The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-11-05
y--continued.

that There is nothing in this WorlC
%ciasse, that every matter a be taker
UP again. The idea has come to me tC
try the experiment Ii / am permitted
Yes, monsieur, those eyes, did you see
thefn--the eyes of the dead man? They
seemed to speak, they seemed to see
Their expression is of lifelike intensity
They see, / tell you they see. They
perceive something which we cannot
see and which Is %frightful. They bear
and no n can convince me to the
contrary-they bear on the retina the
reflection of the last being whom the
murdered man saw before he died. They
keep 1t still; they still retain that
image. They are going to hold ar
autopsy. They viii tell US that the
throat is cut. En-. parbleu! We know
It well. We see it for ourselves. Moniche.
the porter, knows 1t as well as any doc
TOR, but when n questions those eyes,
when n searches In that black cham
Der where the image appears as on a
plate, when one demands of those eyes
their secret, I am convinced hat one
will find at."
You are obstinate, B%ernardet.'
Yes, very obstinate, NJ. Ginory, and
very patient. The pictures which l took
with my kodak will give us the express
sion. the interior, SO to speak. Those
which we would take OF the retina
would reveal to us the secret OF the
agony. And morevore, unless / deceive
NNsJ 'ythAt ~ oNAl6Gl LNiCIilS SbCIl Gill
experiment? One opens the poor eyes,
and that is sinister certainly, but when
one holds an autopsy at the morgue,
when one enlarges the cash In the
throat in order to study it, when one
dfssects the body, is it any more re-
had but your power
M. Ginory seemed quite struck with
all that the police officer had said to
him. but while he still held to his on
victions he did not seem quite ayerse to
trying the experiment. Who can say
to science, "Halt!" and impose upon
1T limits which cannot be passedT No
one.
I'VE will see. Bernardet."
And in hat I'VE will see' there was
already a half promise.
All. II you only will, and what
would It cost you?" added Bernardet,
still urgent indeed almost suppliant.
Let us finish this now. They are
waiting for me-" said the examining
magistrate.
A. he left NJ. Rovere's study he in
stinctively cast a glance at the rare
volumes, with their costly bindings,
and he re-entered the salon where NJ.
Jacquelin des Audrays had, without
doubt, finished his examination.
CHAPTER vi.
The attorneys for the republic called
IN the examining magistrate. Nothing
more was to be done. The magistrate
had studied the position OF the corpse,
examined the wound, N now, having
told M. Ginory his impressions, he did
not hide from him his belief that the
crime had been committed by a profess
sional. as he's strokes of the knife across
the throat had been given neatly, scien-
tiflcally. according to all the established
rules.
"one might we'll take 1t for the work
of q professional butcher"
Yes, without doubt. M. Ginory, but
one does not know. Brute force-a
strong blow-can produce exactly what
scienoe cam
More agitated Than he wished to APP
pear by the strange conversation be-
tween he agent of Surete and himself,
the examining magistrate stood at the
foot OF the corpse and gazed. with a
hxity almost fierce, not at the gaping
wound of which M. Jacquelin des Au-
brays had spoken to him, but at those
eyes. those fixed eyes, those eyes which
mo opacity had yet invaded. which.
open, frightful, seemingly burning with
anger. menacing. U Of accusations OF
some sort and animated with ven
igeance. gave him a look, immovable.
most powerful.
At Is true; It was true. They lived;
those eyes spoke. They cried to him for
Justice. They retained the expression
kA0NAOuSM NASlQIl, Tile EXPRESSION
saf violent rage. They menaced some
one. Whom? II the picture OF some one
WAS craven there, was 1t not the last
image reflected on the little mirror OF
the retina What II a face was re-
sfected there? What II it vas still re-
tanned In the depths of those wide open
eyes? That strange creature, Bernar-
Diet, halt crazy, enthused with new
Ideas, with the mysteries which tra-
verse chinlerical brains. troubled him,
Ginory, 9 man OF statistics and Of facts.
But truly those dead eyes seemed to
appeal, to speak, to designate some one.
What more eloquent, what more ter
ribles witness. could there be than the
dead ma himself, IL 1t were possible
for his eyes TO speak II that organ
life should contain, shut up within Ii.
preserved, the secret Of death! Bernar-
Diet, whose eyes " left the magis-
trate.s face, ought to have been con
tent. fbrsgtt plainly expressed doubt. q
hesitation. and h police officer heard
\ him cursing unde his breath.
Folly. s~tupidityt Bah. we shall see!s
bernardo was hiled with hope. Nj.
Emory the examining magistrate, was
moreover convinced that for the pres
emit ana the sooner the better. the
corpse should be sent to the morrue.
There only could a thorough and scien-
tific examination be made. The re-
porter listened intently to the CONVERSE
hands more and more agonfzed by that
word morgue. which among the people
produces the same terror that that 9TH
sser word-wEich means, however, care
fnl attendance. scientific treatment d
eafety-shoapttal does.
Nothing var now to BE done excenf
10 Question some Of the neighbora and
TO take Ct sketch OF the salon, Bernar-
Oct said to the magistrate: sMv phofo-
sraph Will IKE yOu that White some