Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-25
Mu,,nu,s of what 1T it? What is

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terror. az curiosity caused one or two
OF the more bold to peer into the
gloomy depths OF the cab. Shriil calls
brought a couple Of gardens to the
spot. In q Louisa found her
self a unit In an eager. anxious crowd.
asking questions, conjecturing, won-
derins. horror struck as soon az u
plausible and graphic explanation came
| from those IN were in the forefront
and We're privileged TO see.
"A man-murdered-"
But hoWY'
The chauffeur got down from his
box and looked i'm =
ah. mon Dieu!"
What did he seec'
"A man n - he is quite young
only about 20 years OF age
stabbed through the neck"
stabbed? BAH"
Right through the neck, 1 tell you
just below the ear. 1 u see
the wound. quite small as if done With
a skewer."
"Allons. Voyons. voyons!" came
the gruff accents from the two portly
gardens who worked vigorously with
elbows and even feet to keep the crowd
somewhat at bay.
Louisa was ON the fringe of the
crowd. She could see nothing, of course
she did nos wish to see that which
the chauffeur saw when first he opened
the door of his cab--but she stood root
ed to the spot, feeling that strange, UNI
eXplainable fascination which one all
ways feels, when one of those great life
dramas OF which one reads Sc often and
so indifferently happens to be enacted
within the close range of ones own
perception.
She cleaned a phrase here and there
saw the horror stricken faces of
those who had seen. the placid, bovine
expression of the two gardens, more
Injured to such sights and calmly talk
ing notes by the light of the electric
standard.
But TO think that 1 drove that ras-
down safe and sound not 10 minutes
ago!" came with the adjunct of d loud
oath from the irate chauffeur.
How did it all occur?"
The gardens tried to stem the flow
of the drivers e%loquence; such details
Voyons! But what were two fat
m~ouchards against 90 stalwart idlers
all determined to hcar-and then there
were the women-they were determined
to know more.
Louisa bent her ear to listen. She
was just outside the crowd-not a part
Of it-and there was 40 really morbid
curiosity in her. 1t was only the call
OF the imagination which is irresistible
on these ~OccasiOns-the prOsy. matter
o~f-fact, high-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 the unconscious driver sped
along. ignorant of the gruesome burden
which he was dragging to its destina-
ton.
'Voila!" he was saying with man
calculations and explosives. and a vol
ley of excited gestures. "Outside the
, n v.r MANY tho fhlnfnr fNn hnt1rUanic
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
the one who had told me where to go
got out, clapped the dnor to and spoke
a few words to his friend who had re-
manned inside"
What lid he say?'
"Oh! I couldn't heal and I didn't lis
ten. But ~afterAthathe toll me to drive
| on to Boulevard Waterloo No. "a and
here 1 am"
you suspected nothing"
Nothing, how should 1? Two bour-
geois get into my cab; I see nothing;
/ hear nothing. One OF them gets out
n tells me to drive on farther. How
should I think there's anything wrong?'
What was the other mar like? The
one who spoke to your"
Ma fol! I don't know. 1t
was raining SO fast and pitch dark just
Il 4SsSAN Lay H0AC IN A4A
seem to keep in the shadow-now l
come to think of it-and his cap-he
wore a cap-was pulled we'll ver his
facc-and the collar OF his coat was UP
to his nose. It was raining so, I didn't
really see him properly. saw the
other n better-the n who has been
murdered"
But the rotund gardens had had
enough OF this. Moreover. they would
hear all about It at full length present
~. As for the crowd-it had nj bus
ness to know too much.
They hustled the excited driver back
on to his box. and themselves got into
the cab beside 1.-THE dead man,
| stabbed in the neck from to ear
the wound quite small as II 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 shiver
down her spine and her throat choked
with the horror of what she had only
guessed.