The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-04-18

b door OF his cab-but she stood root
ed to tie spot, feeling that strange, UNI
explainable fascination which one al
ways feels. when one of those great life
dramas of which reads SO often and
SC 1ndifrelsently happens to be enacted
within the close range of ones own
perception.
She cleaned a phrase here and there
saw h horror stricken faces OF
those who had seen, the placid, bovine
expression Of h two gardens, more
Injured to such sights and calmly TAX
Ing notes by the light of the electric
standard.
But to think that I drove that ras-
cally murderer In my cab, and put him
down safe and sound not 10 minutes
aaso c2s;c WITH the !. ct g land
oath from the irate chauffeur.
How did 1t all occur?"
The gardens tried to stem the flow
OF the drivers eloQuence; such details
Should first be given to the police.
Voyons! But what were two fat
mouchards against 20 stalwart idlers
all determined to hear-and then there
We're the women-they were determined
to know more.
Louisa bent her ear to listen. She
was just outside the crowd-not a part
OF 1t-and there was no really morbid
curiosity in her. It was only the call
of the imagination which is Irresistible
on these occasions-the prosy, matter
%of-fact, htgh-bred girl could not, just
then, tear herself away from that cab
and the tragedy which had been enact
ed therein, in the mysterious darkness
whilst he unconscious driver sped
along. ignorant of the gruesome burden
which ne was dragging to its destina-
ton.
"voila!" he was saying with many
Calculations and explosives, and a vol
ley of excited gestures. Outside the
Pare near the theater two bourgeois
hailed me, and one of them told me to
draw up at the top of the Galerie st.
Hubert, which 1 did. The same one
got out. clapped the door to and spoke
a few words to his friend who had re-
NAMED inside"
What did he say?"
oh! l couldn't hear and I didn't lis
ten. But after that he told sac-tc drive
on to Boulevard Waterloo No. "a and
here I am"
"You suspected nothing?"
Nothing, how should I? Two bour-
geois get into my cab; I see nothing;
I hear nothing. One OF them gets out
and tells me to drive on farther. How
should think there's anything wrong? ~
What was the other man like? The
one who spoke to your"
Ma fol! I don't know. 1t
was raining so fast n pitch dark just
outside the pare lights-and he did
seem to keep in the shadow-now I
come to think of it-and his cap-he
wore a cap-was pulled well over his
face-and the collar of his coat was up
to his nose. It was raining SO, I didn't
really see him properly. 1 say the
other n better-the one who has been
murdered"
But the rotund gardens had had
enough Of this. Moreover, they would
hear all about 1t at full length present
ly. AS for the crowd-it had no bust
ness to know too much.
They hustled the excited driver back
on to his box, INT themselves got into
the cab beside 1.-THE dead man,
stabbed in the neck from ear to ear
the wound quite small as If 1t had been
done with a skewer.
The gardens ordered the chauffeur
to drive to the commissariat, and Lou
lisa turned away with a slight SILVER
down her spine m her throat choked
with the horror Of what she had only
guessed.