The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-05-01
Ole MINISTER
1|S q POLICE
M ~ HENRY MoNTJOY
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~ HENRY MONTJOY

right 1914. 1he Bobbs-MerrM Company.
A tall dark man, with a saturine cast
OF countenance, q man well-dressed n
carrying a portfolio under his arm q
overtaken him.
Walk beside me- said this person,
and do not show any sign OF surprise
at what / ay, Or raise our voice. !
am being followed. All is over, at least
for the present. The police have made
a perquisition at the Rue Saint JAG
CUES. Barthelmy and C%onflans are ar
rested. / as the head center am on the
edge OF arrest, this portfolio is only q
blind, 1t contains nothing of import
ance, but I hav with me a small
packet, 1t contains paper and the
names of the committee, their adj
dresses abroad and in Paris, and the
to intrust it to you"
i am leaving Paris for Vienna" said
De Lussac, shocked at this hand which
the conspiracy had suddenly laid on his
shoulder. n
Good, will you take 1t with YOU till
we can reconstitute ourselves, but you
must not keep it on your person.; bury
it, hide it, till you leave, lest you should
be arrested and 1t be found on you"
II will do SO" replied De Lussac.
But that is not all, there is a
counter-stroke De Sartines, who has
us In his power, Is in our power if we
can only act. You are the person who
must act so as to free us. You are a
free agent, there is no evidence against
you and o are 80 highly placed that
they dare not arrest you on suspicion as
they have ~Bartholmy and Contains and
as they will most likely me. Dieu! the
perspiration pours from me when I
think h some hand may be laid on
my ould before 1 have time to tell
you. Listen! The people are starving.
De Sartines, Terray n the king, with
your kins1nan, De Richelieu for assist
ant, ave bought up all the corn avail
able, using as agent a man, Monsieur
P~orcheron. of Vitry. A contract has
been signed with Porcheron, that con-
tract has De Sartines' name upon it,
that contract is in the house of your
kfnsman. De Richelieu, and that con-
tract you must secure. Once it is in
your hands you have De Sartines in
your power. and the release of Con-
fans and Bathelmy follows: we can
then reconstitute ourselves and go on
working"
But how does this contract place
De Sartines in our power?"
SAID the stranger, speaking slowly,
patiently. as if explaining to a child:
The people are starving, the price of
raising h price Of corn and bread?
Who. but the c~onspirators of whom
De Sartines is the chief. They have
Withdrawn half the corn of France
0 the markets to sell it at the
highest figure
"Dieu!" cried DE Lussac, suddenly
compromising. What a villiany! IL
this We're proved"
III 1t were proved, the people would
tear De S%artines to pieces or hang him,
and the king, to save his name, would
give them the rope"
Is the kings name upon this con-
tract"
There is no name but the names of
Dc Sartines and Porchercn."
And with this contract in ones
hand 81 :
DE Sartines will be entirely in your
power"
Are. youtsure it is in the possession
of the duc?'
Certain. agents are never mis-
taken. it is in his house at Versailles.
Have you dined with Monsieur lie Due
lately?"
No"
IF you had, you would have been
waited on by a footman of exceptions
ally good mannrs and appearance. He
was one of us-Larnport-a mar YOU
nave never seen; he was there to Sc
cure this document, but he was arrest
ed last night. Besides CONTAINS and
~Barthelmy, dozen of smaller men have
DeeH arrested.
Does the Duo de Richeieu suspect
that Lamport Joined his service In or
der to secure the paper?"
on, no. the corn merchants fancy
themselves secure in their ipfamy and
rightly, for the thing has been done
In most entire secrecy. 1t was Porch
eron's wife who betrayed the matter
to an agent of ours. Love, my friend.
is very useful in affairs Of this kind
De Lussac s~huddered.
But & document of this sort-hoW
ist?"
How comes it? Do you intrust a
man Win millions Of francs to pur-
chase millions of sacks of corn through
SO subagents without a written con-
tract, without a receipt, without the
names OF HI subagents and small
corn factors being mentioned? All
these are in the document with the
De Sartines' to the state
ment, This is in order"
And you wish me to abstract this
paper from the house of my cousin.
Monsieur lie Due de Richelieu?"
NO, monsieur, l order. you to do So"
All. true" De Lussac remembered
for the first time fully. that he was in
the presence of his chief. He remem-
bered, for the first time. the terms Of
his oath, ito help, regardless Of all
things, and at the chance Of death.
any brother under arrest or in attic
ton
There vas no use in grumbling. there
was no use in saying, ITO help these
men I must. under the guise of friend
ship and kinsmanship, enter the house
of Monsieur lie Due dc Richelieu and
commit, or attempt to commit, a petty
theft" The thing was horrible and
revolving to his nature, but it had to
be done, or attempted. Regardless Of
all things He had sworn to those
words with his eyes open and of his
own free will. He never imagined that
his honor as a gentleman would be re-
CURED of him.
I will do it," he said, pale to the
lips, but speaking in a firm voice.
THE document said the other. lis
presumably in the %escritoire in the IL
brary of Monsieur lie Due. He keeps
there his most important papers It
may no be there, but on the chance,
Lamport, selling his opportunity. made
a wax impression Of the key. To get
at the key that man had to visit the
Suc,s bed room at the risk of his life,
q. dead of night; to open a drawer in
which the due places his rings. his
watch. and his keys; to take out a
bunch of aayan keya wifho, tho b,,,,b