El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-12-17

Tenant shook his head.
sounds reasonable enough" he
Z said only, look herei Kampot and
! Camau and &C Lieu are not the sort
i,of places weber anybody with haIf an
ounce OF sense would hide guns and
ammunitions- Swampy land down
o there. unhealthy, malaria Nor
Would q rebellion s. read from the
south toward the northeast. Just look
at the rivers and the roads. The lines
3 OF Communication would be all wrong.
D such rebellion could never succeed
with Saigon and the French garrison
commanding the southeast, and Jar
vet WASN'T exactly a fool. These
red lines mean something entirely
different ] am sure Of IT,"
He turned the map over; and gave
low whistle OF intense surprise.
"Doumay." he said Look" He
pointed at small printed square
which said -Verlag Won Velhagen d
klaslng, ielefeld ind Leipzig"
may, this map was made in Ger
-Andg"
why should it have BEEN con-
tiuued Tenant suppose Jarret or
Steynard had wanted a map Of Indo-
China they couid-would naturally
have bought one made in Paris. All
the bookstores carry those bully gov
eminent maps Why the devil did he
buy a German map2"
Perhaps he was In Germany and
bOuEH- 10 while there"
Must have been there recently
Look here this is dated 1913 Want.
III find out" he called 20 Capt
RouE and asked him TO send madame
Houlbrecque-
Madame" he said when the old
housekeeper had shuffied into the
room, her hand TO her ear, had YOUR
late master been in Germany re-
csntlyT'
NO He has not been beyond the
fortifications Of Paris for over three
years; Re was a very busy man"
and she went on with a Tote Of senils
recol-ectlons hoW NJ Jarvet could
never De prevailed upon 20 take a va
cation which Tenant cut snort with
the orusque question IL, as fas as she
man friends. Had she ever heard GER
man spoken In the house,
Anne Houlbrecque smiled
Il am deaf monsieur. 1 could not I
nave heard But I know what Ger
man squareheads look like There /
were never any in this house, II I
Jaryet received but few visitors"
DO you recollecr any OF them %
yes; my memory Is better than
my hearing remember them all. /
There was H. Steyuard and the denu- 7
tles or ~ Jarvets party. There was 4
that butcher. Guillaume Nordeg-"
Was he here ofteng"
Yes He and N. Jarvet knew each ]
ether well And there was another
man whom did not know. He used
TO come late at night two or three I
times week He walked with a
limp"
"A man about my heiEhtz" asked
remnant thinking Of Menzies-Kerr
be In the negative.
But the reply was a decisive.
es- Just your height. monsieur
ne wore a telt hat pulled well over
his eyes"
And a loose coaT- Tenant could
aa ..,1y keep his voice from trembling.
AS loose as that OF the visitor
me woman as you sald-whom Won
saw y n Jarvets library a few min-
ltes before the murder"
Best, yes. monsieur" replied the
DID woman astonished- Tenant dis
missed her and turned his thoughts
70 MS tsiends lord Alenzies-E Kerr.
could Menzles-kerr have been the
murderer after allg The Scotchman
had been in Indo-China not So long
lgo, and here was a map OF Indo-
nm. +. -iS made in Germany? What did
-Doumay" He turned 10 the sub
gent This Is a prize mystery
Ihe little Frenchman smiled.
10 doubtl~
solve it2' Tenant gave a strange.
.racked laugh. 4 keen on solvin-
{ and my solution is right. but ever5-
Inc / solve u, Il pops up again with
new Sink in Its cursed tail and
Monsieur"
Il am afraid OF the last kink-out .
here" And he pointed due east. In
ne direction Of the frontier where
Ia F..
Z blood had Kissed and stained 81
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