The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-02-20
CHAPTER TEN tcontinued.)

L1ol0y bCSdb abh IhHltd OIL amy
an interruption:
Arrested Count Charlier! Put
him in jailY"
Yes returned the detective.
81 found the other one Of that
pair of gloves, the mate to the one
in the lady's hands-where, do
you suppose"
"Where 81
"Rolled up in a pair of socks,
in the Counts %chiffonier drawer;
Of course, to hide it, as it is not
at all easy to destroy a thing like
that while visiting"
II know it." said Pauline
earnestly; cit is hard. I've often
notice that when I've wanted to
burn a letter OF anything. You
cant do it unknown to the serv-
ants or somebody
Rubbish said Anita. cit
would have been easy for the
Count to dispose Of a glove if he
had wanted to. But he didn't. He
never committed that crime! If
a glove was found, as you say,
somebody else put it there to in
terminate an innocent man. It's
too absurd to fasten the thing on
count Charlier! Do you suppose
he went to the boudoir and gave
Miss Darlington poison, and then
shook hands good evening, and
left his glove in her grasp? Non
sense! The glove i'll her dead hand
was put there by the criminal to
implicate the Count, and the glove
in the rolled up socks for the
same purpose and by the same
%personl"
by Jove, Miss Frayne! You
may be right!'' cried Hardy.
Somehow / can't see the Counts
hand in this thing, and yeti
And yet, he did it," put in
Haviland. .Have they really
jailed him? I'm glad"
Elm sorry said Pauline, and
her face was white. Ibid he
did he-c-confess?" The girls
voice trembled, and she could
scarcely pronounce the words.
"Not he," said Hardy che
seemed dazed, and declared his in
nocence-but he was not convinc-
ing. He takes it very hard and
talks wildly and at random. But
You know what Frenchmen are /;
liable to go off their heads at any
time"
but look at it," reasoned
Anita why would the Count kill
Miss Carringtons Why, he thought
Of marrying her."
"Not much he didn'tln and
Hardy smiled a little. II size it
up this way: Matters had gone
so far that he had to propose to
the lady or clear out. He didn't
want to clear out, for then she
would take back the little matter
Of $4,000 already marked for him
in her will. Moreover, he couldn't
realize that tidy little sum, which
he very much wants, so long as
she lived. To be sure, he would
have had far more had he married
her, but that was notin his nibs'
plans. So he, resorted to desperate
measures. He's q thorough villain
that man! OutwardIy, most cor
rect and honorable, bnt really al
adventurer, as is also his friend
the dashing young widow"
"Mr. Hardy" and Pauline
spoke calmly now, do you know
these things to be true Of Ceun'
Charlier, or r you assuming
them9'n,
Well, Miss Stuart, I know hu
man nature pretty well, especial.
male human nature, and, if Tn
mistaken In this chap, I'll be sur
prised. But, also, I've set afoo
an Investigation, and Wen 500
learn his record, antecedsnts, an,
all that. Atpresent no one know
much about him; and what Mrs
Frothingham knows she won
tell.,
Il was very strange for Aun
Lucy to give him that money
began Pauline musmgly.
Not ataall1', broke in Gray, s
)! lknow all about chat. Miss Cal
rington had q certain bunch q
4 bonds that amounted to just $50