Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-20

a mailman. 1 am persuaded Jnar, nad either
Of the skilled detectives afterward concerned
in this case seen my manner of leav ing the
Morgue, they would have arrested NE on slls.
piciOn there and then.
Whittier | went after recrusSng the bride.
I cannot now remember. | walked ON, or
rather half ran, quite aimlesslv; n dull. rel
mist seemed to hang before my eyes, ami
prevent my seeing anything distinctly. /
was unconscious OF being looked At or polntei
at, unconscious of time or of fatigue. Ny
one clear idea was that | must tiy Is fast and
nS far as possible from that hateful Morgue
and its choking atmosphere Of crime
When came To myself-fur IN truth had
been for the time distraugnt-I found myself
on one Of the quays on the laft hank, in the
extreme west of the city. The thought came
to me that must do something; that | must
think calmly of what that something ought
To- be Darkness had come on, the lights of
Paris stretched IN a long line before mo down
the right bank of the river; SNOW had again
begun IL fall sat down on the quav-wall
looking into the black water of the Seine
and forced myself to reflect. cannot think
that any criminal was ever more wTetched
than at that hour.
do not know how long | sat there. alb
sorbed in most miserable thoughts. But at
last something like plan came into my
mind Retraciug my steps toward the Rue
Dauphine. | stopped at kiosk on the Boule-
ward, and bought an evening papcr-The
Temps ! opened 1t under the light of a
street-lamp. and read this paragraph amid
the falling SHOW:
THE CRIME OF CHRIsTMAs-pAY.-To-d
thara was s,nsiIpralla ,y,,,i Mt TIN.
Morgue, to Inspect the articles on which the
police must chiefly rely in their attempt to
unravel the mysterious affair OF the Passage
de Mazarin No arrest has yet been made
nor, SO far as Is known, Is there any One even
under suspicion. The daughter of Mouton,
the janitor at No. 13 Passage de Mazrin.
is said to have gwen evidence to the etIert
that, about 10 o'clock on Monday night, the
hour at which the crime seems to have been
committed, she saw a young man, TallISh,
slenderly built, and light of foot->tcp,' glide
through the passage Of the house aS If on his
way upstairs. The police Will, of course,
make every effort TO trace this young man,
but, in the absence of clearer testimony, their
task must be pronounced one of the greatest
difficulty. Meantime, the judge of inStrUc-
ton has opened his inquiry ON the spot; and
q reward of 800 francs has bccn offered hy
the project of police for such Information as
NAV lead to the arrest of the assassin
read this paragraph slowly through: its
every word seemed to fall on me like a great
weight added to an already heavy burden.
feared, but that was not enough wanted
certainty. Hurrying up the Rue Dauphine,
mounted the stairs and listened at the door OF
RaouI's room. From his slow. regular rc,Pi-
ration l Judged him to be asleep; could ne
sleep, and-nol / would not believe it. would
not think it, Yet, for all that, dared not
open the door, walk straight up to my friend,
and tell HIM what had seen. took off my
shoes on the threshold, and crept into the
room like a thief.
Raoul did not speak to me, he must there
fore be asleep. The room was quite dark !
groped my way to the corner where the
clothes winch Raoul had last worn Law heapei
together on a chair. i felt for the shirt
sleeves; the one took up first had the ivo~y
butt at the wrist, round and smooth. The
buttonholes OF the other We're both empty;