The superintendent interposed.
"What for?"
"It will be useful for your report."
"Come, now! In what way?"
"For that," said Juve, pointing a finger at the officer's short coat....
"That? How that?... I don't see anything," protested the superintendent.
Juve knelt down again, and made a sign to the superintendent to do likewise.
"Look, Monsieur! Just bend down and look at this tiny graze on the cloth."
"Yes!... Well?"
"Does that not tell you anything?"