The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-16
monotonous snoring of his COM

events OF last year, events Una!
took place on the dates set DOWN.
In spite Of everything, he felt
overcome by a strange uneasiness
as the dawn began to glimmer
through the half closed shutters. A
fortnight before, nothing had hap
pened either to warn him and yet
there were two victims lying near
him when he woke.
AT 7 o'clock he called out,
"Alcxandre
"Eh7 What is it, chief"
you're not deadf'.
What's that? Dead7 No, chief
why should l be?"
Quite surc9"
"Well, that's a good 'un! Why
not youY"
ooh. it II be my turn soon! Con.
sidering the intelligence Of those
scoundrels, there's no reason why
they should 60 on missing me-"
They waited an hour longer
Then Perenna opened a window
and threw back the shutter.
II say, Alexandra, perhaps you
are not dead, but you r certainly
very green"
Mazerouy gave a wry laugh:
upon my word, chief, I confess
that l had q bad time of it wher
| was keeping watch while you
were asleep"
Were you afraid"
"To't the roots of my hair. l kept
on thinking that something was
going to happen. But you, too
chief, don't look as if you had
been enjoying yourself. Were you
also"
He interrupted himself, On see.
ing an expression Of unbounded
astonishment on Don LUIS face.
What's the matter, chief"
"Look! on the table -
that letter."
He looked. There was a letter
OH the writing table, or, rather, @
letter card, the edges of which ha6
been torn along the perforatior
marks; and they saw the outside
of it, with the address, the stamp
and the postmarks.
Did you put that there, Alex
andrea"
You're joking, chief. You
know it can only have been you
1T can only have been l 's
and yet it was not l."
4But them
Don Luis took the letter care
and, on examining it, found that
the address and the postmarks hac
been scratched out so as to make
it impossible to read the name Of
the addressee or where he lived
but that the place of posting was
quite clear, as was the date
Paris, 4~lJanuary, 80.
$50 the letter is three and a hall
months DID," said Don Luis.
He turned to the inside of the
letter. 1t contained a dozen line:
and he at onee exclaimed:
"Hippolyte Fauville's sigma
ture!"
"And his handwriting" OBJ
served Mazeroux. 81 can tell it a.
a glance. There s no mistake abou'
that. What does it all meant A
letter written by Hippolyte Eau
vile three months before hi,
death
Perenna read aloud:
My Dear Old Friend: i can only, alas
confirm what ! wrote to you the othe,
day: the plot is thicllening around me
| do not yet know what their plan Il
and still less how they mean to put /
into execution; but everything warns
me that the end Is at hand. I can see 1
in her eyes. How strangely she look.
at me sometimes!
"Oh. the shame Of 1t! Who woul,
ever have thought her capable Of 1t
i am a very unhappy man, my dea
friend.
and it's signed Hippolyte Eau
ville," Mazeroux continued, "anc
| declare to you that it's actual,
in his hand written on TIL,
18th of January Of this year to
friend whose name we don't know
though we shall dig him out some
how, that I'll swear. And thi
friend will certainly give us tn,
proofs we want"
Mazeroux was becoming excited
"ProofsY Why, we don't neet
them! They're here. M. Fauvill,
himself supplies them The end i
at hand. I can see it in her eyes.
Her refers to his wife, to Mari,
Fauville, and the husbands evi
dence confirms all that we knew
against her. What do you say
chief"
You're right" replied Pcren
ia, absent mindedly, "you'r
right the letter is final. Only
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