Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-03-26

"Anything new" asked as we
pushed back our chairs
No. nothing Of any importance. The
tiled In the first place. the Paris pO-
lice have never taken his Bertillon
measurements He has never been ar
rested More peculiar is the fact that
be hasn't been recognized here Tn"
police have no report of any >nch man
missing"
Tibet is peculiar. isn't IT.? com
mentra
1T very peculiar 1t means II Of
two Ihings-either the fellows friends
are hopping dark purpoSeIy or he didn't
nave any trlrnu> ,.:r i'll New YorN
ut ie#al.
"PerAaps hr had INST reached New
York and went direct to Euntine'S."
Godfrey's face lighted up.
Prom the stcailltl, OF course. |
ought to have guessed as much from
the cut of his hair lie hasn't been
out OF France more than ten days or
So. !.HttSt ttlt Il moment.
He hurried AWAY. and five minutes
passed before he came back.
y pGoncd the office to send some
men around ia the boats which am
in Yesterday. If be was Il passenger
some one OF the stewards will recog-
niZe his photograph. There were three
boats he might have come on-the Ad-
riatir and Crcilie from Chcrbourg and
La 'rouraine from Havre. There is
nothing else that | know Of" he added
thougltfully, except that Freyling-
hulscn thinks be has discovered the
nature Of the poison He says it is
some very powerful variant of prussir
acid.
Yes" | said Il heard him say
something OF the sort last night"
"Freylinghuisrn says that whoever
connected this particular poison has
evidently discovered Il new way of do
ing it-or rediscovrred an old way. In
other words. il you AN get Il fraction
of a drop of it in a mans blood you
kill him by paralysis quicker than if
you put Il bullet through his heart"
Nothing can save Il man. then?"
questioned.
Nothing on earth. l'reylinghuisen
thinks 1t is a new discovery. | don't.
l think some one has dug up one Of
the old Medici formulas. Maybe IT
was placed in the secret drawer, so
that thora u-npI1 nnvnr fn lonJ- nf
ammunition for the mechanism"
"Godfrey," said. are you still bent
on fooling with that thing?
More than yer I'm going to find
that secret drawer, and if the fangs
strike-well. I'm ready for them. See
here what had made today"
He drew from his pocket something
that looked like Il steel gauntlet such
as n e es on suits of old rmo He
slipped it over his right hand.
You see it overs the back of the
hand completely" he said. halfway
down the first joint of the fingers, II
is made of the toughest steel anG
would turn Il bullet. And do you see
wv" IL - "Vlt III ~ lloNi
Lester?"
Yes" / said II was wondering
why you had it made in that shape
~ want to get a sample Of that poi
son. Think what it is. Lester-the
poison Of the Medici!'
| sat for a moment looking at hin
half in amusement. half in sorrow
He caught my glance and put thu
gauntlet back into his pocket.
/ got out the cablegram and passed
1t across to him, He read it will
br0ws contracted.
That seems to put a puncture II
our little romance. doesn't it?' | asked
at last. 'Armand's man hasn't calico
morrow"
You will have to turn the cabine
over TO him. Of course
Why, yes. it belongs to him-a
least it doesn't belong to Vantine."
Well, in spite Of this" he said, :"
am still interested in that cabinet
Lester, and | wish you would keel
possession of it as long as you can
At least | wouldn't give it up until h
delivered to YOU the other cabine
which Vantine realty bought"
"Oh, I'll make him do that" agreed
quickly. THAT will no doubt take
few days-longer than that If Vantine'
cabinet is in Paris"
And now let US go down and hav
q look at this one" he said, "as we in
tended doing. You will think me foo
ish, Lester. but even that cablegran
hasn't shaken my belief in the exist
ence Of that secret drawer"
"And all the rest?" I asked.
"Yes." he answered slowly, land a
the rest"
ITO BE CONTINUED