Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-08-15

this is due to a series of deliberate
acts. Nine. Fauville was out ON
the night OF the murder: a plot !
She was unable to say how she
spent her time while the murder
was being committed a plot! Her
ineXplicable drive in the direction
of La Muette and her cousin
Sauverand's walk in the neighbor.
hood of the house; plots! The
marks left in the apple by those
teeth, by Nine. Fauville's own
teeth a plot and the most Internal
| of all!
81 tell you, everything is
plotted beforehand, everything is,
so t ospeak, prepared, measured
out, labelled, and numbered. Ev-
erything takes place at the APP
pointed time. Nothing is left to
chance. 1t is a work very nicely
pieced together, worthy of the
most skilful artisan, so solidly
constructed that outside happen
ings have not been able to throw
it out of gear; and that the scheme
works exactly, precisely, imper-
turbably, like the clockwork in
this box, which is a perfect SYM
boil Of the whole business and, at
the same time, gives a most accur-
ate explanation of it, because the
letters denouncing the murderers
were duly posted before the crime
and delivered after the crime ON
the dates and at the hours fore
seen"
M. Desmalions remained think
ing for a time and then objected
"Still, in the letters which he
wrote, M. Fauville accuses his
wife"
"He does"
GIVE must therefore admit
either that he was right in accus-
ing her or that the letters are
forged?"
"They are not forged. All the
experts have recognized M. Eau
ville's handwriting"
"Then?"
"Then--"
Don Luis did not finish his SEN
tence and M. Dcsmalions felt the
breath of the truth fluttcring still
nearer round him.
The others. one and all as
anxious as himself, were silent.
He muttered:
81 do not undcrstand--"
eyes, Monsieur lie Prefet, you
do. You understand that, if the
sending of those letters forms an
integrant part of the plot Matched
against Nine. Fauville and CASTOR
Sauverand, it is because their con
tents were prepared in such a way
as to be the undoing Of the vic
Tins"
what! What! What are you
saying9"
II. am saying what l said be-
fore. Once they " innocent, ev-
erything that tells against them is
part Of the plot"
Again there was a long silence.
The project of police did not con-
ceal his agitation. Speaking very
slowly, with his eyes fixed on Don
Luis eyes, he said:
whoever the culprit may be,
l know nothing more terrible than
this work of hatred"
cit is an even more improbable
work than you can imagine, Mon
sieur lie Prefet," said Perenna,
with growing animation, "and it
is a hatred of which you, who do
not know Sauverand's confession,
cannot yet estimate the violence.
[ understood it completely as
listened to the man; and, since
then, all my thoughts have been
overpowered by the dominant idea
of that hatred. Who could hate
like that3 To whose loathing had
Marie Fauville and Sauverand
been sacrificedi Who was the in
conceivable person whose. pervert.
ed genius had surrounded his two
victims with chains SO powerfully
forgedf
"And another idea came to my
mind, an earlier idea which had
already struck me several times
and to which / have already re.
1erred in Sergeant. Mazeroux' !
presence I mean the really