Chapter 16: The Beroldy Case

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​​​​​​​​‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​‌⁠Some twenty years or so before the opening of the present story, Monsieur Arnold Beroldy, a native of Lyons, arrived in Paris accompanied by his pretty wife and their little daughter, a mere babe. Monsieur Beroldy was a junior partner in a firm of wine merchants, a stout middle-aged man, fond of the good things of life, devoted to his charming wife, and altogether unremarkable in every way. The fi