Chapter

 1 I    |           inspector, “it is at the Poivriere.”~This peculiar appellation “
 2 I    |         This peculiar appellation “Poivriere” or “pepper-box” was derived
 3 I    |           in disguise, here at the Poivriere, at Mother Chupin’s house.
 4 II   |            last, as he reached the Poivriere with Gevrol and the other
 5 II   |          to remain with him at the Poivriere, Lecoq had requested the
 6 III  |          the horrible scene at the Poivriere, his joy was extreme—“A
 7 III  |        that two women had left the Poivriere by the back door. They had
 8 III  |          women did not come to the Poivriere this evening for the first
 9 III  |           a hundred yards from the Poivriere, Lecoq suddenly seized his
10 III  |           murderer repaired to the Poivriere with the two women, his
11 III  |          was not half-way from the Poivriere when her speed relaxed,
12 III  |           accomplice to run to the Poivriere and see what was passing
13 IV   |            the neighborhood of the Poivriere, had a very bad time of
14 IV   |            must now go back to the Poivriere, and go quickly. And you,
15 IV   |           haste to get back to the Poivriere that he almost ran, Father
16 V    |         was some distance from the Poivriere to the Rue de Chevaleret,
17 V    |        ears would have come to the Poivriere. Who would have believed
18 V    |        jail birds, habitues of the Poivriere,” he had said, adding sententiously: “
19 V    |           horror as he entered the Poivriere. The sergeant-major of the
20 VI   |        commissary of police to the Poivriere.~One of them, a tall old
21 VI   |            horrible tragedy at the Poivriere.~The murderer had certainly
22 VI   |         officials assembled at the Poivriere knew at least by sight the
23 VII  |            hours previously at the Poivriere, standing on the threshold
24 VIII |         morning. The affair at the Poivriere has been noised about, and
25 VIII |           morrow of the tragedy at Poivriere, for the mysterious murderer
26 IX   |       since his departure from the Poivriere.~With rare precision and
27 IX   |           later the hostess of the Poivriere entered the room, bowing
28 IX   |          terrible termagant of the Poivriere, that her customers would
29 IX   | antecedents of the landlady of the Poivriere would certainly have been
30 IX   |          name, the landlady of the Poivriere became visibly embarrassed,
31 X    |           that the landlady of the Poivriere was conniving with the murderer.
32 XI   |         day you had discovered the Poivriere, which is merely frequented
33 XI   |           his desk the plan of the Poivriere drawn by Lecoq. “Come here,”
34 XII  |         the persons you met at the Poivriere.”~“I swear it.”~“Have you
35 XII  |          chance brought you to the Poivriere. Can you reconcile such
36 XII  |          you while you were at the Poivriere? Who is this accomplice
37 XII  |            same that fled from the Poivriere?”~“The police agent you
38 XIII |         tradesman attracted to the Poivriere by some shameful passion
39 XIII |         all the frequenters of the Poivriere, and might perhaps give
40 XV   |            about the affair at the Poivriere, and that I told him all
41 XV   |          of the district where the Poivriere is situated.”~“Very well,
42 XV   |   implicated in the murders at the Poivriere,” he said; “one who came
43 XV   |       among the frequenters of the Poivriere?”~“No, sir, I’m quite sure
44 XVII |          two women flying from the Poivriere had momentarily taken refuge;
45 XVII |    residing in the vicinity of the Poivriere; together with some of Polyte’
46 XVIII|             had the tragedy at the Poivriere occurred in the times of
47 XXIII|      Gevrol opened the door of the Poivriere to the instant when May
48 XXIV |       diamond earring found at the Poivriere.”~“I made every effort to
49 XXV  |           part in the broil at the Poivriere had been the Duc de Sairmeuse,
50 XXV  |        explain his presence at the Poivriere, and the presence of a woman,