Eleven p.m.
For the last three or four days , Father d'Aigrigny occupied this apartment . He had not chosen it , but had been induced to accept it , under most plausible pretexts , given him at the instigation of Rodin . It was about noon . Seated in an arm-chair , by the window opening on the little garden , Father d'Aigrigny held in his hand a newspaper , in which he read as follows , under the head of `` Paris : '' `` Eleven p.m. -- A most horrible and tragical event has just excited the greatest consternation in the quarter of the Rue de Richelieu . A double murder has been committed , on the person of a young man and woman . The girl was killed on the spot , by the stroke of a dagger ; hopes are entertained of saving the life of the young man . The crime is attributed to jealousy .