The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-02-04
CHAPTER xv1.-ccontinued.)

80 AhOVcEG ptlCK. he anu
.sli AGAINST a piece of furniture, while
s.s young man, disengaging himself.
sssspped back, quickly opened his Span
B = emile, then. with a bound, caught
L.onsre, Shook him, and holding the
A'MIe uplifted, said.
lHou hast Wl.!ed it,"
was at this Instant that Revere.
Mllose hands We're contracted, dug his
,., Ills ihlo the assassin s neck-the nails
Mhlch the Commissary Desbricre and
NJ. Jac1uelin Audtays had found still
red with blood.
Trades, who had come there either To
supplicate or threaten, now had only
one thought, hideous and ferocious-to
kill. He did not renson. 1t was no more
.nan an unclaimed instinct. The noise
W tne organs upon the boulevard,
Maaieh accompanied with their mu-
sical, dragging notes this savage scene,
uNe a treinolo 10 a melodrama at the
sileater, he did not hear. The whole in
ae'lsity of his life seemed to be con-
sensfated in his fury, I'm his hand
al,neu with the knife. He threw him
opening the throat. as across the water
among the sauchos he had been accus-
TONED to kill sheep or cut the troat of
from the hand which held him, and
trades, stepping back, ooked at him.
i4lvid, the dying man, seemed to live
oIty IN his eyes. He had cast upon the
IL ldSI tlcutlI1S look. NOW,
IA a sort OF supreme agony, he looked
around. His eyes searched for a up
port, Tor a~id--yes. they called, while
from that throat terrible sounds is
sued.
Prades saw with q kind of fright
Isoverc. with "a s~lperhuman tragic eff
Tort, step back, staggering like a
man, pull with his poor con-
tiacted hands from above the himne
piece an object which the murder had
SlOC noticed. and l1nDp which with an
ardent, p%rayerfnl expression, he fixed
nus eyes, stammering some quick, in
a~rt1culate words which Prades could
not hear or understand.
1T seemed to Prades that between his
victinn and himself there was a wit
ness, n whether he thought of the
value of the stones imbedded in the
..rame or whether he wished to take
rom Revere this last support in his
distress, he went to him and attempted
20 tear the portrait from his hands.
But an extraordinary strength seemed
TO come to the dying man and Revere
vesisted, fastening his eyes upon the
portrait, casting upon 1T & living flame,
like the last flare of a dying lamp, and
with this last, despairing, agonizing
took the %ex-consul breathed his last.
y Ile fell. Prades tore the portrait from
the fingers which clutched it. That
frame. He could sell 1t. He picked up
here and there some pieces which
seemed to him of value. as If on a pill
.agils tour of the prairies. He was
shptt to enter the library where he
o = TIN, ma sn si,aaai.o : ao.se Hhhtss
tranper:s Instinct. Someone was com
Ing. VINO it could be was of little Inn
rortancc. To remain was to expose
i,iInself.- 70 be at once arrested. h
corpse once seen. the person would cry
ssss1s+ a.--a ss,1lelose the door and
Hesitating betwfen a desire to pillagc
and the necessity for flight, Prades did
not wait long TO decide. Should he
hide Impossible. Then. stepping back
to the salon door. he fiattened himself
us much as possible against the wall
opened. when lie, would be completely
hidden behind it. AS Nine. Moniche
stspnea into the room and cried out as
she saw Royere lying on the floor.
found himself on the landing, closed the
door. rapidly descended the stairs and
stepped out upon the Boulevard de
Cltchy among the passersby. even be-
fore Nine. Moniche. terrified. had called
for help.
CHAPTER XVII.
All the details Of that murder M.
Gi:iory had drawn. one by one. from
Prades in his. examination. The muir
derer denied at first. hesitated. dis
cussed: then at last, like a cask with
rOuIlE Oul.EiIOiAt 4 pOuIS ~
wine, but blood. the prisoner told all,
Confessed, recounted. loosened his
tongue, abandoned himself, weakened
and conquered, weary of his misery.
II was so foolish. so stupid he vio-
lently said. .as TO keep the portrait. L
believed that the frame vas worth a
fortune. Fool. Isold it for 100 sous!"
He gave the merchants address. 1t
was on the Quat5 Stint Michel. Bernar-
Diet found the frame as he had found
the nqinteI panpl. and this time M
credit was lueghim.
NOW" said he, the affair is cnd-
cd. classe. My children (he was relat
nna his adventsres to his little girlso;
Why. what asked Nine. Bernar-
Diet. 9
Eli there 1t Is; Why, it lacks the
e~lucidntion of a problem. l will see. 1
will KNOW
He still remembered the young Dam
ish doctor wholnShe had seen with NJ.
NORM at the autopsy. With his knowl-
edge Of men. with the sharp. keen eye
OF the police officer. Bernardet had rec
ognized a man Of superior mind-a
mind dreamy ADMINISTRATORS. He knew
where DR.. Erwin lived during his So
Journ In Paris,gSand he went to his
apartment one beautiful morning and
rang the bell at TIT door OF a hotel in
the Boulevard ST Martin where stu
dents and s~tranSefs lodge. He might
ave asked advice5of M. NORM, of the
master OF French Esctence. But he, the
inspector of Suretesapproach these high
persolages to question tilem-he dared
not as long as there waa a Danish doc
tor.
BerrArdet's brazil whirled. He felt
ainostlcertaln that DIR. Erwin would
give te same explanation which he
himselfasuspected h regard to the OBJ
served H1enonlenon
H:rhe had mans eve has spoken and
q speak,. said Bernardet to himself.
Yes, suAely. I am not deceived"
DIR. ErEin MT Bernardo cordially
and listeAed to him with profound at
tention.s fThe police officer repeated
word for ANord the confession drawn
from Prad6. Then@ie asked the Danish
physician he really believed that
jacques Da1tin's Image had been trans
liked on the retina, of the dying mans
eye during be time when he had held
and gazed a4the portrait.
For the Aroofs which I obtained
were very coAfused.' aid the officer.
{ 1T e possiblA and say it is quite
easy. to recognize jacques Dantin's fea-
lures. We havA seen II. and accOrdino