He was not, however, hurt in the struggle.

The victim must have clung with a death-grip to his hands; but, as he had not taken off his lavender kid gloves,--" "Gloves! Why this is romance," exclaimed Gevrol.
"Have you examined the dead woman's finger-nails, M.Gevrol?
No.

Well, do so, and then tell me whether I am mistaken.

The woman, now dead, we come to the object of her assassination.

What did this well-dressed young gentleman want?
Money?
Valuables?
No! no! a hundred times no! What he wanted, what he sought, and what he found, were papers, documents, letters, which he knew to be in the possession of the victim.