The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-04-02

sible, but somebody. So the last
brilliant success of that charlitan or
phenomenon, Jacques Hughes-fOr I
could not determine whlch-brOught
him tremendous acclaim.
Partly on the strength of our hav-
ing been little boys in school to-
gether, when 1 had sometimes cham
piOned him, partly because it seemed
the square thing to do, I told Jacques
frankly that I had still far more re-
spect for the a~cuteness of his own
mind than for his prOfessed ability
to read that of a man accused of a
crime as if it were an open book.
He was not in the least offended,
but invited me to stay on in Paris to
see another case.
This was not long in presenting itself.
Jacques sent me an pneumatique to say
Cnat M PerYler was coming to his studio
70 describe the bald facts leading up to the
Do CASTILLO disappearance, and would I
care to hear what he had to say?
1 had read the meager newspaper ac-
counts about this mystery, crime, or acct
dent to the young Argentine multimilliOn-
aire with the old Portuguese name, which
accounts for the do" in what YVES origin
ally a Spanish colony. But the guarded
paragraphs about it didn't give much to
go on. The libel avs Of France are
stringent ones.
I arrived at the studio with a mind as
blank as to any definite opinion as Jacques
claimed his own to be. Before examining
q suspect Jacques required to be told in
detail only h was known actually to
have happened, with as precise a descrip-
ton as could be furnished by an expert
observer of the place and the people in
VOlved. He declined to listen to any theory
or deduction about the case on the ground
that he did not want to risk the suggesting
of any p-receOnceiVed idea of his own to the
mind of the nnVa0n that no undnrfOOR r.
read. This mental scrutiny Of his, be pro
fessed, was precisely the opposite Of the
usual process Of cOrss-examinatiOn. He de-
sired only actual facts for the posing Of his
! purely mental questions. All Of which
+" sounded k utter bunk to me.
On this day in early spring / found
Jacques painting in his ~curiOusly immac
ulate way, as If the slightest smirch O
: pigment would burn a hole in any part o
+ him it touched. This singular cleanli
ness, that had been characteristic Of him q
. a little boy in that Maine district schOO
= near Wiscasset, was significant in suggest
ing that his mental processes might func
ton similarly, with no running Of the col
\ Ors or "lacing" Of the picture.
3 Hello, Johnny" said he. "On the dot
Pervier is coming up now in the lift"
More clairVOyanee, Jaeques2"
"a N more than when you came with you
store leg. For one thing, I've found him {
be always on the stroke, and for anOtheI
8 nes the only one besides my neighbOr IN
derneath at whom the cOncierge'e do
= Darks, and she's gone out with her Pamei
3 anian."
8 M. Pervier came in. I don't know VIII
10 the cOneierge's dog saw fit to bark
u him, unless because the agents persOnalit
was such a self-Obliterative one that Il
In dog was never quite sure whether he WI
j. a real person or a gray little ghost.
He now bowed, seated himself wax fiji
~ ure fashion,, and in his monograph
&. voice set the facts Of the case before US.
started like a fairy tale.
Twenty years ago q certain innkeeper
~ q small m In Brittany had two vel
"a beautiful daughters. This mans name W
- Keraoec n the girls nne (the patr'
saint Of Brittany and COrentine. Kerodel
i'll inn was p~atrOnized all the year round
rs artists, French and foreign. Situated at {
head Of q small anse or estuary Of {
- sea, It offered great opportunity for ms
Inc painters, amongst whom was a you
man Of talent and serious purpose nam
- Louis de DOmcOurt, Of the old Norman
" nobility and an only child.
Louis fell in love Wtth Anne, or Anna
lm she was called, and committed what was
'Mi the France Of that day a grave filial
- tense and one against his caste. He 10,
- ried her despite the wishes Of his paren
who gave their consent only after he b
been dragged from the sea unconscious
ter an attempt at suicide.
Anna was file hOnnete, in old fashion
American, q YirtuOus girl But ner e'
sister Corentlne was rot. She had "a
- ruined Dy her association with gay you
artists, IL such a bebe incassable, unhreal
r bic doll Of q Breton girl can be ruined
u this sense. COrentine must, however, h'
been very debraVed, because she had b'
- known 20 pose with her abundant hair
- cOilled, &c that time ag shameless as
~c g Aonammelan pa were % pose y
Io face unveiled.
at about the time when the etrici
parents OF louis gave their legal cons
'om 10 his marriage with Anna, Cofentin8
s % carried off % the Argentine hT ) y
ana young pampfe BUN 81 9 p1tates who