The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-22

husbands death she should voluntarily
have shifted her residence first to
Paris and afterward to New York-the
two cities above all others which TEEN
with the varied elements of repub-
licanism and democracy.
New York society could find no fault
with her. Her esta biishment was mag
nifcent, her entertainments were con-
anti' ally superb, and she was re-
ceived everywhere. She was a society
queen so far as any woman can be in
a country where society is but
relative term and is applied Indifferent
~ to every stratum of tie community.
But behind all this worldliness was
the woman's heart and soul, the depths
o. which no one had thus far sounded.
She had no intimate friends; she had
no lovers.
She had been passionately devoted
to her husband and the shadow of his
death hung over her still.
What had brought her to America?
If any one were impertinent enough
to ask her she would unhesitatingly
reply that it was to escape the memo
tormented her among the familiar
scenes Of st. Petersburg and Moscow.
Cracow and Vienna, ana other cities
where her husbands diplomatic duties
had called him. Besides, she averred
an intense admiral tion for the Ameri-
cans and the American character.
But there are Nihilists in Amer,-
ca" vcntured an acquaintance one
day.
Il know It," she replied, in a low
voice, with a repres3ed shudder
1t really did not appear as though
Stacey had made much progress on the
case eftcr q weeks work, From the
point OF view of the average mortal
this was what he had done:
Made a casual inspection Of the ma
room-papered room, and found-noth-
in.:.
Questioned the club servants one by
one, and, of course, obtained-nothing.
Not exactly, either, for there was
one point which Stacey seized and
made use Of as a possible foundation
for soule OF his characteristic keen Off
cial guessing. This was the fact that
both men had been in New York but
a comparatively short time before their
death, and that both had previously
| lived In Paris.
| Relative ito this point a cablegram
was forwarded upon Superintendent
Byrnes' authority to the prefect of po-
lice of the department of the Seine ask
ing for information as to the lives and
connection of Roger Laroue and
Hugues Narbon in 'sha French capital.
| Men possessed of the true detective
instinct--the instinct of burrowing re-
meath the surface of things and inter-
| pretins appearances in an entirely diff
fent sense from that they seem to war
rant-have a highly useful faculty of
picking out from amid q crowd certain
| individuals who, to the ordinary OBJ
server, appear in no way distinguished
from the average run of mortals but
who, to the acute official mind, give
promise of rich results If properly de-
| veloped.
Through the exercise of this faculty
| Stacey, upon his second visit to 1.-THE
| Myrtle" had picked out Alfonso, the
Polish waiter, as the one man among
the score or so Of employees Of the
club upon whom he wanted to keep an
eyc Not that there was the slightest
evidence connecting Alfonso In any way
with the death of the two young men
or that there was anything suspicious
In the mans appearance or actions
He was the same imperturbable, obse.
quious individual as ever.