Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-06-27
CHAPTER XIX.-(Continued.)
A Ii s t y n

Il had some difficulty at first but /
have had one of my men on the track for
the past two days. He now reports her
as residing in Belleville. l shall move
up into that neighborhood tonight, and
commence my investigations. In the
meantime l want you to continue to
watch Monsieur Chabot and report what
steps our deluded friend the project of
police is taking"
So they parted, Cassagne to his lodg-
ings to assume such a dress as would
harmonic with the humble quarters of
the town where he proposed to pursue
his investigation D'Auburon to his club,
where he had an appointment with NJ.
Jules Chabot, and in whose company he
would presently repair to the drawing
rooms of the Vicomte and Vicomtesse de
Valair.
At about half past eight the next even
ing, anyone who had taken the trouble
to look might have seen enter the Rue
Banquiere by its western end, a man
dressed in rough garments, who looked
like well-to-do workman, with his heavy
shoes and lime-bespattered corduroys. He
wore no collar on his check cotton shirt,
but around his throat was loosely tied
ing few tools was slung over his shout
der.
Presently he stopped, ostensibly to pur-
chase some fruit, which a hawker in one
of the barrows in the middle of the street
was vociferously Offering for sale. AS
he stood there chatting in a friendly way
with the peddler, however, his gaze in
reality fixed upon a scene before him
tpfOf1a h. he e
life to be encountered ia the Rue Ban
Quiere.
In a shop which in point of size was
double at least that of either of its ad-
joining neighbors, a crowd of the very
poorest of Belleville had gathered. There
must have been thirty or forty men, wom-
en- and children inside the doors, at the
very least, and as many more waiting out
side on the pavement.
Over this shop swung a sign-board on
both sides of which was painted the figure
of a hancock, in a white cap and apron,
industriously carving an unnaturally red
round beef and underneath, apparently
unframed by the steam and the gravy,
for II was plainly to be read, was the
democratic legend, II carve for the PEG
pie"
Inside the shop a gentleman similarly
habited, but a trihe less corpulent and
dignihed than his counterfeit presentment
on the sign, was at that moment actually
engaged In the very occupation which the
legend advertised. He was engaged in
carving for the people.
In place, however, Of operating upon
round of beef, he was engaged In slic-
Ing, with great rapidly, a meat pudding
This pudding itself, apart from the hun
cry crowd waiting 10 deyour il, was an
object worth looking at Ii was at least
five feet long and as thick as a ships
cable. As the cook cut of a Slice a
stout woman of about fifty-fiye years OF
age would sei1e H. wrap Il up IN a piece
OF newspaper, and hand II 10 someone Ia
the crowd, not letting 20 OF the appetiz-
Ing m0rse, however, until she had re-
oeyed in exchange therefor two coins la
copper, a great heap OF which lay In a
drawer beside her.
The workman az the hucksters barrow
finished his apple and bought another
Tbs Intent gaze which he kept fixed upon
tllo cook shop az length attracted the at
tentlon OF the yender
You seem 10 be- amused" he said
Have you never seen pudding out be
forew
MOT such pudding as that" replied
the man With the bag IT'S quite a sight
einf ~ Why, there's another"
That's pothlng. They'll Keep chat
thing up fof Rn hour yei. Old Mother
Merchants pudding have q reputation,
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