The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-01-28
CHAPTER XVI

M. emory. NJ. Leriche, the chief;
B~ernardet, and, in fact, all the Judi
cary believed that Charles Prades was
guilty OF the murder of Revere. Ber-
nardet, who a been an actor in this
drama, had now become a spectator.
Paul Rodier, a good reporter. had
learned before his conferes of the ar
rest OF the young man, and
ing what he had called his trail Of the
woman In black he abruptly whirled
ABOUT n quickly invented a sensa-
tional biography of the newcomer.
CHARLES Henri Prades, or, rather. Carlos
Frades, as he called himself, had been
gaucho. a buffalo tanner, a cowboy.
using, turn by turn. the American re-
Mexican lasso against the Yankees.
Ihe Journalist a obtained a sigma
.urc, picked up by the lodging house
keeper where the guilty man had been
hunted down, and published in his pa
Ies .ne autographic characters. He had
reduced from them some dramatic OBJ
servalions. Cooper OF former times,
Gustave Aymard of yesterday. Rudyard
kipling or Bret Harte of today. had
never met a parsonage more dreadful
ana a = tne same time more heroic.
SAIsos Trades used the navajo (Spanish
knlfe) with the terrible rapidity Of a
catalan. He had felt since the DAYS of
Buenos Ayres a fierce hate for the ex-
consul, and this crime. which some of
ras Dro.ner reporters. rabitually indif-
Ierently informed at was Paul Rodier
VINO spoke), now attributed alone to the
aVarice OF this cambrioleur from over
Ihe sea. He (Rodier) gave this note as
me cause OF vengeance. and built there
upon = romance which made his read
efs shiVer. or. rather. he said nothing
outrlght. He permitted one a glimpse
into, he outlined. one knows not what
dark history. Soon he made this Carlos
Trades the instrument and the arm Of
an aaaa association OF vengeance. He could
even De!leVe that there was anarchy i'm
the affair. Then he had the yoInpr man
mixed In some love affair. a drama of
passion. with the Argentine Renuh1ic
for n theater.
AS a result, he had succeeded in maxi
ing interesting the man whom Bernar-
det had pushed a few nights before INFO
the station house..
AHu. what was a singular thing. the
reporter had OWNED part of the truth,
- tba was sun another episode in his past
himself one day. in his salon In the
Boulevard de Clichy. face to face with
man who was to be his murderer
AT Ayres the ex-consul had been
associated In a large agricultural enter
pplse MIN a man whose hazardous
speculations, play and various adyen-
lures had completely ruined him. and
VINO mad left two children-a voun-
girl whom Revere thought for a mo.
h1eht OF marrying. and a son.
poor beings OF whom the consul. nay
Ing his partners debts. seemed the
natural protector. Jean Prades. in
IccmmtttinG suicide-he had killed him.
sell. frightened at the magnitude OF his
ROvere's care. -
II Carlotta had lived. without Doubt
Revere would have made her his Wife
He loved her with a deep and resnant.
fui tenderness. The poor girl died very
suddenly, n there remained to Ro-
we're only his dream, one of those re-
membranes of a fireside. one OF those
specters which brush the forehead With
their wings or the folds of their wind
ing sheets. when in the solitude in
when ne mas voluntarily buried him
calls the ~past--the past of Yesterday.
Illusions, d%isillusions, old loves. mis-
cries.
Revere gave to this brother OF the
aead giri the affection which he had
felt for her. He remembered also the
fathers request. Prades' son. passion
ate, eager to live. tempted in all his
2ppetltes. accepted as his due Rovcre's
truly paternal devotion. worked on the
OF this man. who. through
little of the affection which he had felt
ior n sister, almost his tiance. and
for the father. dead by his own hand.
Y little by little. the solicitations.
the unreasonable demands of Prades.
Who believing that he had a lust claim
on his fathers old partner. found it
very natural that Revere should devote
himself to hiln-tllese continual and
pressing demands became for tho con-
irritating obsessions. Revere seemed
to this young man. who was a snend-
thrift and a gambler-a gambler pos
sessed with atavistic frenzy--a sort OF
living savings bank, from which he
could draw without counting. His i'm
and excessive, and Prades was ndvis,I
one beautiful day that he no longer
need count from that moment on the
generosity OF his benefactor. All this
happened at Buenos Ayres and about
the time of the cOnsuls departure fo,.
france. Revere added tn this ,.a...a.