Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-02-08
WHOLE NUMBER 1905.

fell upon it. Decididing TO thrust the
probe home at once, he deliberately ad-
ded Another reason, other than want
OF time, may exist TO occasion your ah-
ruptness, my friend want of conf
dence."
"What sir % calculated the man, start
ing up in a threatening, apprehensive
way. What do you mean by that re-
maikT'
"Listen, and will tell you,n replied
Henri, fully convinced that he was on
the right track, and bis visitor indcci-
sively sat down again. "Listen, and
will tell you what | mean. This cross,
for which you have taken such an inex-
plicable fancy, came into my possession
under very peculiar OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
cumstances that invest it with extraor-
dinary interest" Pausing a moment to
note the effect Of bis language, Henri
fixed his burning eyes on the strangers.
Speaking slowly, and emphasizing every
word, he continued: IL found this
cross on the ard Of January, 1910, on
the Rue de Germane, on the very spot
on which three days previous the Comte
de st. Armande had been brutal!y mur-
dered."
During the utterance OF the couclu-
ding words ofthe above, the cOuntenance
of the listening man underwent a most
appalling change-as dreadful indeed, as
though he had heard the sentence for his
immediate execution pronounced. The
muscles of his face twicbed convulsively,
his under jaw fell, aud his eyes rolled in
their sockets as though following the
fantasies ofsome horrid goblin.
The paroxysnI lasted but for a mo-
ment. BY superhuman effort of the
will he recovered his bewildered facul-
ties, spraug to bis feet, and with the de-
moniac fury of the madman, dashed at
Henri; Kissing between bis teeth,
% you; the telling OF that tale is
your death-knell."
Just as his muscular hand closed op.
pressivcly on Henri's throat, he was VI
violently jerked backwards, and found
himself in the tenacious clutches of the
two gendarmes."
$50 ho, my fire felowr' calculated one of
the officers. 1--WE are altogether too deeply
concerned for the future welfare of your soul
to permit you 10 perpeirate such a crime.
You have done bad enough already 10 bring
vou In honvinD and that e oujta sufFic ic;ant To-
9ur nurnns,. '''' 10 4''''e '''
Tie foiIcd william cIared sudderlv from, oro
10 the other, and made NO attemn, to escsne
"That is ritht." remarked the officer who
snoke befnre .'Takc II assvNsbows yo,, 90
| hr a nlIlosonber and a man of ssnsen
The nrisnner coolv roIded L;a o-ns o,d
stood silent
monsieur Cardone," continued the officer,
" rs vour friend seems n take kindly our in
,erf.repcn with his Iit,io nIa, ,o ,roy;ds 90,
limo resting smell " III yan with eon.I 1;oin-
tertst.dness prny,de ne viii a rono fnr IL
| benafitS TTniuckiIv We came from town and
forgot to hiring tI,e nrofess;onal hraceIetsN,n
uninten,ionaI oversight which assure yon ;;
| addressipg the nrisoner eve denIore evar
more than vou vdnrseif can In f,et we ,yera
| rother uncertai, of h,y;ra The ,iaosrre of
vorr comnsnv nn o,r ra,r5 no peA'1i' VI
: Nor will Won have flat nieasnre ~ orowled
the hithcr,o oniescent cantive snddeniv kicE-
inw ant viii, his two nowerfnl arms u1sett;ng
noth Officers kickino over the table on wbici,
stood the licbt and leanina an, of the door
into the dariness As he Vanished a bnIlet