El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-12-09

drawn across the opening OF the
stem the giant human tide
Give way therel'
Look out-damn your
A mounted policeman's horse reared
and plunged and snorted with fear.
Game raucous shouts Words OF
hate bitten of and dung free Curses.
Cries OF pain. Now ana then a smart
swish-sW ish-swish as the flat Of
aaber whipped across leg or back OF
clutchiAg hand.
Give wayl
Back
-Ah-thou wit then. Wit thou
''Asssssini Hyeua : Rhiaocsrosg
Lump OF nauseating pig flesh-
20 les vaehes.'
The crowd became thicker. and
Tenant stopping at stones throw
from the Rue Ferou, hailed and req
uisiLcued passing policeman, gave
the car into his keeping and walked
by the side Of Doumay toward the
scene Of the murder. straight into
the crowd clearing a way with elbow
and fist and foot, and an occasional
good humored. appealing:
But you must let me through,
citizeusi I have come here to clear
up the murder OF NJ Anatole Jarver
the man whom you loved. ] come
20 bring the guilty 70 lusrice-'
They were decidedly not proposes
ing. these denizens OF the underworld
They were obviously unWasneQ. reeE-
ing OF bad tobacco and worse cognacs
and % was evident, from their pro-
trudinE jaws 20 their shifty eyes and
low. auish forehead that they had
been conceived and born IN an ether
OF crime and vice. They were
original apaches, the descendants Of
long generations that had spawned
and sinned and spawned again IN
these old streets since the days OF
Francois Villon. They were puugent
and scahbed with vici0usness and
bestial lust. They were the base
uietal-basest OF base-whlch Anatole
Jarvet had forged into a weapon for
himself, and against the Weal Of the
republic-Auatole Jarret who lay
murdered IN the library Of his house.
But in this also were they apaches
that they had the strange. steely. uu-
reasoning loyalty OF the underworld.
They had loved Jarret And nov,
when Tenant told them that he had
come TO investigate the murder. %
bring Justice, and the vengeance
which justice implies, they screwed
their vicious faces into a semblance
OF geniality and gave way; and few
minutes later Tenant and Doumay
found themselves up against the
Gordon and gendarmes.
A rapid word, a salute, and they
passed quickly down the street. They
stopped Ia front OF number Il.
Henri Ducastel himself, the head o.
the agency, was at the garden gate
waiting cor them.
-Ah. Al iastr' he said inratiently,
taking the American by the arm and
leading him through the garden and
into the house: a detached villa, like
so many houses OF that old quarter.
Come straight Up to the library. We
left the body as we found It,"
Tenant followed quickly. Once he
stopped for a moment and listened.
A great cry a solid volume OF
sound blown out In unison by 1909
lips, rose from the packed mass be-
yond the police Gordon. A cry that
was tense, tragic, shudderlug;
The government murdered JarVet.
friend OF the people, Down with the
government
Then a pause. and again q cry-hut
thin, slightly hating, jerked out BY
a single throat.
Down with the ARMY"
What's the matter2n Inquired
Dueastel nervously. What are you
stopping for2'
Did you hear that last cryeT
yes What about iti
"Oh-nothingt replied Tenant as
he opened the door o. the library.
(Contiuned TomorroH3