The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-10
CHAPTER v.-(Continued.)

vQo room anu Iu6 ClcIk lulu uOWh LIS
pen, seized his gavel and raped for 81
lence gazing Indignantly around him in
the universal manner of court function
aries, as il sacrilege had been COM
united.
''Have you any statement which you
wish to make?" resumed the magistrate. |
Eyes, l have. was not In the room |
1T the time Of the commission of the |
murder. I was not even the first to
enter the room. entered the room al |
most simultaneously with another person. |
Monsieur Jules Chabot."
"Take this diagram in your hands,
There ID Madame Roupell's chamber.
This Is her sitting room. Where were
you at the time the shot was fred?"
II was just about to enter the sitting
room from the room beyond. which had
been my own apartment during my for
mer visits to the chateau. 1t still con-
tanned some things Of mine which had
not sent for. ! recollect case Of pis-
tolls, particularly, which was lying on
the toilette table,"
Look at the pistol shown You. and say
nf It is your pistol?"
1T il. 1t is one brought from Amer
dca. l used this pistol for gallery prac-
vaCe, OF WnlCn 0m IOnO.
when did you last see it2''
"About six weeks ago. 1t was then in
khe pistol case already referred to"
Monsieur Jules Chabot, you say, was
ALREADY in Madame Roupell's apartment
when you entered. Where was he stand
fner - q.
over by the other door,"
"Would it have been possible for Mon
nieur Chabot to have taken that pistol
from your case without your knowledgeT
II cannot tell. 1t depends. He may
have done so, but he would have had to
ienter the apartment by way OF Madame
Roupell's sitting room, because the other
door was locked"
"Who locked it?"
Van Lith hesitated for q barely per-
iceptible instant Of time ere he replied:
II locked it myself, 90 - to be secure
FROM interruption"
"Why did you wish to be secure from
interruption"
because 1 did not wish 1t known that
was in the chateau"
'Why did you not wish 1t known!
"That is one of the questions l must
decline to answer"
The project and the judge exchanged
kigniicant glances. The latter had no
lticed the prisoners hesitation when stat
ling that it was he himself who had locked
1.-The door, '"That IL the first lie ne has
kold," thought M. Bertrand, land 1t is
told to shield someone. He has an &C
tcomplice, evidently" Then he said ou,
loud:
II have no more questions to ask. Thu
examination of the prisoner is concluded
You will retain him in the closest Gus
Itody, and allow no one but his counsel Of
physician to see him under any pretex
Whatsoever"
Jules Chabot was the next witness t.
be examined. His testimony was substan
italy the same as contained in the pre-
kect's report. He swofe positively enough
ITO finding Van Lith in Nine. Roupell'
chamber Immediately after hearing the re
port of the pistol. He also swore tina
Mime. Roupell and Van Lith were on ba
terms, and gave, thoAgh with well
assumed show of reluctance, pretty full
decentralization of the facts which ha
brought about the final quarrel betwee
them.
At this stage of the examination, tn
prefect was seen to whisper something t
the Judge, and the latter then asked:
"You testify that nearly an hou
ELAPSED between the time when you wer
shown to your room and the firing of tn
ipistol. The condition Of your bed prove
chat you had not slept in it. and whe
you reached Madame Roupells chambe
you were fully dressed. Why did 20
mot retire to rest?"
"Simply because l was not sleepy" n
plied NJ. Chabot, coloring somewhat, an
lingering his long mustache nervously. e
~as busy writing"
"What were you writing?"
M. Chabot hesitated and stammered.
III you do not Immediately answt
INV question, I shall have no aftermath,
but to commit you, monsieur" said Il
Judge, In stern voice.
Jules Chabot hesitated no longer Drav
ing a letter from his pocket, he handed
up to the bench.
ut Is a confidential communication q
dressed to a lady," he said, "and l tru
you will respect 1t.
M. Bertrand could but with difficult
repress a smile as he ran his eyes ra
idly over the letter, which was nothil
less than the draft of a written propo;
ton of marriage to Miss Harriet Weldo
1t had evidently been the subject of NUT
care, as the frequent erasures and int
lineations showed. 1t was couched
Aowery and high-fown language, and fl
of the most extravagant expressions
alteration. The most peculiar thing abo
1t was the writer had evidently been u
certain as to which Of the two YOU
ladies he should ask for, as the wor
emile. Harriet Weldon" had been fir
written and then scratched out. as If
thought there was no hope for him
that direction, and mile. Emily Weldo
nut In their stead. Victor Lablanc
here again whispered In the ear of t
fudge Of instruction and the latter sal
~ would ask you if you were oce
pied during all the interval which elaps
between the time of your retiring a
hearing the report Of the pistol, In WI
Ing this letter."
81 was not 80 engaged during the .
tire time; the point Of my pencil bro
and had no penknife with which to
sharpen it."
"You were right, monsieur lie prefec
exclaimed the judge, with a mean,