Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-10-16

banker said to his employees. in an easy
tone: 'Goodby for the moment, mes
sieurs. | will return soon.
II was also Bernardet M visiting
the Bank Hauts -Plateaux. said TO ms
chief. m. Morel, something very seri-
Gus is taking place there.
What is ii, Bernardet?
II do not know, but there is a meet
ing OF the bank directors, n today 1
saw two servants carry a man in there
in an invalid's chair. 1t was the Baron
de Cheylard."
"Well?'
Baron Cheylard. in his quality or
ex-senator of the second empire, OF eN-
president of the council, an ex-coii-
missioner of Industrial exposltlons, Is
grand cross of the Legion OF Honor.
Grand cross-that is to say, that he
cannot be pursued only after a decl-
sion of the council of the order. Ana
then. Won understanding the Bank or
Hauts- Plateaux demands the presence
Of it's vice president, the Baron or
Cheylard, paralyzed, half dead
1T means that it has need OF a
th~underbolt?'
"The grand cross, monsieur. They
would hesitate to deliver up to us the
grand cross"
You are right, Bernardet. The bank
must be in a bad fix, and you are Il
very keen obServer--the mlnu OF d
literary man, Bernardet.
"Oh, rather a Photographic eye M.
| Morel-the habit of using a Kodak!
Thus Bernardet passed his life IN
Paris. Capable of amassing a fortune
in some Tricoche agency IL ne had
wished to exploit, for his own Denent'
his keen observing powers, he thougnt
only Of doing his duty, up ms
little girls and loving his wife. Nine.
- mas "a r,azal ut the aStDn1Sn-
ing stories which her husband often
related to- her and very proud that ne
was such an able man.
NJ. Barnardet hurried toward NJ. Ro-
! vere's lodgings, and Moniche trotted
along beside him. As they neared the
house they saw that a crowd had be-
gun to collect.
TT is known already" Moniche
! said. Since l left they have begun
IF | enter there" interrupted the
officer, lit is all right, You have a
right to call any one you choose to
your aid, but | am not a magistrate:
You must go for a commissary OF
police"
"Oh, NJ. Bernardet!" Moniche ex-
claimed. You are worth more than
all the commissary put together.
THAT does not make it so. A COM
missary is a commissary. Go and hunt
for one"
But since you are here
But i am nothing. We must nave
a magistrate"
You are not a magistrate, them"
II am simply a police spy"
Then he crossed the street.
The neighbors had gathered about
the door like a swarm of flies around
a honeycomb. A rumor had spread
about which brought together a crowd
animated by the morbid curiosity
which is aroused in some minds at
the hint of a mystery and attracted
by that strange magnetism which that
sinister thing. "a crime" The
women talked in shrill tones, invent
ing strange stories n incredible
theories. Some of the common peo-
pie hurried up to learn the news
AT the moment Bernardet came up.
followed by the concierge, a coupe
stopped at the door n a tall man
got out, asking:
Where is M. Morel? / wish to see
NJ. Morel."
The chief had not yet been advised,
and he was not there. But the tall
young man suddenly recognized Ber-
nardet and laid hold of him, pulling
him after him through the half open
door, which Moniche FASTENED to shut
against the crowd.
w must call some officers Ber-
nardet said to the concierge, 'or the
crowd will push in"
Nine. Moniche was standing at the
loot of the staircase, surrounded by
the dodgers, men and women, to whom
she was ~recounting for the Goth time
the story of how she had found M.
Revere with his throat cut.
II was going in to read the paper
the story-it is very interesting,
that story. The moment had come
when the baron had insulted the
American colonel. NJ. Revere said to
me only yesterday. poor man, I am
anxious to find out which one will be
killed-the colonel or the baron" He
will never know. And it is he"
NINE. Moniche," interrupted Ber-
nardet, have you any one whom you
can send for q commissary?"
Amy one?"
Yes added Moniche. M. Ber-
nardet needs a magistrate. 1t is not
difficult to understand"
"A commissary," repeated Nine.
Moniche. THAT is so. A commissary,
and what If l go for the commissary
myself, NJ. Bernardet?"
"All right, provided you do not let
the crowd take the house by assault
when you open the door"
Fear nothing the woman said,
happy in having something important
to do. in relating the horrible news
TO the commissary how, when she was
about to enter the room for the pur-
pose Of reading, the
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