The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-01-07
CHAPTER xIII.--Continucd.

you will see his skeleton. Think,
mink, my brothers, his is the fate
which waits you perhaps soon on go
Ing away from here. Think of the va
rious Illnesses and deaths by accidents
which await you. Contemplate the
magic spectacle offered by the Cabaret
du Squelette and remember that you
are dust and that to dust you must re-
turn. Make wisely this reflection.
which the intoxicated man made to
another man in like condition, but
asleep, And h a is how | shall be on
Sunday While waiting, my brothers
and sisters. for n~othingness, look at
the Standardization of your contem-
porary, IL you please"
The play of lights, while the mar
was talking, began to throw q grecnish
pallor and to make spots at first trans
parent upon the orbits OF the eyes
then, little by little, the spots seemed
to grow stronger, to blacken, to en-
large. The features, lightly picked out,
appeared to change gradually, to take
on gray and confused tints, to slowly
disappear as undcr q veil, a damp va
por which covered, deyoured, that face.
now unrecogniZablc! 1t has been said
that the in which this phenom-
enon was managed was u remarkable
thing. 1T is true, for This human body
seemed literally to dissolve before this
curious crowd, now become silent and
frightened. The work of death was
accomplished there publicly. thanks to
h illusion of lighting. The livid man
who smiled a few moments before was
s~1otionless, fixed; then. passing
through some singular changes, the
flesh seemed to fall from him in
Suddenly the play of lights made
him disappear from the eyes of the
spectators, and they aw, thanks to
reflections made by mirrors, only q
skeleton. 1t was he world OF specters
sAnd the secret of the tombs revealed
ITO tho crowd by a kind of scientific
magic lantern.
Bernardet did not desire to wait
longer to striks his blow-this was the
exnct moment to do it, the psychology
teal moment!
The eager look of the man In the
eombrero revealed q deep trouble,
There was in this look something more
than the curiosity excited by a move
spectacle. h muscles of his pale face
twitched as with physical suffering. In
his eyes Bernardet read an internal
Rgony.
Ali" thought the police officer.
The living eye is q book which one
can read as we'll as IL dead mans eye"
Upon the stage the play of lights was
rendering even more sinister the figu-
rant who was giving to this morbidly
curious crowd the comedy Of death.
Ono would have now thought 1t was
StS VI N1iOSe dltOCiOuS paintings INaQc
In the studios OF certain Spanish paint
ers in h putridero OF a Wales Leal.
Tho nesh. by a remarkable scientific
ce combination of lights, was made to
seem as If falling Off and presented the
horrible appearance of a corpse In a
state Of decomposition. The lugubrious
vision made a very visible shudder pass
over the audience. Then Bernardet,
drawing himself up to his full height
go as to get q good view OF the face OF
this man so much taller and approach
n as near to him as possible-in fact.
80 that his elbow and upper arm
touched the young man's-slowly, de-
alternately dropped one by ono these
one words.
That is about how NJ, Revere ought
TO be now,
And suddenly the young mans face
expressed q sensation Of fright, as one
sees In the face of a pedestrian who
suddenly finds that he is about to step
slIson q viper.
Or how he Will be SOON added the
lilo man. with an a1niable smile.
3l3t inardet disseminated under this ami
I ability and intense JOY. Holding his
saliisl and elbow In an apparently care
Hess manner close to his neighbor as he
fprGssounced Rovere's name. Bernardet
Ftls his neighbours whole body tremble
Hnu give a very perceptible start. Why
had he been SO quickly moved by an
GnknnsEn name IL 1t had not recalled
60 his mind some frightful thought?
H.ho M might, Of course, know, as the
public did, all h details of the crime;
but, with his strong. energetic face, his
resollte look. he did not appear like a
person who would be troubled by the
recital of a murder. the description of a
bloody ARRAY or wen by the frightful
scene which flae.Sjust passed before his
ewes In the hall.
"A mat Of that stamp is not chicken
hearted" thought Bernardet. ..No,
no." Hearing those words evoked the
image Of the dead man, Revere. The
man was not able to muster his vioelnt
emotion, and he trennbled as Ii under
an electrical discharge. The shudder
had been Violent, OF short duration,
however, ms IL he had mastered his
emotion by his strong Will. In his In
voluntary movement he had displayed
y tragicseloquence, Bernardet had seen
IN tho look. In the gesture, In tho move
ment OF the mans head, something of
trouble, OF doubt, OF terror, as in d
nash OF lightning In the darkness of
nigft#o sees the bottom OF a pool.
Bernardet smtlingly said to him:
.sThts sight is not 4 a one."
THE man answered, and he al
o attempted to smile.
He ooked back to- the stage. where
the sOnlher play Went on.
poor Rovere.' Bernardet said.
The other man now looked at Bernar-
det Asgifsto read his thoughts and to-
learn what Specification tho repetition
az the same name had, Bernardet sus-
tntp0d with a naive look this mute In
SEGREGATION. He allowed nothing OF his
thoughts IN be seen In the clear. child
like depths OF his eyes. He had the air
o q good man, frightened by Il terrible
muf1eE andwhO spoke OF the late Vie
tim AZ y hefeaTed for himself. He