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1Continued from Feb. 1Oth.)
CHAPTER XXI
MABEL'S RETURN.

MABEL's RETURN.
All the way home that horrible cry
rang in Mabel's ears In every street 1t
was shouted out, and at every corner .
newspaper bill was displayed bearing
che fateful words:
"Trial of George Fenton today. Ver-
dict and sentance!'
Tho hanson drew up before her home,
ard the girl stepped out. She did not
stay to reply to Soames expressions Of
aurpriso and gladness when he opened
she door, but walked straight to her
mothers room.
She opened the door gently and stop
ped Oh the threshold, and in that in
etant she knew the worst had happened.
Her mother was in her old chair by
she window, deathly pale and worn,
but fearless. One hand clutched the ia
bic at her side and the other was held
by her husband, who, bending over her,
strove by tenderest words and oaresses
70 alleviate for an instant the agony of
her grief. He looked piteously aged and
broken.
Mother! Father!'' cried Mabel,
gushing toward them without stretched
haa4iA..
Fly durling, my darling" cried the
,nn5s1hrr, holding her dear one to her
5breu-T and the tears that had frozen in
Acr heart row found their way.
and C:corge:' Mabel whispered,
when she held her fathers hands
T., +r,,:o,I his bna,3 ,x-,x7 onI +boro
was terrible silence in the room.
Yes. the worst had happened. The
evidence Of the prosecution was abso.
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A COMING SCULPTOR.
9fr. Barnard M17xes Huge Statues and
viii Not Harry,

4r. Barnard MaBkes Huge Statues and
viii Not Hurry.
Mr.. George Gray Barnard, the sculptor
whose huge statue of Pan is soon to be
placed in Central park, New York, has
sprung into prominence with remarkable
suddenness. A year ago he was practically
unknown in America. Today he is ranked
among tho foremost of American sculp.
tors
Mr.. Barnard WAS born in Pennsylvania,
but being minister's son he has lived in
several states. Most of his boyhood was
spent near Chicago. He was an unusual
youth. Before his fifteenth year he was
successfully geologist, a taxidermist and
q jewelers. engraver. At 10 he could
classify stones geologically. lie then took
up taxfdernny, and while still a mere boy
was elected taxidermist to the Academy of
Sciences in Iowa. At the same time he
WAS employed as lettsrer aud engraver
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A TRAMPING PRELATE.
Bishop Coleman, Who Takes His An
nual Vacation on Foot.

nual Vacation on Foot.
Bishop Coleman, the noted Episcopal
divine whose fondness for tramping about
the country incognito has again brought
him into notice, has been doing this very
thing for years. AS the bishop of Della
ware he does not have a very large do
cese, but he is a Woodworking and con-
scientious man, and although past so
years of age he probably acco1nplishes as
much in year as many bishops who pre-
side over territories ten times as large
Two weeks vacation each year is all
that Bishop Coleman allows himself, but
these two weeks he uses to the utmost
advantage, according to his own ideas.
AS a boy in college b. was noted pedes-
TRAN and won 4 belt of which he is still
proud. He has never lost lis liking for
walking, and SO when vacation time
comes around he INDUCES himself in this
hobby. Dressed in plain layman's garb,
wearing an old slouch hat and carrying
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besides stout staff a small hand ssatchel
and mack intosh, this democratic prelate
goes off far away from railroads and
tramps about among rural folks. He eats
ind sleeps at farmhouses, often paying for
his entertainment by mending umbrellas
or tinkes'irg the family clock out of its
cratic ways At both of these trades he
is expert.
But most of all he likes to talk with
the simple, honest people whom he meets
The mountains of Maryland and the Vir-
ginias are his favorite trarlping grounds,
and the ignorant cabin jewellers almost
always give the patriarchal, benevolent
tramp hearty welcome. During his re-
cent trip he covered s35 miles on foot, and
on his return to Wilmington said that he
felt thoroughly refreshed both in body and
mind.
Bishop Coleman is far from eccentric
in other things. AS one of the officers OF
the Episcopal conference he is always q
prominent figure at the sessions and is de.
pended upon to furnish calm: counsel and
wise advice when a orisi arises. Probably
no mar in Delaware Is more beloved.
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He did not Join ID ne Demonstration.
Of his ,neighborsL 2. ~ z.z.. -.
He seemed preooeupied. And b hit
the neighborbood Of tho court wtth his
shoulders thrust up and his eyes glued
on the pavement. The chill Of approaob-
ing capture and death was gripping At
his heart
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E<15SS<ISSSz5SSSlESS7ESS

I'M LF'REDDREYFUS, captain in the
A\ Fourteenth regiment of artil-
- lery in the French army, was at
tached to the second bureau of the
general staff, where future plans of
mobilization and other military meas
'ures of great Importance are discussed,
prepared and drawn up. For some time
"a constant leakage of these confiden-
tial documents had been noticed, de-
tectives had been employed and Drey-
fus was under suspicion. On October
1, 1894, he was suddenly detached from
the war office and appointed toJservice
in the Thirty-ninth regiment at the
Ecole Militaire.. On October IA he re-
<ceived at his luxurious home near the
Trocadero summons to attend at,the
ministry of war, and he went there the
next morning. He was received by Maj.
du Patty de Clam, who said that he was
very busy and asked the captain to
help him by taking down letter that
he would dictate. There were other
persons in the room who were strangers
to Dreyfus, and-a circumstance that
only struck him afterward- ar
arrangement of mirrors by which his
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only for very few days. The ministry
has issued a definite number to the corps,
and these corps are responsible for them
each officer is obliged to return his copy
after the maneuvers. If, therefore, you
wish me to take from it whatever may in
terest you, and hold it afterward at my dis
posal, will take it. unless you do not want
me to make copy in extenso and address
it to you.
lam just leaving for the maneuvers
According to Esterhazy's voluntary
confession, made to a London news
paper, and repeated since then, it was
he and not Dreyfus who wrote this
bordereau. Esterhazy states that he
wrote it at the instigation of his SUI
perior officers, intimating but not say
ing so in so many words that Gen. Mer-
cier, then minister of war, ordered the
bordereau written. In letter written
to the Steele Mach 25, 1898, Paniz-
zardi, military attache of the Italian
embassy, relates that Count Schwartz
koppen received the articles enumerat-
ed in the bordereau, but was entirely
unaware of the existence of the mem
orandum itself, for it had been stolen
before it reached him.
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Of the Morlaix district, accepted by M.
Guerin, minister of justice, and demand
z ing that the Aurore be prosecuted. The
i letter signed Il hlan. Il produced by Nine.
do Boulancy. and work Of CommAn dant
Esterhazy, Is delivered to NJ. Bertulus,
examining magistrate. Beginning Of pubs
tic meetings Of the revisionists in the
Tivolt-Vaux hall. The minister of war
a loGges complaint against NJ Emile lola
and against the Aurore. Messrs lola,
author ct II accuse. land Perreux pub
Z Usher Of the Aurore, are summoned. M.
JaEres address thisiquestionto NJ Meline,
president Of the cabinet: Has Or has not
informa lion been given to the court-mar-
tial Of which the defendant knew moth
ing?'' n. Meline refuses to answer.
FEBRUARY. 1888 Form ion Of the
p League Of Human and Citizens, Rights.
i From the 18th to the s22d first trial Of lola
in the court Of the Seine under the pres
idency Of Councillor Delegorgue. NJ.
Labori defends Emile 5Zola, NJ. Albert
1 Clemcnceau defends M. Perreux, and M.
George CleMenceau defends the Aurore.s
lola is sentenced to one year Ill prison
and fine CT 5000 francs NJ. Pe-reux to
T four months in prison and a fine ST s. 600
francs. Lieut.. Col. Picquart IS placed on
the retired list.
MARCH, 1s9s-The revisionists provoke an.
incident in court during the attempt Of
NJ. Jules Auffray. who prcelains in favor
i of the lola jury, to make himself heard
i The incident has no consequences Sui
cidesof Lemercier-Pi I'd. Duel between
Picquart and Henry. Emile lola and the
4 lAurore appeal on the 3Oth against the
sentence Of February g.
APRIL. lS98--Annulmenr OF tile sentence
against Messrs. lola and Perreux because
!. the minister of wa and not the court
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THE SECRET DOSsIER
Records of the Trial Preserved by the
Department of. War.

Records of the Trial Preserved by the
Department of war.
The secret dossier, which figures so
prominently in the Dreyfus case, is a
collection of papers belonging to the
war department and collected in con-
nection with the case. These papers
are said to contain proof of Dreyfus'
guilt even beyond the bordereau. The
latter was admittedly written by Ester
hazy. During the first Dreyfus trial
this dossier (Which in free transla-
ton would mean record of thecase')
was submitted to the court martial in
executive session, not even Dreyfus' at
torneys being permitted to be present
during this examination. There are,
all told, some 400 documents in this coll
lection. These papers are examined in
secret session, but Dreyfus' attorneys
are present, SO they may be informed
of the record of the charges based upon
these papers. Secrecy is demanded by
the government because it, is claimed
that publication would cause compile
cations with foreign governments.
The secret dossier has been in exclusive
control of the general staff up to the
present trial, and there is. of course, no
saying what it may contain. So far
the entire nasty Dreyfus mess has
shown so much corruption, conspiracy
and forgery that the value Of this Sc
cret dossier is very prob atical.
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prisoner guilty and sentenced him to
transportation.for life, after being sub
jected to military degradation.
On the morning of January 4 the
condemned man was ordered to put on
ascaptain's uniform that had been spe-
zcially prepared by having the lace on
the cap, the red seams of the trousers,
and the buttons and trimmings on the
tunic taken off and then stitched ON
again loosely enough to stay in place,
but so loosely that they could easily be
torn off. The sword that he was made
to buckle on had been filed on each side
about half way down the blade. He was
then searched, handcuffed, placed in "a
prison van, and taken by a military es-
cort to the Ecole Militaire, where he was
marched between guards into the CEN
ter of hollow square of troops in the
large courtyard of the school. He had
already twice asserted his innocence to
Capt. Lebrun-Renaud, who commanded
his guard. The morning was misty and
rainy, and the courtyard was muddy
waste, round which doomed the build
inss with windows filed with faces,
while a vast crowd that surged and
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martial, read the text Of dispatch re-
ceived by Count Won Munster-Leyden-
burg. the German ambassador at Paris,
from Prince Hohenlohe, the German
imperial chancellor, which the former
communicated to NJ. Casimir- Perier
during visit to the Elysee palace.
His majesty, the emperor, having
every confidence in the loyalty of the
president of the republic and the gov
eminent of the republic" it ran, "begs
your excellency to tell M. Casimir-Per-
Ter that it is proved the German EN-
bassy was never implicated in the
Dreyfus affair. His majesty hopes the
government of the republic will not
hesitate to declare so. Without for
NAL declaration the legend which here
continues to spread regarding the Ger
man embassy would compromise the
position of the representative Of Ger
many"
The communication is signed "Ho-
henlohe.''
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at the first hint of Dreyfus' denial to
charge the minister with trying to
smother the case because Dreyfus was
a Jew. That added fuel to his flame,
and MERCER became the most rabif
foe Of the imperiled captain. The press
rewarded him by declaring him the
paragon of patriots. Yet he knew he
could not crush Dreyfus with the ma
terial at hand, and he must act at once.
He rose at the first court-martial-
minister of war in the republics cabi-
net-and said: ''Gentlemen,y there is
something more. shall read you one
sentence from a letter in cipher that
some months ago came into possession
of the ministry. You will comprehend
its source. although am not permit
ted to present its context: Decidedly
this scoundrel of a Dreytus is becom-
ing too exacting.'" He had wholly.
deliberately changed the sentence, for
the paper from which he read did not
contain the name OF Dreyfus, but the
initial 3D. only. On this bit of IT.
regularly submitted, boldly perjured
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n n - 5gll.I . u 100. $3.50
GENESIS OF THE CASE.
How the Web to Catch Capt. Dreyfus
Was Woven.

Gen. Mercier was minister of war
when the French spy at the German
embassy brought to the secret service
of the French army the fragments of
the bordereau. The report was re-
ceived by Col. Patty de Clam, head of
the secret service. He was violent
Jew-hater. He appealed to Bertillon,
and the man who invented the Bertillon
system for measuring and Identifying
criminals, following Paty's suggestion
who in turn reflected Gen. Mercier's
antipathy to the Jews-said it looked
like Dreyfus' handwriting. It was re-
ported. MERCER ordered that Dreyfus
be arrested. Patty de Clam tried to
prepare the case against him. 1t was
not strong enough to suit MERCER, and
the minister of war secured pleader
whose skill was as great as Paty's in
fanny. The anti-Semitic party and
press had doubts of MERCER, and caught
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pushed in the avenues without uttered
loud and menacing cries against the,
prisoner. At exactly nine o'clock the.
drums rolled, the troops presented
arms, and the regimental band played a
melancholy tune. The sentence was
read, Dreyfus standing firmly with
head erect, his left hand resting on the
pommel of his sword, and his eyes look-..
ing squarely in the eyes OF Gen. Darras,;
who commanded the troops. Then a
gigantic sergeant tore the triple band
from the captains cap, the buttons.
from his coat, the gold lace from the
collar and sleeves, and the red stripes,
from his trousers. AS the sergeant
flung them on the ground Dreyfus
threw up his arms and cried in voice
heard far beyon the limits of the court
yard: on are degrading an innocent
man. Longslive Francen A roar of
execration answered him: "Death to
the traitor!." and the big sergeant
roughly tore the sword belt from him,
wrenched the sword from its sea aboard,
broke it across his knee, flung the
fragments on the ground and stamped
upon them. Then, amid howls from
the mob without, the degraded officer,
a grotesque and lamentable figure in
his defaced uniform, was marched
round the hollow square, protesting his
innocence and crying: Long live
France!" while the drums rolled in or
der to drown his voice. Finally, after
being photographed and measured as
criminal, he was driven in the prison
van to La Sante prison, and thence
taken, on January 10. to La Rochelle,
where he was embarked for the neigh
boring lie de Re. on which is the prison
wherein convicts sentenced to trans
portation await their embarkation.
Mobs all along the route sought to at
tack him, and the guard of gendarmes
had to struggle hard to keep their pris-.
oner from being murdered. He was
eventually taken to the lie du Diable off
the coast Of French Guiana.
The chronology Of this famous case
follows:
OCTOBER, 1894 MERCER, minister of
war. gives order after an !nvastigatiol
H conducted by Commandant Gu Patty de-
S Clam to- arrest Capt. Alfred nrevf,is
] This IS done by Du Patty de Cam ard NJ.
Cochefort, chief of detectives Cant
Dreyfus is lodged in the Cherc!li- Mid!
prison by Lieut.. Col. Henry. who delivers
him to Commandant Forzinetti. In charge
of the prison.
NOVEMBER. 1894. An ndictmentds found
i against Capt. 5Dreyfuss by the officers of
the bureau Of information connected
with the general staff.
DECEMBER. 1S94-The first council Of
war, assembled at cherche-Mid!. nnani-s
mously condemns Capt. Dreyfus to de-
portation for life in an inclosed fortified
tion.5 s
JANUARY a. 1895 apt Dreyfus is de-.
graded by Gen. Darras in the School Of
War. Il ig 8ss S3 8s
FEBRUARY. 1895 Dreyfus is taken BIZ the
steamer La Rochelle to the Island de
Re. thence to be embarked for Devil s
island.
MAY, 1896 lieut. Col Picquart discovers
the petit bleu.'' successivey attributed
to Co.'s. Panizzard. military attache Of
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senate, in the case of Dreyfus, VINO de-
clares on the 18th to his colleagues in the
Luxembourg palace that he is convinced
of the innocence of Dreyfus."
OCTOBER, 1s97-M. de Castro, banker, be-
lteves that he recognizes in the facsimile
of the bordereau, once more published
in the Matin, the handwriting of Com
mandant Esterhazy. NJ Ranc, senator
of the Seine district, carries to the lobby
Of the chamber Of deputies the speech de-
livered by NJ. Scheurer-Kestner in the
senate. He has. on the Goth, an inter-
view upon this subject with Gen. Billot,
minister of war
NOVEMBER, 1S97-Interview Of M. Ma
thieu Dreyfus, brother of the condemned,
. with M. Scheurer-Kestner. Beginning of
the campaign of the Figaro in favor of a
revision. NJ. Matthew Dreyfus officially ac-
cuses Commandant Esterhazy with being
the author of the bordereau; Esterhazy is
turned over to colsncil of inveStiga ton.
Commandant ForZnetti is dismissed be-
cause he stated to M. Henri Rochefort
that Dreyfus is innocent. Search of the
home of Lieut. Col. Picquart in Yron-
Villarceau street. Lieut. Col. Picquart is
recalled from Tunis, where he had been
sent on, a mission, and is examined by
Gen. Pellierx, commissioner of invests
cation in the Esterhazy matter.
DECEMBER, 1se7-The Dreyfus border
eau, examined in 1894 by the experts Co
bert, Pelletier, Charavay and Crepiux-
Janun, is turned over to the papers in the
Esterhazy case and is submitted to
~ new examination by the experts Bel
homme, Couard and Varinard. Interpret
lation in the chamber of deputies and in
the senate; Gen. Billot declares that
'Dreyfus has been justly and legally
condemned" Letter of Emile lola to
the young people Of France. The docu-
ments of Lemercier-Picard upon the
& factory Of forgeries'' Of a syn dictate
documents themselves recognized as for
geries in the trial. are published in the
,Intransigeant. Call for court-martial
&, by Gen. Saussier to try Esterhazy.
JANUARY, 1S9S-In consequence of re-
port by Commandant Ravary, Command
ant Esterhazy is acquitted by the court
ST. martial presided over by Gen. Luxer and
leaves the Cherche-Midi prison on the
arm of his friend, Mile. Marguerite Pays
He receives an ovation in the street.
Lieut.. Col. Picquart lodges a complaint
upon the subject of two kilograms signed
Blanche" and "SperaEza,'' addressed
to him at Tunis and intended to compro-
mise him. On the 18th Aurore publishes
i Emile Zola's II accuse" letter to the
president Of the republic. Lieut.. Col
Picquart is arrested. The chamber of
deputies votes the order Of the day upon
4, the motion Of M. de Mein, representative
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MAY. 1S99-M. Ballot-Beaupre finishes his,

MAY, 1S99-M. ot-Beaupre finishes his,
report to the court.
JUNE, 1S99-Paul Deroulede acquitted.
Court Of cessation decides in favor Of
Dreyfus on the revision. Esterhazy con-
fesses having written the bordereau.
JULY, 1899 Dreyfus returns to France on
the Sd. Governor Of Devils island dis
missed for cruelty to Dreyfus. Esterhazy
refuses to testify before the new court
martial which is to retry Dreyfus.
AUGUST. 1sa9.-New trial Of Dreyfus be-
gins on the It'll
August z, 1899, the court martial held
its first session. The court was com
posed as follows:
co Col Jouagst director in the engineer
Lieut. Col. Brongniart. director Of the
school of artillery. l51$
Maj. De Breon, Of the Seventh regiment
Of artillery. IN r 81 rs aBa 4SBIse7
MAI. Profllet. Of the Tenth regiment Of
artillery. 53
II Mai. Merle. Of the Seventh regiment Of
artillery : -
Capt Parfait, Of the Seventh regiment Of
Capt. Beauvais. Of the Seventh regiment
Of artillery.
Counsel for Dreyfus were Maitres
Labor and Demange- latter one of
the most celebrated criminal lawyers
in France. Maj. Carriere represented
the government, as counsel for the pros
ecution. Early on Monday morning,
August IA, while Maitre Labori, one
Of Dreyfus' attorneys, was on his Way
to the court, he was shot by an assassin
and seriously wounded.
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~every movement and expression could
be seen by everybody present. Du Patty
2then dictated to him the memorandum
which afterward became famous as the
/. bordereau. At one point Du Patty sud-
denly asked Dreyfus what was the
matter, and asserted that his hand
shook. Dreyfus replied that his hands
were cold. Then he was left alone in
the room and found a loaded revolver
lying among some papers on the table
beside him. Half an hour later M.
=tCochefert, head Of the detective police,
accompanied by Commander Henry, of
the second bureau, entered, and ORGY
,fus was placed under arrest on the
charge OF high treason and taken to
the Cherche-Midi prison, all the time
protesting his innocence. The order
committing him was dated October "A,
the day before he was arrested or ex-3
amined.
On October % a hint of the arrest was
conveyed to one of the Paris newspa-
pers and the next day an ambiguous
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THE FAMOUS BORDEREAU.
to BE the Main Evi.
dence Against Dreyfus,

The famous bordereau (memoran-
dunn list), which is acknowled ged to be
the main evidence against Dreyfus, was
discovered in April, 1894, among waste
papers from the German embassy, in
the particular department. of Col. Count
Schwarzkoppen, the military attache,
by secret emissaries of the French gov
eminent, who had bribed the janitor
to surrender these papers. It is in
translation as follows:
In the absence of any news Indicating
your desire to see me. nevertheless send
you, sir. certain information of interest:
]. A note on the hydraulic brake Of 120
(method Of operating this piece).
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Upon a Revision Of the DreYfus Case.)
mote appeared in that journal asking if
it were true that an important military
arrest had recently taken place. This,
set everybody talking, for in France
anything concerning the army is con-
Z sidered Of paramount Importance.
Wild stories were afoat, and the excite
1nent reachedsfever heat when the news
was confirmed on November /, by the.
4, appearance OF q brief official communi-
cation in all3theS papers. Dreyfus was
kept in close confinement until Deem
Hber g., when his counsel, NJ. Demange,
was allowed to see him. On December.
10 Dreyfus was arraigned before the
scourt-martial, which was held in the
eGonseilde Gnerre building, opposite the
Cherche-Midi prison. Great crowds
-gathered to see him cross the street
land shouted: Death to the traitor!'
The trial was secret and lasted until
1DeceInber % %, when the court found the