OU_214051 UNIVERSA - Osmania University

33* MAINLY MAIGRET
It was a passage out of a letter from Superintendent Grenier, of
the Le Havre Brigade Mobile, to which Maigret replied by wire:
AGREED.
Six months later he received a communication which read:
Madame Veuve Le Clinche has the honour of announcing the
marriage of her son Pierre to Mademoiselle Marie L6onnec . .. etc.
... etc.. . .
And, a little later, when he was on a case that necessitated visiting
a special house in the Rue Pasquier, he thought he recognized a
young woman who turned her head away.
It was Adele.
That was all! Except that, five years later, Maigret passed through
Quimper. He saw a rope merchant standing at his shop door. He
was quite a young man, very tall, but with the beginnings of a
paunch.
He had a slight limp. He was calling to a little boy of three who
was playing with a top on the pavement.
" Better come in, Pierrot! Mamma will be cross! "
The man, preoccupied with his offspring, did not see Maigret,
who, moreover, hurried past, looking the other way and making
a rather rueful face.