The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-01-28

declaration a last benefit. He gave to
Il brother Of the dead girl, to the son
OF Prades. of the firm of Revere &
Prades, a sum sufficient to enable him
to live while waiting for better things
and he told the young man in proper
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 ngufatlve sense, and the young man
continued his life of adventures. as
able as the reporters mclodramatic in
ventions.
Then. at the end of his resources,
after having searched for fortune
among miners, weary of tramping
about in America. he embarked one
the best gold mine was still that living
placer which he had exploited in Buzz
nos Ayres, and which was called Pierre
Rovere.
At Paris. where he knew the ex-con-
sui had retired. Prades soon found
trace of him and learned where was the
rtersat of his brotherinlaw His broth
erlnlaW! He pronounced the wore with
a wicked sheer. as If it had for him a
something understood about the sweet
and maide 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
hotcl, he searched, asked. discovered at
last. the address of the ex-consul and
presented himself to Revere, who felt
at night of this spccter his anger re-
turn.
TIL first time that Charles Prades
had asked at the lodge if NJ. Revere
was at home the Monichos had per-
united him to go UP stairs, and perhaps
Nine. Monfche would have suspected
surprised Jacques Dantin before the
open safe and the papers.
Trades. moreover, had appeared only
three times at Hovere's house. and on
the day of tho murder he llad entered
at the moment m Moniche
niche was working in his shop in tho
rear OF the lodge and the staircase was
empty. Hc rang, and Revere. With
dragging steps, came to open the door,.
Rovtre was i'll and was a little ennuied,
and he believed. or instinctively hoped,
that 1T was the woman in black-his
daughter!
Everything served Prades' projects.
He had CONF not to kin. but by some
means to gain entrance to Rovcre's
apartments. and, when once there, to
find some resource-a loan, more or
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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 1t back, entered, closed it and
said:
"A last interview. You will never
see me again! But listen to me-"
Then Revere allowed him to enter
the salon, and despite the terrible
weakness which he experienced wished
10 make this a final, decisive interview:
to disembarrass himself once for all
OF this everlasting begsar, sometimes
Whining. sometimes threatening.
"NNlll you not let me die in peace?"
he said. Have l not paid my debt?"
But Prades had seated himself in a
f%auteuil, crossed his legs and hung over
his knee his sombrcro, on which .e
drummed a minstrel march.
My dear Nj. RoNere, 1t is a last APP
peal tor funds. l believe that America
is better than Paris. and in order to re-
turn there to do what / ought here I
must have what have not-money.''
Il am tired of giving you money!"
Rovcre quickly replied.
And between these two men, bound
by the remembrance of the dead girl
a bond hurdcnsome to the one, imposed
upon by the other-a storm Of bitter
words and harsh sentiments arose and
kindled tiercer anger in both.
II tried to let you remain in peace.
my dear consul. but hunger has driven
The wolf out of the woods. I am very
hungry. INC here I am"
II V nothing with which to feed
your appetites. You are nothing cut a
burden to me-"
'oh, ingratitude!' And. Prades. with
his Argentina accent, spoke his ~sister'a
name.
My father died. and Carlotta herself
entrusted me to your care, my dear
brotherinlaw."
1t seemed to the sick man, irritated
as he was, that this name-which he
had buried deep in his heart with
chaste tcnderness-was a supreme In
suit.
II forbid you to evoke that memory!
You do not see. then that the m
OF that dear and sanity creature is one
of the griefs of my life"
And 1t is one of my heritages-bro-
therinlaw OF Il consul. senior mia, but
it is u title, n hold it!
Revere experienced a strong desire
to call, to ring, to give an order to have
this troublesome visitor pvt out, but
energetic and fearless as he had been
but a short time before. now weakened
by illness, he trcmbled before a possible
scandal. Then he, unaided. attempted
To push the young man out of the salon.
Prades resisted II at the first touch
gave a bound, and all tina was evil in
him suddenly awoke.
A struggle cnsued without a word
being pronounced by either--a quick.
brutal struggle. Rovcre counted on his
past strength. taking by the collar this
Prades who threatened him. and
Prades. while clutching the e%x-consul
with his left hand, searched in his
pocket for a wcapon-the one which
Bernardet had taken from him.
Continued Mex. Week.l
New Kind Of Grandfather.
From Lippincott's.
Josiah Quincy, the prominent Boston
politician. was walking near the city
hall. when he heard an Irish laborer
accost another thus: