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

Words! F" | exclaimed, Two Eng
lish words meaning
Go on, old chap.
And / went on and the next letters
formed two more words, which | sepa,
rated as they appeared. And, to my
great amazement, a complete English
sentence lay before my eyes,
"Donc'' asked Lupin, after time.
"Done!" BY the way,
there are mistakes in the spelling.
"Never mind those and read it out,
please Read slowly
Thereupon ] read out the Following
unfinished communication. which | will
set down as it appeared on the paper
in front Of me:
'Take no unnecessary risks. Above
all, avoid attacks, approach ennemy with
great prudance and
| began TO laugh.
And there YOU arc. Fiat lux.
We're simply da2ed with light. But,
after all. Lupip, confess that this ad-
vice, dribbled out by n Kitchen maid,
doesn Z help you muchi
Lupin rose, without breaking his
contemptuous silence, and took the
sheet of paper.
| remembered soon after that. at this
moment, | happened to look at the
clock. IL was eighteen minutes pnst
Gve.'
Lupin was standing with the paper
in his baud, and | was able at my
case to watch. on his youthful fea-
lures. that extraordinary mobility Of
expression which battles all observers
and constitutes his great strength and
his chief safeguard. BY what signs
can ono hope to identify 4 face which
changes at pleasure. even without the
help of makeup, aud whose every tran
sient expression seems to he the finsl /,
definite cxprcssion7 BY what
signs? There was ono which ] knew
well. an invariablc sign: Two little
crossed wrinkles that marked his fore
head whenever he made a powerful eff
fort OF concentration. And I saw it
at that moment. saw the tiny telltale
cross, plainly and deeply scored.
He put down the sheet of paper and
muttered
"Child g playi'
The clock struck half past FIVE.
What" I cried. "Have you sue
ceeded? In twelve min
utesl -
He took few steps up and down
the room, lit a cigarette, and said:
You might ring up Baron Repstein,
if YOU don t mind. and tell HIM ]
evening"
"Baron Repstein7'' I asked. "The
husband of the famous baroness?'
fYes.'
"Are you scriousf'
FQuite serious.'
Feeling absolutely at loss, but in
capable of resisting him, ! opened the
telephone directory and unlocked the
receiver. But, at that moment, Lupin
stopped ME with peremptory gesture
and said, with his eyes on the paper,
which he had taken up again:
I" No, don I say anything. &.
It s. no use letting him know. g.
There g something more urgent, &.
. a queer thing that puzzles me. ,
Why on earth wasn't the last
sentence flnished7 Why Is the SON
He snatched up his hat and stick:
"Let s be of. If ! IN not mistaken,
this is business that requires I'M
mediate solution; and 1 don't believe
/ am mistaken
He put his arm through mine, as We
went down the stairs, and said:
81 know what everybody knows.
Baron Repstein, the company promoter
and racing man, whose colt Etna won
the derby and the grand priI this
The wife, who was we'll known for
her fair hair. her dress and her ex-
travagance, ran away fortnight ago,
taking with her a sum Of three million
francs, stolen from her husband, and
quite collection Of diamonds, pearls
and jewelry which the Princesse de
Berny had placed in her hands and
which she was supposed to buy. For
two weeks the police have been pur-
suing the baroness across France and
the continent: an easy job, as she
ecatters gold and Jewels wherever she
goes. They think they have her every
detective, the egreeious Ganimard, ar
rested visitor at big hotel in Bel.
GUM. woman against whom the most
positive evidence seemed to be heaped
mp, On inquiry, the lady turned out
to be q notorious chorus girl called
Nelly Darbal. As for the baroness, she
has vanished. The baron, on his side
has offered a reward OF two hundred
thousand francs to whosoever finds his
wife. The money is in the hands of q
solicitor. Moreover, he has sold his
racing stud, his house on the Boule
ward Haussmann and his country sent
of Roquencourt in one lump. SO that
he may indemnify the Prlncesse dc
Berry for her loss
'fAnd the proceeds of the sale,'
added. care to be paid over at once
The papers say that the princess will
have her money tomorrow. Only
frankly, I fail to sec the connection
between this story. which you have tolG
very well, and the puzzling sentence
Lupin did not condescend to reply
We had been walking down the
street in which / live and had passed
some four or FIVE houses, when he
stepped off the pavement and begar
to examine block of fats. not OF
the latest construction, which looked
as if it contained large number o1
tenants:
According to my calculations" hi
said, "this is where the signals came
from, probably from that open win
dow
son the third foor.''
Yes
He went to the FORTRESS and asked
her:
"Does one Of your tenants bapper
to be acquainted with Baron Rep
steinf''
"Why. of coursel' replied the WON
an. "We have NJ. Lavernoux here
such a nice gentleman: he is the bar
on s secretary and agent. I look afte,
his fat;
"See him? The poor gen