The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-26

-nBe seated, Dantin, IN. Ginory said,
"and explain to me, beg, all you know
about this portrait. You ought to recog-
nize it. -
He quickly held the picture before
Dantin's eyes, wishing to scrutinize his
face to see what sudden emotion it
would display. Seeing the portrait,
Dantin shivered and said in short
tone, 'It is a picture which l gave to
Rovere'
"Ah," said M. Ginory, "you recog-
nize it then?'
1T is my portrait, Jacques Dantin
declared. "It was made long time
ago. Revere kept it in his salon. How
did it come here?'
"AhW again said the magistrate.
Explain that to meP'
M. Ginory seemed to wish to be a
little ironical. But Dantin roughly said:
M. 10 Juge, have nothing to ex-
plain to you. understand nothing, I
know nothing. Or, rather, know that
in your error-an error which you will
bitterly regret some day or other, am
lO"yOu udNo dllCStCu iuC, bhuU lu0
up in Mazas, but that which can as
sure you of is that 1 have had nothing
do you hear, nothing-whatever to do
with the murder of my friend, and 1
protest with all my powers against your
processes. "
81 comprehend that" M. Ginory
coldly replied. "Oh, 1 understand all
the disagreeableness of being shut up
within four walls. But then it is very
simple. In order to go out one has only
to give to the one who has a right to
know the explanations which are asked
Do you still persist in your system? Do
you still insist on keeping know not
what secret, which you will not reveal
to us?''
81 shall keep it, monsieur. have re-
dected," said Dantin. eyes, 1 have re-
you have forced me I have examined
my conscience. He spoke with firm
ness, less violently than at the Palais
de Justice, and Bernardets penetrating
little eyes never left his face; neither
did the magistrates nor the chiefs.
II am persuaded, Dantin continued,
"that this miserable mistake cannot last
long and you will recognize the truth.
/ shall go out, at least from here, with
out having abused a confidence which
one has placed in me and which in
tend to preserve.
Eyes," said M. Ginory, perfectly.
I know your system. You will hold to
it. 1t is well. Now, whose portrait is
that?'
cit is mine!''
"By whom do you think it was pos
sible that it could have been sold in the
bric-a-brac shop where it was found?"
81 know nothing about it. Probably
by the one who found it or stole it from
M. Revere apartment and who is prob
ably, without the least doubt, his assas-
SIM"
"That seems very simple to your
cit seems very logical"
Suppose that this should be the ex-
act truth, that does not detract from the
presumption which duplicates you and
from Nine. Moniche 8 deposition. which
charges YOU
Eyes, yes, ! know-the open safe,
She papers spread out. the tete-a.tete
with Revere, when the concierge en-.
tered the room-that signifies nothing"
"For you perhaps. For justice it has
, tragic Specification. But let us return
10 the portrait. It was you, I suppose,
who gave it to Rovere2"
eyes, it was l." Dantin responded.
"Rovere was an amateur in art; more
over, my intimate friend. had no fam
lily. had an old friend, companion of
my youth whom thought would high.
ly prize that painting. 1t is q fine eue-
1t 10 by Paul Baudry."
"Ahp' said M. Ginory. "P. B.
those are Baudry's initials?"
Certainly. After the war, when I
had done my duty like others-I say this
without any intention of defending my
eelf--Paul Baudry was at Bordeaux.
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