Chapter

 1 I    |     Horrible!” cried the police agent, who was peering through
 2 I    |       how I suffer.”~The police agent, who had cut off the murderer’
 3 I    |   nothing,” declared the police agent, but as he spoke there was
 4 I    |        replied the young police agent, who had shown himself so
 5 II   |             II~The young police agent to whom Gevrol abandoned
 6 II   |  cavalry service, had become an agent of the prefecture. In the
 7 II   |      pleasing to the old police agent. “Eh! what is the use of
 8 II   |          reward” the old police agent pricked up his ears. He
 9 III  |      eagerly inquired the other agent: “what do you see?”~“Come
10 III  |        stupefied the old police agent.~“Now,” continued Lecoq, “
11 III  |        wishes, the young police agent explored the surroundings
12 III  |         speak, accuse!”~The old agent was saying to himself: “
13 III  |   follow you.”~The young police agent could not, indeed, blame
14 IV   |       grumbled the young police agent.~Certainly they could not
15 IV   |     make haste!”~The old police agent followed him as in duty
16 V    |        return, the young police agent remembered this neglect
17 V    |         second the young police agent had weighed all these possibilities,
18 V    |   explosion of the young police agent’s vanity, nor his return
19 V    | monsieur,” which the old police agent used in speaking of his
20 V    |         become the young police agent’s godfather. From that day
21 V    |        replied the young police agent, having recourse to all
22 VI   |     Father Absinthe and another agent of police, they lifted the
23 VI   |          added the young police agent. “It bears the number 3,
24 VI   |        eyes of the young police agent sparkled. “We must then
25 VI   |       nervous, the young police agent tried to read upon the magistrate’
26 VII  |        other.”~The young police agent had grown very thoughtful. “
27 VIII |       where a shrewd and subtle agent was required was a mockery.
28 IX   |       is the first time that an agent has brought me a report
29 X    |       could he, a humble police agent, venture to express any
30 XI   |         said: ‘You are a police agent; you’ve come here to play
31 XI   | answered that I wasn’t a police agent. He replied that I was.
32 XI   |   sentence you uttered when the agent you see here arrested you.”~“
33 XII  |        to your feet. The police agent who collected it has been
34 XII  |  turning toward Lecoq. “Ah! Mr. Agent, it’s good to be sharp,
35 XII  |         Poivriere?”~“The police agent you see here followed the
36 XIV  |         and that the old police agent had not been seen since
37 XV   |   forget that he, an old police agent, had been duped as easily
38 XV   |     know him.”~The young police agent could not repress an exclamation
39 XVIII|        of his identity, and the agent for the prosecution, equally
40 XIX  |       features. “Ah! it is this agent of police who says the letter
41 XIX  |         altered tone. “The same agent who asserts that I am a
42 XIX  |         receives no letters, an agent, who wishes to show that
43 XX   |      and then a policeman or an agent of the detective corps passed
44 XX   |     wits.~“You see that I am an agent of the Prefecture of Police,”
45 XXI  |       what I seem to be. I’m an agent of the secret service; by
46 XXV  |       and you, an infinitesimal agent of police, would be shattered