Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-05-16
THE
TEETH OF THE TIGER
MAURICE LEBLANC
TRANSLATED BY
TEIXEIR DE MATTOS
cHAPTgR SEVEN. Continued,

For, after all, she was free, en-
tirely free in her actions and
movements. The windows opening
on the Place du Palais- Bourbon
gave her every facility for leay-
ting the house under cover Of the
darkness and coming in again un-
known to anybody.
It was therefore quite possible
that, on the night Of the double
crime, she was among the muir
derers of Hippolyte Fauyille and
his son. 1t was quite possible that
she had taken part in the muir
ders, and even that the poison had
been injected into the victims by
her hand, by that little, white,
slender hand which he saw rest
ing against the golden hair.
A shudder passed through him.
BE had softly. put back the paper
In the book, restored the book in
Its place, and moved nearer to the
girl.
All Of a sudden, he caught him
self studying the lower part Of her
face, the shape Of her jaw! Yes,
that was what he was making ev-
cry effort to guess, under the
curve Of the cheeks and behind the
veil Of the lips. Almost against
his will with personal anguish.
mingled with torturing curiosity,
he stared and stared, ready to
force open those closed lips and to
seek the reply to the terrifying
problem that suggested itself to
him.
Those. teeth, those teeth which
he did not see, were not they the
teeth that had left the incriminat-
ing marks in the fruit9 Which
were the teeth Of the tiger, the
teeth of the wild beast: these, or
the other woman's2
It was an absurd supposition,
because the marks had been recog-
nized as made by Marie Fauville.
But was the absurdity of a suppo-
ritinn a c,1ffioian Cor din-
carding it,
Himself astonished at the feel
ings that agitated him, fearing
lest he should betray himself, he
preferred to cut short the inter
view, and, going up to the girl, he
said to her, in an imperious and
aggressive tone:
II wish all the servants in the
house to be discharged. You will
give them their wages, pay them
such compensation as they ask for,
and see that they leave today, def
nitely. Another staff of servants
will arrive this evening. You will
be here to receive them"
She made no reply. He went
away, taking with him the uncom-
Portable impression that had late
~ marked his relations with Flor
ence. The atmosphere between
them always remained heavy and
oppressive. Their words never
seemed to express the private
thoughts Of either Of them; and
their actions did not correspond
with the words spoken. Did not
the circumstances logically de-
mand the immediate dismissal Of
Florence Leyasseur as WELT Yet
Don Luis did not so much as think
Of it
Returning to his study, he at
once rang up Mazeroux and, low.
ering his voice so as not to let ii
reach the next room, he said:
Is that You, Mazerouxf"
Yes.
Has the project placed you at
my disposalf"
Yes."
We'll, tell him that I have
sacked all my servants and that ]
have given you their names and
instructed you to have an active
watch kept on them. We must
look among them for Sauverand' {
accomplice, Another thing: ask
the project To give you and me
permission to spend the night al
Hippolytc Fauvine' house,
NNonsensel Attic house on The
boulevard Suchetio
have every reason to Be.
lieve that something's going to
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