The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-08-22
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Consequently, on the morning
of that Wednesday, everything
was ready, the fatal clock was
wound up, the discriminating ma
chinery was working to perfec-
ton, and the proofs to come
would confirm the immediate
proofs which M. Fauville held in
reserve. Better still, Monsieur lie
Prefet, you had received from him
a letter in which he told you Of
the plot hateched against him,
and and he implored your assist
ance for the morning Of the next
1ay-that is to say, after his
death!
Everything, in short, led him
to think that things would 90 ac-
cording to the 'hater's' wishes,
when something occurred that
nearly upset his. schemes; the ap-
pearance of Inspector Verot, who
had been sent by you, Monsieur lie
Prefet, to collect particulars
about the Mornington heirs. What
happened between the two men?
Probably no one will ever know.
Both are dead; and their secret
will not come to life again. But
we can at least say for certain
that Inspector Verot was here and
took away with him the cake of
chocolate on which the teeth of
the tiger were seen for the first
time, and also that Inspector
Verot succeeded, thanks to cir
cumstances with which we are I'M
acquainted, in discovering M.
Families projects.
"This we know" explained
Don Luis, "because Inspector
Verot said so in his own agonizing
words; because it was through
him that we learned that the
crime was to take place on the
following night; and because he
had set down his discoveries in a
letter which was stolen from him.
And Fauville knew it also, be-
cause, to get rid of the formidable
enemy who was thwarting his de
signs, he poisoned him; because,
when the poison was slow in act
ing, he had the audacity, under a
disguise which made him look
like Sauverand and which was
one day to turn suspicion against
Sauverand, he had the audacity
and the presence Of mind to fol
low Inspector Verot to the Cafe
du Pont-Neuf, to purloin the let
ter Of explanation which Inspec-
tor Verot wrote you, to substitute
a blank sheet Of paper for it, and
then to ask passerby, who might
become a witness against Sauve-
rand, the way to the nearest un-
foreground station for Neuilly,
where Sauverand lived! There's
your man, Monsieur lie Prefet. y
Don Luis spoke with increasing
force, with the ardour that
springs from conviction; and his
logical and closely argued speech
seemed to, conjure up the actual
truth.
There your man, Monsieur
lie Perfect, = he repeaed. "There s
your scoundrel. And the situa-
ton in which he found himself
was such, the fear inspired by In
Ispector Verot's possible revela-
tions was such, that, before put
ting into execution the horrible
deed which he had planned, he
came to the police office to make
sure that his victim was no longer
alive and had not been able to de-
nounce him.
You remember the scene, Mon
sieur le Prefet, the fellow agita-
ton and fright: Tomorrow eve
ming. he said. Yes, it was for the
morrow that he asked for your
help, because he knew that every
thing would be ever that same
evening, and that next day the
police you'd be confronted with
I a murder, with the two culprits
against whom he himself had
lheaped up the charges, with Marie
Fauville, whom he had, so to
speak, accused in advance.
That was why Sergeant Maze
lroux svisit and mine to his house
at 9 o'clock in the evening, en-
barrassed him SO obviously. Who
were those intruders9 Would they
mot succeed in shattering his
Iplan? Reflection treasured him,
even as we, by our insistence,
compelled him to give way.
: After all, what did he care9n
asked Perenna.
HIS measures were so well
|faken that no an1ount IF watch