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DQE QUARTERS
, THE, HOUSE IN THE
RUE BA BET I'E
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be beaten at the final
continued. '.Aaad I
have a premonition that were 1 in
Engta.-d^'Add 1 butthe laamer to.
prccecd unchecked and unhindered
by o.icla1.3-i;_-4 would soon lay
my ?ninths en tufo man who or gitlat-
ed ,. ;eery, Gate mystery. heat
we care '. i ar.ce,-in a country of
queer legal forms and unusual
methods, At home I ea'a atIWP, 'a
c rc„tuve*at Scotland Yard; here I
in in trfe tuidst of strange sur-
rourtai.iugs, and kpto,.v not what may.
Therefore,. we must pos-
sess our sous ionqr,patience and waft
The devetopments. E gee t; I have
just ernploa ed has promised me 4aa
report every tw; '°enre at the hotel
'atntml eight o',:, : 1 . Then I .Fila
aake pers:.;a: rl;Tsrge of the ea-
et;oir,
What about mer
r by seven o'clock to-xanor-
ing ycatt had better go to
e e of
grad tell Qn the
naerything connected
ft to Faris. Re
through the polies
d after that you
developments.”
se,, ," said FFtar-
tbat von Ate
other inky hit of
ko.. my stnrad eutsid
ir about s.30 I can,.
toil ' i:ere lata may lead; -me.
am lucky I will certainly n•-
, whatever be the personal out -
If, on the tither hand., 'I
nothing, you may certainly
e mea about two in the
moi'ating."
At the hotel Brett found await-
ing Bim ,a letter; delivered by the
midday post. It was from his eld-
erly assistant in London, whom ho
has told to make a. chive scrutiny
of all inhabited houses within
t
certain radius of the Carlton Rotel-
The man had done his work syste
tnaatica1ly, and in only three in-
stances was he called on to report
doubtful eases.
Tvvo, foreign restaurants in side.
streets .contained la number of re-
s s ente concerning whom it was-alif-
ficult to obtain specific information.
One of these establishments he
believed to be the resort of Con-
tinental gamblers driven from :Soho
by the too marked attentions of the
pollee. The other was a peace cnf
ve=n more questionable repute, and
in both instances he bad utterly
failed to obtain the slightest infer-
mation from the servants, who 0,p -
parFutly ""too
,agement,
_n7,
The thi"rcl tlweiling which court-
ed observation wars a flat situated
above some lousiness premises >.n i?
other quiet street, So far as he
could learn, it Was tenanted by aa.rr
elderly lady who was a helpless
inval d, waited on by a somewhat
curious couple.
with, the ma
"They are Italians, I think',"
wrote the ex-policenia ah, "a,nd very
atneorta nunieadive people. I have
twice called, eta o ie pretext or an-
other, but when the door i$ opens
ed ;t is alma's kept on a. chain and
I eann-j*t; see mere than the race of
man or w4rmnn and a few inches
cif vt ail laeyId,.:itl I
have zoo
eason to death[ that tho view takeat
the nailkanain and. baser is ccaa.
t, liaxuely, than floe OW aaer of the
is coaat'aue#d to her bed aid is
i g from a nera-ous disease.
renders' rt arnperativo she
tlould bo sleet off from ell noise,
The landlord ieforins n e that these
people have oecupied- the Place for
nearly two months, Titeir rent is
acid in advance, and they have not
Raven the slightest cause for co'.
p aunt. There are, of course, i
this district a large number of pri-
vart f lines -and an,lih In one of.
their patrons maight! eil (locum
closear observation, I have Cottle
!teres nothing suggestive of •al
suaaspieiuuas eireutxast an'es whaate e
with reference to them. I have
detained m.',, report until I waaea able
to give details concerning the other
houses in the district, anti I will
OW fall back on the ,sewed parte
atr :instructions., i.e., to main -
watch gran the three est ltil` rirr mother cab they had when the private door into the bar
blishments wi ieh I have. ricket
"1 must say these chaps do find
suitable nicknames for one .another.
I wonder if he is the fellow we fol-
lowed to Montmarte this morning I"
"Possibly, though I am, *puzzled:
to understand why he should trust
himself in that hornets' nest again.
Most certainly the description cov-
ers him, but we shall probably hear.
:more details later. I wonder where
the Turkish gentleman went whom
'Le Ver' seems to have followed -
Re e could not have gone to. the Ca-
baret Noir is the tine?"
Brett's, curiosity was answered to
some extent by the text report, de-
lsvrere'J atlaout live o .to k. It reach
as folio v —
"Le Ver is still in the house No.
Yl, Rue Barbette::y agent ex-
plains that he diol not follow • the
Turk, who left and rewurned• to the
place earlier, 1lec u e his definite
instr,icl'iotiS: were not to .leave the
locality, but to report on. all per-
sons who entered or left, Abso-
ltately' nothing ham' transpired in
this neighborhood since my first
report
"Gres Jean, the father of t a
Belle Craasselr; e3 'ni-r;seco at tlae Ca-
baret Noir soca after four o'clock,
f'.'Aly agent ascortainea iron) the cab-
maaar who drove bind that Gros Jean
bad hired the vehicle 'outside the
Gare (le Lyon. Otherwise notliia.g,
Stirring",
At seven o'eloek came develop
meats,
"Three Tarrl:is11 gentleanen ha:ve
quitted No. 11; Rue Barnette, be
the 1'renelat1u' is atilt there, As
it might. be 'necessary to follow an -
r per.s.on: Ieavieg the house,, I
stationed another watcher with my
iS}Staltt, ;aird this second man fol -
wed' the Turks to a restaurant
the, Grand Bouleva0. So far. ,•rs
teuid .fudge, they seemed to be
Fd and apprehensive, They
lea Vane and eorrl'e ' ed te-
oav tam. At G,;l:a :hey
to and rapidly jumped
Satre, being drivel
etion of the Operas•
thiel they leave:
fot°ey my agent
s;4
Although none of; the noisy crowd
in the cafe could' suspect the fact..
the half-closed eyes of this elderly:
drunkard noted the form and fea-
tures of every individual who en-
tered or left by the main door,
whilst at the same time he pa_d the
utmost possible `attention to the
eomiugs and goings of any person,
who used the passage by: the win-
dew.
Brett began to feel that hl.s, dili-
gence that night would -not be re-
warded, o-wardecd,
At five minutes past eleven, how-
ever, a punk-and-Xshite Frenchman,
neatly attired, unobtrusive both` in
manner and deportment, entered
the cafe and seated himself quietly
near the door. Ile ordered soxne
coffee and cognac, and lighted a
cigarette.
The barrister, of course, gook
heed of hila as of all others, and
he would.soon havo placed hem in,,
the general category that merited
Ifo special attention had he Hat'
noticed that the newcomer more
than once glanced at the eloek and
then towards the corner bar,
whence, it will be remembered,
spoilt deer led towards the bili
acrd saloon, in which La. Belle C;nas-
sense had displayed her prose:a
with the pistol,
In such 0, eodnnaunity the etran-
ger's self -Possession and ret'ce;ree
were distinguishable~ e:hlrscteris-
tice. So Brett yaatehed hixn, largely
for Wyant of better occupata:a,
"That is a man of unusual pow-
sr,"z .t~as his summing up, ":ie is
elegant, faseinating, unscrupulous,
Although Apparently out of his 114-
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but this interpretation of the find-
ings has been as vehemently disput-
cel; The combination of the results
arrived at by microscopical investi-
gation aLncl experimental study ap-
pears to complete the demoaastra-
tion a. long stop has thus been
taken in defining the tlireet"ion in
which the future investigation of
s ne hborhood -cancer is alone. likely to be profit
-
Rhe
elezneaat is �thr • r;
an a; eaarnnce in. such z. place as. :.
pp ser in mankind and fin dem stieatecl
h • n c
ha db r.
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i t ;as lar,#er
lnur
th s a.
large and sinewy, Iris wrists squarer,
a and, although slight in phy,sique, I
should creekt hint with :posseeSi:lg
teinsiderable streegth. Being a
Frenchman, he shouted be nn expert
with the foils."
lrett had Hardly concltacled this
vasuad analysis of the person who
had enlisted his close observation,
he has Some ur ose nn putting in able.
P p �stuch° of the
occahr rence of can
,.�,,.,...ared in Unit traffia, atnd ail-' opened and Milo. Beatteaire enter-
ott as lyenng 11/4"":"146112141,/,111/11 their though he drove after them ass rap- ed.
:". tlna n the e tlhers., b
ltas �anats; idly.its possible, he failed again to Without taking the least notice of
cath sightgof thein. I have rcpri- any of the numerous occupants of
r three o'clock ac re]Hort lraandedhim 'for his negligence, al- the cafe she turned her back o:a
the agent in the RIC' though he die] right it coming et them, and apparently busied her-
d'Antant. It read-- nce to me t .o report his failure. In self in a becicing the contents of the
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nusua l has occurred in aeeerdance with your instructions, eash register. Beyond this useful
Cabaret 1
of theca
Noir. i ! I I ta�tr 'e ordered the watchers at the instrument was at mirror,. and Brett
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place
Cafe -Noir and in the flue Barbelate at once perceived that from the
to be in this office at 8,15 , .in." . point where the stood she could
"Now I wonder," said Brett, command a distinct reflection of
¢
!"wh ' the Turks left the ;french- the:pink-and-white Frenchman.
an alone in No. 11. It is odd, to The latter was gazing at the
saythe e 1ettit et it. Since: the dna- clock, and whilst doing so Amite('
maths discovery of the spurious dia- his chin three tunes with his right they monds this morning must be hand: Immediately afterwards Le
en more in the dark than I am. Belle Chasseusc three times rang
ft must be looked into, but I can- the bell of the register,, and then,
ntot attend to it now. At this me- having apparently concluded her
anent, if I am not mistaken the inspection, quitted the bar as bin -
centre of interest is the Cafe Noir." ceremoniously as she had entered.
The two men occupied a sitting Half ` a minute- later the French -
room on the first. floor of the Intel. man finished the remains of his
and their respective bedrooms cognac, and passed into the street.
flanked it on each side. Brett ex- It was with'difficulty that Brett
plaited that he could ..not'taekie the restrained ]himself from following
table d'hote dinner, .o he made a him, but he was certain that no
hasty meal in their sitting-rrh•anhand one could leave the residential por-
then excused himself whilet he •e tion of the building without using
a
du
\fi
the.
The costourers frequenting thio plat
are all of the ordinary type and do
rent call for spacial comment.
"A Turkish gentleman quitted'
file house No. 11, Rue Barbette, at
1 :45 p.m., but returned shortly be --
f
e -fora two o'clock. Half an hour lat-
e ry a. man, whom my assistant re-
e4,sen.ized aas a member of a well-
known gang of flash thieves, enter-
eel the plaice: lIis name is Charles
Petit, but he is generally known to
his associates as Le Ver.' He as
small, well-dressed, and of ;youth-
ful appearance, but really older
than he looks. Re is still in the
]rouse inhabited by the Turks."
"What is the meaning of 'Le
Ver' f" said Fairholme•
"It means `The "isorm,' " answer-
ed Brett.
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tired` to his bedroom to change Hs the passage—a view of which he
clothing. commanded from his window -and
He was absent some f,ssc:nty min- the resolutely resolved to devote
utes. and Fairhohne amused hie-,- himself for that night to shadowing
self by glancing over the topes of the ex -circus lady
the day's London newspapers' ;vlt'rh His patience and self-denial were
soon'rcwarded. A light, quick step
sounded in the passage, and a
shrouded female form shot past the
open window.
Then the inebriated individual,
now hopelessly muddled by drink
staggered' towards the door and
"lurched wildly round the corner
just in time to see mademoiselle
crosse the Boulevard.
(To be continued.)
CANCER NON -COMMUNICABLE.
had recently arrived. Suddenly
the door of Brett's bedroom open-
ed, and a decrepit elderly man ap-
peared, a, shabby -genteel i;xliv.du-
al. disfigured by drink and crump-
led up by rheumatism.
"Who the devil*" began Fair-
h olme.
But he was amazed to hear
Brett's familiar voice askin -
"Do you think the disguise suf-
ficiently complete?" -
"Complete !" shouted 'ha; rholme
"why, your own mother would not
know you."
"That is all right," said the bar-
rister cheerfully. "I will now p:v'-
ceed to get quietly drunk at the
Cafe Noir. Good-bye until seven
o'clock to -morrow morning—per-
haps earlier, and, perhaps --well,
no—until seven o'clock !"
They shook hands • and parted,
and not even Brett, the eleveret
amateur detective of his day, could
have remotely guessed where and
ILJW the would meet next,. . ,
Montmartre by day and Mont-
martre by night are two, very dif-
ferent places. It flourishes by gas-
linht• by day it is garish and'1 r
horn.
Yroniinent among the 'iegula
houses of entertainment vias the.
Cabaret • Noir; which, between the
hours of 9 p.m and ``1 a.m., usually
shove a roaring trade. Situated in
the heart of a mountebank di,,, -
tris,. its patrons embraced all class-
es ofsociety, from the American
ourist with his quick eyes noting
the va"a'ries; of demi-mondaines,, to
the sharp-witted Parisian idler, en
the alert for any easy and chi' hoaest
method of obtaining money which
mi;;!it .present itself. -
Among such a -stn d d a w
den Hct decrepit etch man
ike1 9 attract partieula
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One of OUT reporters has inter.,
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"The day of good tea at a cheap
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