El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-01-14
4 Ripping
DetectiUe Story
Copyright. 1918. By James A. Mccain Co
4 All rights reserved

a college boy 70 faint with envy. Fur
thermore, he wore heavy, shell
trimmed spectacles.
What viii your he said. rather
beuigerently as he met the other
smiling gaze I am G paciflst- an
anti milltarist heinz Not the bomb
throwing variety. but the intellectual
type, What you call in your Ameri-
can slang a "a fruit
"A nut, you mean"
"a mutt Bieni And I have attired
myself 70 correspond 20 the nuts
outer shell"
But Doumay knew his business He
knew how 70 talk 70 the men who
came into the shop.
The government The army2 Cap
italE' Doumay would snap his fingers.
That for themi" And then a blood
curdling harangue for which a pro-
fessiOual anarchist would have paid
spot cash Small wonder that, from
the very first. the book shop In the
Rue FerOu became a success
Not that the shop prospered from
a financial point OF view The peo-
pie who frequeuted 10 were not over
burdeued with money But soon Il be-
came the headquarters for all the dis
honest. dissatisfied. corrupt elements
Of the neighborhood. Including saloon
politicians, ward heelers. the Paris
equivalent OF the 7 ". W. the former
henchmen OF the late Anatole Jarvet
and a sprinkling OF those accom-
plished and humorous assassins who
call themselves the apaches-which
Is rather unfair on the aborigines OF
Arizona and New Mexico.
Every evening they gathered there
They listened respectfully 20 the
sound" views OF the proprietor. 81
Ernest Lafarge, and the more hectic
orations delivered by his little assis-
tant- They exchanged condolences,
and the shop proprietor could say
afterward that during his short career
in the Rue Ferou he collected enough
matchmaking evidence TO send q large
percentage Of the inhabitants OF the
saint Sulpice Quarter 20 the penal
colonies for high treason, murder.
sedition. and anarchy.
His shop became the talk OF the
neighborhood, and, needless to say,
the inspired article in the Etoile
helped the good cause along The
editor. IL Perquel. had tried his best
TO initiate the style OF the late N.
Stevnard in the editorial I'm which he
warned the capitalistic government
that a new prophet had risen in
"A eomrade from across the
Atlantic. brothers, A man OF sound
doctrine. noble endeavOr. and the
stanch fearlessness Of a Hercules
The unforgettabte, nlartyred apostles
Of our cause-Anatole Jarvet and
Raoul teyuard-honored him with
their confidencei They entrusted him
with most valuable papers, which he
viii shortly publish. to the confusion
and disgrace OF the government Of
crimson handed butchers. Let the
tremble and beware.
Ernest Lafarge has sworn revenget'
The next day. following an inter-
view between Il Perquel and n. La
FARCE. the newspaper brought a SINH
lar article which wound up with the
rhetoric dare.
"Wm the government OF butchers
murder II. Ernest LafarEe as It muir
dered Jarvet and Steynard? The sor-
rowing proletariat demands an
ausWerr"
But no answer" came. though la
large took every precaution.
Precaution. negatively speaking.
For they made the approach to the
shop easy for the would be assassin.
They left the front door open. and
the back door. which led 10 their bed
room aiar. They asked the com
rades Of the neiEhborhood not TO be