He
was intimately acquainted with the Stangersons, and, after an
assiduous seven years' courtship of the daughter, had been on the
point of marrying her. In spite of the fact that she has become, as
the phrase goes, "a person of a certain age," she was still
remarkably good-looking. While I was dressing I called out to
Rouletabille, who was impatiently moving about my sitting-room:
"Have you any idea as to the murderer's station in life?"
"Yes," he replied; "I think if he isn't a man in society, he is, at
least, a man belonging to the upper class. But that, again, is only
an impression."
"What has led you to form it?"
"Well,--the greasy cap, the common handkerchief, and the marks
of the rough boots on the floor," he replied.
"I understand," I said; "murderers don't leave traces behind them
which tell the truth."
"We shall make something out of you yet, my dear Sainclair,"
concluded Rouletabille.
CHAPTER III
"A Man Has Passed Like a Shadow Through the Blinds"
Half an hour later Rouletabille and I were on the platform of the
Orleans station, awaiting the departure of the train which was to
take us to Epinay-sur-Orge.
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