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

depend upon that he had better take
himself elsewhere to be hung. The
word could o be, with the appetites
and habits OF Charles Prades, taken in
a fguratiye sense, and the young man
continued his life OF adventures, as
tragic in their reality and as improb-
able as the reporters melodramattc in
yentions.
Then. at the end OF his resources,
after having searched for fortune
among miners, weary of tramping
about I'm America, ne embarked one
morning for Havre, with the idea that
the best gold mine was still that living
placer which he had exploited in Bue-
nos Ayres, n which was called Pierre
Revere.
At Paris, where he knew the ex-con-
sui had retired, Prades soon found
trace OF him and learned where was the
rtereat of his brotherinlaw. His broth
erinlaw! He pronounced the word with
a wicked sheer, as IL IL a for him a
something understood about the sweet
and maiden remembrance OF the dead
girl. There, In gay Paris, with some
resources which allowed him 10 pay for
his board and lodging I'm a third rate
hotel, he searched, asked. discovered at
last, the address OF the ex-consul and
presented himself 10 Revere. who felt
at hight OF this specter his anger re-
turn.
LIE ITSL time tHdL tUaTleS 1TdueS
had asked at the lodge il NJ. Revere
was at home the Moniches had per-
United him TO go up stairs. and perhaps
Mime. Moniche would have suspected
the man in the sombrero il she had not
surprised Jacques Dantin before the
open safe and the papers.
Prades, moreover, had appeared only
three times at Rovere's house, and on
the day of the murder no had entered
at the moment when Nine. Moniche
was sweeping the upper floors and Mo-
niche was working in his shop in the
re al OF the lodge and the staircase was
empty. He rang, n Revere, with
dragging steps, came 70 open the door.
Revere was i'll n was a little ennuied,
and he believed, or instinctively hoped,
that it was the woman in black-his
daughter!
Everything served Prades' projects.
He had come not to kill. but by some
mean TO gain entrance to Roveres
apartments, and, when once there, to
find some resource-a loan. more or
less freely given, more or less forced
and he would leave with il.
Revere, already worn out. weary of
his former supplications, felt tempted
to shut the door in his face. but Prade
pushed IL back, entered, closed II and
said:
"A last interview! You will never
see me again! But listen to mel
Then Revere allowed him to enter
the salon, and despite the terrible
weakness which he experienced wished
60 make this a final, decisive interview;
to disembarrass himself once for all
Of this everlasting beggar, sometimes
winning, sometimes threatening.
will you not let me die in peace?"
he said. Have | not paid my debt?'
But Prades had seated himself in a
f%auteuil. crossed his legs n hung over
his knee his sombrero, on which ne
drummed a minstrel march.
My dear M. Revere, it Is a last APP
peal for funds. | believe that America
is better than Paris, and in order TO re-
turn there to do what 1 ought here I
must have what / have not-money."
II am tired OF giving you money!
Revere quickly replied.
And between these two men. bound
by the remembrance of the dead girl
a bond burdensome TO the NE, imposed
upon by the other-a storm of bitter
words and harsh sentiments arose and
kindled fiercer anger in both.
II tried to let you remain in peace,
my dear consul. but hunger has driven
the wolf out of the woods. i I'M very
hungry, and here / am"
II have nothing with which to feed
your appetites. You are nothing but a
burden to me-"
On, lnBTdLltuuei ana EIdueS, with
his Argentina accent, spoke his sisters
name.
my father died, and Carlotta herself
entrusted me to your care, my deal
brotherinlaw."
II seemed to the sick man, irritated
as he was, that this name-which he
had buried deep In his heart with
chaste tonderness-waS a supreme in
suit.
II forbid you to evoke that memoryi
You do not see, then that the memory
of that lear and sanity creature is one
Of the griefs of my life"
'And 1t is one of my heritages-bro-
therinlaw OF a consul, senior mia, but
IT is q title, and / hold IT,
Revere experienced a strong desire
to call, to ring, TO give an order TO have
this troublesome visitor put out, but
energetic and fearless as he had been
but a short time before, now weakened
by Illness, he trembled before a possible
scandal. Then he, unaided, attempted
to push the u man out OF the salon,
Prades resisted and at the first touch
CAV a bound, and all that was evil in
hinl suddenly awoke.
A struggle ensued without a word
being pronounced by either-a quick,
brutal struggle. Revere counted on his
past strength, taking by the collar this
Prades who threatened him. and
Prades, while clutching the ex-consul
with his left hand, searched In his
pocket for a w~eapon-the one which
Bernardet had taken from him.
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