Omaha daily bee., 1898-08-28
By Louis Tracy.

| man where the interests of so many are
| concerned. Hurrah for the fatherland"
"Hurrah! Hurrah!" said another, with q
| kind of languid enthusiasm.
third, big. red-bearded man, began
to hum:
| Muttersprache, Mutterlaut,
VIE SO wonnesam so traut!
Poor old Bach!' said the man at the
window; "you mind how he was always
humming the old tuner
Eyes, poor old Bach! Pity he was such a
fool"
Wonderful little fuss the Paris police
have made over his death, don't you think?"
Good reason why, my boy. They are so
utterly at sea. They are trying to cloak
over their own incapacty. Here is a man
who, though found in the river, doesn't
look as IL he was drowned and he wasn't
poisoned; and he wasn't struck, or stabbed;
what can the poor police think? They
| simply stare and rub their innocent eyes,
and say as little OF the matter as possible"
Still they got pretty near the scent when
| they came to question this girl Agnes, and
Jeanne got hold Of the detective. AS sure
; as am living man that girl would have
blabbed if We hadn't stopped her.
80, right enough, she would have blabbed.
But she could not have enlightened the dull
brains Of monsieur lie poisson very much
about Bach, all the same. Why, she does
not even suspect that he is dead, much less
the means by which he died, or our motives
| for killing him.
Bach had no enemies, you know. He
was quiet, easy-going kind Of body"
HE had strong motives for living. He
was about to marry this girl Agnes, with
her dowry."
| what the deuce can they think of the
matter? Lord! they must be puzzled"
But you know mates, when one comes
| to think of it, Bach was an honest man.
He was a fool, Of course. But I say he
was an honest man"
Bah: so is tree honest, or a sheep.
Every fool is honest enough"
30, yes-we know all that But Just con-
| slider; he had always been struggling man,
had Bach. and suddenly this girl with the
| money takes him up. 1t was a great thing
for him, Of course. Just then he comes into
contact with the society; he joins; he is en-
thusastic in the cause of Germany; but
when he hears that 1t is necessary for US
to lay hands on Vansittart, he draws back;
says he is not prepared, as citizen of
France, to go so far; and mind you, he was
warned-he was warned that death was
the penalty which he incurred by drawing
suspicion upon himself. But he persisted:
he had everything to lose, and he per-
sisted
"Who was 1t suggested chloroform as the
means of putting him to sieep-the presi-
dent, wasn't it,"
Not was old DR.. Caspar. And then
the vice chairman of committees said he
must go into the river to wash the stun
out. 1t was neatly done, too
"Hullo! Good! here she comes. Stand
by"
This from the man at the window, in a
regular shout OF qualification, and immedi-
ately sound Of wings was heard, and there,
through the window, with angelic haste
from afar, came alighting a white-plumed
bearer Of tidings, her long embassy accom-
plished.
She sailed to rest on cage, her own; and
at once was fluttering In the BOSOM OF one
of the Germans.
'It's Beatrix!" he cried. "She comes from
Lorraine-from Schwartz"
"The very thing We want!"
They crowded around The disengagng of
the narrow bandage Of paper from the little
messengers leg was the work Of minute.
The man who had sat at the window held
the ribbon stretched between his fingers.