Chapter

 1 I    |        foolishness, my lad; if your case is a good one, which is
 2 I    | responsibility will be over, in any case. So untie our prisoner’s
 3 II   |            to practise. This is the case with all monomaniacs; an
 4 II   |            to be able to remark, in case of success: “Ah! I warned
 5 II   |    assistant from whom he could, in case of need, exact implicit
 6 II   |        understand anything. In this case his perseverance was not
 7 III  |            exclaimed; “an excellent case!” And suddenly recollecting
 8 III  |         implement was useful in any case; as both men agreed when
 9 IV   |           it will not rain. In that case, these perfect, clear, and
10 IV   |            work in following up the case. Naturally, he desired to
11 V    |        scarcely admissible. In that case, he would not have sought
12 V    |            nothing urgent about the case. Accordingly, the commissary
13 V    |          the murderer, reported the case to the prefecture, and now
14 VI   |             decisive bearing on the case. Now, this attitude was
15 VI   |            and so strangely did the case present itself that it could
16 VI   |         shown that such was not the case? Nothing was known concerning
17 VI   |     prefecture when he reported the case. Certainly, he spoke of
18 VII  |              but such is really the case; if it hadn’t been for Gevrol
19 VII  |             the contrary proved the case. However, the young detective
20 VII  |            absorbed in studying his case that he had thought neither
21 VIII |             All right then. In that case you will not refuse us the
22 VIII |             brightened up. “In that case,” said he, “I have a letter
23 IX   |         light-heartedness. “In that case,” said the young detective
24 IX   |         Segmuller has charge of the case, and he’s waiting for you.”~
25 IX   |      looking over the papers of the case, but I will attend to you
26 IX   |        latter was busy studying the case which had so unexpectedly
27 IX   |          said he, “I understand the case well enough to examine the
28 IX   |             aware that such was the case.~“Precisely, my good sir,”
29 X    |            book’s contents. In this case, however, M. Segmuller did
30 X    |            hidden in shadow; and in case of need, he could, by bending
31 X    |             grave blunder. “In that case,” said he, “will you give
32 XI   |             had killed.”~“In either case your own interest should
33 XII  |            the magistrate. “In that case,” said he, “I suppose you
34 XII  |         this essential point of the case—a point upon which the prosecution
35 XII  |          brain, who understands his case. He won’t need any lawyer’
36 XII  |              I wish I were! In that case, I should have satisfactory
37 XIII |             a knowing air. “In that case,” said he, “my conjectures
38 XIII |            if such should prove the case. I must admit that my opinion
39 XIV  |  investigating magistrate to use in case of necessity. Let us lose
40 XV   |          however, that such was the case, and the father’s crime
41 XVI  |           coffee began to study the case with renewed ardor. He had
42 XVII |         forty-five.”~“If that’s the case,” interrupted M. Segmuller, “
43 XVII |               Yes, such must be the case,” said M. Segmuller, approvingly. “
44 XVII |            was Lecoq to do? Was the case utterly hopeless? Not yet.
45 XVIII|          mockery retorted: “In that case there is no hope of my ever
46 XVIII|        entirely to the study of the case. “Henceforth,” he said to
47 XVIII|            instance such is not the case; May is a prisoner, and
48 XIX  |            reading the note. In any case, he would have an opportunity
49 XIX  |             it you? For me? In that case, why didn’t I keep it? Who
50 XIX  |          his accomplices. In such a case what is to be done? Is he
51 XIX  |    dismissed, after conducting this case so well?”~“Ah, sir, unfortunately
52 XIX  |    exclaimed M. Segmuller; “in that case, what do they think of me?”~
53 XIX  |        speak to him, and plead your case for you.”~Lecoq’s joy was
54 XIX  |       Escorval is interested in the case?”~“Prodigiously! I conclude
55 XIX  |        prosecution, and because the case rightfully belongs to him.
56 XXI  |          sagacity. If such were the case he was satisfied on this
57 XXI  |         without being seen? In that case he would be far away by
58 XXI  |             him.”~“Since that’s the case,” said Lecoq, slightly reassured, “
59 XXI  |   reasonably suppose this to be the case; and such was the opinion
60 XXII |       particulars and worked up the case by himself.~Soon these platonic
61 XXII |            for his chosen work.~The case of Madame B——, the rich
62 XXII |             to pursue in some great case, they invariably said: “
63 XXII |            when he was working up a case, the strange visitors he
64 XXIII|           Chupin’s cabin. I saw the case mentioned in the ‘Gazette
65 XXIV |           his identity—this was the case in the present instance,
66 XXIV |           argument. “Such being the case,” said he, “do me the favor
67 XXIV |          order to withdraw from the case without exciting suspicion?”~“