The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-04-27

ed the solemn measure. Suddenly
those windows on the second floor
grew dark. This time the light did
not travel from room to room; it
was eXtinguished on the spot.
THE man of science had gone to
bed," said Caul,r, with II touch OF
disappointment. Il may go home
and get my supper"
He waited some minutes notwith>
standing, and, looking up, presently
he gave u cry of triumphant sur.
prise.
"Dieu de Dieu! l have hit it this
time" he muttered.
There was a light shining through
the shutters of those three upper
windows-a light more vivid than
| the shine of the domestic lamp, a
fiery crimson glow, such as he had
seen in the theater three hours ago,
in the famous laboratory scene. 1t
lasted three or four minutes and
then came darkness again.
This time Caules had no idea OF
going home to supper. He waited
for the expected opening of the door
or window.
| 1t came presently; a window on the
| ground floor was cautiously lifted
and man stepped out into the
courtyar(l-n man wearing a blue
blouse and IL red cap, n rutfianly-
looking brute, with big projecting
teeth, like the fangs of a wild beast,
and long, coarse black hair, like the
hair of a wild beast.
This brutal figure crept stealthily
across the yard and out of the porte
cochere, Cauler following more
stealthily; for in the walk of the
blouse there was the oysrncfed eau
ton OF tile novice, in the walk of the
detective there was the sublety of
/ the man accustomed to hunt his fel.
low men.
''Tlis Is Blheblouse, whom we have
heard of from one lot; this is Red
cap, who has been seen by another
lot thisis the man."
He followed that creeping figure,
slouching across the road, doubling,
winding, his hand clutching some
thing in his breast. Cauler followed
him from the Rue st. Guillaume to
the Quai des Grands Augustins,
across one of the bridges to the Cite,
from the Cite by another bridge TO
the regions IL the markets never
lost sight of him, yet on the way
contrived to chll in at station of
night police and to- enlist coupe
policemen in the chase. The three
contrived to keep Blueblouse in sight,
wind and double as he might;
watched him rs he accosted u night
wanderer in a dark alley, and saw
her fly from him, scared at that grim
face and panther teeth under the red
cap. They followed hip through
the intricacies of a labyrinth of
squalid streets which has long disap-
peared, saw him stop to speak to n
woman, more wretched than per-
haps she who had fed from him half
an hour before-saw him bend TO
speak to her as if in friendliness,
then with a sudden clutch fasten ore
livid hand on her throat, while Il e
other hand was thrust into his
breast.
Quick as they were to spring upon
him, they were not an instant too
soon. Another second and that long
knife would have done it's deadly
work. as it had done thrice before in
the streets of Paris. The Chourineur,
the murderer of the Rue Ste. Mar
guerite, the Rue de la Vieille Lam
terne, and the Rue des Feves, was
found. Yes, this was the solution of
the mystery. Homicidal mania, tie
fatal outcome of q brain wrecked Ivy
Overwork, day labor and nightlabCr
the too ardent thirst for knowledge,
the two keen ambition to achieve.
1t had needed but a spark to fire the
brain. and the spark had been found
in the suggestion of the dramma at
the Ambigu. Mars Avalon had
watched and brooded over the play
till it had become q reality to him,
and he had yielded to the irresista-
BILE impulse that drove him to act
out the idea in his own person.
He died before the end of the year
in State lunatic asylum. In search-
ing his laboratory the police forEJ
more than one set of fangs, car,'d
in ivory, which the chemist had Ia
boriously fashioned in imitation Of
the actors hideous makeup. 1t vas
discovered, too, that he had carried
his experiments with the magnesil m
light, then little known, far beyoI d
the mechanism of the theater; lrt
confessions made by him later to ii G
doctors of the asylum revealed thu t
he had firmly believed in his posscs-
sion of occult knowledge by which e
was able to assume diabolical attri-
butes and diabolical power.