The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-02-20

ARE you not chief of this bureau,
Colonel Jarras?"
NO." snapped Jarras; "and there's
no bureau now-at least no bureau for
the Foreign Division"
Speed leaned forward and said:
Scarlet, my friend, the Foreign Di-
vision Of the Imperial Military Police
has been abolished"
who the devil did that?" asked
savagely.
"Mornac."
Mornac! The Emperor's shadow!
Then truly enough it was all up with
the Foreign Division. But the shame
of it!-the disgrace of as faithful a
body Of police, mercenaries though
they were, as ever worked for any
| cause, good or bad.
As we sat there in silence, a soldier
came to summon Colonel Jarras, and
he went away, leaning on his ivory
headed cane, head bowed over the
string of medals on his breast.
When he had gone, Speed came over
and shut the door, then shook hands
with me.
He's gone to see Morpao; it will
be our turn next Look out for Nor
nae, or he'll catch you tripping in your
report"
Look here" l said, angrily, "how
can Mornac catch me tripping? I'm
not under his orders"
''Icu are until you're discharged.
You see, they've taken 1t into their
| heads, since the crucifx robbery, to
suspect everybody and anybody short
of the Emperor. Mornac came smelling
around here the day you left. He's
at the bottom of all this-a nice bust
ness to cast suspicion on our division
because we're foreigners. Cad, he
looks like a pickpocket himself-he's
got the oblique trick of the eyes and
the restless finger movement"
Perhaps he is" l said
Speed looked at me sharply.
eff l were in ths service now I'd
arrest Mornac-if ] dared"
Then soldier appeared to summon
| porary bureau.
At a careless mol from Mornac l
muttered the formal II have to report,
sir" and began mumbling a per-
| functory account Of my movements
since leaving Parts.
l told the truth as far as I went,
which brought ME to my capture by
| Uhlans and the natural escape Of my
| prisoner, Buckhurst / merely added
that l had secured the diamonds and
had managed to- reach Paris via Stras-
| bourg
He listened very quietly while told
of my encounter with Buckhurst in
Morsbronn, of our journey to Saverne,
to Strasbourg. and finally by own ar
rival in Paris.
Where is Buckhurst?" he asked.
81 do not know" [ replied, doggedly.
THAT is to say that you had him
in your power within the French lines
yet did not secure him."
Eyes. There wss something more
important to do tfan to arrest Buck
hurst l had every reason to believe
that an important conspiracy was be-
ing ripened somewhere near Paradise.
l had every reason to believe that the
robbery Of the crown jewels might fur
nish funds for the plotters.
1.-The arrest of one man could not
/ break up the conspiracy; l desired to
trap the leaders; and to that end l
deliberately liberated this man Buck
hurst as 2 stool-pigeon. If my judg-
ment has been at fault, l accept the
blame"
Mornao examined his carefully kept
fnger-tips in detail.
you say he bribed your"
81 said he attempted to do So" l
replied, sharply.
with the diamo1ds?"
Eyes"
"You have thenP'
ST deposited theh as usual"
Bring them"
Angry as l was, l saluted, wheeled,
and fastened off 20 the safe deposit.
THE jewelbag was delivered when /
presented my printed slip; l picked
it up and marched back, savagely bit
ing my uustache and striving to con-
troll my increasing evaporation.
Never before had l endured insolence
from a superior officer.
Mornae was questioning Speed as
entered, and he lhlled in his chair with
an abseut-mindeG expression like the
expression of cat who pretends to
forget the mouse between her paws.
(TO BE rONTINUED.)
How IL it that a woman will often