Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-01-19

MOniChc in her Sunday best strovc to de
honor to NJ. Revere. She said to Moniche
i'll all sincerity, "Our duty is to avcnge
him.
| While sitting on a bench in one of
the long, cold corridors tho porter and
his wife saw pass before them prisoners
led by their jailers. Some looked men
ncing, while others had bringing air
and seemed to try to escNpc notice.
These two persons felt that they were
playing roles as important as those in a
melodrama ut tho Ambigu. The time
seemed long to them, and NJ. Ginory
did not call them rs soon as they wished
that he would. They thought of their
home, which while they wero detained
there would be invaded by the curious,
the gossips and reporters.
How slow these judges are!"
growled Moniche.
When he was conducted into the
| presence Of NJ Ginory and his registrar
and seated upon chair, he was much
confused and less bitter. He felt a
vague terror Of all the paraphernalia of
| Justice which surrounded him. He felt
Il,
and to the judges questions he replied
with extreme prudence. Thanks to him
and his wife NJ. Ginory found out
great deal about NJ Roverc's private
life. He penetrated into that apparently
hidden existence; he searched to see if
he could discover among the people
who had visited the old eX-consul the
one among all others who might have
committed the deed.
You never saw the woman who Wis
tied Rovere?'
eyes; the yelled lady, the woman in
black, but do not know her No one
knew her -
The story told by the portross about
the time when she surprised the stran-
ger and Revere with the papers in his
hand in front of the open safe made
quite an impression on the examining
magistrate.
Do you know the name of the visit
orr"
mo, monsieur, " the FORTRESS replied.
But If you should see him again
would you recognize him."
Certainly. l see his face there be-
fore me- -
She made haste to return to her home
so that she might relate her impressions
to her fellow gossps. The worthy cou-
pie left the court pulled up with self
esteem becaue Of the role which thev
had been called upon to play The OBJ
sequics were TO be held the next day,
and the prospect of dramatic day in
which NJ and Nine Moniche would
still play this important role created in
them an agony which was almost joy
Gus. The crowd around the house of the
crime was always large. Some few pass.
ersby stopped--stoppcd before the stone
facade behind which a murder had been
committed. The reporters returned
again and again for news, and the cou-
pie greedy for glory, could not open
paper without seeing their names print
ed III large letters ono journal had
that morning even published an espc-
cial article, Interviews With NJ. and
Nine. Moniche.
The crowd buzzed about the ledge
like swarm of flies. NJ. Rovere's body
had been brought back from the morguc
Tho obsequies would naturally attract
an enormous crowd, all the more as the
mystery was still as deep as ever
Among his papers had been found re.
celpt for tomb in the cemetery at
Montmartre, bought by him about a
year before. In another paper, not
dated, We're found directions as TO how
his funeral was to be conducted. NJ
Rovere, after having passed a wander
ing life, wished to rest in his native
country. But no other indications of his
wishes, nothing about his relatives, had
been found 1t seemed as if he was a
man without family, without any
place in society or any claim on any
one to bury him. And this distressing
Isolation added TO the morbid curiosity
which was attached to the house, now
all draped in black, with the letter
RI standing ont in white against its
silver escutcheon.
Who would be chief mourner? NJ.
Revere had appointed no one. He had
asked Ill that paper that a short notice
should be inserted in the paper giving
the hour and date of the services and
giving him the simple title ex-consul.
II hope, went on the writer, "to be
taken to the cemetery quietly and fol-
lowed by intimate friends, if any re-
main"
Intimate friends were scarce in that
crowd. without doubt, but the dead
man 8 wish could hardly be carried out.
Those obsequies which he had wished
TO be quiet became il sort Of fete, fune-
real and noisy where the thousands Of
people crowding the boulevard crushed
each other i'll their desire TO see, and
pressed almost upon the draped funeral
car which the neighbors had covered
with flowers.
Everything is a spectacle for Pari-
SANS The guardians Of the peace strove |
to keep back the crowds; some gamins
climbed into the branches of the trees
The bier had been placed at the foot of |
the staircase in the narrow corridor |
opening upon the street Nine. Moniche |
had placed upon table in the lodge |
some loose leaves where Rovere's un |
known friends could write their names
Bernardet, alert, with his eyes wide |
open, studying the faces, searching the
eyes, mingled with tho crowd, looked |
at the file OF people, scrutinized, one by
one, the signatures; Bernardet, in
mourning wearing black gloves, seem
ed more like an undertaker's assistant
than police spy Once he found him
self directly in front of the open dool