Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-30

slant | entered that second story back
room l ceased to worry myself about the
improbability of genuine duel having
been fought at such an exposed place as
the border of East Park at six o'clock in
the morning. The ceiling of that apart
ment was studded with one hundred and
forty-four thirty-two candle power incan-
descent bulbs, set in six groups, in power
full refectors. There was abundant evil
dence that those lights had been recently
installed, and for temporary use only.
The suggestion of Encouragement for the
quarrel was obvious. l telephoned to the
handkerchief was stained with an ex-
cellent quality of red ink.
Maxwell muttered something that
sounded like an exp1etive; but l pro-
ceeded without needing the interruption.
Next, l made certain inquiries among
Perriot's student friends, and developed
two facts which subsequently proved to
have an important bearing on his disap-
pearance: First, that by reason of his
extravaganza he had exhausted the foun-
tain of paternal generosity; second, that
he was ardently DESTROYS of participating
in a national fencing tournament which
is to be held in Paris this week, but lacked
the means to defray his expenses.
An inspection of the scene of the duel
in the park confirmed my well formed
suspicious. A clu1np of bushes to the
left of the spot where the principals had
the vitascope machine and its operators
from the view of the housemaid who wit
messed the encounter, just as the circum-
scribed outlook from Mrs. Shearer's win
dows had prevented her from observing
its presence in the doorway of the room
adjoining that in which the quarrel was
enacted in Perriot's house. To clinch the
matter, found park laborer who had
seen two men carrying away from that
particular spot large box such as the
moving picture men use, although he had
seen nothing of the due1ists.
Through a theatrical agent I got in
touch with the three photographers who
do this vitascope work The third prac-
tically completed my case. He had en-
gagged Perriot and Mallory, as the most
expert swordsmen obtainable in this
country, to enact the parts they played
nance the realism of the killing, Perriot
wore beneath the bosom of his shirt a
rubber bulb filled with carrnine ink, which,
under the pressure of Mallorv's napier
point, discharged its contents through a
tube at the proper moment in stimulation
of the victims life blood
"Perriot received for his services five
hundred dollars. Coupling this fact with
his longing to participate in the Partisan
tournament, l telegraphed to the agents
of the transatlantic steamship companies
in New York. The reply from the Amer
lean line conveyed the information that
the passenger list of the City of Paris,
which sailed Wednesday afternoon, bore
the name of Jules Perriot, Piqued over
his fathers refusal to advance another
quarters allowance, Perriot revenged
himself by departing secretly when the
lucky accident of the vitascope engage
ment placed at his disposal the necessary
funds for brief European trip. 1t struck
me after | had communicated these facts
to Our client, the elder Perriot, that as
The Code of Honor was to be put on
this week at Dominick's Theater, the bill
might have special interest for you"
81 suppose that as | have made such
botch of this case my prospect of securing
an engagement with the Sanderson agency
is at an end" said Maxwell despondently.
Not at ALL l replied. You have
many traits that commend themselves to
me. l have shaped far less promising
raw material in my time l am going to
place another matter in your hands"
You don't saw sol" he cried with