San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-07

loved tie usual rush for the cloak
rooms and carriages, the sleepy ride
home, the swift disrobing, the quick
transit to the other world of dream.
life. The absence of the Lebourgeoises
and the Count had of course been not a
little noticed, but Mrs. Blood's explain
alton had been sufficient tC
stop much talk. As both Mrs.
Lebourgeois and the Count had been
seen earlier, and as the crowd was sim
ply overwhelming, the keen-eyed re-
portsfs were for once caught mapping
The Orb had Miss Lebourgeois' gown
through Paul; and the Conservative
society reporter, a woman, was given
travesty of it by her anticipated
rival, Miss Blood Consequently Miss
Lebourgeois' name appeared in both
accounts as present and as costumed by
Worth
Society, the reporters, and the public
generally, where then totally unpre-
pared for the sensation, which
filled the entire first page
of the Orb next morning. 1t
recounted the Counts history in
full as it has been limited to us so far
through Paul, Archer and Keene, with
the missing links all supplied 1t left
but little chance for additional particu
lars when the case should come to trial.
These were the first few lines:
Fooled by De Fooliers.
The Bogus Count Caught at the Ball.
The Blood Money on which a
Valet Passed for Nobleman.
The Distinguished Frenchman" Doub-
ly Murderer.
The Mystery of the Locllet and the
Ring, etc.
1t was the biggest scoop" known in
the history of journalist 1t was the
browning achievement of Archers life.
The article itself had been for the
most part in type for two or three
days. The manuscript had been tran
scribed long before. Committed to
two or three trusted printers, it had
been set up and the proofs read in ad-
vance. Names had been lett out and
certain paragraphs, so that no chance
should lead to a betrayal. One who
ran across the proofs would have sup
posed that they were simply part of
Forthcoming novel. These breaks were
easily slipped in at midnight, and an
introduction giving an account of the
arrest rushed through at 2:3O a. NJ,
The out.of-town edition and the
regular city edition was hold
back (newsboys being supplied
with meagre copies of the irstl until
the very last moment. No pre-
caution was forgotten, and the Con-
servative and one or two 1-cent rivals
of the Orb were given no chance to get
hold of an early copy, and come out
with a rehash, The Orb was very late
in reaching customers that day, but
not one was found to kick The presses
were kept running until 10 o'clock,
and 10000 extras were sold by noon.
Paul had carried an early copy to the
Lebourgeoises (he stayed Up all night,
and no one was admitted to the house
except the doctor. As intimate friends
of the family were heavy stockholders
in the only afternoon paper, no bogus
, interviews were published, the only
statement appearing which affected
the Lebourgeoises being one written
by Paul himself from facts furnished
by Frank at Pauls suggestion. 1t
covered the way in which the Count
met the Lebourgeoises and denied the
existence of an engagement. The
1-cent publications, of weak financial
strength, where scared into decency by
vigorous legal threats.
10 return to the original sensation,
Archer's story in the Orb. That
touched very lightly and delicately on
the Lebourgeoises. At heart Archer
was a gentleman and hated to drag q
young lady into the mud. He also had
a sincere regard for Paul, liked the
squareness with which he had con-
Quoted himself throughout, and felt
especially bound to him by the help
furnished at the last moment. So he
readily passed his word to Paul to spare
the Lebourgeoises.
Archer's story rehearsed the history |
of Graham, the Englishman; his I'M
fortunate ENHANCEMENT with young |
woman whom he secretly married, and |
who died in childbirth leaving a little
babe; Graham's fight to Australia
with his valet, under the belief that
the child was dead: tNe adoption of the
child and the hunt n Graham, com
mitted to the same detective who had
in former years Swallowed him and his
valet; and the discovery that Graham
had been murdered in the Australian
bush, while the valet had disappeared.
Then came the missing link. the nat