Chapter

 1 I    | energetic measures had failed to prove successful. Watched, hunted,
 2 II   |         beneath them! But I will prove to you that my youthful
 3 II   |      comrade. Such charges might prove most dangerous for his future
 4 III  |   unexplained. But what did that prove now? Nothing, simply nothing.
 5 III  |          of it, however; and can prove it conclusively. If you
 6 III  |         more. For example, I can prove to you that although the
 7 IV   |     recognizable footprints will prove the culprits’ ruin. How
 8 VI   |       the diamond—what does that prove? That the scoundrels had
 9 VIII |          Once again did the fact prove stranger than fiction. Here
10 IX   |          Who can tell me—who can prove to me that, on the contrary,
11 IX   |         Yes, you did, and I will prove it by having your evidence
12 X    |         sir, such a theory would prove that the idea we entertained
13 X    |           but it is necessary to prove your innocence.”~“What must
14 X    |   innocence.”~“What must I do to prove it?”~“Tell the truth, the
15 X    |         and those who are shrewd prove remarkably reticent. Confining
16 XI   |          It will be necessary to prove that.”~Judging by the murderer’
17 XI   |   evident perplexity. “How can I prove it—how?” he murmured.~The
18 XI   |          besides, my trunk would prove the truth of what I’ve told
19 XI   |       should like to see any one prove that!” So saying, the prisoner
20 XI   |       tone of assurance: “I will prove it.”~
21 XII  |   fair-haired women: but who can prove that these women were the
22 XIII |         surprised if such should prove the case. I must admit that
23 XIV  |        neighborhood and asked to prove the truth of his story.~
24 XVI  |      woman whose testimony might prove so decisive. When he saw,
25 XVI  |          her testimony might not prove his death-warrant. Accordingly,
26 XVII |         to find the culprit, and prove his guilt. The longer investigation
27 XVIII|        the right and yet can not prove it.~“Ah, me!” sometimes
28 XVIII|      trusted that his ears might prove of use, hoping that some
29 XIX  |   returned.~“And what if I could prove that you are uttering a
30 XIX  |      Segmuller. “What if I could prove it—here and now?”~“You would
31 XIX  |         guilty, they contrive to prove his guilt; everybody knows
32 XIX  |          songs, he endeavored to prove to the prisoner that each
33 XIX  |         by me in a mad desire to prove the truth of my theory at
34 XIX  |         for, of course, it would prove a fortune for them, if they
35 XXII |         he said at last. “And to prove it I’ll tell you how it
36 XXII |           This, however, he must prove. From that day forward he
37 XXIV |          Lecoq.~“Don’t the facts prove that beyond a doubt?” retorted
38 XXIV |        nor fretted, nor tried to prove that he had been right when