The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-11-12
vI--Continued.

sepce of n tiny dot the proof of the al
iteration is ound. on account of the
lacls@of a dot the forger is detected
The savant Helmholtz was the diScoV-
erer of this method of detecting these
faults. TWO bank notes, n authentic
the other a forgery, We're placed side
by side in a stereoscope of strong mag
nifying power, when the faults were al
ono detected. Helmholtz's experiment
probably seemed fantastic to the forgei
condemned by a stereoscope. Oh, Wen
today ought not "a like experiment or
the retina of a dead mans eye give q
like result?
Instruments nave been highly per
fected since The time when DR.. Bourbon
made his experiments, and If the law
of human physiology has not changed
the seekers of invisible causes must
have rapidly advanced in their
mysterious pursuits. Who knows
! whether at the instant of the last
agony that the dying person does
not put all the intensity OF
life into the retina, giving a hundred
fold power to that las supreme look %
AT this point of his reflections Ber-
nardet experienced some hesitation.
While he was not thoroughly acquaint-
ed with physiology and philosophy, he
had seen so much, so many things; had
known so many strange occurrences
and had studied many men. He Knew
1 " IG a 1looSlS IdtotIoiiSt Ni'ltliNo
who had been saved from drowning at
the very last possible moment, some of
whom had attempted suicide. others
who had been almost drowned through
accident, and each one had told him
that his whole life. from his earliest
recollection, had flashed through his
mind in the instant of mortal agony
yes, a whole lifetime in one instant of
cerebral excitement.
Had savants been able to solve this
wonderful mystery? The resume of an
existence in one vibration! Was 1t pos
sible? Yet-Bernardet still used The
word.
And why. In an analogous sensation,
could not the look of a dying man be
seized in an intensity lasting an in
slant, as memory brought in a single
flash so many diverse remembrances?
II know, since 1t is the imagination,
and that the dead cannot see, while the
Image on the retina Is a fact, a fact
contradicted by wiser men than l."
Bernardet thought on these mysteries
until his head began to ache.
II shall make myself i'll over It," he
thought. And there is something to
be DONE"
Then in his dusty little room, his
brain over excited, he became enthused
with one idea. His surroundings fell
away from him; he saw nothing
everything disappeared-the books, the
| papers, Ine Walls, the visible OBJECTS,
as did also the objections, the denials,
the demonstrative impossibilities. And
absolute conviction seized him to the
exclusion of all extraneous surround
lngs. This conviction was absolute,
Instructive, irresistible, powerful, filling
him with entire faith.
This nknoW thing 1 Will find.
What is to be done / will do" he de-
clared to himself.
He threw the pamphlet on the table,
arose from his chair and descended to
the dining room, where his wife and
children We're waiting for him. He
rubbed his hands with glee. and his
face looked joyous.
"Didst thou discover the trail?" Nine.
Bernardet asked very simply as a
working woman would ask her husband
II he had had a good day. The eldest
OF the little girls rushed toward him.
Papa! My dear little papa!"
my darling!"
The child asked her father In a
sweet voice. Art thou satisfied with
thy crime. papa?"
I'VE will not talk about that" Ber-
nardet replied. ITO table. After dinner
I will develop the pictures which I
amuse ourselves now. 1t Is my fete
day. I wish to forget all about bust
ness. Let us dine o and be as happy
as possible
CHAPTER VII.
The murder of M. Revere, committed
in broad daylight in a quarter of Paris
filled with life and movement. caused a
widespread sensation. There was so
much mystery mixed in the affair.
What could be ascertained about the
| dead mans life was very dramatically
written III by Paul Rodier in a sketch,
and this. republished everywhere and
A~1 , ~rroJ :, 4. rrr vy1 4 - ~. - ,ns. -
of the Boulevard de Clichy the interest
of a judicial All that there
WI of vulgar curiosity in man awoke
, as atavistic bestiality at the smell Of
blood.
What was this M. Revere. former
amateur collector of objects OF vertu,
Whsfs E 4 ha ~ hs aaf Sssk Ssh s H. " { is;s
time? What enemy had entered his
room for the purpose OF cutting his
: throat. Might he not have been assas-
i sinated by some thief who knew that
his rooms contained a collection Of
J was often in full blast in front OF the
house where the murder was commit
ted, and among the crowd of ex-prison
+ birds and indicators who are always
attendant upon foreign kirmesses
might not some one Of them have re-
liza = VIC IA Liz
papers took advantage of the occasion
to moralize upon permitting these fetes
to be held In the outlying ~boulevards.
! where vice and crime seemed to spring
spontaneously from the soil.
But no one. 10 one journal-perhaps
by order-spoke of that unknown vis-
itor whom Moniche called the individ-
ual and whom the FORTRESS had seen
! standing beside M Revere In front OF
the open safe. Paul Rodier in his
sketch scarcely referred to the fact that
Justice had d clew important enough
Ito penetrate the mystery OF the crime
and In the end arrest the murderer,
and the readers while awaiting devel-
opments asked what mystery was hid
den In this murder. Moniche at times
wore a frightened vet important air.
He felt that he was an object OF Curl
osity to many, the center OF prejndices.
The porter and his wife possessed i
! terrible secret. They were raised In
their WI estimation.
W. shall appear at the trial, said
Moniche. seeing himself already before
the red robes and holding up his hand
to swear that he would tell the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the
truth.
And as they sat together IN their lit
tic lodgesEthey talked The matter over
and over md brought up every incident
la M. Rovere's life which might have a