Evening star., 1925-07-26
A PARIS FROCK
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parture-and finds her dead. This
throws out all his plans. so he returns
to his own fiat. And-yes' Mr..
Quayne slapped his knee There is
one thing missing. Why did Monnier
go to the Champs Elysees at 10
o'clock? Who shot him there? And
who sent him-or passed across the
counter-that note making the ap-
| pointment? Who but our friend St.
Georges, determined to silence the
man who could bet9ay him.
There is one other thing missing, -
observed NJ. Dieulafoy. MY dia-
monds! Where are they?"
'Yes-where are they?" The chief
sat thoughtful. "St Georges had be-
tween 4:20 and when we visited him
to dispose of them. He did not give
them to his wife. The maids evidence
disposes of that. He did not keep them
with him-or we should have found
| them. L observed him when we We're
searching his premiSeS-and am sure
that he was confident we could not find
! them even by accident. Therefore they
were not there. There are a dozen ways
in which he might dispose of those
diamonds until he wanted them. The
way that occurs to me is that he
posted them for whatever place he in
tended to go to with his wife. And
unless we can discover that-and only
he can tell us-there they are likely
to remain"
AS we sat the next day in the Office
of the commissary of police we were
informed that M. st. Georges had
been arrested on the charge of MUIR
dering Jules Monnier. A gunsmith in
the Rue Lafayette had deposed to
selling M. st. Georges the revolver
two months previously.
The police had succeeded in com.
enigmatic Individual The son of
deceased costumier in the Rue St.
Honore, he had entered his fathers
business, but under various aliases
he had drifted into the career of q
swell mobsman" and jewel thief. Be
tween 1905 and 1912 he had under
gone two terms of Imprisonment. In
1914, he had been modified and
transferred to the telegraphic service
of the army. In 1919 he had been
convicted of an attempted theft of
pearls from jeweler. In 1923, under
his real name of Dubois, he had mar
ried Angelo Levasseur, and a few
months previously had established
himself in his trade of costumier in
the Rue Royale as NJ. st. Georges.
His clientele had been chiefly among
the lesser lights of the demimonde,
and only moderately lucrative. 1t
was beyond doubt that he ! had been
intimate with Jules Monnier and had
encouraged that unfortunate man in
his infatuation with Mile. Levasseur,
or Nine. Dubois as she really was
Though the fact had been kept closely
secret). to the extent Of financing him
to the tune Of nearly four hundred
thousand francs. 1t looked like a
conspiracy to get the jewelers. trusted
assistant into his tolls.
But there was nothing to indicate
completely in the disappearance of
the diamonds. The establishment in
the Rue Royale had been closely
watched from the time we left it until
NJ. st. Georges had been arrested at
1890. The employees had arrived at
$50 and at 10 o'clock one of them had
come out with a parcel for the post.
The policeman had examined the
package. 1t was cardboard box con-
tanning a dress for dispatch to a
client. The policeman had satisfied
himself that 1t contained no message.
NJ. st. Georges must have had a sus-
picion that his arrest was more than
possible, but if he had accomplices to
whom he would wish to communicate
the whereabouts Of the diamonds, he
had made no attempt to utilize the
interim OF liberty accorded to him.
He was now in prison. To the charge
against him he had replied by con-
temptuous denial.