The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-05-05

Tor it when l bring you the old ones
on Monday?"
NJ. Clergeot made a pretense of re-
firing; bit, just as he was going out,
he returned quickly.
Il had almost forgotten" said he;
while you are about it, you can make
the bill for twenty-s.x Thousand francs.
Your little woman ordered some dress
es. which l shall deliver tomorrow:
in this way they will be pad for
The barrister began to demonstrate
He certainly did not refuse to pay,
Only he thought he ought TO be con.
suited when any purchases were made
He didn't like this way of disposins
of his money.
What a fellow!' said the usure,
Struggling his shoulders; do YOU
want to make the girl unhappy fo1
nothing at all? She won't let you
off yet, ny friend You may be quite
sure she will eat up your new fortune
also. And you know, if you nee.i
money for the wedding, you have bu'
to give me some guarantee
While inveighing against the de
parting money-lender. the barristet
looked at his watch.
"Half-past five already" he said.
His indecision was great Ough, h.
to go and dine with his father? Coulu
he leave Madame Gerdy?
He longed to dine at the De Com
marin mansion; yet, on the othe,
hand. to leave a dying woman!
decidedly" he murmured, Il can,
go"
He sat down at his desk, and witt
all haste wrote letter of apology t."
his father AS he babe the servant
give the note to a messenger, to carr.
it to the count, a sudden though:
seemed to strike him.
Does madan's BROTHER he asked
know that she is dangerously ill?"
II DO not know, SIR replied tbs
servant, "at any rate, have not in,
formed him."
Run to his house quickly Have
him sought for, ii he is not at home;
he must GOMEZ
Noel went and sat in the sick-room
The nun was moving about the room
as though quite at nome.
Have we any CLEAN of hope, sis
ter?' he asked.
"Perhaps,' replied the nun. But |,
is important not to leave her alone a
minnta hova ,r,o pooI oil WHY, ~.
servant After the doctor has been
| here | shall lie down, and she will
watch I'm ii one in the mirning. l vii
then take her place, and
You shall go to bed, sister, inter
rnpted Noel, sadly. cit is l, who coult
| not sleep wink, who will watcl
through the night"
Old Tabaret, convinced of Albert's
! Innocence sought his release Failins
in this he went to the magistrate ant
said he wished TO keep we'll posted
in the different phases Of the invests
| cation, and to be informed of the re
suit of future interrogation HI
ended by asking permission to com
municate with Albert. He thought h.!
services deserved this slight favor. H
desired an interview OF only ten min
utes without witnesses.
M. Daburon refused this request
BY the way of consolation, he adde:
that, in three or four days he nigh
| perhaps be able to reconsider this de
cision, as the motives which prompte,
it would then no longer exist
M. Daburon only required three o
four days to wiring confession from
Albert or at least to make him aban
don his system of defense. The diff
| ficulty OF the prosecution was IN no
being able to produce any witness VIII.
| had seen the prisoner during the even
ing of Shrove Tuesday. One disposi
| ton alone 10 that effect would hav
such great weight, that M. Daburon
as soon as Tabaret had left him, turn
| ed all his attention in that direction
He arranged for five of the most ex
| perienced detectives in the secret ser
vice to be sent to Bougival, supple
with photographs of the prisoner
They had orders to show them every
where and to everybody, ard even t
leave dozen about the neighborhooC
These arrangements made, the in
vestigating magistrate sent Or Albert
He had already, in the morning, re
ceived a report, informing him hou
by hour of the acts, gestures, and ut
terances of the prisoner, who had bee
carefully watched.
What an iron constitutions!
thought M. Daburon. when the prison
Ell entered his Office.
Albert was no longer the despairin
man, who, the night before, bewilde1
ed with the multiplicity of charge.
surprised by the rapidity with whie
they were brought against him, ha
writhed teneath the magistrates gaz
and appeared ready to succumb. In
nocent or guilty, he had made up h:
mind how to act On beholding hin
the magistrate understood that b
would have to change his mode of al
tack. He therefore gave up his forme
l fontioc a. cd tn h m h