The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-12-03
The Crime of Y
s e. I'll: the Boulevard

jacques Dantin seemed to hesitate.
Il do not know-chance. In Paris one
has intimate friends; one does not see
them for some months, and suddenly
one sees them again and one meets
them more freuuently4
Have you ever shadEany reasons for
4 the. i~nterruntiQn6 u Your relatipns With
M.aRovere when you ceased to see him
as You say22~ 2 ~ n
None whatever
Was there between you any sort Of
rivalry, any motive for %coldness?"!
ANY motive, any rivalry? What do
you mean?"s
'"'I do not know" said the great man;
II ask you. j am questioning YOU
The registrars pen ran rapidly and
noiselessly over > the paper with the
speed of q bird on the wing. "
These words, II am questioning you
seemed to make an unexpected dis
agreeable impression on Dantin, and he
frowned. b. ,.. .s .,
When did you visit Revere the last
""The last timer"
Yes. Strive to remember"
der" =. = - -
1T was not two or three days: IL
was days exactly before the as
You are right. l beg your pardon"
Liz SAoAiIIiiibs magistrate WalIeQ a
moment. looking theeman ~fuii I'M the
face. 1t seemed to him that a slight,
flush, passed over his hitffefto pale face.
do you suspect any one as the mur-'
derer Of Rovere?" asked M. Ginory aft
er a moments reflection. ~
one said Dantin.y II have tried
to think OF some one"
Had Revere any enemies?'
II do not know of any, a4 h
FThn m a OtCfNsD p GxnFrsr.ar a - i.
detosA asasauai &SiS XIII ~ JnatSa&
Dantin's last visit to the murdered mar
and begged him to be precise and asked
him If anything had especially struck
him during that last Interview with his
friend. .....,.
The idea of suicide having been i'm
mediately dropped on the simple EXAM
inatlon of the woRrId, no doubt exists
as TO the q pse of Death. Revere was
assassinated.k By whom? InNyour last
interview was there any talk betweenl
yoI ofsany uheasiAess which Ne felt III
regard to anything? Was he occupied
with any especial affair? Had he-some-
times n has presentiments-any pre-
sentiment OF an impending evil that he.
was running any danger?"
mo" Dantin replied. "Rovere made
no allusion to me Of any peril which he
feared. 1 have asked myself who could
have any" interest in his death. One
might have done the deed for plumber"
That seems very probable to me-
ton made in the apartment proves that
not a thing had been touched. Theft
was moi the motive" p
Them" asked Dantin. ., a..
The sanguine fact of the magistrate,
thatJrobnste vlsage& w1thS les massive
Jaws, lighted up with a sort of irbnical
expression. 1T.
Then we are here to search for the
truth n to find it, In this response.
Notwithstanding tone, the registrar
who knew every SaryfHss shade of tone
In his chiefs voice, raised his head, for
In this tone he detected a menace.
tbat gPT tel me ~ ~ that passed in
Nothing whatever which could In
n way put justice on the track of the
But Yet can you. O" rather 1 should
say ought you, not,ito relate to me all
that was said or done? The slightest
circumstance might enlighten us D."
"Rovere spoke to me of private af-
fairs" Dantin replied, but quickly add
ed, They were insignificant, things. " .,
What are insignificant ~tnings?"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. matters" 10
Family things are not insignificant
o all In a case like this. Had Ro-
we're any family? No relative assisted
at the obsequies."
JACQUES Dantin seemed troubled un4,
nerYed rather. and this time II was
plainly visible. He replied in short
tone, which was almost, brusuue;. ~. A.,
He talked OF the past ~
What past@' asked@the Judge quick
'"0f his 'youth-of moral debts" p
NJ, Ginory turned around in his chair,
leaned back and said In a caustIc tone.
'TnIlIVF mnn QiAIIe - NyntH - -
to complete your information and not
make an enigma of your deposition. I
do not understand this useless reticence
ana moral debts, to use your words.
They are, only to- gain time. What,
then, was M. Rovere's past?"
Dantin hesitatedi a moment-not very
long. Then he firmly. said, THAT, NJ.
lie JUICE, is a secret conffded TO me by
my friendI and as 1t has nothing Ia do
with this matter / ask you to refrain
from questioning me about it," UEHr
I peg your pardon" the magistrate
replied. There Is not, there cannot be
g secret for anLexamining magistrate.
In Rovere's interests, whose memory
ought to nave public vindication--yesI
! MS interests and I ought to say also
In your own-lt is necessary that Won
should state explicitly what you have
just alluded to. You tell me that there
Is a secret. i wish to know It"f G.j.g
ut is. the confidence of a dead per-
son. m~onsieur,ff@ Dantfn replied In
vibrating tones.
'"There are no condolences when JUS
tiee is in the b~alance,r at.r q Ia
But 1t is also the secret OF a living
person." said Jacques Dantin. JE2;
rs 1t yourself. of whom you speak?"
He gazed keeniy at the face, now tor!
tured and contracted, al t,ts.. "a
Dantin replied. mo, I do not speak
Of myself, but of another ~ d
THAT other-who Is hep"
TT is impossible to tell you" i91
Il viii repeap to you my first aues.
tlonT-Why! . Ql.G. 1u# IA sh.
Because I have sworn on my honor
to reveal it to no ione,"2t'J ,F& I.tGs
"Ah, ah!?, said Ginory mockingly.
at was a vow? That is perfect" "
| Yes, NJ. lie Jugef 1t, was a VOW, =
"A Vow made to whom?"
: to- RoVere."L-G. 1915 1H...J So.
'"Who is no longer here to release
you from IT. I uflderstand:"1- ~ 3@I
And" asked Dantin. with a yehey
| menCe which made fha raoisfra ~. fbfp