Chapter

 1 II   |    the idea to the fact, from theory to practise. This is the
 2 II   |       to you that my youthful theory is better than all your
 3 III  |      at the simplicity of the theory that seems so incomprehensible
 4 V    |   succeeded in establishing a theory which, if it was not the
 5 VI   |      about the neck made this theory extremely plausible.~No
 6 VIII |   resolutely persisted in his theory, guided by the following
 7 VIII |  argument in favor of Lecoq’s theory. This wretched man’s secret
 8 X    |   think a moment, sir, such a theory would prove that the idea
 9 XI   |      Segmuller to abandon the theory propounded by Lecoq. On
10 XIII |      and it was with a common theory and an equal ardor that
11 XIII |     of the correctness of the theory advanced by the ‘overzealous’
12 XIII | accumulated in support of his theory. He also placed in his hands
13 XV   |   possible to be so strong in theory, and yet so ridiculously
14 XV   |      premature to expose this theory at headquarters in Gevrol’
15 XVIII|     was a believer in Lecoq’s theory; and he was impressed by
16 XIX  |    that could be found to the theory adopted by the prosecution.
17 XIX  |      to prove the truth of my theory at any cost? It was a hazardous
18 XX   |       vast difference between theory and practise,” he remarked. “
19 XXV  |   which completely upsets the theory we have built up so laboriously.”~“