The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-12-03

II repeat n. is Juge that the secret
Is nor mtne.N E b
1T is no longer a secret wnicn can
remain sacred here. "A murder has
found, ana everything yOu Know you
ought to reveal to justice"
But IL / give you my word of honor
that II a not the slightest bearing on
the matter-with the death of Rovere2'
Il shall tell my registrar to write
your very words in reply. He has done
IL. tt / shall continue to- question you,
precisely because o speak to me OF
hasecret Which has been confided to you
and which you refuse TO disclose to me.
Because YOU do refuse. n
absolutely"
t'Ins spite Of what I have said to you?
1T issa warning. You know IL we'll
b In spite OF your ~warningR EGWM
Take care" M. emory softly said.
ILLS angry fahe had lost itk wonted anna
bility, The registrar quickly raised his
head. ISe felt that~a decisive moment
a come. The examining magistrate
ooked directly into Dantin's eyes and
slowly said: You remember that you
were seen by the Fortress at the mo-
ment when. Revere, standing with you
In front of his open safe, showed you
9oiAlV NaludUlcG Y ". GU.
Dantin waited a before he
replied, as II measuring these words and
searching to find out just what M.
Ginory was driving at. This silence,
short and = momentous, was dramatic.
The magistrate knew It welI-that mo-
ment OF agony when the question seems
like a cord, like a lasso suddenly
thrown and Tightening around ones
neck. There was always in his exam
nation a tragic moment.
1 remember very well that I saw a
person whom / did not know enter the
room where / was with M. Revere"
jacques Dantin replied at last.
person whom you did not know?
You knew her very well, since you
9 than once. asked her If NJ,
Revere was at home. That person is
sition."
And what did she say In her depo-
sition?' ~
The magistrate took a paper from the
table in front Of him-and read: when
l entered, M. Revere was standing be-
lore his safe, and 1 noticed that the In
dividual of whom 1 spoke (the indf-
Xidual is YOU cas-. upon the
d look which made me cold. Il Thought
to myself. This man looks as If he is
meditating some bad deed"
That is TO say" ~brusauely said Dam
TIN, who had listened with frowning
nrows n with an angry expression,
,lhat Mme Moniche accuses me of
having murdered M. Rovere.I' I
you are. inf too much hastaB M,neb
Mohiche has mot said that precisely.
She was only surprised-spgprtseh and
ErightenS-H your exprsssipn.as. YOU
pons." - -
Those coupons" asked Dantin
rather anxiously-"have they, then,
BEEN stolen ~ >
"Ah, that we know nothing about"
And n magistrate smiled. "One has
found in Rovere's safe in the neighbor-
hood of 100000 francs In coupons-eitx
Of Paris bonds, shares in mining So
c%ieties, rent rolls, but nothing to prove
that there was before the assassination
more h that sum-"
Had 1t been forced open?"
No; but any one familiar with the
e man, a friend who knew the Sc
cret of the combination of the safe. the
four letters forming the wbrd could
nave opeHed iGs without troubles - =
/ Among these words Dantin heard
one which struck him full in the face
friend" NJ. Ginory had pronounced
1T In an ordinary tone, but Dantin had
seized. and read in it a menace. For a
nfonaeHt~the-nan-who was ~being-aues-
toned felt "a peculiar sensation. 1t
seemed to him n day when he had
been almost drowned during a boating
party that same agony had seized
hlmTt it seemed that he had fallen into
some abyss, some icy pool, which was
paralyZtng him. Opposite to. him the
examining magistrate experienced a
contrary feeling. The caster Of a hook
and line feels a similar sensation, but
II was intensified a hundred times in
the magistrate. a fisher of truth. throw
ing the line into a human sea, the
water polluted, red with blood and
mixed with mud. ~
A friend! A friend , could have
abused the dead mans secret and
opened that safe. . And that friend
what name did he bear? Whom did
M. Ginory wish to designate? Dantin,
In spite Of his sang froid. experienced
"a Violent temptation to ask the man
what he meant by those words. But,
the strange sensation which this in
terview caused him increased. 1t SEEM
ed to him that he had been there a
long tlme-a. very long time since he
had crossed that threshhold-and that
his Jlfttle room, separated from tbs
world like a monks cell, had walls
thick enough to prevent any n from,
hearing anything outside, He felt as
IL hypnotized by that man, who at
first had met him with a pleasant air,
and who now bent upon him those
hard eyes. Something doubtful, like
vague danger, surrounded him, men-
aced him.. and he mechanically followed
the gesture which M. Ginory made as
he touched the ivory buttons Of an
electric bell as II on this gesture de-
pended some event of his life. A guard
entered. M. Ginory said to him In a
short n Have the notes been
brought?" =.
M. Bernardet has just brought them
to me, NJ. lie Juge."
a.. lalE (contiEued Next Wsekl >
rs A Japanese Banking Episode. "a;