La Popine told M she'd said to La Babette that she'd recognized him. Maurice Labat started to enter the Filet de Sole , but left as soon as he noticed M. For 10 years he'd been working in a department on the Rue des Saussaies , but had apparently been forced to resign. Had a wife, children, and a mistress in an apartment on the Rue de Ponthieu.
Barely 36, Corsican , small and slender, wore high-heeled shoes and had a brown mustache like two commas. La Baule-Escoublac; beach resort. They'd toured the Massif Central , and spent summers on the Riviera. M told Charlotte Mrs. M asked for M.
Laberge's house in Yport , the chief engineer, not the farmer. She called herself Liliane Laboine , and the croupiers called her Lili. About 60, heavy make-up, loads of jewelery. When she was around 30, before the war, she made her round of Near East clubs, Bucharest , Sofia , Alexandria.
Several years in Cairo , even Abyssinia. He was over 50 then, probably 70s now if he were alive. He spoke English , French and German , went to parties at Embassies. He was Louise Laboine 's father. They were married at Istanbul , and they took an Italian boat to Marseilles , then, after a few weeks, Nice , where Louise was born.
They lived in a flat off the Promenade des Anglais. Two months later Van Cram went out for cigarettes and never came back. Once the Turkish consulate checked her "marriage certificate" and said it wasn't real. She called herself Liliane, and the croupiers called her Lili.
