Chapter

 1 I    |                don’t you know Mother Chupin’s drinking-shop there on
 2 I    |            what has happened. Mother Chupin, the old hussy, is not dead!”~
 3 I    |          electric shock on the Widow Chupin. She suddenly ceased her
 4 I    |      prisoner’s legs and bind Mother Chupin’s hands, and we will drop
 5 I    |             the Poivriere, at Mother Chupin’s house. Well, hunt after
 6 II   |          bind the hands of the Widow Chupin, who fought and howled as
 7 II   |               and the cries of Widow Chupin died away in the stillness
 8 III  |               the testimony of Widow Chupin, the dying declaration of
 9 III  |          last, upstairs in the Widow Chupin’s own room, they found a
10 III  |             that separated the Widow Chupin’s garden from the waste
11 III  |            rushed wildly from Mother Chupin’s house, the woman with
12 IV   |            shots fired inside Mother Chupin’s drinking den, most of
13 IV   |             they reentered the Widow Chupin’s hovel. The first impulse
14 V    |            All this while, the Widow Chupin’s abode had remained open,
15 V    |           remained intact. The Widow Chupin had recoiled from the expense
16 V    |             torn the apron off Widow Chupin’s head he had thrown it
17 V    |              sought for it in Mother Chupin’s apron. No, he must have
18 V    |            the garden, and the Widow Chupin’s apron with its pockets
19 VI   |             influence tied the Widow Chupin’s tongue. Two women, one
20 VII  |        communication with this Widow Chupin!” he exclaimed.~The keeper
21 VII  |          Black Maria.~When the Widow Chupin was removed from her cell
22 VII  |            shrill voice of the Widow Chupin, who sang and yelled her
23 VII  |             done? Besides, the Widow Chupin was just being brought in.~
24 VIII |           had escaped from the Widow Chupin’s drinking-den at the moment
25 VIII |             the tragedy at the Widow Chupin’s drinking-den, of course,
26 IX   |          enough to examine the Widow Chupin. We may gain some information
27 IX   |            messenger.~“Has the Widow Chupin been brought here, in compliance
28 IX   |              turned toward the Widow Chupin. “Your name?” he asked in
29 IX   |                and to-day, the Widow Chupin, at your service, sir;”
30 IX   |         several offenses?”~The Widow Chupin was too well versed in criminal
31 IX   |             This,” thought the Widow Chupin, “is the right moment to
32 IX   |      equivalent to complicity, Widow Chupin; take care. When the police
33 IX   |            such a way that the Widow Chupin would now have to initiate
34 IX   | circumstances of the tragedy, Mother Chupin did not hesitate for a moment. “
35 IX   |             have told from the Widow Chupin’s placid countenance whether
36 IX   |               and behold—”~The Widow Chupin here stopped short. These
37 IX   |         enemy’s position.~“So, Widow Chupin,” he began, “you tell us
38 IX   |              color rose to the Widow Chupin’s cheeks, and she suddenly
39 IX   |             they fell from the Widow Chupin’s lips: “I had been upstairs
40 X    |             examination of the Widow Chupin had been conducted with
41 X    |            noticed between the Widow Chupin’s eyebrows those furrows
42 X    |           they cry. When I worry the Chupin with disagreeable questions,
43 X    |       altogether false. If the Widow Chupin is an accomplice, the murderer
44 X    |         drunkard have dazzled Mother Chupin’s eyes with the prospect
45 X    |              he is to keep the Widow Chupin in solitary confinement;
46 X    |          while questioning the Widow Chupin—and then ordered his door-keeper
47 XI   |          supposed murderer and Widow Chupin.~Certainly, M. Segmuller’
48 XII  |             dared to enter the Widow Chupin’s den to regain possession
49 XII  |              the pocket of the Widow Chupin’s apron? Who is this devoted,
50 XII  |            he did not give the Widow Chupin counsel as to the course
51 XII  |              and next with the Widow Chupin. How did that happen? Perhaps
52 XIII |       recollect, sir, that the Widow Chupin mentioned a son of hers,
53 XIII |             of the wife of Hippolyte Chupin, and address an order to
54 XIV  |        procure the address of Polyte Chupin’s wife, in order to serve
55 XIV  |               the abode of the Widow Chupin’s daughter-in-law.~On the
56 XV   |             for us to find the Widow Chupin’s daughter-in-law; and I
57 XV   |           informed Lecoq that Polyte Chupin’s wife lived with her child,
58 XV   |             its occupants.~The Widow Chupin’s daughter-in-law, a native
59 XV   |             evil genius threw Polyte Chupin across her path. She fell
60 XV   |              that old hag, the Widow Chupin. The result was that Polyte’
61 XV   |       speedily reached Madame Polyte Chupin’s abode.~This proved to
62 XV   |             the barrieres was Polyte Chupin. And yet despite his unprepossessing
63 XV   |           were so happy at the Widow Chupin’s house, why did you fly
64 XV   |          husband—the ruffian, Polyte Chupin. The two detectives plainly
65 XVI  |             was to examine the widow Chupin’s son. I had better do so
66 XVI  |            when he recognized Polyte Chupin—the original of the photograph—
67 XVI  |         induced him to summon Polyte Chupin. Although he could not conceal
68 XVI  |            his examination of Polyte Chupin in hopes of yet obtaining
69 XVI  |          problem by examining Polyte Chupin and his wife, and they had
70 XVI  |             has been promised Polyte Chupin for his silence? What recompense
71 XVI  |             reward has been promised Chupin? I ask on my part who can
72 XVI  |             interview with the Widow Chupin, but how has he succeeded
73 XVI  |             want is information. Has Chupin been forewarned or not?”~“
74 XVI  |     informers in the prison, or else Chupin has been allowed to see
75 XVI  |              prisoner—a fellow named Chupin, who isn’t in the secret
76 XVI  |            asked to see the prisoner Chupin yesterday?”~“Yes, sir, I
77 XVI  |            Yes, sir, I went to fetch Chupin to the parlor myself.”~“
78 XVI  |           lady—his aunt, at least so Chupin told me.”~Neither M. Segmuller
79 XVI  |           who escaped from the Widow Chupin’s hovel,” exclaimed Lecoq.~
80 XVI  |             permission to see Polyte Chupin.”~
81 XVII |              confront May, the Widow Chupin, and Polyte with the bodies
82 XVII |          used yesterday to see young Chupin was in the name of his mother’
83 XVII |       replied Lecoq. “When the Widow Chupin and the accomplice had that
84 XVII |           had escaped from the Widow Chupin’s hovel on the night of
85 XVII |             what a woman like Polyte Chupin’s wife might mean by the
86 XVIII|         crime committed in the Widow Chupin’s drinking-den, the triple
87 XVIII|              May, but also the Widow Chupin, her son Polyte, Toinon
88 XIX  |      invented the scene in the Widow Chupin’s cabin; imagined the accomplices;
89 XIX  |       afternoon, moreover, the Widow Chupin received her conditional
90 XX   |            between his teeth, Polyte Chupin, had he been at liberty,
91 XXI  |              confined with the Widow Chupin. When the vehicle halted,
92 XXIII|          were committed in the Widow Chupin’s cabin. I saw the case
93 XXIV |      completed his task at the Widow Chupin’s house, he comes to the
94 XXIV |       brilliant casuist in the Widow Chupin’s hovel, who was so full
95 XXIV |             in not compelling Toinon Chupin to tell you all she knew
96 XXIV |       murderer arrested in the Widow Chupin’s drinking den should be