The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-04-09

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the Chicago Tribune ~Syndicate).
IN THREE PARTs-PART TWO
THE STORY so FAR
This is the second Of a series Of five
stories having to do with the exploits
Of Hughes, the mind reader. Johnny has
been called to the studio Of Jacques
to hear NJ. PerVier narrate the details
Of a new case. 1t SENS that a wealthy
Argentinian, Miguel, son of COrentine an
old actress, and niece of Count de Dom
court, had mysteriOusly disappeared from
the home Of the county. Miguel had re-
Gently arrived in France with his moth
er and becoming infatuated with Annik,
the young daughter of the count, they
had become married and were living at
the counts villa, A bitter enmity and
hatred was harbOred by COrentine for
the count and she had disapbrOved the
marriage from the beginning.
. And, now the story
The count made the best of it and COren-
tine the worst. Flinging aside all Unborn
respect for caste, she rushed over to the
chateau and treated her brOther-in-law to
a scene that might have reached the point
OF Ihysical violence had not Miguel, with
the assistance of two chauffeurS and a val
ct, dragged his mother out, showed her in
to her limousine, and ordered her driven
back to Quimper. The trouble was that
COrentine had taken too much for granted.
Going on former precedent oft repeated,
she had not for a moment suspected that
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sin could possibly be honorable. Influenced
also by recollection Of her own behavior
and temperamental qualities, she could i'm
agine no need for their being honorable.
Perhaps her hatred and contempt Of her
brOther-in-laW, her wish that his laughter
be the plaything of her son, was parent Of
Ter thought that this was already the case.
She had never counted on holy wedlOck.
Under these circumstances it was, Of
course, impossible for Miguel to take his
bride to his mothers house, and as the
young man seemed really to like his faith
er-in-laW, he yielded readily enough to his
urgent request that they make their home
at the chateau. A small army Of wOrkmen
turned one end of it into a veritable love
nest, in curious contrast to the ascetic au-
stere D~arrenneSs Of the counts quarters,
which he preferred left undisturbed.
RaOul had charge Of these operations, and
as a sensible if brOkenhearted young man
he made the best of it. But his visits to
the chateau were now confined to business
ones.
Matters went fairly well, then for about a
year. COrentine sulked or swOre in Quinn
per, though Miguel went frequently to
see her.
Then, tentatively at first, the cloven hoOf
Of the pampas tOrO began to poke out from
under its panOlpy. Sharp, stifled cries thai
were not entirely of fear or anger were
heard by the servants, though unrepOrted
by the foreign ones. Annik appeared one
day with bruises on her lovely face, say
ing that she had triIped and fallen against
a chair. At a Inner party in the Hotel
NOrmandie at Deauville to which they had
driven over she surprised the other guests
by appearing tulle thTOated, long sleeved
and slightly drunk, her explanation being
that she had caught cold in driving over
frOid-et-chaud-taken a chill, and was full
Of aspirin and cOgnaC.
The sharp pointed horns were not slow
in following the paving clOven hOOf. II
would seem possible that the count whose
senses were acute, could not have been deaf
to some of the Outcries from the love nest
these less stifled than the first. More thar
that, he seemed no less deaf to certain
mutterings amongst the older servants
blind to their dark yet frightened glanceS
at his s~On-in-law, and insensible to the con
traction of his beloved daughters body OF
one or two occasions when he took her by
the shoulders and drew her to iii for {
kiss.
He was obliged to take cOgnizance on
day when RaOul, pale and quivering ant