Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-01-12
THAT MACHINE.

| title of discriminating yet IN Itself insult
| ficient evidence.
One day he burst into the police depot
in rare state of excitement
Look, Nj. lie Commissioned" he cried.
a. have it-proof! See! Berac is caught
ut lastl'
He laid an opened letter upon this
| officer table
The latter scanned it before inquring:
Where did you get it?'
Frouat looked cunning.
Il stopped it On its way through the
post See 1t is addressed to Paul Berac
/ opened it, A man $ evidence is as good
as his thoughts and more damning evil
dence too. Monsieur, if you decide to for
ward the letter, it can easily be regummed
| have not injured the envelope. Mean
| while we know the contents. What do
you say?'
Good / think you have done n smart
piece of work. What does the letter say?"
The commissary adjusted his pince nez
and read:
THAT internal machine you sent me
last week threatens to do some member of
our cercle "A mortal injury. 1t is all out
of gear. Come down at once and examine
it. In its present condition it is supcrla
lively dangerous and eminently impossible
for me to bring to you.
Frouat was beaming.
Read the signature, monsieur" he
said impatiently.
The signature!'
us the name not known to your"
Henry WON? I don't call it to m nd. f."
Nor Mile. Yvon2 Yvonette Yvon?'
Paul Berac's sweetheart
1.-The same. Henri is her brother"
80! He supplies his fancees family
with bombs, does he? A pretty warm nest
of anarchists you We unearthed, M. Frouat.
1t should gain you promotion. -
The detectives oily looking eyes ran
more liquid.
And not without trouble and work, "
he replied 81 have watched Berac's resi-
dence, off and on, for the past six months
He has no occupation. Oh, moi Comes
and goes at will"
II shall arrest the whole bunch, " said
Frouat.
They will get word of you and escape"
Escape! III take them directly after
the ceremony.
When Paul Berac received Henri Yvon's
letter, he had no suspicion that Frouat and
the police officer had already perused it,
nor did he, when he journeyed TO Mcudon,
where his iancee dwelt, notice that the
detective Swallowed his movements.
But the contents of the bag which Berac
carried with him excited the detectives
curiosity to such a pitch that it was only
by dwelling constantly upon the eclat to
be obtained frem "a wholesale arrest of dy-
namiters that he prevailed upon his fingers
to keep of the inviting object.
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so Frouat waited outside the little
house until Bcrac. as the former knew
very we'll, had repaired the devilish imple-
ment which had got out of working gear,
and until YYonette thought we'll TO let her
tiance depart. The moon shone when
Berac sought the station, detective at heels.
A week later merry party assembled
at the office of the -th ACCOMPLISHMENT,
where Berac and Yvonette signed away
their hearts
Frouat was there too, but single handed
His men-tor it was not to be supposed
he would attack such an undertaking
alone-were awaiting him as directed in
the neighborhood of the Cafe Giroux in
the Boul St Denis
The sanity of that proceeding was pal
pablc soon after when the whole wedding
party drove off to the cafe for dejeuner.
Frouat would have made an excellent
inquisitor. He lowered around the cafe as
hawk over the prey he has disabled.
The JOY of anticipation shone in his
cloudy, liquid eyes. When he felt the abso-
lutte need of activity, he swooped down up
on his unsuspecting victims and startled
them with a sentence:
Mesdames and messieurs, it is my duty
to arrest you, every one.
His minions swarmed around, encircling
the party.
Berac paused, his glass to his lips.
Il have not the pleasure of your &C
quaintance monsieur, he said, but
whether you are an officer of the law or
not you are laboring under a delusion l
will ask you to withdraw, with an apol-
ogy."
IN. Berac," returned Frouat, II have
the advantage of you
Berac jumped to his feet,
PLAINLY, who are you and what is your
business? he cried impatiently.
"Frouat, the detective My business, to
arrest you and your confederates.
THE charger"
'Of being anarchists of evil intent, dan
gerous to society; Nj. Berac, in addition,
of being the manufacturer and distributor
of explosive bombs. "
Good heavens" shouted Berac excited
ly. This man is mad. Where is the pro
prietor? Garcons, hold you rcsponsible!"
Frouat leisurely drew a letter from his
pocket. The act was unofficial out of
place, but his love of torture prompted
him to read it aloud
Listen, " he cried.
1.-The internal machine you sent me last
week threatens to do some member of our
cercle a mortal injury. 1t is all out of
gear Come down at once and examine it,
In its present condition it is superlatively
dangerous, and it is eminently impossible
for me to bring it to you"
THE letter is signed" added Frouat,
"'Henri WON You, NJ. Berac, received
copy of it. Here is the original"
Silence followed Frouat gloated
''Ah!' said he exultingly. What say
you to that, MN. WON and Berac?''
Berac burst into laughter.