The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-25

self, "he will give us Dantin's biogra
ply. He tells me nothing new in his re
port. And yet He folded up the pa
per and laid il on the table, and Will,
slipping his cordial he thought of tha
mysterious visitor-the woman in blacl
and told himself that truly the tria
must be there. He would see Monicht
and his wife again; he would question
them; he would make a thorough
search.
but what for? We have the guilty
man. 1t is 100 to that the assassin is
behind bars. The woman might be an
accomplice.
Then Bernardet, filled with passion for
his profession, rather than vanity-this
artist IN police sense, this lover OF
art for arts sake-rubbed his hands
and silently applauded himself, because
he had insisted, and, as it were, scom.
PEELED NJ. Ginory and the doctors to
adopt his idea. He, the humble, I'M
known subofficer, standing back and
simply striving to do his duty, had in
fiuenced distinguished persons as pow
erful as magistrates and members of the
academy. They had obeyed his sugges-
ton. The little Bernardet felt that he
had done a glorious deed. He had expe-
rienced strong conviction, which
would not be denied. He had proved
that what had been considered only a
chimera was a reality. He had accom-
plished a seeming impossibility. He had
evoked the dead man S secret even from
the tomb
"And M. Ginory thinks that it will
not help his candidature at the acad-
envy He will wear the green robe, and
he will owe it TO me. There are others
who owe me something too. "
With his faculty for believing in his
dreams of seeing his visions appear,
realized and living-a faculty which in
such man seemed like the strange hal
lucination of poet-Bernarde did not
doubt for a moment the reality of this
phantom which had appeared in the
retina of the eye. 1t was nothing more,
that eye removed by the surgeons seal
pei, than an avenging mirror. 1t ac-
cused; it overwhelmed. Jacques Dantin
was found there in all the atrocity of
his crime.
"When l think, when l think that
they did not wish to try the experiment.
1t is made now," thought Bernardet.
NJ. Ginory had strongly recommend
ed that all that part of the examination
should not be made public. Absolute ST.
lence was necessary. If the press could
have obtained the slightest information,
every detail of the experiment would
have become public property, and the
account would have been embellished
and made as fantastic as possible. This
would have been deep mine for Edgar
A. Poe, who would have worked that
lode well and made the Parisians shud-
der. How the ink would have been mix
ed with Rovere's blood 1t was well
understood that if the suspected man
would in the end confess his guilt the
result of the singular scientifically in
credible experiment should be made
but until then absolute silence.
Everything which had been said and
done around the dissecting table at the
norgue or in the examining magis-
rates room would remain secret
But would Dantin confess?
The next day after M. Ginory had put |
him under arrest Bernardet had gone TO |
he palais for news. He wished to con-
iult his chief about the woman il |
black, " to ask him what he thought of |
he article which had been published in |
.he paper by Paul Rodier. M. Leriche |
attached no great importance to it.
"A reporters information. Very |
'ague. There is always woman, par
lieu, in the life of every man. But did |
his one know Dantin? She seems to me |
imply an old, abandoned friend, and
who came occasionally to ask aid of |
he old boy
''The woman noticed by Moniche is
Ioung," said Bernardet.
Abandoned friends are often young"
u. Leriche replied, visibly enchanted
With his observation.
AS for Dantin, he still maintained his
silence. He persisted in find
ng iniquitous an arrest for which there
vas no motive, and he kept the haugh-
y, almost provoking attitude of those
whom the chief called the greatest cul-
rits.
"Murderers in redingotes believe that
hey have sprung from Jupiter's thigh
nd will not admit that any one should
o arrested except those who wear
mocks and peaked hats. They believe
n an aristocracy and its privileges and
hreaten to have us removed. You know
hat very well, Bernardet. Then, as
lme passes, they become, in measure,
aim and meek as little Lambs then
hey whimper and confess. Dantin will
o as all the others have done. For the
,oment he bowls about his innocence
nd will threaten us, you will see, with
summons from the chamber. That is
{ no importance.
The chief then gave the officer some
He need not trouble him
elf any more just now about the Dan
In affair, but attend to another matter
I less Importance, trivial affair. Aft
r the murder and his experiences at the
1orgue this matter seemed a low one to
,ernardet. But each duty has its antith-