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Authors: Georges Simenon

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Two days later, Gloria Lotti was found in a brothel at Orléans, and she steadfastly refused to reveal the name of the peasants to whom she had entrusted her son.
As for Alfred Moss, his description remained on the police “Wanted” list for four years.
One night, in a little circus that was traveling from village to village along the roads of the Départment du Nord, a down-at-heel clown hanged himself, and from an examination of the papers found in his suitcase the police discovered his identity.
Countess Panetti's jewels had not left Claridge's, having been locked up in one of the trunks left in the baggage room, and the cobbler in the rue de Turenne never admitted, not even when he was dead drunk, that it was he who had written the anonymous letter.
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