The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-11-14

floor grew dark. This time the light did
not travel from room to roomi it was sx.
tinguished on the spot.
The man Of science has gone to bed .
said Cauler, with touch of disappoint
ment. II may go hcme and get NY
supper
He waited some minutes notwithstand-
ing and. looking up presently. he gave
cry OF triumphant surprise.
''Dieu de Dieul / have hit it this time
he muttered.
There was light shining through tae
shutters of those three upper windows
light moro vivid than the shine OF TIE
domestic lamp. fiery crimson glow, suoa
as he had seen in the theatre three hours
ago, in the famous laboratory scene. II
lasted three or four minutes, end then
came darkness again.
This time Cauler had no idea Of going
home to supper. Ee wcitcd for tho q.
pected opening Of door CT window
1t came presently; window on tile
ground floor was cautiously lifted end
man stepped out into tho courtycrl-a
man wearing a blue blouse and red cco.
rufhanly looking brute with biy, pro
tecting teeth. like the fangs Of wild
beast, and long coarse black hair liLs
the mar OF q VIII beast.
This brutal figure crept steclthily ccrcss
the yard and ont of the porte cochere.
Cauler following more stealthily; for ia
the walk ct the blouse there was the over
acted caution of the novice. In the walk
OF the detective there was the subtletv ~
of the man accustomed TO hunt his fellow
men.
This is Blueblouse, whom we have
heard of from one lot; this is Redcap, who
has been seen by another lot This is the
man.
He followed that creeping figure.
slouching across the road. doubling, wind
ing his hand clutching something in his
breast. Cauler followed him from the
Rue st. Guillaume to the Quai DIES Grands
Augustins across one of the bridges TO.
the Cite, from the Cite by another bridge
to the region of the markets; never lost
sight of him, yet on the way contrived to
call IN at station of night police and to
enlist couple of policemen in the chase
The three contrived to keep Blueblouse in
sight, wind and double as he might;
watched him as he accosted a night wan
derer In dark alley, and saw her hv
from him, scared at that grim face and
panther teeth under the red cap. They
followed him through the intricacies of a
labyrinth of squalid streets which has
long disappeared; saw him stop to speak
to woman, more wretched perhaps than
she who had fled from him half an hour
betore-saw him bend to speak to her as
If in friendliness, then with a sudden
clutch fasten one livid hand upon her-
throat while the other hand was thrust
into his breast
Quick as they were to spring upon him.
they were not an instant too soon. An.
eother second and that long knife would
nave done It's deadly work, as it had done
thrice before in the streets of Paris. THE
Chourineur, the murderer Of the Rne Ste
Marguerite, the Rue de la Vieille Ianterna
and the Rue DIES Feves, was found. Yas
Inns was the solution of the mystery
homcldal mania, the fatal outcome of a
Drain wrecked by overwork. day labor and
night labor-the too ardent thirst for
knowledge, the too keen ambition to
achleve. II had needed but spark To fra
the brain, and the spark had been fonnI
IA the suggestion of the drama at tba
AmbIgu Mare Avalon had watched anJ
orooded over the play till it had become
feallty to him, and he had yielded to tbe
irresistible impulse that dSove him 10 Act
OUT the idea in his own person.
ne DIED before the end Of the year IN, A.
STATE lunatic asylum. In searching his
laboratory the police found more than one
SET OF tangs. carved in ivory, which tba
chemist had laboriously fashioned ia INF
Iation OF the actors hideous makeup. II
was discovered. too, that he had carried
us y experiments with the magnesium light
.hen httle known, far beyond the me.
OF the theatre; but confessions
made by him later to the doctors of the
asylum revealed that he had firmly he.
leVed IN his possession of occult lSnov,l-
Edge by which he was able to assume d;a.
Ooiicai attributes and diabolical power.