Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-07

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last photograph appeared-the pic
ture of a youngish man. very grace
| fully made, in Semi-fantaStic cos
| tune and carrying. slung across his
| shoulders, two colonies OF birds that
rested on perches fashioned after the
tops of trees. The young mans pos
ture was that of I dancer.
The butler nodded his head. and the
/ detective put the photograph in his
| pocket. The sonora was relieved Of
! further questioning. then. Just the
same" Senior De'mas remarked 10 his
| superiors, Il believe that the sonora
plunged in the knlfe-or, at least, she
saw it done"
on the back of the photograph was
| cil--juSt a line which read NO. II
| ltue du Senat That was all-no
! city or town or country or name
But there will not be many Rue du
Senats in the world" Senior Delmas
remarked. First the Surete of Paris
was askd by wire TO list all streets of
that name in the many cities OF
| France, then Belgium and even Italy
| were advised. Weeks passed. The
| sonora. completely alone now. and
without the S!mpathicS or the friend
ships of her husbands relatives. left
/ representatives to handle her interest :
I in the estate. and. with the forebod.
ing that some way would bc found for
( her To receive nothing FROM her huS.
! lands properties. she went back into
! France whcnc" she had come From
! the Paris bureau of police came the
I list Of streets called ''Senat in various
/ French towns. Also the diSroIlla a.iuu
! report that, SO far as the French pc
( lice were concerned. the young dancer
/ with the birds was not known
! either in police or amusement circles
! one by one the various Rue
! SenatS' were eliminated. Some had
! no number l.. Other that had gave
no results to the Spanish detectives
working in association with French
inspectors.
Then Senior DelmaS himself walked
! into the old part Of the city Of Nice
/ the feudal quarter where the city is
! the same today as il WAS in the wars
! of the Phillips, ancient, moss grown
stone walls bordering marrow. crooked
streets that are dark and evil odored.
/ one OF these twisting passageways
Was honored by the sign, Rue du
! Senat.' And Just beyond the first
bend in the crooked lane was an old
doorway of Crumbling wood bound
with creakinS iron hinges OF u century
| old pattern. over which was the
| number "l2''
In his routine manner Senior Del
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housekeeper. She proved To be a
crone who seemed To match the house
! itself. She would have nothing 10 say
until the Spanish detective flashed his
badge. All peasants and ConcierGes
J are awed by the fash of u badge. no
matter what its nature.
Yes. she remembered the Young man
whose photograph was being shown
To her. An Apache. he was. who had
come ont OF the sewers very early in
his youth and hal taken to dancing
first the wild. brutal dances of his
clan. and then, as he progressed.
prettier and more graceful dances. He
danced always with women. OF these
he had had a score: many of them
ApacheS. others CocoteeS whom he
taught 10 step with him and dis
carded when they no longer plea sed
him For. once an Apache. always an
Apache.
!: :. = =
4 FTEH a consultation with the
4 French police officials. it was de
ciCed that the Spanish police must
use caution. An arrest and charge
of crime is not such Il simple thing in
Europe as in America. The police
must build their cases first. not after
wards. There was no evidence against
Jean Matteau. the dancing Apache,
if he We're the original of the photo
graph he would he the stranger in the
Bartolomeo home the day before the
murder-the man With whom the
sonora had talked and OF whom she
denied any knowledge. The police
could trust the Apaches to come out
in force, if Jean were taken into Gus
tody, to prove by their concerted testi-
mony that he hadn't been i'll Spain at
all.
Senior Delmas spent many days in
Nice. From the loungers in one cafe
and another he learned something of
Jean Matteau-of Jean Matteau and n
girl, a slender little thing. whom he
had taught to dance.
Where she came from no one knew
Some thought from the Danish coun-
tries. because her hair was "a little
! fair She had been a mascotte at the
! Monte Carlo Casino for time. a
I ably maScotte," as very young girls
are called who hire themselves out as
! good luck companions DIT the gam
I bling tables. to veteran patrons OF the
roulette tables. The ''mascottes" of
| Monte Carlo have rule among them
selves that they must never accept
attentions other than those which are
purely professional from their patrons
Such a thing would break their
charm" they say.
! II was not prosperous season for
the baby mascottes," and the fair
haired one from the northern coun-
tries yearned TO dance. Some one told
| her of the dancing Apache" at No. u
Rue du Senat, in old Nice, and that he
had just dismissed one partner and
might want another.
A little later Jean Matteau APP
peared at the music halls of Nice and
! MarSeille with a new partner
tender wisp of a girl. who danced like
II fairy. and who was so light that he
could pick her up in their dance and
wind her little body about his neck
They became very well known, and
popular. Jean hurt his ankle in one
of their dances, and was confined to
the house of the old crone at Rue du
Senat. And Agerno, his pretty part
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