Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-05-08

silk and lacqmered ecood.
"You have seen something Ike this before,
Messieurs, is it not sog' said the detective.
sand this-this also you will recognizeP'-
g I'D he showed US key which he had found
in another pocket. An ordinations sig
nf can't 'sAh!'-escaped from Sapinaud and
n,ye stf at the same moment. NJ. Blery smiled
again
PHO, In next opened the travelling trunks.
Tbevu ere found to contain clothes for the
most y, VT, among which were one or two
dresses. Violently Oriental. There were also
a numbe of letters, some in our own Ian
euage. sol ne in foreign character, which
easily reco gnized as Japanese.
Sill M. 3lery had not spoken a word of ex-
n1anation He seemed to enjoy onr complete
mystifcatiol L
ssPilotin.n he said at last, when his search
was finished. ''you will remain here on
guard until you are relieved. You will
allow no one t. enter without a written order
from Monsieur the Project Messieurs, If
YOU will return with me to the prefecture, I
Shall have the Asasure Of explaining to you
what YOU have e.an here. That will be a
more convenient p la, e for doing So"
Leaving M. Pajo Is, we Gyove back to the
Prefecture, where N .Blery resumed his mar
rative.
''Monsieur," he sa i'd to me, twill remember
the surmise he had ormed-or, as y prefer 70
call it, the idea-thatt the assassin of A1elssner,
who was certainly foreigner, may p, ,asibly
have been Japanes e. decided on TO- Vow
ing up this clew."
3'In the lists at the prefecture find the
names of between sky and seventy japanese
returned by the hotel keepers and proprietors
of furnished houses in Paris. About forty of
these are still reside ut here. Over twenty
have returned to the ir native country. The
remainder are dead, a. nd buried in Paris.
81 make special inquiries with regard to
these last; it seems to me very probable that
the victim of Meissne1''s extortions should be
among them. One of the names is Sangura,
native of Yeddo, no'profession, returned by
Lunel, a keeper of private apartments, of the
: most expensive description, in the Avenue
+du Roi de Rome Ivisit Lunel, who remem-
bers his lodger Sangura perfectly. He had
occupied for a year the finest suite of rooms
on the first floor of Lunel's house. He was a
Japanese of noble birth and great wealth,
who intended remaining for three years in
Europe. The seductons of Paris had proved
too strong for NJ. Sangura, however; his style
of living, Lunel assured me, was fabulous.
He always rode out with two grooms behind
him. His dinner never cost him less than two
hundred francs as he never dined alone. He
would go behind the Of the theatres with
his pockets full Of jewelry. Henlade presents
of the most splendid character; to one actress,
it is said, he gave set of diamonds worth
thirty thousand francs; to another a barouche
and pair Of English horses with silver
! mounted harness.
1.-THE rent was always paid to Lunel quar-.
! terly, in advance. About the end Of the
third quarter, Lunel's experienced eye began
| to see symptoms of change in his tenants
| disposition and mode Of life. Sangura was
no longer hgh-spirited and gay; there was
| almost continually cloud on his face. First
| one of the grooms was dismissed; then the
! other; then the valet. Finally, the riding
horses and the cabriolet were sold. One by
,ane Lunel began to miss from his tenants
APARTMENT certain costly articles of jewelry,
with which Sangura had decorated it
when he first came Lunel inferred that
these were being sold, as the difficulties of his
| tenant grew more pressing. Little by little
| Saneura,s wardrobe disappeared also-a bad
sign, Lunel thought; but the fourth quarters
| rent was paid, and SO he was safe.
CAT the end of the fourth quarter, San
A gura-whose apartment was by this time
4 stripped of everything belonging to him which
4 had the least value-disappe himself.
4 Lunel never saw him again; but, about three
months after, he remembers having read an
| account of q suicide committed somewhere in
| the Latin Quarter by an unknown foreigner,
supposed to be a japanese, and having fan
cied that this might be his former tenant.
s'Lunel further hands to me a bundle Of
letters, which had arrived for his tenant sub
sequent to his disappearance. I examined
these; with one exception they are the unpaid
bills of M. Sangura's tradesmen. The excep-
ton is letter addressed in a female hand; it
is here-Monsieur can examine it for him
self"
M. Blery, drawing out bulky pocket
book, took from it letter in a delicately
tinted envelope, addressed in faint violet ink:
sfM de Sangura, rAvenue du Roi de Rome,
3s1.n
read the letter, then handed it to Sapi-
maud. It was as follows: My own one, why
hide myself thusa Cans't thou think thy
poverty will change mes Come to me as Of
old. Thine own Clotilde." The letter was
dated 'sRue de la. Refine, 4S; Wednesday
morning"
Gas Messieurs may suppose" continued NJ.
| Blery, IT lose no time In visiting No. 48 Rue
de la Refine. at first am refused admission;
Nile. Duchastre, the premiere danseuse at
the - Theatre for she and no other i