The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-11-26
The Crime of 's,':2; sc ,
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in at once commencing my researches
sald I}ernardet, measuring his words
in order to note the effect which they
would produce on this unknown man
Il am q police detective"
on! This time BeFnardot saw Dantir
shiYer. There was no doubt of it. This
close contact with a police officer trou-
hled him. n he turned pale and a
quick SpaStn passed over his face. His
anxious eyes searched Bernardet's face
but, content with stealing an occasional
glance OF examination toward his
neIghbor, the little man walked along
with eyes cast toward the ground. He
studied Jacques Dantin in sudden,
quick turns of the eye.
The car advanced slowly, turned the
cofher of the boulevard and passed into
the narrow avenue which led to Gods
Acre. The arch of the iron bridge led
TO the Campo Santo, like "a viaduct of
living beings over to the Lane of sleep,
FOR it was packed with a curious crowd.
1t was Il scene for a melodrama, the
cortege and the funeral car covered
with Wreaths. Bernardet, still walking
by Dantin's side, continued to question
him. The agent noticed that these ques-
tons seemed to embarras M. Rovere's
pretended friend.
rs it a long time since M. Revere
ard Jacques Dantiu have known each
other?"
We have been friends since child
hood
And did you see him often?"
NO. Life had separated us"
Had you seen him recently? Mime.
Moniche said that you had"
Who is Nine. Moniche?"
The concierge of the house and a
sort OF housekeeper for NJ. Rovere.''
All! Yes!" said jacques Dantin, as
If he had just remembered some for
gotten sight. B~ernardet, by instinct,
fG1T - fhi t,NN - a,,-L
with him also the tragic scene when
the FORTRESS, suddenly entering M. Ro-
Vere's apartments, had seen him stand
ing face to face with Dantin in front
OF the open safe, with a great quantity
of papers spread out.
Do you believe that he had MANY
enemies" asked the police agent, with
deliberate calculation.
NO, Dantin sharply replied with
out hesitation. Bernardet waited n mo-
ment. Then in a firm voice he said,
Ginory will no doubt count a good
deal on YOU in order to bring about the
arrest of the assassin"
M. Ginory%"
The examining magistrate"
linen he viii have to make haste
with his Investigation Jacques Dan
tin replied. Il shall soon be obliged to
Bernardet. This departure, of which
the motive was probably a simple one,
seemed to him strange under the tragic
M. Dantin. moreover,
did not hesitate to give him, without
his asking for 1t, his address, adding
n a he would hold himself in readiness
from his return from the cemetery at
the disposition of the examining mag
The misfortune is that I can tell
nothing, as l know nothing. I do not
even suspect who could have any in
q rnCt n ~ SrE ~
s'0"a' criminal ~''hout
Il do not believe So"
The cortege had now reached one of
the side A white fog enyel-
cped everything, and the marble tombs
shone ghostly through it. The spot
chosen by NJ. Revere himself was at
the end of the Avenue de la Cloche.
a slowly rolled toward the open
Nine. Moniche, overcome with
grief. staggered as she walked along,
put her husband, the tailor. seemed to
pc u to the occasion and to his
role. They both assumed different ex-
behind their dead, and Paul
Rodier walked along Just In front Of
them, notebook in hand. Bernardet
himself to keep close watch
81 Dantin and see in what manner he
himself at the tomb. A pressure
Of the crowd separated them for a
nomen but the officer was perfectly
satisfied. Standing on the other side
1f the grave, face to face with him, was
Dantin. A row of the most curious
had pushed in ahead of Bernardet, but
N this Way he could better see Dantin's |
lace and not miss the CULVER of a mus
Gle. He stood on tiptoe and peered this
and that between the heads and
could thus scrutinize n analyze with
put being perceived himself.
Dantin was standing on the very
of the grave. He held himself
upright. In a tense, almost ag-
into hes grave with IN expression
Of anger and almost defiance. OF what
he thinking? In tina attitude,
which seemed to be a revolt against
The destiny which had come to his
Bernardet read a kind of hard
ening of the will against an emotion
which might become excessive and tell
tale. He was not as yet persuaded to
The outlines of this man, but he did
not find In that expression of defiance
he tenderness which ought to be shown
for a friend-a lifelong friend, as Dan
tin had said that Revere was-and.
then, the more he examined him-there.
for example, seein- his dark Silhouette
clearly define in front of the dense
of a neighborfng column-the
the aspect of this man cores
pended with that of the vision trans
In the dead mans eye.
Yes, it was the same profile Of a
trooper, his hand upon his hip. as IL
resting upon a rapier. Bernardet blink
cd his yes in order to better see that
a He perceived a man hi strong
~ recalled the vague form found In
retina, and his conviction came to
the aid of his instinct, gradually in
creased and became, little by little, in
vtncible, irresistible. He repeated the
address which this mar had given him,
Jacques Dantln, Rue de Richelieu,
Ia" He would make haste to give
that name to M. Ginory and nave a eli
tation served upon him. Why should
this Dantin leave Paris? What were
the passions, the vices OF the man
standing there with the austere mien
of a Huguenot In front OF the open
Bernardet saw that despite his strong
will and his wish to stand there impas-
Jacques Dantin was troubled when,
with a heavy sound. the casket glided
over the cords down into the grave. He
bit the ends of his mustache and his
gloved hand made several Irresistible
nervous movements. And the look cast
into that grave. The look cast at that
casket lying in the bottom of that
gravel On that casket was a plate
bearing the Inscription, Louis Pierre
Revere" The mute look, rapid and
grief stricken, was cast upon that open