The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-05-29
CONTINUED from last week.)

Placide aughed. MADAME forgets
that 1 am an old Partisan a l
was in the service of Madame de Stem
lis a month, in the service of Madame
d'Harlancourt for a week; with Ma
dame de Greux till l left her to better
my morals; with Madame de Gervais
till had no morals left. Here ! found
theI handkerchief Of Monsieur de Sar-
tines under a chair, here under a boil
ster."
do you dare to say"
"Oh, madame, l say nothing against
your honor Monster de Sartines is
compounded Of a minister of police and
q man of gallantry. 1t was not the man
of gallantry who left this handkerchief
lying by your bureau.
But the minister of police?"
'I fear So, madame"
upon me?"
II fear SO, madame"
why should l fear the minister OF
police?"
'why should all Paris dread him,
madame?"
II have nothing to conceal"
"Perhaps madame has friends. !
speak only for madame's safety. but in
these times ones friends are some
times ones greatest enemies.
Madame Linden paused for a moment
In thought, then she broke out.
III CdHuOI pc. I1S 40 6SiiIASAhiaAis q
noble. He-to come here as a common
spy. Impossible! Impossible! To me,
accredited to the court of France
to me-. Impossible! Impossible! He
must have called. Magot must have ad-
mitted him; she is stupid; and perhaps
showed him up here. Go down and
ask her. Quickly"
Placide left the room and madame,
placing the handkerchief on the table
turned to the bureau and opened the
top drawer.
mo, everything is in order. lmpos-
sible! Impossible!"
Almost Immediately h had taken
the top letter from among the papers
in the drawers, opened it and glanced
at the writing. 1t was from a work
ing dressnaker, to whom she had in
trusted the alteration of a gown, in
closing a pattern OF n lining LOT ma
DANES approval.
ma fol- said she, IT had forgotten
this. / should have written to say. that
the color was correct, and now, with
out doubt, the dress will not be fin
ished in time before I leave Paris. But
where is the pattern of the lining",,
The letter was just a square piece OF
paper folded after the fashion of the
time. It had been fastened by a wafer.
She distinctly remembered replacing
the tiny pattern in the folded paper;
what, then, had become of it? 1t was
no longer III the letter. g
She cast her eyes about, and there,
| on the floor. lay the discriminating pat
tern.
She stopped, picked it up and at thai
! moment Placide entered the room.
Madame said Placide. "Margot
knows nothing of the matter He
ceased and stood staring at his mis-
tress. It seemed to him that she had
changed, become another woman; an
elder sister of herself. He glanced al
the open bureau drawer.
Madame has been robbed?"
Robbed! Ishave been outraged. Ny
papers a been tampered with, my
letters opened. Oh, mon diu! Tha-
perfuEnea policeman, that spy in the
coat Of a minister: picklock, thief
Wait. Oh, wait and we shall see ]
will go to the king. I will apply tc
b dauphiness." She flung herself or
the fauteuil and sat, leaning sidewise
beating the floor with her foot, pale
to the lips, just as IL anger had picked
her up, flung her there and stunned
! her.
She. who had always been accus