The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-14
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of ciockwork merely an excuse for get
ting inside the fortress. The brothers,
with much perturbation, locked up the
establishment, and instead OF going
to their usual cafe, they betook them
selves as speedily as possible to the
office of the police. where they told
their suspicious and gave a descrip-
ton of the supposed culprit The Off
Ger seemed much Impressed by their
story.
Have you brought with you the
machine he showed you?
mo. 1t is at the shop, said Aado4pn.
1T was merely an excuse TO get IN
side, am sure OF that, for no clock
maker ever made it,
Perhaps" replied the officer. will
you go and bring it? Say nothing of
this to anyone you meet, but wrap the
machine in paper and bring 1t as
quickly and as quietly as you can. |
would send a man with you, only L
do not wish to attract attention
Before morning the man, who gave
his name as Jacques Picard was ar
rested, but the authorities made little
by their zeal Adolph Delore swore
positively that Picard and his visitor
were the same person. but the pris-
oner had no difficulty in proving that
he was in a cafe two miles away at
the time the visitor was in Dolores
shop, while Adolph had to admit that
the shop was rather dark, when the
conversation about the clockwork took
place Picard was ably defended, and
his advocate submitted that, even If
he had been in the shop as stated by
Delore, and had bargeined as alleged
for the mechanism. there was nothing
criminal in that, unless the prosecution
could show that he intended to put
what he bought to improper uses. AS
we'll arrest man who entered to buy
a key for his watch So Picard was re-
leased, although the police. certain he
was one of the men they wanted, re-
solved to keep a close watch on his
future movements. But the suspected
man, as if to save them Unnecessary
trouble, left two days later for London,
and there remained.
For a week Adolph slept badly in
the shop, for although he hoped the
thief had been frightened away by the
proceedings taken against him, still,
whenever he fell asleep, he dreamt of
burglars and so a,woke himself many
times during the long nights.
When it came the turn Of Alphonse
to sleep in the shop, Adolph hoped for
an undisturbed nights rest in the room
above. but the fates were against him.
Shortly after midnight he was flung
from his bed to the floor, and he felt
the house rocking as if an earthquake
had passed under Paris. He got on his
hands and knees in a daZed condition,
with a roar as of thunder n his ears,
mingled with the sharp crackle of
breaking glass. He made his way to
the window, wondering whether he
was asleep or awake and found the
window shattered. The moonlight
poured into the deserted street and he
noticed a cloud of dust and smoke
rising from the front of the shop He
CROPPED his way through the darkness
towards the stairway and went down,
calling his brothers name, but the
lower part of the stair had been blown
away, and he fell upon the debris be
low, lying there half-stunned, envelop-
ed in suffocating smoke.
When Adolph partially recovered
consciousness he became aware that
two men were helping him out over
the ruins of the shattered shop. He
was still mur1nuring the name of his
brother. and they were telling him, in
a reassuring tone. that everything was
an right. although he vaguely felt that
what they said was not true. They
had their arms linked in his. and he
stumbled helplessly among the wreck
age, seeming to have lost control over
his limbs. He saw that the whole
front of the shop was gone and no.
ticed through the wide opening that
crowd stood in the street kept back
by the police. He wondered why he
had not seen all these people when he
had looked out the shattered window.
When they brought him TO the ambu-
lance. he resisted slightly, saying he
wanted to go to his brothers assist