Chapter

 1 II  |          said he. “There have been women here.”~
 2 III |          hearing Lecoq affirm that women had taken part in the horrible
 3 III |            For the presence of two women in this vile den explained
 4 III |       cover the retreat of the two women; he had sacrificed himself
 5 III |      wine-shop, accompanied by two women. He found three men drinking
 6 III |         murderer who brought these women here? If he is tried, this
 7 III | supposition. It was plain that two women had left the Poivriere by
 8 III |          he fled.”~“Or rather, the women were going out as he was
 9 III |         was coming, and—”~“No, the women were outside the garden
10 III |            he murmured, “these two women did not come to the Poivriere
11 III |          that is true!”~“These two women, however, came here without
12 III |           to you that although the women knew the exact position
13 III |         evidently been left by the women; the other two, one going
14 III |         footprints left by the two women, half effacing them, thus
15 III |       counsel with him. One of the women, the one with the little
16 III |         the Poivriere with the two women, his companion—I should
17 III |        broke the stillness—the two women were coming.”~On hearing
18 III |        reached the point where the women made their appearance,”
19 III |          me was this: when the two women rushed wildly from Mother
20 III |          with delicate and nervous women, lasted only a few seconds.
21 III |           besides protecting these women, he had a still more sacred
22 IV  |        paths, that made by the two women on the one side, and that
23 IV  |      Seated upon the log where the women had rested a few moments
24 IV  |           response.~“To follow the women,” continued the young man, “
25 IV  |            footprints of these two women, and wherever they lead
26 IV  |           ground.~“Certainly these women were well acquainted with
27 IV  |     footprints of a man and of two women, the investigating magistrate
28 V   |     different tones. “Then the two women could not have been with
29 V   |   contained brandy. Then these two women had not been with the murderer,
30 V   |          for men and the other for women; consequently—”~The commissary
31 VI  |         Widow Chupin’s tongue. Two women, one of whom had lost an
32 VI  |           And all these people—the women, the murderer, the keeper
33 VI  |    insisted the magistrate, “these women whose footprints have been
34 VI  |      possible. The presence of the women is very natural. Wherever
35 VIII|            been stopped by the two women in the Rue du Chevaleret;
36 VIII|         morning, drove a couple of women from the Rue du Chevaleret
37 VIII|            tell you that these two women are mixed up in it; they
38 VIII|            to be supposed that the women who had escaped from the
39 VIII|         details. How did these two women attract your attention?”~“
40 VIII|         Chevaleret, when I saw two women standing under a lamp, some
41 VIII|           a man is as old as I am, women—”~“Go on!” said Lecoq, who
42 VIII|           Now, how about these two women?”~“What do you mean?”~“I
43 VIII|        mean?”~“I mean what kind of women did they seem to be; what
44 VIII|            strange. One of the two women called the other ‘Madame’
45 VIII|         social position of the two women was not the same. He had
46 VIII|          the hall, where I saw two women hastening toward the door.
47 VIII|          large number of girls and women; for, strange to say, the
48 IX  |      opened, and three men and two women came in.”~M. Segmuller and
49 IX  |            the presence of the two women was not to be denied.~“What
50 IX  |          short. These wretched old women, who have trafficked in
51 IX  |             and accompanied by two women, enter your establishment?”~“
52 IX  |    Segmuller, “let us speak of the women who accompanied these unfortunate
53 IX  |      unfortunate men. What sort of women were they?”~“Oh! women of
54 IX  |          of women were they?”~“Oh! women of no account whatever!”~“
55 IX  |           of your mendacity. These women were short, and one of them
56 X   |         came to her house—with the women, the victims, the murderer—
57 X   |     senseless, brutish obstinacy.~“Women never confess,” resumed
58 X   |        their social positions; the women, on the contrary, have but
59 XI  |    frighten one. Three men and two women were drinking and chatting
60 XI  |         going on what were the two women doing?”~“Ah! I was too busy
61 XI  |      prisoner declare that the two women were tall and dark. If he
62 XI  |         dark. If he had said: “The women were fair,” M. Segmuller
63 XI  |      necessary it is to find these women,” said the magistrate kindly.~“
64 XI  |          in the discovery of these women?”~Lecoq, whose eyes never
65 XI  |           in the ear of one of the women?”~The prisoner’s imperturbable
66 XI  |            had just seen these two women go out by that very door.”~“
67 XI  |         that you did not see these women leave: that you were too
68 XI  |     protect the retreat of the two women who had just left.”~“Why
69 XI  |            that you know these two women very well.”~“I should like
70 XII |       ignorance concerning the two women. He proposed to return to
71 XII |          his threat as regards the women had had time to produce
72 XII |           minutes ago that the two women were as tall as grenadiers;
73 XII |            both short, fair-haired women.”~This sentence fell like
74 XII |          by two short, fair-haired women: but who can prove that
75 XII |           who can prove that these women were the same that fled
76 XV  |       thirty francs those wretched women paid me. Really, I shan’
77 XVII|            Bourgogne—where the two women flying from the Poivriere
78 XVII|         not possibly be one of the women who had escaped from the
79 XVII|        about a year ago. Ah! these women of the present day—an extra
80 XXI |           taken upon ourselves—the women and I—and we have looked
81 XXII|          to lead the life he does. Women are very well in a way,