Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-01-07

What The inner breast pocket
tooT The coincidence was getting more
than queer.
And you,' pursued Monsieur Dard
took advantage of the crowd at the door
way to-
And will be shot, you know, if Mon
sieur Dard didn't pantomime precisely the
maneuver my deUdliseur Just now mus
have employed to cut my red morocco
etP' lETFF ~
s.Go on I said, astonished. What
did do thenf'
"'You rushed precipitately down the
staircase Of the Redoute.'
wanted to catch the train you know.
"'Ca Sc comprehend You jumped
into a painter waiting outside, and caused
yourself to be driven furiously to the sta
ton, where you arrived in time to take q
ticket tirst-class, to Paris by the 11:37 ex'
press.
al admit all that. Go on t.t d..
90 In the meantime, though unfortu.
nately too late, Monsieur Bourbon had be.
come aware of his loss. He instantly
communicated his suspicions-he had no.
tlced you repeatedly at his elbow--to the
Commissaire of Police. Oddly enough,
continued Monsieur Dard, his eyes on me
more maliciously than ever, the Commits
saire was at that moment engaged with
the Sergeant Rokerre-you know the
Sergeant Rokerre, without doubt? No9
Really? Not the Sergeant Rokerre of
your own Surete from ScotlanyarH Well,
no matter; the Sergeant Rokerre knows
you ...
1.-THE devil he doesp interjaculated.
| IN 60
Thompsonne, with an infnity of aliases,
notorious English pickpocket, who had
brought the Sergent Rokerre from Brux-
elles, where he had lost sight of his man,
to Spa, where he expected to find him |;
and 1t was precisely this Thompsonne that
Bourbon described when he described
the individual he believed had robbed
him. e. Il ..--
d" 1 don't say he didn't I commented;
only say he didn't describe me-
u" Wait minute Monsieur Dard re-
turned. by means of this description you
were traced to the station; by means of 1t
1t was ascertained you had taken a ticket
for Paris. The Sergeant Rokerre then
communicated by telegraph with us, and
took other precautions in the event of
your changing your mind with regard to
your destination. However, these proved
uhnCSSoohly. Ou dITlVeu III arts AZ
o'clock this evening. Monsieur Thomp-
some is too important parsonage for us
not to possess his Signdlen,ent That tele-
graphed to US by the Sergeant Rokerre
from Spa agreed remarkably with the PEN
portrait of the same which of course
consulted when the affair was placed in
my hands. So remarkably concluded
Monsieur Dard, that though the tele-
graph specified such things as that travel
ing dress you wear, as that purple and
black plaid, as that peculiarly fashioned
cap, l had need of none of them to feel
certain you were the Thompsonne l
wanted the instant l came into the ROOM
GO And you feel as certain of it still,
Monsieur Dard p
90 Undoubtedly he said, smiling in
sutferably. Yet had reason to know the
Suretei could boast Of few ADLER agents
than this same Dard. l was curious to
hear why he was 80 certain was his
Thompsonne.
/ "'Before prove toyou am not, prove
to me l am l asked him.
60 will prove that to you in two words
he declared calmly.
"He looked me in the eyes with cool
triumph in his own, as he leaned across
the table and said
"The red portefeuille was distinctly
seen in your possession at the station Ia
baS at Spa
"'That is very probable returned.
sc All You admit it? In effect, to
what good deny it" rt
al don't deny it the least in the world
"'NoT Monsieur Dard replied, rising
with that confounded touch of melodrama
in his rising that taints all Frenchmen
more or less; no, you do not deny it. and
it would be useless if you did, because that
same red portefeuille was again seen in
your possession at the station here in
Paris three-quarters of an hour ago.
al admit it was in my possession there
too, Monsieur Dsrd.
GO Because he went on, you have held
no communication with any one since, ex-
cept with me; because, therefore, and in
short, that red portefeuille and the forty
thousand 1 sa
Excuse me, fifty thousand 1 inter-
rupted, spitefully, spelling his peroration.
Because he repeated, that red porte
feuille is-thereP and he pointed with un-
hesitating foreinger straight at the inner
breast pocket of my travelling Jacket,
where indeed my red morocco note case
ought to have been.
~ could scarcely well help grinning in
his sallow, blue-shaven face, at the sell
and the swindle that was coming.
"'The devil it is replied, turning 90
as to expose that clean, artistic cut in my
garment. l should be only too glad II
you were right about that, at all events
But what do you make of this, Monsieur
Dardp
monsieur Dard didn't seem to know
exactly what to make of it for minute or
two, thought. Then he smiled that con-
founded smile of his, and wsgged his head,
as it were admiringly.
II is very CLEVER he observed, won
derfully clever. But, my dear Monsieur
Thompsonne, it will not do. All no, it
win not do at alli' t
Eventually l gathered that Monsieur
Dard's opinion, belief conviction, was
that IhGd been operating on myself!
And to make ones self out so far from
the robber as the robbed wouldn't have
been such bad move on the part of the
real Thompson, would it? Ii was notion,
though, which could only enter that in.
dividuals head--or Monsieur Dard's so
that to Monsieur Dard, ] was simply more
positively the real Thompson than ever,
don't you see?
But that too clever little mans triumph
was of the briefest The next moment
INC uOoA Openeu Win u ruSn, ana Llere
entered, perhaps more precipitately than
he had intended, an unmistakable subordi.
nate from the Rue de Jerusalem, whom /
presumed Monsieur Dard had prudently
put on guard outside, followed by some
one lar more reassuring in the shape of
We're Lucingham.
:" Some trouble 70 get at You, Dick
said We're, when he perceived nae. 'Ahl
here is Monsieur Dard. Bon jour, Mon
sieur Da-d.
Notwithstanding its natural impertur-
bahillty, the countenance Of the agent Of
the surete betrayed signs of exquisite dis
comfort at this salutation; for Monsieur
Dud knew who We're was perfectly well.
He had taken certain instructions from the
Second Secretary in matter in which the
Embassy had just employed him; and the
Second Secretary knew met Thompsonne,
with the infnity of aliaAls, notorious