Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-11-20

judges. They had become important
personages. Perhaps their pictdres
would be published In the papers They
dressed themselves as for a fete. Nine.
Moniche I'm her Sunday best stroye to
do honor to NJ. Revere. She said to
Moniche in ali sincerity, Our duty Is TO
avenge him"
While sitting on a bench in one of
the long. cold corridors the porter and
his wife saw pass before them prison
ers led by their j%ailers. Some looked
~menacing. while others had a cringing
air and seemed TO try TO escape notice.
These two persons felt that they were
playing roles rs important as those in
a melodrama ut the Ambigu. The time
seemed long TO them. and NJ. Glnory
did not call them as soon as they
wished that he would They thought
OF their home, which while they We're
detained there wort' be invaded by the
curious. the gossips and reporters.
How slow these judges are"
growled Monfche.
When he was conducted into the pres
ence OF NJ. Ginory and his registrar and
seated upon a chair, he was much con-
fused and less bitter. He felt a vague
terror of nil the paraphernalia of justice
which surrounded Tim. He felt that he
was running some great danger. n TO
the Judges questions he replied With eX-
IRENE prudence. Thanks TO him n his
wife NJ. Ginory found out a great deal
about M Rovere's private life. He
penetrated into that apparently d
existence; he searched to see ii he could
discover among the people who
had visited the old ex-consul the
one among all others who might have
committed the deed
You never saw the woman who Wis
tied Royere2'
Yes: the yelled lady. the woman in
black. but do not know her. No one
knew her
The story told by the FORTRESS about
the time when she surprised the strang-
err and Revere with the papers in his
hand in front of the open safe made
quite an impression on the examining
magistrate.
DO you know the nane Of the visit
orr"
NO monsieur" the FORTRESS replied.
but il you should see him again
would you recognize him."
Certainly. ( see his face there be-
fore me-"
She made haste to return to her home
SO that she might relate her impressions
to her fellow gossips. The worthy
couple left the court pulled up with self
esteem because of the role which they
had been called upon to play. The OBJ
sequies were to be held the next day,
and the prospect Of a dramatic day In
which Nj. and Nine. Moniche would
still play this important role created in
them an agony which was almost joy
Gus. The crowd around he house of the
crime was always large. Some few pass
ersby stopped--stopped before the tor
facade behind which a murder had been
committed The reporters returned
again n again for news, and the
couple. greedy for glory, could not open
a paper without seeing their names
printed in large letters. one journal
had hat morning even published an
especial article, Interviews with NJ.
and Nine. Moniche.'
The crowd buzzed about the ledge
like a swarm OF flies. NJ. Rovere's body
had been brought back from the NOR
que. The o~bsequies would naturally at
tract an enormous crowd, all the more
as the mystery was still as deep as
ever Among his papers had been found
a receipt for a tomb in the cemetery
at Montmartre. bought by him about a
year before. In another paper, not
dated. We're found directions as TO how
his funeral was TO be conducted. M.
Revere, after having passed a wan
dering life, wished to rest in his native
country. But no other indications of
his wishes, nothing about his relatives,
had been found. Ii seemed as if he was
a man without a family. without any
place in society. or any claim on m
one TO bury him. And this distressing
isolation added to the morbid curiosity
which was attached to the house. now
all drapped in black, with the letter
''R" standing out I'm white against it's
silver escutcheon.
Who would be chief mourner. M.
Revere had appointed no one. He had
asked in that paper that a short notice
hould be inserted in the paper giving
the hour and date of the services and
giving him the simple title ~ex-consul.
Il hope went on the writer. ito be
taken to the cemetery quietly and fol-
lowed by intimate friends, III any re-
main"
Intimate friends were scarce in that
crowd, without doubt, but the dead
mans wish could hardl- be carried out.
Those ~obsequies which he had wished
TO be quiet became a sort of fete fune-
real and noisy, where the thousands OF
people crowding the boulevard crushed
eac other in their desire to see. and
pressed almost upon the draped funeral
car which the neighbors had covered
with flowers.
Everything is a spectacle for Pari-
slams. The guardians of the peace
strove to keep back the crowds; some
gamins climbed into the branches Of
the trees. The bier had been placed
at the foot of the staircase in the mar
row corridor opening upon the street.
Mime. Moniche had placed upon a table
In the lodge some loose leaves, where
Rovere's friends could write
their
(%Continued Mex, Weekl
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