The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-19

"The fact is 49,. you sec
plain for you and are look
ing at the thing from totally differ
ent point of view
'iI don t understand. -
"And yet You ought to understand
monsieur lie baron. We begin
by SAYING am quoting the newspa
pers-by saying, do we not, that Bar
oness Repstem knew all the secrets of
your business and that she was able
to open not only that safe over there
but also the one at the Credit Lyon
nais in which you kept your securities
locked up?'
HYcs' -
"Well, one evening. fortnight ago
while YOU were at your club, Baroness
Repstcin, who, unknown to yourself
had converted all those securities into
cash, left this house with a travelling
bag, containing your money and all the
Princesse dc Berny's iewels7''
eyes.
"And, since then, she has not beer
seen7"
HNo.'
"Well, there is an excellent reason
.. why she has not been SEEM
"What reason2''
"This. that Baroness Repstein ha'
been murdered. -
"Murderedl The baroness
But you re mad!''
"Murdcred and probably
that same evening"
"I tell you again, you are mad! How
can the baroness have been murdered
when the police arc following he
tracks, so to speak, step by stepD
"They are following the tracks ot
another woman
"What woman?'
'fThe murderer aecomplice.
"And who is the murdercr?'
"The same man who. for the las
fortnight, knowing that Lavernoux
through the situation which he occu
pied in this house, had discovered tht
truth, kept him imprisoned forced hin
to silence, threatened him, tcrrorizet
him; the same man who. finding La
vernoux in the act Of communicating
with friend made away with hin
in cold blood by stabbing him to thu
heart
"The doctor, thcrefore7''
eyes"
But who is this doctor? Who i,
this malevolept genius, this inferna
| being who appears and disappears, wht
! slays in the dark and whom nobod,
suspects9''
s.Can,'t you guess7"
"And do you want to know?'
"Do | want to know! Why
speak, man. speak, Yo,
know where he is hiding?"
"Yes.N
..'In this house7"
eyes,
and it is he whom the police ar,
/, afteri'
ffNaa
"And ,,A | know him'''
"Who ia itG''
"Youl"
""uD >"
Lupin had not been more than ter
minutes with the baron; and the due
was commencing. The accusation wa!
hurled, definitely, violently, implaca
bly,.
Lupiu repeated:
"You yourself, got up in a false
beard and pair of spectacles, BEN
in two, like an old man. In short
you, Baron Repstein; and it is you fol
very good reason, of which nobod,
has thought, which is that, if it wa.
not you who contrived the whole plot
the case becomes inexplicable. Where
as, taking you as the criminal. yor
! as numbering the baroness in order IL
GSt lIb VI uef dnu run through those
millions with another woman. Won a,
numbering Lavernoux, your agent. il
order to suppress nm unimpeachable
witness, oh, then, the whole case j.
explained! Well. is 1t pretty clear
And are not you yourself convinced7,
The baron, who, throughout this con
versation, had stood bending over hi,
visitor. waiting for each of his word.
with feverish avidity, now drew himself
up and looked at LupiD rs though hf
undoubtedly had to do with a mad
man. When Lupin had finished speak
ing, the baron stepped back two O,
three. PAGES, seemed on the point OF
uttering words which he ended bv moi
saying, and then, without taking his
eyes from his strange visitor, went t.
the fireplace and rang the bell.
L.upip did not make movement. FL
waited smiling.
The butler entered, His master
said:
aYou can go TO bed, Antoine.
will let this gentleman out