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Lecoq pushed open the glass doors and entered the office. Frontispiece

Opposite them stood a young man, a heavy oaken table forming a rampart before him 8

"Can you not see, Monsieur, that you are torturing me frightfully, pitilessly?" 182

There was evident suspicion in the glance he cast around him. 314