Through the Wall
f cab drivers and belated pedestrians and to this Coquenil and the commissary now withdrew. Before anything else the detectiv
seated in the back room, "did you find out how that woman
t was hanging there. It belonged to the telephone girl and it's missing. The rain coat had a hood to it
pa Tignol," ap
od work this night," chuckled Tignol
!" muttere
oquenil listening with intense concentration, interrupting now and
e banquet room and from these private
tell m
r went out, he must
es
o passed Joseph were the
act
he muttered.
do you
guilt on one or the
aren
nd the
y-e
at. The murderer I am looking for is not that kind of a murderer. To begin with, he's not a fool. If he made up his
given them to you," retorted t
shook h
some of the facts; before morning I
very large mouth, the owner of the place, who had been hove
iend?" asked Coque
front room who came forward with fidgety shyness, begging the gentlemen to forgive her if she ha
d as a seamstress all day in a hot, crowded atelier, and when she came home at night she loved to go out on her balcony, especially these fine summer evenings. She would stand there and brush her hair while she watched the
"what has that to do with me? I have ve
ol shot from across the street, and looking down, she saw a glittering object thrown from a window. She saw it distinctly and watched where it fell beyond the high wal
o longer and, taking the woman's
where you saw this glitterin
the left of that heavy doorway on the courty
o the left of tha
him quick instructions, whereupon the old man hurried acro
what it was?" asked
" and at that moment the door swung o
person who threw this thing
I saw h
f satisfaction. "His ar
k coat sleeve and his wh
ot his
nly th
which he threw this object?" The
ber; it's the end window, on the
erstood the commissary's diagram, the seamstress was pointing n
ide, he asked: "Does that end window on the fi
er Se
window ne
ber
you s
utely
ment," and he rejo
ce," he said to her politely. "I
he murmured
open windows, the end window and the one next to it. Isn't it possible
, n
both being open, one mig
ely. "I have made no mista
the door opposite and, looking over,
aid and hurried a
e," whispe
pis
es
ered what I
rse I did. I haven't touched it.
to stay here until I come bac
us, friendly air, he began: "And you still think tha
ion: "I beg a thousand pardons, I am nervous. I
l. "Now go right back to your room and
monsieur be so kind as to say
d whispered mysteriously: "I
omb!" exclaimed the u
ing your hair," he urged, and the woman
iage plants between which the pistol had fallen. The doorkeeper of the house, a crabbed individual who had only become mi
urch is a high iron railing around the archbishop's house. In the railing is an iron gate with a night bell for Extreme Unction. Ring this bell and ask to see the sacristan Bonneton, and when he comes out give him this." Coquenil wrote hastily on a card. "It's an order t
touched his c
stol. When the doorkeeper comes back sen
nodded th
ougeot: "I must talk to Grit
watch. "Yes, but do you real
pends on it. Get him out of bed for m
"but what in Heaven's name are
" answere