'What more natural than that he should work out some similar plan in the case of Paz and Nelly? That is to say, that he should marry for him...'Maurice Leblanc
'The prefect's evidence, the evidence of a Baron Van Hoeyk, of a Comte de Gome, who saw the whole thing: a lie... a lie!Duke of Charmerace
'I swear that I never killed anybody, she declared, bursting into sobs. I swear it...'Dollon's sister
'I really think,' said the Duke to Major d'Astrignac, 'that we shall not be allowed to finish this game.'Duke of Charmerace
'And why?' he asked, inanely, was it stamped on top of the eighth volume?Maurice Leblanc
'No. 813', the policeman read out. It was this number that Galuche had also read, leaning over the corpse in the smoking-room of the Atlantic Hotel.Maurice Leblanc
'There is something about it,' said the stranger, 'that excites one's curiosity.'A stranger
'I am a victim of circumstances. I am a man haunted by perpetual danger.'Dollon
'The moment that Rudolf opens his father's works is the moment of the great revelation, the moment when Rudolf Kesselbach's real-life drama takes shape.'Maurice Leblanc
'There is a mistake. My name is Gaston Gournay-Martin'Gaston
'It is thus that, to justify a man's death, Destiny sometimes stirs up a whole people.'Maurice Leblanc
'You open that little bag which you have round your waist and hand me the ebony walking-stick.'The unknown person