The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-05
CHAPTER XVII.


All the details of that murder M.
Ginory had drawn, one by one, from
Prades in his examination. The muir
derer denied at first, hesitated, discuss
ed; then at last, like a cask with the
bung out, from which pours not wine,
but blood, the prisoner told all, con-
fessed, recounted, loosened his tongue,
abandoned himself, weakened and con-
quered, weary of his misery.
81 was so foolish, so stupid" he vio-
lently said, "as to keep the portrait.
believed that the frame was worth a
fortune. Fool! 1 sold it for 100 sous -
He gave the merchants address. 1t
was on the Quai Stint Michel. Bernar-
Diet found the frame as he had found the
painted panel, and this time no credit
was due him.
Now" said he, "the affair is ended,
classe. My children Che was relating his
adventures to his little girls, we must
pass TO another. And why
"Why, what?" asked Mime. Bernar-
det
"Eh, there it isl Why, it lacks the
calculation of problem. l will see.
will know
He still remembered the young Dan
ish doctor whom he had seen with M.
NORM at the autopsy. With his knowl-
edge of men, with the sharp, keen eye
of the police officer, Bernardet had
recognized man of superior mind-a
mind dreamy and mysterious. He knew
where DIR. Erwin lived during his so.
journ in Paris, and he went to his
apartment one beautiful morning and
rang the bell at the door of a hotel in
the Boulevard st. Martin where stu
dents and strangers lodge. He might
have asked advice of M. NORM, of the
master of French science. But he, the
inspector of Surete, approach these high
personages to question them-he dared
not as long as there was Danish doc
tor.
Bernardet's brain whirled. He felt
almost certain that DIR. Erwin would
give the same explanation which he
himself suspected in regard to the OBJ
served phenomenon.
1.-The dead man IS eye has spoken ant
can speak, said Bernardet to himself
"Yes, surely. l am not deceived.
DR.. Erwin met Bernardet cordially
and listened to him with profound at
tention. The police officer repeated
word for word the confession drawn
from Prades. Then he asked the Danish
physician if he really believed tina
Jacques Dantin's image had been trans
fixed on the retina of the dying man
eye during the time when he had hell
and gazed at the portrait.
"For the proofs which ] obtaine,
were very confused" said the officer
"It is possible, and ! say it is quit
easy, to recognize Jacques Dantin's fea
lures. We have seen it, and, according
to your opinion, even the painting wa
able to below shall express mysel
stored up, retained in the retina.
"You found the proof there" sal
DR.. Erwin.
$50, according to your opinion,
have not deceived MYSELF"
ono"
81 have truly found in the retina {
the dead mans eye the last vision b
saw when living?
Eyes"
"But the vision Of q painting
painting, doctor"
"Why not?'' DIR. Edwin respondt
in sharp tone. "Do you know VIII
happened? Knowing that he was dyin
the unhappy man went, urged by
tragic impulse, to that portrait while
represented to him all that was lei
concentrating in one image alone all
life"
"Then it is possible? 1t is possible
Bernardet repeated.
81 believe it," said the Dane. IT
man is dying. He has only one thong
to go directly to the one who, survl
ing him, guarded his secrets and
life. He seized his portrait; he tore
from its hook with all his strength;
devoured IL with his eyes; he drank
in with q look. IL may b allowed