The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-30
CHAPTER EIGHT. (Continued.)

proof against Marie Fauville and
getting her condemned. So l
asked for the attendance Of the
deputy and two men. There will
be four of us to bear witness to
your honesty"
They all took up their posts.
Two detectives were to sit up in
turns.
This time, after making a
minute search Of the little room
in which Fauville's son used to
sleep, they locked and bolted the
doors and shutters. At II o'clock
they switched off the electric
chandelier.
Don Luis and Weber hardly
slept at all.
The night passed without Incl
dent of any kind.
But, at Z o'clock, when the
shutters were opened, they saw
that there was a letter on the
table. Just as on the last occa-
sion, there was a letter on the
table!
When the first moment of stu
pefaction was over, the deputy
chief took the letter. His orders
were not to read it and not to let
any one else read it.
Here is the letter, published by
the newspapers, which also pub
lished the declaration Of the ex-
perts certifying that the hand
writing was Hippolyte Fauville's:
81 have seen him! You understand.
don't you, my lear friend? I have seen
him! He was walking along a path
in the Bots, with his coat collar turned
up and his hat pulled over his ears. l
don't think that he saw me. 1t was
almost dark. But l knew him at once.
I knew the silver handle of his ebony
stick. 1t was he beyond a doubt, the
s%coundrel!
$50 he is in Paris, in spite Of his
promise. CASTOR Sauverand Is In
Paris! d. you understand the terrible
significance of that fact? If he is in
Paris, it means that he intends to act.
II he is in Paris, 1t means certain
death to me. Oh, the harm which /
Inshall have suffered at that mans
hands,! He has already robbed me Of
my happiness; and now he wants my
life. I am terrified"
So Fauville knew that the man
with the ebony walking stick, that
CASTOR Sauverand, was designing
to kill him. Fauville declared it
most positively, by evidence writ
ten in his own hand and the let
ter, moreover, corroborating the
words that had escaped CASTOR
Sauverand at his arrest, showed
that the two men had at one time
had relations with each other, that
they were no longer friends, and
that CASTOR Sauverand had prom
Used never to come to Paris.
A little light was therefore be-
ing shed on the darkness of the
Mornington case. But, on the
other hand, how inconceivable
was the mystery Of that letter
found on the table in the work
room!
Five men had kept watch, five
Of the smartest men obtainable f;
and yet, on that night, as on the
night Of the 18th of April, an
unknown hand had delivered the
letter in a room with barricaded
doors and windows, without their
hearing a sound or discovering
any signs that the fastenings of
the doors or windows had been
tamper with.
The theory Of a secret outlet
was at once raised, but had to be
abandoned after a careful exam
nation Of the walls and after an
interview with the contractor
who had built the house, from
Fauville's own plans, some years
ago.
1t is unnecessary once more
to recall what / may describe as
the furry of public. The deed
in the circumstances, assumed the
appearance of a sleight-of- hand
trick. People felt tempted to
look upon it as the recreation Of
some wonderfully skilled con-
.jurer rather than the act of q per-
son employing unknown meth
DDS.
Nevertheless, Don Luis Peren-
mas intelligence was justified at
all points, for the expected Incl
dent had taken place on the 25th
Of April, as on the 18th. Would
the series be continued on the 5th
of May9 No one doubted it, be-
cause Don Luis had said so and
because everybody felt that Don
Luis could not be mistaken. All
through the night of the 9Th OF
May there was q crowd on the
boulevard Suchet ; and quidnuncs