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Updated: June 9, 2025
Perhaps you, Monsieur le Senateur, will inform the hotel people that a Perquisition is about to take place." As he walked away from the Prefecture of Police, Senator Burton told himself that the French were certainly a curiously casual people. How strange that the Prefect should have asked him to break the news of what was to happen at eleven o'clock the next morning to the Poulains!
Indeed, we should have stayed at home this year, but last summer twelvemonth there was a fever, and that set on foot a perquisition into our drains at Belforest, and it was satisfactorily proved that we ought by good rights to have been all dead of typhoid long ago. So we turned the workmen in, and they could not of course be got out again.
He carried in his hand a plain black walking-stick of hard wood; and whenever and wherever, at any after-time of the night, he struck it on the pavement with a ringing sound, it instantly produced a whistle out of the darkness, and a policeman. To this remarkable stick, I refer an air of mystery and magic which pervaded the whole of my perquisition among the traps that were set for Jack.
Of course I had to be rough with them at first one has to keep up one's character, you know. But, monsieur? I was told confidentially that this Perquisition would probably lead to nothing, and, as you see, it has led to nothing." Gerald sighed, rather wearily, for he too was tired, he too would be glad of his luncheon.
To the French imagination there is something terrifying in the very word. And this justifiable terror is a national tradition. To thousands of honest folk a Perquisition was an ever present fear through the old Regime, and this fear became acute terror in the Revolution. Then a search warrant meant almost certainly subsequent arrest, imprisonment, and death.
"Bien, bien, monsieur! It shall be done," said Poulain resignedly. "To have a Perquisition without a plan is a farce!" said the man, this time addressing Gerald Burton. "An absolute farce! In such an old house as this there may be many secret hiding-places." "There are no secret hiding-places in our hotel," screamed Madame Poulain angrily.
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