The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-02-26

And, for that matter, an agent Of police
with more than he can swing has a r1ght
to call in a %bystander for, aid, when the
rendering of this aid becomes q civic duty,
That's not what's bOthering yOu now,
1 pointed out. you are mOtivated Dy
well, wouldn't you be in my case,
Johnny? ?"
He had me there, as invariably he man
aged. 1 couldn't tell hin that my own
courageous obligation was greater than
his, because I happened to be a reporter
come three thousand miles to pry into
something.
serious?' I asked. D they know anything
about this "Outer Circle2"
mo. There's nothing in the paper nor
handwritten printing to offer any clew.
No finger prints nor trick of lettering.
They find it significant that the writer
merely advises me to quiet and paint my
pictures and carry on as usual with no
fear Of attack"
lBOgOrOff's attempt on Jacques life had
been because he had decided to get Cor
anskO and so took precautions against
collateral information that might offer
a clew on which to hang an indictment
But one would say that the writer Of this
note had no crime in view at the mo-
ment, but thought something might croI
up later
JACQUES dropped the matter abruptly
then When next 1 saw him some day
= later he told me in an Offhand wa.
that Just to call the bluff he had gone owe
ana held a seanee on a bandit arrested 70
highway robbery with mayhem that tn
police already had all the goods on. AM
no need Of help
Isn't that just asking for trouble?"
"Well, perhaps, Johnny But all the sam
it's sticking to my determination not t
take the administration of so called justic
into my own hands Now Wen see wha
{ He had just finished a portrait and asks
me if I would care for a little jaunt t
lie TOuQuet, a round Of golf and a stroll
on the beach, and to spin the petit
l chevauX in the Casino.
So to lie TOuquet we went, over tn
road in Jacques luxurious little Renaul
which he drove himself.
Jacques played golf a good deal as b
: painted, clean dainty strokes of which tn
strength and precision were shown by tn
result l have commented on his uncOmmO
type of archangel beauty that was neithe
masculine nor feminine nor neuter; a sol
of Du Maurier Marian. He was immediate
" identified, of course, and we came in fC
q good bit of attention. l say we, becauS
it had leaked out somehow that he had
satellite cOmpatriOt, press agent If 70
like, but one who didn't in the OpiniO
of most people do Justice to his uncOmmo
personality.
Naturally I kept a weather eye lifted fC
ANY or such as might be hostile I had a
(-NLL5 NIN@ "A - =
anything serious behind that note it wOul
not CONF according to the crude metho
of our Balkan financier-bOmbs, Apacf
knives and things Neither did / think
it were coming at all il would be veI
long delayed, because in the meantime Il
writer would reason that the police wOul
be strenuOusly working under the surfa'
of things and that the French police ha'
not yet become the negligible quanti'
that the increase Of crime would lead OF
to suppose.
- - 49,,
at luncheon on the terrace, and he agree
What l banke most on was that Il
note might be pure bluff, to test his nerV
sent possibly by somebody of his acquain
ance who wanted to determine how mur
Of a man he was He might believe so hill
self and be holding out on me, playing b
Everlasting gallery act. And When it cal
to that, I reflected that all men in who
was vested some autOcratic power we
} constantly being threatened, and that raj
ly were these threats fulfilled
We finished our luncheO and stroll
over to the Casino Jacques caught sig
Of some people he knew, so / started
play the petit chevauX at twenty fran
a shot, at that moment about a dollar a
a half / had a run Of luck and when
course Of nearly an hour it turned agai
me / quit about five hundred and o
francs ahead. Looking around then
Jacques, I caught sight Of him at a tai
on the terrace, listening to a chic a
pretty woman who was talking to him
a tense, eager way 1 recognized her INN
diately from the portrait to which Jacql
!, had been giving the final touches the fl
: time / had called at his studio.
She was Madame Marquand, the intim
, friend Of a Madame JOliOt, whose pOrtr
- Jacques had also painted, and WhO Y
the daughter Of the banker de GunzVi
1c- Jacques, g~laneing round at that nome
,rk beckoned TO me. I went over and was p
sented as an old schOOlmate.
"Sft down, Johnny" Jacques said, 8
I'd when I had done so, twill you please
~ Madame MarQuand what I have deci'
about my mind reading efforts 2"
ia / guessed Immediately that JacqJ
~ services had been requisitiOned by {
=; pretty woman to find her stolen jewels
something Of the sort SO I stated brie
en- that Jacques had retired from so uni'
field because he found it more AID ~
ers difficult to reconcile his findings with
?ry Justice that must be legally applied
ial, the result.
Box ct is hardly fair I said, ito pu.
superhuman gift at the disposition
me human legislation that must necessarily
often limited and In some cases cruel
595 unmerited On the other hand, Monsl
Hughes does not feel that he has the eth
80 right to protect a person whom he n
~ Technically guilty. Besides, he might
= himself into very serious difficulty
- doing so. He has therefore wisely dec.
res- TO withdraw from such a perplexing
10 and to make no exceptions whatever