"Can I borrow it?" "Thanks, Eugene." "Wake up, Prosper." "It's time." "majestic DlENSTlNGANG" "Excuse me." "The director you expect." "Have a seat." "A cigar?" "Like." "Thank you." "It is the wife of an American, Michael Clark." "They're here with their son, one teacher, Miss Darroman ... and one maid, Mrs. Borms." "They have reserved our best suite for a month." "What time is it done?" "According to the doctor she was strangled between six and six-thirty." "Was she to be found more often in the basement?" "No." "They're decent people." "He's a wealthy industrialist from Detroit and she speaks French without an accent." "The teacher's a clever woman." "Gertrud Borms is quite ordinary." "She's actually some kind governess." "Are they informed?" " Only the governess." "The teacher has not slept here." "Mr. Clark left yesterday to Rome." "What train?" " Just call the concierge." "The train has taken Mr. Clark?" "Yes, in suite 110." "His luggage did not go to the station?" "What taxi?" "Longed for?" "Bedankt." "He left with the Désiré taxi." "May I?" " Go ahead." "Met research?" "I may inspector Lucas from you?" "The concierge can warn me when Désiré there?" "If you 't, Lucas?" "Find out in 't Gare de Lyon or Michael Clark departed yesterday to Rome." "The night train." "One American industrialist." "Janvier and should inform Mrs. Clark from Detroit." "Perhaps a Frenchwoman." "Hurry up." "She was grabbed from behind." "They did not drag her." " Do you think she was murdered here?" "That was back in the closet." "I warn 's prosecution." "Nowhere arrive." "Who the corpse discovered?" " Prosper Donge, the man of the coffee." "Does he here long?" " Five years." "He comes from Aix-les-Bains." "Are you happy with him?" " One good employee." "Excuse me." "Phone for the Commissioner." "Agreement." "Something new?" " Yes." "No train place was reserved for the American." "What does she?" " Whether Mrs. Clark was killed." "She wants to see the corpse." "Come on." "Can they identify Mrs. Clark?" "She 's indeed." "I would like her to ask some questions in your office." "She does not." "Tell her that I, as chief of police ..." "They know you're a cop." "She would not say anything." "Why not?" "At first she wants a formal call." "Pay attention." "Four complete menus ... two foie gras, two patties." "Entrecôtes four, two red, two medium." "You call me back, huh?" "Desserts:" "A compote, a pêche melba, a charlotte." "Let the two lobsters a la Parisienne through." "Poached salmon for four, with potatoes and butter sauce." "Not through the kitchen." "That way." "The poularde with vegetables and potatoes." "New?" "What?" " Have you discovered something?" "Nothing." "I am waiting for news from you." "Wat?" "Emilienne Gaudin." "38 years." "She has worked in Aix-les-Bains?" "Day." "May I see your papers?" "Not 't Gare de Lyon?" " No." "I don 't know yet." "It was seven o'clock in the evening." "I'm Rue Delambre deposited for one hotel." "The Montparno." "You've had one busy day." "I will bring you home?" "I would like to talk to you." "Do you know what Jean Ramuel did this?" "He was an accountant in a bank." "Michaud  Fils, I believe." "In the Rue Caumartin." "It does say something." "A strange history." "Bankruptcy fraud." "What do you think of Ramuel?" "He does not look good." "Problems with his health." "His liver?" " Yes." "He has accumulated one liver disease." "You make coffee for guests, right?" "Why did you choose this profession?" "It seems to me a box where you dream on your 15th." "It went without saying." "At first I was bellboy and then waiter." "First in Nice and then in Aix-les-Bains, in 't Grand Hôtel." "The director said I could not better interact with customers." "When I took care of the coffee five years." "Then I went to Paris." "At 't Majestic they wanted me." "According to the caretaker slept yesterday two people in the basement." "First Ramuel, the bookkeeper." "His wife seems to him to throw out regularly." "The kitchen has fun at." "Lately he sleeps there every night." "Knows its director?" "It should not, in principle." "That's it." "Number five." "Wait for me." "The dancer also sleeps in the basement." "How do you call him?" "Zebio?" "A funny guy, right?" "On the posters called he Euzebio Fualdès." "But its real name is Edgar Fagonet." "He sleeps in 't he hotel as no taxi can pay." "Yesterday also." "He even danced with Mrs. Clark." "The victim." "May I briefly coming in?" "As you wish." "I 't." "Excuse me." "Prosper never take someone with you." "This is Inspector Maigret." "Inspector Maigret?" "What is it?" " Nothing, ma'am." "I met your husband today in the kitchen of 't Majestic." "My husband?" "Did you say that we're married?" "No." "I assumed ..." " We live only together." "We are more than friends ..." "You know what I mean." "We've known each other a long time." "We could get married, however." "That would make anything." "Not true?" " Yes." "Come on in." " Can not we..." "No." "In the kitchen talkin 't be easier." "I must also nearly gone." "We see each other much." "When one comes home, another way must." "We can only along a bite to eat." "Would you like something to drink?" "Do you eat with us?" "you set the table?" "No thanks." "This morning someone killed in 't Majestic." "Murdered?" " Yes." "I want to ask him some questions." "It has happened in the basement." "When he was there, almost alone." "Someone you know?" " No, a guest of t hotel." "The wife of an American industrialist." "They have taken up residence in one suite with their son, one governess and one teacher." "At six o'clock in the morning they found in the basement." "Strangled." "What had that Mrs. Clark doing there?" "And still at six o'clock in the morning." "I really do not understand what a rich American woman had been searching there." "Before dawn." "Emilienne Clark." "Her maiden name is Gaudin." "Do you not know her?" "I?" "No, it is not." "Not if Mrs. Clark." "As Emilienne Gaudin." "Or Mimi." "At the time, she worked as animeermeisje in Aix." "You worked right there too?" "Maybe you know her." "Mimi?" "Emilienne Gaudin?" "That tells me nothing." "Was it really in Aix?" "In Oasis, achter 't Grand Hotel." "No, I have not experienced Mimi." "And you, Prosper?" " No." "I'm sorry I have disturbed." "Bye." "I get you anything?" " Thanks." "I have to go." "They had agreed on the station and went to the embassy." "And then by taxi to the Avenue Friedland." "Number fourteen." "A building with many law firms." "She arrived half an hour later with a guy who's English speech." "When she went to magistrate Benneau." "There was one note that you must call him." "It's urgent." "Do you still need me?" " No." "Go home." "Good evening sir." " What did you find, Lucas?" "A weird guy, who Clark." "He seems a formidable businessman, but ..." "I now know what he did yesterday." "It's a rascal." "Sit down." "He first went to one restaurant with the teacher." "They drank two bottles of champagne and sit kissing." "They sat together lapping off, if I may say so." "Around four o'clock they went to one small hotel in the Rue Delambre." "From Montparno." " Rare wind." "Within." "Magistrate." " Day, Commissioner." "Have a seat." "You do not speak English, right?" "I thought so." "I think it's better if you do not intervene personally ... with Mr. Clark and the people who belong to him." "He's afternoon came to see me with his lawyer." "He's an important man." "He has business relations in the highest circles." "Before he came, I was called by the US Embassy." "We can not beat 'n gaffe." "His lawyer insisted that I recorded his statement itself." "That saves you work." "You get him tomorrow." "In short:" "Clark had business to Rome." "Recently, he engaged to Miss Darroman." "The young woman who takes care of his son." " I thought he was married." "He planned to divorce soon." "His wife 's did not." "Indeed, he is not really engaged." "He has used that trip ..." " To sleep with his fiancée." "Not so mockingly." "Clark has made me one good impression." "Americans have different habits than we do." "We can not judge it." "He told me what he did that night." "You can not verify." "That has already happened." "In?" "No one except Miss Darroman has seen him ... after four o'clock in the morning." "What do you mean?" " What I say." "Again, it 's going to one important person ... protecting the embassy." "I know that." "Do not you worry." "Goodbye Mister." "The waiter will be with you." "Want one table?" "Nothing serious, I hope?" "Just get out with my colleague." "Can I be of service?" "I know my staff very well." "Want to know something?" "The regular guests: people from out of town and foreigners." "What do you want to drink?" " A cognac." "Two." "I'll be right back." "Bunch of perverts." "They look elegant, but piss next to it." "Excuse me." "I did not see you." " Bye." "He is free." " No thanks." "I really know nothing." " Do not panic." "I've seen quite how you looked at me, with us." "You think ..." " That you knew Mrs. Clark." "Are you not really remember?" "You were hostesses in Aix." " There are plenty of nightclubs." "You worked so well at the Oasis?" " So what?" "Nothing." "Prosper You sit on the skin, Commissioner, but if you'm experienced ..." "I lies not on the skin." " He's never been to school." "All he knows, he's from books." "He reads very like." "He'd 'had a son to him to give one good education." "Poor Prosper." "He has bad luck." "I can not have children." "Do you know Jean Ramuel, the bookkeeper?" "I wonder something." "I can not really talk about it." "I hope you can 't continue talks." "Something intrigues me:" "Mevrouw Clark had 'n revolver in d'r tas." "She had bought the day before in the Rue Saint-Honoré." "Weird, is not it?" "A wealthy married woman ... who comes from New York and in 'live n luxury hotel, buys a gun." "And not a toy. 'S Really weapon." "Kinda weird, right?" "Suppose the venerable Mrs. Clark previously had one turbulent life ... and that someone used her blackmailing." "Do you know if Ramuel lived in Aix-les-Bains?" "En Edgar Fagonet?" "En Euzebio ... the dancer?" " I do not know." "It may also have been some errand boy ... of de nachtwaker." "Mimi really sorry that you have not known." "Then you could tell me who knew them when." "That would have saved me a trip." "Nothing to be done." "I take the first train to Aix." "Go down and keep an eye on her." "I think she's going to call." "Yes." "I wait." "Met Bar des Amis?" "Jean?" "Yes, Charlotte." "Really." "Listen to me." "Tell Gigi that she can tell you about Mimi." "Emilienne." "Do you remember?" "Those with blonde curls." "If they ask her questions, she knows nothing." "Especially about Prosper." "No, just tell him that she does not know Mimi and no Prosper." "Understood?" "I count on you." "Volgende halt Aix-les-Bains." "Excuse me." "The Bar des Amis?" " Straight." "A beer." "Good afternoon." "Today I mangetout and curly endive for you." "How long have you this cafe, Mr. Jean?" "You work for the police?" "Fifteen years." " Hi, Jean." "See you tomorrow." "Are you open all night?" "Do you know a girl named Gigi?" "Never had problems with the police ... because of all the money and slot machines?" "So what?" "If you are already convicted once, you might be one awkward." "Charlotte asks one of friendship, but she does not tell what 's all about." "If you have such a thing ... and you have had some problems, you have to be careful." "I can also call the vice squad." "They know where Gigi is." "May I?" " Wait a second." "You were talking about careful." "Doin 'to something serious?" " Quite: a murder." "A murder." "Want Gigi speak today?" " I come for." "I'll tell you where she is, but you do not get much out of her." "Often they can not stand on d'r legs." "If she has used drugs, you can 't forget." "And she got quite by accident after drugs' t call from Charlotte." "She lives in the town, but tonight she could no longer stand on d'r legs." "She's here, on the top floor." "Room 25." "What is it?" "What time is it?" "Are you there yet?" "You have to undress you myself." "Want to play doctor?" "What has Mr. Jean said to you?" "That's a friend." "He gave you drugs, huh?" "And he 's been talking about Mimi and Prosper." "What a fool." "I'm crazy about him." "When I think of him, I could cry." "Do you have something for me?" "If you'm like?" " I love him." "It is different from the other men." "He has a good heart." "Was pe Mimi but not encountered." "Do you know him?" "It's just a treasure." " I know him a little." "He worked in 't Grand Hôtel and you at the Oasis with Mimi and Charlotte." "Not a bad word about Charlotte." "She's fantastic." "She was in love with Prosper, but the poor man ... nothing had passed." "Nothing at all." "I was talking to him to say." "He was the lover of Mimi?" " He crawled to her." "The fool." "When she reached him away, he wanted to be a bullet through his head hunting." "Are you really a friend of him?" "When she got the child?" "The child." "Do you really have no drugs?" "Would you 't possibly ask Jean?" "I'll do anything you want." "You only have to ask." "I'm good at it, if I do my best." "Get me something." "Later." "I promise." "Mimi has left Prosper ... and left with the American." " Who told you that?" "Prosper?" "She met him at the Oasis." "He showed her Deauville, Cannes and Biarritz." "Mimi knew how it was supposed to address." "She was savvier than us, that slut." "She wrote me that she was expecting a child ... and that the Americans thought it was his." "And later... she wrote that 's almost backfired because the child had such a wine stain as Prosper." "Are you the police?" "What Jean again said to me?" "Where I could not talk about?" "I had to promise that I would talk to anyone." "You're a cop, huh?" "It is the police what Mimi and Prosper ..." "You're a bastard." "Calm a bit." "Come keep me company." "Do you have your sentence?" "What are you 's withers." "I thought you had a boyfriend, but you're a cop." "How stupid of me." "Now Prosper has also been arrested." "How do you know that?" " From Charlotte." "She whimpered so hard I could barely understand her." "She asked if I had told anything." "I do not know." "I do not know what I said." "Benneau managed to keep Prosper." " Why?" "By an anonymous letter stating that he was the lover of the dead." "That her child is his and that he threatened her." "And further?" " Nothing." "Benneau is happy." "He thinks that Prosper was blackmailing her." "And Donge?" "He says nothing." "He just wants to talk to you." "Want to see me?" "The magistrate thinks I did it." "Come with me." "Have you eaten?" "Get beer and a couple of sandwiches." "Put him off the handcuffs." "I Gigi spoken in Aix-les-Bains." "She is now in Paris." "She will be in Charlotte." "Have you seen the child?" "I saw him in the lounge of 't Hotel." "He really ..." " Your son." "I know that." "Sit down." "He looks like me." "Please." " Thanks." "I'm not hungry." "Not really?" "Anyway..." "I can no longer work at 't Majestic." "Do you also think that I killed her?" "Did you like Mrs. Clark?" "I have not often been with women." "They laughed when I get a little ... was sentimental?" "When I Mimi for the first time saw those two ..." "Charlotte en Teeth?" " Ja." "I was madly in love with her." "I did everything for her." "I wanted to marry her." "You should have taken Charlotte." "But I was very fond of Mimi." "According to the magistrate, I just wanted her money." "A beer?" "Then one day she went ... with the American." "I have nothing heard from her." "Ultimately, he married her." "I had no more sense." "Charlotte fantastic helped me." "She moved in with me." "I had to leave Aix-les-Bains." "The Grand Hotel, the Oasis, the Bar des Amis:" "I could not stand it anymore." "I started working in Paris." "She came after me." "In 't begin... we lived as brother and sister." "I could not forget Mimi." "Did you know she had a child of yours?" "No." "I heard it until much later." "Met Charlotte... it 's finally got something." "She thought that I was no longer in love." "It was bothering her." "She told me everything:" "Mimi had said that the child was his." "When they are married." "I wrote Mimi." "I begged her to give me my child." "I never had a reply from her." "Charlotte knew of these letters?" " No." "I wrote in Majestic." "Always?" " Yes." "What did you give her?" " I do not know that anymore." "I was crazy." "I wanted to answer." "Maybe I have written ... that if I did not get my child ..." "I might ..." "Maybe what?" "I did it anyway not." "I was angry." "Perhaps I threatened her ... but I had not ever done." "How did you come to know that she was in Paris?" "I will not accidentally heard." "They all stayed a week in 't Majestic before I' t heard." "We have no contact with the customers." "On one day had one maid talking about a Mrs. Clark." "I do not speak English." "I want to inform Ramuel ... whether they lived in Detroit and had one son." "When I heard that she 's had, I want to see them." "That did not work." "It was difficult." "Do you understand?" " I'm trying." "If they had asked me to get back with her to live ..." "I did not do it." "Maybe I did not love her." "I could not leave Charlotte." "I just wanted to see the child." "My son." "Do you understand?" " Yes Yes." "I have hours to'm bored." "I was desperate." "I had to work: coffee, milk, care of the breakfasts. 'T Did not." "Then I wrote her that I wanted to see her." "At six o'clock in the morning, there is no one in the basement." "Have you threatened her?" "I do not know anymore." "Maybe I have written that they just had to come." "I was different to anything." "What does that mean?" "Would you killed her?" " No, not that." "Wanted to abduct the child?" "I do not know." "Wanted to go to her husband?" "I like the child should not have to see, I could murder her." "But I was too late." "One flat tire." "She was nowhere to be seen." "I thought she was going to her room." "When I saw the door 's cabinet." "Her scarf was hanging out." "You were too late for one flat tire?" "Yes, I was on the bike." "Avenue Foch." "One agent saw me walk." "Why did you not tell me earlier?" " I thought you would not believe me." "I hoped that no one would think of me." "You've interviewed everybody, but you have said nothing to me." "When you're following me, I understand that you were behind me." "Even Charlotte." "He asked why I had not told you that I killed her." "Even Charlotte." "How did you send her a letter?" "A bellboy has personally handed her the letter." "What will happen to the child?" "He has no mother." "Let yourself him leave for America?" "You must tell exactly the same magistrate." "Do you come here?" "How you doing, guys?" "Find a cop Donge which would have seen yesterday." "Around six o'clock, avenue Foch." "And I want to know more about Ramuel, the bookkeeper." "I want to know exactly what he did before he came to 't Majestic." "Janvier, I want the same about Fagonet, Argentine dancer." "Commissioner day." "Have a seat." "The trip was very tiring?" "We are the same found out, I here and you in Aix-les-Bains." "Funny, right?" "That's really funny." "What is your opinion on this matter?" "I have here the explanation of Donge." "All that he has already told you." "He confesses everything." " In addition to the murder." "Of course." "That would be too good to be true." "But he has threatened her and arranged to meet her in the basement." "And his letter was not very friendly:" "She's right, bought a revolver." "He says that he has had one flat tire ..." "That's true." "Why?" "He can have his tire punctured himself when he arrived at 't Hotel." "No, a cop has seen him on the avenue Foch." "A trifle." "Please." "Read this but." "Just look at the envelope." "Which is done on the bus in the Rue Lepic." "Not far from the Pélican, the dancing where Charlotte Verdier works." "Look:" "It's the same handwriting." "The script we found at Donge." "His girlfriend wrote down the recipes." "We have some methods other than the police, but ..." "We have not always wrong, right?" "When Prosper's such a decent fellow, why did they send us one such letter?" "I do not know." "We're almost done." "Donge in prison." "You still have to interrogate only Charlotte Verdier." "Yes, darling, I'm on time." "Yes." "Me too." "I had one long conversation with Prosper." "What's he saying?" "Mimi that he has not slain." " You see now?" "And the magistrate has received an anonymous letter." "An anonymous letter?" "Is this script of yours?" "Yes, it's for my recipes." "Is that your handwriting?" "Would you please show a pencil suits?" " What?" "I will show you." "Write down." " No." "He can not be trusted." "That really can not hurt." "Come on." "Mr. Judge." "I am writing to you about the case Donge, I read about in the newspaper." "Do you write 'read' always with an 's'?" " Why?" "It needs a "z"." "Look at this letter." "It looks like my handwriting." "Who did that?" " I wonder." "Did you think that I had it done?" " I thought it was strange." "I wonder if someone was outside Gigi and you know ... the relationship between Prosper and Mimi." "And especially the child." "Do you have any idea?" " Outside our ..." "Do you have the letter still Mimi you sent after her marriage?" "I want him to see you." "Give him the letter now." "He wants to help Prosper." "Can I do something for you?" " No thanks." "A beer please." "Mild Gigi." "It took me a long time, but it's done." "You laughed at me when I said I'd be a lady." "But it's done." "We got married yesterday." "In white, in the church, with "a real priest." "You can 't tell Charlotte." "But do not tell Prosper." "I think it'd do him grief." "How will it be more than a year out with him?" "He does not even know that he has shown me a great service." "For the child, I "found one suitable doctor." "Thus, I could mess with the data to make Mike think he is father." "Is this the suite of Mr. Clark?" "Sorry." "I do not understand." "Recherche." "Mr. Clark is not there." "Would you come back later?" "I told you I do not speak English." "Do you speak French?" "Yes a bit." "What's your name?" " Jonathan." "I do not understand." " What were you doing in my room?" "I'm chief of police, sir." "Calm a little, gentlemen." "Tell him I'm under arrest for insulting 's official duties." "I'm sorry, sir." "But unfortunately I had to arrest Mr. Clark." "But for some reason ..." " He has beaten me." "What's he saying?" "What's he saying?" " I do not speak English." "You'd better leave out one interpreter." "Ga 'n tolk halen." "Would you translate what it says, sir?" "What's he saying?" " It can 't right not." "Well?" " Translate 't but." "He wants to know why Miss Darroman and he will be followed by the police." "Is that true, Commissioner?" " Definitely." "And further?" " He said..." "You've been in his room." "I knocked on the door and asked nicely if I could speak Mr. Clark." "I do not understand how someone with 35 years of experience ..." "He is undoubtedly went too far ... but you had 't be able to tackle more subtle." "May I?" "He recognizes' s handwriting of his wife." "May I know where it comes?" " I got it just received." "I wanted 't give it to you, but he' s caught ..." "Before 't could read." "What's he saying?" "If someone has searched her belongings, he will complain to the embassy." "If you are in the room of Mr. Clark ..." "He wants that I'm translation." "He demands that the letter is now being translated." "I can read him aloud blame." " Will I be doing?" "But translation." "Mild Gigi." "It took me a long time, but it's done." "You laughed at me when I said I'd be a lady." "But it's done." "We got married yesterday." "In white, in the church, with "a real priest." "You can 't tell Charlotte." "But do not tell Prosper." "I think it'd do him grief." "How will it be more than a year out with him?" "He does not even know that he has shown me a great service." "For the child, I "found one suitable doctor." "Thus, I could mess with the data to make Mike think ..." "Proceed, sir." "he is father." "He found 't like it." "We even drank champagne." "In short, I became Mrs. Clark." "I often think of you and Charlotte." "Laugh poor Prosper not because he is father without 't know." "Lots of love." "Mimi." "Do you have 't done on purpose?" "I could not know that he would hit me in the face." "He asks what to do with the argument you had with him in the hotel." "I've already forgotten." "Of course." "Thanks." "You can go." "You now have your sentence?" "I had no choice." "Clark's remarriage with Miss Darroman." "And there is a child." "The son of Prosper Donge." "A man who is stuck and is suspected of murder." "Yes, but it is his son." "Since no one can do something about." "Do you have children, Commissioner?" " No." "Goodbye Mister." "I talked to the concierge at Aubervilliers." "It is quite shabby." " Sit down." "And I called the director of the sanatorium in Puy-Fortin." "Fagonet had to stop his studies because he had tuberculosis." "According to his concierge did he learn to dance there." "Then he went to Paris." "He has spared to cope with his mother and his sister." "That sister's got a bone disease." "She is paralyzed." "According to all the neighbors he is sympathetic and courageous." "The concierge said he would have liked to have such a son." "When he 's Majestic went to work, he called himself Euzebio Fualdès." "He often sleeps in the hotel?" "Yes, like a ball takes a long time, like the night before the murder." "He danced with Mrs. Clark." "How much does he?" " About as much as he spends." "No drugs?" "According to his doctor he was so weak that drugs could be fatal for him." "And the bookkeeper?" "Ramuel, Jean Oscar." "48 years." "Born in Grenoble." "On his eighteenth did he do show a graphical program." "He is now in Paris for six years." "Before that he was in Egypt, London ... and in Panama, where he worked for one company that went bankrupt." "He came back to Europe ..." "Marie puts Deligeard 'n voormalige prostitute." "They eat every Friday in one brasserie." "It seems to be one nag." "Are they married?" "Not in France." "He introduces her as his wife." "They also lived on the Riviera." "With the money from that company?" " Not long." "Then they went to Paris." "Where do they live on?" "His wife went for a walk again?" " No." "He joined Michaud  Fils, the infamous couch ..." "Which went bankrupt." " Indeed." "When he started at 't Majestic." " Have you been there?" "According to his boss he 's good accountant." "Did you ask if he's there now and sleep?" "He always sleeps there when he has a fight with his wife." "Meneer Davidson?" "I'm calling you because I think Mr. Clark wants to help us." "Is he at the moment with you?" "Does his wife often received letters from France?" "She has received at least three." "Yes, I'll wait." "Every quarter?" "Large amounts?" "sent them checks?" "Which bank?" "Bank of Michigan?" "Sit down, Commissioner." "I there caught his file." "Mr. Donge got a bill for five years with us." "Longer actually." "Before that he was in our office in Aix-les-Bains." "What he had then on his account?" " Very little, Commissioner." "A little savings." " And then he went to Paris?" "About 85,000 Frank." "Such savings five years." "Is he continued savings?" " Until he bought a house." "After that its account is practically empty." "Three years ago, we received a moving message." "We had to send his mail to Rue Réaumur 114." "Three years ago?" " Yes." "I can not verify for you." "Have you ever met him?" " In the past, but not since that letter." "For three years, right?" " No." "And what have you done since then for him?" "This morning I was quite surprised." "When I ran through his file ..." "I saw that he since his move ... regularly receive checks from the Bank of Michigan." "leather quarter, right?" " Yes." "Every three months." "To the amount not go in total?" "600.000 frank." "And that is still on his account?" " He has never taken money." "Three days ago we got a letter from him without check." "We had to bearer create a check for a bank in Brussels." "That's nothing special." "How much?" "580.000 frank." "What have you done with it?" " Mailed to him." "At what address?" " Rue Réaumur 114." "Can I do something for you?" "Recherche." "Is there yesterday 's letter delivered to Prosper Donge?" "Which I put right post." " What do you mean?" "For three years I get envelopes from him, in which I have forwarded his mail." "To what adress?" " Hold on." "Private-Post Gardel, Rue St Bernard 42, Elfde district." "In what name?" "There's no name on it." "Only initials:" "JMD" "Do you have him yesterday morning posted?" "Is it something bad?" " It's always bad." "Did you this morning one letter provided for a girl named JMD?" "Why do you want to know?" " I ask the questions." "You will receive letters with initials only." "That is forbidden." "I pay for clean." "We do not have the same rules as the Post Office." "Undoubtedly." "Please show a register of the real names of your customers?" "Do you think they would come?" "I can also ask for their identity papers." "I know that you have received one letter for JMD" "Which can." "I do not know anymore." "You are welcome to search through the boxes." " It is therefore already retrieved." "When?" "I do not know." "If I do know, I would it mean to say." "Do not be so stupid." "We can close your case." "Threats, Commissioner?" "You're not the first." "But you see 't:" "My case is still there." "25 years." "If you think it good, I'm going to eat now." "Have you ever seen this man?" "He has a birthmark on his right cheek." "Lucas?" "I got a rush job for you." "Warn all banks in France and Belgium:" "If they get a check for 580,000 francs ..." "A bearer check Prosper Donge." "Then they should refuse." "Yes, that's all." "We're in trouble." " Why?" "Charlotte had this morning to the magistrate." "I can not do anything about that." " She's all upset." "Has he anything familiar?" "He has known nothing." "Calm down." "That has Benneau said to you to get talking." "He acts like I'm a real bitch." "Why should I 'm blame while I'm sure he's innocent?" "If they are having 'had killed a gun, I was talking to imagine." "A tantrum." "Verstandsverbijstering." "But strangle her?" "No." "Such a thing does not Prosper." "Tell me." "Saves Prosper remains at the Credit Lyonnais?" "Save?" "We do long gone, Commissioner." "Since when exactly?" " Since we bought this house." "Three years." "It could cost up to 80,000 francs." "We already have 't paid double and we're not done." "Prosper has no money in the bank?" " No penny." "He has not taken more." " Really?" "I remember very well that brought the postman 's money of 1,600 francs." "Prosper had lifted his account." "Would you like that, every day clocks?" "The replacement of Prosper?" " Yes." "The new." "You might want to have lunch?" " No thanks." "New developments?" "Too bad they him have detained." "Then the entire has been in the newspapers." "That's a disaster for us." "What do you think of Prosper Donge?" "An exemplary one, I thought." "But we're here all along." "In good and in bad sense." "I need more." " To invite you." "My colleague wanted to eat." " No problem." "Walk on." "So I'm not monitor." "Sorry." " Nothing wrong." "I'm back at five." " Fine." "Is it now pause?" "Until an hour or four, half past four it 's quiet." "They break." "Some go shopping." "I will." "Where new going?" "Back to the stockroom." "Tea and coffee extract." "Every day at the same time?" " Yes." "Between three and four." "You can 't have." "I got it from." "Lucas?" "With me." "Do inquire about 's bankruptcy Michaud  Fils." "There can be forgery." "It has haste." "See you at the precinct." "Go to the basement and keep him in the eye." "You never know." "Is this the only mailbox of the hotel?" " Yes." "According to Commissioner Jaulin Ramuel was the confidant of Michaud." "There was talk of forgery:" "Bills with forged signatures of clients." "Michaud has filed a complaint against Ramuel." "Jaulin thinks he is being blackmailed." "Officially he left for health reasons." "Is not it Friday?" " Indeed." "Ramuel still eat every Friday at the Brasserie de l'Horloge?" "We're going to him surprise." "They are already half an hour." "Your inspector sit near them." "Hey." "Day Lucas." " Day commissioner." "Can I sit with you?" "Waiter." "The mayonnaise is not fresh." "She is dark and smells rancid." "Mr. Ramuel." "What a coincidence." "Mrs." "My wife." "Inspector Maigret." " Pleasant, Commissioner." "Steak and chips and a beer." "And you?" " Same." "Are you on a diet?" " He has problems with his liver." "You know what I think?" "That you never sit with." "That struck me right when I saw you." "There are those eternal unlucky, who are still sick." "You should not say." "Then he becomes even crankier." "You are intelligent and hard working." "You should have been important." "Oddly enough 'tu almost succeeded." "Everywhere you've been." "In Panama, in Cairo." "Thereafter, in Paris." "And every time, after one great start, you are at square one." "It just will not work." "If you work with one good bank, he goes bankrupt." "Besides..." "I thought you all would sit in the train to Brussels." "What?" "You wanted to Brussels without me 't know?" "Is there another woman?" "No, not another woman." "Do not you worry." "No." "Your husband..." "I mean your friend ..." " He's my husband, Commissioner." "I do not know what he's told, but we're married." "In Panama." "What was Jean you in Brussels?" "Answer." "Will there be some of it?" " I did not want to leave at all." "I'm sorry, sir Ramuel." "I did not want to interrupt your dinner." "I heard this morning that you have picked up your money from the bank." "You got a check for 580,000 francs to be collected in Brussels." "580,000 francs you say?" "He had 580,000 francs and I could spend nothing?" "Answer me, Jean." "Is that true?" "Answer." " I do not know what..." "You got a bill?" " No." "And I do not have 580,000 francs." "Is it true or not?" "Sorry." "I did not mean to upset." "I thought you knew." "Now I understand." " What do you understand?" "His attitude lately." "He was bland." "He kept a low profile." "I did feel that there was something." "He prepared for his departure." "New?" "Were you secretly 't save?" "I was penniless, and you were you leaving 't prepare." "Dirty bastard." "You had absconded and had let me pay the rent." "Is there really no woman behind?" "Can not we go somewhere else?" "I put 't you paid." " Quiet one bit." "It will be fine." "I do not understand why is the Commissioner ..." "Mistake you really?" "I know your kind." "If you do not come out, but you invent something." "Do not scream." "That still does not help." "What do you mean?" "I have to arrest your husband, ma'am." "We do it very discreetly." "That's the best." "We just go away like a bunch of friends." "The car is waiting for us." "We go to the precinct." "Would you like to wait?" "Inside, Mr. Ramuel." "I protest." "You have no right." "Oh no?" "Come here, sir Ramuel." "Come here." "What is it?" "What is it?" "Nothing." "I just had to let off steam." "It should not, but it does in air." "Tomorrow you'll be politely questioned." "Everyone will be nice." "You are the star of the court." "Let everyone come in." "Come on." "There are only seats for the ladies." "Have a seat." "Stand there, Prosper." "Do you have the key?" "What did he do?" "What he has been doing his whole life falsify." "Tell you anything?" "Is it true that money and those traveling to Brussels?" "Withers." "Quiet." "If you had known it, I should keep you." "I must tell you something about Prosper." "You thought you him could tell about Mimi letter ... and the child, but Prosper was still in love." "On one day he has on his work 'wrote one long letter to Mimi." "Remember, Prosper?" "You have written more, huh?" "How much?" "Three." "Have you ever been called while not write?" "For example, to get tea and coffee in the pantry?" "That is possible." "And then continued to lie your letter on the table in ... opposite the office of Ramuel that him could see from his place." "Ramuel the Unlucky ... who despite all the falsifications were still poor." "Where you did your letters in the mail?" "In the mailbox at the reception." "Ramuel could easily intercept them." "And that could not happen to Mimi, Mrs. Clark ... who got first love letters ... letters about the child ... later, received different letters." "In 't handschrift van Prosper." "But had set off threatening letters." "He wanted money." "The new Prosper was blackmailing her." "He was talking well set up." "First he took one mailbox number ... and Mimi wrote that he had moved." "Unfortunately..." "Prosper's name was on the checks sent Mimi." "But now the new Prosper Jean Ramuel, really lucky." "The real Prosper who can barely make ends meet ... let raise his bill and asks' s balance." "Ramuel knows it, because he intercepted his mail." "That letter he sends through." "One other letter goes to the Crédit Lyonnais ... with only one change of address." "From then go the letters from the bank to Rue Réaumur 114." "Ramuel get checks from the United States ... and let the money credited to the account of Prosper." "You have gotten your 1500 francs." "That has ensured Ramuel." "A masterpiece of scam." "So carefully designed ... which Ramuel who rue Réaumur can not find a safe place ... his letters too late to send one mailbox." "And then 't unforeseen happens." "A disaster." "Mimi comes to Paris." "A suite in 't Majestic." "Prosper may come across her by accident ... and prove that he's not blackmailing her." "But despite all ..." "Mrs. Clark accidentally killed." "On one day Prosper heard of one chambermaid ..." "Mimi's there." "He writes her to meet up with her." "Ramuel is afraid." "He remains in the basement." "He has seen t letter, but could not do intercept." "And then it happens again something unexpected." "A flat tire." "Prosper Donge is ten minutes late at 't Hotel." "Ramuel Mimi sees waiting at the cloakroom." "And then 'goes wrong." "He fears that suits all." "He strangles her." "He puts the corpse in one cabinet." "Prosper will be naturally suspicious and he will remain out, he thinks." "But it goes wrong." "He writes an anonymous letter 's manuscript of Charlotte." "That he knows of notes which Prosper keeps in his drawer." "Would you say something, sir Ramuel?" "He wanted to leave soon indeed." "He waited only until he had more money." "Then he was left on his own to be treated his liver." "In the house of detention with him." "So." "It is over." "My client would like an audience with you and Mr. Donge on the child."