The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-11-12
The Crime of s.s s; 80 !,
e e. gsi:s tlne Boulevard

Revere received him, however, an
! gave him aid, ] remember. II the youn.
ma had come often, 1 should thinl
that he struck the blow, and also,
ought to add, if there was not tn,
other"
Yes, but there is the other" his wifi,
replied. There is the one whom I saw
standing in front of the COUPONS ant
who was looking at those other paper.
with flashing eyes. / give my word
There is that one. Moniche, and l an
willing to put my hand into the fire
and yours, too, Moniche, if it is mo-
he"
IF he is the one, he will be found"
oh, but If he has disappeared? One
disappears very quickly in these days.
we shall see; we shall see. Justice
relgns, and we are here He sale
that we are here" as a %grenadier o
the guard before an important engage
ment.
They had taken the body to the
morgue. At the hour fixed for the
autopsy Bernardet arrived. He seemed
much excited n asked NJ. Ginory ii
since their conversation In NJ. Royere's
library he had reflected and decided tc
permit him to make the experiment.
the famous experiment reported for sc
many years as useless, absurd, almost
ridiculous.
With any one but M. Ginory ]
should not dare to hope" thought the
police officer, but he does not sheer
at strange discoveries"
he had brought his Photographic ap-
paratus. that kodak which he declared
was more dangerous to the rimina
IMAM q loaded weapon. He had devel-
oped the negatives which he had taken,
and of the three two had come our in
good condition. The face of the m,,r-
dered man appeared with a clearness
Whleh IN proofs rendered it formidable
as IN the reality, n the eyes those
tragic. living eyes, retained their fer
rlble, accusing expression which the SUI
preme agony had left in them. The
light had struck full on the eyes. and
they spoke. Bernardet showed the
proofs to M. Ginory. They examined
them with a magnifying glass, but they
showed only the emotion, the agony.
the anger. of that last moment. Ber-
nardet hoped to convince M. Ginory
that Bourion's experiment was not a
failure.
Eleven o'clock was the hour named
Tor the autopsy. Twenty minutes he
tore Bernardet was at the morgue. He
walked restlessly about outside among
the spectators. Some were women.
young girls. students and children who
were 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, disfigured-the
bodies.
Never perhaps in his life had the po-
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 OF the possibility Of adj
vancement which urged him on. 1t
was the joy, the glory, of aiding prog
ress. of attaching his name to a new
discovery. He worked for art and the
love of art. As he wandered about his
DR.. Bourfon's experiment. of the real
lzation of his dream. "Ah, If M. Gin
Dry will only permit" he thought.
AS he formulated that hope in his
mind he saw M. Ginory descend from
the fiacre. He hurried up to him and
saluted him respectfully. Seeing Ber-
nardet so moved Inc the first one on
the spot, he could not repress a smile.
Il see you are still enthused."
Il have thought of nothing else all
night. M. Ginory..
Well, but" said M. Ginory in a tone
which seemed to Bernardet to imply
hope, n idea must be rejected. and
| do not see Why we should not try the
experiment.. l have reflected upon it.
Where is the unsuitableness? 2"
All, M. lie Juge," cried the agent,
III you permit it, who knows but we
dence?"
"Revolutionize! Revolutionize!" he
crled' Would the examining magis-
trate yet find it an idiotic idea?
M. Ginory passed around the build
ing and entered at a small door OPEN
Ing on the Seine. The registrar fol-
lowed him, n behind him came the
police agent. Bernardet wished to wait
until h 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
and see the latest cadavers which had
been brought there.
We have had In eight days a larger
number Of women than men, which is
rare n these women were nearly all
habitues OF the public halls and race
And how can you tell that?"
Because they have pretty feet"
professor NORM arrived with q con-
frere, a young Pasteurian doctor. with
a singular mind. broad and receptive.
and who passed among his companions
Tor a man fond of chimeras, a little re-
firing. however. and given over to MAX
ing experiments and to vague dreams.
NJ. NORM saluted M. Ginory and pre-
scented to him h young doctor, Erwin
by name. and said to the magistrate
that the house students had probably
begun the autopsy to gain time.
The body. stripped of It's clothing.
lay upon the dissecting table. and
three young men with velvet skull
caps, with aprons tiled about their
waists, were standing about the corpse.
They had already begun the autopsy.
The mortal wound looked redder thar
ever in the wilderness Of the naked
body.
Bernardet glided into the room,
trying to keep out Of sight, listening
and looking. and above everything MOI
losing sight of M. Ginoryss face@ face
In which the look was keen. Epenetrat-
ing. sharp as a knife, as he bent over
the pale. face Of the murdered man.
regarding 1t as searchingly as the sur
geons' scalpels We're searching the
wound and the flesh. Among those
mel in their black clothes, some with
barred heads In order to work better,
Others with hats on, the stretched out
corpse seemed like a wax figure upon
a marble slab. Bernardet thought 81
those images which he had seen copied
from R~embrandt's pictures-the poet
with the anatomical pinchers and the
shanbles. The surgeons bent owe the
body, their hands busy and their sells
sors cutting the muscles. That wound
which had let out his life, that large
wound, like q monssrous AID grimacine