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In keeping with him, this was once a part of a cursed goblet hidden inside of an outdated cupboard by way of … have a wager. ’ ‘I quit. ’ ‘By the Grand grasp of the Knights Templar himself, Jacques de Molay! whilst i discussed your identify, Monsieur de Vigneules launched into a stressed discourse within which he asserted that you simply had supplied him with “Pharaonic posteriors” – these have been his phrases – in alternate for info in regards to the goblet. Bertille Piot, the prepare dinner, proven it by way of telling me that she had taken a letter from her grasp to a photographer in Rue des Saints-Pères. Do you deny that you're that photographer? ‘Not in any respect. ’ ‘So you furthermore may won’t deny having being advised of treasure that you simply set approximately monitoring down? ’ Victor unconsciously imitated Tasha’s tick, nibbling his thumbnail as he made up his brain. eventually he spoke. ‘I don’t deny it. It’s the reality. ’ ‘Liar! Rogue! Hypocrite! ’ yelled the inspector. ‘I don’t think during this treasure. Fortunat de Vigneules has a screw unfastened. It’s precise you have been trying to find whatever — you, your affiliate and Joseph — yet that whatever used to be stolen from you in a break-in! Raoul Pérot pronounced it to me. ’ ‘Inspector, even though Kenji was once disenchanted to have had his French Pâtissier and The publication of Manners by means of the a lot esteemed Baronne Staffe stolen, I swear to you that …’ ‘I forbid you to swear! i'm last in on you. I’m definite that if this murky affair has tickled your fancy, it’s simply because, indirectly or one other, you're for my part associated with it. And once more I meet a wall of silence while I seek advice from your entourage. Their lips are sealed, and that comes with your associate’s daughter and your female friend. Even that obsequious cousin of Madame du Houssoye won’t say a observe with out first asking her permission! ’ Inspector Lecacheur stowed the tripod in a single of the wallet of his braided hussar’s jacket. He wore the philosophical resignation of 1 who is familiar with he’s crushed. yet Victor was once now not fooled and expected a counter-attack. He controlled to maintain calm whilst, unexpectedly bending over him, the inspector shouted, ‘Achille Ménager! ’ ‘A relative of yours? ’ Victor enquired, with no batting a watch. ‘A bric-a-brac service provider on Rue de great within the 11th arrondissement. An nameless mobilephone name used to be made to Raoul Pérot — him back, even though it’s no longer his region of jurisdiction – informing him that Ménager have been slain by way of a bullet like the different sufferers whose deaths i used to be investigating. The man’s condo have been ransacked from most sensible to backside, and his store had additionally been scoured. when you consider that he possessed in simple terms valueless baubles, what may possibly the intruder were after? ’ ‘I can’t think, Inspector. Has he been apprehended? ’ ‘We’ve arrested a tender Neapolitan woman, an organ participant who used to be the victim’s tenant and who left her accommodations all at once and moved into the Latin region the place she used to be simply picked up. regrettably for us, a minimum of a dozen scholars and different Bohemian forms have been dancing the sardana round this Anna Marcelli at the day of the crime …’ ‘Not the sardana, Inspector, you suggest the saltarelle.