The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-08-08
"At the last minute
SAT the last minute"

"O0AA 0oOe
and not give way until the crucial
moment. You must have had q
bad time Of it, my poor Mazeroux
for OF course you agreed with me
from the start"
He kept on eating while he
talked and each mouthful seemed
to bring back a little Of his usual
animation.
Funny thing, hunger!" he
said. "Makes you feel so light
headed. I must practise getting
used to it, however"
cat any rate, chief, no one
would believe that you have been
fasting for nearly 4S hours"
"Ah. that comes of having q
sound constitution, with some.
thing to fall back upon! 1 shall
be a different man in half an
hour. Just give me time to shave
and have a bath"
When he had finished dressing,
he sat down to the breakfast OF
eggs and cold meat which Maze.
roux had prepared for him; and
then, getting up, said:
Nov, let's be off,"
"But there's no hurry, chief
Why don't you lie down for a few
hoursf The project can wait.
you're mad! What about
Marie Fauville9"
"Marie Fauvillef"
"Why, of course! Do you think
I'm going to leave her in prisor
or Sauverand, either9 There's not
4 second to lose, old chap"
Mazeroux thought to himself
that the chief had not quite re
covered his wits yet. What: Re.
lease Marie Fauville and Sauve.
rand, one, two, three, just like
that! No, no, it was going a Bit
too far.
However, he took dewn to the
projects car a new Pcrenna
merry, brisk, and as fresh as
Though he had just got ont OF
bed.
Every flattering to my PRIDE
said Don Luis to Mazcroux, "most
f1attering, that hesitation of the
project S, after 1 had warned him
over the telephone, followed by
his submission at the decisive mo.
nent. What a hold I must hav:
"a all these jokers, to make them
sit up at a sign from little me
Beware, gentlemen I telephone
to them from the bottomless pit
'Reware! At 3 o'clock, a bomb |!
|'Nsnsense!' say they. Not a Bit
of it!' say l.. How do you
knowi' Because I do But what
presf have your what proof
That [ say ooh, we'll Of course,
if you say sol And at five minutes
to 8, out they march. All, if
wasn't built up of modesty-''
They came to the Boulevard
Suchet, where the crowd was 50
dense that they had to alight from
the car. Mazeroux passed through
the oerden of police protecting
the approaches to the house and
took Don Luis to the slope across
the road.
"Wait for me here, chief. I'll
tell the project of police"
One the other side of the boule.
ward, under the pale morning sky
in which a few black clouds still
fingered, Don Luis saw the havoc
wrought by the explosion. 1t was
apparently not so great as he had
expected. Some of the ceilings
had fallen in and their rubbish
showed through the yawning cav.
tiles Of the windows but the house
remained standing. Even Eau.
ville's built out annex had not suf.
fered overmuch, and, strange to
say, the electric light, which the
project had left burning on his de.
parture, had not gone out. The
garden and the road were GOV.
cred with stacks of furniture, over
which a number of soldiers and
police kept watch.
"Come with me, chief" said
Mazeroux, as he fetched Don Luis
and lea him toward the engineer
workroom.
A part Of the floor was demol.
ished: The outer walls on the left
near the passage, were cracked
and two workmen were fixing ur
beams, brought from the nearest
timber yard, to support the cell.
Ing. But, on the whole, the explo.
sion had not had the results which
the man who prepared it must
baye anticipated.
M. Desmalions was there, to.
gether with all the men who had
spent the night in the room and
several important persons from
the public prosecutors office
Weber, the deputy chief detective,
alone had gone, refusing to meet
the enemy.
Don Luis arrival caused great
mi