The daily Alaskan., 1907-06-13
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] | life. vlgor. He returned a changed man. Ills eNubcrlut spirits were re placed by a melancholy He stunned social life and for several years instead
 of proctlclng his profession did noth- 1 ing. He never will be the man he
 would have been because of an episode that occurred to him while abroad. In Paris TmooD fell m with Filip
 Marchaud. u muu ten years older than himself. with whom he became lnti- mate. Marchaud was not a medical man. He appaaraJ to he a gentleman
 of means. hal.ug from the south of France. He and Throop usually dlned together at a cafe aud when not other
 wise engaged visited places of umuse- mcnt Tn company. One evening after ! Thro0p had been out to a social gather ! Ing he called at Marchauds rooms In an ecstasy oyer d woman he had met | thprc-Aulr. Annette BcHuchcmiu
 -a"What Is she IlEaE asked his friend.
 "TuI. faIr hair light as Swele's, ! blue eyes. But aII this is nothing com pared with uu mInsor.huhle expression,
 an expression that denotes a depth of | character to tit her Co na a queen" Thro0p did not rest tiIl he had called upon Mile. Beaucaemtu His ula,ua- 1 .iou did not cool Ou the contrary, it l grew apacc. fed by a mystery that hung about the lady. Her name was | Freuah. and she claimed Go be a | Freucnwoman. but she spoke the lau- l cuage with an accent She explained ! this bv saving that she had lived much 1 In other countries She was about | Throons age and lived alone with a maid la ua apartment whose furnish l ings dcuotcl that she was possessed of | considerable means. What people she ! knew were or the best, but she knew
 very few and did not seem to care to | know more. For one SD well fitted tO l shine in society she seemed sugulurly uyerse to It. Indeed, Throop found it impossible to induce her to appear with him In public.
 All this the young doctor cOmmuni- | Cated to his friend. "I fe0r something i wrong about her." he added, and if | there is ! shall be a wrecked man, for l l feel that my very life is dependent upon her am gaining her affection ] that kuow-but if tbere Is any ob- star.n to marriage what win it be worth to me|
 "I will give you plan by which you ] HT .... ..H l cuaud. eff you can cUuU.ve Co put it la 0vactfaa. A womau's history Is writ- l ten in her clothes. Get sight of her wardrobe. and you shall know alL"
 The ilea, at first secuted, took hold ot WurU0D aud one afternoon, having called on Nile. Beauchomiu when she was uo, at home. be told her maid that l ue would wait for her to come lu. The maid was about to go out herself but | knowing ut Tur9op's intimacy with her mistress. left him m the apartments. ! Inr temptation was tuo great to be re-
 sisted. He went into the different rooms and inspected the wardrobe. 1 The costumes varied X few were ! rich. others ordinary. and there was one that Ae thought should have be- l Iorgad Co peasant What surprised 1 hlw was fur trimmings on most of tue garments. aud fur wraps Were m ubun- l dance. Guu when he came upon a mans suit with hat and hnnJs. he was osoui-ged. dismayed
 Returning 10 ,Ie living room. he wrote wi.u tevertsh hand few
 words ou his card giving un excuse for uut waiting and hastily left the apart- mpu,s. Prom there be went straight to his Friends r9yms MarcIaud mo- 1 ulced that there was something uu uis mind. but waited dI Ae should eN-
 press Il. The confidence did not come at once. but Tlro0p finally told tue whole story, asking at tue finish:
 What do you think 1t means"
 "It Is mystery indeed" replied l,ar.h-nd. "auL looks bad. l would advise you to cut madeuoiseIle ouL of your heart. Go home t0 America and marry some one who doesn't need peas ! ants dresses and mems suits And now ! must leave you. Tomorrow ] ! expect to go away from Paris. uot to return for some tImc. G0Oday.'
 Turoop was too Intent upon the rev l citations and their possible consequences
 to himself to think much about his | friends departure.
 l The next morning he arose and went 1 to a cafe for breakfast. After giving | his order be Iauguldly opened his pa l per One of the first items that arrest
 ed his attention under an appropriate ! heading was the following:
 At midnight an arrest was made of
 a woman who is charged with an at
 tempt on the life of the chief of police at St. Petersburg. She has been living in Paris under tue name of Annette | Beauchemlu. By some she Is supposed
 to be the daughter of 8 prominent ! Russian uobIeman, by others a peasant
 and by others the person who threw a
 bomb six months ago in Warsaw. One of the cleyerest of French detectives, l employed by the Russian police, got on her track by winning the confidence Of
 young American who has been devot- ed to her.
 'Is monsieur ill:" asked the prOprI-
 etor of the cafe, tapping Thro0p on the ehnrT7ar