Chapter

 1 I   |         suspect something.”~“Bah!—explain yourself, please.”~“How
 2 I   |   yourself, please.”~“How can you explain the dog’s faculty of scent?”~
 3 II  |   interrupted Lecoq; “allow me to explain. You have certainly heard
 4 III |           s reflections could not explain his inaction. “Come! my
 5 IV  |          well, papa, these tracks explain everything. When they reached
 6 IV  |         Wait: I was just going to explain. They take some of the best
 7 VI  |         know it better than I can explain it. I know it by his hair,
 8 VI  | prosecutor’s offices at Paris. To explain his repeated refusals, he
 9 VII |         the magistrate. “You will explain it to me by and by. First
10 VIII|     circumstances, how was one to explain the prisoner’s attempt at
11 VIII|           morning dram?~Unable to explain the cause of his comrade’
12 IX  |           Oh, oh! Then how do you explain that on entering the shop
13 X   |   proposed to ask the prisoner to explain it at a later stage of the
14 XI  |          questions. “I can easily explain that,” he replied. “One’
15 XI  |             It remains for you to explain how you—you who had just
16 XI  |         position, he proceeded to explain the drama. “I entered,”
17 XI  |             it remains for you to explain a sentence you uttered when
18 XIV |          was because he could not explain Father Absinthe’s prolonged
19 XIV |         exclaimed: “Ah! now I can explain how it happened that I forgot
20 XV  |          that I can not instantly explain. It is evident that such
21 XIX |         only), do me the favor to explain how such an important personage
22 XIX |        were impossible for him to explain the arrival of this projectile.
23 XIX |       Gevrol’s intervention would explain everything.”~M. Segmuller
24 XXV |      liberty! No—no more do I. To explain his presence at the Poivriere,