The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-01-14

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although not IN Il iou tone still ii
sounded like a far off fanfare of vic
tory in the gray fog OF this Paris
night
CHAPTER XIV,
Nj. Ginory was not without uneasi-
ness when he thought of the detention
OF jacques Dantin. Without doubt h
prisoners, all accused persons. are reti-
cent They try to hid their guilt under
voluntary silence. They do not speak
because they have sworn not TO. They
are bound one knows not by whom, by
an cath which they cannot break 1t is
the ordinary system of the guilty who
cannot defend themselves. Mystery
seems TO them, safety.
But Dantin, intimately acquainted
with Rovere's life. might be acquainted
With some secret which he could not
disclose and which did not pertain to
him at all. What secret? Had not an
examining magistrate a right TO know
everything? Had not an accused man
n right TO speak2 Either Dantin had
nothing to reveal and he was playing
a comedy and was guilty, or if by a few
words, by a confidence made to the
magistrate. he could escape an ccusa
ton, recover his liberty, without doubt
he would speak after having kept an
tncxpiicable silence. How could one
suppose that al innocent man would
4toiu loT u ioiiS tIHS 10 luIS Ilute SSS-
tenn?
The discovery of the portrait in
Nine. Colard's shop ought, naturally, to
give to the affair a new turn. The ar
rest OF Charles Prades brought al i'm
porlant element to these researches. He
would be examined by M. Ginory the
next morning, after having been ques-
nj by the commissary of police.
Bernardet, spruce, freshly shavcn,
was there and seemed in his well
brushed redingote like a little able
come to assist at some curious cere-
non
On the contrary, Prades, after a
Sleepless night, a night of agony, paler
than the evening before, his face fierce
and its muscles contracted, had a bag
gard expression. n he blinked his
eye like a night bird suddenly
brought into glaring sunlight. He re-
;peated before the examining magistrate
what he had said to the brigadier. But
shis voice, vibrant a few hours before,
had become heavy, almost raucous as
rhc naughty expression of his face
had become sullen and tragic.
The examining magistrate had cited
Nine. Colard, the shopkeeper. to appear
before him. She instantly recognized
In this Prades the man who had sold
aaer the little panel by Paul Baudry.
what they were talking. He had never
seen this woman. He knew nothing
about any portrait.
lit belonged to NJ. Revere" the
ynagistrate replied-"M. Revere, the
murdered man, NJ. Revere, who was
yesterday of Buenos Ayres In the
animation at the station house In the
Rue de la Rochefoucauld.'
M. Rovere2 Buenos Ayres?p repeat
the young man, rolling his SOM
brero around his fingers.
~ He rannafad that he din nat Know
the e~x-consul. that he had " been
South America, that he had come
from Sydney.
Beralardet at this moment interrupt
MIN by taking his hat from him
saying q word, and Trades
cast a very angry look at the little
III. emory understood Bernardet's
,usiova and approved with d smile. He
looked In the inside of the sombreros
which Bernardet handed to him.
The hat bore the address of Gordon,
$mithson II Goa Berner street, London.
sBu after all" thought the magis-
crate, ABuenos Ayres is one of the mar
kets for English goods"
is q hat bought at sydney"
grades lWho a UNDERSTOOD ex-
claimed.
Before the bold. decided. almost vio-
lent a~firrnations which Nine. Colard
made that this was certainly the seller
OF tho portrait the young man lost
countenance q little. He kept saying
over and over: aYou deceive yourself.
Madame. I have never spoken to you. +
have w seen you
When M. Ginory asked her liz she
still persisted In saying that tits was
the nan who had sold her the picture,
she said.
b I still persist with my neck
under the guillotine + would persist
And she kept repeating: Il am sure OF