Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-04-28

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disappear in few moments
The train departed, and Mr.. Lam
bert, who felt exceedingly wide awake,
and who found DIR. De La Bellies
/ cologne very strong, tried to draw his
fair friend into a conversation. She
was separated from him by high
basket of flowors-the doctors last at
tention.
The poor insane woman would not
answer word, and from her immov-
able calm the doctor concluded that
she was asleep.
When they arrived at Paris he con-
cluded that she should speak.
'Madamoiselle, said he, do awake
and listen to me; must leave you for
moment to 20 find your friends.
He sought long time, but could
not find anybody who wanted a lady
from Rouen.
He came back to the carriage very
discontentedly, when, to his intense as
tonishment he found crowd around
the compartment, where the lady still
sat. He went forward to see what was
the cause Of the excitement.
Are you the man who travelled from
Rouen in this coupe" said police
man.
Yes.
DO you know that this lady is dead?
You have poisoned her with prussic
acid! She has been dead for hours.
And the populace groaned.
The clergyman was speechless with
horror. He tried to clear himself with
all the earnestness of an innocent man,
but his story was a most improbable
one. The police found on him the
purse of the poor woman and a bottle
containing prussic acid.
1t was little bottle which DR.. De
La Belle had forced upon him in the
train.
Mr.. Lambert, stunned, half dead, al
lowed himself to be carried to prison
without resistance-he was past that.
A day later he said
Take me to Rouen l will unmask
the villain; he can never face me !
Two sergean;s de vile, with other
employees of the police in plain clothes,
attended this dangerous criminal to
Rouen, in the railway and drove to the
house of DR.. De La Belle. Mr.. Lam
bert was sure that at the sight of his
face the assassin doctor would confess
all.
DR.. De La Belle was engaged at the
moment, and kept them some time wait
ing. When at last the police began to
be troubled, the head sergeant bade
them be calm.
The house is guarded, said he: 'he
cannot escape.
Presently there entered calm, ell
derly gentleman with spectacles, which
he removed as he looked at them.
Il beg pardon for keeping you wait
ing said he, but did you want me? |
am DR.. De La Belle. ....
Mr.. Lambert trembled from head to
foot An abyss opened before him, at
which he could not see the bottom.
This was not at all the man whom he
met on Mont st. Catherine.
Your are not DR.. De La Belle, said
the unhappy man.
i think that | can prove that | am,
said the suave old doctor, smiling.
Alas! everything was against him.
The English clergyman had fallen into
the most terrible snare, laid by most
accomplished villain.
They returned to Paris
4 wish / could meet him again with
his white dog, said Mr.. Lambert,
throwing his hands in the air.
White dog, did you say? asked SER
geant De Vile.
Some weeks passed, and the police
became convinced that Mr.. Lambert
was innocent, but they were yet wait
ing for the real villain.
Mr. Lambert was taken blindfolded,
and in the night, to house he knew
not in what street, where he, however,
was well lodged, and where he was al
lowed to read and write. but was strict
ly watched
Shortly after his new incarceration
a valet arrived with his clothes, and
asked him respectfully to make his
toilette A sergeant escorted him to
a closed carriage and drove towards
the Champs Elysees.
Look at everybody who passes, said
he.
Mr.. Lambert looked, but saw moth
ing.
The next day, the sergeant, elegant
ly dressed, came again in an open car
riage, and, by the side of the coach
man sat a white pointer dog.
Mr.. Lambert turned pale.
You have seen that dog before, said
the sergeant.
1t IS his dog, said Mr.. Lambert.
Keep cam and look about you.
said the policeman.
But they looked in vain, They saw
no master for the dog.
'On the night that crime was COM
mitted, this dog was found in Rouen
without q master, said the sergeant De
Vile.
Later, the prisoner was requested to
make an evening toilette, and was es-
cortad to o GRAND hall in a. mapnifcent