The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01

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4 a utes, won't your
5CS But it is nearly ten
O'Clock, Monsieur Monitor"
well, what of it? The market
doesn't close until twelve. You have
plenty of time"
Eyes, Monsieur Monitor; but 1 prom
Used to meet my wife at one of the
shops"
"Oh, she will be too busy shopping
to worry about your absence. l did
hope that you would see my son be-
fore you left"
Your son? Oh, to be sure; he has
come back from Paris. Well, are you
glad? Did he graduate with honors?"
Yes. He is a doctor of laws, and
his mother is overjoyed. l cannot say
that am. find him a little bit too
Partisan, this boy of mine He says a
good many things that don't like at
all, argues about honesty, property,
Justice. Why, yesterday l would have
left the dinner table if it had been
anybody but my own son t2..,,,,ing in
that hat way, and being my own son, it
,ywEr vs. bard work 70 keep my hands off
his cars, And lie spends too much.
l am continually giving him money,
yet he is forever after his mother for
more. He goes to bed very late, and
every morning there is great fuss
before monsieur consents to get up.
No, no! | don't like such habits. If
he wishes to succeed at the bar, he
must take another road"
you intend to make a magistrate
of him, 1 believer
HE says no, at present We shall
have to wait until he changes his
mind"
Have you heard that young Me-
gum has come home as a JUICE din
struction?"
II know. He and my son are great
friends. A very serious lad, I hear"
Serious? He would send his own
father to prison. There will be no
smothering Of scandals with him
like that college affair last year. Hea-
vens, Monsieur Monitor, it is a quar-
ter past ten. 1 really must go, my
friend. Hello! What a pretty cab
inetw
at isn't bad but I have more in
teresting one downstairs, in the hall
/ will go with you and show it to
you. You must see the Malay kris l
picked up the other day by pure ac-
cident Along comes a sailor-let me
see, it was the day before yesterday
"a sailor of some Outlandish country,
with all sorts of foreign curiosities.
l bought something that he called a
Malay kris. Malay or not, it is very
curious. I've seen such things in
books, but didn't know they really
existed. After stabbing, you press a
spring. The blade divides, and when
you pull it out, it leaves horrible
wound, shaped like a cross. Come,
/ will show it to you. Take care of
the last step, the hall is SO dark. The
Cabinet is by the window. Hellow
What is the matter?"
"Well. here's a pretty business"
"What? ~
'sThe kris is some! Who can have
taken it? | must see about this"
Look on the floor, Monsieur Mon
tier. Perhaps the hooks have given
way"
mo, the hooks are all right, and
there is nothing on the floor. Well!
well! must see about this at once"
"Well, I must be going, Monsieur
Monitor"
"Good-day, Monsieur Gambard. JUS
tine! Justine! Oh, it's you, Clemence.
Where on earth is JustineF
"In the garden, with madame.
have just come from market"
but what is the matter with you,
Clemence? You look all upset"
"And we'll I may be, monsieur.
Something dreadful has happened.
Monsieur knows the lady of the cha
teau-"
"Well?'
"She was murdered last night.
About nine O'Clock the gardener heard