The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-11-19

Judges. They a become important
~personages. Perhaps their pictures
would be published In the papers. They
dressed themselves as for a fete. Mime.
Mcniche in her Sunday best strove to
do honor to M. Revere. She said to
Moniche ia all sincerity, "our duty is to
ayenge him"
While sitting on q bench in one OF
the long. cold corridors the porter and
his wife saw pass before them prison.
ers led by their jailers. 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 as important as those In
a. melodrama at the Ambigu. The time
seemed long to them, and M. Ginory
did not call them as o as they
wished that he would. They thought
of their home. which while they were
detained there woutS be invaded by the
curious. the gossips and reporters.
How slow these judges are!"
growled Moniche.
When he was conducted into the pres
ence of M. Ginory and his registrar and
coated upon q chair, he was much con-
fused and less bitter. He felt a vague
terror of all the paraphernalia OF Justice
which surrounded him. He felt that he
was running some great danger, and to
The judges questions he replied with ex-
IRENE prudence. Thanks to him and his
wife NJ. Ginory found out q great cal
about M. Rovere's private life. He
penetrated into that apparently hidden
existence; he searched to see If 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 vis-
tied Rovere?'
yes: the veiled lady, the woman in
black, but / do not know her. No n
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 name of the visit
orr"
But If 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 mex day,
and the prospect of a dramatic day in
which M. and Nine. Moniche would
still play this important role created in
them an agony which was almost joy
GUS. The crowd around the house of the
crime was always large. Some few pass
ersby stopped-stopped before the stone
facade behind which a murder had been
committed. The reporters returned
again and again for news, and the
couple. greedy for glory, could not open
a paper without seeing their names
printed In large letters. One journal
hnd That V,,nts.,inu axya afaYh1fohad. m
especial article, Interviews with M.
inc Mime. Moniche."
The crowd buzzed about the ledge
like a swarm of fises. NJ. Rovere's body
had been brought back from the NOR
que. The obsequies 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 hin about a.
year before. In another paper, not |
dated, were 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. 1t seemed rs if he was
"a man without a family, without any
place in society or any claim on any
one TO bury him. And this distressing
lSOluIlDH duuPu 10 the InOFDlu curiosity
which was attached TO the house, now
all drapped In black, with the letter
"R" standing out In white against its
silver escutcheon.
Who would be chief mourner. M.
Revere had appointed no one. He had
asked in that paper that a short notice
should be inserted I'm the paper giving
the hour and date of the services and
giving him the simple title ~ex-consul.
81 hope went on the writer, ito be
taken to the cemetery quietly and fol-
lowed by intimate friends. IL 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 n noisy, where the thousands OF
people crowding the boulevard crushed
each other In their desire to see, and
pressed almost upon the draped funeral
car which h neighbors had covered
with flowers.
Everything is a spectacle for Pari-
SLAMS. The guardians OF the peace
strov 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.
Nine. Moniche had placed upon a table
in the lodge some loose leaves. where
Rovere's unknown friends could write
their names,
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