The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-01-28

declaration a last beneft. He gage TO
the brother OF the dead girl, 10 the son
OF Prades, OF the firm of Revere a.
Prades, a sum suficient to- enable him
TO live while waiting for better things.
and he told the young man in proper
terms that as he had now no one to
depend upon that he had better take
himself elsewhere to be hung. The
word could not be, with the appetites
and habits OF Charles Prades. taken in
a hguratiye sense. and the young mar
y continued his life OF adventures, as
tragic in their reality and as improb-
able as the reporters melodramatic tn
ventions. !
Then, at the end OF his resources,
after having searched for fortrrs
among miners, weary OF tramping
about I'm America, he embarked one
morning for Hayre, with the idea that
the best gold mine was still that living
placer which he had exploited I'm Bue-
nos Ayres, and which was called Pierre
Revere.
At Paris. where he knew the ex-con-
sui had retired, PTades soon found
trace OF him and learned where was the
rtereat or his brotherinlaw. His broth
erinlawl He pronounced the wore with
q wicked sneer, as if It had for him a
something understood about the sweet
and maiden remembrance OF the dead
girl. There, in gay Paris, with some
resources which allowed him to pay for
his board and lodging in a third rate
hotel. he searched, asked. discovered at
last. the address OF the ~ex-consul and
presented himself to Revere, who felt
at hight OF this specter his anger re-
turn.
The first time that Charles Prades
had asked at the lodge IL M. Revere
was at home the Moniches had per-
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Nine. Moniche would have suspected
the man in the sombrero IL she had not
surprised Jacques Dantin before the
open safe and the papers.
Prades. moreover, had appeared only
three times at Rovere's house, and on
the day OF the murder he had entered
at the when Nine. Moniche
was sweeping the upper floors n Mo-
niche was working in his shop In the
rear OF the lodge aid the staircase was
empty. He rang, and Revere, with
dragging steps, came to pen the door.
Revere was III and was a little ennuied,
and he believed, or instinctively hoped,
that IL was the woman in black-his
daughterl
Everything served Prades' projects.
He had come not to kill, but by some
means to gain entrance to Rovere's
apartments, and, when once there, to
find some resource--a loan, more or
II AGo9 HltGCl1 klNEUt fi1OIGH vi. lees LOIGCu-
and he would leave with 1t.
Revere, already worn out, weary of
his former supplications, felt tempted
TO shut the door In his face, but Prades
pushed II back, entered, closed It and
said;
"a last interview! You win never
sec me again! But listen to met"
Then Revere allowed him to enter
the salon, and despite the terrible
weakness which he experienced wished
60 make this a final, decisive interview;
to d~isembarrass himself once for all
of this everlasting beggar, sometimes
winning, sometimes threatening.
"Will you not let me die in peace? 2"
he said. Have / not paid my debt 2"
Blu Prades had seated himself in a
f%auteuil, crossed his legs and hung over
his knee his sombrero, or which 4le
drummed a minstrel march.
My dear M. RoYereS II Is a last APP
peal for funds. / believe tina America
is better than Paris, and in order to re-
turn there to do what / ought here /
must have what / have not-money."
II am tired OF giving o money!"
Revere quickly replied.
And between these two men, bound
by the remembrance OF the dead girl
a bond b~nrdensome TO the one, imposed
upon by the other--a storm of bitter
words m harsh sentiments arose and
kindled iercer anger in both.
IL tried to let you remain In peace,
my dear consul, but hunger has driven
the wolf out of the woods. / am very
hungry, and here 1 am"
II have nothing with which to feed
your appetites. You are nothing but q
burden TO me-
"oh, ingratitnde." And Prades, with
his Argentina accent, spoke his sisters
name.
my father died, and carIotta herself
entrusted me TO your care, my dear
b~rotherinIaw.H
1t seemed to the sick man, irritated
as he was, that this name-which he
had buried deep in his heart with
chaste tenderness-was q supreme In
suit.
II forbid you to evoke that memory
You do not see, then that the memory
of that dear and sanity creature Is one
of the griefs Of my life.'
And 1t Is Of my heritages-bro-
therinlaw OF a consul, senior mia, but
ii is a title, and / hold IT.
Revere experienced a strong desire
TO call, to ring. to give ar order to have
this troublesome visitor put out, but
energetic and fearless as he had been
but a short time before. now weakened
by illness, he trembled before a possible
scandal. Then he, unaided, attempted
60 push the young man out of the salon.
Prades resisted n at the first touch
gave a bound, and all that was evil In
him suddenly awoke.
A struggle ensued without a word
being pronounced by either-a quick,
brutal struggle, Revere counted on his
past strength, taking by the collar this
Prades who threatened him, and
Prades, while clutching the ~ex-consuI
with his left hand, searched in his
pocket for a weapon-the one which
Bernardet had taken from him.
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New Kind OF Grandfather.
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