The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-09

move the girl. She said:
1t would be a good thing to
look at the mechanism and see.why
it became unfastened. It's all very
old and works badly"
1.-THE mechanism works perfect
ly. l tested it. An accident is not
enough to account for it,"
Who could have done it, if it
was not accident?"
Some enemy whom l am un-
able to name"
He would have been seem"
There was only one person
who could have see him-your-
self. You happened to pass
through my study as I was tele-
phoning and / heard your excla-
nation of fright at the news about
Nine. Fauville."
Yes, it gave me a shock. I
pity the woman so very much,
whether she is guilty or not"
"And, as you were close to the
arch, with your hand within reach
OF the spring, the presence of an
evildoer would not have escaped
your notice"
She did not lower her eyes. A
slight flush o~verspread her face,
and she said:
"Yes, / should at least have met
him, for, from what l gather, l
went out a few seconds before the
accident"
"Quite so," he said. "But what
is SO curious and unlikely is that
you did not hear the loud noise of
the curtain falling, nor my shouts
and all the uproar l created"
II must have closed the door of
the study by that time. 1 heard
nothing"
"Then ! am bound to presume
that there was some one hidden in
my study at that moment, and
that this person is a confederate
of the ruffians who committed the
two murders on the Boulevard
Suchet; for the project of police
has just discovered under the
cushions of my sofa the half of a
walking stick belonging to one of
those ruffians."
She wore an air of great sur
prise. This new incident seemed
really to be quite unknown to her.
He came nearer and, looking her
straight in the eyes, said:
"You must at least admit that
it's strange"
What's stranger"
"This series Of events, all
directed against me. Yesterday,
that draft of a letter which l
found in the courtyard-the draft
of the article published in the
Echo de France. This morning,
first the crash of the iron curtain
just as | was passing under it,
next, the discovery of that walk
ing stick, and then, a moment ago,
the poisoned water bottle
She nodded her head and muir
INJURED:
eyes, yes-there is an array Of
facts"
IAN array of facts so signifi-
cant" he said, completing her SEN
tence meaningly, "as to remove
the least shadow of doubt. l can
feel absolutely certain of the i'm
mediate intervention Of my most
ruthless and daring enemy. His
presence here is proved. He is
ready to act at any moment. His
object is plain" explained Don
Luis. "By means Of the anony-
nous article, by means Of that half
Of the walking stick, he meant to
compromise me and have me ar
rested. By the fall Of the curtain
he meant to kill ne or at least to
keep me imprisoned for some
hours. And now it's poison, the
cowardly poison which kills by
stealth, which they put in my
water, today and which they will
put in my food tomorrow. And
next it will be the dagger and then
the revolver and then the rope, no
matter which, so long as | disap-
for that is what they want
to get rid Of me.
~ am the adversary, I am the
mar they're afraid of, the man
who will discover the secret one
day and pocket the millions which
they're after. / am the interloper.
| stand mounting guard over the
Mornington Inheritance. It's my
turn to suffer. Four victims are
dead already. ! shall be the fifth.
SO CASTOR Sauverand has decided:
CASTOR Sauvcrand or some one
else who's managing the bust
ness"
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