The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-08

approaching, anu |, was decided Dy the Wentworths to go to Paris and accept an invitation tS visit Trudeau's family at their chateau R0t far distant from the capital. 'rrHdSau was to accom- pany them. They, found hls relatives to be eminenty refined and were great ly pleased with the intended connee- ton. a ---so eaglat re7e e
 But the marriage wNs destined notto take place.
 At that time there was In Paris Jules Chartier. one ee these dueiistB of the earlier parI of the nineteenth century each uf whom tried to make a longer list of victims according to the code dUello than my of his predecessors. These persons have disappeared, and dueling is noW only practiced in -Frraune hy those Rho consider that they have cause, and even these e1- pect ouly nttle bloodletting.
 A painting of Trudeane was hunR in the salon One day when the artist was present chatting with frfende who were admirlBg his work Charter stop ped before If and began to ridicule It Trudeau flushed and utads a re mark irunical to the ctitfc's knowledge of art. Charter lightly slapped the artist on the cheek!g r-t g
 1t seems strangs that 6 system which justified murder sh0uld ever have prevailed. The insult which was given publicly, forced FEBdsau to chal- lenge the man who had slapped him or be forever taboOcd by his assoeisteA He had DO skill whatever with any weapon. and the affair must result tn his being vanguished and probably kill ed He kueW that he must suGer death and wiRhed to bid -a iass fare well to hia RanceA But this was not permitted. She might take meaSureS to-preyent hts sighting and thus diS- grace him.
 The morning after the insult Tru- deau and ChsrtIer met in the BoiS de B6nlogne. and the latter added one more name te the list of men he had killed Trudeau's death wRD great shock to VirteB Wentworth. Her paEN ents toes her sway from Paris at once to Switzerland. for tho hot sea- son wss on. and the mountain air was considered best for the stricken girl
 In September EeuwoTthy reached Parts on bis way to KDSriea. TRseS ha happened to hear that . young artist named Trudeau had been killed ia duel and, en inquiry, that Bertha Townsend had lost her eetrothed- He gathered all thS tnforrHatieD possible concerning the aerRir. and 1t was plain to him that tts rival. or, rather, the man Whe had prevented htn from winning Yiyiep WentWorth'S love. had been murdered. Furthermsrs, hs was told that Chartier was inyulneraoie He was an. expert with every weapon from the dirk to the -claymore, from the derrtnger to the rife.
 No one" sabd Esnworthy'B inform ant, "ean hopS to conquer Charter eX' cept through his nerve. Naturally he is a coward. It iB the certainty that hls skin win protect An and enable him to kIn his eppoasnt thAt keeps him cutting Eotahss >oR the csne which hsarz tho uunshsr of 5bis victims. NeV' ertheless he has spleRdiG nerve, and. this being tho only possible avenue through which b attack him, he iG lia ble to die a natural dsath In his bed"
 Kenworthy dwelt pu this statement a long While-a maH with splendid nerve whom an epeny could hope to attack only thn6ugh that nerve How might the nerve be attackedf He learned that Chartier. like most Frenchmen, had been born a Roman Catholic, though he lad never been to mass or confessleR since hls boyhood. KenworthY went toia priest and sub mitted a plan for bringing Chartier back into the fold. but if this were not practicable, to :preEent bis con- mIttfnG any more mnrdsrs.