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Title: The Crime of the Boulevard

Author: Jules Claretie

Translator: Mrs. Carlton A. Kingsbury

Release Date: October 11, 2010 [EBook #34058]

Language: English

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_The Crime of
The Boulevard_

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By JULES CLARETIE
Member of the French Academy

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Translated by
MRS. CARLTON A. KINGSBURY

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R. F. FENNO & COMPANY
Eighteen East Seventeenth Street :: NEW YORK

Copyright, 1897
BY
R. F. FENNO & COMPANY

The Crime of the Boulevard

THE
CRIME OF THE BOULEVARD.

CHAPTER I.

"WHERE does Bernardet live?"

"At the passage to the right--Yes, that house which you see with the
grating and the garden behind it."

The man to whom a passer-by had given this information hurried away in
the direction pointed out; although gasping for breath, he tried to run,
in order to more quickly reach the little house at the end of the
passage of the Elysee des Beaux Arts. This passage, a sort of
cul-de-sac, on either side of which were black buildings, strange old
houses, and dilapidated storehouses, opened upon a boulevard filled with
life and movement; with people promenading; with the noise of tramways;
with gaiety and light.

The man wore the dress and had the bearing of a workman. He was very
short, very fat, and his bald head was bared to the warm October rain.
He was a workman, in truth, who labored in his concierge