The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-01-28
CHAPTER XVI.

CHAPTER XVI.
NJ. Ginory. NJ Leriche. the chief.
Bernardet, and. in fact. all he Itldi-
cary believed that Charles Prades was
nardet, who had beer an actor in This
drama. had now become a spectator.
Paui Rodier. a good reporter. had
learned before his conferes of the ar
rest OF the young man, and
ing what he had called his TRAN of tha
woman in black he abruptIv wbirIaS
about and quickly invented a sensa~
lionaI biography OF the newcomer
1haries Henri Prades or, rather. Carlos
Trades, as he called himself. had hean
a gaucho a buffalo tanner, a cowboy.
using, turn by turn, the American re,
voiver against the redskins and the
Mexican Iasso against h nike
Inc Journalist had obtained a sigma
lure, picked up by the lodging house
keeper where the guilty MAJ had been
1870 uowH, ana published in his pa
per n photographic characters. He had
u from them some dramatic OH
serVations. Cooper OF former times
GustaFe Aymard of yesterday, Rudyard
hpiing or Bret Harte Of today. had
never met a parsonage more dreadful
ana at the same time more heroic
Carlos Prades used the navajo IsnanJsn
kIife) with the terrible rapidifv nf q
Cataian He a felt since the dave of
buenos Ayres a fierce hate for the er-
soHsul, n this crime, which some of
ms oTother reporters, r~abituaiIy tndif-
IeTentiy informed cit was Paul Rodier
VINO spoke), now attributed alone to the
aVarlce or this cambrioleur from over
the sea. He (Rodier) gave this note no
the cause or vengeance, and built there
apon q romance which made his read
ers shiver, Or, rather, he said
outright. He permitted one a riinnse
INTO, he outlined, n knows nor ubat
uark history. Soon he made this CarIos
Frades the instrument and the arm, ~
an association OF vengeance. He cor,ld
peileVe that there was anarchy in
the AFFAIR. Then he had the yo,,np man
mixed In some love affair, a drama nf
with the Argentina Ran,,h,ia
Tor h theater.
AS q result, he had succeeded IN m.L-
ing interesting the man whom Bernar-
the station house. ~
And what was a singular thing tba
reporter had OWNED part Of the 9r,,th
~ was still another episode In h;s nast
Rover expiated when he fa,,nd
I5l use one day. in his salon in the
I5ouieVafu de Clfchy,.face to face with
tne man who was to be his m11raerar
AZ Buenos Ayres the e~x-consul had haar
assoclated IN a large agricultural enter
pr1se with q man whose bazaraors
eeuiation play and various adven-
lures a completely ruined him ana
had left two children 1o, -
Ntiofi nuVere Thought for q mo-
OF marrying. and q son yo,,raor
-poorsheings of whom the consul nav.
MS partners debts, seemed The
liasuraI protector. Jean Prades. in
committing s~uicide-he had kiIlad hi,,
sell, frightened at the magnitude re his
commended his chiJdre, N
Royere's care. -
u Gariotta had lived. without do,,ht
rsoVere YOU'D nave made her his wife.
re ioved her with a deep and resnact.
q tenderness. The poor girl diad yar,,
uddenIy, and there remained ~ 81
we're only his dream. one or fhosa ~
membranes of a ireside, one ~ tbasa
speelers which brush the forehead wifi
their wings or the folds Of their wiz
ing sheets, when In the solit,,da II
which he has voluntarily b1IriadI h..a
self the searchar after adventures -
calls the past-the past OF vestsraay
Illusions, disillusions. old loves. mis-.
Revere gave to this brother 80 ne
dead girl the affection which he had
her. He remembered also the
Ialner.s request. Pradess son. passion-
ate, to live. tempted III ali his
psAit accepted as his due Royere,s
paternal devotion. worked on the
sympathy d this man. who. fhrounh
PITY 2 duty, too. gave to Charles III
litkie OF the affection which he had FELT
NJ. V Inc slster, almost his lance and
loT p Eng father. dead by his own hand.
ne unreasonable demands OF Trades
VINO. believing that he had d Just Claim
On ms Gathers old partner. foI,nd ~
very natural that Rovere should devote
laIaseiI 70 hirn--these continual and
PNaSSIhg demands became for the con-
sui IRRITATING obsessionss Kovereseened
TINS young man, who was q sDena-
Thrift y a gafnbler-a gambler nna.
ssseu With ataTistic frenzy-a sort or