Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-01-18
CHAPTER VII.

CdAflER VII.
The case dragged on for several days. and
nothing of Importance interviewed. 10 all the
questions Roger answered.:
II am innocent, but shall not defend my.
self. They can do as they please with me-"
He delivered himself up to the fatality
which seemed to have taken possession Of
him. If there had been the least doubt in the
mind OF the justices or lack of connecting
links i'll the chain Of evidence, Roger might
have been saved, but unhappiy everything
seemed to point to his guilt, and all these
things formed in the mind Of NJ. De Ligne.
ROLES III ul,shallable proof. After this first
examination the case was sent up to the court
of assizcs of Seineet- Oise, then in session at
Versailles.
Henriette learned this through the papers.
She went out no more and seemed buried in
q strange torpor, mental and physical. She
never pronounced word and even seemed to
forget tho existence of her little girl, and sat
hours without moving or appearing to see.
She ate almost nothing and did not attempt
to 60 to bed at ALL and if she did sleep it was
sitting in her chair.
Her little girl watched over her as if she
WIS lHe lNOlutI IltllIleGIo oAA
she doubtless would have starved had it not
been for the child.
Henriette had an uncle who lived at some
thirty or forty miles from there, and hearing
of his niece's trouble, he and his good old
wife left their homo and foundry and
hastened to her, and the childless old couple
did everything they could possibly imagine to
tighten her sad load.
One morning Hcnriette was gone. There
was no trace of her to be discovered and the
most diligent search revealed nothing, until
one day, some six or seven days after her dis
appearance, u policeman found on the bank
of the river tiny slipper which was recog-
nized as hers.
Then they dragged the river and searched
for miles along its banks, but they never
found the body of poor Henriette, and the
uncle and aunt remained in the house to keep
charge of it until Rogers trial was ended.
Little Suzanne sat listless and pale in her
chair day after day, rousing but seldom,
though she never mentioned the absence OF
her father nor the dreadful ordeal through
which she had passed.
Mime. Do Noirville had dreamed of VEN
geance. She was now avenged more COM
pletelv than she nau "lSneQ. Que HUI LuledI-
eued Roger with its weight. "Revenge me,
but revenge me WE'LL" she had cried to
Luversan; their compact was concluded. A
few days after this Luversan, and only two
hours after the muder of Larouette, appeared
ut q ball where Julia was. He was some
what pale, but cool and correct, and his dress
was irreproachable. He came up to her and
handed her package of bank notes.
"What is this!" asked she.
"rhc 100000 francs which you owe Roger
Laroquc Tomorrow morning he must have
these i'll his possession without fault or fail
ure."
81 thought he was in very straitened cir
cumstances!"
ale is."
"Then this is safety. Is that my ven
geances"
Through that he is lost.
"I will do it, though do not understand
it."
She took the notes and hid them while Lu.
versan showed himself few moments among
the guests. The next morning she drove to
Laroquc and left him the package of money,