Chapter

 1 I    |            excepting in parties of three or four.~After midnight,
 2 I    |         came down, and I saw those three men that are lying there
 3 II   |           the still warm bodies of three murdered men he could talk
 4 III  | accompanied by two women. He found three men drinking here, who either
 5 III  |            him; he was one against three; he was armed; he became
 6 III  |     lattice-work, rather more than three feet high, was all that
 7 IV   |           mistaken. They sank down three or four inches in the snow,
 8 V    |          the rigid features of the three victims. Without losing
 9 V    |         they hold next to nothing. Three of these glasses were broken,
10 V    |   successively the surfaces of the three overturned tables. Upon
11 V    |       fortune!—a bottle of brandy, three parts full. He hesitated
12 V    |         two barrels discharged and three still loaded. This weapon,
13 VI   |     evidenced by the bodies of the three victims; but the authorities
14 VI   |          last, “to transport these three bodies to the Morgue. There
15 VII  |        stove, and badly lighted by three small windows, the panes
16 VII  |     brought to these grim portals.~Three or four attendants, who
17 VII  |          wooden benches that lined three sides of the room. These
18 VII  |           had waited during nearly three hours, as motionless as
19 VIII |      personified by the corpses of three victims lying on the marble
20 VIII |        perceived Gevrol, who, with three of his men, had come to
21 VIII |            the young detective, in three different keys. “And which
22 VIII |        must tell you that at about three o’clock in the morning,
23 VIII |            establish had furnished three victims for their delectation.
24 VIII |           bestowed a glance on the three victims. He was looking
25 VIII |         when at about nine o’clock three young men entered, arm-in-arm.
26 IX   |            one month’s and then to three months’ imprisonment for
27 IX   |      suddenly the door opened, and three men and two women came in.”~
28 IX   |            been of little use. The three men who had come in first
29 IX   |          him; he was alone against three, and saw very plainly that
30 IX   |           full purport, for two or three red-hot coals having fallen
31 IX   |           you not surprised to see three men utterly unknown to you,
32 X    |          he carried his right foot three inches behind his left heel,
33 X    |       right to do that. There were three men against me. It was a
34 X    |        have been told that already three times since yesterday,”
35 XI   |     silence. “I see that you speak three European languages correctly,”
36 XI   |            enough to frighten one. Three men and two women were drinking
37 XI   |        weapon were discharged, but three men were killed. You have
38 XIV  |          Prefecture. After ringing three or four times, one of the
39 XIV  |            silk. She was repeating three or four German words with
40 XV   |             sou by sou, the sum of three thousand francs. Then her
41 XV   |          lasted, that is, for some three or four months, matters
42 XVII |            passed out of his hands three or four years before.~“Wait
43 XVIII|          It was remembered only in three places, at the Depot, at
44 XVIII|          begins to count one, two, three, and so on, until he finds
45 XVIII|         told her your wishes.”~The three persons who had witnessed
46 XIX  |        made any inquiry during the three weeks that this fellow May
47 XIX  |           advice was followed; and three days later the culprit was
48 XIX  |         may venture to say that in three days from now I could call
49 XIX  |          sent his man to me two or three days ago to ascertain what
50 XXI  |         through the glass doors of three of these establishments
51 XXI  |         May’s accomplice, and with three bounds he was upon him.
52 XXI  |           man who has the blood of three victims already on his hands.
53 XXII |           who has been missing for three months. You must have a
54 XXIII|        been up to?”~“He has killed three men.”~“Oh! oh! oh!” said
55 XXIII|          oh!” said old Tabaret, in three different tones, plainly
56 XXIII|          show you how, on at least three occasions, you allowed an
57 XXIV |      fatality in it. I have killed three men, and I am in your power.
58 XXIV |           But I must tell you that three or four times, at least,