Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-09-10

absurd. Not for SIX years has he
seen that impossible toung person
OF course, there Is bu. one thing to
de. ignore her and her letters.
Makes Open Threat.
But this is not so easy. Marie fof-
lows up her letter with a personal
call. She comes again and agaiEe
Her demands are more insistent, heS
words more violent. Finally she an
nounces with bitterness which should
carry It's hideeus warning-'fH ever
any one made me miserable, + would
poison him. 1t would not be diff
cult"
THAT is abominable. Never come
to see me again., is NJ. Doudieux's
stern response
And the now prominently respect
able husband returns to his home,
dismissing Marie from his mind But
Marie, though unseen, is still very
much in his life And Marie is plot
ting, continuing, scheming.
A year later October IS, 1909, a
servant finds in the Doudieux garden
packet which he carries to his mis-
tress. She opens it and finds several
drugs Enclosed, antipyrine powders,
camomile flowers and salts of vtchy,
decides that they have been left by
mistake. and a druggists clerk will
call for them She lays them away
on shelf and forgets them.
A week later, NJ. and Mmef
| Doudteux are invited to dine at the
| home of a neighbor. A guest of honor
is NJ. GODDARD, the tenor of the Opera
House. the idol of fashionable Paris,
| who has Just signed a contract to
| sing six months in America for
| $4,000
After dinner, the guests are taken
to Juvisy to see the aviation expert
ments. The motor ride against the
| wind causes M. GODDARD to suffer from
a severe headache. He asks the privi-
lege of remaining over night in the
Doudieux home at vezinet, feeling too
| i'll to return to his residence in a dis
+, tant part of the city.
/ The Innocent Victim.
| At once Nine Doudieux recalls the
| unclaimed parcel from the chemists
| shop. She suggests an antipyrine
powder but M. GODDARD declines. He
will be better by morning. At a. m.
he wakes the household. He Is suffer
ing intensely. He accepts the powder
| and takes two of them.
At the pain has become intolera-
Bile. At 8 in the afternoon, he goes
! into commissions. Acute indigestion,
! the physician pronounces it. At he
| is dead. His death is certified as be-
| ing due to acute uraemia-
No one connects the powders with
his death and the body is sent to
Belgium for interment
No one connects Marie with the
| powders or with the death. In fact
the volatile NJ. Doudieux has forgot
ten her very existence. But Marie
Bourette has not forgotten, and the
death of M. GODDARD represents only
| frustrated vengeance.
In November M Doudieux receives
| a basket of mussels, sent, according
to its tag, from an old friend, M
Larue of Caen. For several years the
two friends have not corresponded,
and NJ. Doudieux turns suddenly
alarmed, turns suspicious Just in time
to save his life He communicates
with NJ Larue and learns that the
mussels were not sent by his friend.
The gift is taken to the city labora-
tory. Each mussel is found to contain
enough arsenic to kill a man.
Now it is time for NJ. Doudieux to
|
parcel to a messenger Office in the
Rue st. Petersburg, where it was left
by Marie Bourette. Marie Bourette's
| apartment is searched and yields ur
| all sorts of poisons, in papers, bottles
and boxes, treatises on the admins
tration of poisons, and scraps OF
anonymous letters, hideous thoughts
which only an abnormal mind could
! conceive
And, caught in the web of circum
stantial evidence. Marie Bourette
faces trial for numbering man who
has never crossed her path. AL
through that trial she denies every
allegation, every statement made By
every witness She has an answer fol
every question hurled at her by the
presiding justice. That these answer.
contradicted each other matters moth
ing to her. And always she smiles
: smiles, the broad, placid, empty smil,
r which for years has cloaked the riot
, ing of the blood beneath her cain
+ exterior. She is fat now, with tn,
t pasty fairness of oncoming old age
= Her small eyes seem lost in he
pudgy cheeks, her tip-tilted nose ii
| coarse, her mouth is perpetua
D smile.
q At the End of II All.
4 Life imprisonment at hard labor i
e the sentence, and 100000 francs ar
e awarded to the heirs of her victim
s 900 francs. Nine. GODDARD will have