The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-21

was really bit too stiff -
Its impossible! IL s impossiblc. -
said NJ. Dudouis. in ii low voice.
On the contrary, chief, il ) quite
possible and quite logical and quite nor
mai. It's the thFeerold incarnation OF
one and the same individual school
boy would solve the problem in min
ute, by simple process or elimina-
ton. Take away the dead man; there
remains Sparmiento and Lupin. Take
away SparmIento -
There remains Lupin,'' muttered
the chief detective.
Yes, chief, Lupin simply. Lnpin in
five letters and two syllabes, Bupin
taken out of his Brazilian skin. Lupin
revived from the dead, Lupin translated,
Tor the past six months into Colonel
Sparmiento, travelling in Brittany, hear
ing OF the discovery of the twelve ia
pestries, buying them, planning the
theft OF the best of them. so as to draw
attention TO himself, Lupin, and divert
1t from himself, Sparmiento. Next. he
brings about, in full view OF the gap
ing public, NOISY contest between Lu-
PIN and Sparmiento or Sparmiento and
Lupin, plots and gives the house-wurm
ing party. terrifies his guests and, when
everything is ready, arranges for Lupin
to steal Sparmiento s tapestries and Tor
Sparmiento, Lupin S victim, To disap-
pear from sight and die unsuspected,
unsuspectable, regretted by his friends,
pitied by the public and leaving behind
him, to pocket the profits Of the swim
die. ~
Ganimard stopped, looked the chief in
the eyes and, IN voice that empha
sized the importance of his words, CON
cluded:
Leaving behind him disconsolate
widow -
:. Mime. sparmiento! You really be-
Heve. 7'
Hang it ALL" said the chief inspec-
tor. ''Peoplc DON I work up whole
business or this sort, without seeing
something ahead OF them solid
profits. -
''But the profits, it seems to me, lie
pm Will effect In America or else
where
First of all, yes But Colonel Spar
miento could effect that sale Just as
well. And even better. So there's
something more"
Something more?'
HCome, chief, you re forgetting that
Colonel Sparmiento has been the victim
of an important robbery and that,
widow remains. So it IS his widow who
will get the money"
"What money?''
;'What money! Why, the money due
to her! The insurance money, of
course!''
M. Dudouis was staggered. Tho
whole business suddenly became clear
to him, with its real meaning He NUT
tered:
"That,s true. = :. That's truel
b. The colonel had insured his ta-
No ir,n
s.Ratherl And for no trifle either"
"For how much7"
Eight hundred thousand francs
Eight hundred thousand2'
Just so. In five different com
panies'
"And has Nine. Sparmiento had the
money!"
"She got hundred and fifty thou
sand francs yesterday ana Two hundred
thousand today, while / was away. The
remaining payments are to be made in
the course Of this week"
But this is, terrible! You ought to
have. -
FWhat chief' To begin with, they
took advantage Of my absence to settle
up accounts with the companies l only
heard about ~ on my return when | ran
up against an insurance manager whom
happen TO know and took the oppor-
tunity OF drawing him out.
The chief detective was silent for
some time, not knowing what TO say.
Then he mUmbled:
''What a fellow, thought
Ganimard nodded his head:
Eyes, chief. blackguard, but,
ran t help saying, a devil OF Il clever
fellow. For his plan to succeed, he
must have managed IN such q way that, |
fpnr ur1alsS lI !
express or even conceive the least sus-
oiclon of the part played by Colonel !
eDarmiento. All the Indignation and all |
he inquiries had TO be concentrated |
Ipon Lupin alone. In the last resort, |
people had to find themselves faced |
simply with mournful pititul. penni- /
ess widow, poor Edith Swan-neck, n
and legendary vision, crea-
.ure so pathetic that the gentlemen of
he insurance companies. were almost
,lad to place something in her hands TO
eilcve her poverty and her grief. That S
What was wanted and that what hap
)ened.
The two men were close together and
I'D not take their eyes from each
ther faces.
The chief asked:
so Who is that womanl'
"Sonia Kritchnoff, -
''Sonla krltchnotlf'
''Yes. the Russian girl whom I ar
ested last year at the time of the theft
I the coronet, and whom Lupin helped
o escape
Are you sure9'
Absolutely, | was put off the
cent, like everybody else, by Lupip S
and had paid no particu,
rr attention to her, But, when 1 knew
he part which she was playing, | re- !
rendered. She IS certainly Sonia.
into an Englishwoman: I
onia. the most innocent looking and the
rickiest o, actresses; Sonia, who would |
OF hesitate to face death for love of ;
upin.' i
ga good capture, Ganimard,' said ]
[. Dudouis, approvingly.
81 'yc something better still for you,
iief,'
"Really' What?'
Lupin IS old fostcr-motber
"Victoirc?'
S'Shp has boeu herp siure Mn, Sn,-