‘I don’t know his home address. His office is, I think, in the Boulevard Poissonière. But I could get you the address from M. Le Gautier.’
‘Please give me an account of your relations with these gentlemen.’
‘Well, I have known them both for years and we are good friends, but I cannot recall ever having had any money transactions with either until this matter of the lottery.’
‘The details of that mentioned in the letter are correct?’
‘Oh, perfectly.’
‘Can you remember where precisely the conversation about the lottery took place?’
‘It was in the ground floor room of the café, at the window to the right of the entrance, looking inwards.’
‘You say other gentlemen were present?’
‘Yes, a group of us were there and the conversation was general.’
‘Was your arrangement to enter the lottery heard by the group?’