CHAPTER

I.—­A blood-red sky
II.—­Coquenil’s greatest case
III.—­Private room number six
IV.—­“In the name of the law”
V.—­Coquenil gets in the game
VI.—­The weapon
VII.—­The footprints
VIII.—­Through the wall
IX.—­Coquenil marks his man
X.—­Gibelin scores A point
XI.—­The towers of Notre-Dame
XII.—­By special order
XIII.—­Lloyd and Alice
XIV.—­The woman in the case
XV.—­Pussy Wilmott’s confession
XVI.—­The third pair of boots
XVII.—­“From higher up”
XVIII.—­A long little finger
XIX.—­Touching A yellow tooth
XX.—­The memory of A dog
XXI.—­The wood carver
XXII.—­At the hairdresser’s
XXIII.—­Groener at Bay
XXIV.—­Thirty important words
XXV.—­The moving picture
XXVI.—­Coquenil’s mother
XXVII.—­The diary
XXVIII.—­A great criminal
XXIX.—­The lost dolly
XXX.—­Mrs. Lloyd Kittredge

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

“’We’ll show ’em, eh, Caesar?’”
“‘Alice,’ he cried ...  ‘Say it isn’t true’”
“‘I want you,’ he said in a low voice”
“‘I didn’t resign; I was discharged’”
“On the floor lay a man”
“‘Ask Beau Cocono,’ he called back”
“‘Alice, I am innocent’”
“‘Have one?’ said M. Paul, offering his cigarette case”
“‘There it lies to the left of that heavy doorway’”
“‘Cherche!’ he ordered”
“He prolonged his victory, slowly increasing the pressure”
“Gibelin beamed.  ‘The old school has its good points, after all’”
“‘I know why you are thinking about that prison’”
“She was just bending over it when Coquenil entered”
“‘Did you write this?’”
“And when he could think no longer, he listened to the pickpocket”
“‘They all swore black and blue that Addison told the truth’”
“A door was opened suddenly and he was pushed into a room”
“‘Stand still, I won’t hurt you’”
“‘There!’ he said with a hideous grin, and he handed Tignol the tooth”
“‘My dog, my dog!’”
“The confessional box was empty—­Alice was gone!”
“‘You mean that Father Anselm helped her to run away?’ gasped Matthieu”
“‘No nonsense, or you’ll break your arm’”
“‘It’s the best disguise I ever