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Updated: May 18, 2025
I knew you were Tictocq from your resemblance to yourself." "Entrez vous," said the detective. The gentleman entered and was handed a chair. "I am a man of few words," said Tictoq. "I will help your friend if possible. Our countries are great friends. We have given you Lafayette and French fried potatoes. You have given us California champagne and taken back Ward McAllister. State your case."
"I don't know," begins the Populist Candidate, "what in the h " "Excuse me," says Tictocq, firmly. "You will oblige me by keeping silent until I make my report. I have been employed in this case, and I have unravelled it. For the honor of France I request that I be heard with attention." "Certainly," says the chairman; "we will be pleased to listen." Tictocq stands in the centre of the room.
"You are Tictocq, the detective?" he said. "I am." "Then listen. I am the murderer of Marie Cusheau. She was my wife and she had cold feet and ate onions. What was I to do? Yet life is sweet to me. I do not wish to be guillotined. I have heard that you are on my track. Is it true that the case is in your hands?" "It is." "Thank le bon Dieu, then, I am saved."
"We have made a mistake, monsieurs," he said, but as he turns to leave the room, Count Carnaignole stops him. "One moment, monsieur." The Count Carnaignole tears from his own face a false beard and reveals the flashing eyes and well-known features of Tictocq, the detective.
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