Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-01-26

"Nhat DO you Wish to q W me say?
understand"
"Nhat if you do not? You cannot
deny your presence in the house at the
moment of Rovore's DEATH
"Why cannot 1 deny it," Dantin in.
terrupted.
because the vision is there, hidden,
hazy, in the retina because this photo
graph, in which you recognize yourself,
denounces, points out, your presence ut
the moment of tho last agony"
II was not therel l swear that I was
not there!' Dantin feryently declared.
"Then explain, " said the magistrate.
Dantin remained silent a moment, as
il frightened. Then he stammered 81
am dreamingi I am dreaming!' And
NJ. Ginory replied in a calm tone:
"Notice that | attribute no %eXaggorat-
ed Importance to these proofs. 1t is not
on them alone that | base the accusa-
ton. But they constitute a strange wit.
ness, very disquieting in its mute elo-
quence. They add to tho doubt which
your desire for silence has awakened.
You tell me that you were not near Ro-
vcrc when he died. These proofs, ir-
REPUTABLE as a fact, seem to prove at
once the contrary. Then the day Ro.
we're was assassinated, where were YOU"
IL do not know. At home, without
doubt. / will have to think it over. At
what hour was Revere killed"'
NJ. Ginory made Il gesture Of ignorance
and in a tone of r~aillory said: "That
There are others who know it better
than l." And Dantin, irritated, looked
at him.
eyes, " went on the magistrate with
hooking politcncss, 1.-THE surgeons who
can tell the hour in which he was
killed." He turned over his papers.
''Thc assassination was about an hour
before midday. In Paris, in broad day
light, at that hour, a murder was com
mittcdu'
"At that hour, " said Jacques Dantin,
81 was just leaving home"
ITO go wherc?'
For II walk. | had a headache. l
was going to walk i'll the Champs Ely
sees to cure it.
"And DID you in your walk meet any
II whom you knew"
"No one"
Odd you 90 into some shop?'
81 did cot"
''Tn short, you have nc alibi?'
Tho word made Dantin again trem-
bic. He felt the meshes of the net clos
ing around him.
AN alibi! All, that! Decidedly
Monsieur, you accuse me Of assassinat-
ing my friend, " he violently said.
81 do not accuse. l ask q question, -
And NJ. Ginory in a dry tone which
gradually became cutting and menac-
ing said: Il question you, but [ warn
you that the interview has taken "a bad
turn. You do not answer; you pretend
to keep secret l know not what III.
formation which concerns us. Iou are
not yet exactly accused. But-but-but
YOU are going to Boz
Tho magistrate waited a moment as if
to give the mar time to reflect, and he
held his pen suspended, after dipping Il
III the ink, as an auctioncer holds his
ivory hammer before bringing it down
TO close & sale. 81 am going to drop tbs
ren,' it seemed to say. Dantin, very
angry, remained silent. His look Of
bravado seemed to say; "Do you dare
If you dare, do it
"You refuse to speak," asked Ginory
for the last time.
- refuse
"You have willcd it. Do you persis'
in giving IL explanation? Do you in
trench YOURSELF behind l know not wha'
Scruple of duty to honor? Do you keel
to your systematic silence: For the las
time, do you still persist in this?'
Il have nothing-nothing-nOthiM
to tell yOu," Dantin cried in a sort o
rage.
"Oh, well, Jacques Dantin"-and thu
magistrato's voice was grave and sudden
ly solemn-''you are from this mOmen
arrested" The pen, uplifted till thi
instant, fell upon the paper. 1t was IL
order for arrest. The registrar looked a
the man. jacques Dantin did not move
His expression seemed vague, the tiXeC
expression of u person who dreams wit
wide opan eyes, NJ. Ginory touched on
Of tho electric buttons above his tabl
and pointed Dantin out to the guards
whose shakos suddenly darkcnod tn
doorway. "Takeaway the prisoner, " h
said shortly and mechanically, and, over
come, without revolt, Jacques Dantil
allowed himself to be led through tn
corridors of the palais, saying nothing
comprehending nothing, stumbling &c
c~asionally like an intoxicated man or
somnamh~''ef
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