The Red Cloud chief., 1879-07-17
Very good, sir,- answered Trout

"very good, sir" answered Trout
lot, iaconically.
Roblard and Trouillot left the Project
ure together in . cab; and the commun-
ard appeared TO BE- In rather high spirits
during their drive 10 an hotel. A losd
seemed 70 have been lifted from his
mind. and he talked with excitement
shout the changes he had noticed in
Paris, saying how glad he Was 70 &c;
beck again. At the hotel be bespoke
tso bedrooms, next esch other, and
having q door Of communication /; then
he ordered dinner. BY this time bis
spirits had somswhat fallen, and he
watched his companion through the
cornersof his eyes as il he did not quite
like the look Of him. Trouillot was one
Of those men who 4 not talk, and
whose faces do not say much in their Is
vor. He kept on saying eyes, sir"
stolidly; and during dinner Ate aud
drank largely.
Nothing N consequence happened
during the evening. koblard was tired
with his journey from Geneva, and after
the pair had discussed a cup Of coffee
and Il cigar in the snoking-roOm, he
suggested bed. Both men repaired 10
their sleeping chambers, and Roblard
began by requesting that Trouillot
would leave the door Of communication
between the two apartments open.
Trouillot consented, but he was rather
dismayed when he saw the Communist
prepare for his nights rest by laying on
his nigh.-table "A six-chambered reyolv-
or and a large clasp-knife. He vowed
To himself that he would sleep a.
gendarmes are said 10 do-with n eye
open; but this resolution was 500 OBJ
liberated by drowsiness, the effects Of
the good dinner he had eaten. Ten
minutes after getting between sheets,
Trouillot WAS sound asleep and snoring
like atrombOne.
He awoke in the middle of the night,
and recollected where he was; but d pc
culiar odor was filling his nostrils. He
sat up and rubbed bis eyes. The room
was pitch dark. He struck a match,
and the first thing he saw after lightning
his candle Was IA handkerchief GIVING on
his pillow which had evidently been
STEPPED in chloroform. The pungent
smell of that poison still fingered
about it,.
This discovery at once drew Trouillot
out of bed, and he strobe trouserless
into the next ROOM, holding his candle
at arms length. At first he could see
nothing unusual; bet suddenly his eyes
met q sight which made him stand stock
still in the middle of the apartment.
Deep in the a~lcove, and half-hidden by
its curtains, hung the lifeless body OF
RobIard, who was suspended by the
neck TO the curtain-rod by means of a
bell-rope. He WAS quite dead; and the
surprising part Of the matter was that
the door of his room opening on 10 the
passage stood ajar.
A few hours later, when n summary
inquest had been held by the Procurcur
de la R~epublique, that f~unctionary said
" IL is obviously the suicide of a cum
ming madman."
81 suppose So" %concurred Monsieur
A, who had been called. "Iet
those conspirators are queer fellows;
they can not even die plainly like other
en-"
The same evening VuilleuN, the jour
nalis', reading the Partisan kilograms
in a Geneva newspaper, remarked to a
circle of afrighted communists: Didn't
| tell you Richards days were number
ed? lie was bound 10 end in that
fashion,