The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-11-13

where"
"A bad facet" said Moniche. IN.
Revere received him. however. and
y gave him aid, 1 remember. If the young
mar had come often. / should think
that he struck the blow, and also. /
ought to add. If there was not the
other
Yes. but there is the other" his wife
replied. There is the one whom l saw
standing In front OF the coupons and
who was looking at those other papers
With flashing eyes, I give my word.
There is that one. Moniche, and 1 am
willing to put my hand into the fire
and yours. too, Moniche. If 1t is not
he
"If he is the one. he will be found"
oh. but IL he has disappeared? One
disappears very quickly in these days"
I'VE shall see; we shall see. Justice
reigns. and we are here" He said
that I'VE are here as "a grenadier of
the guard before an important engage
ment.
They had IKE the body to the
autopsy Bernardet arrived. He seemed
much excited and asked M. Ginory IL
since their conversation in M. Rovere's
library he had reflected and decided to
permit him TO make the experiment
the FAMOUS experiment reported for SO
many years as useless, absurd. almost
ridiculous.
With any one but M. Ginory I
should not dare to hope" thought the
at strange discoveries"
He had brought his Photographic APP
paratus, that kodak which he declared
was more dangerous to the criminal
thar a loaded weapon. He had devel-
oped the negatives which he had taken.
and Of the three two had come out in
good condition. The face of the muir
dered man appeared with a clearness
which IN proofs rendered it formidable
as In the reality. and the eyes, those
tragic. living eyes. retained their fer
rible. accusing expression which the SUI
preme agony had left in them. The
light had struck full on the ewes. and
they spoke. Bernardet showed the
proofs to M. Ginory. They examined
.hem with a magnifying glass, out they
showed only the emotion. the agony,
the anger. of that last moment. Ber-
nardet hoped to convince NJ. Ginory
that Bourlon's experiment was not a
failure.
Eleven o'clock was the hour named
for the autopsy. Twenty minutes be-
fore Bernardet was at the morgue. He
walked restlessly about outside among
The spectators. Some were women,
young girls, students and children who
We're lowering about the place hoping
that some chance would permit them
to satisfy their morbid curiosity and
to enter and gaze on those slabs where
on lay-swollen. livid, dishgured-the
bodies.
. Never perhaps in his life had the DO
lice officer been so strongly moved
with a desire to succeed. He brought
to his tragic task all the ardor of an
apostle. 1t was not the idea of success,
the renown or the possibility of adj
was the joy. the glory, of aiding prog
ress. of attaching his name to q new
discovery. He worked for art and the
love OF art: AS he wandered about his
sole thought was of his desire to test
Dr. Bourion's experiment. of the real
ory will only permit" he hought.
AS he formulated that hope IL his
mind he saw NJ. Ginory descend from
the iacre. He hurried up o him and
saluted him respectfully. Seeing Ber-
nardet SO moved and the first one on
the spot. he could not repress a smile.
~ see you are still enthused."
II have thought of nothing else all
night. M. Ginory.'
Well. but" said NJ. Ginory in a tone
which seemed to Bernardet to imply
hope. mo idea must be rejected. and
do not see why we should not try the
experiment. I nave reflected upon it.
Where is the unsuitab;eness?"
"Ah. NJ. lie Juge." cried the agent,
"if you permit 1t. who knows but we
may revolutionize medical jurispru-
dence?"
"Revolntlonize; Revolutionize!" he
SAASNs NOhAA lC SA1IllINHH
trate yet find it an idiotic idea?
M. Ginory passed AROUND the build
ing ana entered at a small door OPEN
ing on the Seine. The registrar fol
lowed him, and behind hin came the
police agent. Bernardet wished to wait
until the doctors delegated to perform
the autopsy should arrive, and the head
keeper of the morgue advised him to
possess himself with patience and
while he was waiting to look around
L ana SEQ fha latest -oo1 yyn~1 ,-lSn, 1.-zy
been brought there.
have had in eight days a larger
number of women than men. which is
rare, and these women We're nearly all
hapitues OF the public halls and race
tracks"
And how can you tell that?"
Because they ave pretty feet"
frotessor NORM arrived with a con-
frere. a young Pasteurian doctor. with
a singular mind, broad and recentive
and who passed among his
for a man fond of chimeras, a little re-
firing. however, and given over to max
Ing experiments n to vague dreams.
M. NORM saluted NJ. Ginory and pre-
by name. and said to the magistrate
that the Gus students had probably
begun the autopsy to gain time.
The body. stripped of its clothing,
lay upon the dissecting table, and
caps. with aprons tied about their
waists, were standing about the corpse.
They had already begun the autopsy
The mortal wound looked redder than
ever in h wilderness OF the naked
body.
Bernardet glided into the room,
trying to keep out of sight, listening
and looking. and above everything not
losing sight of NJ. Ginory's face-a face
in which the look was keen, penetrate
ing. sharp as a knife. as he bent over
the a Il face of the murdered man,
regarding it as ~searchingly as the sur
geons' scalpels We're searching the
wound and the flesh. Among those
men in their blacl clothes, some with
barred "a in order to work better,
others with hats on. the stretched out
corpse seemed like a wax figure upon
a marble slab. Bernardet thought of
those images which he had seen copied
from Rembrandt's pictures-the poet
with the anatomical pinchers the
SHAMELESS. The surgeons bent over the
body. their hands busy and their scis-
sors cutting the muscles. That wound.
which had let out his life. that large
wound 1{lo a nnonStro,,c or1 orr; ~, , civ ~