The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-06-04
published by special arrangement with
the Chicago Tribune Syndicate).
IN TWO PARTs-PART ONE
Being the Last of the
Tales, Relating the
Ext tn OrdinGry
A Adventures of James
Hughes, Criminal
~SeGrchlight and
MindreGder.

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4 S I slamed out Of the taxi in a
"A rage at the conclusion Of
Jacques Hughes part in the
BogOrOff case there was at least the
consolation that my relations with
jacques were no longer ambiguous.
In the beginning Of my description
of this case I've made some mention
of hte false position existing between
us. It is not only difficult but trying
to be good friends with a man while
at the same time making every effort
to catch him up and prove him a
fraud. The fact that I had frankly
declared such an objective did not
help much, because for n thing I
doubted that Jacques believed /
would really go so far as that when
it came to the scratch and, for an
other, I doubted it myself.
It had been impossible to resist that
same sneaking f0ndness that / had felt for
this sui generis personality, even when we
were little boys together in the district
schOOlhOuse near Wiscasset, and now as a
grow man the power Of Jacques curious
fascination was far greater because he had
gained in force and magnetism. Moreover,
he had been a timid boy, or at least passed
for such by our crude standards, but ne
now proved himself to have developed into
anything but a timid man. The very ma
ture of his service to the bOlice and the
broadcast exploitation Of it had reached
a point where he lived and moved and had
his being in constant danger Of assass1na-
ton. But so far as one could see, TINS
sinister peril left him entirely unmOved.
My anger on leaving him as l did was
not unnatural. For one thing, it was hu-
initiating enough to have him refer to the
case that l had been so sure was bound
to trap his as 'child's play" that did not
require the assistance Of a clairvOyant, and
on that account to cut short his seance and
leave the cleaning up of it to the police. -,
But what stung ne more was his bland
revealing Of the part that 1 had played in
it to be fiascO so far as concerned the saw
ing of the lives Of DR.. GOranskO and him
self. Jacques had not said this in so many
words, but I had sense enough to get 1t.
It had been this that had led me to put our
relations on a distinct basis and one on
which our friendship was to Ilay no fur
Their part.
You can, therefore. imagine 10Y I felt
when, on getting back to my hotel a little
later, I found his note to ask If l were too
angry to assist at the unraveling of another
case, assist" to be taken in the French
sense, which does not mean to aid, but
merely to be an intelligent Cf pOssiDle)
spectator.
devil. now despaired Of catching him up
He was too subtle, had too many exits 70
his burrOw. 1t was like trying to tie a knOl
in an eel. Then as / grew calmer 1t occurred
to me that he had not claimed any clair
~vOyance in this BOgOrOff case, this "child'S
lplay." After all, I was over there for my
|, paper, and owed it to those who paid me
to turn up something worth while.
! So when in the morning 1 got another
note to say that Pervier was coming t
Il the studio at eleven / threw my "PeeVe'
into the discard and went over to Jacques
2 studio at a little after ten and was greeted
s as if there had been no rupture at all II
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forgotten my bad words and the AFFAIR
that had provoked them. He seemed
= Thoughtful and a little distratt.
This new thing is going to tax my pow
= ers. Johnny. It's an old case reOpeneO
d Happened last December. The police nave
- quiet little way Of dropping a thing col
when they feel they haven't got enough {
= warrant an arrest, much less q cOnVlcClOI
e then keeling a close but unOStentat1Ou
watch on the parties concerned to see VIVA
may develop when all hands are lulled int
e a false sense of security. Thats all rign
- for them, but it makes it hard for me. IN
mental impressions for the time get bIurre
by subsequent interests and events, like
! multiple exposure on a Photographic plate.
Another way out, l thought, but l mere
2 " asked what the case might be about.
Better wait for Pervier," Jacques salt
/ "I was in Italy at the time and saw q
o. more than the briefest accounts in the Par
= Herald. That was before I'd started m
meteOric flight as a mind reader"
Z Pervier arrived as usual on the dot, mao
~ his perfunctOry situations, with no mentiO
= at all of the events Of the day before, an
~ began his narration of facts precisely &
y one turns the page of a Police dOssier.
Monsieur Jules ROuX had been before II
- war a prosperous industrial whose hare
ware factories were in the province Of Il
~ YOnne. He had inherited the business fro
IN his uncle, and as a young man he had Il
ne the sake Of experience served an apprel
a. ticeship in one Of the big plants in She
~ field, England, where he was promoted
IS, assistant shop superintendent. At the al
OF Of twenty-fOur he had married the your
and beautiful daughter of his chief.
- A year later, on the death Of his uncl
- he had returned to France fully eQuippI
Git to manage his inheritance, bringing wi
n him his wife and two months old baby,
girl, who was christened Edith An
- Louise.
ROux's English wife, as the French g
- of plants, "did not please herself" in Il
IA foreign soil. She lost her bloom ana d1
- when her daughter was ten years DID, U
years before the war. During the sCOrI
- epoch her father sent Edith to a cOnVe
~ boarding schOO in England, where she
wa NAMED until after the armistice.
- AS was to be expected, ROux added enc
mOusly n in an entirely creditable ms
ner to a fortune already considerable, a
ss- shortly after his daughters return ne ma
De- ried a beautiful young French woman
the gay set, waving a dot that In a
case would not have been forthcoming,
- the father Of his bride, a man OF I'll
ian =
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