The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-16

con;ha nmou :, scum of the earthl' growlcd
And | thinking l was giving Won 9
treat! Upon my word, / did. G said
10 10 myself, That dear old Ganimard
we haven t met for an AGE To 5I
simply. rush at mo when he secs mni5 y
Ganlmard, who had not Vet stirred
hmo, seemed to be waking from bis
stupor. lie looked around him, looked
at bupln, ,vlslbly asked himself wbetb-
~ ne would not do well to rush at him
tooi' - iieal,Iy ana then, controlling himself
took hold OF a chair and settled him,
sell In 1t, as though he had suddenly
MADE up hIs mind to listen to his en-.
emy: ' u"
Speak" he said "ana don
waste my time with any nonsense. I I'M
III hurry ~
- That's it." said Lupin, "let,s IS talk
You can { imagine a quieter place than
1nls. us an old manor house, which
bnIe STOOD IN the open country, and II
belongs to the Due de Rochelaure. The
duke, who has never lived in il, let's
Inls 1loor to me and the outhouses to
painter and decorator. I always keen
up few establishments Of this kind
1T. a sound, practical plan. Here in
spite of my looking like a Russian no.
6leman, /! am M. Daubreuil, an ex-cab
met minister. a :, You understand. T
had to select rather overstocked pro
tession, sc. as not to attract atten-
"Do you think 7 care hang about
ALL this?'' said Ganimard, interruptinc
him.
quite right, / M wasting words and
YOU re in a hurry. Forgive me. /
shan't be long now. Five minutes
that's all I'll start at once.
Have cigar? MOI Very well. no more
He sat down also, drummed his fin.
gers on the table, while thinking, and
began in this fashion:
ON the 18th of October, 1899, on
warm and sunny autumn day. Do
you follow meG But, now that I
come to think of it, is it reall v neces-
sary to 60 back to the reign Of Henry
", and tell you all about the building
of the Pont-Neuf9 No. I don It sup
pose you are very we'll up in French
history; and ! should only end by mud.
ding you. Suffice it, then, for you to
know that. last night, at l O'Clock in
the morning. boatman passing under
said, along the left bank of the river,
heard something drop into the front
part of his barge. The thing had been
flung from the bridge and its evident
destination was the bottom of the
Seine. The bargee's dog rushed for
ward, barking, and, when the man
reached the end Of his craft, he saw
the animal worrying a piece Of news
paper that had served TO wrap up
number Of objects. He took from the
dog such Of the contents as had not
fallen into the water, went to his cabin
and examined them carefully. The re-
suit struck him as interesting; and, as
the man is connected with one of my
friends, he sent to let me know. This
morning | was woke up and placed in
possession of the facts and of the OBJ
iects which the man had collected.
Here they are,
lie pointed TO them. spread out on
a table. There were. first of all, the
torn pieces of newspaper Next came
a large cut.glass inkstand, with a long
piece of string fastened TO the lid,
There was a bit of broken glass and
sort Of flexible cardboard, reduced 10
shreds. Lastly, there was a piece of
bright scarlet silk. ending in tassel
of the same material and color,
"You see our exhibits, friend OF my
YOUTH said Lupin, No doubt, the
problem would be more easily solved if
we had the other objects which went
overheard owing to the stupidity of the
cog DuJ IL setulS W ulc, al Ibc SdhtJ
that we ought to be able to manage,
with little reflection and intelligence,
And those are Just your great quail
ties How does the business strike
your
Ganimard did not move muscle. He
was willing TO stand Lupin IS chaff, but
his dignity commanded him not to
speak n single word in answer nor even
to give a nod or shake OF the head that
might have been taken TO express APP
proval or criticism.
E'I see that we are entirely Of one
mind continued Lupin. without ap-
pearing to remark the chief inspector s
silence, "And / can sum up the mat
ter briefly. as told us by these exhibits.
Yesterday evening, between and IL
O clock, n SLOWLY dressed young won-
an was wounded with knife and then
caught round the. throat and choked
to death by well-dressed gentleman,
wearing a single eycglass aud inter
ested in racing, with whom the afore,
said showily dressed young lady had
been eating three merngnes ana q COZ
fee eclair,
Lupin lit a cigarette and, taxing
Ganimard by the sleeve;
"Aha, that's UP against you. chlel
Inspector You thought that IN the
domain OF the police deductions such
feats as those were prohibited TO out
siders. Wrong, sir! Lupin 1uggles,
with differences and deductions for al
tho world like detective in novel.
NV proofs are dazzling and absolutely
simple
And, pointing to tho objects one by
one, as he demonstrated his statement
II said. after o o'clock Yesterday
evening This scrap OF newspaper
hears Yesterdays date with the words,
Evening edition Also, you vii see
here, pasted TO the paper. a bit OF one
of those yellow wrappers III whlcn, tne
subscribers copies are sent out. THESE
COPIES are always delivered by the
O'Clock post Therefore. II was after
q o'clock. ] said well-drcssed man.
Please observe that this tiny piece OF
class has the round hole of slneie
eveglass at one of the edges and that
the single eyeglass is an essen9aliy
aristocratic article of wear. rms
we'll dressed man walked into pastry
cook shop. Here is the very thln
cardboard, shaped like box, and stu
showing a little Of the cream of the
meringnes and eclairs which were
packed in IL in the usual way, HAY