Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-11-22

IN I'M acHouitdoie crlule WHICH
NJ month had agitated
all Paris. He reviewed evidences, dis
cussed theories, but arrived att moth
ing definite. He stood with his back
to the fireplace, and several ladies,
who had arisen to approach him, re-
manned standing, with their eyes fix
edupon those shaven lips from which
Tell such impressive remarks. They
shivered, though impelled to listen by
their curiosity and by their eager and
Unsuitable desire for the sensational,
which tortured them like hunger.
During a pause one OF them said:
at is awful. 1t approaches the su-
pernatural. We shall never know
the truth"
The magistrate turned toward her.
"Yes, madame, the truth probably
never will be known. But as to the
word supernatural that you have
Just used, it has no place here. We
are in the presence OF a crime very
skillfully conceived, very skillfully ex-
ecuted, SO well euveloped in mystery
that we can not extricate it from the
unusal circumstances that surround
it. But was once interested in a
crime with which something OF the
supernatural really seemed to be
mingled. We were Obliged to give it
up"
Several of the ladies exclaimed ut
once: "Oh, tell us aboutit!'' NJ. Ber-
mutier smiled grayely as Judge
should smile, and replied: do not
think that | have, even for an in
slant, believed that anything super
natural did occur. have faith in
natural causes only and if we would
use the word 'inexplicable' instead
OF supernatural for that which we
do not understand it would be much
better. At any rate, the crime OF
which am to speak batfied me chief
~ by the circumstances that pre-
ceeded and surrounded it. These
are the facts:
II.
81 wasat the time Judge in Aiaccio,
Il little village lying on the shore OF
a beautiful guIfand encircled by high
mountains. 1t was my duty to in
quire into the affairs OF the ven
dettas. They were full OF dramatic
possibilities, both terocious and
heroic l found in these family feuds
the greatest motives for revenge
| uge-long hatreds, subdued for a time
but never extinct, objectionable
treacheries, assassinations growing
into nassacres, and almost into
! glorious actions. For two years
heard no conversation save that
of the price of blood, that terrible
| Corsican duty that obliges one to
avenge an injury, not only upon the
person Of the injurer but upon his
I descendants and relations. | have
seen old men and innocent children
murdered Mt the price Of blood. My
head is full Of such stories.
Well, one day | learned that an
Englishnan had leased Tor term of
years n villa by the border of the
gulf He had brought with him n
French servant whom he had hired
while passing through MarseilIes
Soon every one was interested in
this singular parsonage. who lived
alone, never going out except to hunt
or fish. He spoke to no one, never
came to the village, and every morn
ing he practiced for an hour or two
with'his pistols or carbine.
'Soon numerous Fumors about
him we're ahoat. 1t was said that he
was a man of high station who had
fed from his country for political
reasons; then it was affirmed that,
having committed an atrocious
| crime. he was concealino himself. |
wished as judge to make some in
quiries concerning this man, but it
was impossible to learn anything.
lie was called Sir John ROwelI.
Meanwhile, as the rumors in re.
gard to his character continued and
became general, / resolved to try to
see the stranger myself, and SO |
began to hunt regularly in the neigh
borhood OF his grounds.
For a long time | waited an OPP
portunity. 1t presented itself ut last
in the form of a partridge that
killed before the Englishman's nose.
My dog brought it tome, but taking
the bird / went to Sir John and ex-
cusing my impertinence begged him
to accept the game. He was n tall.
large man, with red hair and beard
IA sort OF placid and polished Her
cules He had none of the so. called
English Stiffness but thanked me
cordially in French, with u slight
English accent. At the end Of a
month we Ind conyersed together
five or six times. One evening MS |
passed his door saw him astride a
chair, smoking his pipe in his garden.
saluted him, and lie invited me to
enter and drink glass Of beer. He
received me with the scrupul0us Eng
lish politeness, and spoke highly of