The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
A CLASSIC
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taken money with me-for, / suppose,
ma sna was what the creature wanted. I
another domino TO come out.
Julie was furious and abusive I dis
covered that she imagined that CASTOR
tpSarcy; "a IN leaving her, had transferred
me the packet of letters
AS l went out of the box the domino
| WHO had left as / entered came back
d.nrt,rs, F6st Is the woman who killed Julie
and then I Viii viii iasSo discover & who she IS
ieu VIII never see me again"
she put her horse to a furious pace
ana reJolned the company
| Fired at From Ambush.
In the hunt of the next day Nointsl.
hlIe mhlIe riding at some distance from the
others, heard a bullet whiz by his head
~ was nred from copse. He spran1
one. Il"
He slowly rode on. and to his surprise
saw Nine. Barancos alone-her horse
stopped and gazing intentIy at a thicss >
| charging her.
Nointel fired and the boar fell dead
Almost at the same moment Mnns A.
Barancos raised her gun and fired tnIo
Sie coPse- Win scarcely a word OF ex-
pIanauon they dismOunted and entered
There they found miserable snecir,s,
OF humanity whom NointeI recoSni1ed
NIe NS[ once as low-down tool OF Simancas
s5nle, ,bnn Barancos had shot the man
6iiEousn NJ Ign me mead just as he was raising
captain. ' at inc
Simancas and Saint GauInnier had
watched Nointel and had become CO.
SSihced that he had betrayed them. They
: Ead sent this man TO kill him His frS-
| shot having missed, ne had mn on
ahead TO make another trial
MLhe. me Barancos had caught a glimpse
III H. hIIa, H. ana when she saw the CLEAN OF
| had fired. sHe
DeHthbed Confession.
! Nine. Barancos broke lin bs- bo,,-
party. went to Paris and told her sto1v
20 Roger Darcy. He had the box onsnay
summoned and Nine. Barancos, yyesriT1
tnt,, ne same anne domino that she did on the
iaIaI night. appeared before her.
was that the last dominic that had Ief,
said. IVA OPeHeL
Then she gave a clear statement q,
tered and left-a more lucid one tbap 81.
hdI before given in her agitation.
VINO could that woman be who b,5
II IelL boH . and then returned as Nine
edTdhcos "a lett? She was the murderer
There could be no doubt. But there w.;
no clew TO her identity.
Gaston and NOinteI received a hurried
| Crozon. They found the woT,aD qi - htns, M.
point OF death. The captain hung in
agony over his dying wife. She Confessed
The child is mine" said she ..br,
VINO can protect Berthe from cai1upVS'
-,,,i can ana VIII. said CASTOR. ''and
VIII adopt your child as my own
- "a me !ne erilnS woman died and Berthe
@Au SdSton wept in each others arms
The >nme Handwriting.
t,G one e,6 day Nointel saw simancas hurry
TO the Hotel DrouOUt An aurtior y. nm LIN
going on there. '''''4e "a7
When the pelisse which The co,,-. -,
| worn when he hanged himself y-s rao I'D
up Slmancas began to bid eagerly 70
II; Nolntei bid against him. He exhauSr
20 "a 'ne resources Of the Peruvian and took
r, concealed dOcuments"' he thought
piclons were correct
There were three love letters; one fro-,
In sir bairahcos, one from Mime Croz11
| firm hand -N'is'1' CleaT'
;. That That is the woman who killed Julie"
There were also clippings from P.-,,-
wan papers proving the rasCaTV rSa- u
aTIeE OF Slmancas and Saint GauIr7ia,.
ne hurTled out Of the house 10 the r1se-
Iis lstTate' and found uncle and nephew To-
I have found" said he. "a letter f-or,
me ne woman who killed Julie d'OrcivaI'
ne IAN threw suspicion upon Rerrbs
RH, SgaEe Itsn1 button upon Nine. Barancos'
huI Ut whom will this letter CinvictS - 0'
Ia!k to my uncle about il ar ,be
oLICe; SAID CASTOR Mime. Cambrav bsg
asked me 20 dine"-and he threw the -
Nltaton upon the table. 81
NOintel started back with
VINE. 'ambray wrote that he ask
GU can give me the letter. sad -
99a4SlStrate' ma and I will read it At tn
II haven't it here" stammered vof,-
Nine. Cambray. -
The Only Way.
Il have found a letter from the won,,,
who killed Julie d'OrcivaI.'' he s,i5 -
IS unsigned: but once any writing OF ms
moHI4m ey nan Is found the very peculiar writ
I fancy they must have been much
to eXtenuate her crime. The vn11a1
may have repented. I feel I would IiEs
to know what that woman would sav-
what she would advise.
Nine Cambray looked at him with
s.E. s.faGE eyes. She must eXpatiate her
she may enter a convent or Nv N soIls
remote part Of the world
feople no longer regard pernet1al
VOWS. SAID Nointel. and from the ends
or the earth one may return.
You are right" said Mime. Carnbrsv =,
turn not" u IV
When Nointel reached home he found
a note from Nine. BaranCos awaiting
him. 1t read: I love YOU and suffsr
martyrdor. I go away" That was an
The next morning there came TO bir,
Mime Cambrays maid. when handed mir,
a letter. II read Il tnlG Won yester5,y.
mat II IS only the dead who return NOT
l am going to die. Forgive me"
Dead? faltered Nointel
LAST night, replied the woman, she
TOOK quick poison which leaves no
traces. No one will know II Won srs
silent. Please burn this letter-and rho
other one. Nointel did so. Thank yoII-
said the maid-and went away.
EinsI Explanations.
Nine. Cambray left her fortune to Gas
ton Darcy. He distributed it in charity,
When Roger Darcy asked NointeI for +bs
that he had lost IL.
The magistrate OWNED all, and boved
to NointeL The subject of the crime
of the opera was never mentioned he
tween them again.
As for Nine. da Barancos. she was
heard of yachting in the Mediterranean
Capt. Nointel followed her to Palermo
and married her.
Poor jules grave. which everybody
else seemed to forget. was taken care
OF faithfully by her old sChoolmate-
Berthe Lestrel-or rather. Nine CASTOR
Darcy-wife Of the new MAGISTRATE
One word more of explanation. When
Nine. Cambray had received the IetrarS
and left the box she had discovered that
there was one missing. It was the Ons
afterward found by Nointel in the counts
pelisse.
She had returned. and furious alter