The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-21

ecraDie crime was comrnlTtedT-
You viii observe" continued the judge,
perfectly unlnoved, ''what~hss- perhaps for
the moment escaped your attention.; YOU
will netioeho~ easy it rs fOrorss 20 imagine
the whole scene. The assassin was behind
the chair in which NJ Dufaos sas. yrh<R
he refused to c0untenanes anylouusr vour
misconduct. II Is certain thaGrzar1e fzur-
ing had been done, some RceoyzuSs rurkoned
up; that, by uEIScba1ce, you hid saihed
your fingers with ink. for one Of the bands
that was laid in violence upon this vener-
able head has left q mark imprinted Ia tha
self same ink that Is in The ink hoGIla On
Unstable It WIS the left hand-ahg Won
start!-it YVES, 1 say, the lett hand, aud you
are a left handed mani -Aluass- a. eha
same instant the right handbook, you
can see the mark Of the tkurob-SAosed
upon NJ Outlets neck and pressed
the carotid, not quite So forcihly,
perhaps. IS the left, wfsch soon
came to it's fellows assistance and com
pleted the work Oh. You can easily fol-
low it ont YoorsekI Seei let z1s ask you 10
place your fingers here, upon thSse. finger
marks-ohl but without gloves, without
gloves. / beg5goOdl psrfsCtI Is Il not
strange that these hands Of yonrs. SO deli
cate, should have been able 70 perform 50
muchS Now, give a slight prV7Sstsre
gently-what have YOU to feax. since You
were not the assassin
Listen, SIR, said Dufiot. this Is almost
sacrilegel Besides, you vilhsee my thumb
much more than covers the mark left by
the assassin
But you must surely BE- sware." cried
the Judge, smiling, that your thumb aP-
pears longer now because it IS IN FePose-
At that moment. you viii rccuaAect. you
contracted iJ-let me show yoo-So- "A
YOU have il now there IS little douht-0us
see what has happened extraordinary
NJ Dutiot's eyes have openedys
Armande Dufiot made one quick step
backward: his face in an instant grew pale
as death; his Inns visiely trs1Dbied- Over
the face Of the dead man a change had
come; the eyelids had contracted. dIsclos-
ing the bloodshot eyes. fixed IN CLASSY
stare
Tit is indeed extraordinary" said
Dufiot, with a visible effort. and sec,
how he keeps them Open.,as II he were
looking at us Ain de- not like thls-no
truly / cannot stand it. II Is . CHASTITY
farce, and sickens me For God sake close
his eyes, as you know | had nothing TO do
with it, All! l remember; yes, l rsInem-
Der once when he looked &C me like
that 1t was because Of a debt. gam
bling debt-a gambling debt. lie would not
no. TINS time he would nos-in any case,
not Immediately and at last he looked at me,
Just Is he Il looking at us now. and be
said: Well. so be It, this one viii pay,
but if you rccommence l swear TO you
will disinherit vou' Let me ask you,
should hc have spoken sos And the whole
time he looked ar me like that~-H 1 should
live for q hundred years, I could never for
get that look Bu, enough, J tell You I
cannot look any longer, l cannot Then
left him and ran-no | did not, I walked
slowly, I remember. quite slowly TO my
Club-and his eye followed me, could sec
il always before Lac. An have said any
thing bad about him And yOu' Why
do YOU, also look AT me iA,e that Bahl
they are All looking at me. they all have
ghastIy faces, they all tarE their terrible
eyes upon me Tell INC. have you not had
sufiicieut-will you not bet me go' After
all ono look Is fust like apother--there is
no reason why 1t should be otherwise.
An! old man. You have tried hard %
frighten me- bat i viii not be suparzti-
tious | will not tell yen. But let me
60 on For two months past | could draw
rotbing from HIM Tie GxInly refused II
was unhearabIei And at the tiue there
were his drawers fun of gold-of gold
had only 10 stretch out my baosf-but for
Gods sake dose hrs cyssi AIR ahl Tell
me- were they Like EhBt when be was first
found' Were they stih, GAebhatf Hind be
not his old fashioned spectAcbss ont All
close his eyes They fastsn upon Ioa and
are sucking my biood sbopl Yes4 It
was so he looked at ma when fTaSpod his
neck from b. a nd Every moment stnos
then hss eye AZ loeked ~ me like that,
and-snd- take use away, take mo awRyi
Do not tell you that X VIA I-1wh
killed him, Translated for Short Stores
from Camille Iemunnier ia Cd Bias" by
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