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a: as : The Evening World Ditly Magazine. fA_COMPLETE NOVEL jor 2200 os 0B10: oo | S2BALAQO= | | The Strange Exploits of a “Missing Link” ' By Gaston Leroux ase . Author of “THE YELLOW ROOM,” &t The adventures of a wilderness S| ” November Joe!|;,.. | 222 = Eee ly gh 2 mn} By H eske th P. richard vember Jos casi y solves crime mysteries Author of “Chronicles of Don Q, that baffle the whole police force. 00080 Twi Begin Next Monday in The Evening Worid * Etc. Hey 0 a f =o noo no 00 8 0 0 00 oon: % Muse Oo) self-defense, and this no rapidly that . ere were wags ready to suggest that eee eset eoid atter three or four days of that siege St, Martia. Tour Saint Jacques but its scaf{ol ings. This, of course, was an exaggera- tion. But, all the sam was mani- fost that the most exqu: gargoyles were lying in fragments on the road- way, and that, taken all round, the monster was destroying the famous monument faster than the city archi- They reached the Big Beech at Plerrefeu. Balaoo pointed to the Upper story of the leaves and rond which Corloltg was tc Cortolis went up ff obeying B. as Balaoo had once obeyed him, hero, or because nature had endo hot even wondering whether he cc him with a flesh impervious to t reatat a geature of command of the vulgar lead of men, the human thin pe, accompanied by that derholt wax powerless to stay the on- el contest, with the thu modern ‘firearms supe Hut, whe er because t . pithecanthrope goda watched with a Alous vigilance over thelr yet abe country belleve that « great storm sigh: “ob, how I should love to see was raging in the woods and on the It gnce more before I die!’ ¢ mountain, he remained there, at the ab we will take yi © of his forest dwelling in the Big 00 put his great, quivering flats Heech at Plerrefeu, remained there 4 bis lips, as was hie habit when ® motiontess, with his arms and legs wished to restrain the too noisy himaing and hin head on hin chest, °“Prerton pt he Th tet us 'y human and divine look ball t motionless as a pithecanthrope of go! Far from the men’s houses, Ail the algue through, Ans ‘ut lasted of sadness which he had not yet wcen “Vit foreat ius armed Mim with {ts wood. Wao back to my beloved Pore of a | \ re vee , jandong.” i tone nevived: tenetmet with the fin there but childish looks. whitted around thelr heads, CPO" And he stayed ike that while the “There was no reason nor room for Gotertire who tere will crass Ml, ‘They climbed into the tree. Pirfed around (hele heads vd come: 'Hkiing carriage-bells tinkled against hesitation. It meant. salvation, got Cortolia-Baint-Aubin about with them. That tree was as large an 4 litle ve wan atriking for her! Kor her he his heart now dry and hollow a only for Balaoo, but for all of them, thing left in hin eAbectally Cortoi for Zoe had” re- turned from Clermont .with the mest wood that might © surrounded Balaco's private dwelling. And they M. Mathieu Delafosse came straight from the prime minister, who had was killing his three forest brothers! drum; for he had She had called to men in vain; none heart now, nothing—she had taken tt me to the private grievous news. M. Mathieu Dela threatened him with his dismissal , had come. Hut she bad only to utter foese within twenty-four hours if the an- Of the Forest of Baniune whi bee his na for him to rush into the &! how knew for certain that the smart ‘and come out victorious, the At least, It produced that effect OMcers and the gallant soldiers killed formidable, gentle, terrible upon him, @ sense of emptiness; It aie Wesel On the foreet hem wan as though he had an empty box ecauthrope. * had i's house. there, which naught would ever re- an official inquiry had @ mi 10 ole He opened the door, while Halaoo, her who looked Place; naught but memory, o Clear Kruesome more and more sad and mofe aul 5 knees, in the Halago! more polite, like any man inviting a centre of Moabit, while the battle was And you shall seo, Balaoo, that thropoid’s business were not settied , that same day. And it wae with a view to settling it that he arrived a companied by Corlolls and the five detectives, and also by an immense gentioman in a pair of yellow leather leggings, with a rifle over his shoulder, riolis, remembering the huts built by the pithecanthropes on the man ‘oves in the swamps, was not at all surprised to find there, Only this hut door, as in a to cross his thveshold, stood waging. 4 TI ence fired upon (ls now Figuiee He Heatly ekied ithe nee eed ey hndid ever doughtior knight enter MeMory All the heart—uye, even to There was only just time to By. was a giant. He stood head and He opened the door and found tho lists? Cut, Balaoo, and thr bursting point ship he the East. They feds te the shoulders over everybody else. Soon his name passed from mouth to mouth, for the man was famous. He was the celebrated lion killer, Bar- himeelf in the presence of Madeleine Use ye tying on a bed of dry leaves and de- A Balu cently covered with a rug which he Here's f remembered once missing from hin je! Aw to Hubert, you must keep hand and your shoe-hands, ‘There was not a sound now under Vorest of Bandone. . i Halaoo! ph atl Fell! the greenwood. Balaoo went indoors Simeon! And there's for and iny at full length on the bed of a: % pony chaise. ur hardest blow f dry leaves that had kept the shape — Hulaoo was suved on the day,when ieee iitite band entered the @auare Madeleine was pale as death, but ’ They have danced you with of her body; and, incredible to state, he set eves again on the place, wield te isaes Oe not dead. At the noise which her their ampty guns, whic bi Saint-Jacqu throng, bravely, at the risk of being crushed by a projectile broken from the historic pile.. Balaoo had not hey are NOW Halaco atill had tears to shed. made on entering she opened using am clubs; but you have your : fo and two syllables came from trusty tree-club, and you have shown them all the colors of the rainbow; At the end of the second day, when Corlolis returned, he found Halavo Nngroves ” sitting at his door, with one shouider ; pa! above all! ¥ thousand years and m Seoole wets wary, aud bo obs bad yet Cortolia fell on hia knees befor Oh, What blood on checks and ArmA! hon hin face, * ConMUMptIVe HO’ digging thelr roots to the ventured to approach the scaffolding. child, raleed the ‘lear head, preased top, hop, Ha She had but to call “Wuote ed told hin di of . When they were within ten ya ie to hia heart and bathed It with his your name and you came. ‘Touroo! ne was going to retire for good. to Ponitton of the rade aid (ihe thick of the tower, M. Mathieu Delafonse mray i Touroo! Bang! One more good blow Sainte , ' is that o ry who seemed to be {2 no way astonished not to find sole answer, And, guided by the |orsive me! Forgive me! In the rite for Elte, who will never hie thor ae eee oa Bik Meech shadow and the same ligh rood phedt radon att Madeleine’ Wei ee er ace coer He woll knew that Madeleine had not M a “Worgive you for what, papa? whe takes hundreds of centuries t name among those girls, cawin, f the crows, he continued stand on his feet again and who ts those landscapes crea fo alter at Merrefeu that he meant to with- Hasn't Balaco told you? MKMmbrace ted bi last Call him 8 progress through the clustering Hasn't Balaoo told, dragging blinself in the grass Ike « raw: far from sbcloty that could DUE Wiha seRaRCApeR cre y “ ; * rid and the igor Pe ihdined uae ee Woking P8en carried off by Gabriel. felon 86. ¥ ~g om peated asien the Goriolie's even wandered trom Mad- bis td ST ca curso him, alone with his divine mas- of the frat universal fomeg d . c . oleine to jaoo, who, standing on bs “4 erplece, wi eo man from Java “This in ti “To parley with him! Understand, (esectnd and | desperate | that | he from that corner of thick timber It The "hreshoid, turned uside hia head Steam w.th blood but they are whom his genius had brought into the “ BN as a Re] we shan't kill your pithecanthrope ex- < ie saw a letter ~ Oug ere has ma fire sturdy fellows, for all that, and not to cept in the last extremity,” explained on the level of the groun¢ and the #0 that he might not be seen to be deiciished with the frat blow of je mou dane Tate be munt seo what az. ‘Thewe are the woods ef letter bore the weep. ; my childbuod. Here 1 the prefect, “though he's led us no gaint Martin’: Mee Bole ea was he nd conte ‘pom the coat Of the “What! He saved you?" 4 treo-trunk. | ‘They are as tough 84 ‘rhere were unpleasant rumors in my mother and my Tittle brother nd tre of A bone Iteelf. ond of a dance. Aa you say that he a Sonre Ue tna cen ‘Then Madeleine, putting her shapely, pithecantbrope flesh and bone Itself. the ttopartment of a story about @ sister. 1 stron, e listens to reason, apeak to him, coax ey et ating for you at the Rig cleering. (Oven etree moet trembling arma around her father’s Have at them again! Woop! Fok! pithecuathrupe, «rlolis considered then, though stil Stabs, ae him, ay something to him, show US peech at Plerrefeu. BALAGO.” — were there and did not so much as Neck, told him the terrible story of Phoh! A blow here, a blow there. that one was best uff in the forest, three or four years old, My litte that he is not quite a savage. rea * i turn their heads, being busily en- her abduction fror: the room at Mou- | The warriors are as though drunk, guarded by the memory of the Three brother and sister were oy, Coriolis allowed himself to be taken paged in devouring three things lying ling by Elle, the albino. dancing around Balaoo like beurs, and Hrothers and of the battle in which beginning to walk. while I garbolted io by these Pore, rt $4 te pr CHAPTER XXI. on the grass with outstretched arme. imeclgas | Neate) Ron at veye Lab itd ee lew area em wo many brave officers and soldiers poll frisked about and called 4 t guessed, the terrible thing was ! ‘Col é heard of the marriage of her whom danc 5 : wore slain. It was a very nearl ioned to my little brotl ‘Then a score of shots were fired at (Po) FNM. of nainoo’s crimes and Poor Balaoo! riolis recognized the ‘Threp ry iy y. ie her. B yhe had never ceared to love and of bear. Goek! Goek! Pattl Palang sare and inviolable retreat, very near- Mater and invited th the , who received them point Madeleine's abduction, Coriolis in- OR hours Coriolis, with bis juarr tad ‘Leen the terror oF the the approaching arrival of the newly Kulng’s hell awaits you! ly si share ‘my sports, ‘The ‘tile fellow blank, without seeming to min atinctively wished to nave Balaoo. His F clothes torn, his han-'s and fountryalde, “Their guns lay beside Married pair at Clermont-Ferrand, Gof! ‘They breathe no more! They "Cortolis’s rat thought was how to tried a skip or ‘two, to follow mee, tered vain efforte. re-en' Hotel de Ville by ® halls on the roofe of the Hotel de the Ills suddei lution to go and lie moun no more! They move no more! ¥ but he > Ahn m; the biggest of the three, red- lis sudden resolution to x 101 overcome Balavco's sadness. He wan but he made window, after knocking down vilie were, above all, warnings, en- ev’ baie by Goce Deni tied ee ene held ‘hig‘in’ tie in wait for them, like an animal lurk- They are dead, all three, with arma jight, for the poor fellow was very can. atifl @ stalwart policeman who had shor t and brambles, pushed branch cienched hand. ing for its prey, spake volumes for outfung on the red grasa, But you, ji, and if he continued to mope like hie head at that garret window. after branch aside in his ‘The ferns and bushes all around the mental attitude of the Three you are in a sad plight too, my poor that, without moving, at the top of And the monster rushed down the . Gisgtion of killing Balaoo, Coriolis vain search for the Plerrefeu clearing, were torn and broke nd trampled, Brothers, wha, definitely driven from Ralaoo! his tree, he would surely fall into a fd my little slater fell also; and corridors. He was seen to dart Ike Youig call to him in different terms: overtopped hy the Big Beech which ‘he strugsle in which they had eut- the society ‘of men by their death — However, this Ix no time to coddle dectine, = mother picked them up tenderly and arrow through every department. 414 in fact, he ceased to address him fered and the Three Brothers met posieeern had for years led the lives yourself, when the. white Illy of Coriolis took him for walka in the ®Mcouraged them with word a PY : _ Ratepayers, who had been waiting for with a out, and cried, in he knew so well in his youth. their death had formed a sort of of nimals in the depths of the Moabit™ ake down softly to the forest. ‘To divert his pupil's thoughts, ture. | ages to receive attention, fled, howl- jonkey language: He was lost in the forest. He had circus, a sort of flat ring; there must forest. : ~ = kround, ~oxhauated,after-beholding. he told him of the pranks of a cer- _ “What followed I shall remember > 4 and li ered seen again. “Touroo! Touroo! Touroo! Gooot! come alone, not wishing to mix up Shave been a terrible battle. But, where: iméon your.vigtory. dt 18 ve tucp @g@ to toin Gabriel, whom many peoplé for tO my dying day. My mother, seel now 00 was no longer " being pursued; everybody was fleeing “rch!” ° a there the monater wan others in his terrible family histor: before him. Ho seemed to be every- acento put his head cautiously be. aNd not knowing what last fatal sur- in their carry. the white Ill pur Arms, a moment believed to be Balaoo. the little ones so clumsy and so Elie’s heart was still, at inter- with precautions worthy of @ mans In fact, Cortolia himacif was taken ‘00k them tenderly tn her ‘and fiercely rouned by the memory child's nurse, by the Lord Pattl in by a ‘trick which Gabriel had of began to sing them to sleep reek and crooning a sweet lullaby ' ing! been strong enough to lived only to eal ed Three ‘m: with their three guns? And what all- ba where at a time, on every floor. He tween two planks of the scaffolding prise might await him at the strange rful weapon hadJjaid tow those of a white figure that used to appear palang Kaing, wentiig his iaeuet teen aba deddon: in every corner, bumping bet anxiously to look down upon that meeting-place fixed by Hulaoo, t huge bodies on the blood- to him tn the old days, when he re- And you laid the ily on the cool bed ly thrusting hin agers into the Oh Patt! Patang Kai Sones ‘groupe that vanished "Ike numberienm and, for the moment, ‘rime after time he seomed to recog. S2iked earth? Oh, it was simply a turned of a morning from his clan- of. dry leaves in aed lonely fphistbons | pockets or armholes ia waistcoat. of the race arrived. And moke. ailent crowd, ae ~ pon made of wood! It also lay destine hunting expeditions, at the in the Hig Heech at Plerrefeu. Bles: “L knew Gabriel well,” feplied Ba- they threw a net over me, in which Hie had a way of his own of ce. TI rhe phot wan fired, the nize the puths that led to the Bix reating on the grass, after per- cdge of the duwn-swept fields. be Patt! Palang Kaing, who watches Jaco, making an effort’ to follew mie 1 trumwied, while my mother fled to soending @ staircase, sliding down the anot from the riffe, with the exploaiva Heech of Merrefeu; ut his footsteps forining its work. It was a fing young ‘The image of Madeleine lingered over: atow;haarts from hin throne in master's train of thought, “He used SYS my little brother ahd ciate, ‘well like an eel in its trap. bulleta of Barthuiset. the lion-killer. became involveu and perhaps only ‘fee, Which might have reckoned on deep dowm in that brutal brain; and the Forest of Handong and who t- to copy everything I my clothes, (nging me a cry of farewell, , h ry of eee ne raat’ Mathieu Delafoaso wat {hOManda of cries, rose up. from the as now sinking in the sky and plere- had dug tis roots solidly into the prothers’ call, it was bechuss Remover thw bfewsad your dwelling, © Halnoo! at neo he managed to Fines in my cars even now. ~keibey to reassure a score of EG I Kirects of the deliv. Ing the tall trees with its rays, ‘The fostering soll, ceased to converse with Madeleine's ‘That is the.atory of this last epl- 7 Ne oe was lucky for them of the race men who had not yet left the erea town, twilight was at hand, Balaoo! Made- .,And behold, a hand had torn it out {mage and to say things to her that sode: bloody, tragic, heroic and beau- cause I used to wear one. Those soy father was ogancil: of the earth as though it were not where tm the forest that day. Yes, . haps, in thelr ithecanthrope had toppled jeina! °1 * could be confided to none other. Uful aw the fights of antiquity. monkeys are never happy unless they “ attting, peaking perhap: The pithec: li tein fastened there; and it was thi When prowling with his brothers — sadoleine, with. her poor, faint te mimicking peopl ine is it. Thin is my Forest of were safer there over, and, in his turn. fell at the foot = - ; = Balano, you who loved your liste Wank, whose lke @ jackal around the villages voice and her pale breath, the breath ndong. | Oh, Patt! Palang ban elsewhere. of thone walls of which he had been ? srlagtied ana : walked (ore tine withont Gok ree too, there was a general mauve the terror, tae Fae ete han oft ies ewitd’ beneg, blood, that had done the killing, which they still terrorized at inter- of an expiring Illy, waa not able to ‘and then Balaoo resumed: father, who thundered ne fatty ‘ : . ‘ 7 beni 4 ts é c Elle qui peut; but the other had passed == Corio! What giant, what hero had waged Vals with their plunderings, tell all these glorious feats of war to all these horrors were being tiny mother, wh hed over and was out of sight long before his hear break, ne 1h wen for 8 and lent a deuf ear to her voice? battle here? What archangel's hand bretrt SF medeieing ) Apprea ening ie: the weeping Cortolis, Hut the few put down to me, I was on my way to «amen; and my. ele, Seether Gaon . ent an thou ye him i or ¢ ~~ hi urn to mo » - words which she whi din hii , Plerrefeu, in despair. I merely sint a NS Ao one knew fie mat ne A Mine great body Despite the horror of that murder. hea wisived this flaming sword of and. Ble aaid nothing to his brothers, “° whielt she nperer is ear, pal ly ‘er, who rolled and tumbled ip together with what he had aeen—the wanted to see Madeleine once more. grase like awkward little kittens.” ‘Air: he rushed for- 0us abduction, Coriolis did not yet ‘thelr. For ‘ ‘beco! . The police spin through the alr; On a branch of that tree went to Clermont, made Inquiries In and his humble Bulaoo’s | saw her through the window of the ainoo nl grog aes Frhey aera ee ie to catch it tn his aris. quite despair in the depths of his yj” yer nanthen jens ure, Cottclia ie neighborhood of the Rue del'Rcu, wings and, hie humble, Balaogs wiwey carn but the other tried And 10 net ed went to the length of burning straw Fortunately the creature crashed to being. Certainly Iulaco must have voil thot set his heart beating in hie and went back to Moulins. Joy, made hin heart leap with pride; to kill me; an am very sorry that by fa the cellars of the Hotel de Ville, no the ground beside him without touch- jon terrible at the first moment, and, Chest like a drum; and also, after | Iiis aim was to kidna, Madeleine for Madeleine was saved and Haluoo he did not wed." hin friend xe in the swamps ‘ae to emoke him out if he had found ing him. Coriolis flung himself upon thinking only of the hideous thing ‘!!*turbing the crows, which proteated before her arrival at the capital oF had acted Hkevone of the tace in the Coriolis fondly pressed Balaoo's had entirely disappeared. But be = there. A cordon of troops, thore remains that lay dying with a Ped tel 5 4 NE and staggered around him Itke a the Puy-de-Dome. There he might days of the Mamelens knights, arn. Halaco humbly returned the rebuilt the hute on the trian, i a Kiona of war, surrounded man's groans. that Madeleine's consenting departure jjick, drunken band, he saw yet an- have had to abandon hi einful plan; “aio till turned away his head pressure und lowered hia hoad, as he formed by tho three roots of the ateme = eat bulla gn. Five detec- He bent over the body—and sud- besrg ag ane cage eee d other piece of the white dress in the whereas if he carried off Madeleine on the threshold of his forest dwelling, concluded mangroves. And fe Corlolis. with: them denly he arore to,his feet with a mad Only, Peioved obuaat, pow) fingers of one of the albinos, in the open country he could under- jest he should show his eyes full of . my only wish now ts to die— Gertrude, went; 4 h Pate ee And he no longer had a doubt but take, by travelling only at night, 10 (6, neired gee wie, Ape SEED See te eee roman in Nis -that hia child was the coveted Booty reach his haunt in the forest undis- bork from the CHAPTER XX. ‘ i with of that wild men's battle, His turbed ‘Tt was not Balaoo! ¢ in this forest which has known "t that ploturesq ear ea her, which hax heard her sweet voice “letnens, calling ‘Hal eleine, sighing, sald rhs q i ' Ralaoo! — Balaoo!’ Gertrude had himself to be which he would have stolen a lifeless ¢;, ‘ must beg his pardon, very grown very old and to the attic, callini ‘the Missing Girls Are Found. ‘ins. Lee ihe fonaet att eve outirea un & (to: the train, take advan ‘neatly. We were wrong not to treat My poly Joy henceforth Will be to sep no longer budged from her oy {—Balaoo!” The ing But afterward it was imposalble jn'a fash all the phases of that tour- ther, or him us one of the ra Ho natd to me: (0 trees, ut the foot of which we used led eternally in knitting socks which y 1"L wanted to see yout once more, t2 lt when she wi h_ me Halaoo never wore, for he now went Greased ana man and wear- {0 Madeleine's voice, which had for "i Was here that Haluoo munt have the train at certain places on the 1 ssudeioine, before you went away Mme fresh atory. Here I shall find ahout on his unahod finger feat. ’ Zoo P ’ n WAY her image everywhere. Patt! Palang had become the active and tn through the agency Balaoo, {!'@ Pithecanthrope the same fascina- hurried with his prey, to this friendly ’ rush into wie with « husband of your race, What more Malaco or any other, and this was ing an eye-ginee Itke Balaoo, tion that serpents find In the voices polltude “of the forest, where mon Tight with the young woman in nie did you think wnt of what were you oc teed emai mara ey hp oe ive ? vith fingers to his shoes UP: the fact that the girls was not Balaoo. A few of flutes. Raat a to cab Hi Oe Be 4 A * Paris ‘kept carefully locked up’ in hours later it. was known | Thus did Corlolly urgue, or try to Witten piedcnee welone nleceiaars pian that susgented itaelr to his Drite pundn will always be u true friend to alten PhONa et ot eerhiee Ra au LAR t iy (rened In leaves. And ~ “ Oo « a D aude- we tke municipal council that {t wae Gabriel, the big e continued to tear his his life as the air he breathed. And the daughter of mi an d. ME: YOU aia and GaOk m Reaneatul aiaeens IK, more weog- nd flesh against the brambles > i Events turned out in uch a way a% Knew the law of the f until further orders; Java ape from the Jardin des Plantes, th. then, pe genet: Be nee fome upen te to simplify things even more. At py Pattl Palauan Kaing at the begin. '? confiding L thoughts to all the (ag erotle af lost the habit of talk. ‘anguish, increased by the As he had played many # prank in It was this Inst hope which he built that solitude and the sole masters of Moulins he saw Madeleine and Patrice ning of the wort, you would know branches on the road, He was visibly and confined t 7 that complete disappear- his time and repeatedly shown signs Upon #0 frail an hypothesis, In the that corner of the forest. The brute alight from the train. It was all that thut the daughter of men can walk | away. He emerged from his Of his thoughts to a fer not reply. Where >, that great dead monkey, that Balaoo should not have yielded Fe ‘eat No ply girls had disap- N M ney of blood and death, Paris ver, when the face of the inexplicable fact’ of Bal- men had risen against the animal on he could do to refrain from seizing without fear in forest; but it ia not “reams only to wpewk of “Paul and ter reappeared ‘on the Of temper, his formidable vagary wae prolonged ailence in bis Plerre- aceing him the possensor of so fair a her on the platform in the midst of forbidden to touch the tracks of her Yitvinia,” which hin master had read ring potor. i ‘aint Jacques. The easily explained; he had made his es- {ou clearing. ey, and they, in turn, had tried to the passengers, He might have mado footsteps with one’s lips, nor to lick ‘0 him. Tho story attracted him ioeal tie ne P pin Re © ROUrce of 1 office cape by taking advantage of the Alas, if the charm of Madeleine's snatch it from him. the attempt then and there 1 she -her hand. above all others because he found tn Wha’ uahae THNOY FRR, 04, boosy negiigence of the keeper, who voice was so potent, the young woman ‘They were dead; and Balaco had not passed ao quickly on Patrice’s -phut was what Balaco sald, was 't # likeness to his own misfortunes Pr igi py om a0 3 Jonger had 7 y must have ceased to be @ prisoner carried elsewhither the sacred object arm, He felt his heart seething, his i not, my Balaoo? Ho told me all ) And. Ike Payl after Virginia's de. erebral force to con- parture, he vinited all the spots where (elve that thin sethuek wa he had been with the companion of face to him o# 2 punishment from his childhood; all the places that re- with on for daring to amuse himself minded him of their alarms, their h the game forbidden by nature, were E Oe ae Bore, Pras ttle dount Was always slipping away to the from the tirat day! Poor Coriolis! Hin of that battle of the gods. Balaoo! brat afire, himself trembling with that, beside my bed of as at Wineshop round the corner. thoughts strayed like his footsteps; Balaco! impatience to effect his rape. waiting for you to come; ¢ the end of the drama w ; and, as the golden beams of the sun Moabit suddenly fell into pitch At the hotel he walked straight In (¢ > 1 “that But, then, where was the famous ond, aa the folden Beams of the aun Moat uddenly me in immortal verse, dry leaves, id . ‘oriolis collided with hehind them, and then mado hia way, in a great poet, are you not, Bala oe m1 " q ae, Bein’ Jecauee. or police pithecanthrope, the monste: pat Tan, {h® leaves, he struck the lower the living walls of the clearing, which with watchful eves and ears. to the “saluoo, tia dour nodded Bitton semen, thalr picnics, and the loving a Naataae mlonteeoe went te eal ta, jones isolated by a circle of ped and half brute, who spoke the lan- branches like a madman with bis clqhed its branchy arma and leafy courtyard. A light appeared in a in assent, but kept it still turned Sindneas of his dear litte sister: a monthn to foteh. a hetees \ troops, wan a very small tnt guage of men? crazy forehead hands upon him. And, having window and he saw Ma away, for his pain naa more than he {PURe birch which she had plant delnine, und. wher wee ¥ Fefuge for Balaoo. ih, for, What had become of Cortolis's crea- ,A® his eyes, in which lurked all the reached thie last stage of his despair, shadow. ‘Ten minutes lat could’ bear and threatened to burat jie qioeny carpets over whieh she y reading “Pavt and Virginie peered fo realize an much, for | Wo lespair in the world, rose to the sky he sank down to the ground, like ® jeing wan in his arms. He stopped tike an untimely storm, And he held 0 Face; the upen spaces in the Jone retained weary ant ae Rimself har® pressed Oy Oy ton a! da thick circle of child in its cradle. her screams by thrusting his hand himself in, lest he should seem ridi- b Ree. she 1 to wing and ve snired clvit In thin he was of armed men an carmen, he _ THe police were much too giad to rows, chattering horribl: rds = In the morning he woke, and jnto her mouth, and flung her half eulous, and tried to swallow hin soos heir two voices hud mingled the mamoty of Ma- loading him mon tid of one monster to saddle them- und men do after @ great banquet. thought that he must bo atill dream: qeaq into a cart. He jumped on the and keep his thunder to himaelt thels, CWO Samed: “Halaco! Made- 4 Nved With the thought of himself into an elves with another. They dectarea, Th¢ clrole ow UP, then down again, Ing when he saw Balaooe sad ahd hog, and did not stop until the horae poor iulaoo, who know that Corio rN a tie 5 ie auhiba 2 mistrews ever before his state of fury, even for Patan aclne taat Gorioliva ceaatite fallen’ nat ¢ jauppeared as though Serious face bending over. tm, ith Aropped between the shafts. Hy thin tin had-eome to take Madeleine away. qq, Ave Gays me he toak to nis / ; ne ou y, thal Ing into the forest, with a mad He tried to cry out. Balaco, with time he had covered # long way on Poor Hulaoo, who had nimaelt sum- Pt: and Coriolis began to fear that v 1) voltcitor's wife at ie prolonged, Toll eee ie was a figment of that discased brain, feormpaninent of apres ‘orien, like hie finger in his mouth, enjoined ji) "patie road, golng In the opponlte moned hin master, by o: of hia Bem eule Barer mane st pein A ‘wh and had two lite m the 3 ccuping Inughter of surfeited silence. terdoane fs i no’ alano woke from his yj he Vertes were heard trom tit Mivattic in treated the professor as @ mono- pinay hr prey! “Take care!” sald the pithecan. ieee te oe aan, Witla mistress, and who had himself comy ‘und. saw Zon and. (ertrite In the omes fone, after himaelt writing the letter Patrice off the scent and ~for Madeleine wan then too Il! -and ted it at night in the box of Mme. \Rev with that standing by his side. General Captein He betrayed neither anger nor thy least Ul humor Nay, more, he let th t 4 con- ° f course wan inter- maniac, and asked him to go an Cortolis's heart turned icy cold. thrope, whose voice seemed to reach tone ‘ope of the omnibuses fine bis monomania In his house in And suddenly his gazo fell upon a him through. a deapondent lake of (hrown fra f-amcare were thronged with the Rue de Jussieu, holding himself white veil clinging to a young branch. tears, re! Don't wake her!” Lastly, the coincidence of the events Godefroy, the postiniatress, and been posal of the police mean- ‘4 + ‘ Shaking thelr flate at the Tour at the dis of the’ By Zio Teme ond stareared 00 CHG, 36 yr as for which Gabriel was reaponalble very nearly recognised by’ that con- jererd magma nim p tenderly and ¥ Beret Seoauee and roles ‘The day that saw the deliverance of white an a bride's voll, “Ge pig Sead ae alive?’ completely reatored his ease of mind; founded old mole of a goasip of & Qumen” ame pardon for all the palin g th of the Pit e en pa eh re was P saw also that of the missing He had not a doubt but that it “Whe te aaleep, and we must not 8R4 he proceeded to travel by short Mothor Toussaint, who had not yet fret knew her. His voice wan gentle 4 ee Agente Jind Mevos They were discovered by the Madeleine's veil. He recogni it. wake her.” 1 and careful stages to the Moabit forgiven him for his theft of the em- ang soft; he allowed himaci? to be " 4 fants ; . dancing « 4 turning wor, but he greatest of accidents at @ moment His terror told him that he was not And, walking straight before him, clearing. PR LN ies Bae Ee nursed and petted, He wan as weak his Forest of Mandong But he @id. | very top of ‘once, to reappear When people were despalring of ever deceived. He snatched it from the with his finger to his mouth, looking | He did not apenk a wor, corer asa child at the point of death not becéme haughty on that . ‘Already learning what Gabriel had done with forest with fevered hands and, sob- round from time to time to make Jfine, but he forced her to eat anc ‘x. Corlolis, who waa kneeling behind ‘nd, when the denizens of the fore, J ato A hime, thal bing, ralsed it to his lips. : wure that the other was following ‘rink out of terror. She hoped for a CHAPTER XXII. him and supporting him, although no cs", ‘the ren! wil? brothera of Bane — y shote bh to increase _ Maddened by the hue and cry, the A‘few steps farther he found a him, Balaoo led the way, a very long moment that the purault of which Band stronger himself, ventured to use the , gradually drew closer to the: ‘no other result than if behind seat ape had ended by carrying the piece of the satin of the dress, and way, through the forest, Everything she was bound to be the active anid andong. “word-remedy" which littl Zoe, with ‘family in the mangrove. Village. fage, Sheltering himaeif, belli poor things to the roof of the Louvre, then. u little slipper, It was Mader was allent es they passed, ‘The birds desperate object would ond by discov VEW days pa: and it’ was: her fond heart and quick intelligence, and on spring evenings formed ao 1 a he began and had managed to fing them more letne's Iittie white stipper. Tie cov- inlerrupied (heir winging, the leaves éring her bofors sho wan tmprironet Nad suggested of her own Initiative. circa around Halaon and Matened a dead than alive into an attic, where ered it with frensied kisses ceased to quiver with joy in the for good and all ip one of the horrible over, She wag wane, BNO He leaned over and Whispered two of men, Ralace would Killing the on. De locked them up. They were all And he called out, with all the morning afore, Balaog's finger Moabit quarries for which they wero had gotte to join her DUA yyilables in Halaoo's eur janguake, after. a. , wounding and neo 101 found safe and sound, though ob- strength of the sorrow that filled hia raised to his mouth seeméd to com- making. band and he would never see = “Bandong!" to Cattl Pylang Ke ‘The monster war ni NS viously very ill, Nevertheless, the fi nd all nature to hush por disturb She knew the terrible legend of Hist gga, fin maat Id At once Halaoo's eye kindled, his Kare ates ‘and ing the Rue de Rivoll and the a5» had done them no harm, “Madeleine! Madeleine!" the reat of her to whom they were those quarries, all peopled with ghosts coer Saath, Ale migater would pang atitrened, hin chest breathed but men are nothing int Jacques. The troops x vee returning to his He called in the way in which you walking. and corpees, Nued. with skeletons. and) v.99: COME mck, but not she, be - more firmly and he repeated: ih Ralaoo concluded, ‘the police were driven back; and’ pouse in a when an call not upon a ii: but upon a Was she dead? treasures. But the forgs, closed in -esuseéf the odin'slaw that tolther to. “Bandong!" fingers un his nose, the square continued to rain with evening the @m dead woman who is r to you in Was ehe alive? them before, help, came +8nd egy Shy Mibant®’ Wie HEM Wt fust Then Zoe asked: pithecanthrope —faaht him for- the that she may appear to you. Was ahe at rest for al ? they arrived at Moabit ’ “Would you like ¢ to the gods spoiled ta the wren ogtuaily Ae- ‘the of Ga- = "Mi ty Balaco himself ‘Balaco appeared. gone; and, after a leave-teking that fmsest af Re . 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