El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-15


car is due to arrive at , o'clock
4 sharp. You viii wait for me at
Tie Care des Invalides."
Yes, your excellence.
4 believe that is all for today. AN
revoir."
"Au revOir. your excellency."
When he left the prime minister,
whose private secretary ne was, NobIet
found CormOntreuiI waiting for him in
the antechamber, with a smile on his
! lips.
Now it was very much against the
well as to visit the antechambers Of
ministers. NOblet understood that
something extraordinary must have
happened. What2 He had a suspicion.
Have you succeeded" he asked
COrmOntreuH burst out:
Yes ! have succeeded. 1 have over
come all obstacles; cOlOrphOtOSraphy
reproduced from an ordinary single
negative is now a fact, thanks to the
COrmOntreuin process"
That means fame and wealth %
you" NOblet exclaimed. Il congratulate
you most heartily
Thanks. ] IAN up here right away
because I wanted to tell the news Of
my success to somebody who loved
me"
NobIet felt embarrassed. He did not
walked together through Avenue
Marigny he listened to his words with
out interest What did he understand
about ali these chemical processes OF
which his friend was always Eibberlnis.
NOblet had been violently IN love with
the late Nine. COrmOntreuil and to ger
near her he had always pretended to lie
Immensely interested in Photography
and chemicals Now that Suzanne was
dead he could not very well declare
that he did not care a bit more sOr
chemistry than for COrmOntreuil
Certainly this was not time to throw
overheard the friendship when COrmOn-
treul was about to become famous and
might help him in his political career.
So Noblet cried enthusiastically:
This is indeed one Of the happiesr
days of my life
Thank you. my friend, thank you.
said COrmOntreuiI with tears in MS
eyes.
I wish could do something TO help
your discovery along" went on NOb-et.
You are the only man who can
said Cormontrcuil, and to tell you -he
truth I was counting on your assis-
lance"
But how am to help your
Listen NOblct. NV new invention
must create a sensation Now since
the car comes to Paris tomorrow /
thought that a fine portrait of him IN
natural colors and sent to number Of
influential people
wait. The police arrangements
tomorrow forbid the public to get near
the platform When the car arrives, but
YOU as the minister's secretary, can set
very close to the car"
You want me to take a snapshot
Yes, I viii give you small camera
WHICH nobody viii notice, it is easy
enough
But I cannot use my position TO DO
wen, let us say no more about IT."
said CormOntreul evidently annoyed
1T is the first thing have ever asked
from you and 1 really did not imagine
you would refuse to do me this slight
Noblet felt that he had made mis-
take. he must remain the friend OF this
You don't let me finish" he said
i said that it was now quite in order
To use my position to do such a thing
but I will do it for your sake"
The next evening Paris heard that
an attempt mad been made to murder
the cZar, as he left his car.
A paragraph in the evening papers
said;
AT the moment when the car ap-
preached the prime minister, the lat
ter's secretary NJ NOblet. fired a shot
e him from revolver concealed IN
camera, but fortunately the bullet went
wild and was found imbedded in the
side OF the car The murderer was
seized on the spot and tainted. When
he recovered consciousness he swure
that he did not known what the cam
era had concealed a revolver. and said
that it had been given to him by a GER
tain Cormontreuil. who claimed to
have invented a new Photographic pro-
cess.
while the ear, greeted with en-
thusiasm by the crowds outside drove
to the Palias Elysees, the police
searched COrmOntheuirs rooms where a
laboratory for the manufacturing Ct
bombs and internal machines was
found. The anarchist, OF course, had
fled as soon as he knew that his plan
had failed.
rs NOblet an accomplice or victim
He claims that COrmOntreUn acted
from personal motives, and that ne
chose him to fire the shot, because he
suspected him OF having had a love af-
fair with his wife Thus he hoped to get
him into trouble. NOblet has been un-
able to prove the truth of this SO
much is certain, however, that n.
Noblet is not a fit person to fill the
position Of private secretary to The
prime minister"