The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1889-01-12 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

CHAPTER XIV.  THE COHENS/48Y RESOLVES TO SPEND TUE  NIGHT IN THE COUNT'S CHAMBER.  It was a grandly, rather than elegantly furnished bedroom, that which the wounded Count de Beauvais occupied.  A bright fire lent it cheerfulness, and there was now no other light, for lit had been done that. for the time could be done for the patient. . . .  The doctor stood with his back to the fire, evidently ruminatinz, for he did not observe the presence of the Police Commissary until be had gained the rug whereon he himself stood.  The medico then held up a forefinger to impose silence, not because it was strictly necessary, but by reason that it was a trick he had upon occasions like the present. Perhaps the commisesry knew this, for he certainly spoke several degrees above a whisper when he ked : 'Well, and what are the respective chances of life and death." . .  - . They incline in favour of the latter. decidedly. The bullet, entering in at the pit of the stotatich, took an upward direction, and, as I strongly surmise from my patient's breathing, something more than graz-d the pericardium of the heart, finally inflicting an injury to the spine as it came out of his hack. A more cold-blooded or deliberate attempt to murder was surely never know, for the weapon was discharged so close to the connt's body that the olothridid the gold lace of his coat were positively burned axle blackened thereby. But on that point you may judge for yourself, for there lies the coat on the floor in fragments, just as we bad to cut it off him with a large pair of scissors." The commissary thereupon examined the fragments of the coat and found the doctor's statement to be correct. " It is a crime that will make a noise in the world," he said as he straightened himself up again. " There is name and fame to be won out of it if the case is handled skilfully. The Count de Beativaie is one of the beat known men in France, and his wife, who is deeply implicated one of the reigning belles of Paris. Th, assassin, too, is an attache at the British Amhassy, and so move in the highest circles and is actually engaged to be married to the daughter of Dr. Recoils, who, though be holds a physician's diploma, is better known as dentist to the Imperial family—almost to all the crowned heads of Eurore whilst resident in Paris, as doubtless you are well aware. It was through having one of Dr. Recline' professional cards that he managed to get in here to commit his bloodthisty crime, and on the back was written in pencil, 'Remember to call about Mend's gloves." Now Mond is the name of his &mice. who doubtless gave him one of her father's cards to jot down some little commission on that she wished him to do for her, in case that without such • memorandum be &maid forget it. to you see that on all sides the incriminated and all their connections are people of position, and therefore that the affair becoming a cow. celebre is assured." " I foresee that every effort will be made to get the young man out of the scrape. The Brilsh Ambaesadcr will be are to use all his influeuce on behalf of one of his attaches, and the entire English colon.' of the Avet-ue Ulrich and L'Emperatrice hick him lip aye, and even drive him on ek odd his zeal be observed to slacken," rettrl3,l the fussy little doctor with a frown.