The Washington times., 1912-02-20
THE TIMES DAILY SERIAL STORY
m n c, 49, By GORON,
OF the French
Ns DuhSAy NASSe tcOpyigh. 1911 Frank a Muny Company
By GORON.

/ We. are lost" his wife replied
LOST How? What has happened?''I
Il met Dufreny, and / am sure that
he knows everything"
A grayi3h pallor crept over her hus-
bands face, but he tried to reassure
her
"Mais, non," he said. 1T may be
nothing lie Is all words"
1T is with words one is taken to the
scaffold. We must escape at once.
TO do so would be to admit"
What does II matter, II we can get
| gulllotine."
"You are the cause of all this" he
| cried, with your continual fiirtations
| That Johannes first, and Dufreny after
| IL you had mot tried to fascinate that
detective he never would have got sus-
picious"
You don't know what you say. Yes
| or no, are you coming with me?"
knock at the door. The two
wretches looked at one another In ter ter;
] ror But It was only a clerk who had
4 come to ask a question.
| we will go to Havre, and from there
| take the boat to America" continued
Sabine. when the clerk had left the
days. We will see, but we must leave
the house at once"
"Ah, mon Dieu! To have worked so
| hard, and to have such a splendid posi-
ton, and then to come to this" said
the merchant, despairingly
They left the office together. Barnet
Dufour took all the money he had. His
| wife went home, and after sending her
maid out on an errand, packed all her
jewels and Joined her husband in a
brasserie in the Fabourg- Saint Martin.
From this moment all trace of them
was lost. Nine. Barnet Dufour had
left her house before the watch had
been stationed there. At daybreak the
oommssaire of Courevaile (who was
now a commissaire in Paris) went to
| the house with Dufreny.
Pousse- Pousse, Salslfs and Fila
Reurre we're on the watch. The con-
cierge was astonished when he saw
the representatives of the law calling
at such an early hour. but all the same
he made a profound obeisance before
the tricolored sash worn by the COM
rnissairc.
IN. ct Nine. Barnet-Dufour?" said
/. the magistrate.
Monsieur and madame are probably
upstairs" said the man; that is, If
, madame returned last night. I saw her
go out at o'clock, carrying a small
bag. The femme de chambre Is still
there and she will tell you. The other
: servants started two days ago for the
/ Riviera; they have all gone but the
lady's maid. Madame is going shortly; =
Madame went out yesterday; said
|, the maid, when the commissalre en-
tered the merchants home. Monsieur
. was going to see friend at saint
} Cloud and madame went with MN. She
Iefrt this note" The girl held out a
; paper to the Commissaire.
He read:
Ma Bonne Melanie: ,,,
1t is getting late. and am Obliged
TO 10 before you return. Do not be
l anxious II we don't return until To-
morrow afternoon. .. b. -,
and you have not seen her since
said the magistrate. ,, .,5
{ Non, monsieur lie commissaire,' said
the maid, casting down her eyes. Il
4 passed the night with my sister, who Is
e You can tell that 20 the Judge"
"Oh, mon Dieu! What has hap
2 Everything in the merchants home
4 was in order, but both he and madame
= had escaped.
''Thev have trICked mel" cried Du-
a frenzy, but I'll have them yet, sw swear.
and Fil-a-Beurre had already learned
!. We might go after them" suggested
a That's what we're going to do nov,
. boys, and sooner or later I'll pinch
. them" said Dufreny, , A.,
t 4 little crestfallen, he returned to the
G awaited him.
; they had just received u packet COP
. tanning seventy-one thousahd-franc
notes and a letter which read:
do not search longer for the one who
robbed NJ Lapollonier. | am repen;-
ant, and I return the money, less one
= | EOte for thousand francs, Wmch nave
= spent -,,.,>o,,,
"ONE WHO FEELS REMORSE."
They learned later that the thief was
A the concierge of he building, who him
q self h1d been the chief witness against
. Leon Laruchc.
. And the records Of the police show
+ that in S short while Dufrcny made
: good his threat that he would pinch
4 NJ. and Mime. ct-pufour. They will
never be liberated.
S CHE ENID