The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03
THE
TEETH OF THE TIGER
MAURICE LEBLANC
TRANSLATED BY ~
TEIXEIR DE MATTOS
CHAPTER sIXTEEN. (continued.)

cautious. Mile. Leyasseur's at
titudc ought to have warned you.
She evidently knows the criminal
and wanted to go to him, ask him
for explanations and, for all we
can tell, save him, if he managed
to convince her. And what will
happen between them? When the
villain sees hat he is discovered,
he will be" capable of anything
NJ. D~esmalions again ques-
toned the mother superior and
oon learned that Florence, before
taking refuge in the nursing
home, had spent As hours in some
furnished apartments on the lie
Saint-Louis.
The clue was not worth mach,
but they could not neglect it. The
Prefect Of Police, who retained
all his doubts with regard to Flor
ence and attached extreme i'm
p%ortance to the girls capture,
ordered Weber and his men to
follow up this trail without de-
lay. Don Luis accompanied the
deputy chief.
Events at once showed that the
Project of Police was right. Flor
ence had taken refuge in the lodg-
ing horse on the He Saint-Louis,
whore she had engaged a room
mta.as an assumed amc But she
had no sooner arrived than q
small 10y called, at the house,
asked for her, and went away
with her.
They, went up to her room and
found a parcel done up in a news
paper, containing a nuns habit.
The thing was obvious.
Later, III the course of the even
ing, Weber succeeded in discover
ing the small boy. He was the
SOL of the porter of one of the
houses in the neighborhood.
Where could he have taken Flor
ence? When questioned, he def
nitely refused to hetray the lady
who had trusted him and who had
cried when she kissed him. His
mother entreated him. His father
boxed his ears. He was inflex-
IDLE.
IN any case, it was not unreas-
on&.,'e TO conclude that Florence
had not left the lie Saint-Louis
or it's immediate vicinity. The de-
te .tives persisted i'm their search
all the evening. Weber estab-
lished his headquarters in a tap
room where every scrap of infor-
nation was brought to him and
where his men returned from
time to time to receive his orders.
He also remained IN constant
communication with the Prefect's
office.
At half-past ten a squad of de-
tectives, sent by the Project,
placed themselves at the deputy
chiefs disposal. Mazeroux, new
ly arrived from Rouen and fur
ious with Florence, joined them.
The search continued. Don
Luis had gradually assumed it's
management; and it was he who,
so to speak, inspired Weber to
ring at this or that door and to
question this or that person.
at II o'clock the hunt still
remained fruitless: and Don Luis
was the victim of am increasing
and irritating restlessness. But,
shortly after midnight, a shrill
whistle drew all the men to the
eastern extremity of the island,
at the end Of the Quai d'Anjon.
Two detectives stood waiting
for them, surrounded by a small
crowd of onlOokcrs. They had
just learned that, some distance
farther away, on the Quai Henri
", which does not form part Of
.l- ,3f' had prilIed
up outside a house, that there was
the noise of a dispute, and that
the cab had subsequently driven
off in the direction of Vinccnncs.
They FASTENED to the Quai
Henri ~ and at once found the
house. There was a door one the
ground floor opening straight ON
the pavement. The taxi had stop
ped for a few minutes in front
of this door. Two persons. u
woman and a man leading her
along, had left the ground floor
flat. When the door OF the taxi
was shut, a mans voice had
shouted from the inside:
Drive down the Boulevard
Saint-Germain and along the
quays, Then take the Versailles
Road"
But the porter's wife was able
to furnish more precise particu-
lars. Puzzled bv the tenant uf.thr