Le maigre désigna le récepteur de fac-similés :
— Un drôle de truc. De l’espionnage météo. On aura tout vu. Alors que des dizaines de stations donnent toutes les indications voulues. Il n’y a qu’à se mettre à l’écoute....
The following story was told to the writer by Nick Carter as being the most remarkable, and in many respects, the most mysterious case in his experience. It baffled the shrewdest detectives on the regular force, and had practically been abandoned...