The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-06-02


 Messieurs le Balafre and Bee, who have just come out of the black
 horror of that He du Diable, at
 tend to that little matter. And so madame puts her notices in the
 Marseilles journals. Does she not | know that those wretched ones will
 be hungry for news of the city of
 their birth? It was an astonishing
 cleyerness, that revengel Madame has the genius" Flique' bowed iron ically.
 A drop of blood trembled upon
 Mrs. Parados lower lip. She shut
 her eyes and clenched her hands,
 then suddenly flung her head up
 and broke into torrent of words. "Yes, I did insert that advertise
 ment. I hoped it would bring those
 men here. And I hoped they'd send I bullet into Dams black heart. There! It's out. I'm glad.
 { T suppose you want to know how I knew about Dan and those men and the phoenix. It was this way:
 Dan was always bragging, es- pecially after he'd been drinking. One evening, a few days after that lescape from Devils Island, he had 1enough to make him talkative and he boasted he had sent those two men there 25 years ago He said l something about that bank robbery
 and the phoenix--connecting them with le Balafre and Bee and an- other man named Jules Lacote. I T questioned him. He wouldn't leommit himself, but the little he did say made me feel that he was ..lUiles Lacote and that his phoenix was the one the newspapers had linentloned. Dams past had always
 been a mystery to me, but l Knew he had come from France 25 years before. He must be Lacote. Tt was then that I thought of lletting the convicts know where ,I Dan was. There was only one
 way in which I could get to them ? the information they would need
 I was sure they would get hold of
 their home town newspapers as time went on. I'm glad I did it. If v iyou tell me that one of those men
 shot Dan I shall feel I have ac- : icompiished something useful. That's all" I5s itt9
 " Mrs. Parados stoppet. as defiantly }. as she had begun.
 S What are you going to do about | lit, M. Flique2" she demanded. e Flique spread his hands. Have
 il not complimented madame?"
 You know what I mean!" she n exclaimed. Did those men kill my
 huSband?"
 g Flique made her wait perhap: e half a minute before he answered tt Does madame speak seriously?' lt What do you mean?" ,f That monsieur offered madame T the unbearable humiliation ant t that she could not content hersel It to wait for Messieurs le Balafre ane n Bee, who might never come at all Il You are crazy" Mrs. Parado
 screamed.
 "i Madame is not herself. It is be
 cause I am about to remind he d that Friday, the day monsieur wa l. killed, was the anniversary of thei
 wedding and the birthday of ma S. dame? Is it because remind he
 that this trifle which monsieur pur chased for -35 cents, was it?-sa
 his gift to madame on that tende SC occasion?p
 mi No, no, mol" Mrs. Parados wa iu beating upon the arms of her chaii le "It was the final humiliation of Madame could stand no more"
 You are lying! It isn't my pen
 dant! never saw it before!" a. "A green stone is missing-yo S. seel" Flique held the pendant i ne front of Mrs. Parados' agonize m eyes. But the excellent Manniil r. found 1t on the floor of madame
 i room-and madame" Is You devil"
 to t"--and madame knocked it ou
 of her hand"
 l, Mrs. Parados covered her fat
 and rocked back and forth in ht ne chair. fAGs
 n-a Tt was evening and madam went up to her room to dress
 4 Flique continued relentlessly. Al les I not right? How it burned ht a. hand. that trifle. She could m 'e- bear it."
 lat "Flique-listen to me. I didn't ( he itl"
 ne "The excellent Manning prepar' iae her bath. Madame mattresses ar IT. puts on her gown-her blue gow 'uS The trifle still burns her hand ar ce' she tfrusts 1t deep into her pocke 'es But the little hall connects m' ef danes chamber with her batl