El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-12-15

Autole IarFeL French Soclalisl
deputy. Is murdered 90 the Latin quarter
Of Paris and the Partisan police arrest
Nile Lantaigne. who has been seen with
him, an actress. daughter OF the chief Of
the French political police. Tenant. an
American working IN Paris for a private
detective agency. contends that she Is IN
nocent he lives with lord Ne7ziss-kerl
in bachelor quarters HIS lordship walks
with a limp
ONE OF two OF the more serious
Diapers devoted short editorials to
Specializing about the political conse-
quences OF Jarvets sudden death. re-
minding their readers that the day
before the murder Anatole Jarvet had
been reelected to the house OF
deputies; that he was the most dau-
gerous enemy OF the Republican
party in the saddle. the leader Of the
InteTnationslists. and that without
him-"a man as ruthless as Aris-
.togeiton. as colby logical as Herbert
Spencer, as energetic as pope Sixtus
the fifth, as shrewd as Jacques CuJas
as imprisoned as Demosthenes. as
scholastic as Descartes, and as foully
val as Judas Iscariot" as the
Temps put it in a riot OF hyperbole-
the International party would be
thrown into chaos.
A frivolous boulevard sheet. mostly
devoted 20 frocks and frills. suggested
that while the murder had really
happened, the arrest Of Mile Angelo
Lantaigne, the popular ingenue OF the
Theater Alexandra. was a Machiavel-
Ian press agents trick. But most Of
the morning papers. simply reported
and treated the murder as q sensa-
tional mystery.
Breakfast over. Tenant devoted
HIS early mornings clear headedness
TO vain attempts at a solution Of the
crime. he had certain wen defined
ideas as to the motive behind it-too.
as 10 some OF the forces which had
been at work. What bothered him
was the connection between the late
Jarvet, LantaiEne, and Menzies-Kerr
the gentleman with the limp" For
by that last appellatiOn NOBODY could
be meant except the latter. and IL
was proved not only By Meuzies-
kerrs strange behavior at the time
when subagent Doum2y had come
with news Of the murder. but also by
the letter which had dropped from
between the pages OF the German
book and a few lines Of which he hau
read-without meaning 10.
Aeuziee-kerr had not returned
from the evening before. but the
American banished whatever anxiety
after all. was eccentric
and erratic, and that this was not
the first time he had spent whole
days and nights away from home.
He had never vouchsafed any ex-
for his absences in the
past-beyond saying. with a grim
laugh. that IL was not a woman VINO
had kept him away-and Tenant
doubted n he would in the present
ease; and the nominating letter
destroyed, his own lips automatically
sealed as 20 its contents. he wondered
how he would be able to approach his
friend and ask him straight out what
vas the matter-what he had had TO
10 with the murdered Jarvet and with
-antaigne.
Too. it would be hard to cross
examine the other in an indirect
manner. for he knew MAT Menzies-
Kerr was cursed with Celtic super
iensitiveness and was quick at SMELL
ng insults-imagined ones as often
He put on his ulster and called the
''Tm off," he said. II lord Menzies-
Kerr comes back, ask him TO look me /
~ at the office. George" As an
-fter thought. thinking that he {
would trust TO circumstances and the I
moments Inspiration 70 put the ques- !
ion to his friend In the right man d
Ter. he added: Tell him it's very ,
lrgent"
Yes, sub
Fifteen minutes later Tenants Z
oadster was buzzing and slipping i
cross the bridge and up into the
ray, stolid, burgess respectabilfty of o
he streets in back OF the Rue Rouge
mont where the great Agence Du-
astel showed its modest little brass
late 10 the passing thronE, sur
ounded BY wholesale houses, the
'aris purchasing agencies Of English .
nd American department stores, and
Few boarding houses catering 10
he trade OF clerks and the students
Z the nearby Conservatory Of Music