The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-01
THE EIOE.TLHER'S REVENGE.

Bay.
In the gray light Of early morning
within a large tent an excited group
of some twenty or thirty men gendarmes
and citizens, stood before q large cage
mounted on wheels, within which were
two huge lions, a l~ioness, a brutal-loo
ing man and some human bones strewr
upon a blood stained floor. The gen
darmes were threatening, protesting
promising and trying to conjole the
man in the cage, e~ndeavouring to per
suade HIM to come out and submit
to arrest.
off I come out" he replied grimly to
all their arguments, ST shall bring the
lions, with me-"
At that there were cries of alarm, and
q lot of women clustered at the door of
the tent vanished suddenly.
"Throw chloroform into the cage and
stupefy them ALL" suggested somebody.
"At the first snuff of a drug l shall
open the cage door, warned the man in
the den.
"Shoot the lions" cried another voice.
M. Ditabolla, the proprietor of the
Cirque Olympic, where this unusual
scene was going on, shrieked his pro-
test against the solution of the diff
Guilty.
"No! Shoot the man" proposed an
other in the crowd.
The Gagged man put his hand on the
bolt of the Gagged door and replied:
Even if you shoot me, my weight in
falling viii draw the bolt and then you
will do well to look out for yourselves. 4"
The gendarmes made haste to assure
him that they had no idea of resorting
to such extreme measures and had no
authority to do anything but arrest him.
"Starve him out !" exclaimed the Off
Ger in charge of the gendarmes. "We
will lay siege to him until he capitu-
lates and surrenders."
Meanwhile" growled the man, "if
we get hungry, we viii come out and
look for our breakfast together. And,
while / think of it, you had better
bring me something to eat now. The
lions have had enough for to-day
Expressions of horror and cries of
rage were uttered by the group-de-
monstrations of feeling that did not
seem to have an adequate cause In the
mans few words. Surely there was
something known to the hearers that
did not appear. But, whatever the
Indignation and the fuss they made,
they Judged it best to get the man his
breakfast, which they did, and he ate
it stolidly, while the lions lay blinking
sleepily at him and at the angry little
crowd of Iookers-on, who chartered
volubiy, all at once, as the people of
the South of France are won't to do
when excited.
A sacted waiter in NJ. Sebastian
Lenoir's disreputable little tavern,
about midnight of the night preceding
the scene Just described, found, sitting
alone ia one of the rooms, at a table, q
dead man, with a knife In his neck.
Hardly an hour before, the now dead
mar had entered the place alive and
well, bringing with him a closely
yelled. Food and drink had been
brought to them. The waiter, occupied
by his duties in attending to calls from
other rooms, did not observe the de-
parture Of the woman, but at length,
noting as singular the silence reigning
in that apartment, tapped at the door,
and, receiving no answer, entered.
The woman was gone. The mans
body was dropped forward upon the
table. From the back of his neck
stuck up the white ivory handle Of o
stlletto. Al little stream Of blood ran
down on each side Of his neck, made
pools on the table-cloth, and dripped
slowly drop dy drop, to the floor.
Tfh5 wazAHes uttered q yel of alright,
and in q few seconds the room was
thronged with iabbering and ge~stlculat-
ing Marseillaise naen and womcn
That man had been assassinated,
there could be no doubt. And it was
the opinion Of q medical mar who was
summoned, that the victim had died SO
suddenly that he had not time to make
= single outcry, or yer q gesture, but
had fallen dead just as If he had been
struck By lightning.
XerY soon. when the face Of the
corpse was lifted up, 1t was recognized
ed that Of Pedro Galancho. an athlete
and general performer iii tho Cirque de
Olympic, which had arrived in Marseil.
les less than . week before. The
woma who accompanied him IL
Ianoir's place was, Of course, suspected
Of The crime, and the theory Of the police
was that she was some woman Of tht
town who had done the deed in order