Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-04

A6tuoA ChlS Guttt IL may Oecoue youl
slave?"
That speech from the woman had
brought from him the answer
Were my father gone, we would go
TO Paris. Then you should be my wife.
Nearly year later, while sitting be-
side this woman, comes messenger to
the door Of the salon. To Mile Florette
the messenger hands. a note. With q
flushed tace and trembling hands she
opens it.
1t contains only line.
Unions. Adolph half an hour since was found
dead in his carriage. ''DoCToR IMRE."
She handed the note to Paul Uttering
an exclamation of horror he stood facing
her, his hand crushing the note. in iTs
convulsiye grasp. r...
"NIy God-at last!"
"Paul - go to your father" she
gasped, and sank back upon a lounge
near the window, IN which still hung the
signal ribbon; signal which had accom-
plished its last service.
Paul silently left the salon and was
sooE at the bedside, where stark and stiff
lay his dead father. The face was dark
ened, the lips slightly parted and blue,
| the eyes dull and glossy.
The servants stood near, grouped at
the foot Of the bed, and at the side was
| DR.. Imre.
"Apoplexy!" said the physician
Marseilles, in the clubs, in the salons
and III the cafes, had its suspicious.
! The surgeon of police, at the instance of
DR.. Imre, made an examination in ordi-
naire, and his report to the prefecture
& &c
the dead millionaire's physician, surmise
and gossip had only to shake their heads
suggestively and echo the verdict
''Apoplexy."
The dead millionaire was given fun
eral BETTING his wealth, and monument
upon which was recorded the usual
schedule of virtues, his sins and the
memory of his reckless immoralities
being conveniently buried with his re-
mains.
The will being read, and Mons. Paul
being the heir and executor, there was
little trouble in settling the estate
NJ lie Florette amazed and disguised
Marseilles by appearing in mourning.
Her now sole lover, Mons. Paul,
added to the insult by being seen riding
IN her company.
Then suddenly, greatly to the relief
of the mOralists, some of whom-all Cos
sip is born of envY-envied the state of
this heir to millions for the sins which
their poverty prevented them from COM
mitting, the pair disappeared from Mar
settles, and were seen there no more.
The scene of their drama was changed
to Paris, and on September %, 1869,
~ 10 III L., i
one more banker added to its list of
fnanciers, and the Bourse a new fire.
quenter.
And came at the same time new oc.
cupant to the house No. 81 Rue Fouh-
tame St. Georges. This was Mile
Florette Lache, the once premiere Sec
unda of the ballet of the Marseilles
Theater later the mistress of father and
son, and now the ruler of the son alone.
NJ. Paul opened his banking house !;
his financial responsibility was estab-
lished, and possessing all the business
shrewdness, as we'll as the evil traits of
his father, he soon became noted. The
deposits were large, his letters OF credit
good to any extent.
His private Office, magnifcently fur
nisbed, was at the rear of the banking
rooms and had private entrance from
the street by passage-way, SO that if
he chose he could receive visitors with
out having them pass through the bank.
Here Mile ElOrette came at will, gen
orally after banking hours, to visit him;
sometimes she accompanied him to the
theater or the opera, and from thence to
the residence in the Rue Fountaine St,
Georges.
To the world, that portion of the Paris
world which knew them, they were APP
parently devoted 10 each other. She
re7eled IN luxury-he in the delights of
her love.
She especially fancied visits to Mar
settles, and-strange contrast to the
Theate1 Porte st. neutrality-suspicious.
upon occasions when M. Paul had other
engagements and was unable to accom-
pany her. Never had he gone with her
IN these visits. Of her actions he had
no suspicion.
On the morning of November 10.
1871, the employees of the bank found
the private Office closed in the bank en-
trance-this door being always left
open for the admission Of the porters to
dust and sweep and put the office in or
der. Contrary to his custom, III. Paul
did not appear at his usual hour. At
four o'clock he had not been seen. At
the closing of the bank the cashier be-
came thoroughly alarmed. Mile Flor
cite arrived in her carriage. She had
not seen him, she declared, since the
previous morning, and herself had be-
come frightened at his prolonged alb
sence from her presence.
& commissaire of police was sent for,
and at her command, as well as at the
request OF the cashier, the comm1lnicat-
ing door was burst open.
There were some papers scattered
upon the floor; the doors of the great
polished burgIar-proof iron safe were
wide open, and the door of the private
passage leading to the street was not
locked.
The heavy silken curtains of toe rear
windows being drawn apart, and the
barred iron shutters thrown open, the
fulllight of day revealed ghastly spec
tacle to the police officials, the bank
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