The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories

the body of the woman murdered last night

me Jones' calmness was not

e!" he exclaimed, le

id Nick, "and I must p

" said the accused. "I know that my wife

same house with you ha

has. Nobody in that

y in the city wh

think of

grocer with w

n sick. Since then I've done what little there was

restau

lcazar, for instance, where we

ad waiter th

emember her face. He

ll have him lo

at it, aren't you?" exclaimed Jones.

e will try to get somebody from

head waiter remembered Jones' face. He had seen h

t to the unde

ched the body. He started violently at t

he said, "but there is no rese

," said the head waiter;

ose beside them, "I believe that t

es' face as he turned quickly

said, "I am surprised

he Joneses bought their supplies," said

er seen my wife," said Jones, lo

or twice, but always closely veiled. So I cannot be sure; and, of cours

ken, sir," sai

ned to

or the present," he said, with a s

risoner to Poli

ile sent Patsy in quest

oom, and a dozen other men were assembled t

ery nervous wh

t I'm tellin' yer I was all right last night. I wasn't half so para

room. When he saw how many men were there

on the matter, and pr

is the

intment, and then he laughed,

rrigan had sele

s-work. Being sharply questioned, he confessed that he

at last; "I don't know whether the mug was whi

ing," said the sergeant to Ni

Nick. "He's not the sort of man who woul

the prisoner in the presence o

ward enough, but they threw

was the whereabouts of his wife. When questio

to enjoy it. This affair will be all over when she gets back. S

where he was informed that a

years of age, and apparently in prospero

about something, for his hands trembled

id, anxiously, "can

lau

ything to preve

keep what I shall

r; I wi

e a despair

siness was always strict

but I tak

an that exac

stammered, and wa

calm. Tell me plainly what

it's for a-for a

at can I do fo

ime, of which he is entirely in

sked to do tha

ave always

l cases the person

r shuddere

never failed to find the guilty

s been my good fortune to

these innocent pers

innocent. Their friends assured me that the pers

e man's eyes, "I should advise you to be very sure of you

looked very

he cried. "My friend had n

o hear it.

arrested in this res

n Jo

me he has given

that his

ow," stammere

r friend of yours, since you

saw him i

here

d is my

don't hang together. You began by sa

must be terrible to be arrested for such a crime and to fin

know that he

d reply there came

answe

he said, throwing

e, and-Good God

ow him,

d Gaspard; "he is the man wh