Word: perron
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...RONALD PERRON Lowell, Mass...
...year,with two illegitimate children, aged two and four, Sylvie went to live in Paris' ramshackle Hotel du Theatre, a dingy four-story affair, its walls faced with chipped plaster, its windows hung with drying laundry. It was owned by Sylvie's old prison cellmate, Mme. Jeanne Perron, an amiable reformed fence known to most of her friends as Aunt Jeanne. Her little niece, Denise LeRoy, 12, soon moved in to join Sylvie's children, and in time the family circle was swelled by a handsome young Arab, Abdellah Saoulite, who had fallen prey to Sylvie...
...Saturday, when Aunt Jeanne did not return, Inspectors Leloup and Lelong decided to search the hotel. In the cellar, behind a pile of lumber, topped with a birdcage, they found a patch of new plaster. A few blows of a pickax revealed the naked, decaying body of Mme. Perron, a gag still wadded in her mouth...
...rescue, two falls and a young lady, with a handsome military hero and stupid rival - and has by clever arrangement made a very interesting sketch. The denouement is particularly happy, and by it the reader's attention is held to the last. We wonder, by the way, what perron in Monaco the hero found so familiar...