The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-19

rest OF two men-one an Englishman
who are believed to be concerned in
this strange affair. They certainly
travelled with the murdered man from
England yesterday, and friend of his
named Poisson, just returned from
Marseilles at was in Poisson's room
the murder was committed) has given
information regarding these two per-
sons and their late association as
partners with the deceased, which
throws grave suspicion upon them. If
the man jackson who has been muir
dered stole the necklace you speak Of
from the Comte de RibaumOnt, with
this pair as his accomDlices, and af-'
forwards endeavored to cheat them
out Of their share Of the booty, a mo-
tive for the crime is easily evident.
You have helped Monsieur Brent
bravely, Mademoiselle de Nevers, and
! hope that in a day or two he himself
may be able to thank you. You have
supplied all the missing Inks
II am gIad-glad!" I exclaimed.
And must I suffer for what I have
done for him with the man 1 love ?''
mo, dear mademoiselle: I will see
that you do not. The COmte de Ri
baumont need never know the circum-
stances as you have told them to me,
or that the Englishman's alibi has
been proved by you. The arrest Of
IL
police to keen the secret. Now, will
that assurance render your heart
lighter on the stage to-night?''
You shall see, if you will accept a
box I said. And I let him press my
hand. Then T. drove home. Hardly
|. had I reached there when Maxine
came.
That tiresome fellow who parted
us!' he exclaimed, when I was in his
Wa IN
utes. Butt is just as well you were
prevented from putting your precious
little. note about the finding Of the
necklace into the safe according to
your whim, for the man came with an
order from the president to copy a
which is kept there. It would have
been rather awkward when : opened
the safe to take out the treaty If your
note had tumbled out: It wouldn't
have looked exactly official!''
Thank. Heaven that I was not too
late!' I had cried out before knew
what was saying.
were too late, don't you?" he corrected
me. He was thinking Of the note; I
was thinking of something else! But
when I heard his innocent remark /
gratefully assented.
The traitor Ipanoff had managed
IIltL CIlCh SOl11cNOW. tie nave
meant all along to win over my prom
Use and deceive me, running Maxine;
tho he would have vowed, If anything
in the safe had been missing and Max
ine disgraced, that he had had moth
ing to do with it. The fear of the ter
rible man, who had so nearly check.
mated me, came over me again.
| But the necklace breathed
'You will be glad to have it again
/ A lovely girl will give If to Won fo.
morrow. She is to marry my ole
friend Noel Brent, who is accused OF
murder here in Paris. She was here
last night, and her lover, too; they
found the necklace which Noel Brent
himself had got back from the tffief
who was murdered, but not by him
She will explain; could not have tol6
ceeding for her. No one knows bu1
myself, and now you-and one other
Ipanoff. If he ever tries to make yol
believe lies of me and Noel Brent, yol
will understand now how little trutf
there is in them, since he adores an
other woman, almost-but not quite
as I adore YOU ~
II have listened to Ipanoff for the
last time,' said Maxine. ''That dog
He had better not speak evil of you!'
II hope he will see that it is use
less" I answered. II am so tired O.
storms. want love-and peace-ant
you
'sYou shall have all--and for al
ways" said Maxine.
1, AS he clasped me the world outsid,
faded away. I forgot that had beer
was now am now-only a woman
who loves, and has more than she de
serves.
The End.