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The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday. February 9.-19 =BALAOO= | LA SOMPLETE NOVEL-EACH WEEK] The Strange Exploits of a “Missing Link” By Gasto n Le ro ux i rman a ores sae ert ~ skill and a genius for deduction, No= Author of “THE YELLOW ROOM,” Etc. 0 Cl — fol —T = pf ——___[} —{.} —____{.J -{ fe) — fo] ————— Th eae eet gees hz ws |) Will Begin Next Monday in The Evening Worid CHAPTER I. =0———10 00 0s 0 oS 8 0 OO os 0 oss At the “Black Sun’’ Inn. a Z ‘ De eee oe oe. eae & By Hesketh Prichard °° ¥ suit"tng‘s genius for’ deduction, Ne- id solves crime mysteries 4 whole police force. i vember Joe e: 8 that baffle the 000 noe———>0 nos 8 a a 0 toe 0 00k ; H The adventures of a wilderriess Sherlock pa 8 Holmes; a backwoods guide, Illiterate y) 0 em e r oe Beye |] and without knowledge of lar detec , ° A uthor of “Chronicles of Don t) — {} ———) was 10 o'clock at night and hours since a living soul had appeared in “Then what? rather lonely apot, he did not healtate two young people uttered @ ory of ter and he thought I was poking fum af the etreets of Saint-Martin-des-Bols. Not a light in the windows, for i i . / “Then don't come bothering me with to have it guarded by the three good- ror, A thrush fell dead at thelr feet. him.” the shutters were hedmetionlly close. Tho village lay as thous red ? ‘ ; Ge The Brothers!" exclaimed M. for-nothings. Now this was a stroke “Well, what's the matter?’ asked “He was quite right. You're al . ea you ever see them walk of genius, O11 Corlolla atill chuckled the sportsman coolly, “You're not hurt, oha: im. You'll end by making @erted. The inhabitants had looked themselves in long before twilight ‘ head downwani?’ when he thought of 1 T ‘6 protected are you?” boy's life a misery.” said Cortolie pore and nothing would induce them to unbolt their doors before daybreak. A fow minutes later the examining by Ulever; there wae eau idea for H rf heard of shooting emptorily, forgetting the drubbing whieh and all seemed to be asleep when @ great noise of galoshes and hob- magistrate arrived and the formal in- sea?" imaelt Madeleine *, nll self had just administered to gy ng bey p< Ava you. They finished thetr dinner. It was and explanations between people coming none knew whence, Not a door, . you now dark. Uncle Coriolle thought thas prints, the marke of “upside-down thy right to walk ab his property afraid of? shutter, opened at the noisy passing of this unexpected band, but more } Sid 4 4 RY atrangulation,” of which Lombard and with their guns on their shoulders, Patrice, atill trembling all over his Hy pid rhe rg ‘Sia eoeyen 2 ear must have been slyly listening to the tumult out of doors, for the ‘ : é Camus had died. And here was this fool of an @x- budy, had atooped to pick up the bird good night and held out his hand te 5 He at once drew himeelf up, settled Smining Magistrate, who knew nothing “Poor thing!" he muttered. Madeleine hia double eyegiass on his little turned. Of the habits of that district, pretend- “J give it to the aweethearts for their “You can kiee her!" sal@ Cortolis, Up nose, and looked up in the atr. ing that they had tried to kill his i Madeleine; good- Patrice put his lipe to Madeleiog’g twas he looking at? Every nephew. . And when Patrice made as though ta ing to himself, “ shoes sounded along the echoing pavements of the Rue Neuve. It was wafer than the Glatter of a hurrying crowd, and soon voices were heard, cries and Veatigation beat M. de Meyrentin ones observed on ay to peopl the murdered mi throat the terrible prised that he had yet no one went to the doorstep to know exactly what was happening. ‘be time enough to learn next morning. Everybody was still under the juced by the murders of Lombard, the barber in the Cours National, mus, the tailor in the Rue Verte, which had followed upon a whole series ts at One time tragic, at another grimly comic, Hrection taken by hie, _ Hubert! Simeon! File! The triplets But there was nothing to be made out Whom Mother Vautrin aad brought @ing the bird through the railings, the fut Madele! celved Patrice’s kiss, ] above the shaded Iamps. ities or ects Birth, 1 ail prudently stopped hie violent im- and there was no thunder. The ahd “mn fons ordered M. Here ae hittie chaps, hi eu oy 3: ie a hale man had tried at the same time to seise ‘ yi Ms Dy, ey yar" hand vf hese Roubion and the servants hastened to ‘TY#!1¢ and who wore now its eho sald in @ husky votca ee ime ie dark, after the par af, no longer dared linger on The man was dressed in a drab where well-to-do peasants Corduroy sult. Long leggings came wp to his knees, His shirt collar was loose obey the instruction. The shutters | Mverybody had long ago proclaimed ‘The albino had Glaappeared med es from the big markete of ois tevesied a neck like @ bull's aw were flung back. ‘The daylignt atreamea Bimself thelr friend, eo great was the @ehind the gate, Patnes Wane the Eten tit grasee Wee fay really ‘com on and Thiers bad been at- soft hat which had lost all semblance in, and a hundred heads pushed against f68F which they inspired. . And even peaking, but Madeleine put cerned, thought Mad indiffer~ by masked highwaymen and of color, was thrust back on his head, the windows and the door to see, At Dow those who met them on the roads Httie hand on his mouth, @ iftle ent and went up te part with all their money Showing @ ¢angled mass of bony ick red to save their lives. A num- “ty tace mae extraordinarily powers burglaries, marked by extraor- ful and caim, eyes contemplated boldness and perpetrated un- those eon with @ cool, bored took. noses of the owners, who did < ne te pause Taare. hove “Good evening, monsieur le maire.” to his room ite th wath oo bg “If you want ah on @ ceased to hear eried after him, “knock on the other’a footsteps on the pebdies of te son ene ae Gertrude's room is above yours. ned “Oh, how he frightened me with his roadnld: bi erat" tay paralyrod dying "And with the words he sald!” whis- firat there was nothi ‘but ert showed every eagerness to shake them people saw covered with sheet. not to run across them in the e And then they noticed that the Magis. S73 those who came to Baint Mart! trate was looking up in the alr. And ¢ee-Hols every bad fog what M. de Meyrentin w, ae wi mouth, he continued to sare at te Mother, Vautrin lay paralyae “dood mt vi by Inches, telling horrible stories Dered Patrice. Slackly conducted and Psgalbipine na bea ana ‘dveak ana pats bay Wid Wl a about the father, who had been to .."t ean still see BMe gun 1S the wardrobe, in the cupboards, everze ow ae it was that, side by 40d walked back to the door with his “Footprints on the ceiling! penal servitude, thrown the railings,” said Madeleine, where Lastly, after putting out hie with awful acts of violence, came Calm galt. On the threshold he stopped pectneonetsn This lant detal! had not prevented un he mold nen nit he had shot at tamp, he cautiously opened his window, mtravagant practical jokes— 804, turned ‘A ai CHAPTER Ill. ee ae 1m Gnyselt in tront of you reba fet gllgd Gudee ches tenes pe terrif; “I'm going back to my brothers,” he @ lo ea, And it wan n it P jenn ie ted murder. ne Me 88 8H said, “By the way, I've been to, the A Kies in the Storm. that, for three purliamentn the ‘Thess It waa quite true, Patrice had mot ““rhen he saw a white form, so light that table business men walking tunnel and seen the damage it's a t rt fal blackguard who did that job. nee ene eure at muenttell nad [shall tell Elle and Simeon as muon, Hrothi by distributin, apeok Poticed this movement of herolam at ita movement made so sound, gtide PS. fully outlined footprinta gna professions of faith in all the vii (© Uma He took Madeleine ta ba lages in the division of Belle-Ktable ®*ms. showed on the white plaster . What We alail Ii of the cen! and creating disturbances at public »,9°M® one gave @ cough Gehing them, The white figure big Wem tgs being able to say where the blow presently. What I eay is we sliell lave nanging had been preceded b him by his name and, very charitably, the nae wea to and fro, Meetings and making a. stay iBUCHo te was Noel, whom Coriolis bad sent ender tne ‘and from. tricks or life won't be worth living ¢or Tble strangling, and all so suddenly Warns him not to move. district impossible to rival candidates, fF them. ma ota De. Honoree opeeed Be decent men” fhat the unfortunate man had'no time Thereupon he doe not move. He retumed to the point whenee had infuenced voters migThe neater wants you" he ontd tm jsappea a re. atarted, wen: moti th: in re hoarse and his cupboard gone from _And he disappeared under the black 8.1) wali said Blondel, with a jerk And suddenly the breath ceases, the 110” ppaahgiter MAORI cua eens hg stem supporting the billiard Jampe from Wits the same gait and the eame tricks ,AM4 he turned back, with his hands from the ceiling! 2 bedroom, True, he slept with his a of the head. “Men who are tired of ¢normous bri of mann in his kota dent jow open. He aid not inform the ,,7® foom at once emptied, as fh, the Nene en one trick in'thei And he hears it no longer, he heare It which the unfortunate commercial trav. Of man! Mand cneeee eloe tS mmoplahiy. ‘They ee 2 aH e, Kept his fright to himself, and SrO0M verynody'w liherty { ; Dag. What about Camus?" Lehi, we longer neon anything nbove (tller had been found hanging. Elie were of much fairer ret. These Fon .. M. ‘monomaniac » who advised him to shut his Satepe Ried aie at aed . recognized Zoe's voice. how of the serving hatch. immediately su: led by stupetied aitteiciney they” pant for ew ic with POS 7] jow in future when he went to MEDI Ne Tents wife, assisted by . “He took a weapon, opened the oor gortthine coming tack. ie tanin. allence. And then @ few comments arose wood, not far from the Brothers hut, at Whom I have Never seen laugh" Aad ane dared go through the the servants, carefully locked. the ANd: like the other, saw nothing at all lower, Mondera Two fect, which swing, fom the crowd peering through the Sgt of it Patric raid with « shudder: he pointed to Nose stooping Agere. “phere more things bappened doore—the door inte) the amiwey £40 SNawell, the next morning the asstet- 0n¢ swing. and swing, and then, EMU. windows, while M. de Meyrentin stood Oh, I am ionging to take you away, chely wi’ tnat ciaNan are @ melan the barroom ° ; neing ¥ ‘were ever told. the Acer of the Baricom, Pen ant, on returning to the shop, uttered & Pumgin motionless tone downoad. without moving and contemplated that my dear little Madeleine! Hasn't you plant does aut Beant te metas eel E { Diy, these hardships ought to straight on th piercing cry. His master was hang! trail, which was surely the strangest thor aid anything to you yet? 1 gpicita”™ been sufficient. What new ter- No one remained in the oo harps] from the tron bar, fastened to the celle CHAPTER UI. trail in the world, never dare speak to him, he's always i now wae making the poor people young Patrice, to whom the landlord ing, thay holds the yard-measure with . Bea Masa 6 env the is #0 crose.' arses waa eAetehea es e Cerdogne country run down the and his wife, Lede tap raid which he ured to mearure the eloth for Footprints on the Ceiling. Ma Tad Sa?” aha cat. jurderers et il, tall You & secret: pape te tired gaesing Nod eve . walk ly deserted thoroughfare of the 8 customers. ‘The HEY are early risers in the vik p. vet his dilllard-table, he heard @ nolse be- “Ae they never left an: es la Cause of all the fuss was an aside him. He pe: id y marks on the wye We are moing to settle im {ice and Madeleine went to Gertrete ONed that SOIkie: RO th ves, took little Jaga That morning the in- ground they m' se ef Gianoe te mea undressing in the pantry. gy walk somewhere,” Paris, The wedding will be in J owt what there was for accident. More oak. "The door between the two rooms ant habitants of Saint-Martin-des gaiq Mother Toussaint. “I hope to goodness It will be seen; card terrible artes of Gle- however, it was was closed, but a communication re- wan far from the spot of the mur- Boils put thelr noses out of The man who had walked on the ani! shan’t bring you back to Saint- y letance, mained in the form of the little open window of the serving-hatcn. And he at once recognize’ the voice of the rat the time when it was committed, thelr windows even earlier cefling had taken the precaution to take Martin ina hurry! I don't know what stud that” aahed Patties with @ 4 your fa me to do tn Pai nd that somebody must have imitated than usual. They wore eager to know the off his shoes, so as not to makea noise; anything is better than Marpingtheny Readelene, pinching vi mmorcial traveller, who, stooping exact reason of the dlaturbance during &24 he had certainly removed them be- What are you wailing for, before fear thing nity aeons ponioning Thal hande had torn up the rails to the ovening, said: ‘The moans had begun once more, dhe night. They eoon heard about the fore entering the house, for the foot- ing?” btm,” | mouth bf the tunnel which ta- “Good night, M. Patrice. If you _ The three men were all etanding up. at the Cerdogne Bridge, and Dfinte on the ceiling were still quite _ Papa still has « few expertments to Bhe was shocked by the arrival of and if the train want anything, you can cali to me Patrice to his limp legs and Outrage wet with the black mould in which he [™AX® with tho bread-piant. He says ittle girl of thirteen or fourteen, black rather like the nearly drop} istinctly, they were already asking one another it te mot quite ready yet,” eaid Made- as a mole, with o pair of Glorious eyes, distinctly, heard the fatal phrase: for detalls from door to door when they Must have walked outside. blushing slightly and turning She wae dressed in a wretched, short, t Zoe, Pity in the man's gaw big Roublon running like mad Hereand there, the socks showed the her head. through here. Thi pag confesatonal box, isn't it" jeep Pprsdlcodigg ‘All these details were doomed to b ee ceemrernt impreased upon Patrice’s mind for all croms-work of the coarse wool and the avoided. As It wi suspect thele — Roubton, w! HOWES Cie Coors: Nations: darns. M. de Meyrentin pol toward each other very p “Ia that Noel screaming master t that moment the two men ceased Blondel said, in a whisper: tion him. Then they followed him to of being correctly done, displayed a yy and at ease in that regular para- ‘Yes, Soe,” ssid Gertrade “Ite a Zoe! come twenty talking, as thourh by a sudden accord, “That's Zoe's voice, there's no mie- Monsleur le Matre's door, where he rang Tough and very peculiar “whipseam,” @in®, that neglected garden in which pity. 1 “o they suffered more from Qusine: $8 Coton wat up in. bed, take about it. T know it” th all his might. M. Jules, still more ® Sort of round patch, the size and {hing grew anyhow: for Coriolis re Gh, J thought there would be trouve tement than anything elee, They pricking up his ears. Moans came And he threw open the door, with al mm . shape of a dollar, joined on to the heel fused to have any servant to help old when I heard the thunder,” sald Zoe rt " 1 erous the fields to Saint-Martin. pricking up his ‘Thin corner of the Tue Neuve was than Ralf alsieep, came to the window. and “whipped” anyhow all around. Gertrude to look after Me bie manot “Come and help me soour my brasses,” it,,siVee You any pleasure. I promise Sn erenaing | consternation “"nGne would think they were mur- well lit by the light of the street He saw Roublon standing utterly die “Gentlemen,” he announced, in the except his native “boy, ona oe athe au tao ime ounek. are elther-Wt tak dering somebody outside the door!” amp, at the corner of the Place de Ia traught and went down to let him im, most serious tone, “we must look for Aiet Ind ‘The hi pers of Gatnt Martin em- 77, “rane we e the village, which had already i iiihe aud bolted te doora for the gaiq Biondel. Mairie, | Nevertheless, Blondel dt8- purge minutes later they both came out ‘E,mAn yno walks upside downi” Bal Sach bronEKA from the Ver Mass, ince tine te ee ae ce eat ee tans "Ate you very fond of Moat ea!” the exception of two or threa Patrice, whose occupation was that 'neulshed nothing; and the moans had 20 los ar suieg looked as terrtMly takes a drink?” asked Miche” the toxether with the bread-plant, He with the Three Brothers, me i Be homes were in the village, allod of first clerk to his father, a solleitor a od wae known as Noel. —- “Well,” sald Madeleine's v ‘went to the Roubtons, who keep in the Rue le I'Heu at Clermont-Fe: Bread drank one last bow! of steaming ¢lustered as dig Roubion himeelf. Gravee at Sie Sisoe Woods diligence, in Now, Noel had no tima to attend to CHAPTER V. “we will take you with Rost rand. had always been more. or wine shook hands and (ished cach ‘They walked with great strides toward oe eet ie continues chuckled M, the garden, io wpent hin Gays with Tw00 5 A it you tell ast Eile wee timid by nature. le snarddes anne _ for himacifecourd not fina the Black Sun without answering any- werment de Meyrentin, with a know- ‘i# mantor at the end of the property, 'wo Shadows. night while the was Here confusior waa alinped down from his Dilliard-tabl height. While some called for With a choking throat and na moist his words—wa: “or at least a bed, a tanttreas, forehead, he admired the courage of Go to Ina corner where atood a rather ATRICE was wanted that af- Twrdered at the Black Sum De yeu body who spoke to them. Ten of twelve ing little alt z . understemd me now? Do you quite weather-beaten building with @ con: p ternoon for the Magistrate's cnacretanat® ‘M, Baint-Aubin. ; Persons came after them, recruiting ‘Dahava une ‘And now . M, Cortolia Boussac servatory tn front of It. Thin was exchanged frensied notes onthe Blondel, who walked up to the door of others as they went along. But every 8 where the mysterious plant was tend- inquiry. He was examined “Oh, yes, miss; but 3 ewear te you which they had run. the barroom that opened on the atreet ,, Then Blondel climbe one had to walt outside the door of the BeintvAubin, owned the largsal end Mit toh Patrice only once of ee ao a th ®F ys gon't know.” ime. Roubion tried to please from which the moans had come, "Th how bo: is: » ‘gg? while the Mayor and Roubion en- country. Thither Patrice had gone at net eyes on, without understand- Meyrentin e bar “Very well—very welll Goodby, Seo! dy. but found the greatest d And suddenly they turned thelr sowadayer the Lt ag Pet agrees} tered by the great archway. dawn. ing a thing of what tis uncle was Foom of the inn iteif, ana “No, no, Heten! I don't know, in doing so. One mattress was heads. | The door of the staircase lend- Tivos of thom?! | Te SehOOl Almost at the same thne good otf DF. “wt want to gee your nephew at once, @0ine. stood long and etupidly etaring at the Swe, Mile did mot come home torn to pieces, Anil when every ing to the upper floor opened, and Rou- Honorat appeared upon the acene, have a see ud " is mught.” : y The two youn people had not yet lant was more or less comfort. dion appeared, carrying a revolver in | When his head was on the pillow he ing been fetched by an ostier from the Please!” said M. de Meyrentin, aa Corl- \ 100% ‘Tr Oe nemheret it muddeniy, TAPke of footprints om the eeiling, the “Ah, you see! That's something, ot! “ Mt a clrarette and sent the smoke up to ig greeted them, 1 “He did not ‘home used, yet another traveller ap- hie hand, Black Sun. Dr, Honorat went into the lf, 7 M called each othar'a attention to this curious pattern of those socks least!’ “He id not come Wrapped ina "Did you heart he amked tno (Me telling | ag im but the ostler remained with the wWaxe nien up.” fovers’ omission: and Patrica, Ver¥ curious whip seam, oF eer Bight. And you dont know want whisner Nttle open door of the serving hi crowd, and told them what had hap- he uncle turned his back on him, Properly, an behooves a good Iittle eo- ped lee ct: pened, This was how Saint-Martin-des- pup " Bois learned that Blondel, the commer- tite Went ng cial traveller, had been found hanged, % ‘The Magtetrate seemed more and ino I “that out irl with a sweet, engag- lettor’a clerk from the Rue de I'Bou, mete yi wi pear | orn atill red with png {mprinted a chaste salute on Made- Dussied, especially since a little inal. ecie o avties aan ee , intervened: leine's brow. Gent, ludicrous enough in tteelf, kept his Blondel and thet he intended to mar old auint had gono to bed after bolting Blondel on the billiard table, And, sud- ‘ihe Commare ang Cami, Ae soon the “Come with me, Monsieur te Juge.” | Forthwith there wae @ clAP @f mind atrangely busted. der ou. Patrica” nf windows, jenly, at Patrice saw through the x jan they enter the room, *hw forty “Oh, ve, with a pleasant, gentle Or thelr, dare and wing int Mare little aquare of the haten Alled hint wite the inn, filling the Rue Neuve from one ¢noy' found” Patrice tomsing ins Madeleine ntarte” vietbly, turned @ » Ae lunch, while having tie nn Rag A Bose camer La Palr of fine lue eyes, and a HOW, do every Praroom and his aunts ® horror #o great that his hair stood #lde to the other. feverish aleep, waving hia arm ax little nate, and looked at hei ywinke—oh just half an hour's siesta, ne gederstent? Oh T one - ir mustache, carefully twisted rene the ground floor, ‘The on end on his head. To avold this crowd, which was kept though to ward off somo frightful heart with anxious eyes, while Patric® more—in his bedroom at the Roublon’s, ‘Have you quite understoest™ " 14, Darber was sound asleep. when he was — Ile continued merely to see Blond outside the barroom door by the vil- vinion, and uttering incoherent words, raised hin to the aky, which Was With- somepoay had stolen his watch True “Yes,” “Yen. ‘The solicitor’a clerk, on hia mattr “This is exactly what happened in the pantry tab! the Lombard case. Lombard and his was on the yy, M. Patrice! Are you hurt?” Mme. Roudign solicitoust her hand to the nowco! young man of twent: I tip: ite only @ neratch!™ he ‘ awakened by the old lady standing at face, ‘Dut what a face! ver was lage crier—nicknamed Daddy Drum—the They arrived just in time to hear him out a cloud c he doclared th: ‘Then what wil Gor sferious. Tt won't show, to ine foot uf nia bet and whispering to hideous terror printed on human coun- Visitors who were in w hurry to leave ery: “Thin ix too much,” he said. “Thats Be oie i As the atte was e brace (Zhen whet wi 700 60 oat ball Md 5 Pell ate for Se him to Maten to what was tenance in features more atrociously the inn and the place went out at the "Pity in the man's house! Pity tn the xecand time it's happened. e, at the thief had been sold; 21, was doing on the night of he, me Mi. Patrice? You can BAV® Yombard listened. Some one was wall- distorted: With hia eyes starting from back, by the aide of the parish school: the man's house! Why did you call "What?" asked | Madeleine ingen- but the fact remained that t to tell you everything.” ¥ her face “ ing and lamenting In the atre It their sockets, with his mouth open but and thia also waa the means of exit me, ‘Patrice’? nously, blushing all over of nothing else; for on the floor of the “Take care! You've got to know @ the billiard table,” replied incapabl - hout apparent reason. nded lke dying moans mixed with incapable of emitting a sound, with his adopted by the Mayor and Roublon, The first thing that the young man without appar. Sorrow. You've econ EMS vi ‘me, Me went to ittle plaintive erten, whole face dreadfully convulsed, Blon- who, three-quarters of an houi r, ‘on opening hia eyes, waa the aweet “Why, that it thunders when I kiss room in which he had gone to sleep M. to-m: what did he say to La oF want tS atombard Kot up, Ht his candle, and *¢! ftared at the celling without making left by a roundabout road for the sti- face of his courin Madeleine you™ de Meyrentin had per.sived the marke "NH, ‘sua twas th being bien a movement. tlon, where they were to mect M. Here — Like himself, she wus fair, with blue of the feet on the celling, Whe could more Wa . ' for one of the principal linen {ook Ble reve ee eae” Ton huow pnd all at once the young man sayin ment de Meyrentin, the examining Mag- eyes, They had loved each other for CHAPTER WV. that invisible person be whe hevered oT ry ar - } # ; that little square—saw, coming down Istrate of Belle-Ktable. many years, ever wince the time when, 4 - ; Cte, Making his bed on the table In the how careful we are at Saint. uy Sean'tha pein Whinkihe could netete “MG te Adaurentinn who Had heen the suite vounes they met, during tna hells The Albino. Bround them im ‘he twofold guise ef I ‘and threatening to kill the t and we are right to be, unfortun nay Wesho did not bring him a bolster pam and there. nile M. Jules, the Mayor, ap- open the door!” isu Meet 4 accompanied by good o! ir. opening the door as yet. decided to witch clenched him by the throat, an ‘They came from the station, wpenk. ‘Who's there? he asked. “WHO'S Which pine to the celling holding’ that DON'T know what you mean, criminal and practical joker, laughing ™,? at one and all? hin Patrice, on his efde, returned te the “ive me beck my sivbon' terri Cy ‘would run beyond Saint-Mar- was doing business at the other end of manor house more aad mere terrifies at woke. pee of uss we've abware be- had ved evidi fro! ving?” A volce answered: ‘It's tin until after the line the world, at Butavia, where he wan 1 what he had seen and heard The eve fy \taien. 2 Delis railway ‘ofcials, te ving wees Pity in the man's houne!!” throat captive. White waiting for the Magistrate French Consul. had better go tndoors, ning meal suffered in consequence. He “That depends on the Gave” whatever an to the nature of = what does that mean: ‘Pity in the Lifted by the murderous hands. the rival the Mayor and Roubion walked up Patrice wan sorry when Unelo Corto- You remomber the last time T could not get rid of the sight of Blom Patrice, oan death, lseteneds oh Rey Gone Weenel on Bele) wet eete hee uaeene ety Jn Ge head sng then the whole upper part of and down the platform with their headaelta returned from the Par Past and re same hy said. “I was saying #904 Gel'g corpae, and he was haunted im hie Reara De it the houne of Patrice’s father, Rue de I'Fou at Clermont-Fer. for Corlolis's daughter had been father M =saw two clutching hands under two formed during the night of the fresh day he Hunt wf Oe et taree shirt cuffs, which made two very clear the line between Saint- in th f ’ yee eee race White patchen In the half-light—aaw. two . tt terrible arms which fell upon Blondel Patrice, “Tt's a heat-storm,” she added, “for there are no clouds in sight. Perhaps we disappeared from the frame k vehests, their hands be- tired to hix estate at Saint-Martin. n ' ie Hives had been is Seager | cupting him, of the serving hatch, and next. came the pind. thelr tacks axchenaing thelr Hole, where he led the life of a Lear, bY !n,the porch, Your father #ai4: inner consciousness by the constant ee ere .. AH 8, leat et rs aeeblone “Oh, it's one of Zoe Vantrin’s expres- legs, which left the billiard table and thoughts in a low voice, as though they The uncle did not care for his nephew's ‘Come, give her a kisi I stooped to ¢,, ‘soon, He felt that $e Be a i. king sions, chat eplt ies Like & puiraal: Porat hanging alde by aide, toward the feared that they might be spied upon vieits, and had told him as much. ise you, when—-bang!-—there came @ + elther in the hut with her blackguard. celling, ecaatn tin prin. ortunately there have been BO Prothans Hubert and Simeon and Elle, Oh. horror! Oh, horror! Oh, to ery ANd overheard. ‘They were speaking of | Ire aoconted the engagement 18 PED. cian of thunder aa thoukh the House Gerrude waited on the party in gl COWS for us to regre’ the Vautrins, ciple and had spoken @ word or two ho have terrorized this neighborhood out!’ To cry out! Patrice can't—he Ghost it to old AuinteAubin of Cler- had been atruck by Hghtning. And I tence suddenly she resolved to addr —_—— were received with an toy Wy te 4 M, Julen admitted that the Three aie ; y she to addreas ‘And, euddenly, a voice ex- FO long, of in the forse t20 AS gan't—decause he ie too much afrald! peothers were not a credit to the die- Mont, but, meantima, he insisted that nover gave you that kiss, Your fal has maa CHAPTER VI. should be he must It's you who ought to be in this place,” speak to Madelene at ones. He wenty * * h hould “bother him.” * , » themselves, the result ix that a Ah, to move—to run—to fly! Patrice's trict, and that they might be held re- ieee ou! peak nos JAR eens itereily flung m out, shoutin, 700's here, str.” Darned Stockings. what about the aoneseretet speaks a language different from that lems are of lead, of lead! sponsible for a good many minor mis- 46 hag pean and of the voice that had “Quick! Quick! There's a storm com- Coriolis deigned to wake from his ATRICH, hearing Zoe's voles re they to be arrestedt” |» of other people.” Ah, he succceds in stretching one of (eeds, but he maintained that they Wer® cated hin name, To them both there ing! Run to the station!” And h® dreams and look at his old woman of hed nd encouragement were fung “80, you ace, it was she,” eald Blons them out of bed! One alone, noiseless. was some doubt as to whether the plummod the door In my face, OUt> Wil work, tm the kitoben, pushed open ‘ y take about It." y! But what can he do with only one murderer had intended to onde: * he the speaker: but he-« peasant— Ua ard Be roletee “nalt nant ten, 1K Out of bed? And he fecle that he yor. M, Jules later turned Or’ Putric aide, there was no storm at all Am Wels ave ¥en anchan Oe haere doon, mt Wd what he had to say and re | “Walt Tin that his aunt could say, Will never have the strength to put the 10 the doctor with the startling states © Se eee ee At that moment they saw an Uns «yoy ghe says, slr, that she. would Gertrude wae busy ner rol sant face Tee crmaen Lontara onenen therdcor, Ha | other out, If he could only put the Coriolis contended that, during all the uyiony fair-haired face pressed against go with you to the of the earth. Pots and pans. Zoe, sitting at other out, and run away, run away on 4» yenra since hia return from Batavia, he It was a bright hi tege of lead! But once more, in @ Phe police were here. I¢ you know out into the stre had no interest in anything beyond hia the railings, a face covered with patches Only she hasn't dared mention tt to her the big, round table, was darning ' ‘ brothers yet, he murderers are, Borel, why aight. Hoe saw nothing and was very noarse whinper, over there, fram the Made upside down: absorbing study of the bread plant, an of lght-red nalr, @ motionless face ings and socks, a pile of which ov give up their name asked much astonished, The moans had celling, cone a monstrou chuckle i. Upside Sown! uncommon starchy vegetable which ho with two pink eyes that stared at them At that, moment: Sop wae heard rah - id ha . 5 yor. stopped, Fearing @ trap, he was care- which he distinctly hears his name: so continued M. had brought back from the Far Haat, in id screaming in the kitchen, the basket beside her, } rel was an clever as most peo- ful to keap on the threshold, called “spatrice:* “that jt 18 not surprising that you and of which he had the patriotic im, With Indecent persistency. ‘The young “What's up now? What's happening? Patrice Mooked into the basket wit) had his answer ready, Zoe, received no reply, closed his door ane other leg ham that moment come, “4, not observe it, You maw the printe tention of giving bis country the man made an angry movement toward cried the uncle eee say to the police,” again very cautiously, and went back of the fingers, and that was enough for benefit. He, alone, in the region did not the gate, when the aibino's voice rooted And they rushed to the kitchen, where seed. waving, “It's another home 8nd there he now stands, with his f « ’) you, ‘Murder, angulation.’ hate nor fear the ‘Three Brothei they found Zoe in tears by ners There's no sleeping in peace these daye Phot iagr,OM, the tiled Adon. but his How coukl you be expected to o Vautrin, Run $0 se 690 What is the matter? Whor at Saint - Martin -des- Bois!’ Next name, uttered up from the celling that the print of the thumb was He overwhelmed them with kind- "Don't move any nearer, M, Par asked Gertru who walked upside down!". Me saul and all, now nudging morning they found him hanging has slued him irromediably against the bottom and that of the other fingers at nesses, had never troubled them trice!" ‘Oh, It's nothing!" sald Zoe detween the piece of stuff, the sise of from the chandelier of his shop. improvised bed, the top? To do that you would have to for the rent of thi which Dne man quietly inserted the barrel her sobs. “Noel pulled my hair!” ‘ vard while the others made They thought et first that it wae ® man on the celling evidently imagine that the crime was committed they occupled on the ed wood, i “What did he pull your hair for? Have #fanc piece, atitehed to the bin with astepishing unenl- but Dr. Honorat and xnuws; evidently, absolutely, knows Uy ® murderer working with his head and, as the manor house in which he M8 gun through the railings Of the you been teasing him again?’ © whip-scam, ts ete unteae cme e mn Ge Ctvigional ouresen aareed that the that Patstes, ie there, since he callg Gowawardl® === _-.mane O84 Madeleine lived was altuated in @ Gate and fred in thelr direction TRe “De; I told him he was nice locking, _ { : ‘ ' Suddenty he saw. ¥ Noel?* It contained the sock of “the mam no detective, nor @ rad