Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-08

comrade appeared on the scene and
laid vigorous hands on them both. The
| young man made u quick, instructive
| movement toward his right pocket.
where, no doubt, he kept o revolver or
| knife. Bernardet seized his wrist. He
twisted II and said:
"Do nothing rash."
The young man was very strong, but
the huge Dagonin had ~herculean BIZ
ceps and the other mar did not lack
muscles. Fright, moreover, seemed to
paralyze this tall, young gallant, who,
as he saw that he was being hustled
toward a police station, demanded:
Have you arrested rne, and why?"
First for having struck me-" Ber-
nardet replied, still bareheaded, and To
whom a gamin now handed his soiled
hat. saving 10 him;
Us this yours. M. Bernardet?"
Bernardet recognized in his own
| quarter! That was glory!
The man seemed to wish to defend
himself and still struggled, but n re-
mark of Dagoniu's seemed TO pacify
him:
''No rebellion! There Is nothing Sc
rious about your arrest. Do not make
1t worse"
~ young man really believed that
it was only "A slight matter and he
would be liberated at once. The only
him that d,squietod him was that this
| intoxicated man. suddenly become so
her, had spoken to him as he did Il few
moments before In the cabaret.
The four men walked quickly along
In the shadow OF the buildings, through
the almost deserted streets, where the
shopkeepers were putting out their
lights and closing up their shops.
Scarcely anyone who met them YOU
have realized that three or these men
were taking the fourth 20 O police sta
tion.
A tricolor flag aCated over a o
lighted by a red lantern. The four men
entered the place and found themselves
in a narrow, warm hall. where the
agents OF the police were either sleep
ing on benches or reading around the
stove by the light of the gas jets above
their heads.
Bernardet, looking doletully at his
broken and soiled hat, begged the
young man 70 give his name and ad-
dress TO the chief of the post. The
young man then quickly understood
hat his questioner of the Cabaret du
Squelette had caught him in u trap. He
looked at him with an expression Of
violent anger. of concentrated rage.
Then he said:
MY name? What do you want OF
that? | am an honest man. Why did
you arrest me? What does IL mean"
your name?" repeated Bernardet.
The man hesitated.
ooh, well, / am called Prades. Does
that help o any?'
The man wrote; "PradeS. P-r-a-d-e-s
with an accent. PradeS First name?"
Charles, if yo wish"
oh" said Bernardet, noticing the
slight difference In the tone of his an
swer. I'VE wish nothing. We wish
only the truth"
II have told it."
Charles Prades furnished some fur
Their information in regard To himself.
He was staying at a hotel In the Rue
de Paradis- P~oissoniere. a small hotel
used by commercial travellers and mer-
chants of the second class. He had
been in Paris only q month.
Where was he from? He said that
he came from Sydney, where he was
connected with the commercial house,
or, rather he had given up the situa-
ton to come to Paris to seek his for
tune. But While speaking OF Sydney
he had in his rather rambling answers
let fall the name OF Buenos Ayres, and
Bernardet remembered that Buenos
Ayres was the place where NJ. Revere
had been French consul The officer
paid no attention to this at the time.
for what good? Prades' real examina-
ton would be conducted by M. Ginory.
He ~(Bernardet) was not an examining
magistrate. He was the ferret who
hunted out criminals.
This Prades was stupefied. hen furi-
Gus. when, the examination over, he
learned that he was not tn be immedi-
ately set at liberty.
What! An bsurd quarrel, a collision
without a wound, in a street In Paris
was sufficient to hold a man and make
him pass the night in the station house
with all the ~vagabonds OF both sexes
collected there.
you may bemoan your fate to your
self tomorrow morning" said Bernar-
det.
In the meantime. they searched his
man. who. very pale, making visibly
powerful efforts to control himself, bit
ing his lips and his black beard, while
they examined his pocket book. while
they looked at a Spanish knife with a
short blade which he mad (~Bernardet
had OWNED II at the time of his arrest)
In his right pocket.
The pocket book revealed nothing. 1t
contained some receipted weekly bills
of the hotel in the Rue de Paradis,
some envelopes without letters. with
out stamps and bearing the name
s'Charles Prades, merchant" two bank
bills of 100 francs and nothing more.
Bernardet very simply asked Prades
how IL was that he a upon his per-
son addressed letters which he evident
" had not received, as they were not
stamped. He replied;
"sThey are not letters. They are adj
dresses which I give instead OF visiting
cards, as I nave not had time TO pro-
cure cards"
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The immortal.