The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-12


;sieur le lrefet. II will not take
long for two reasons. frat. be-
cause M. laauville's confessions
remain at our disposal and we
know definitely the monstrous
part which he played; and, see
ondIy, because, after all. the
truth. however complicated it
may seem, is really very simple.
:" 1t all lies ia The objection
which YOU, Monsieur liz Prefet,
made to me on leaving the
wrecked house ON the Boulevard
Suchct: 'liow is il, you asked,
that the Mornington inheritance
is not mentioned in llippolyte
Fauville = confession q 1t all lies
in that, Monsieur lc Prcfet. Hip
Ipolytc Eallville did not say a
word about the Inheritance and
| the reason evidently is that he
did not know Of it.
And the reason why CASTOR
Sauverand was able to tell me his
whole sensational story without
making the least allusion to the
inheritance was that the inherit
ance played no sort of part in
Castor Sauverand' S story. He,
too, knew nothing oil it before
those events, any more than Marie
Fauville did, or Florence Levas-
seur, There is no denying the
fact: Hippolyte Fauville was
guided by revenge and by re-
venge alone. II not, why should
he have acted as he did, seeing
that Cosmo Mornington's mil
lions reverted to him by the full
est of rights9 Besides, if he had
wished to enjoy those millions, he
would not have begun by killing
himself.
Zone thing, therefore, is GER
tain: the Inheritance in no way
affected Hippolyte Fauville's re-
solves or actions. And, never
theless, one after the other, with
inflexible regularity, as if they
had been struck down in the very
order called for by the terms of
the Mornington Inheritance, they
all disappeared: Cosmo Morning
ton, then Hippolyte Fauville, then
Edmond Fauville, then Marie
Fauville, then CASTOR Sauverand.
First, the possessor Of the for
tune; next, all those whom he had
appointed his legatees; and, | re-
peat, in the very order in which
the will enabled them to lay claim
to the fortune
Is it not stranger" asked
! Perenna, and are we not bound
to suppose that there was con-
trolling mind at the back of it
all? Are we not bound to admit
that the formidable contest was
influenced by that inheritance,
and that, above the hatred and
4 jealousy Of the loathsome Eau
willie, there doomed being en-
dowed with even more tremen-
dous energy, pursuing tangible
aim and driving to their deaths,
one by one, like so many mum
4 bered victims, all the unconscious
actors in the tragedy Of which he
tied and Of which he is now un-
tying the threads ?''
4 Don Luis leaned forward and
continued earnestly:
Monsieur lie Prefet, the pub.
lie instinct so thoroughly agrees
with me, a section Of the police
with M. Weber, the deputy chief
at its head, argues in a manner
so exactly identical with my own
that the existence Of that being
is at once confirmed in every
mind. There had to be some one
TO act as the controlling brain, te
provide the will and the energy
}, That some one was myself. After
all, why not? Did not I possess
: the condition which was indis
pensable to make any one inter
ested in the murders? Was | no
4 Cosmo Mornington S heir9
81 will not defend myself /
!. may be that outside Interference
: it may be that circumstances, vii
X Ioblige you, Monsieur 1e Prefet, tt
,ltake unjustifiable measure
! against me; but / will not insul
9 you by believing for one secont
that you can imagine the maj
: whose acts you have been 35le t
Judge for the last two month
e capable Of such crimes And We
: the public instinct is right in &C
q tcusing me.
Apart from Hippolyte Eau
t Vile, there is necessarily Grim
linal and that criminal is neces
! a 80. &c..