Telegram-herald., 1889-06-06

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10" -poa tie s4o OF the Uorgae contains
t1s exact FeproGl lction OF ths features oi
the oae yoa SEEK EiGh your permission
VII draw II from them"
Draw IL; bgg hswi'
by pkotogr4p 4pAy-it Is my business. NJ
lo Caef Aad th.s matter. tEis sgolec.
spe1k ", / have st-G 81 II iong s-d almest
WIKI passion. for 1 hold IL 10 be. In case oi
success, one OF the most useful and besuti.
ful applications OF modern science. know
II can DC done. / have myself expsri
menteG, and IN one instance have repro
duced the lneanents Of The physician wno
had leaned above the bed Of the dying"
TIE man spoke with animation. and while
speaking his voice vibrated, his eyes
burned, his who couatenance was iliu mi
mated, irr2diated with the light Of "a legiti-
mate pride n. Theodore regarded him.
yisibly moved himself by this ardent con-
ylctl0n.
And you concludes" he questioned, after
moments thought
Il couciude-but authorize me 10 attemp.
the experiment on the woman assassinated
yesterday and l will tell you what l con-
clude IL succeed il will bs for us-my
wife and ne-s little glory, and also 1.-THE
mOney-a ray OF nope in our misery; II
fa.l-well, 10 matter-wo are used 10 mis-
fortune. a deception, more or less, need
not % counted. In any event, NJ. 10 Chef.
you lose nothing in the adventure but the
chance Of an unhoped for success"
Then, so DO IL, monsieur" agreed the
chef dc surcte. Take your instruments To
the morgue 10 morrow morning at ten
o'clock. | viii see that the clerk Is in-
structed. Later on l shall myself be there.
l have the honor, monsieur, 70 wish you
good morning"
In the obscure nook at the morgue where
he lad inclosed himself in accordance with
the arrangement made at the Office OF the
surete Frederick Bouscal, his body bent,
his face drawn, watched anxiously the re
suit of his last washing. The plate was
there before him in its bath Of quicksilver,
into which no had dropped it awhile age
with such fear and infinite precaution.
Sensitivizedi Vitalzedi At least II should
be, and il the conditions of the crime were
such as he supposed them, and the victim
before dying had really seen her murderer
face, the portrait OF the assassin would be
there under that bed Of gelatine en- trainS
TO melt away.
His throat closed as By grip Of iron, the
operator held himself immovable, hearing
only with painful disunctness the gurgle o1
the water as it drlpped upon the faces o1
the dead in the adjoining chamber; the
plunge of his blood as it throbbed and
hammered through the arteries OF his
heart.
And at last the moment came-the mo
ment that was to reveal TO him al OF
nothing. He rose, that poor, trembling
photographer, rose, say, took it carefully
by its dripping edges, that plate upon which
his fate was hanging, half closed his eyes
held it to the single ray of light that
filtered through the yeIlowcd pane-tc
I. 2 fck 10.
It crash into thousand piecesl
"His son. Great Godl The face OF the
murderer, the face of the sonr'
Five minutes later, when Frederick
Bouscal, the photographer, came from hi:
nook, and the chef dc surete, awaiting hin
with impatience, hurried TO meet him, hC
saw Immediately By the pallor OF his face
by his somber eyes, that he had nothing
good to announce TO him.
'Wcll," said he, 'nothingr
"No," responded Bouscal, nothing"
"AllOnsl no matter; try 1t second time
do it over again"
"lmpossible! the transparency of th'
cornca is destroyed. l wished 10 wash it
and | burned il through mistake in the
vials. l salute you, II. lie ChefV And Fred
erick BOuscal turned away.
nc HtAb nDlUlUS y
| the quarter of Ternes, forwarding TO th'
prefecture his regular report, headed i
with the following item:
To-day ct ten O'clock a summons TO 10
| Rue Laugiere. A call from the concierge
suspicious OF charcoal fumes from the room
| OF the Bouscals, man and wife, his 10
cataires The door, by my order, wa'
/ forced Too late-they were dead, both o
| them, side by side upon the bed. braze
of lighted charcoal plainly indicating th'
manner OF their death. A double suicide
poverty the cause.
From Commissaire, quarter o
| Ternes, third month, 10Th day, lsS-."
Bah, these inventorsln murmured M
| Theodore, as his secretary concluded th
reading, they are all alike, stupid al
rash though /, too, on this occasion, nav
| naught TO boast Of But how the deuce,
! he added, as the memory Of that pa.e, sa
face rose up before him, ''how the deuc
/ could think OF suicide for q cause as trifiin
/ as thlsF'
a cause az trifing "a this''
| Al, M worthy chef de surete, IL IL nc
every thing that is known in that prefectur
of thiuei-Translated from the French b
L. &. Waggcner.