Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-28

year." Hippolyte Fauville ex-
planned. 81 used to make my cleo
trical experiments in this room and
was afraid of being spied upon,
80 l closed the aperture opening on
the roof"
And he added in q low voice:
They have been providing
around me for a long time"
The two men went downstairs
again.
Fauville looked at his watch.
"A quarter past 10: bedtime. l
am exceedingly tired, aud you will
excuse me-
1t vas arranged that Perenna
and Mazeroux should make them
selves comfortable i'll a couple of
easy chairs which they carried into
the passage between the study and
the entrance hall. But, before bid
ding them good night, Hippolytc
Fauville, who, although greatly
excited, had appeared until then to
retain his self control, was seized
with a sudden attack Of weakness.
He uttered a faint cry. Don Luis
turned around and saw the sweat
pouring like cleaning water down
his face and neck, while he shook
with fever and anguish.
whats the matter? asked
Perenua.
Tim frightened Tn fright
enedl" he said.
"This is Madness" cried Don
Luis. "Aren't we here, the two
of use We can easily spend the
night with you, il you prefer, by
your bedside"
Fauville replied BY shaking Per
emma violently by the shoulder, and
with distorted features. stammer-
ing:
"If there were 10 Of you--if
there were 20 Of you with me, you
need not think that it would spoil
their schemes! They can do any
thing they please, do you hear,
anything! They have already
killed Inspector Verot-they will
kill me-and they will kill my son..
Oh, the blackguards! My God,
take pity on me! The awful ter
ror of it! The pain I sufferi"
He had fallen on his knees and
| was striking his breast and re-
peating:
20 God, have pity on me! 1
can't die! | can't let my. son die!
Have pity on me, I beseech Theel's
He sprang to his feet and led
Perenna to a glass fronted case,
which no rolled back on its brass
castors, revealing a small safe built
into the wall.
"You will find my whole story
here, written up day by day for the
past three years. If anything
should happen to me, revenge will
be easy"
He hurriedly turned the letters
of the paddock and, with a key
which he took from his pocket,
opened the safe.
It was three-fourths empty; but
on one Of the shelves, between
some piles Of papers, was a diary
bound in drab cloth, with a rubber
band round it. He took the diary,
and, emphasizing his words, said:
"There, look. it's all in here.
With this, the hideous business can
be reconstructed. There arc
my suspicious first and then my
certainties. . Everything, ev-
erything how to trap them
and how to do for them. 90 You
will remember, won t youf A diary
bound in drab cloth. I'm put
ing it back in the safe"
Gradually his calmness re-
turned. He pushed back the glass
case, tied q few papers, switched
on the electric lamp above his bed,
put out the lights in the middle Of
the ceiling, and asked Don Luis
and Mazeroux to leave him.
Don Luis, who was walking
round in the room and examining
the iron shutters Of the two win
dows, noticed . door opposite the
entrance door and asked the en9i-
neer about it..
II use it for my regular eli
ents." said Fauville, "and some-