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coreptice. .nverything she had said ho -
i longed to the commiesary a police and
to the press, Shelled told her story with
l• omissions, with timorous looks, with
, sighs a doubts and useless gestures.
Bernardet listened, noting each, -word,
the purposes of this portress, the raele.
4 (llamado gossip in certaiu information
he which he verified the precision—all
! this was engraven on his brain, as ear-
!! lier in the day the expression of the dead
man's eyes had been redected ji the
Itodak.
! lie tried to distinguish as best he
"When I say that he saw no one," lould the =deniable facts in this first
said the porter, "I make a mistake. deposition, when a woman of the peo-
There was that gentleman"— ; pie, garrulous, indiscreet, gossiping, and
,
.And he looked at his wife. * zealous, has the joy of playing a role.
"Went gentleman?" 'Ie mentally examined her story, with
Mine. Moniche shortie, her head, as it the interruptions which her hasband
made when she accused the individual.
he ought not to answer.
iint whom do yeti speateoi repeated He stopped her with a look, placing his
the conunientre, looking at both oe , Maud on her arm and s.aid; "-One must
them. wait One does not know. He had the
At this moment Beruarclet, standing* oPPearanco a 4, Worthy 7so." The wo.
on the threehott of the library adjoining
the salon, leaked searchingly about the
room in which M. Revere ordinarily .
'pent his time, awl widen he had prob-
ably lett to meet his fate. Itlis ear was
os qui eit to iteax tie his eye to eree and a$
iteerd the queetien ha settle', ape))
proud:sat and 1 i• r e
"What genthment and what did hu
dor athe 1 the camaziesaly a little
bruserely. fer iemidair! a1.tteti -at to
Imply fa herni liienietto and Ells wiei,
" Well, wed what kttee thee meat"
"Oh, went, U. le Cut i' it is
tiani....etrestis it meant, Lathing!" And
the teqPi..nitil V+alt Oil la tell hew, ow*,
ovine-et,a vtry be geratemau, awl
very pelielied. utheeover, had come ye
the house and asked to aee M. Revere. g
Ke bad gone to his apartment and had
aexuaineti a long time. It wee, he
thought, about the middle of thetober.
end 1rne. Monielie, who had gene up:
stales to light the ga1 . met the man as es: Revere mec1anical/7i mute a teem as
he was comiug out of M. Revere's rooms if to gathcr tho scattered papers.
and had noticed at the first glauce the man, pointiug out with, a grand gestare
troubled air of the iudividual—Mouiche the hotly lyiug upou the door, said,
atready called. the gentleusae the "indi- "Oh, well, and dia not AL Revere have
dual'—who was very pale aud 'whose the appearance of a worthy man also.
oyes were red. • awl did it hinder laire from ceming to
Then, at Nome time or other, the iu- o taatn*
dividuel had rade another vielt to M. ", Over Berner -let's fece a raocklute lit-
itovere. More than otr,e the pertress tie mine peseta
had tried to Iowa his name. Up th this **He, aiewites had the, twiner:ewe oe
DICIDent ehe had not eunieteled. One heeorthy teaah** he atiedidatenne at tee
ween the officer had telephoued to M.
Jacquelin. dee Audrays, and the latter
had asked. him to accompenyhim to the
with of the murder. lieruardet knew
them both well. Robed nore than once
been associated with AL Audrays. He
also blew M. Ginory as a very just, a
very good man, although he was mutia
'feared, for while searching for the
truth of a matter he reserved judgment
of those whoa he bad fa.steued in his
vise. AL Audrays was still a young
Matlx slender and correct, tightly but-
toned up in his redingote, smooth shav.
en, wearing eyegleeses.
The red ribbou in his buttonhole
teemed a little too large, like a 'rosette
wont there through coquetry, a. Cii-
Dory, on the con.trary, wore clothes too
large or him; his necktie was tied as
if it Was a Wick cord; his bat was balf
brushedhe was short, stout and seu-
guine, with his little snub nose, and his
mouth, with its heaear jaNi7Sk lifeeeenthe
beside the worldly magistrate like a
sort of professor or -savant or collector,
who, with a leather bag stuffed with
hocks, seemed more ;fitted to pore ever
Isome _brochures or precious old volumes
than to spend his brae over musty lew
, dot:meats. Robust and active, with Lie'
P DJ years, be entere&t that house of crime
as ;All teopett teiteetraptitte makes a toe
.aled who naively needs a guide, •eveu in
an unknown country. He went straielet
ii to tho thidth which. as we leave aid, lee
i between toe two /rout wiudows, aed
I helix he awl AL Audrays entail a =4"
Mint 'Pelting at it, taking ilia as bad .
the• others, ail the details,' which inigt.I.j.
' Rare to guide them in their reeeareott.
The atterney for the republic asked the
commieeary if be bad made his report.
and the latter handed it to hire. lie
read it with .satisfied nods of his head.
Derbies thin time Bernardet bad ep-
preached AL Ginory. saluted, him a&
lit'Y AI° os*dda A•t• Rovoto who id was 1 dead man, "end he even se4Int i like a
and he very shortin atkad her what but wortay man wile leen,. 41 at rateaes vnle a
ness it. was tit hers. She did net insist, i
„ caurage. I an certain," slowly adette
but sae NViMiltd the individual vita, a the oaken ietaat ie one could emote the
vague dank. ken theuglat in that brain Wliiiii thinks
"Inetinet, monsieur; ney instinct toldno eeore. ettele ece in thni:e un.,.?;, lag
rae"— i
eyes the hair beano upon which they
"Demob," interrupted M. Deshriere. 1 koked, one would hem all that mad
"If we had telly iuttinet to guide us. 1. be knewn tehut that iudieidual of
ire should make eotlittl'itilitOUS blunder." il whera you speak aud the manner of his
4'01a it wee not crely by bastion%
suoutieur!" 1 "Possible- be killed himself," said
"Ala ail! Let us hear it" the innuniesary.
Emilia'', i, with his eY* s fattened IT* „But the Itypethesis of mid& wile not
Oa MUM 3iOtileat', did not late a sane, possible, as larnartlet reluarked to him,
ide ef her story, which her husbaud 00. latiVil to the great contempt of the re-
easioualty interrupted to correet or to porters who were covering their note -
complete a statement or to add some bonks with a running hawlwriting and
detail. The corpse, with mouth open with hieroglyphics. The wound was
and fiery, ferocious eyes, seemed alsc too deep to have been made by tho
to listen. man's own hand. And besides they
Mme. Moniche, as we already know would find the weapon with whicli that
entered AL Rovere's apartment when- horrible gash had been made near at
over she wished. he was his landlady, hand. There was no weapon of any
his reader, his friend. Revere was kind near the body. The murderer had
brusque, but he was good. So it was either carried it away with him in his
mothing strangewhen the woman, urged flight or he bad thrown it away in some
by curiosity, suddenly appeared in his other part of the apartment. They
rooms, for him to say; "Ala you herowould soon know.
Xs that you I did not call you." An They need not even 'wait for an au -
electric bell connected the rooms with topsy to determine that it was we asses -
the concierge lodge. Usually she would sination. "That is evident," interrupt -
reply, "I theught I heard the bell." ed the commissary. "The autopsy will
And she would profit by the occasion to be made, however."
fix up the fire, which M. Revere, busy And with. an insistence which Bur -
with his reading or writing, had for- pised the commissary a little Bernardet
gotten to attend to. She was much at- in courteous tones, evidently haunted
tached to him. She did notevish to have by one particular idea, begged and al -
him suffer from the cold, and recently most supplicated M. Desbriere to send
had entered as often as poteible, under for the attorney for the republic, so that
one pretext or aaather, lmowing that the orpse could be taken as soon as
he was ill, and desiring to be at hand possible to the morgue.
In case of need. When one evening "Poor man," exclaimed Mme. Mo -
about eight days before the had eniered niche. "To the morgue! To the
the room, while the visitor, whom Mo- morgue!" Bernardet calmed her with a
niche called the inclivideal. was there, word.
the portrets bad been astonished to see "It is necessary. It is the law. Oh,
the two men standing befcre Revere" M. le Cfmnuissaire, let us do it quick -
iron safe, the door wide oecn and both ly—quickly. I will tell you why. Time
looking at some papers spread out on will be gained—I mean to say saved—
the desk. and the criminal found."
Rovere, with his sallow, thin face, Then while M. Desbriere sent an offi-
was holding some papers in his hand, cer to the telephone office to ask for the
and the other was bent over, looking attorney for the republic to come as
with eager , es at—Mine. Moniche had quickly as possible to the Boulevard de
nen them well—some rent rolls, bills Cliohy, Mete. Moniohe freed her mind
and deeds. Perceiving Mme. Moniche, to the reporters in regard to some phil-
who stood hesitating on the threshold, osophioal considerations upon human
4,1. Revere frowned and methanicall
Y destiny, which condemned in so unfore-
made a move as if together up the scat- seen, so odiously brutal a manner a
tered papers. But the portress said, good lodger as respectable as M. Ro-
"Pardon, " and quickly withdrew. Only vere to be laid upon a slab at the
—ah, only—she had time to see, to see morgue, like a thief or a vagabond—he
plainly the iron safe, the heavy doors who went out but seldom, and who
standing open, the keys hanging from "loved his home so much."
the look, and M. Rovere in his dressing "The everlasting antithesisof life,"
gown, the official papers, yellow and replied Paul Rodier, who made a note
blue, others bearing seals and a ribbon, of his reflection.
lying there before him. He seemed in
a bad humor, but said nothing. Not a CHAPTER V.
word. Some time passed before the arrival
"And the other one?" of the attorney, and through the closed
The other man was as pale as M. Ro- venetian bliuds the murmurs of the
vere. He resembled him, moreover. He crowd colleeted below could be heard.
was, perhaps, a relative. Mme. Moniche The commissary wrote his report on the
had noticed the expression with which oorner of a table, by the light of a sin -
he contemplated those papers and the gle candle, and now and then mired for
fierce glance which he oast at her when some detail of Bernardet, who seemed
she pushed open the door without know- very impatient. A heavy silence had
ing what sight awaited her. She had fallen on the room. Those who a short
gone down stairs but she did not at time before had exchanged observations
once tell her husband about what she in lo-ud tones since the ooinmissary had
had seen. It was some time afterward. finished with Mme. Moniche had drop -
The individual had come again. He re- ped their voices and spoke in hushed
maimed closeted with M. Rovere for tones, as if they were in a sickroom.
some _hours. The sick man was lying on Suddenly a bell rang, sending shrill
the lounge. The portress had heard notes through the silent room. Bernax-
them through the door talking in low det remarked that no doubt the attorney
tones. She clid not know what they bad arrived. He looked at his watela a
(mid. She could her only a raurmur, simple silver Geneva watch, but which
and she had very good ears, too, but she he prized highly—a present from his
heard only confused sounds, not one Wifo____and murmured;
;plain word. When, however, the visitor “There is yet time." It was, in fact,
was going away she heard Revere eay the attorney for the republic who came
to him'"Imusteell all sooner or later " in, accompanied by the examining maw,
Did the dead man possess a secret nitrate, M. Ginory, whom criminals
-which Weighed heavily report him and called "the vise, " because he pressed
which he shared vvith that other? And them so hard when he got hold of themto me that there is a mass of inventions,
the other—who was be Perhaps an ao. M. Ginory was in the attorney's office of discoveries, which we police officers
.,,
aAred for a private interview with a
glance ef his eye. The examiuing mag-
istrate understeod what he meant
"Ah, is it you, Bernardet? You with
o apeak to nie?"
"Yes, At. Ginory. I beg of you to ger
the body to the dissecting room for the
Autopsy as scan as possible." He had
quietly and alreeet imperceptibly drawn
the magistrate away toward a eviudow,
away from the reporters, who wiehei
to hear every word that was uttered.
where he bad him quite by himself in
a corner of the room near the library
door.
"There is an experimeut which must
be tried, monsieur, and it ought t
tempt a Man Mit) you," he said.
Dernarden knew very well that pain' -
taking eveu to a fault, taken with any
new ecidatide dieneveries, with a rem-
tive atiud, eager to study aud to learn,
31. tawny woabi not refuse hint any
help which would aid justiee„ Had not
the Acaderay of :Venal and Political
Seiences crowned the year before M.
Ciinory's book ou "The Duties of a Mag-
istrate to the Discoveries of Science?"
The word "experiment" was not said
in aria to frighteu M. Ginory.
"What do you mean by that, Ber-
nardet?" tho magistrate asked. Der -
nutlet shook his head as if to intimate
that the explanation was too low* to
give him therm They were not alone.
Some one might hear them. And if a
journal should publish the strange prop-
osition which he -wished, to—
"Ah, ah," exclaimed the examining
magistrate, "then it is something
strunee, your experimeut?"
"Aly magistrate but you -would think
it wild, =reasonable or ridiculous,
which is worse. But you—oh, I do not
say it to flatter you, monsieur," quick-
ly added the police officer, seeing that
this praise troubled this man, who al-
ways shrank from it. "I speak thus be-
cause it is the very truth, and any one
else would treat nth as crack brained.
But you—no."
M. Gino* looked curiously at the
little man, whose attitude was humble
and even supplicating and seemed to
seek a favorable response, and whose
eyes sparkled and indicated that his
idea was no common one.
"What is that room there!'" asked M.
Ginory, pointing to the half open li-
brary door.
"It is the study of M. Rovere—the
rictiiii' '-
"Let us go in there," said M. Ginory.
In this room no one could hear them.
They could speak freely. On entering
the exaraining magistrate mechanically
oast his eye over the books, stopping at
such and :ach a title of a rare work,
and, seating himself in a low, easy
chair covered with caramanie, he made
a sign to the police officer to speak.
Bernardet stood, hat in hand, in front
of him.
"M. le juge," Bernardet began, "I
beg your pardon for asking yeu to grant
me an interview, but allowing for the
difference in our positions, which is
very great, I am, like you, a scholar—
very curious. I shall never belong to the
institute, and you will"—
"Go on, Bernardet "
"And you will belong to it, M. Gi-
eery, but I strive also, in my lower
sphere, to keep myself au courant with
all that is said and with all that is writ-
ten. I was in the service of the acad-
emy when your beautiful work was
crowned, and when the perpetual secre-
tary spoke of those magistrates who
knew how to unite the love of letters
with a study of justice I thought that
lower down, much lower down, on the
ladder M. le age, he might have also
searched for and found some men who
studied to learn and to do their best in
doing their duty."
"Ah, I know you, Bernardet! Your
chief has often spoken of you."
"T know that M. Leriche is very good
to me, but it is not for nee to boast of
that. I wish only to inspire confidence
In you because wbat 1 wish to say to
you is so strange—so very strange '--
Bernarclet suddenly stopped, "I
know," he began, "that if I were to say
to a physician what 1 am about to say
to you be would think I ought to be
shut up in St. Anne, and yet I am not
crazy, .i. beg of you to believe, No; DDT
have searched and searched. It seems
+night to wake use of, and, although I
tim a subinspector"—
"Oo on, go on," said the magistrate
quickly, with a utheement of the head
toward the open door of the salon,
where the.attorney for the republio was
aonducting the investigation, and his
nod seemed to say: "They are at work;
En there. Let us wake haste,"
"I will be as brief as.' possible," said •
Bernardet, who. understood, what he
Mella'aillOnsieur" (end hie tone beettate
rapid, precise, running np and dowu
like a ball), "30 .yeat-s, or, rattier, to be
exact, 36 yettes ago Male eamerican jour-
nals, not politiol, but scieutific, pub-
Uthed the files th.at the daguerreotypa—
we have made long strides since then in
photography—bad permitted them to
find ia the retina of a murdered mates.
eye the *image of the one who struck
him."
I know," said AL Ginory.
"In 4860 I was too youug, and I had
no desire to prove the truth of this dis-
covety. I adore plictograpby as I adore •
ray profession. I pass my leisure hours
in taking instantaneous pictures, in de-
veloping them, printing and finiehing •
thew. The No of what I am abaut to
pre -pc -se to yen ..(gune to me by chanee 1 •
bought uyou cue of the quays a volume
of the tea it de Moine:me Legale of
ladle in aeteicie Dr. Yortiois gives au ae-
(main et a (at-intimate:a:Una *eat to- the •
eadety by a hyirian, when also sent
pilctogral:41i4 tbats indorsed,
4Pieltegranits taken of the retina (if a *
Iceman attatsluated the alto of June, .
"Yes." again said AL Ginory. "It
WaS a comunaticatiou born Dr. Iteariou
of Darnez."
"-Precisely."
"Awl the proof' sent by the doctor
showed the ittstant witeto atter striking
the mother. the assassin killed the child,
while tho dog sprang toward the little
earriage in which the little ane lay."
xes, 9 ry.
"Olt, well, but my poor Bernardet.
Dr. Vernois, since you have read bis
report"—
"By change, mon:gear, I found it en
bcolt stall, and it has kept running in
ray bead ever siuce, over and over and
aver again."
"Dr. Verne's, ray poor fellow, made
many experiments. At firet the proof
scut was so confused, Et) hazy, that no
onewho bad not Rea what Bourion bad
written could bare told what it was. If
r(11411% 17310 was a env eeientidc man,
could find nothing—nothing, I repeat—
Width juttitied Boarien's &aera-
tions, what do you expect that any one
else could mite of those reeearcheed Do
not talk any more or even think any
more about it."
"I beg your pude% AL Ginory. One
can and gain' " to think about it. In any
cue, I am thinking about it."
A smile of doubt crowd AL Ginot7ti
Ups. Bernardet quickly added; "Plan
tography of the invisible has been prov-
ed. Are not the Roentgen nye, the fa-
mous X rays, as incredible as that pho-
tography can find the image of a mur-
derer on the retina of a, deed person's
eye? They invent some foolish tbings,
those Americans, but they often presage
the truth. Do they not catch byphotog-
raphy the lett sighs of the dying? Do
alley not fix upon the film or on plates
that inysterious thing which haunts us,
the occult? They throw bridges across
unknown abysses as over great bodies of
water or from one precipice to another
and they reach the other side. I beg
your pardon. monsieur. And the police
officer stopped short in his enthusiastic
defense as he caught sight of M. Gi-
nory's astonished face. "I seem to have
been making a speeoh, a thing I detest."
"Why do you say that to me? Be-
cause I looked astonished at what you
have told me? I am not only surprised,
I am charmed. Go on, go onl"
"Oh, well, what seemed folly yester-
day will -be an established fact to mor-
row. A fact is a fact. Dr. Vernois had
better have tested again and again his
contradictory experiments. Dr. Bon -
eon's experiments had preceded his
own. If Dr. Yernois saw nothing in the
picture taken of the retina of the eye of
the WOratia assassinated June 14, 1868,
I have seen something—yes, I have seen
with a magnifying glass, while study-
ing thoroughly the proof given to the
society and reproduced in the bulletin
of volume 1, No. 2, of 1870, Ihave seen
deciphered the image which Dr. Bouri-
on saw and which Dr. Vernois did not
see. Ah, it was confused; the proof was
hazy. It was scarcely recognizable, I
confess, but there are mirrors which are
not very clear and which reflect clouded
vision; nevertheless the image is there.
And I have seen, or what one calls seen,
the phantom of the murderer whiolt Dr.
Bourion saw and which escaped the eyes
of the member of the Academy of Medi -
vine and of the hygiene council honor-
ary physician of the hospital, if you
please."
M. Ginory, who had listened to the
officer with curiosity, began to laugh
and remarked to Bernardet that, accord-
ing to this reasoning. illustrated med-
ical science would find itself sacrificed
to the instinct, the divination of a pro-
vincial physician, and that it was only
too easy to put the academicians in the
wrong and the independents in the
right. •
"Oh, monsieur, pardon. I put no one
in the right or wrong. Dr. Bourion be-
lieved that he had made a discovery.
Dr. Vernois was persuaded that Dr.
Bourion had discovered nothing at all.
Each had the courage of his conviction.
What 1 contest is that for 26 years no
one has ex-perimented, no one has made
any researches, since the first experi-
ment, and that Dr. Botrion's communi-
cation has been simply dropped and for-
gotten."
"I ask your pardon in my turn, Ber-
nardet," replied M. Ginory,
(inimically. "I have also studied the
ellen ion, which seems to me a curi-
30,C.
ographed any your-
sel, M. Ginory?"
-1:fave you phot
Lf
of the Academy of Medicine, M. 13rou-
ardel, whose great wiedom and whose
sovereign opinion were law, one of those
men, who are azi homer to their couerey,
told me that when be was in Heidel-
berg he had heard Professor Reline say
that he had studied this same question,
He had made impressions of the retina
of the eye in the following cases: After
the death of a dog or a wolf he had, tak-
en out the eye and replaced it with the
back part of the eye in frout; then he
t g rah d, 1 c d it
iu front of the eye, and between the eye
and the light he placed a smell grating,
This grating, after an exposure of 01
quarter of an limn was visible upon
the retina, But those are very different
e.eperinseuts from those one hears of in
•
)9
! There is where the proof is.' '
"But in 1871 the very learned doyen
"They could eee the hare in the grati
lug? if that was visible, why could not
the visage of 'the murderer be. found
theret"
"Eli! Other experiments have been •
attempted, ewe after those of wiiich
Professor Eutaw told our compatriot.
Every one, you understand, has borne,
only negative results, and M. Brooardel
could tell you better than that in rhe
physielogical and oeulistie treatises
published during, the last ten years no '
allusion has been made to the preserva. •
" g t -after
death. It is an affair cleat?, Bernardet."
Inon,i,car, yet"— And the "m-
ike etliztv liwsitatedSh
. ating his head,
axalat repeatcd,
"Ykal are awe eonvineedt"
"N 5 M. ti- 1 ir 11 . y
why? You, your -U. in Spite of the tes-
timony of illustricueearalltattill donbr.
I pray you to pardon Me, but I see it in
your eyes,"
"That is still another way to UFO the
retina," Said laughing.
read otte's thoughte."
"No, monsieur. but you are A man a
too great intelligence to say to yourself
that there is nothing in this world
clasee, that every matter can. be taken
up again. The idea LAS cOnte to me tO
try the experimeut if I out permitted.
Yes, monsieur, those eyes, did you see
theme -the eyes of the dead man? They
seemed to speak. they seemed see.
Their expressiou is of lifelike inteusity.
They •See, tell you, they see. They per"
ceive sentething which we cannot eee
and. via& is bight/al. They bear—and
310 one cau -convince net to the contrary
—they hear ou the retina the reflection
ng ,
of the last beiwhom the murdered')
man Rev before he died. They keep it
still; they still retain that image. They
are piling te hold au autops,y. They will
tell us diet the throat is cut. Eh, par -
bleu! We knew it well. We see it for
ourselves. i'frioniebe, the porter, knows
it as well as any donator, but when oue
queetions these eyee, when me searches
mi •
In that blachamber where the imago .
inppeare as a plate, when one dee
=alai of those- _eyes their. secret, I um
convinced that one will find it."
"You aro obstinate, Dernardet."
"Yes, Ter- obstiuM, M. Ciinor,y, and
very patient. The pictureswhich I took
with my kat' tk will give us the expres-
sion, the interior, So to speak. Those
-which we 7ould. take of the retina
would reveal tom the secret of the ago-
ny. And, moreover, unless I deceive
-myself, what 'dauger attends suoh an
experiment? One opens the poor eyes,
and that is sinister certainly, but -when
one holds an autopsy at the morgue,
'when one enlarges the gash in the throat
in order to study it, when one dissects
the body, is it any more tespeotful or
proper? Ala monsieur, if I but bad
your power"—
M. Ceinory seemed quite struck with
all that the police officer had said to
him, but white he still held to his con-
eht
More agitated than he wished to ap-
pear by the strange conversation be-
tween the ageut of Surete awl hieiself,
the examiniug magistrate stood at the
foot of the corpse end gazed, with a de-
ity almost fierce, not at the gaping
wound of which AL Jacqueliu des Au -
brays had spoken to him. but at those
eyes, those fixed, eyes, those eyes which
...
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open, frightful, seemingly burning with
auger, inenaciug, full of accusations of
some sort mad animated with teugetinee,
gave hini, a look, immovable, most pow -
It is true; it was trate They lived;
those eyes spoke. They cried to hint for
justice. They retained the expressiou
a south atrocious vision, the expressio/a
of violent rage. They raoaced some
one, Whom? If the picture of someoneain.alassgerarvezethere, was it wit the. last
ted ou the little mirror of
the retina? What if a face was reflected
-
there? What if it was stili retained iv
the depths of those wide open eyes?
That strange creature, Bernardet, half
crazy, enthused With new ideas, with
.the mysteries which traverse chimerical
brains. treaded bitn, Ginozy, a man ( f
$1,3tigieS and of facts.
Bat truly .tiacte dead eyes seemed to
ateeeal, to speak, to &Apulia sc,meone.
What were eleiment, what more terrible
Vitne,*. COtiLt titan the dead
zsnsu ns
hiielt, if it was petsilile. for hie
eyee speak? If that organ life should
tentain. shut up within it, Piet. real,
the awl!, B41tartiet,
eyes utver left tue ruageerate s face,
.oneht to have heal content, fer it plain-
ly eepretted doebt-, a Iteitation, and the
pole...* officer heard him cursiug, under
his breath.
stnpidity I Bela we shall.
Bernardev Was filled with hope. M.
Ginory, the examiniug magistrate, was.
moreover, convinced that for the pres-
ent, end. .the sooner the better, the corpse
should be scut to the morgue. There
only could a thorough mad scientific ex.
amination be made. The reporter
ise-
t'ueti inteutlee to the convert-nth:ea and
Mune Mouiche clasped her Lauda more
and more agonized by that word
morgue, which. among the neeple pro-
dv.ces the same terror that that other
woril—which moue, however, careful
attendance, stiientific treatment and
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iritals ,
Nothing was now to be done except
to question seine of the ueighltnrs and
to take a sktete, .of the 'axial. Berner-
det eaiti te the magistrate, "My photo-
graph a th
will give yeat." 'Whne
ile wi
one WOili Mat to get a heave the mats -
trines at away. The police officer
olueed a guard in front of the house.
The gaveled was ctnstantly increasing
and Weonting. mow and more curious,
vidently exeited and eager to nut the:
sitecterle—tlio murdered Mall borne
from his home. • •
Bernanlet did not allow M. Ginory
to go away without uslaner, respectfully
if he would Le allowed to photograph
the dead euifs teye. Without giving'
.him a formal answer M. (limy simply
told him to be present at the autopsy at
the morgue. Evidently if the magis-
trate hail not been already full of doubt
his reply would have been different.
Why did that inferior officer have the
audacity to give his opinion on the sub-
ject of -conducting a judiaial investiga-
tion? Al. Giuory would long before this
have sent him about his business if he
bad riot become sud.denly iu•terested in
hini. In his quality of judge he had
come to kuoty Bernardet's bistax7 and
his exploits in the service. :hdu more ca-
pable man in his line could. be found.
Hewes perfectly and utterly devoted to
his profetsion. Some straiten tales were
e*ld of his methods. It was he who once
patsed au entire night on a bench, pre-
tending intoxication, in order to gain
sufficient information to enable him to
arrest inarderer in the morning in a
wretched hovel at La Vilette—a mur-
derer armed to the teeth. It was Ber-
narclet who, without arms—as all those
agents—caughb the famous bandit, the
noted Taureau de la Glacier°, a foreign
Hercules who had straegled his. mis-
tress. Bernardet arrested him by hoid-
iug to his temple the cold neck of a bot-
tle and saying, "Hands up or I fiml"
Now what the bandit took: for the cold
muzzle of a pistol was a vial eontainiug
some mw
edicine hich Bernardet had
purchased of a pharmacist for Inc liver.
Deeds of valor against thieves, male-
factors and insorreotionists abounded in
Bernardet's life, and M. Ginory had
just discovered in this man, whom he
believed simply endowed with tbe activ-
ity and keenness of a hunting dog, an
intelligence _singularly watchful, deep
and complicated. Bernardet, who had
nothing more to do until the body should
be taken to the morgue, left the house
directly after the magistrates. .
".Where are you going?" asked Paul
Rodier, the reporter.
"Home—a few steps from here."
"May I go along with you?" asked
the journalist.
tdo ins CONTINUED.]
"Oh, well, what seemed folly yesterday
wilt be an established fact tomorrow."
victions he did not seem quite averse to
trying the experiment. Who can say to
science, "Halt!" and impose upon it
limits which cannot be passed? No one.
"We will see, Bernardet."
And in that"we will see" there was
already a half promise.
"Ah, if you only will, and what
would it cost you?" added Bernardet,
still urgent, indeed almost suppliant.
"Let us finish this .now. They are
waiting for me," said the examining
magistrate.
As he left M. Rovere's study he in-
stinctively oast a glance at the rare vol-
umes, with their costly bindings, and
he reenitered the salon where M. Jacque-
lin des Audrays had, without doubt,
finished his examination. •
CHAPTER VL
The attorney for the republic called
in the examining magistrate. Nothing
more was to be done The magistrate
had studied the position of the corpse,
examined the wound, and now, having
told M. Ginory his impressions, he did
not hide from him Inc belief that the
crime laa.d been committed by a profes-
sional, as ..the stroke of the knife across
the throat had been given neatly, scien-
tifically, according to all the establish-
ed rules.
"One might well take it for the work
of a professional butcher."
"Yes, without doubt, a Ginory, but
one does not know. Brute force --a
strong blow—cau produce exactly what
science can."
A Zulu Rama Charm.
The Zulus employ a rain charm
which is very remarkable considering
their usual fierceness and cruelty. They
catch a bird, and after the tribal wizard
has consecrated it and made it a heaven
bird" they throw it into a pool of wa-
ter.
In spies of their own indifference to
the sufferings of animals they believe
that the sky, which they conceive to be,
a personality, will be full of woe at the
death of the bird and drop sympathetic
tribute in showers of rain.
Free Passes.
The legislative free pass is still uni
veinal in France. Every member of the
chamber of deputies has fine traveling
on any railroad in the country and is
furnished with a medal of identification
to make seta that he gets his privileges.
In the matter of pay they: are better off
than the British members of parliament,
though their indemnity of $5 a day is
small beside the $5,000 a year of the
United States congreestnan.
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