The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-04-11

"But, chief" spluttered Mazer-
oux, utterly nonplussed.
What! Must I drag the words
out of youG Come on! I'll make a
start. It has to do with the man
with the ebony walking stick,
hasn't it? The one we saw at the
Cafe du Pont-Ncuf on the day
when Inspector Verot was MUIR
dered7"
Eyes, it has"
Have you found his t~racesf'
"Yes.n
"Well, come along, find your
tongue! !"
Its like this, chief. Some one
else noticed him besides the wait
err. There was another customer
in the cafe; and this other Gus
toner, whom l ended by discover.
ing, went out at the same time as
our man and heard him ask
somebody in the street which was
the nearest underground station
for Neuilly."
Capital, that. And, in Neuilly,
by asking questions on every side,
you ferreted him QUIT"
And even learned his name,
chief: Hubert Lautier, of the Ave-
nue. du Roule. Only he decamped
from there six months ago, leaving
his furniture behind him and talk.
ing nothing but two trunks"
What about the post ~officef"
eve have been to the post Of
flee. One of the clerks recognized
the description which we supplied.
Our man calls once every eight or
10 days to fetch his mail, which
never amounts to much: just one
or two letters. He has not been
there for some time"
lis the correspondence in his
name?"
"No, initials"
Were they able to remember
them?"
Eyes: B. r. w. s."
lis that all?"
THAT is absolutely all that |
have discovered. But one of my
fellow officers succeeded in prov
ing, from the evidence of two de-
tectives, that a man carrying a
silver handled ebony walking stick
and a pair of tortoise shell glasses
walked out of the Care d'Auteuil
on the evening Of the double muir
der and went toward Renalagh.
Remember the presence of Nine.
Fauville in that neighborhood at
the same hour. And remember
that the crime was committed
round about midnight. I conclude
from this"
THAT will do; be off,"
But -"
"Get!'
"Then | don't see you again7"
"Meet me in half an hour out
side II mans place"
what MANI"
Marie Fauvillc's accomplish"
"But you don't know -"
"The address? Why, you gave
it to me yourself: Boulevard Rich
ard Wallace, No. s. Go! And
don't look such a fool"
He made him spin round on his
heels, took him by the shoulders,
pushed him to the door, and
handed him over quite flabber.
gasted, to a footman.
He himself went out q few min
utes later, dragging in his wake
the detectives attached to his per-
son, left them posted on sentry
duty outside a block of flats with
a double entrance and took a mo-
tor cab to Neuilly.
He went along the Avenue de
Madrid on foot and turned down
the Boulevard Richard Wallace,
opposite the Boise de Bologne.
Mazeroux was waiting for him in
front of a small three stored
house standing at the back Of a
court yard contained within the
very high walls Of the adjoining
property.
us this number eight"
Yes, chief, but tell me how"
Zone moment, old chap; give
me time to recover my BREATH
He gave two or three great
gasps.
Lord, how good it is to be up
and doing!" he said. Upon my
word, | was getting rusty. And
what % pleasure to pursue those
scoundrels! So you want me 10
tell you?"
He passed his arm through the
sergeant s.
Listen, Alexandra. and profit
by my words. Remember this {:
when n person is choosing initials
for his address at a poste restante
he doesn't pick them at random,
but always in such a way that the