The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-05-16
monotonous snoring, Of his com

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Can I have been mistaken7'
| he wondered. 81 Did the clue in thai
lyoll1me of Shakespeare mean some
thing clse9 Or did it refer Ite
events of last year, events that
Itook place on the dates set downf'
/ In spite Of everything, he fell
/ overcome by strange uneasiness
as the dawn began to glimmel
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 Z o clock he called out:
/ :" Alexandra +,
"Eh9 What is it. chief"
" You re not dead7"
What's that9 DeadY No, chief
why should / be2''
Quite sure ~
Well, that s a good 'un! Why
not your
aOh, it'll be my turn soon! Con-
lsidering the intelligence Of those
lscoundrels, there's no reason why
they should go on missing me"
They waited, an hour longer.
Then Perennasopened a window
and threw back the shutter.
/ say, Alexandra, perhaps you
are not dead, but you are certainly
very green. =
Mazerouy gave a wry laugh:
Upon my word, chief, / confess
that I had a bad time Of it when
I was keeping watch while you
were asleep. =
Were you afraid9"
To the roots Of my hair. 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
He interrupted himself, on see
ing an expression Of unbounded
establishment on Don Luis face.
What's the matter, chief?''
Look - on the table =
that letter.
He looked. There was a letter
on the writing table, or, rather, a
letter card, the edges Of which had
been torn along the perforation
marks; and they saw the outside
of it, with the address, the stamp.
and the postmarks.
Did you put that there, Alex
andre7v
You're joking, chief. You
know it can only have been you. I,
It can only have been i = i :
land yet it was not I. Z
S But then
Don Luis took the letter card
and, on examining it, found that
the address and the postmarks had
been scratched out SO as to make
/ 1t 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 January, 49,.
SO the letter is three and half
months old, = said Don Luis.
He tsfaled to the inside Of the
letter 1T contained a dozen lines
and he at once exclaimed:
Hippolyte Fauville' 5 sigma
! turc -
And his handwriting, Oh.
served Mazeroux S / can tell it at
a glance. There s 40. mistake about
that. What does it all meanY "a
letter written by Hippolyte Eau
vile three months before Ills
death a
Perenna read aloud
/ NY Dear Old Friend: can only. alas
confirm what I wrote to you the other
Iday:: the plot Is thickening around me!
do not vet know what their plan Il
and still less how they mean rs put Il
Into execution; but everything warns
me that the end Is 81 hand. can see il
IN her eyes. How strangely she looks
4 at me sometimesl ssss
Oh. the shame Of It Who would
lever have thought her capable 81 ii!
am very unhap py man. my dea1
friend
S And it s. signed Hip Ute Eau.
willie, Mazeroux ontinued d, and
declare to you that II d actually
Fin his hand y ! & writ len 81 the
18th Of January of this ear to 4
/ friend whose name we don & know,
though We shall dig him out some:
how, that III swear 4And this
friend will certainly give I'LL the
proofs we w t. 81
| N1azcrollx was bee ming excited.
q Proofs M hy, we don /, need
Them hey rc here. Fauville