Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-10-30
cHApTER W-continued.


Did the dead man possess a secret
which weighed heavily upon him and
which he shared with that other? And
the otber-who was he? Perhaps an
a~ceornplice. Everything she had said
belonged 10 the commissary OF police
and to the press. She had told her
story with omissions, with timorous
looks. with signs of doubts and use
less gestures. Bernardet listened. not
ing each word. the purposes of this
FORTRESS, the melodramatic gossip In
certain information in which he veri-
fed the p~recision-all this was en-
craven on his brain, as earlier in the
day the expression OF the dead mans
eyes had been reflected in the ko-
a
He tried TO distinguish as best he
could the undenlable facts in this first
deposition, when q woman OF the peo-
pie, g%arruIous, indiscreet, gossiping
and jealous, has the JOY OF playing a
role. He mentally examined her story,
with the Interruptions which her hus-
band made when she the in
dividual. He stopped her with a look,
placing his hand on her arm and said;
"One must wait. One does not know.
He had the appearance of a worthy
AN" The woman pointing out with
Il grand gesture the body lying upon
the floor, said. "Oh. well. and did not
M. Revere have the appearance of a
worthy man also. and did II hinder
him from coming TO that?"
over Bernardet's face a hooking
little mile passed.
I'll always had the appearance OF
a worthy man." he said, looking at
the dead man, "an he even seemed
like a worthy man who ooke at ras-
Gals with courage. l am certain,
slowly added the officer, that il one
could know the last thought in hat
brain which thinks no more, could
see in those unseeing eyes the last
image upon which they looked, n
would learn all that need be known
about that individual Of whom you
speak and the manner OF his DEATH
Possibly he killed himself" said
the commissary.
But the hypothesis OF suicide was
not possible, as Bernardet remarked to
him, much to the great contempt OF
the reporters who were covering their
notebooks with a running handwrit-
Ing and with hieroglyphics. The wound
was too deep TO nave been made BY
the mans own hand. And besides they
would find the Weapon with which that
horrible cash had beer made. near at
hand. There was no weapon of any
kin neal the body. The murderer had
tiIltti AiIIitd IL away Will MIN III Ills
flight or he had thrown 1t away in
some other part of the apartment.
They would soon know.
They need not even wait for an
autopsy TO determine that ii was an
assassination. THAT is evident" in
terrupted the commissary. THE au-
topsy will oe made, however"
And with an insistence which sur
prised the commissary a little Bar
nardet In courteous tones, evidently
haunted by one particular idea, begged
and almost duplicated M. Desbriere
to send for the attorney for the
public, so that the corpse could be
taken as soon as possible to the morgue
Poor man." exclaimed Nine. Mo-
niche. ITO the morgue. To the
morgue:" Bernardet Gained her with
q word.
III IL necessary. Ii is the law. oh,
M le Commissaire, LET us do 1t
quickiy-quickly, / viii tell you why.
Time will be gained--I mean to say
Swaziland the criminal found
Then while M. Desbriere sent an Of
ficer to the telephone office to ask for
the attorney for the republic to come
quickly as possible TO the Boleyard
de Clichy. Nine. Moniche freed her
mind to the reporters in regard to
some philosophical considerations upon
human destiny, which condemned in
so unforeseen, so odiously brutal a
manner a good ledger as respectable
as nj. Revere to be laid upon a slab
at the morgue. like a thief or a vaga-
bond-he who went out but seldom,
and who loved his home so much"
The everlasting antithesis Of life"
replied Paul Rodier. who made a note
Of his reflection.