The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-10-12
r 3 BE RT M AGAR Z
FROM first page
CHAPTER v.
! THE ACCUSATION

very fact that tnCy are unable to make
Roadway in an investigation is to them
an additional reason for the continuance
of their suspicion
Being now quito at fault and almost
anxious for an excuse for leaving the
matter for the present without having
to acknowledge the ignominy of defeat,
they seized with alacrity the divertisse.
ment created by the charge OF Beau
mont.
The sergeant pulled himself together.
got fresh paper and ink, and after snub
bling his sUborainatess severely had Beau.
mont placed Laiore him and began the
investigation.
Your na.neT
"Charles Beaumont.
'Occupa tiOns
Farmer.
"Age?''
'sSixty-two years on the 9th of last
March,
Married or single?"
Married"
'.Name of wife?"
''Marie."
''Her age?'
Here the farmer began to feel that an
a., -. e .,,.eaaa;a was ~ ~ 60 ~, pa 70
- ,1;ea saa -, ~, III. ~ ~ 49, =.
10 lie 80. ~ - lie .S-an4s.: .l's'
G "eS ao NJ s1 noa al.u @ 1:,- e ~.
- = e"4as 10y. ~ . III t rs"
" e' ~ T1A $3.50 oo..oa =. ,:4 .1li ie.
%s -. "a. o ,los.o"o:o no.lo anu
go 49, -: ~ n:- a:e oHs - noMloo ::
. -;eo go. 10 a-a:,11e ~ A w nA'
". ..,r, 10y hn,'a f1 So ~, 49, : 4,o
1tavo 1mo' WIZ 20 ueie-
.e'n' m -. 1u:' ~ SUI "nlone wv
t.. l-.ana - . 10 y u.' onal r.,
80 ~ n"ooI /" 40 J"o. "oou. " olui
ou1 WI" =. q ,iian ueuai s1u lioi'y nei fes'i
as-'i-" len 'ile ealian' sergeant cut
..Th;r+r 4hroo, rhonl ,,o,, hood
on;+o nj, and;f 1-,awsa,:sna ,o,na~,.
IL III III 49," . 90, 81 .e. y,
49, 80. w ~, "1 - =. ~. ea41'
o.rnad 49, ,.sa+;t,do 49, &c $3.50, 1890 ~
t,a &c. ai+a@,,ah ~ +o1, ~ w 4.41' ~
e 49,. c.. " ~ 49, ~
S...:,a 49, 20. ~ ~ 1poe -.
,.t+ 49, . 49, y Wv ~ " '--'' ~ wv
H. ga 1;tt,o ;;a4 a - ,-o
~ '- ' 'e ---'>o
things 20 more easily to all except poor
Beaumont, who, being now more at ease
on his own account with his inquisitor,
had time to think again of his terrible
loss. The inquiry went on, and the poor
man told the story of how he had gone
out in the night and had hidden his own
money in his own land as his father had
done before him, he having got the idea
of it's being the only safe way to keep
money from the exactions of the seigneur
end the tax farmer under the old regime
and from the patriots under the new. :
Then he went on to say that he went
to the place that very hour, even while
the investigation on the remains of poor
Pierre was proceeding; that he had dug
in the very same place, turning over the
very same earth; that he had found the
very same piece of canvas in which the
money had been tied up. But, 10! it was
empty, and the money had gone. He
continued that he made the charge Of
robbery, and that whoever had stolen
his money would have to pay the penal
ty of the law.
The sergeant swore with many oaths
of the strongest and most uncompromis-
ing character that justice should wreak
her utmost vengeance on the wrong
doer. He was especially forcible, for
with this real charge to investigate he
felt that he could recover the prestige
which so far he had lost in the murder
case. So he suggested that he should go
to Beaumont's house to make further in
quiries on the spot and examine the
ground. The willy sergeant had good
eye for the main chance, and he argued
that as it was now getting on for dinner
time he would have better chance of
faring well in the house of a man who
had SO much money to lose than he
would anywhere else. Accordingly they
all proceeded to his house, and there the
INQUIRY was continued. When he had
got ali that was voluntarily told him, he
began to make inquiries.
All this time Marie was in terrible
state Of fright. She felt that the time