The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-01-14

And below the seal was attached to
the order OF the registrar. M. Ginory
signed II, saying to Favarel:
The description must be left blank.
They will fill II out after the measure
ments are taken"
Then Prades, stupefed TIL now, not
seeming to realize half that was pass
ing around him, gave a sudden, violent
start. A cry burst from him.
Arrested Have you arrested me? 20
M. Ginory leaned over the table. He
was calm and held his pen, with which
ne had signed the order, suspended in
the air. The young man rushed for
ward wild with anger, and II the
guards had not held him back he
would have seized M. Ginory's fat neck
with both hands. The guards held
Prades back, while the examining mag
istrate, carelessly pricking the table
with his pen, gently said, with q smile:
factor has betrayed himself in a fit OF
anger. / have often thought that 1t
would take very little to get myself
a~ssassinated when / had before me an
accused person whom I felt vas guilty
and who would not confess. Take
away the mani"
While they were pushing Prades
toward the corridor he shouted, Ca
nailles!" M. Ginory ordered that DAN
tin should he left alone with him.
Alone" he said TO Bernadet, whose
look was a little uneasy The registrar
half rose from his chair. picking up his
papers and pushing them into the
pocket OF his much worn paper case.
"No. You may remain, Fayorel.n
We'll" said the magistrate in q IA
miliar tone when he found himself face
to face with Jacques pantin, have you
IL hected?"
jacques Dantin, his lips pressed
closely together, did not reply.
ut is a ~counselor-a counselor of an
especial kind-the cell. He who in
vented IT,
yes" Dantin ~brusqueIy interrupted.
The brain suffers between those walls.
/ have not slept since / went there, nc
slept at all. lnsomnia is killing me. II
seems as IL ] should go crazy"
Them" asked NJ. Ginory. +"
Then
jacques Dantin looked fercely at the
registrar, who sat waiting, his pen yer
his ear, his elbows on the table, his
chin on his hands.
Then, oh, well! Then, here Il is. I
wish TO tell you allah. But to YOU
to you"-
ITO me alone?"
YES" said Dantin, with the same
my dear FavoreT'--the magistrate
began.
The registrar had already risen. He
slowly bowed and went out.
NOW" said the magistrate to
Jacques Dantin, you can speak"
The man still hesitated.
Monsieur he asked, will any word
said here be repeated-ought il or must
1t be repeated-in a courtroom at the
assizes-I know not where-anywhere
before the public?"
That depends said M. Ginory.
But what you know you owe to JUS
tice, whether IL be a revelation, an ac-
cusation or a confession. / ask IL OF
YOU"
Still Dantin hesitated. sThen the
magistrate spoke these words: II de-
mand It,"
with a violent effort, the prisoner
began: $50 be it. But IL is TO a man
OF honor rather han to q magistrate
to whom I address these words. IL I
have hesitated to speak, il I have al
lowed myself to be suspected and to
be accused, ii is because 1t seemed TO
me impossible, absolutely impossible,
that this same truth should not be re-
veaIed-I do not know in what way
that it would become known to you
without compelling me to disclose a
secret which was not mine"
tt an examining magistrate one
may tell everything said M. Ginory.
I'VE have listened to confessions In our
offices which are as inviolable as those
OF the confessional made to a priest"
(ContInued Next week.l