"What do you want, Germaine?" " Good evening, Mrs Peeters." "Joseph is there?" " No." "I need money." " You've already had your allowance." "I will not make it." " You say that every month." "I need 500 francs." "What is it, Germaine?" " I want to see Joseph." "Leave my son alone." "I want to see him." " He is not here." "Go away." "You have no heart." "You love only yourself and do not care about my child and me." "Here." "And now you leave us alone." "Come on." "Go home." "Dear cousin." "Friends of mine, Flemish family Peeters, are in trouble." "They are suspected of the murder of a young woman who has disappeared." "Help them please." "They are very lonely." "If you have the time to look at them ... takes their eldest daughter Anna you at the station of Givet." "Good day." "I'm Anna Peeters." "I knew you'd come." "Thank you." "Do you have any other baggage?" " No." "We think you better stay in the hotel." "Shall we go there?" "Why?" " You might be tired." "I'm not tired." "Could you easily free up your work?" "Do you know the area?" " A little." "You can stay a few days?" "I think so." "Were you born here?" " No, in Zolder, near Hasselt." "My parents have just come to live here before the war." "We spoke when no French." "The police." "That's the third search." "My father." "Will you continue." "I'll take anything?" "Sit down, Commissioner." "My mother is so." "Do you play the piano?" "My sister and me." "And violin?" "Joseph, my brother." "He can do anything. making music and studying." "Is he Givet?" "Thank you." " No." "In Leuven." "He's coming tonight." "Anna told me that you want to help us." "We can not thank you enough." "Everyone is against my son." "The police think he's guilty." "They search the house." "It's been so since Germaine disappeared." "When was that?" " On Wednesday, June three." "She came around ten o'clock in the evening." "My mother was here." "Was your brother in Givet that day?" "No." "He only comes on Saturdays." "He was in Leuven, in college." "Why do they suspect him?" "A drunken skipper was him on the quay have seen driving past." "Have you seen Germaine?" " No." "What did you do after her departure?" " I went to my room." "When I returned, my sister sat at the piano and Marguerite was there." "Our niece, the daughter of Dr. Van de Weert." "They live in Givet." "Can the light on in the basement?" " Of course." "Marguerite is the fiance of my brother." "My mother has a hard time." "They have young engaged to be married his study after Joseph." "When he got that kid." "With Germaine." " A child?" "Did they marry equally well?" " Marguerite hoped so." "Did Germaine Piedboeuf it?" "She insisted with 'm getting married." "Maybe he is not even the father." "I did not know..." "Inspector Maigret is going to help us." "My cousin Marguerite." "Thank you for coming." "You should read it." "Who invented it?" " I, just like that." "To help Joseph." "Which motorcyclist drove in three late June along the Meuse?" "Remuneration to obtain at grocery Peeters." "Not a bad idea." "I need to check something in the attic." "Pleasant." "Inspector Machère." "Happy to be working with you." "For you, I do not exist." "I told you on the phone, I am here privately." "Tell your brother to look up to me tonight at the hotel." "We need you." "Everything speaks against Joseph, but I can not do anything without the body." "Where do they come from?" " From Limburg." "Here they are not very popular." "Are they rich?" " Since the war." "The father has had problems with the resistance." "Anna and her mother take care of the house." "In of Piedboeufs?" "Completely different." "The father is watchman and son working in the office." "Is he serious?" " He loves women and billiards." "And Germaine?" " Not very virtuous." "One thing is certain:" "She went on three Jun to the Flemings." "Since then nobody has seen her." "Suicide?" " No." "She loved her child." "I still have a trace." "A bastard of a skipper ... who was prosecuted for fornication." "We'll keep him in mind." "Are you Inspector Maigret?" "I am Joseph Peeters." "Killer." "Where is Germaine?" "Why the hostility?" "My parents supplied the German ships." "They were not alone, but we are Flemish." "And now the incident with Germaine ..." "It does not get any better." "Do you still love your niece?" "Nevertheless, you Germaine pregnant." "Did you want to marry her?" " No way." "It started as a game." "We saw each other secretly." "She made me laugh." "She found me intelligent." "One day she told me she was pregnant." "She did not want to remove it." "I would have paid." "My mother and my sister had helped me." "But she did not." "Are you sure you're the father?" "That is possible." "Looking ever the child?" "Why not?" "The child is a burden to your family." "Fourth of June was not in Givet." " No." "I was in Leuven." "Do you have any witnesses?" "Where were you?" "In my room." "I've been learning." "Have you talked to anyone?" "I do not know that anymore." "That's annoying." "But meanwhile has reacted a motorcycle rider in the ad:" "A garage owner from Dinant." "He drove that evening past the house." "That's nice for you ... but you must prove that you were in Louvain at that time." "That would be even better." "I did not kill her, Commissioner." "I assure you I did not kill her." "What is it?" "Is Mr. Piedboeuf home?" "The father or the son?" " The father." "Are you the police?" "Then you should know that he is lying in bed." "He works at night." "And his son?" "Which is in the works." "Come in." "I am busy." "You gonna eat a sandwich?" "A tasty jam sandwich." "That's the son of that poor Germaine." "He is sweet." "Allows you to him?" " Has disappeared since his mother." "I pass him stand up to his grandfather." "You have to help each other." "Are you the one that they let get?" "Who?" " The Flemings course." "Police always attracts party for the rich." "They have had plenty of time to erase the traces." "Her body will never be found." "Why do you think she's dead?" "I feel it." "You scared me." " Excuse me." "Is the room of your brother?" " Yes." "He left this morning." "A difficult exam." "He is a go-getter." "I hope he succeeds." "Winter can evaporate the lovely spring can pass" "That Ibsen." " I know that." "I stay here waiting for you, O fiancée, until my last day" "I went to the Piedboeufs." "What did they say?" " Nothing." "I've only seen the child and his nanny." "Is your next room?" "How old are you?" " Thirty years." "Have you ever been engaged?" " No." "Will you help me in an experiment?" "The piano playing the same music piece is in three June?" "When I have not played." " Who then?" "Marguerite." "She also sang." " Do you remember what she sang?" "The song of Solveig music by Grieg." "Why?" "Just an experiment." "Do it here." "Should I continue, Commissioner?" " Come back up." "Yesterday, did you see my brother." "Do you think he committed is capable of murder?" "What time it was about?" " Eight o'clock in the evening." "Are you sure?" " Yes." "Excuse me." "Got news?" "The skipper of the Etoile Polar arrived around 8 pm in the café." "Smashed." "At the moment he is already sleeping off his intoxication." "I'm still the corpse." "As long as we do not know, I can not get Peeters." "The motorcyclist is known." " That proves nothing." "Right." " Do you think he's innocent?" "I guess nothing." "See you later." "Gérard Piedboeuf?" " Are you a policeman from Paris?" "Will you come with me?" " I've been there this morning." "Do you want to ask me something?" " Maybe." "I only beginning." "You work for the Flemings." "Everyone knows that." "You want..." "I want nothing." "We go to your father." "Do you know the family Peeters good?" " My sister went with them." "I know that." "And you?" " I have nothing to say." "You've already been here." "Mr. Piedboeuf?" " Come on in." "That's my grandson." "When was his mother last seen?" "Fourth june evening." "She needed money." "They did always difficult as they had to pay." "The allowance." "They wanted rid of her." "She could get a lot of money, if she left for good with the child." "They were against the marriage." "I get 'em." "They will pay." "They killed my sister." " It has not been proven." "I have proof that Peeters who was night in Givet." "That's nothing more valuable." "A motorcyclist has stated that he was there that night." "You really are against us." "Inspector Machère seen?" "No message?" " From your wife." "She calls back." "May I?" " Go ahead." "Would you like to eat?" "I'll send the waiter to you." "What will it be?" " A sirloin." "How do you want him to have?" " Red." "Salad or fries?" " Salad and fries." "Would you like something to drink?" " A beer." "Inspector Maigret." "Phone from Paris." "Your wife." "I listen." "Yes it's me." "It goes well." "Do not worry." "I do not know yet." "I tell you I do not know." "It usually does not go as I would like." "I was just eating." "I'll call you tomorrow if possible." "Kiss." "Cassin of Etoile Polar." "He wants to tell you something." "Will there be some of it?" "Fourth june night you were drunk." "Not at all." "I had a couple of glasses drunk, but I know very well what I have seen." "You saw stop a motor ... the house of the Flemings." " No." "Which I only heard." " What have you seen?" "A woman was waiting on the dock." "I'll tell you who:" "The ene additionally the werkt in name -." "Maria?" "A skinny and sad woman." "I do not know her name." "What time did you see her?" "Eight o'clock, I guess, or later." "Has she seen you?" " No." "I hid." "I thought she was waiting for a friend." "Wanted to peek at them?" " Something like that." "So did you get into trouble." " That is past tense." "Five years in prison." "Who was waiting for Mary?" " Not in a boyfriend." "She was on the lookout." "Two people left the house of the Flemings through the back door." "They have thrown something langwerpigs in the Meuse." "Between my boat and the Atalante that lay behind it." "Come with me." " Where to?" "Come on." "Well?" "Where were you exactly?" "Over there." "Here." "You must think of something else." " Why?" "From here you can not see the grocer." "And even the river between the two boats." "Maybe something away." " That will be best." "If you know it, you will come to us." "And if it's not right, you go to jail." "Does he know anything?" "Today or tomorrow he comes with another evidence against Peeters." "Why?" " I do not know." "To protect himself?" "Do you have a light?" " I do not smoke." "I should have known." "Do you have any matches?" " Of course." "The people of the neighborhood never buy anything from you?" "Only the sailors passing by." "Hopefully I can tonight to meet your daughter Mary." "This is only a few days." "Whether you need to find her in Namur." " Why?" "She sprained her ankle in the schoolyard." "Would you like a drink?" "Want to see Anna?" "When Joseph comes back?" " Saturday." "That's old gin." " Very nice." "Not crazy, huh?" "Nobody is allowed at night in." " I know that. yet do but open." "You will spend the night in this room?" "I have to do three rounds through the building." "You are always alone." "At night here, in the morning in your bed and afternoon?" "I work in the garden ... and care for my grandson." "Are you very sure that your daughter was killed?" "She did not commit suicide." "She loved her too much son." "She is not gone, not even for money." "I still think she loved Joseph Peeters ... despite all the trouble." "I knew he wanted to marry her." "They are rich and we are just ordinary workers." "I must do my lap." "I do not understand why you are against us." "Is your son at home?" " No." "In the city, I think." "Where is he?" " Maybe in the Café de la Mairie." "A beer." "The cop of the Flemings." "If you're rich, you do not have to fear the police." "what you now think you should not say?" "I repeat that the police are at the service of the rich people." "But if you are poor ..." "As if you can not be a Frenchman in France." "And especially not poor." "They have made money on the sleeves." "What do they do with us?" "They make love with our girls, they make pregnant to murder them afterwards." "We go." "You've been drinking too much." " I'm not afraid of him." "Do not mind him." "He drank and he is upset by that stuff." "You can see that he provokes me." "He provokes me." "He mocks me because I've been drinking." "Here he dares to say anything outside of Paris." "Without his people to protect him." "A real shitheel." "Go to bed." "You're going to keep me." "Satisfied?" "Go to bed." "Who is there?" " Machère." "Come on in." "Do the curtains open." "What is going on?" " Big news." "Just arrived." "Wait." "Whether they bring up my breakfast." "And no milk." "Breakfast Mr. Maigret, please." "And no milk." "What news do you have?" " They found Germaine." "Death?" " Dead." "The Ministry of BiZa in Brussels informed me via Paris." "In?" "They found her in the Meuse at Huy." "About 100 kilometers from here." "She was murdered." "Listen:" "The corpse has three weeks at one month in the water." "It was in a far-reaching ..." "Enjoy your meal." "In an advanced state of decomposition." " Only essentials." "According to the section she was dead before she ended up in the water." "The doctor says, for two to three days." "Even more interesting:" "The skull was smashed." "That is the cause of death, according to the physician." "The blow was inflicted ... with a hammer or a sledgehammer." "Do you think it not strange ... she only thrown a few days after her death in the water?" "Do you have a list of her clothes?" " Old black shoes." "Black stockings, pink underwear, a black dress." "No coat?" " No coat, indeed." "And it was raining that day." "Strange." "Do you have an idea?" "I do not know." "The Piedboeufs informed?" " I thought you wanted to go there yourself." "I'm not in charge of this investigation." "You can do it." "See you later." "Where have you been?" "Because of a woman." "I had already been to bed with her." "One day she did not want." "I had been drinking." "When I grabbed her, she was crying." "The police came." "Why did you invented the story of the woman on the dock?" "I?" " You've seen nothing." "Do you think?" "Maybe you're right." "Who asked you to testify?" "Did he pay you?" "He rounds off." "He often does." "But it is not true." "I tell you what you want to hear." "In court would declare the opposite." "What exactly did you see?" "You will not believe it anyway." " Tell." "A woman was waiting on the dock." "Then came a man." "They flew him around the neck." "Who was it?" "I'm not recognized." "Depending located." "I will not tell you what I know, because I hate cops." "I'll let you offer red wine." "Let me see your boat." "The customs officers found him this morning searched." "Have you searched the boat?" " Nothing found." "We do it over." "Totally according to the rules." "What is it?" "You think you're smart." " If not you get me talking." "Sta op." "May I not sit again?" " Get up." "What is that?" "Do you often hard things in your pillow?" "Not very comfortable." "New?" "The stupid is that you have it wrong." "I did not do anything." "I have those things on the waterfront found on the fourth of June." "And when did you get the idea of ​​putting them in your seat cushion?" "I'm used to the cops do not believe me." "Will you keep me?" "You wanted someone here blackmail?" " Never in his life." "Do you like me now on, or what?" "You never know with cops ..." "The doctor expected." "Pleasant." "You are here to help Peeters said my daughter." "I'm glad." "How strong do you have to save a woman in the skull?" "The skull?" "A skull is very sturdy." "I can not say exactly." "Why are you asking this question?" "Just like that." "What do you think of Joseph Peeters?" " He's a good boy." "I would have preferred that he had followed me." "But he wanted to study law." "He would marry your daughter." " Without that wretched thing." "There is no evidence that the child is his." "Have you provided the Piedboeufs money ... to get away Germaine?" "They have not adopted it." "I think Germaine Piedboeuf there with a new boyfriend away." "Do you think your daughter to Joseph goes to bed?" "Who told you that?" "Marguerite sleep with Joseph?" "Recherche." "I would like to speak Maria Peeters." "That is impossible." "What?" " The Mother Superior is about that." "Go get her." " I can not do." "Can not you do that?" " She's with the bishop." "Who will replace her?" " She is irreplaceable." "I want Maria to speak immediately." "Not without the permission of the Mother Superior." "When she comes back?" " About an hour or two." "Maria can I speak?" "Impossible." "That's against the rules." "Sorry." "Is your boss?" "Ahead." "Go me." "Where your boss hides his stuff on?" "Have you not seen the captain?" " No." "Is not he on board?" "The boat from him?" " No." "His cousin from Flémalle." "What he earns sail with it?" " Not much." "I did not hear you." "Are you here for Joseph?" "He is as above." "Anna with him?" " Yes." "Here they already are." "If you are already there, Commissioner?" "Has anyone made yesterday fuss at the Café de la Mairie?" "It was Gérard Piedboeuf?" "Do you want to drink something?" " A gin." "Gives you the bottle and the glass you." "Sit down, Commissioner." "you ever serves in the shop?" " Of course." "You also pays drink in?" " Why not?" "I can not imagine that you are controlling intoxicated boaters me." "Are not they something bold to you?" "Maybe even indecent?" "Not these glasses." "The crystal glasses." "You must once again tell me about him." "Cheers." "We have evidence that Germaine Piedboeuf was murdered." "That's horrible." "Her body was found in Huy." "In the Meuse." "That makes it even harder for us." "Perhaps easier." "If your brother can prove that he was not then." "Why?" " She was killed with a hammer." "That is not true." " I have the hammer in my pocket." "Heard anything about Maria?" "Monday or Tuesday she is better." "Maybe she's not coming back." "Why not?" " They will all be long nun." "And you?" "I become a nun?" "I can not imagine actually me." "What is it?" " I want to talk to you separately." "What?" " About the skipper." "Did he come back?" "Did he confess?" "Z'n pet en z'n jasje... were at the river, with that piece of paper on it." "I'm a bastard." "What I have done is terrible." "I choose the river." "Cassin." "There you have it." "I was just talking about a hammer." "Where were you today?" " In Namur." "Consider how it is with Mary." "Well?" " I was not in there." "Do not you called?" " Absolutely." "Nothing helped." "I am going there." " You are not there." "Inquire at all stations in the area ... the skipper." " You do not believe ..." "And looking for fingerprints." "What is that?" " A hammer." "I need you tonight for dinner." "I would like to speak to the Mother Superior." "She's in the chapel." "Can I wait until the end of the prayer?" "Reverend Mother." "I would like to speak to one of your teachers." "I know it should not." "But it's the freedom of the brother of Maria Peeters." "A policeman was here." "He threatened us." "I'm sorry, but the situation is serious." "He was overzealous." "Would you forgive him?" "Let me take you to her." "Your sister has undoubtedly told you I'm a friend." "Do you have pain?" "Why are you crying?" "Leave me alone." "Please." "I must interrogate you." "Are you Inspector Maigret?" "I can not help you." "She is very sensitive." "Those states have upset her." "And that trap." "She is desperate." "Let us see your face, Mary." "Please." "Sorry." "I'm very nervous." "Have you seen my brother?" " An hour ago." "He was at home with Anna and your cousin Marguerite." "How is he doing?" "Good." "He is calm and confident." "Can I ask you something?" "Fourth of June at ten o'clock at night, what did you do?" "I played piano with Marguerite." "Was your brother there?" "Anna told me that you want to become a nun." "And?" "Should you be in?" " I was an altar boy." "I thought Mary was not there." " Where could she be otherwise?" "Did she really dr sprained ankle?" "It is in any case sick." "And the captain?" "He is by train to Brussels." " Do not fallen into the water so." "No, and if he is not dead, then he fled." "And if he fled?" "You think the same as me." "I guess nothing." "I enjoy the wine." "I asked the detective in Brussels him to hold." "There you have done well." "And the hammer?" "No fingerprints." " I thought so." "You need witnesses." "You have found the hammer." "Not me." "Inspector Machère found him." "Cheers." " On yours, Machère." "Gérard is at home?" " No." "Where is he?" " He slept somewhere else." "If you want a fresh cup of coffee?" "Jeannot, you have to watch, though." "Here." "A little surprise for you." "That should not do." " What would that be?" "Open it." "Why do you speak Gérard?" " Just like that." "Tasty sweets." "May I have one?" "Do you want him to hold?" " Why?" "He has idiot." " He had been drinking." "it is now she is "really" dead, much more difficult for us." "It made no sense, but I still had a little hope." "Especially for the small." "Now everything is over." "She's not coming back." "Are you waiting for your boss?" " Yes." "You can wait a long time." " Even drunk, he always comes back." "The alderman, the city manager and the pharmacist." "The investigation is almost complete." "I expect the news of the arrest of Cassin." "Do you know that people have been talking a lot about you?" "Gossip, I mean." "A nice cold beer." " Enjoy your stay with us?" "That is a long time ago." "She has it not given yourself." "She's too proud for that." "Now at least." "And before?" " It is at least four years ago." "Tell equally." "One Sunday Germaine went to the caves of Rochefort with Joseph." "Anna was present and they also asked me along." "We hebben picnicked." "The weather was nice, we were happy." "I stayed with Anna and it happened naturally." "That's how it goes." "And after that?" "She did love it." "But it did not last long." "I stopped." "She was not my type." "She wanted to, but I do not." "I come by this afternoon, as I said yesterday." "Very well." "What time?" " Half past three." "Does that fit?" "Do you have anything new?" " I think so." "No, not you." "You would not stand." "That will undoubtedly interest." "A good report." "But is not there or ..." "You know what I mean?" " Whether she was raped?" "No." "That's not in there." "Excuse me, Mr. Commissioner." "I heard that the skipper of the Etoile Polar fled." "That means he's guilty." "In that case, the investigation is completed, right?" "I can not answer." "I lead this investigation." "Everything points in his direction." " Yes." "We want him also hold." "But he can say for example ... he found the jacket and the hammer ... and that he has just saved." "Or that he fled because he was afraid." "That makes no sense." "An accusation usually does not make sense." "The defense either." "They can more people blame ... as they did with Joseph." "Do you Gérard Piedboeuf well known?" "I am a little while handled him." " For the birth of the child?" "You sometimes made trips together." "Your sister is even once gone to the caves of Rochefort." "Is that right, Anna?" "I can not remember." " It does not matter." "Would you give me a piece of pie, Miss Anna?" "No fruit cake." "Preferably a piece of your delicious rijstevla." "Do you have him homemade?" " That they do themselves." "I only regret ..." "Mary because it just can not be here before I leave." "Are you going away?" "Tonight." "I'd like to talk to you." " Again." "It has haste." " Excuse me." "I can not those guys." "Their coffee alone." "What is it?" "I have news from Brussels." "The skipper was not in the train." "You call that news?" " Did you know?" "Did you think he was foolish?" "Not me." "Tonight he's been in Amsterdam or Germany." "With what money?" " Good question." "With what money?" "Which does not have a penny." "Any hasty conclusion." " What should I do?" "Drink a drink and listen to music." "Music?" "You know what you should do?" "Playing the song of Solveig." "Today I'm not in the mood." " Soon I'm gone." "Please." "Are you going away?" "Sit at my place and listen." "It is now ready." "What do you want?" "Before my departure I wanted one last time to talk to you." "Where are you?" " Here." "Have you seen the chief?" " We'll be right down." "What do you want me to say?" "You know it." "What are you going to do?" " I told you: return to Paris." "And I?" "Who gave the skipper money?" "I." "What are you going to do?" "How did you Germaine Piedboeuf lured to your room?" "Did you know that you was going to kill her?" "Hoe lang al?" "One month." "Loves you so much for your brother?" "Have you told anyone what you had planned?" "Nobody." " Him not?" "Him not especially." "Under any pretext you Germaine lured to your room?" "She had been screaming in the store." "She always cried." "My mother had given her some money." "I took her out ... and said I had a note from Joseph." "You have gone up through the back door." "You opened the door, Germaine to let go and ..." "What do you mean no?" " I have not beaten her equal." "Maybe I had not even had the courage." "I do not know anymore." "But she looked at my bed and said:" "Does he look up here?" "You're in luck." "You have been a child." "When I have beaten her." " How many times?" "Once." "It is equal collapsed." "I pushed her under the bed." "The inspector will leave." " He can wait." "Have you told your sister, Marguerite?" "No." "I knew that Joseph was coming." "Mary had him waiting on the dock and make sure he never showed up." "Mary thought it not strange?" "They did not understand it but it did." "In Joseph?" "We have the body brought to the attic together." "On Saturday we are thrown into the river." "But the skipper has you seen ... and since then he's blackmailing you." "He has asked for a large sum to go away ... and to draw suspicion on him." "You had found the hammer." "I had to do something quickly." "Did you love him?" "I hate him." "What are you going to do?" " I already said." "I take the train to Paris." "And I?" "I'm not in charge of this investigation." "You need to know yourself." "The train to Paris is ready at platform two."