"You haven't got a five-franc piece. Come, now; say!"
"No, monsieur. I——"
"Lie No. 2."
"But, monsieur, I stopped at the wine-shop of——"
"Then you didn't drive straight to the Commissariat?"
"I went——"
"Did you, or did you not? Yes or no!"
"No, monsieur."
"So! Lie No. 3."
The commissary got up full of wrath, and grasping the unfortunate cabby by the shoulder, spun him around with such force as to make the man's head swim.