The evening world., 1911-01-10
CHAPTER VII.

WI marks OF tho rcd seals.
~ since Marie Antolne,te
herself nssir,s mo ne ,hoae fav words
in her hand ,ha, tho vbo,a story n,
the pamphlet. "a pr,nted my NJ. Mas.
sIban. 4. correc, bccau.e n nrohlem n,
IN. rtoiiov xeodio reaiiv .xis,. 7 mn
now csr,,,n 10 .ucceed
"pu, hou. wh.,her -..,utn. ~ M,
tho document, is OF no use to YOU II
Won a, p,, manage IA decIpher A. he
cnuse L.ouIs V destroyed the book
,hat rave tho exnlnnation"
yes. hut tho other COPY, which
King Louis XVII. captaln OF the
guards snotchcd from tho flames. vas
NOT DESTROYED"
.uow do Won know
.prove the contrary"
After utterlnr this defiance. Beau
,relet was silent for a time and then.
slowly. with his eyes closed az though
irving TO FIX and sum up his thoughts.
he said: f,
Possessing the secret. the captain Of
the guards begins by revealing II bit by
DIT in the Journal found by his descend
ant. Then comes sllencc. The answer
to the riddle is withheld. why? Be-
cause the temptation to make use OF the
secret crceps over him little by little
and lie gives way to Il. A proof? His
murder. A further proof? The magni-
ncent Jewel found upon him, which he
must have undoubtedly taken from
some royal treasure the hiding place OF
which. unknown TO all. would Just con-
s,itute the mystery OF the Hollow
Needle. Lupln conveyed as much to
me, L.upin was not lying
Then what conclusion do you draw.
geautreIety,
81 draw this conclusion, my friends,
that IL would be a good thing to ad-
yertise this story as mu-h as possible,
So that people may know, through ali
the papers, that we are looking for q
book cntitled The Treatise Of tn,
Needle. IL may ne nsned out from tn,
IN al sbe,yea A, Same nrovincial library
rba r,,a.ro,, ,y,. ,r,vn =, forth.
800
WIN an" "'''i.'o'
WITHOUT even waning Tor IL w pro"u'e .
result. A hrst scent suggested itseif
the murder was committed near Gallon
lie went there that same day. Certainly
| ha IiI mt hnna In Faennstflpf "A crime
,a,n.,r,,.d ,,,o ,u,d,., ve,r. ayo
nn, an a.. 80. 80 = oriu..
"u', y" - ''"'' .o ac =,
tnst ieaVe traces III me "ennor'es. !"
the traditions or a countryside. They
are recorded In the local chronicles
one day. some provincial archaeologist
Some lover ~ Old ,epends. some studen,
~ - r,I,or ,,cit.,,s n, On. No. n, IN,
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pas ",'"oN '-e"' NV uo' y" "
article III a heNsp per OF Oh a connnhu'
nication to the academy OF his depart
mental town.
Beautrelet saw three or four OF these
arcbaeo,o2ist with one OF them ir
nar,,o,Iar on ala ro,ary a.. .,,m,,.d
20 ' ~ 80
the prison records uhe ieos"s oi 'h'
OLD baiiiwichs ana the parish registers
There was no entry referring TO the
murder of a captain Of the guards In
the seventeenth century.
He refused 10 he ged and con.
tinued his search in Paris, where ths
rayistrate's xamIn,!1n might nav,
taken Mace. His effort. came 10 moth.
ing
IN, ~. ,bouvht n, ,ro,her ,rack van,
bim ON in a s~esb direc,ion Wa thar,
no chance or andiny ON the name q,
thai cnntain whose descendant servet
In ,bo armies n, tho RcnubIIc ana wa,
nrar,oroa in ,ho Temni. d,,rIng tha I'm,
n-risonment Of tho ROYAL family n,
ain, ~ n,,ien, workiny bs ended IA,
r'attna d', us, In wbi,h tue nama,
a., go, nros.r,.d n, aimos, connIe,,
o.. ~ a. arhayrta ur1a,
o',t. Wv al cI,i,an 1000 -
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T,is at'eady was nj, ,mnor,a,, noi,,
II ~, r.t,h vraoisIpn to- 49,,
a,Lh Ia - ~, - nsnar aLn'
80 IT, 81, 80
VI ~ 49,. oanaan VIZ ~
" W ,ss1,an ia N,ssrh., al
.hnn -nnmnhio, I've menher NJ IN. Ins,I
ma ',Sn r%nri,Si ., rim,
49,. ~
,li,v mo IN call vour attention IA m,
eoiinvi,r massage ur VnItaIre. which
ramc nnnn In his manuscrInt OF 81,
Sraclc 40 Jouls XIV OCl ,ntsr XIV
p,rticnlarites ct anecdotes DIN rcync)
i've rassare has besu supprrsHsd IN al
me nrIn,rd editions:
Il have heard II said by the late VI
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