The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-23

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"In spite OF your warning"
"Take care" NJ. Ginory softly said
His angry face had lost its wonted ami
ability. The registrar quickly raise,
his head. He felt that decisive mo
ment had come. The examining magis
trate looked directly into Dantin's eye
and slowly said, "You remember tina
you were seen by the FORTRESS at tn,
moment when Revere, standing Will
you in front of his open safe, showed
you some yaluables?"
Dantin waited a moment before hs
replied, as if measuring these word,
and searching TO find out just what M.
Ginory was driving at. This silence,
short aud momentous, was dramatic.
The magistrate knew IL well-that mo.
ment of agony when the question seems
like cord, like lasso suddenly
thrown and Tightening around ones
neck. There was always in his exami-
nation tragic moment
81 remember very well that I saw a
person whom / did not know enter the
room where I was with M. Revere, {"
Jacques Dantin replied at last.
I" person whom you did not know?
You knew her very we'll, since you had
more than once asked her if M. Revere
was at home. That person is Mime.
Moniche, who has made her deposition. :"
"And what did she say in her deposi-
tion?'
The magistrate took paper from the
table in front of him and read: "When
/ entered, M. Revere was standing be-
fore his safe, and noticed that the in
dividual of whom spoke the individu-
al is you cast upon the coupons look
which made me cold. thought to my
self, This man looks as if he is meditat-
ing some bad deed >"
"That is to say" brusquely said DAN
tin who had listened with frowning
brows and with an angry expression,
"that Mime. Moniche accuses me of hav.
ing murdered M. Rovere''
"You are in too much haste. Nine.
Moniche has not said that precisely
She was only urprised-surprised and
frightened-at your expression as you
looked at the deeds, bills and coupons.
"Those coupons. asked Dantin rather
anxiously-"have they, then, been stol-
emp
"Ah, that we know nothing aboutr.
And the magistrate smiled. Zone has
found in Rovere's safe in the neighbor-
hood of 400, 900 francs in coupons, city
of Paris bonds, shares in mining socie-
ties, rent rolls, but nothing to prove that
there was before the assassination more
than that sum-"
Had it been forced open?"
"No; but any one familiar with the
dead man, friend who knew the secret
of the combination of the safe, the four
letters forming the word, could have
opened it without trouble
Among these words Dantin heard one
which struck him full in the face
friend" M. Ginory had pronounced
it in an ordinary tone, but Dantin had
seized and read in it menace. For a
the man who was being ques-
toned felt peculiar sensation. 1t
seemed to him one day when he had
been almost drowned during boating
party that same agony had seized him;
it seemed that he had fallen into some
abyss, some icy pool, which was para
Lying him. Opposite to him the exam
lining magistrate experienced contrary
feeling. The caster of hook and line |
feels similar sensation, but it was in |
tensified a hundred times in the magis- |
trate fisEer of truth, throwing the
line into human sea, the water pol |
luted, red with blood and mixed with |
mud.
A friend! A friend could have abused |
the dead mans secret and opened that |
safe. And that friend-what name did |
ne bear? Whom did M. Ginory wish to |
designate? Dantin, in spite of his sang |
'roid, experienced violent temptation |
TO ask the man what he meant by those /
words. But the strange sensation which |
this interview caused him increased. 1t |
seemed to him that he had been there |
ong time-a very long time since he |
1ad crossed that threshold-and that |
his little room, separated from the |
world like monks cell, had walls
shick enough to prevent any one from
hearing anything outside. He felt as if
lypnotized by that man, who at first
lad met him with pleasant air, and
who now bent upon him those hard
'yes. Something doubtful, like vague
LANCER, surrounded him, menaced him,
md he mechanically followed the ges-
ure which NJ Ginory made as he touch
ID the ivory button of an electric bell
IS if on this gesture depended some
went Of his life. A guard entered. M.
Nsv,Dv cos1 20 Ia -. IL /
Have the notes been brought?''
I'M. Bernardet has just brought them
o me, M. le Juge."
"Give them to me.'' He then added,
SIS M. Bernardet here?''
eyes, M. le Juge."
every well.'