El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-12-27
By Achmed AbduILah
Copyright 1919, b. James A NcCan1 @.
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second murder she must b. plain
logical deduction be Innocent Of the
ilrst' was beginning TO suspect that
I me American might have been FMS
! titled IN calling him names.
yes he said from the door. y
shall go down stairs. unleas you
sure" Tenant replied. ~Hop
along I have got to sniff about a bit
mere ana would prefer 20 be alone
You know" he added with a grin.
a CHAP like myself who doesn't 20
IN for the regular bloodhound police
Crews put prefers 20 work through
psycholoEy--'
q OF the sentence. Pink 20 his very
ears, he was out Of the door and
closed 70 behind him, while Tenant
turned TO the safe.
u gaped wide open. rifled.
Robbery was Tenants instinct
I've mental comment as he saw a
torn loo franc banknote sticking to
one Of the wire drawers. He was
confirmed In his thought when he
noticed that little box in the back
Of the safe marked Family heir
looms belonging TO Raoul Steynard-
In the late editors cramped, pedan-
TIC hand writing had been forced open
and emptied-
But was robbery the motive OF the
murder. OF only the cloak-the stallY
Tenant shook his head as he bent
over heap OF papers which. pulled
rom the safe In evident hurry, was
In front OF It.
He picked them up and examined
them one by one
They were curious and interesting
and dangerous Dangerous to the
republic. the established authority OF
NlHsnH BE- d.
the safe Of such a one as Raoul
STEWARD Dangerous to the latter
c0nfederates and henchmen with the
safe gaping open and Tenants
hands rustlng the sheets, Tenants
eyes scanning the contents-Tennant,
who loved France next 70 his native
land.
The murderer had undoubtedly
looked them over. For there were
pages belonging to one document
mixed up with those Of another. Too,
few OF them were marked and torn
with that same telltale semicircular
pattern OF cuts or scratches which
the American had seen on Anatolo
Jarvet's safe and library table and
hands. and on the column which sup
ported the mantel piece IN this very
room
But
Tenant shook his head and pom
dered.
he asked himself Why the deuce
the assassin had not taken these pa
pera along since evidently he had
thought GO worth while TO look
tnrough them had wasted precious
minutes In doing what an ordinary
murderer, bent on loot and a quick
getaway, would hardly have done.
on the other hand. the murderer
would most certainly have poclzeted
the documents II he had been conf
II by any chance the lnfernatlOualtst
press and deputies had guessed right
and Anatole Jarvet-and therefore
Raoul Steyuard-had really hpfn
killed BY orders OF the chief OF the
secret political police and for the
veal OF the commonwealth
For some OF the documents were
priceless; politically speaking.
There was. for instance a list OF
the subscribers TO the general fund
OF the Internauonalst party another
vas q list OF the patriotic and red
FLOODED sentry who supported the
Peace-at-Ali-CoEts League. and pa
pers dealing with similar associs-
tlonH. Nor we're the latter al French.
Nearly every country IN the world
was represented: England, italy,
Holland. Switzerland, even the United
States OF America Only Germany
was absent
A bully. thoroughly human slogan |
on the face OF IL But, James Ten ]
ant thought. why, being 50 human I
and noble and entirely worth while. /
did IL have 70 hide its head, as II I
ASHAMED, IN the safe OF q venal Al /
ment been supported bT Jarvet. the I
man who blackmailed women pro- I
fessionally, by the other man who 4
lay there crumpled up in his chair, 4
dead, his CLASSY eyes staring at the /
carved, succeed ceiling:
the ceiling paid for with whose
Peace At all oostsi
But what costs7 And who would \
foot the bin for those self same I
costs2 A weak nation. or a Etrongf /
Tenant slipped the documents IN \
his pocket Tor future use Perhaps
he thought. Lantaigns might be glad
10 get them.
Suddenly he chucklsd firmly.
For the very last paper OF the lot
was the forced map Of Indo-China
which he had given 20 STEWARD In
exchange for $500. 000-counterfeit as
they turned out 20 be. A tragic fate
seemed 20 be connected with this
map: the murder OF Jarvet, the at
tempt against his own life and sub
5equent death OF Bib le Farceur. the
arrest OF Angelo Lantaignes now the
murder OF Raoul Steynard. Somehow
IL was an interwoyen with this map
whose original, with the legend;
'VerlaE Won VelhaEeu & Klasing.
Bielefeld uni Leipzig was tucked
away IN his own safe
He looked at the forged map with
2 speculative eye at the tiny red I
crosses marking a town here and
there, at the thin red lines accen-
.uatinE rivers and valleys. at the
whole meaningless maze OF black and
red
Meaningless 20 himself But, per-
iaps, fraught with meaning. porten-
.ous, gigantic. disastrous, dark-smol-i
ierinE-to Whom2
He remembered the strange mes