Chapter

 1 II   |          survived him only a few hours. He was left alone in the
 2 II   |          probabilities. In a few hours the commissary of police,
 3 III  | authorities will arrive in a few hours, and what report shall we
 4 V    |        the plain, and fully four hours had been occupied by Lecoq
 5 V    |      preamble as “I think” a few hours before, but the blunder
 6 VI   |          met at the Rainbow some hours before the murder.~It was
 7 VI   |     Gevrol, who for the past two hours had pretended to pay no
 8 VI   |        is, that for the past two hours the worthy commissary’s
 9 VI   |     search of twelve or fourteen hours. That the murderer had an
10 VII  |        same man he had seen some hours previously at the Poivriere,
11 VII  |       waited during nearly three hours, as motionless as the bench
12 VIII |         feet for more than forty hours, and had scarcely paused
13 VIII |         most unfortunate day—six hours on a stand on the Boulevards,
14 XII  |     result of twelve or fourteen hours’ research,” he at length
15 XII  |       station-house, forty-eight hours—thirty-six of them spent
16 XII  |         and that way for so many hours that I begin to feel as
17 XIII |      less than seven consecutive hours.~The smiling clerk, who
18 XIII |      During the past twenty-four hours this worthy functionary
19 XIII |          of the next twenty-four hours that our man will have been
20 XIV  |      during the last forty-eight hours, the young detective had
21 XV   |           and indeed a couple of hours had elapsed before they
22 XV   | continued slumbering for several hours longer, if at half-past
23 XV   |       drive yesterday lasted two hours and a half, which, according
24 XV   |        ve still more than twelve hours at your disposal.”~“That
25 XV   |      sworn to spend those twelve hours waiting outside your door.
26 XVIII|           And if, in twenty-four hours from now, the culprit has
27 XIX  |       To-morrow! The twenty-four hours that separated the young
28 XIX  |          loft for the night. The hours seemed interminable, and
29 XIX  |   Segmuller reserved twenty-four hours in which to make further
30 XX   |         his sole charge for some hours; for having comfortably
31 XXI  |         s chance interview a few hours before?~“May,” thought Lecoq, “
32 XXI  |  forgotten. At length, after two hours’ continuous work, Lecoq
33 XXI  |         to be alone. For several hours he had been making immense