" "No doubt," said the Commissary, who was a blunt, rather coarse person, believing that to take anybody and everybody into custody is always the safest and simplest course.

The general became a common soldier, the prefect became a commissary of police, the commissary of police became a police spy.

The "Commissary" was an unknown quantity, and for a space it seemed as though our desire would be ungratified.

The Commissary of Police, sent by Morny to the village of Ham to watch the movements of the jailer and the prisoners, is Dufaure de Pouillac.