The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-06-26
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sYou r alone nOwYs he said
Yes I answered. Speak ON.
.'He did so All, monsieur, ] thought
I was dreaming.
/ ann near death. ! need the last
rites of the church, he said.
Confess your sins, / answered
My sins are trivial, I he returned.
Il would speak of a great crime. / 90
cupy a cell twice the width of my body.
/ know not where. ] am condemned to
die of starvation. I know not why. ]
have never injured a fellow creature
MY blood boiled Speak ON, ; I re-
peated.
My name il Jules Davoust, he re-
sumed- 7 am Of Caen and well known.
I was a happy man until ! met Sophie
Polinski. Aye, afterward I was happy.
She is Polish, Of noble family. So she
told me. All, father, she is beautiful. ]
loved her. ] love her still. She return
ed my passion. I am only a tradesman,
but we were married. Two months Of
bliss were mine. One day she came to
me trembling. Fly" she said Ely
at once" She would not explain. /
had my business-my little shop. ! had
done no wrong. ] refused. That night
she disappeared. Next day ! received
a note written by her hand. She babe
me meet her in the wood at a secluded
place known to MS both. / went. She
was not there. It was dark. ! called
her by name. Two men came mp, seized
and gagged me, forced me into . car
riage and brought me here. I am con-
demned without trial. My jailers tell
me that ] must die or q noble name will
be dishonored. There is nothing more.
I was permitted TO choose the manner
of death. Aid me il you can, but give
me dissolution now
81 absolved him. / babe him have
courage. ] assured him that he would
be free in . few hours. My guide re-
turned.
! have heard your words, he said.
You cannot aid him. If / thought you
could, you would share his fate,
"He took my hand and led me TO the
carriage, entering with me. The coach
man whipped his horses. They galloped.
I pleaded for the poor man. My COM
panion was dumb. / threatened him
with the law. He answered not q word
/ pictured the vengeance Of an offended
God. He was stone. / vowed to devote
my life to the discovery and punish
mext Of his crime. Still not o word.
But ! have kept and will keep my vow.
a faint gray light was showing in the
east when we reached the cures door.
I alighted. Apurse was thrust into my
hand. The carriage disappeared
Two hours later the gendarmes were
securing the country. They discovered
nothing. Seven days / passed visiting
chateaux and houses, to no purpose.
Then / went to Caen. found the home
Of Jules Devoust Both he and his wife
were missing. The neighbors described
him-a very handsome man, incapable
Of committing a crime. His wife, they
told me, was a beautiful woman, with
the air of q princess. She spoke French
with q foreign accent, dressed in silk
and satin and wore valuable jewels
'"The gendarmes wearied of the fruit
less search, but I did not I made my
home here. / succeeded the cure. /
mapped out the country and visited ev-
cry chateau, save one, within wide ra-
dius, every large house. Forty-seven
years I have sought o clew. Come TO
the window"
rose. Father Aloysius pointed to the
old castle Of WALTON, browning o hill
scarcely q mile distant
THAT In the chateau which ] did not
visit = he said sit is 30 near, and ]
travelled many miles that night There
the tomb of Jules Dayoust was discov-
cred this morning. I have stood within
it To ID q hole lin the wall sir feet high
by four wide. The stones behind which
the poor wretch spoke TO me bulged with
the weight above, and the workmen
pulled them down. The skeleton fell
ont In my presence they replaced them.
One stone just the height OF my head,
was without mortar. Itcould have been
removed easily. The two paved yards
are there, the passage between the walls,
the stone staircase, the big tagged room.
/ have no doubt at all. II the criminals
are living. they shall be brought to jus
tice.
Twelve months afterward ! met Fa-
Their Aloysius i'm Paris. He had just re-
turned from Poland. An examination OF
the papers Of the late owner OF the
chateau had resulted in the discovery
that his grandfather had rented the
place 60 q Polish gentleman who gave
the name OF Lubenski. The latter took
10 for q year, but at the end of six
months appraised the proprietor that he
no longer needed it.
THAT Id all we know, = said the cure.
Elm Poland / learned nothing. Nor have
the police been more successful"
"And the mystery Is "a FAR from be-
ing solved an ever2',
"Yes. I fear the truth will not be
known until the day Of Judgment 4
have imagined many things. The 48
years which have passed haye been fruit
ful ia curious reflections. would dia-
miss the matter from my mind now II
I could. But ! fear that ID impossible. 2
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