Chapter

 1 II   |         had become an agent of the prefecture. In the humble office that
 2 V    |           reported the case to the prefecture, and now he was coming—leisurely
 3 VI   |            While the agents of the prefecture were gathered around the
 4 VI   |          quarter of an hour at the prefecture when he reported the case.
 5 VI   |         have them conducted to the prefecture, where they will be privately
 6 VI   |            must wait for me at the prefecture, where I shall proceed as
 7 VII  |       conduct the prisoners to the prefecture.”~The keeper rubbed his
 8 VII  |         lie in wait for him at the prefecture.”~When the door of the prison-van
 9 VIII |           walk. I was going to the prefecture to request you, on M. d’
10 VIII |        However, when I reached the prefecture you had gone.”~“I had some
11 VIII |             he had obtained at the prefecture the names and addresses
12 IX   |     messenger has been sent to the prefecture after you already. M. Segmuller
13 XIV  |             I will go first to the Prefecture and to the Morgue; then
14 XIV  |        find Father Absinthe at the Prefecture, and no one could give any
15 XIV  |         better success than at the Prefecture. After ringing three or
16 XVI  |            of all proceeded to the Prefecture of Police, going the longest
17 XVI  |       follow him away.~“Run to the Prefecture of Police,” he said as soon
18 XVII |            Lecoq returned from the Prefecture. M. Segmuller at once asked
19 XVII |       yesterday. The clerks at the Prefecture remember the widow’s sister
20 XVII |             He was employed by the Prefecture of Police as an expert in
21 XVIII|       places, at the Depot, at the Prefecture de Police, and at the Palais
22 XVIII|           the second bureau of the Prefecture de Police found positive
23 XVIII|     whenever Lecoq appeared at the Prefecture he had to brave his colleagues’
24 XVIII|          Gevrol, the oracle of the Prefecture, wrong! What shame and ridicule
25 XIX  |    approval. Go, therefore, to the Prefecture; see your superiors—”~With
26 XX   |        been seen hanging about the Prefecture de Police. He wore a tattered
27 XX   |        passed by on his way to the Prefecture, and the elderly gentleman
28 XX   |          that I am an agent of the Prefecture of Police,” said the visitor,
29 XXII |       Palais de Justice, or to the Prefecture de Police?”~Lecoq shuddered
30 XXII |          of his situation. “To the Prefecture!” he responded. “Why should
31 XXII |          and, going on foot to the Prefecture de Police, humbly begged
32 XXII |            his exact status at the Prefecture. When a person is employed,
33 XXII | subsequently he seldom visited the Prefecture. But yet he remained “the
34 XXIII|          oracle—Tirauclair, of the Prefecture—Tabaret, of the Rue Saint