Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-03-14
KISLOy: THE VAMPIRE.

In the year 1880 apartments au trois'-
eme were taken in the hou No 3ls
Rue St Honore, Paris, by q couple who
had Austrian passports and gave their
names as Jean Kislov and wife.
Kislov pretended to be musician, in
part teacher and part amateur composer.
He was person very well informed.
naughty and aristocratic in manner, and
unusually striking in appearance.i
He had spectral face s t in frame
of thick black hair, and cut by long
mustache which hung 10 his breast His
eyes, intensely black, thrillingly bril-
liant, flashed as il they belonged any
where rather than to that ghastly white
face, otherwise immobile, and the pallor
of which was heightened by brig car
mine lips He was emaciated to
singular degree. ..but there was nothing
Of the languor and dullness of disease
about him; on the contrary. fire and
intensity which gave a sort of pss'ion to
all that he said or did He dressed en-
tirely in black with a sumptuousness OF
tone which was of itself impressive.
Nine. Kislov was less distinguished
person, a fair and forid blonde, with
white eyebrows and a pinkish stripe
above them. She was plump, and the
way in which the rose bloom was laid
on her glistening white skin gave her
the appearance of wax doll.
When Kislov had been living in the
Rue St Honore about four months sew
eral circumstances combined to bring
him under the surveillance of the police.
Riding in cab one day in the Boule-
ward Montmartre, he was set upon by
workman, who assaulted him with
knife and would have killed him but
for the prompt interposition OF SER
geant de vile.
The man was arrested, but Kisiov
persistently refused to appear against
him, and the workman, whose name
was Jasz, an Hungarian, was finally
discharged.
He would say no more than that he
knew X SLOW, and that he was a mon
ster.
The singular refusal of KisIov to tes-
tify against an assassin directed the
attention of the authorities to the man,
and provoked inquiries into his ante
cedents. Two thin q were found out
immediately-that his name was not
Kislov, and that he had bought arsenic
in considerable quantities at pharmacies
near where he lived.
A little further inquiry, however,
served to set the police curiosity at rest
concerning Kislov. The Austrian en-
bassy, which viseed Kislov's passport,
assured the authorities that they knew
him well and were satisfied with the
reasons he gave for living incognito
he was an HUI garian nobleman Of
high rank and great estate which he had
left to come to Paris under an assumed
name, because the ignorant and brutal
peasantry by whom he was surrounded
had got q firm belief into their stupid
heads that he was vampire who lived
by sucking blood.
This would explain the attempt made
on his life by Jasz who was probably
an emigrant from his neighborhood. As
for the arsenic, Madame Kislov was a
Syrian who had the reputation Of being
an arsenic eater. Kislov's music teach
ing was merely an amiable eccentricity,
as he was very rich, but a great en-
thusiast In matt rs pertaining to the
tone art
An agent of the police lureau,
however, not satisfied with what was re-
ported concerning Kislov. determined to
make private inI Iuiry of his own. This
agent Sylvan by name, and a man of
great astuteness. much trusted by the
authorities, hunted up Jasz, and ascer-
tanned from him that the su .picions Of
vampirism which lay against Kislov had
originated in circumstances intimately
connected with this reputed music ma
mia, and there were some parts Of the
business which were exceedingly puz-
zling.
Sylvain set to work to investigate con-
cerning Kislov's various pupils in Paris.
He found that the mans classes were
composed of girls and young women ex-
clusively; that he gave his instructions
for pay which was purely nominal, but
in return exacted the most arbitrary
conditions, and was indeed exercising
over his pupils a despotism which was
as bizarre as it was imperioua He dis
missed them at pleasure and without
cause, assuming Q right Of arbitrary
selection which he would permit no one
10 dispute. He would have none but
handsome girls and women, and these
must be blondes-the fairer they were
the more likely to be retained. He
selected his pupils from all grades OF
society, hut only in rare cases did he
give private instructions to persons Of
the higher social classes
To offset all this, 1t must be confessed
that Kislov was an extraordinary
teacher. He was thoroughly accom-.
plished in his art and very capable Of
imparting to others his enthusiasm.
When q pupil was completely to his
taste. he spared no time nor pains to
bring her rapidly forward.
He was favorite with his pupils, too.
His conversational powers were very
great. and there was something Of a
magnetic spell in his presence, In the
somber mystery OF his bewildering eyes,
and the tender courtesy Of his peculiarly
sympathetic manners. which made his
pupils advance most charmingly and
thoroughly under his guidance.
But, as SyIvain presently discovered,
there was always eliminating period
TO this progress. and the relations Of
master and pupil came to an abrupt end.
Tie pupil after almost confidential
friendship with the tutor, would be
startled by q sudden GOODNESS on his part