Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-03

With Nine. DunGlne ana GG0TaeHe, &c
planning the discoveries ace hGd made.
Next morning saw the advocate Sapinaud,
and told him Of the new evidence IN Raoul's
favor. He advised me to say nothing, in the
meantime. to RaOul
LET Us wait" he said, until Blery returns
and tells us the whole story. Then, if the evil
dence he has found proves what you say 1t
proves, viii frame a statement and lay 1t
before the Imperial procurator. Alter that
Girard viii no doubt be released from deten-
ton, either with or without bail.
Next morning the detective arrived in Paris,
and sent me a message asking me to come to
him at the prefecture of police, and to bring
Sapinaud also. I was fortunate enough to
meet Sapinaud in the Sale des Pas-Perdus;
he at once unrobed, and we FASTENED TO the
prefecture.
There we found N. Blery, in his napless hat
and shabby gray Overcoat just as he had ap-
peared in Rome. and who could tell how many
other European capitals? The room in which
he received Us was small, but well lighted; its
furniture consisted Of two chairs and bureau
in common pine wood; on the bureau lay an
almanac, a Paris Directory and Universal
Guide to all the railways of the world. M.
Blery gave each of us chair, and himself re-
manned standing with his back to the light.
'MeNsieurs," he said, Il am charmed to
have the honor Of this visit. | rush ct once
| into tie middle of things In the converse
ton which l had with NJ. Marsal ID days
! ago, there was one point we did not discuss
namely, the apparent want Of motive for the
crime / presume however, that Monsieur,
in his very intelligent examination Of the
case, did not fail to give this point his atten-
tionl"
Mo- said; II considered the point, and
came TO a certain conclusion"
I'VE may suppose" said NJ. Blery, that
! the assassin of Meissner had one of two OBJ
| jects in view-either revenge Or plumber. If
! it was simply revenge, why did be ransack
the strong boxes and cabinets! If it was
/ plumber, why did he leave SO much portable
! booty behind? The Judge-again fitting the
| facts into the theory-accounted for this by
| the eccentricjty, amounting TO insanity, Of the
criminal, terroT-stIicken by his crime. How,
! Monsieur, do you account for it:'
Il account for it, | said, ''in quite another
way. | account for it by the conjecture OF
a search on the part of the assassin and,
! since all the locl-faSt places were not opened,
! by q search for special object"
Exactly" said NJ. Blery; the conclusion
| to which any unbiased mind, possessing Sutfi-
Gent acuteneSs, would naturally come. What
were the judges words! This he said, is
the obscure point of the case, but the difficulty
here tells as forcibly against any other theory
of the crime as against the theory that
Girard is the guilty person A somewhat
rash assertion, Monsieur the Judgel The cir
| cuInstances certainly make against his theory,
blS they confirm ours. Yes search for
special object, that is it! And the special
object"
"A compromising paper" suggested Sapi-
maud left in MeisSrer,s hands by one of his
clients"
AN excellent hypothesis, - said Blery: 'but
here, fortunately, we can dispense with ny
! potheses; we have facts, as | shall show you.
Since leaving NJ. Marsal, fortnight ago, /
have been in London, Brussels and Rome. l
| have been in search of the missing dagger.
/ started here in Paris, at the Palais Royal. l
found it correct. Us did my friend Ply, that
there was now no dealer in curiosities there to
| whom Girard had sold his weapon. But |
found that two years ago there was q dealer
in curioSitieS there; man who had fled by
night, carrying the valuable part of his stock
in trade with him, and leaving his rent IN
paid. l traced this man to London; with the
help of my friend Briggs, of Scotland Yard,
find him. He has by this time sold the dag
ger. but he names the purchaser go to the
purchaser, but he also has parted with tin
brief, ! followed this dagger to Brussels, l
followed it to Rome. In that city it has come
! into the possession of French artist. who is
by no means we'll off. l tell him for what
| purpose | require the dagger; he agrees TO
sell it. 1t is then in pledge; we go to the
| pawnShcp, we redeem lt-aud | leave Rome
with it in my keeping Hare, Messieurs. is
the dagger" NJ Blerr laid it on the bureau
| before us Observe the one word written
beside the flower: compare it with these
characters, traced by NJ Beauvais, and which
stand for the word sorrow'-you see they
are the same. Thus the conjecture Of VI.
| Marsal IS proved 10 be perfectly correct: this
is the missing dagger Of the three-the one
given by MeiSSner to his nephew two years
ago"
1 could not look without emotion on this
weapon, which had 50 nearly proved fatal 10
my friend. e1d which now had been found
| just in time TO save him.
80 much for the dagger continued M.
Blery, now for the key He touched
| hand-bell on the nanteipiece: the door opened
and little man. red-haired. pock-marked,
and with furtive eyes. appeared.
This. Messieurs, Is Plotin.H observed n.
| Blery, with the air Of one exhibiting an in
fericr animal, 'Pll0tln, one Of my aides
You will tel these gentlemen, Plotin. what
| were The instructions gave you before left
! for London"
Monsieur gave me this kew" said Piloton
I laying it beside the dagger on the. bureau
Monsieur told rls he had reason TO believe
that : KEY had been fabricated frcm this as =
model. about J7so months ago. By a loczSspiJh
living within a certain radius Of the Passage
de 5azarin Monsieur also gave NE a desssrip-