The assassin has an _alibi_.

Albert has pleaded none; then he is innocent." M.Daburon surveyed the detective pityingly, much as he would have looked at a remarkable monomaniac.

When the old fellow had finished,--"My worthy M.Tabaret," the magistrate said to him: "you have but one fault.

You err through an excess of subtlety, you accord too freely to others the wonderful sagacity with which you yourself are endowed.

Our man has failed in prudence, simply because he believed his rank would place him above suspicion." "No, sir, no, a thousand times no.