The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-05-07

the baron might have decided the best
he could do would be to wait, in the hope
that this might clear rather than kill
the goose that had been laying golden
eggs.
In such a case I could not see just how
the baron was going to get out Of the
scrape, though the chances were that the
ii convinced that Pillar had run off with
Alexis and that Won HelmbOlz had moth
ing to do with that Tart Of it. That she
already believed such to be the case was
indicated by the fact that she had so
far declined to report the loss Of her
jewels to the companies by which they
were insured.
So now is was up to Jacques either
actually to read the barOns min or to
fake some good excuse for not being able
to do so. 1t was manifestly impossible,
if he were the fraud that I suspected, for
him to deduce the truth from Pervier's
rather scanty statement Of facts. But
there was always the alternative that
Jacques might risk q lucky guess, state
that the baron had in this case told the
truth, and they would have to produce
one or all Of the other three concerned
for his examination. And it was fairly
evident that if able to do this, then the
need Of Jacques services would not be
requisitiOned.
As Jacques insisted always that if I
were to witness his demonstration / must
be put upOn my honor for his sake and
for his credit not to try to learn any
more about the case than he knew him
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Their details.
Won Helmholz was being held at Nice,
and it was requested Of Jacques to go
there Immediately. With his usual COM
placence he agreed to do this, and we
went with PerVier that same night by a
wagon lit, on the rapide Cote d'Azur.
I lay awake for SOM time in the com
partment de luxe reserved for Jacques
and myself, LOndering less on the case
than what Jacques was apt to do about
it. 1t struck me also as extraordinary that
three persons, each Of such remarkable
physical traits as those Of Pillar, Alexis,
and Antonio, should have escaped immed-
late detection. Here we're a Spanish beau
ty at whom every man would look for as
long as she was in sight, a blonde liOnes-
pue Russian whom every woman would
serve in like fashion, and a grim faced
grizzled tOreadOr whose previous vocation
was stamped on him., from cast iron jaw
to bulging calves, far more legibly than
the branding Of any steer and at whom
both men and women would stare as
long as he was in sight.
But the spider web Of continental pol
police system had not been so much as set
in faint vibration anywhere. could see
how it might happen in the United States,
with the swarming mixture Of diverse
nationals and thrOnging lines Of COM
muicatiOn. But 1 failed to see how il
could happen in Europe, on the continent
with its jealOusies and system of close
individual scrutiny. The answer to this
query should have been evident right
there, but it got past me.
We arrived at Nice, and as I have pre-
viOusly described in detail Jacques tech
nique Of examination, it is enough to say
that he was duly confronted with the
arrogant, intOlerant type Of junker that
had been led to expect, but who in the
present instant bowed stiffly from the
hips, then seated himself as requested.
The Baron Won HelmhOlZ looked any.
the sort of vicious animal that Pillar
sudden antipathy would seem to depic'
him. He was a dark German, actually
Spanish himself in physical traits, pale
but clear of skin, smooth shaver excel
for a small black wiry mustache, waxeC
at the tips to look like blackthOrn briars
and an infleXible pOise. His age NIGH
have been thrity-eight or forty, but his
sle~nderness and freshness of tint gave
him something Of the perennial you'll
Of a romantic hero of the movies.
Jacques, with his usual murmur Of a
pOlOgy, took the sleek head between hi
hands. The barOn's dark, hooking eyeI
looked ironically into his. Jacques gazeC
into them FOR an instant, then leaned
back and laughed. He rose.
And why" he asked Of the astOnisheC
officials, do you think this man is tn,
Baron Won HelmhOlz?"
There was an instant Of dismayed sill
ence. Than as the idea that they haC
caught a stool pigeon flashed acrOS
} their minds, an excited sputter Of half
hearted prOtestatiOn broke loose. The mai
answered to a dot the description Of Vol
: HelmhOlz. He had his papers, his Jewelry
sleeve links with the arms and mono
2 gram, all the earmarks Of identity wit
which it is possible to be Llastered.
2 Somebody speak to him in German.
Jacques said dryly, 81 doubt if he cal
; A police, pOlyglot interpreter, perhaps
I Of a eOmmissariat as cosmopolitan in it
leases as one might find in any part Of tn
globe, addressed the suspect. He merel
= laughed. AS for the others present,
never saw such a group Of men so over
. Whelmed with modification. But on
: friennd Pervier kept his mechanical min
= on the ball.
q Al least, monsieur" he said in his dr.
q voice, what the mind Of this impOstO
tell yOu?"
| mot much,' Jacques answered, "be
. yOnd the fact hat he laid this false ira
as a friendly act that was generOusl
, Rewarded by Won lmh so that tn
u baron could get safely into Germany wit
his wife, whom he now holds there fC
z ransom and with, / should say, perfeC
! legal right"
: There was a moment Of stupefactiol
: Then Pervier demanded:
"But Alexis and Antonio p
- "They are there, too. 1t was a bargain
= The mind Of this friend and ally Of tt
baron tells me he persuaded his wife
go with him and offered her Alexis
an inducement. The baron had long ag
- cOnsOled himself for the deprivation
his wife, but he found it difficult to sui
? stitute the remittances enjoyed from b
- IAdLuEE.
% After all, a woman is only a wOma
while a mark is no longer a mark. Pest
49, are better. The baron could not reno
strate with his fa~ther-in-law because Il
= mind Of the old gentleman was not WOrl
= ing. One can scarcely blackmail a ms
who no longer remembers what he has
fear, and the baron could not hope to a
cOmplish any thing with the sonora b
cause she never had known anything
&c bout the affair. Or if she did she WOu
y have told the baron to go to the dev
A woman Of that sOu-splitting natu
= who spends carefully or at times ma
- nificently, but always for full value 7
)y ceived, would see her husband go to B
boa brisOn rather than suffer the co
O. tinued anguish Of suOh extOrtiOns, t
x. cutting away Liecemeal Of her flesh al
~ blOOd-and to a man whom she deteste
D whose revelation of a vicious nature hi
not only ruined her daughters life b
or loaded her mother with a burden Of ca
ne "The mind Of this man transferred in
= j Mothers Treat Cold.
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