Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-02-04
+ 'Hon1,11e Sans Figure
A lTHE MAN WITHOUT "a FACE
|Z- By AL6ERT BoISszERE= |@
Translated From The French by Florence Creme Jones
Copyright The Frank A. Munsey Company
After all. / had not been al
BY ALBERT BOISSlERE

William was not dead.
Dr.. Kingsley, the alientist, was raw
ing lunatic. The cable message had
been rWilliam 10 mad!"
Marcadian had aged greatly In three
years. He seemed to me depressed;
his shoulders were bent, his man
ner hesitating. The lines had deep
ened on his forehead and around the
corners OF the eyes. His speech had
lost its dry and curt exactness His
eyes no longer had the shrewd, bright
look Of old. saw from his obsequi-
GUS manner how much he thought OF
the providential American who three
years ago had helped his guilty nephew
to escapa.
"Ah. MIR. Douglass" he cried. What
pleasure to see you again! You will
enter house where desolation refgns.
You received my cable message! II
was your unfortunate message from
Montreal which caused all the harm.
Why did you cable that Lucie was
dead? You gave him the last shock.
He has entirely lost his reason, and
the physicians say he will never re-
gain It,"
what is the matter with William
l asked.
HE is madden than any one OF the
patients he has had under his care in
the asylum at Saint Mande. For long
ltime re have feared 1t was coming on.
Let us hurry, ior we shall miss the
train. We will have dinner enronte.
A table is reserved for US in the dining
car"
followed him. annoyed, disappoin-
ted. The natural solution that l had
found to the message was wrong. MY
mistake was stupid.
The night was falling as we entered
the railway station. We took our
seats In the dining car, and Marcadian
and I sat face to face at the little
walnut table, with Its shaded pink
lights.
"voyons. Maitre Marcidian; tell
me all about It," said.
EIe settled himself ready for his din
ner and then began:
II must 20 back to the time when
yon left Europe. three. years ago, and
tell you what think you already
lknow-that -, the idiot. was my
|nephew and that it was Evelyne's
brother who killed Mr.. Kingsley"
when William came over to Ameri-
ca he told me of this strange coincid-
|ence." I replied.
st is more than strange coinci-
dence, p,s said Marcadian., there was
the finger of Providence in It,
"The finger" repeated; with sar-
casm, Say more likely the entire
~ orNo -
"The' five flngers!"
Eyes, the entire hand Of Millionaire
Kingsley, who had brought about Is
marriage with Lucie Well after having
arranged that he should become Theo-
dors Douglass, my adopted son. But
never mind about Teddy or Kingsley.
Tell me more about the doctor"
"Mr. Douglass. If you had listened
to me. when said to you, before the
marriage. that there was a serious
reason why my niece could not marry
DR.. Kingsley all this would never have
happened. But also was to blame.
i was the lawyer in charge Of DR.. King
sley's affairs, and ought to have at
tended to business only and have oc-
cupied myself simply with the case OF
the little milliner and have got her out
OF that house in Neuilly, where she
was locked up, and made things
smooth for him to have married her,
instead Of trying to make match be
tween him and my niece. She was q
beautiful girl. and ought to have
known that the doctor would not get
over -assion for her so quickly. and
| ought to have foreseen what might
happen. have made a great mistake.
/ was guided ,by what ! thought to be
Evelyne's interest. Ny brother-in-law,
the sculptor Barrabas- YOU remember
the affair, Mr.. Douglass
CAS- though 1t were yesterday.
s'Well. Barrabas left me in great
responsibility End did all Iii my
power to promote, as thought, Eve
lyne's happiness and to find her a
secure position in society, which could
only be obtained tE.-- ugh brilliant
marriage, but everything has been
against u.s."
'Are you not exaggerating? said
AS filed up his wine glass. do you
not think. son the contrary, that fate
has served YOU as II the events Of the
last few years have been really d1rec-
ted by slsillful hand!
"Mr. Kingsley's hand, suppose you
mean"
Ellis hand, or another's. Your
nephew Polydore has paid the penalty
of his crime, but he paid 1t under my
name. That saves the honor OF your
family. Thanks to me, Nine. Lncfe
has not deprived the doctor OF a part
of his fortune. Then yonr niece has
two beautiful children. Is that not
great Joy for her In her affection II
she has not the happiness OF q wife,
she has the joys of a mother. Tell
me some details of the doctors IL
ness"
"What details can l give you? You
can 70 and see him. He Is IN the
asylum at Saint Mande."
"At his own place!' I cried.
"In his own clinic, which two years
ago was taken over by one OF his col
leagues. He was friend Of Williams.
He is in Cell No, Is. Do you femem-
ber?''
IS "1n Cell No, 13." I cried. I'm the
same cell as ="
'In the very same cell where You
-..'--rsT. ---h~xv Dr,JvAnra