The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-04
81 repeat. NJ. lie Juge. that the secret

II repeat. NJ. lie Juge. thai the sccre.
is not mine"
1T is no longer a secret which can
remain sacred here. a murder has
been committed. a murderer is to be
found, and everything you know you
ought to reveal to justice"
But if l give you my word of honor
that 1t has not the slightest bearing on
the matter-with the death of Rovere""
Il shall tell my registrar to write
your very words in reply. He has done
1t. / shall continue to question you.
precisely because o speak to me Of
a secret which has been conflded TO you
and which you refuse to disclose to me.
Because you do refuse"
absolutely"
I'm spite of what / have said to youo
1t is a warning. You know it we'll"
I'm spite of your warming"
Take care" NJ. Ginory softly said.
His angry face had lost it's wontcd ami
bility. The registrar quickly raised his
head. I.e felt that a decisive moment
had come. The examining magistrate
looked directly into Dantin's ewes and
slowly aid 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
some valuables?"
Dantin waited a before he
replied. as If measuring these words and
searching to find out just what NJ.
Ginory was driving at. This silence,
short and m~onentous. was dramatic.
The magistrate knew it well-that mo-
inent OF agony when the question seem.
like n cord. like a lasso suddenly
thrown and tightening around ones
neck. There was always in his exam
ination a tragic moment.
Il remember very well that T saw a
person whom I did not know enter the
room where 1 was with NJ. Rovere,' -
jacques Dantin replied at last.
"A person whom you did not know
You knew her very well. since you
had more thar once asked her if M.
Revere was at home. That person is
Nine. Moniche. who has made her depo-
sition."
And what did she say in her depo-
s%ition?"
The magistrate took a paper from the
table in front of him and read: when
J entered, NJ. Revere was standing be-
fore his safe, and i noticed that the in
dividual of whom / spoke (the indi-
Nldual is youD cast upon the upo
a look which made me Old 1 thought
10 myself, This man looks as If he is
meditating some bad deed.'"
That is to say" b%rusquely said Dam
TN, who had listened with frowninE
brows and with an angry expression.
that MN Moniche accuses me OF
having murdered NJ. Rovere."
You are in too much haste. Nine.
Monichc has not said that precisely.
n was only surplised-surprised and
looked at the deeds, bills and cou-
pons."
"Those coupons" asked Dantfn
rather anxiously-"havc they, then.
been stolen"!"
All. that we know nothing about"
And the magistrate smiled. zone has
found in RoNere's safe in the neighbour
hood of 100000 francs in city
of Paris bonds. shares in mining sn-
c%ieties. rent rolls. but nothing to prove
that there was before the ASSASSINATION
more than thai sum-
Had 1T been forced open:"
NO; but any one familiar with the
dead man, a friend who knew the Sc
cret of the combination of the safe, the
four letters forming the word could
nave opened it without trouble"
Among these words Dantin heard
one which struck him full in the face
friend" M. Ginory had pronounced
1t in an ordinary tone. but Dantin had
selaed and read in 1t a menace. For a
moment the man who was being ques-
toned felt a peculiar sensation. 1t
seemed to him one day when he had
been almos drowned during a boating
party that same agony had seized
him: it seemed that he had fallen into
some abyss. some icy pool, which was
paralyzing him. Opposite to him the
examining magistrate experienced a
contrary feeling. The caster of a hook
and line feels II similar sensation, but
IT was Intensified a hundred times In
the magistrate, a fisher of truth. throw
ing the line into q human sea, the
/ water nOIIntpN. rod with h}oOl ,cd
mixed with mud.
A friend! A friend could have
opened that safe. And that friend
what name lie he bear? Whom die
NJ. 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
long ttme-a very long time since he
this little room. separated from the
world like a n cell, had walls
thick enough to prevent any one from
hearing anything outside. He felt as
II hypnotized by that man, who al
first had met him with a pleasant air
hard eyes. Something doubtful, like
vague danger. surrounded him, men.
aced him, and he mechanically followed
the gesture which NJ. Ginory made a,
he touched the ivory buttons of al
electric bell as il on this gesture de.
pended some event of his life. A guard
entered. NJ. Ginory said to him In 8
short tone: Have the notes beer
brought?"
M. Bernardet has just brought then
to me, NJ. lie Juge."
(contiaued Next Week.,
A Japanese Banking Episode.
From the Chicago Evening Post.
After fruitless efforts to obtain paw