The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-11-12
The Crime OF s''zi;;; =: !
& ss:' the Boulevard

lea, in the colonies, one knows NOT
where"
"A bad facet" said Moniche. m
Revere received him, however, and
! gave him aid, / remember. II the young
man had come often. / should think
that he struck the blow, and also, j
ought to add. If there was not the
other"
Yes. but there is the other" his wife
replied. There is the one whom I saw
standing In front of the coupons and
who was looking at those other papers
with flashing eyes l give my word.
There Is that one, Moniche, and I am
willing to put my hand into the fire
and yours, too. Moniche, IL 1t is not
he" -
IF he is the one, he will be found"
Oh, but IL he has disappeared? One
disappears very quickly in these days
we shall see; we shall see. Justice
reigns. and we are here" He said
that w are here" as a grenadier of
the guard before an important engage
ment.
They had taken the body 10 the
morgue. At the hour fixed for the
autopsy Bernardet arrived. He seemed
muc excited n asked NJ. Ginory If
since their conversation In M. Rovere's
library ne had reflected and decided to
permit him to a the experiment.
the famous experiment reported for so
many years as useless, absurd, almost
ridiculous.
with any one but M. Ginorv 7
should not dare to hope" thought the
police officer, but he does not sheer
at strange discoveries"
he had brought his Photographic APP
paratus, that kodak which he declared
was more dangerous to the criminal
tnan a loaded weapon. He had devel-
oped the negatives which he had taken.
ana or h three two had come ont In
ROOD condition. The face of the muir
dered man appeared with q clearness
which in proofs rendered 1t formidable
as m the reality, and the eyes. those
tragic, living eyes, retained their ter
rible. accusing expression which the su-
preme agony had left in them. The
light had struck full on the ewes. 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 q
failure.
Eleven o'clock was the hour named
for the autopsy. Twenty minutes be-
fore Bernardet was at the morgue. He
walked restlessly about outside among
the spectators. Some were women
yOuiiS ShlSb SluuenlS anu CnllQren VINO
were lowering about the place hoping
that some chance would permit them
to satisfy their morbid curiosity and
to enter n gaze on those slabs where
on lay--swollen, livid, dishgured-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 or the possibility of adj
Vancement which urged him on. IT
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
sole thought was of his desire to test
DR.. Bourion's experiment, Of the real
ization 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 tiacre. He hurried up to him and
saluted him respectfully. Seeing Ber-
nardet so moved and the first one on
h spot, he could not repress a smile.
Il see you are still enthused."
II have thought of nothing else all
night, NJ. Ginory."
We'll, but said M. Ginory in a tone
which seemed to Bernardet to imply
hope, mo idea must be rejected. and
l do not see why we should not try the
experiment. / have reflected upon it.
Where Is the unsuitableness % 49,.
"Ah, NJ. lie Juge," cried the agent,
"if you permit it, who knows but we
may revolutionize medical jurispru-
dence?"
"Revolutionize! Revolutionize!" he
cried. Would the examining magis-
trate yet find 1t an idiotic idea?
M. Ginory passed around the build
A Inc n S1 40 -
ing on the Seine The registrar fol-
lowed him, n behind him came the
police agent. Bernardet wished to wait
until the doctors delegated to perform
the autopsy should arrive, n 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, and these ome were nearly all
habitues OF the public halls and race
tracks," e.. W
And how can you tell that?''
Because they nave pretty feet
Professor NORM arrived with a con-
frere, a young Pasteurian doctor. with
a singular mind, broad and receptive,
and who passed among his companions
for a man fond of chimeras, q little re-
firing, however, and given over to MAX
ing experiments and to vague dreams.
NJ. NORM saluted M. Ginory and pre-.
sented to him the young doctor, Erwin
by name. n said to the magistrate
that the house students had probably
begun the autopsy to gain time.
The body, stripped of its clothing,
lay upon the dissecting table, and
three young men with velvet skull
caps, with aprons tied about their
waists, were standing about the corpse.
They had already begun the autopsy.
The mortal wound looked redder than
yer in the Wilderness of the naked
body.
Bernardet glided into the room,
trying to keep out of sight, listening
and looking, and above everything not
losing sight of NJ. Ginory's face-a face
in which the look was keen, penetrat-
ing, sharp as a knife, as he bent over
the pale face of the murdered man,
regarding it as ~searchingly as the sur
geOns' scalpels were searching the
wound n the flesh. Among those
men in their black clothes, some with
barred heads in order to work better,