Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-29
CHAPTER XVI.

M. Ginory, M. Leriche, the chief;
Bernardet, and. in fact. all the Judi
ciary believed hat Charles Prades was
guilty OF the murder of Revere. Ber-
nardet, who had been an actor in this
drama, had now become a spectator.
Paul Rodler, q good reporter. a
learned before his conferes of the ar
rest OF the young man. and abandon
ing what he had called his trail OF the
woman in black he abruptly whirled
about and quickly invented a sensa-
tional biography OF the newcomer.
CHARLES Henri Prades. or, rather, Carlos
Prades, as he called himself, had been
a gaucho. a buffalo tanner. "a cowboy,
using, turn by turn. the American re-
volver against the redskins and the
Mexican lasso against the Yankees.
The journalist had obtained q sigma
ture, picked up by the lodging house
Keeper where the guilty man had been
hunted down. and published In his pa
per the autographs characters. He had
dedueed from them some dramatic ob-
seryations. Cooper of former times.
Gustave Aymard OF yesterday, Rudyard
kipling or Bret Harte OF today. had
never met a parsonage more dreadful
and at the same time more heroic.
Carlos Prades used the navajo (Spanish
knife) with the terrible rapidity of a
Catalan. He a felt since the DAYS of
Buenos Ayres a fierce hate for the ex-
consul, n this crime, which some of
ms brother reporters, rabitually indif-
ferentiy informed ct was Paul Rodier
who spoke), now attributed alone to the
avarice of this cambrioleur from over
the sea. He (Rodier) gave this note as
the cause or vengeance, and built there
upon a romano which made his read
ers shiver, or, rather, he said nothing
outright. He permitted one a GLIMPSE
into, he outlined, one knows not what.
dark history. Soon he made his Carlos
Prades the instrument and the arm OF
an ASSOCIATION OF vengeance. He could
even believe that there was anarchy in
the affair. Then he had the young man
mixed In some love affair, a drama of
passion, with the Argentine Republic
for the theater.
AS a result. he had succeeded in maxi
Ing interesting the man whom Bernar-
Diet had pushed a few nights before into
the station house.
And, what was a inguIar thing Tho
reporter had OWNED part of he rath
1t was still another episode In his past
tnat. Kovere expiated when he found
nimseir n day, In his salon In the
Boulevard de Clichy, face to face with
the man who was to b. his murderer.
AT Buenos Ayres the ~ex-consul had been
associated In a large agricultural enter
prise with q man whose hazardous
speculations, play and various adven-
lures had completely ruined him, and
who had left two children-a young
girl whom Revere thought for a mo-
ment OF marrying, and a son. younger
poor beings OF whom the consul. paw
ing his partners debts, seemed the
natural protector. Jean Prades. In
committing suicide-he had killed him
self. frightened at the magnitude OF his
debts-had commended his children to
Rovere's care.
II Carlotta had lived, without doubt
Revere would ave made her his wife.
He loved her with a deep and respect
full tenderness. The poor girl died very
suddenly, n there remained to Ro.
we're only his dream. one OF those re-
membranes of a Preside, one OF those
specters which brush the forehead with
their wings or h folds OF their wind
ing sheets, when In the solitude In
which he has voluntarily buried him
self the searcher after adventures re-
calls the past--the past OF YESTERDAY.
Illusions. disillusions. old loves. mis-
| cries.
Revere gave to this brother or the
dead girl the affection which he had
felt for her. He remembered also the
fathers request. Prades' son. passion
ate, g to live. tempted I'm all his
appetites. accepted as his due Rovere's
truly paternai devotion. worked on the
sympathy OF this man. who, through
pity n duty. too. gave to Charles a
little OF the affection which he had felt
Tor the sister, almost his fiance. and
for the father. dead by his own hand.
But, little by little. the solicitations,
the unreasonable demands OF Prades.
who. believing that he had a just claim
on his fathers old partner. found II
very natural that Revere should devote
himself TO him~-these continual and
pressing demands became for the con-
sui Irritating obsessions. Revere seemed
70 this young nan who was q spend
ftnrift and a gambler--a gambler pos
sessed With atavistic frenzy-a sort OF
living Swings bank, from which he
lc0uld draw without counting. His inn
p~ortunities at last seemed fatiguinx
and excessive. and Prades was advised
one beautiful day that he. no longer
need count from that moment on the
generosity Of hin benefactor. All this
happened az Buenos Ayres and about
the time Of b cOnsurs departure for
France. Revere added 70 this very curt