The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-02
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experiments on the retina and is seized Win
conviction.
CONTINUED e.
The discovery of the portrait in Nine.
Colard's shop ought. naturally, TO give
70 the affair a new turn. The arrest o:
Charles Prades brought an important
element TO these researches He would
be examined by NJ Ginory the next
morning, after having been questioned
by the commissary of police.
Bernardet, spruce, freshly shaver,
was there and seemed in his well brush
ed redingote like little able come 10
assist at some curious ceremony.
On the contrary, Prades, after sleep
less night, a night of agony. paler than
the evening before, his face fierce and
its muscles contracted, had a haggard
expression, and he blinked his eyes like
night bird suddenly brought into glar
ing sunlight He repeated before the
examining magistrate what he had said
to the brigadier But his voice, vibrant
few hours before, had become heavy,
almost raucous, as the naughty express
sion of his face had become sullen and
tragic
The examining magistrate had cited
Nine. Colard, the shopkeeper. to appear
before him. She instantly recognized
in this Prades the man who had sold
her the little panel by Paul Baudry.
He denied it He did not know of
what they were talking He had never
seen this woman. He knew nothing
about any portrait
at belonged to NJ Revere" the
magistrate replied-"M Revere, the
murdered man; NJ Revere, who was
yesterday of Buenos Ayres in the exam
ination at the station house in the Rue
de la Rochefoucauld.
M Revere? Buenos Ayres?" repeat
ed the young man, rolling his sombrero
around his fingers
He repeated that he did not know the
ex-consul, that he had never been in
South America, that he had come from
Sydney.
Bernardet at this moment interrupt
ed him by taking his hat from him
without saying word, and Prades cast
a very angry look at the little man
NJ. Ginory understood Bernardets
move and approved with a smile. He
looked in the inside Of the sombrero
which Bernardet handed TO him.
The hat bore the address Of Gordon,
Smithson q Co., Berner street, London
But, after all, +" thought the magis.
trate, Buenos Ayres is one Of the mar
kets for English goods.
That Is a lat bought at Sydney,
Prades (who had understood) explained.
Before the bold, decided, almost vio-
lent affir1narlons which Nine Colard
made that this was certainly the seller
Of the portrait the young man lost coun-
tenance a little. He kept saying over
and over: You deceive yourself
Madame. / have never spoken to you. l
have never seen you "
When NJ Ginory asked her if she
still persisted in saying that this was
the man who had sold her the picture,
shs said:
do / still persist; With my neck
under the guillotins / would persist.
And Ehs kept repeating: 81 am sure Of
IL / an sure of il. ."
Tnisprsliminary examination brought
sb'Ozi 10 decisive result 1t was GER
tain II this portrait had been in the
PsgssessiCn q this young man and been
30 = him that be CHARLES Prades)
wac az sooomplice Of Dantin's, if not
tas author n the crime. They ought,
;oe1, % BE- brought face TO face, and
p,osssb.y this might bring about an i'm
mediate result And why not have this
nesting take place at once, before
Pfz6ss was sent where Dantin was. at
Mzzzs;
". Ginory, who had uttered this
word "Mazas," noticed the expression
of terror which flashed across and sud-
denly TRANSPORTED the young man g face.
Prades stammered:
"Then-you will hold me? Them
am not free?'
M. Ginory did not reply. He gave an
order that this Prades should be guarded
until the arrival of Dantin from Mazas.
In Mazas, In that walled prison, in
the cell which had already made hin
i'll. jacques Dantin sat. This man with
the troopers air seemed almost to be IL
a state of collapse. When the guart
came to his cell, he drew himself nj
and endeayored to collect all his energy
and when the door was opened and h
was called he appeared quite like him
self When he saw the prison wagol
which had brought him to Mazas ant
now awaited to take him to the Palai
de Justice, he instinctively recoiled
then. recovering himself, he entered tn
narrow vehicle 81 t 1t
The idea, the sensation, that he wa
20 near all this life. yet 80 far-tha
he was going through these streets. Ill
cd with carriages with msn and womel
who were free--Rave him . desperate,