[...]
- It 's true, I did not think and I apologize. But if you bothered to do so means that the case of Fulgence intrigued enough to want to learn more.
- A play that game, Adamsberg? A hunt for a ghost? I prefer to think that it has not, otherwise his place in the police is not here but in a mental hospital.
What the fuck is he doing here? I explain that?
- To take the measurements of the wounds, to interrogate and report Vétilleux this track.
- Do you think a rival? In an imitator? A child?
Adamsberg took steps to revive the feeling of his conversation with the first two days Danglard.
- No follower and no children. Fulgence acts alone.
- He realizes that he is telling me coldly that he lost his mind?
- I realize that she thinks more. Vétilleux allow me to say goodbye before I leave?
- No! - Shouted Trabelmann.
- If she goes to deliver a good innocent to justice, his business.
Adamsberg Trabelmann turned around to retrieve its folders and poke awkwardly into the bag, which takes some time with one hand. The major did not help him, just as Danglard. He held out his hand to greet him but these Trabelmann not uncrossed his arms.
- Well, sooner or later we'll meet again, Trabelmann, head of the court planted its trident.
- Adamsberg, I was wrong.
Commissioner looked up, startled.
- His ego is as big as this table, but as the cathedral of Strasbourg.
- What she does not like.
- Affirmative.
Adamsberg headed for the exit. In the office, corridors, lobby, silence had fallen like a shower taking away voices, movements and footsteps. Beyond the gate, he saw the young sergeant to accompany him for a few meters.
- Commissioner, joke of the bear?
- Do not follow me, sergeant, leaves his post.
him a quick wink and went on foot, without a car to accompany him to the station in Strasbourg. But, contrary to Vétilleux, the Commissioner did not consider that a few miles on foot was a 'trek', but a walk from the mind just enough to oust the new opponent was Judge Fulgence to add to his collection. [...]
from "In the winds of Neptune" by Fred Vargas, Ed Einaudi Freestyle Noir, 2009, pp. 88-89.
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