Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-03-19

| Hnnappy years, ana noW-nOw COQue-
Nil Informed him calmly that he was
not sailing.
II have just made a decision. the
most important decision OF my life."
continued the detective. "and I want
you 20 know about IL. You are the
only person in the world who will
know-everythlng. So listen! This
afternoon I went into Notre Dame
church. saw a young girl there
who sells candles. ! didn't know her
but she looked up IN q queer way. as
II she wanted 20 speak To me. So /
went 20 her. and-Wsll. she told me OF
a dream she bad last night"
"A dream2" snOrted the commissary.
$50 she said She may have been
lying. or she may have been put up to
It. know nothing about her. not
even Der name. but that's OF no con
sequence The point Is that in this
dream. as she called Il. she brought
together the two most important
events In my life"
III m, What was the dreamT"
''She says she saw me twice-once
In forest near a wooden bridge.
where 3 man with q beard was talk
ing To r woman and a little girl; then
she saw me on boat going to a place
where there we're black people"
That was Brazil"
Il suppose so. And there was n
Burning sun With a wicked face IN
side that kept looking down at me
/ She says she often dreams OF this
I wicked face. She sees it 6rst In a dis
tant star that comes nearer and near
er until IL gets TO be large and red and
angry AS the face comes closer her
fear grows until she wakes with n
start OF terror She says she would
die OF fright II the face ever reached
Der before she awoke. That's about
all"
For some moments the commissary
did not speak. Ibid she try TO inter
pref this dream7"
No"
why did she tell you about itT'
she acted on a sudden impulse. so
she says. I'm inclined 10 believe her
But never mind that Pougeot'
rose IN agitation and stood leaning
over his friend-"in that forest scene
she brought up something that ism
known. something I've never even told
/ you. my best friend"
ITEMS! what Is thatT
You think l resigned from the po-
lice force two years ago. don't your
''Of course"
Every one thinks so. Well. Il isn't
true. didn't resign. was dis
/ charged"
NJ Pougeot stared I'm bewildeFment.
as II words failed him. and hnauy he
repeated weakly: Discharged Paul
/ COquenil dischargedr'
Yes, SIR. discharged from the Paris
detective force for refusing TO arrest
murderer. That's how the accusa-
ton read"
But Il wasn't trueT'
| Judge Tor yourself IL was the
case OF poacher who killed a guard.
l don't suppose you remember itY"
Down near Saumur. wasn't itT'
Exactly. And e WAS near Saumur
found him after searching all over
France. We were clean OF the track.
and made Up my mind the only way
d TO get him was through his wife and
child. They lived In a little house IA
the woods not far from the place OF
the shooting. I went there as a ned
der IN hard luck. and played my
part 50 well that tie woman consent.
f ed TO take me in as a bOarder. For
weeks IL was a waiting game would
so away on peddllng tour and then
/ come back as bOerder. Nothing devel.
, oped. but ! could not get rid OF the
feeling that my man was somewhere
near In the woods"
zone OF your intuitionS. WelI7~
We'll. az last the woman became
convinced that they had nothing 20
fear from me. and she did things more
openly. One day I saw her put some
food In basket aud give Il TO the lit
tie girl. And the little girl went OF
with the basket into the forest Then
I knew l was right and the next day
followed the little girl, and. sure
enOugh, she led me 10 a rough cave
where her father was hiding. I hung
about there FOR an hour OF two. and
1nally the man came out from the
cave, and ! saw him talk to his wife
and child n"ar a bridge over a noun
tain torrent"
The picture that girl saw In the
1 uIedm.
yes; III never forget II had my
pistol ready. and he was defenseless.
and once ] was just springing forward
TO take the fellow when be bent over
and kissed his little girl don't know
how you look AT these things. Pou-
geot but / couldn't break In there and
take that man away from his wife aud
child The vComan haH haar kfnA -
me and trusted me. and-well. IL was
q breach OF duty. and they punished
me for IL But couldn't do IL 4
| couldn't do It. and ! didn't do it,
And you let the fellow goY'
Il let him 80 then. but got him n
week later In a fair fight. man to
man. They gave him ten years"
And discharged you from the
force?"
"Yes-that is in view OF my past
services they allowed me to resign
Coquenil spoke bitterly.