He then placed a letter of similar appearance beside it before retrieving the incorrect paper prior to leaving. The Minister D., who also entered, saw and interpreted the contents of the letter correctly. The letter belongs to a lady who was forced to hastily place it on a table when the person from whom she wished to conceal the secret entered the room. Monsieur G., the Prefect of the Parisian police, enters the apartment to ask Dupin's opinion of a case, although he refuses to do so in the dark because the idea is "beyond his comprehension" and thus an "oddity." He describes the case as simple but puzzling, but ignores Dupin's suggestion that perhaps its simplicity and self-evidence is what confuses the police.Īccording to G., a letter has been stolen from the royal apartments that the police know the thief will use for blackmail. Auguste Dupin and his friend the unnamed narrator appear in a small library room in Paris, silently smoking and, in the case of the narrator, contemplating two of Dupin's previous cases involving the Rue Morgue murders and the death of Marie Rôget. Reprising their roles from "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," C.
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