The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-09

| to the widow, publicly, OF course, be
cause you love playing to the gallery
mountebank that you are. That was
al very nicely thought out. Only, my
fine fellow. you ought not TO have sent
me the selfsame notes that were stolen
from Dugrival Yes. you silly fool, the
selfsame notes and no others! We
knew the numbers, Dugrival and 1 did.
And you were stupid enough to send
I the bundle TO me. Now do you under
stand your folly7'
Lupin began to laugh,
"It was a pretty blunder, confess.
[ IN not responsible; / gave different
orders. But all the same l can't blame
any one except myself
"Ah, so you admit it, You signed
your theft and you signed your ruin at
the same time. There was nothing left
to be done but to find you. Find you7
No, better than that. Sensible people
don 7 find Jupin; they make him come
to them. That was n mastery notion.
/ 1t belongs to my young nephew, who
loathes YOU as much as I do, If pos
sible, and who knows you thoroughly.
through reading all the books that
have been written about you. He knows
f, your prying nature, your need to be
always plotting, your mania for hunt
ing in the dark and unraveling what
others have failed to unravel. He also
knows that sort of sham kindness of
yours, the driveling sentimentality
that makes YOU she'd crocodile tears
over the people YOU rictimize. And he
planned the whole farce. He invented
the story of the two burglars, the sec
ond theft OF fifty thousand francs!
oh, ] swear to you, before heaven, that
the stab which ] gave myself with my
own hands never hurt me- And ] swear
to you, before heaven, that we spent a
glorious time waiting for you, the boy
and I, peeping out at your confederates
who prowled under our windows, TAX
ing their bearings! And there was no
mistake about it; you were bound to
come, Seeing that you had restored the
Widow Dugrival's fifty thousand
francs, it was out Of the question that
you should allow the Widow Dugrival
| to be robbed of her fifty thousand
francs. You were bound to come. at
You were bound to come, for swagger,
out Of vanity! And you camel! -
Tho widow gave strident laugh.
| Well played, wasn't it7 The Lupin
Of Lupins, the master Of masters, mac
cessible and invisible, caught in a trap
by woman and a boyl Here
he is in flesh and bone here
he is with hands and feet tied, no more
dangerous than sparrow here
he Isl -
She shook with 10y and began to
pace the room, throwing sidelong
glances at the bed, like wild beast
that does not for moment take It's
eyes from its victim. And never had
Lupin beheld greater hatred and saw
agery in any human being.
Enough of this prattle,' she said.
Suddenly restraining herself, she
stalked back to HIM; and in a quite
different tone, in a hollow voice, lay
ing stress on every syllable:
''Thanks to the papers in your
pocket, Lupin, I have made good use
Of the last twelve days, I know all
your affairs, all your schemes, all your
assumed names, all the organizations Of
your band, all the lodgings which you
even visited one of them, the most sec
ret, the one where you hide your
papers, your ledgers and the whole
story Of your financial operations The
result of my Investigations is very
satisfactory. Here are four checks,
| taken from four check books and cor
responding with four accounts which
you keep at four different banks under
four different names, I have filed in
each of them for ten thousand francs.
A larger figure would have been too
risky. And, now, sign
| "By Joyei' said Pupin, sarcasti-
cally. "This is blackmail, my worthy
Nine. Dugrival.'
"That takes your breath away,
whatP"
cit takes my breath away, as you
HAnd you find an adversary who is
a match for you7'
"The adversary is far beyond me-
So the trap-let us call II internal
the internal trap into which l have
fallen was laid not merely by widow
thirsting for revenge, but also by a
| first-rate business woman anxious TO
| increase her capital?'
"Just so. -
"My congratulations, And, while
think of it, used NJ. Dugrival perhaps
"You have hit it, Lupin, After all
why conceal the factf 1t will relieve
your conscience. Yes, Lupin. Dugravil
used to work on the same lines as your
self. Oh, not on the same scale! :.
We were modest people; a louis
two which we trained Gabriel TO pick
up at the races. And, in this
way, we had made our little pile
just enough to buy small place in the
country
"I prefer it that way" said Lupin.
| ''That's all rightl l IN only telling
you so that You may know that 7 am
| not beginner and that you have noth-
ing TO hope for. A rescue7 No. The
room in which we now are communi-
Gates with my bedroom. 1t has private
outlet OF which nobody knows IT was
Dugrival's special apartment. He used
TO see his friends here. He kept his
implements and tools here, his dis
guises no hope, you see. Your
| accomplices have gwen up looking for
you here, I have sent them off on an.
other track. Your goose is cooked, DO
you begin 20 realize the position''
eyes
'fThen sign the checks
and when [ have signed them. shall
l be free?'
.'I must cash them first
"And after that7''
"And after that on my soul, as
hope to be saved, YOU will be free
"I don Z trust you.
Have you any choicel 4
"That' s true, Hand me the checks. -
She unfastened Lupin's s right hand.
gave him a pen and said,
"Don Z forget that the four checks
require four different SIGNATURES and