de Police?”~Lecoq shuddered on hearing
119 XXII |           the organization of the police service and the investigation
120 XXII |         foot to the Prefecture de Police, humbly begged employment
121 XXII |    Consulted at a moment when the police had abandoned all hope of
122 XXII |        than any two inspectors of police; and he didn’t receive a
123 XXV  |         an infinitesimal agent of police, would be shattered as easily