El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-07-19


body OF humanity ranging from grave 10
gay who take pleasure IN a good detective
story
this was that Madeleine, BY. chance,
overheard a conversation between the
count and her aunt The old count
threatened TO tell Of the family skele-
ton If she did not consent 10 the mar
rage Madeleine appeared and said
she would marry him 10 keep the Sc
name On learning Of Madeleine's en-
gagement, Prosper who really had
always loved her, became very angry.
and thinking there must be a sinister
motive for Nine. Fauvel's allowing il.
wrote an anonymous letter to n
Fauvel. telling him to watch his wife.
Lecoq noticed that the cookbook
ing Raoul still continued his frequent
visits TO the house Did IL mean that
he was perhaps not the nephew, but
the lover OF Nine. FauVel2 Disguised,
the great detective attended a mas
querade bail and made insinuating re-
marks 10 Nine. Fauvel concerning
Raoul which caused her TO faint, and
when he spoke Of money matters,
count Louis turned pale. Returning
home tha. night the detective was fol-
lowed BY Two men and stabbed. but
fortunately, not killed Lecoq, think
ing he recognized the count and
Raoul, decided that they realized that
the police suspected them OF robbing
the bank and also that there must be
an even greater mystery TO unrzvel
that had caused them TO become
weuld-be assassins. Records were
looked up and an amazing story came
10 light
Lecoq discovered that years ago
Nine. FauTel. then Valentine de Yer
berie. had been engaged TO the counts
brother, CASTOR IN defending her
name at a country inn. CASTOR had
killed a man and fled 10 America. al
though he was thought 10 have been
drowned while escaping. A son was
born 10 Valentine and given away by
her mother. Later she had married
Fauvel, who was told nothing
The story was never unearthed IN
til count Louis had squandered the
family money and by mere chance had
heard Of the childfs existence from an
old nurse. He made inquiries. Not
long after this, the count introduced
z young man to Nine EauFel as her
son, TO serve his own ends and to ex-
tract hCsh-money- This young man
was called her nephew and proved to
be Raoul Layers.
The situation became even more
complicated CASTOR returned from
America immensely rich not knowing
Of the existence OF his son, but deter
mined to see his old love Valentine
once more Louis, however, realized
that for his own ends. CASTOR and
Nine. Fauvel must never meet. He
Joined CASTOR in the south OF France
and got into his good graceS- CASTOR
made 3 VIII, leaving everything TO
Louis. then poor CASTOR became mys-
teriously IL and died Louis re-
turned to Paris rich
Madeleine seemed to wish to delay
her marriage The count feared she
Still loved Prosper 50 he promised
Rzoul q large sum If he would in
some way ruin the cashiers reputa-
ton, thinking thus to hasten his own
marriage, as he really was IN love
with Madeleine. The moment came
when Raoul overheard Prosper telling
Gypsy he constantly thought Of her
at the bank He then went 10 his
mother and said he would shoot him
SELF II he did not have q large sum OF
money that very night 70 pay a gam
bling debt She got for him the key
10 lne sa-e- ne poor 1aoS nag a.
ready given him all her money and
jewels and had nothing left to be-
stow At the last moment she tried
to stop him, hence the scratch that
was discovered later When she IL
CURED how he knew the word that
made Up the combination, Raoul said
that Prosper had given i TO him and
they we're to divide the money be- !
tween themselves.
Owing 10 the anonymous letter. Il. !
Fauvel intercepted his wife's mall !
and one day found letter from
IL Fauvel followed. ana on entering
and seeing his wife il the arms OF
the young man, pulled out his pistol
to shoot, but fortunately II did not go
off, as GYPSY, who had become Made
leine's maid. under Lecoo's instruc-
taken out the bullets At this point
the great detective appeared and told
the banker the whole story He then
demanded the $4,000 francs which /
had been stolen and Raoul returned
the money; and what was more re-
papers that proved Ra0ul was not
Nine. Fauvefs son after all-her son
had died-and the impostor was the
son Of a jockey hired by the count 70
play the part 50 as TO secure money
from Nine Fauvel at the time when
the count was poor before CASTOR
had died
During the conversation Raoul had
made his escape, but no one cared.
for the Fauvels naturally wished to
keep the story secret, and II ended
happily for II. FauVel forgave his
wife OF her early indiscretions. Lecoq
zas just about TO arrest the count for
his many crimes when the wicked old
nan went insane and kept repeating
constantly that his brother CASTOR
was poisoning him Strange TO relate,
the great Lecoq married pretty Nine
Gypsy, whom he had known and loved
for years. Prosper, Of course. mar
ried Madeleine, and n Fauvel retired
from the bank The firm Is now called
rosper Bertomy and company This
amazing record Of crime still re-
mains in .he police court IN Paris and
can be found in file No. 11S--Copy-
right. 1873, by Post Publishing Co
fThe Boston Post-) Published by spe-
cia1 arrangement with the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate. All rights re-
served
aThe Awakening Of Helena Rfchie,v
by Mrs Margaret DeIand, as con-
denxed by Miss Sara Ware Basseff,
WI be printed IN the next issue.