Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-07

tone.
81 have no way of telling. but he can't
be more than four or five years old. lave
you got him helcy''
"Oh, no. we had no conveniences for
keeping him here. He is at livery
stable in the Rue Dubourg, just by. You
can get him In the morning. OF course
you are prepared to identify the pro-
perty?"
ITO be sure am. SIR"
81 shall be sorry to part with him."
said Dupin.
"a don't mean that you should be at all
this trouble for nothing, SIR" said the
man. Couldn't expect 1t. Am very
willing to pay reward for the finding Of
the animal-that Is to say, anything in
reason"
"Well," replied my friend, that is all
very fair, to be sure. Let me Think
what sbould have? Oil will tell YOU.
My reward shah be this. You shall give
me all the information In your power
about these murders in the Rue Morgue."
Dupin said the last words in very low
tone and very quietly. Just as quietly,
too, he walked toward the door, locked It,
and put the key in his pocket. He then
drew pistol from his bosom and placed
it without the least furry upon the table.
The sailors face flushed up as if he were
struggling with suffocation He started
to his feet and grasped his cudgel, out the
next moment he fell back into his seat,
trembling violently, and with the coun-
tenance of death itself. He spoke not
word. | pitied him from the bottom of
my heart.
"My friend" said Dupin in kind tone,
you are alarming yourself unnecessarily
1 ;,,1n
whatever. | pledge you the honor of a
gentleman and of Frenchman that we
intend you no injury | perfectly well
know that you are innocent of the atroci-
ties in the Rue Morgue 1t will not do,
however, to deny that you are in some
measure implicated in them. From what
l have already said you must know that
have had means Of information about this
matter-means of which you could never
have dreamed. Now the thing stands
thus: You have done nothing which you
could have understanding, certainly,
which renders you culpable You were
not even guilty of robbery. when you
might have robbed with IMMUNITY You
have nothing to conceal. You have no
reason for concealment On the other
hand. you are bound by every principle of
honor to confess all you know An inno-
cent man is now imprisoned, charged with
that crime of which you can point out the
perpetrator."
The sailor had recovered his presence Of
mind, i'll a great measure, while Dupin
uttered these words; but his original
holiness of bearing was all gone
$50 help me God" said he, after brief
pause, Il will tell you all | know about
this affair; but do not expect you to be-
lieve one-half | say-I would be a fool in
deed If did Still, am innocent. and
will make clean breast if die for it."
What he stated was. in substance, this
He had lately made voyage to the In
dian Archipelago. A party. of which he
formed one, landed at Borneo, and passed
into the interior on an excursion of pleas
ure. Himself and a companion had cap
tured the orangoutang. This companion
dying, the animal fell into his own exclu.
sive possession. After great trouble, oc-
casioned by the intractable ferocity of his
captive during the home voyage he at
length succeeded in lodging it safely at
his own residence in Paris, where, not to
attract toward himself the unpleasant
curiosity of his neighbors, he kept it care
fully secluded until such time as it should
recover from wound in the foot received
from splinter ON board ship His ulti-
Returning home from some sailors
frolic on the night or rather in the morn.
Ing, of the murder, he found the beast oc.
cupying his own bedroom, into which it
had broken from closet adjoining where
1t had been, as was thought, securely con.
fined. Razor in hand, and fully lathered,
1t was sitting before looking glass at.
tempting the operation of shaving, in
which 1t had no doubt previously watched
its master through the keyhole of the
closet. Terrified at the sight of so dan
gerous weapon in the possession of an
animal so ferocious and SO well able to
use 1t, the man for some moments was at
loss what to do. He had been accus-
toned, however, to quiet the creature.
even i'll its fiercest moods, by the use of
whip, and to this he now resorted.
Upon sight of 1t the orang outang sprang
at once through the door of the chamber,
down the stairs, and thence through
window, unfortunately open, into the
street,
The Frenchman followed in despair; the
age razor still in hand, occasionally stop.
ping to look back and gesticulate at its
pursuer, until the latter had nearly come
up with it. 1t then again made off. In
this manner the chase continued for
quiet, as it was nearly O'Clock in the
morning In passing down an alley in the
rear of the Rue Morgue the fugitives at
tention was arrested by light cleaning
from the open window of Nine L'Espa-
hayes chamber. in the fourth story of her
house. Rushing to the building, it per
ceived the lightning rod clambered up
with inconceivable agility, grasped the
shutter, which was thrown fully back
against the wall, and by its means, swung
itself directly upon the headboard of the
bed The whole feat did not occupy
minute. The shutter was kicked open
again by the orang -outang as it entered
the room.
The sailor. in the meantime, was both
rejoiced and perplexed. He had strong
hopes of now recapturing the brute, as it
could scarcely escape from the trap into
which it had ventured, except by the rod,
where it might be intercepted as it came
down. On the other hand, there was
much cause for anxiety as to what it
might do in the house, This latter re
Election urged the man still to follow the