Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-12-12

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ton common TO all great GRIM
mails. Here by good luck, is his
correspondence with Hippolyte
Fanville. Here is the original of
the prospectus from which l
learned that the house on the
Place. du Palais-Bourbon was
for sale. Here is a memorandum
of Jean Vernocq's journeys to
Alcncon to intercept Fauville's
letters to old Langernault.
Here is another memorandum
showing that Inspector Verot
overheard a conversation between
Fauville and his accomplice, that
he Swallowed Vernocq and robbed
him Of Florence Levasseur's
photograph, and that Vernocq
sent Fauville in pursuit of him.
Here is a third memorandum,
which is just a copy of the two
found in the eighth volume of
Shakespeare and which proves
that Jean Vernocq, to whom that
set Of Shakespeare belonged,
knew all about Fauvillc's mach
ination.- Here are his correspond
ence with Caceres, the Peruvian
attache, and the letters denounc-
ing myself and Sergeant Mazer-
oux, which he intended to send to
the press. Here
"But need l say more, Mon
sieur lie Presidents You have the
complete evidence in your hands.
The magistrates will find that all
the accusations which l made yes
terday, before the Project of Po-
lice, were strictly true"
And her" cried Valenglay.
The criminal? Where is he?"
"Outside, in a motor car, in his
motor car, rather"
"Have you told my menu"
asked NJ. Desmalions anxiously.
eyes, Monsieur lie Prefet. Be-
sides, the fellow is carefully tied
up. Don't be alarmed. He
won't escape"
"Well, you We ~foreseen every
contingency" said Valenglay,
"and the business seems to me to
be finished. But there's one
problem that remains unex-
planned, the N perhaps that in
~terested the public most. l mean
the marks Of the teeth in the ap-
pie, the teeth of the tiger, as they
have been called, which were GER
tainly Nine. Fauville's teeth, in
nocent though she was. Monsieur
lie Srefet declares that you have
solved this problem"
Eyes, Monsieur lie President,
and Jean Vernocq's papers prove
that | was right. Besides, the
problem is quite simple. The ap-
pie was marked with Nine. Eau
ville's teeth, but Nine. Fauville
never bit the APPLE"
"Come, comet"
Monsieur lie President, Hip
polyte Fauville very nearly said
as much when he mentioned this
mystery in his posthumous con-
fession."
"Hippolyte Fauville was a
mailman and capable of reason
ing with the most appalling logic.
Some years ago, at Palermo,
Nine. Fauville had a very bad
fall, hitting her mouth against
the marble top of a table, with
the result that a number of her
teeth, in both the upper and the
lower jaw, were loosened. To
repair the damage and to make
the gold plate intended to
strengthen the teeth, a plate
which Nine. Fauville wore for
several months, the dentist, as
usual, took an impression of her
mouth.
IN. Fauville happened to have
kept the mould; and he used it
to print the marks of his wife's
teeth in the cake Of chocolate
shortly before his death and in
the apple on the. night Of his
death. When this was done, he
put the mould with the other
things which the explosion was
meant to, and did, destroy"
Don Luis's explanation was
followed by a silence: The thing
was so simple that the Prime