Chapter 4 - THE CLOUDED TURQUOISE-4

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MEANTIME, M. DESMALIONS had walked up to him and, while pretending to speak to Mazeroux, was really asking Perenna: "What do you think of it?" Mazeroux shook his head. Perenna replied: "I think, Monsieur le Préfet, that, if this woman is guilty, she is defending herself, for all her cleverness, with inconceivable lack of skill." "Meaning—?" "Meaning that she was doubtless only a tool in the hands of an accomplice." "An accomplice?" "Remember, Monsieur le Préfet, her husband's exclamation in your office yesterday: 'Oh, the scoundrels! the scoundrels!' There is, therefore, at least one accomplice, who perhaps is the same as the man who was present, as Sergeant Mazeroux must have told you, in the Café du Pont-Neuf when Inspector Vérot was last there: a man with a reddish-brown beard, c

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