Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-15
CHAPTER XIV.

CHAPTER XIV.
NJ. Ginory was not without uneasi-
ness when he thought OF the detention
Of Jacques Dantin. Without doubt the
prisoners, all accused persons, are reti-
cent. They try to hide their guilt under
voluntary silence. They 10 not speak
because they have sworn not 10. They
are bound, one knows not by whom, by
an oath which they Cannot break. II 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
a right to speak? Either Dantin had
nothing to reveal and he was playing
a comedy and was guilty, or II by a few
words, by a confidence mad 10 the
magistrate, he could escape an ccusa
ton. recover his liberty, without doubt
he would speak after having kept an
tncXplicable silence. How could one
suppose that an innocent man would
hold for a long time to this mute sys
tenn
rhe discovery OF the portrait In
AtIflt. 1OlhTA - SHOD ONShls lltihA HtiSg ~
give to the affair a new turn. The ar
rest Of Charles Prades brought an inn
portant element to these researches. He
would be examined by NJ. Ginory the
next morning, after having been ques-
toned by the commissary Of police.
Bernardet. spruce. freshly shaven,
was there n seemed In his well
brushed redingote like a little able
come to assist at some curious cere-
mony.
on the contrary, Prades, after a
slcepless night, a night OF agony, paler
than the evening before, his face fierce
and IT'S muscles contracted, had a bag
gard expression. and he blinkod his
eyes like a night bird suddenly
brought into glaring sunlight. He re-
heated before the examining magistrate
what he had said to the ~brigadier. But
his voice, vibrant a few hours before.
had become heavy, almost raucous, as
the naughty expression of his face
had become sullen and tragic.
The examining magistrate had cited
Nine. Colard, the s~hopkeeper, TO appear
before him. She instantly recognized
i'm this Prades the mar who had sold
her tn. little panel by Paul Baudry.
He denied 1t. He did not know of
what they were talking. He had never
seen this woman. He knew nothing
about any portrait.
II belonged to NJ. Revere" the
m. g~istrate replied-'M. Revere, the
murdered man; M. Revere, who was
ear SUI Mt Buenos Ayres, and you spoke
yes erday OF Buenos Ayres in the ex-
summation at the station house in the
Rae de la Rochefoucauld."
NJ. Revere? Buenos Ayres?" repeat
ed the young man. rolling his som
brero around his fingers.
He repeated that he did not know
.knN h.. HnA 40 hAAp
IN south America. that he had come
from sydney.
Bernardet at this moment interrupt
cd him by taking his hat from him
without saying q word, n Prades
cast a very angry look at the little
man.
move and approved with q smile, he
looked in the inside OF the sombrero
which Bernardet handed to him.
The hat bore the address of Gordon,
Smithson 81 Co, Berner street. London,
"But after ALL" thought the magis-
trate. 'Buenos Ayres Is one OF the mar
kets for English goods"
That is a hat bought AZ sydney,
Prades (who had UNDERSTOOD ex-
plained.
Before the bold. decided. almost vio-
lent afiirmations which Nine. Colard
made that this was certainly the seller
OF the portrait the young man lost
countenance a little. He kept saying
over and over: you deceive yourself.
Madame, / have never spoken to you. !
have never seen YOU
When NJ. Ginory asked her IL she
stu persisted in saying that this was
the man who had sold her the picture,
she said:
apo still persist? With my neck
under the guillotine | would persist"
And she kept repeating: II am sure OF
II. l am sure OF It."
This preliminary examination brought
about no decisive result. II was GER
tain 81 this portrait had been in the
possession of this young man and been
sold by him and he (Charles Prades)
Mas an accomplish of D~antin's. IL not
the uthor of the crime. They ought.
then. 20 he brought fac 20 face. and
POSSIBLY this might bring about an Inn
mediate result. And why not have this
meeting take place at once. before
Prades was sent where Dantin was, ut
Mazas2
NJ. Glnory. who had uttered this
word Mazas.T noticed the expression
Of terror which flashed across and sud-
denly transtigured the young mans
face.
prades staEnmered:
Then you-wiH hold me Them
nj. tiinorv did not reply. He gave an
order that this Pfades should be guard
ed uItLl The arrival of Dantin from
Ma2as.
In Mazas, IN that walled prison. III
tbn cell which had already made him
IN. Jacques Dantin sat. This mar with
the troopers air seemed almost 10 be In
4 ate of collapse. When the guard
tatzae ~ his cell he drew himself III
and underworld to collect an his anergy
and when the, door was opened and hs
WAS called he appeared quite Likes him
Scif. When he saw the prison wager
watch had brought him to Muxas and
low Il xaited 10 take hi:n 10 tho Palail
thea. recovering himself. he entered III,
narrow vehicle.
The idea. the sensation. that he wa