El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-01-02

while their palace IS being done
Eyes. You mean that old house
they leased On the sort o. blind alley
called the Impasse Oudlnot-belong s
20 the duke de Tourcoing- Belleville.
I believe. Sure But you don't mean
TO say that Nordeg was enough o. a
congenital idiot to 20 Into the Ger
man embassy. do your
NO. But Just across from the tenn
porarv embassy. facing the Lmpasae
Oudinot on the SOUTH there Is a ram
shackIe dwelling that has seen better
DAYS To the right is 4 20-foot wall
with an alley running between DO and
the house and leading 90 a small trrE
yard into which opens the trades
mems entrance. To the left 30 Is built
smack Up against the old palace Of
the prince dc Rohan-ClaIot.
There was no light 81 the house
no sign Of lie, all the shutters osrd
tight All right. Norueg taxes out a
Key and slips inside Ike q plump
shadow. 7 send Esfernaux trrorc+
the narrow alley into the back yard
where he can watch both the alley
and the tradesmen's entrance while I
myself after waiting perhaps three
minutes. open the front door with my
wire key and 60 inside
And. 20 make a long story short
though 7 search the house from cellar
20 garrett though I sniff In every
nook and Granny like a starved rat
hunting for a rind Of cheese. 7 find
NOl Not the particle OF a shadow OF
a smell Of @ tracel He has disap-
peared. dlsembodied himself die
solved into etherl Nor has EsternauE
/ seen a soul come out OF the back en-
Z trance"
Must have made his getaway
: Impossible. monsieur. The left
wall. as ] told you. is straight %
against the Rohan-Chabot palace.
masonry such as they made a hun
dred and fifty years ago. with no
traps, no tapestry doors. not even SO
much as a niche or an aleove. Just
plain. solid masonry
Wen, what DO you make OF o.
/ The subagsnt shrugged his shoui-
ders.
I 7 don't know. That's why came
% you as soon as 7 could ] left
Jacques EsternauN on watch I'm the
back yard hailed a passing Eendarme
who luckily was blessed with more
horse sense than that specimen OF an
animal OF the Rue Ferou. and pressed
him into service % watch the 'front.'
door. And here 7 am" He rose. 7
have a taxi waiting downstairs"
All rlEnt, Doumay- You did what
you could. ] an with you" Tenant
hurried into hts orerc6at and a few
seconds later he and the other were
Z wnizZing away through the softly
I thudding snow toward the FaubourE
Saint-Germain. that memory o. pre-
revolutionary France that is as dainty
and melancholy as a bit Of old lace or
q package OF love letters, yellow aud
dusty with age. which was once the
mirror q the polite society q rre
most polite nation In the world. but
hich today. with department stores
and dairies and curio shops and police
Elosks and loft buildings and cheap
D nouillun restaurants croWdlng IN from
[ all sides, IS slowly and inevitably be-
ing reduced 20 mere historical
memory.
The 1mpasse OudInot was one or
the Few parts OF the FauhourE which
modernity had not yet desecrated and
which, 20 quote the words OF Dou-
may, who at times was a later Of
everything connected with the flcur-
le-lis. -smacked OF the odious cm-
blems OF bloOd-stained feudality."
Here We are monsieur he said.
as the taxicab pulled up IN front Or
the Old rsmshaclzle dwelling. which
Tenant found 20 be exactly as the
other had described t.
To was as lonely and deserted as
the ancient blind alley. the imu1sae
OudlnoL which was bottled un 20 tne
east By the back garden wall helHn--
ing TO house which faced the street
around the corner
There were lust three buildings
facing the Impasse Oudinot; the tenn
porarv German embassy on one side.
on the other the old dwelling house
into which NordeE bad gone, without
] coming out again. flanked by the
gray. squattiuE palace Of the prince
do Rohau-chabot.
While Doumay went 20 the back OF
the house 20 receive the report OF his
. ~ IA
negative. nobody had tried TO leave
the house through the tradesmen's
eutrance-Tennant. after receivinE a
similar reply from the gendarme 1Vso
had played sentry near the front
door. took q good look at the facade
(ContInued TomorroE-l