New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 13, 1922, Page 10

‘Qriumphs of 2 M.Jonguelle \% by MerviLLe DavissoN PosT © 1092 NEA Service, Inc The Mottled Butte #he opera had opened began to N the corridors, Jonquelle did not go in, He remained idling in the foyer, a clgarette in his flngers, his manner! and air, a well-bred, bored indiffe ence. The whole house was crowde There was not a vacant seat, It was the last performance Parls of Mme, Zirtenzoff's S8alome, A few belated persons passed M, | Jonquelle and entered the doors to the boxes. Some of these persons addressed him all regarded him. He was a well-known flgure in Paris, His friendship was worth something, and whether one knew him, or cared to know him, all were curious about the man. The vast music assembled and ex- tended itself. The foyer became empty, and still M. Jonquelle did not go in. Perhaps it was because Mme. Zirtenoff had not gone on. She was a famous beauty; | her SBalome had the abandon which stimulated even the jaded nerves of France, It had been on at the Opera for fifty days, and Paris was still keen to nee it. The woman was a Russlan exotic, one of those alluring creatures that wlways assemble a fabulous legend, There was a wild passion in 'her Balome, and her conquests were the gossip of Paris. The opera had continued for per- haps thirty minutes. Mme. Zirten- Zoff had come on; her voice, like a ellver bell, reached M. Jonquelle clearly where he sauntered in the foyer. Presently the door to a box opened and one of the pages of the theater appeared with an immense bouquet of orchids. The flowers were worth a thousand francs. They could have been grown n Paris only with extreme care and under every perfection of light and temperature. It was a mass of flowers that would have drawn the attention of anybody, ex- quisite orchids of the genus Oncidium Krameri, called the Mottled Butter- fly. It seemed to have drawn the atten- tion of M. Jonquelle. He stopped the page as he passed him. “@Garcon,” he said, handing him a plece of gold, “find me a box of cigarettes before you go on with those flowers. Quickly—run; I will hold them until you return. The boy knew the great chief of the Bervice de la Surete. . He gave M. Jonquelle the bouquet of orchids and disappeared down the stairway. He was gone hardly a moment; when he returned, M. Jon- quelle had not moved from his posi- tion by a pillar of the foyer. He, handed back the orchids to the page and received the box of cigarettes. He paused a moment, fingered the box but did not open it; instead, he waelked a few steps down the foyer and entered the box from which the page had come out with the orchids. One looking on would have won- dered why the Prefect of Police re- quired a pack of cigarettes, at the cost of a ten-franc gold piece—espec- fally as, after having turned it in his hand, he had put it carelessly into his pocket and entered a box. . It would appear that he waited for these cigarettes béfore entering the box, But to what-enf? = One' could not smoke in a box at the Opera, af its most expensive point in the ultra- fashionable audience of Paris. Al- though the great opera house was I'he musie But M, in packed with people—not a vacant seat visible to the eye—there was but one person in the box which M. Jon- quelle had entered. J He was a person that anyone would pause almost anywhere to. obsetve. He was young; he was exquisitely dressed—a dress in which there was some of the over-extravagance of de- tail, that suggestion of elegance, which the Parision cannot avoid. He was'a young man and extremely handsome, a blond French type with a dainty mustache and regular Italian features, and thick, soft, vellow hair presenting the gloss of the seal's coat, In his physical aspect, for perfection of detail, the man had no equal on for any reasonable man He had the best of everything; if he felt any sense of stint, there was no sign either by word or act, In form, the Marquis was above re. proach, There could be no surprise to the fashionable audienge of Paris in the fact that the Marquis was alone in the box, His wife was on a visit to Amerlca, and it was better fitting that the Marquis should be alone than to be with another who might console him for his wife's ahsence, If the Marquis was not the best of men, he was at any rate not the least discreet, He rose and bowed when the Pre- entered “Ah, monsieur,”” he suid, “I am charmed to see you; Mme, Zirtenzoff will be even worth an hour of the prifeless time of the Prefect of Parls, . . I shall be honored to have you as guest; pray sit down." M. Jonquelle sat down. He looked a moment over the vast audience, brilliant and distinguished; a moment at Mme, Zirtenzoff on the distant “QUICKLY—RUN; I "'WILIL, 'HOLD THEM UNTIL YOU RETURN."” stage; and then he addressed his host. “Monsieur,” he said, “Mme. Zirten- zoff is, I imagine, beyond rubies. . But I have not come here to observe her; I have come to ask you about the robbery in your apartment. That was an extraordinary robbery."” “It was most extraordinary, sieur,” replied the Marquis. whole of Paris regretted that were out of France at the Where were you, monsieur?" Then the Marquis added with a laugh: “You cannot be expected to tell that; you protect us, monsieur, by your mystery. If the Lecca could say, ‘Tomorrow M. Jonquelle will be in Brussels,’ we should not have a jewel or a five-franc piece remaining to us.” “Alas, monsieur,": replied the Pre- fect, ‘‘you do me too much honor; there are a number of very good men with the Service de la Surete, quite as capable as I to protect Paris.” The Marquis laughed You have an affection for your associates, M. Jonquelle, that I fear clouds your intelligence. Nothing could have been managed more stu- pidly than the investigation of my apartment In your absence, mon- sieur, you cannot imagine into what hopeless commonplace the investiga- tion of a criminal affair in Paris can descend. “Alas, monsieur, there is a gulf fixed between Alexander and the lieu- e Saddles, Boots and Shoes for Food! Leather dealer reports considerable damage done in his stock room. Reaches positively ate the leather! These pests are an absolute menace to your health and property. Wipe them out with Royal Guaranteed Roach Powder. 10c & 265c. 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As it happened;, he was brought to justice; he confessed and was sen- tenced for an incredible period by the court, But for me,"—and again the Marquis laughed—"there would have been no thief sentenced. . Your inspectors, monsieur, were ridiculous.” There was humility in the Prefect's reply, “And the Marquis Chantelle” was magnificent! His fame in the affair has reached me; he is the admiration of the Surety. I have come, monsieur to verify the details, and from your- self. I do not know what rumor may have added or omitted.” He bowed slightly, like one would add a gesture of compliment to his words. “Willingly, monsieur,” replied the Marquis. “I shall be charmed to verify details; but you will pardon me if I am moved to ask you for your opinion on a certain phase of mystery. You must have an opinion, monsieur, if you do not have an ex- planation, in fact.” He turned a little in his seat. “Monsieur,” he said, “how did happen that when we had fixed this robbery upon Jean Lequex, a mem- ber of the Lecca, he admitted it be- fore the court and asked for an im- mediate sentence? But he would ad- mit nothing eise; he would not say what he had done with the necklaec or where it was, Headache Lumbago this | it} “Ihat was a strange position for a man to take, monsicur He could hope nothing from the judge. Why confess? It did not lighten his sen- tence; and after all, our evidence against him was circumstantial, Why did he not say what he had done with the necklace? The judge would have reduced the sentence, Why con- ceal it, monsleur, and go for this long period of servitude? DIid he hope to escape?” M. Jonquelle spoke with decision, "“He did not," “Then, sleur,”” continued the Marquis, y did he refuse to say wherg the necklace was? Of what scrvice would be the necklace to him after twenty years?" Again M, Jonquelle replied directly and with decision, “Of no use, monsieur; the man did not expect it to be of any use to him." “Then, monsieur,” continued the Margnis, “why in the name of heaven did he not say where this necklace was, and thereby reduce his tence ?'" M. Jonquelle seemd to reflect, “You have agked for my opinion,” he sald. “1 think 1 ean do better than give an opinion. I think I can tell you precisely the renson why Jean Lequex, waen he confessed this crime before the court, refused to say what Lad become of the hecklace.” (Anotheg instaliment of ‘The Mot- issue.) ved Butterfly” will appear in our next VOICES IN THE AIR AR AT N KDKA (Westinghouse—FEast Pittsburgh) Monday. November 13, 1922, 7 p. m.—News weekly survey of business conditions, 8 p. m.—Bedtime story children. 8:80 p, m.—Speclal _addresses by prominent business men, 9 p. m.—Concert. by the newly or- ganized KDKA orchestra. WIZ (Westinghouse—Newark) 7' p. m.—"Radio Boys,” by Gerald Breckenridge, author. 8:45 p. m.—“Impersonations,” Mrs. Curtis B. Railing, 9 p. m.—Concert by the Tuxedo or- chestra of Broaklyn, A WGI (American Radio and Research Corp. Medford Fflside, Mass?) 5 6.30 p. m.—Boston police reports. Late news flashes. Darly sport news. 7 p. m.—Evening program: 1. “The English and German Languages. Why Similar and Why Different.” 2. Con- cert. 3. Weekly business report. 2, Market report. . 5. Continuation of sen- for the by jconcert, WGY Electric Co. Schenectady N. Y) 6 p. m.—Produce market and stock market reports ‘and quotations and news bulletins, 5 p. m.—Musical program. (General Mont Blane, one of the world’s best known' peaks, is, in height, only the | thirty-fourth. POLANDIS JOYFUL OVER INDEPENDENCE Peaple Looking Forward to Their First Election Next Week Philadelphia, Oct, velwing its approaching republican- ism with a joy and patriotic fervor much lke that which swept over the American colonies when they set up the world's first representative form of government, in the opinion of IFrancois de St. Phalle, vice president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, who has returned from a locomotive- selling tour, of Europe, Being presl- dent of the American-Polish Cham- ber of Commerce, he was especlally Interested In the affairs of Poland. 13,—Poland |s “The people of Poland are exhila- |} rated over thelr independence . and look forward with much eXpectancy to their first election in the next few weeks”, sald Mr, de Bt. Phalle in an interview. “It is hard to describe their feelings. They appear to have the same patriotic spirit and joyful- ness over thelr new found liberty th our fore-fathers experienced in 1776," | Mr. de St. Phalle said = Poland, France Belglum, Rumania, Czecho- Slovakia and Jugo-Slavia are closely agreed in principle and wish only to keep the territory they have and to malintain peaceful relations with other countries, “They do not want war,” he sald, ‘“and unless Germany be: comes aggressive in an attempt to re- gain:its lost tefritory I do not believe there will be another European con- flict for some years.” “Poland is one of America's best future markets,” he said. “Today it is. buying ‘weotton,.-coppar, steel, ma- chinery and - locomotives {rom - the United States. It is fast rehabilitating its devasted areas und its railroads of some: 11,000 miles «ven now are an industrial factor in Europe. He said that Poland recently bought 7,000 freight cars in this country, ang that his. company closed a contract: with that country for twenty-five lo- comotives and was pald $1,000,000 in cash less than two months after the order was given. IS 117 YEARS OLD Rybnik, Polish Upper Silesia, Oct. 11.—Two hundred and fifteen “child- ren, grandchildren, great-grandchild- ren, and great-great-grandchiidren asembled at Kiella, near here, re- cently to help Valentin Palusche, an innkeeper, celebrate his 117th birth- || day aMniversary. Palusche is sald to be the oldest inhabitant of Silesia. FRANK BACON COLILAPSES Chicago, Nov. 13,.—Frank -Bacon; veteran actor,, forced by ill heaith to give up his role as “Lightnin’ BiN Jones,” after more than 2,000 per- formances, probably will return to the cast before the play goes to I3oston next month, according to Jonn ‘I. Golden, producer. “Mr. Bacon merely has been forced to rest long enough to regain his health,” said Mr. Golden. 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