The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-04-04
THE
TEETH OF THE TIGER
MAURICE LEBLANC
TRANSLATED BY
ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS

III course he has and the pre-
feet has ordered my mates to keep
you in view. Ii you make the least
show of trying to escape them,
they'll collar you"
In that case, there's nothing to
be done?"
Nothing to be done' Why, it's
a question Of putting them off
your scent and mighty quickly! !"
what good would that do me,
as I'm going home and they know
where | liver"
"Eh, whatY Can you have the
check to go home after what's
happenedq"
Where do you expect me to
sleep? Under the bridges?"
But, dash it all, don't you un-
derstand that, after this job, there
will be the most internal stir, that
you're compromised up to the neck
as it is, and that everybody will
turn against youi"
"Well?"
drop the business"
And the murderers Of Cosmo
Mornington and the Fauvilles7"
"The police will see to that"
Alexandra, you're an ass"
Then become Lupin again, the
invisible, impregnable Lupin, and
do your own fighting, as you used
to. But in Heavens name don't
remain Perennial It's too danger
GUS. And don't occupy yourself
officially with a business in which
you I not Interested"
"The things you say, Alexan-
DIRE! l am interested in it to the
tune of loo, 000, 900. If Perenna
does not stick to his post, the 100,-
100000 will be snatched from I'M
der his nose. And, on the one oc-
casion when l can earn a few hon
est centimes, that would be most
annoying
And, if they arrest you2"
"No go! I'm dead!"
"Lupin is dead. But Perenna is
alive"
"As they haven't arrested me
today, I'm easy in my mind"
Its only put off. And the Or
ders are strict from this moment
onward. They mean to surround
your house and to keep watch day
and night"
Capital. ! always was fright
ened at night"
But, good Lord! what are you
hoping forf"
Il hope for nothing, Alexandra.
| am sure. I am sure now that
they will not dare arrest me-"
do you imagine that Weber
will stand on ceremony"
81 don't care a hang about
Weber. Without orders, Weber
can do nothing"
But they'll give him his or
ders."
,"The order to shadow me, yes ;
to arrest me, no. The project of
police has committed himself
about me to such an extent that he
will be obliged to back me up. And
then there's this: the whole affair
is so absurd, so complicated, that
you people will never find your
way out of it alone. Sooner or
later, you will come and fetch me.
For there is no one but myself to
fight such adversaries as these /:
not you nor Weber, nor any of
your pals at the detective office. |
shall expect your visit, Alexan-
DIRE
On the next day an expert ex-
animation identified the tooth
prints on the two apples and like
wise established the fact that the
print OH the cake of chocolate was
similar to the others.
Also, the driver of a taxicab
came and gave evidence that a
lady engaged him as she left the
opera, told him to drive her
straight to the end of the Avenue
Henri Martin, and left the cab Oh
reaching that spot.
Now the end of the Avenue
Henri Martin was within five min
walk Of the Fauvilles' house.
! The man was brought into Nine,
Fauville's presence and recog.
nized her at once.
What had she done in that
neighborhood for over an hour9
Marie Fauville was taken to the
central lookup, was entered on the
register, and slept, that night, at
the Saint-Lazare prison.
That same day, when the re.
portcrs were beginning to publish
details of the Investigation, such
as the discovery of the tooth
prints, but when they did not yet
know to whom to attribute them
two of the leading daiiies used a.