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PAGE SIX. THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, DECE3IBER 23, 1907.

"The room was very dark and Pan! Desaix, who was writing a letter, had the utmost difficulty in seeing what he nas doing. He wrote with his face bent down over the paper, his nose almost touch in rr It. And yet outside there was plenty of sunlight and if he had only taVen the trouble of raising the shades he would have had ample light to write by in comfort. The people below were unusually light-hearted. It was the day before Christmas, and there is happiness even in the most dismal places at this time. Children laughed with glee; their faces shown with expectation.

Presently Desaix rose with a ner- fortable home at Neutilly and come vous movement and. tottering across and live in this miserable alley, and the room, pulled aside a corner of the Marguerite, his only child and daughshade and looked cautiously into the ter, a b ight-eyed and charming girl street. of nineteen summers, whom he had It was one mean dirty street in one j dragged with him into this gloomy reef the worst slums in the latin quarter, tirement, had had no other explanation

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ana mortar, ill-paved and noisy, with nothing whatever to be seen in it to attract anybody's attention. At least 1" " , " .'7 ""u,u "avK muusm so but evidently that was not Paul ! -iiL1 "b-'v iivm uciiiuu me uunitJr oi me curtain. But then Paul was a mechanical genius, an inventor, and geniuses often have odd tricks of manner and habits of eccentric behavior quite different from ordinary people, and often quite unintelligible. For instance it was au ordinary freak on his part to close up his corn- . . , . I . iirrlf ith nn tto kitrlo I it. You can t afford to accept a &s above

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latest eccentric whim. "It can't be that he hopes to keep me away from Jacques," she smiled to herself, when he curtly informed her of hls decisJon. for he knows lhat and I correspond, although he has forbidden us to meet. It is just father's latest craze; he wants to rough it a bit, and when the craze is over li will return home to comfort and Neuilly once more." But his curious fad had already lasted three weeks, and so far there was no visible sign of his growing tired of it. Paul Desaix peered eagerly from behind the shade at the second floor window of the house opposite, the blinds of which were tightly shut. He continued to stare at it until he saw tha shadow of a man's figure flit faintly across the blind, and then, with a muttered "He is still there, thank Heaven he is still there," in a tone which was half a chuckle and half a groan. He tottered back to the table and resumed the writing of his letter. When Margaret entered the room a few moments later dressed for going out he was about to close the envelope. "Well, father, is your letter ready?" she asked. "It will be, in a second or two, my dear; I have only got to address it. It ;

is a very important letter, Marguerite, may. say an extrem.el- important let-'to

ter- 1 tl'ust Jou win be very caretul I nrit 5 I won t forget. He handed her the letter and, glancIng at it, she exclaimed: "Why, father yOU have cnanSed 5'our handwriting!" "Have I, my dear? Is it really different? Surely not. 1 have not changed it intentionally. Marguerite certainiy not intentionally. But the light in the room 18 so bad- and that probably aCCOUIltS fOr it." "Of course the light is bad, father, if you will persist in keeping the room so dark. Why don't you let up the shades? And why don't you go out for a walk in this lovely weather? We have been here three long weeks, and you haven't been outside the door once." "No, Marguerite, no," he answered irritably as she moved to the window with the obvious intention of letting in the light. "I have already explained TJt'V and 1 can't go out because 1 haven't h STef I "SSh business the sooner we shall be able to return to Neuilly. You will be so glad! to return home, little girl?" "of course' father- but" , . some way to have suddenly communicated itself to her. She paused, as though she" were trying to see something which she was most reluctant which she was even afraid to see, while he was too anxious to be relieved of the necessity of answering her embarrassing questions to notice these unmistakable singns of a motionless distress. "Now do go, darling. I want that letter mailed. It is very important, and must not be lost or forsttea" "Don't worry, father. I won't forget. Goodbye, and don't wait for me if I am not back in time for lunch, for it's just possible I may be late." She stooped and kissed him, but it was not until she had gone that he discovered the tear on his cheek which told him that she had been crying. 0"u. dear, dear! :Joor srirl! Poor Marguerite; She is unhappy here. Five hundred thousand francs! It win mane ner maepenaeni 01 an changes and misfortunes after 1 am changes and ml sone-the dream rc..one tbins 1 of my waking hours. have tolled for, slaved U paused in his muttering, and then

aaaea in. a nerce groan:

"Besides, It was my idea, not Revillon's. If Tie helped at all he only liplned a verv verv little. I didn't ask him to steal the money to buy the patents. He took it without consulting me. He stole on his own responsibility. He must bear the consequence of what he has done, for he has . brought it on himself. I could have j got the money in time without that, : and it is all mine, all mine by right." He started up and carried his chair to the window, pulled aside a corner of the curtain and sat staring at the opposite house, and murmuring occasionally: "He's still there! Thank heaven, he's still there!" And so he sat for hours. And now that the thing was done, Paul Deasix was suffering the most terrible torments of remorse. He had betrayed to the police Alfred Revillon, his friend and partner, the man by whose guilt he hadn't hesitated to profit. For the last three weeks he had been trying to force himself to commit this abominable act of treachery, and at last he had nerved his heart to do it. Now that it was done he would have given all the world to have it undone, and to recover his lost honor and self-respect. Paul Desaix was undoubtedly a genius. His gift of inventiveness was abnormal, his brain, was always full of novel Ideas but his life had been one long row of failures. His strange powers lacked something, they lacked that particular touch which was requisite for the turning of the products of his plan into valuable and marketable articles of commerce. His latest invention proved no exception to the rule. It was a motor engine designed to be used with a flying machine, an engine which, if successful, would revolutionize the science of aeronautics. It was a wonderful and clever thing, but there was just something missing, and at last he had to call in the assistance of Alfred Revillon, a mechanical engineer, the father of Jacques Revillon, who was engaged to marry Marguerite. With his help the engine was made perfect, and it was agreed between them that the invention should be their, joint property. But now there was another grave difficulty. Neither of them had any money to secure the patents with, and they were faced with the possibility of the result of all their labor and all their skill going to enrich somebody else. After many unsuccessful attempts to beg or borrow the money without disclosing their secret, Revillon solved the problem in despair by embezzling twelve thousand francs from his employers and giving it to Paul Desaix. Revillon went into hiding and Desaix secured the patents, which he subsequently sold to a firm of promoters for 500,000 francs in cash and a large number of shares in the company, which was to be formed for the purpose of exploiting the invention. One of the stipulations made by Revillon was that the lL'.OOO francs which he had stolen from his employers would be immediately returned to them out of the money received from the sale of the patents in the hope that he might be pardoned and so be able to show himself again, but this Desaix did not do. All the money he received was still in his possession. In fact, the usual thing happened. The deman of temptation attacked Paul Desaix. Why shouldn't he keep all the money for himself? Wasn't the idea his, his alone? Wasn't Revillon a thief? Was it right to leave a thief profit by his crime? Would it be fair? Why not betray him to the police and then the whole of the proceeds would be his? By such arguments as these he succeeded in conquering the protest of his conscience, and the first step toward carrying this treachery into effect was break off the engagement between Margaret and Jacques. His next was to move from Nenilly and take up lodg ings in an obscure street in the Latin quarter, where Revillon was in hiding. Revillon had confided his whereabouts to him alone. Whom could he trust with the secret of his life if not his friend and partner? But his mind was not yet quite made up. lie could not disguise from himself the dastardly nature of the act he proposed to commit. He went on vacillating. He was watching the house in dreadful apprehension lest Revillon should move to some other place and escape him. Still he continued to hesitate, despairing himself until the greed of gold got the best of him and the letteian anonymous one, written in a changed handwriting addressed to the chief A the detective department, was given to margaret to mail. Shouts in the street again reached his ear. He started up suddenly. A wave of remorse weighed his soul. "Christmas;" he muttered. "Every one has joy in his heart but I. Here I have wealth and credit in my grasp, yet I'm miserable. I'll not let this bother me. 111 laugh in spite of my low spirits. I'll rouse myself. Marguerite; Marguerite, where are you. Come quickly. We'll go out to the cafes. We'll dine and laugh and hear music. Oh, we'll live! We'll live, my girl! And I'll buy you Christmas gifts diamonds, costly furs everything you like." The man seemed delirious. Other shouts from the streets hawkers crying toys brought him to himself. "But Revillon what about him?" The thought startled him like a blow in the face. Revillon goes to jail and by my treachery," ho groaned. "The bells tomorrow, ringing out this happies-t of fesUvals, will reach his ears through the walls and the bars df his cell. Revillon will die." Desaix was not a bad man at heart. On the contrary, he was an unselfish man, and had always been true to his friends. It must have been overwork the strain of perfecting the invention. His nerves were gone and he yielded to the whispers. "Oh, God.' he cried. "I wish it was undone. Revillon, Revillon, I don't know how I ever could have done it' And he bowed his head and wept. , The afternoon had almost passed.

the sun was about to set and he was still sitting at the window peering into the street at the house opposite. He seemed to have been sitting there for an eternity, and so absorbed was ne that he failed to notice that Marguerite was late in coming back. He was waiting for the police to come and arrest his partner. At ast he heard a noise outside, saw an automobile come up the alley an! stop immediately opposite the house. It must be the police that had come to arrest Revillon.

He dared not look out. but buried j his face in his hands and sobbed like a ! child. "Why father, dear, what's the matter?" He had not heard the door open, he! nau not -en Marguerite come in and he looked up now to find her bending affectionately over him. her hand resting on his shoulder, her eyes looking lovingly into his. ' Father, dear."' she said in a low. winning and bashful voice. "Father, I have brought you a Christmas gift a bride, father." She whispered the last three words. Desaix sat as if in a trance. "And I have thought you my husband. It's Jacques' father," the continued, "Why dont you greet Jacques?" Desaix arose to his feet. He seemed to be choking. "Of course Jacques! I see Yes, Jacques! How do you do, Jacques?" "Jacques and I have been married, father" she continued, "and we are oft for Neuolly in an automobile for our honey-moon, and we have come to j say goodbye to you, and it is not the j least use for you to We annoyed, father, because we are safely married now and nothing can possibly unmarry us. I tried to tell you before, and you didn't give me a chance. "And father, dear, I am awfully sorry, you must try to forgive me, but in I the excitement of getting married I j really forgot to mail your letter." j Desaix leaped to his feet and caught his daughter by the shoulders. I "What, Marguerite!" he cried. "You forgot? Say it again. Marguerite do you hear me? Say it again!" His face was beaming with joy and his sentences came in short, jerky, excited sentences. Marguerite was alarmed. "Tell me can't you see I can't wait?" cried her father. "You did forget, didn't you, Marguerite?" He was trying hard to calm himself. "I'm sorry, father," she said, sndly. "I should have remembered, but but I was so happy when I met Jacques that I forgot entirely." "Thank God, cried Desaix fervently. "Give it to me give it, girl. Turn up the lights quickly. Now ah, how happy I am." And he grasped the letter, held it in the flame of the .light and watched the ashes crumble and fall to the floor. j "Oh, I'm happy," he cried. "Why Jacques, my boy, give me your hand. God bless you bless you both." Then he saw they regarded his conduct as strange. "It's all right," he explained, as he grew more calm. "I won't bother you with details, but I had nearly done something I would have regretted all, my life." ! "Go for your father, Jacques; bring; him here. I want to give him a Christ-; mas gift his share of the proceeds of i our invention. Get him quickly." And . he shoved Jacques out of the door. "Ah," he said after awhile, "a man can't go far wrong on Christmas time. The spirit in him is too watchful." Joyous bells tolled outside, and a mountainous load rolled off his conscience. CAMBRIDGE CITY. IND. Cambridge City, Ind., Dec. 2o. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Routh and daughter, Gertrude are spending Christmas with relatives at Winchester. Mrs. Maria Straub has gone to Indianapolis to spend the holidays with her daughter, Mrs. Joe Stahr and family. Roy Kirkwood has accepted a position as electrician at the theatorium. Charles Lackey has gone to Chicago to spend Christmas with his daughter Lillian. Charles Kohlhein and family of Connersville, will be the guests of J. S. Lackey. Miss Helen Garvin is home from Martinsville to spend the holidays. ECONOMY, IND. Economy, Ind., Dec. 23. Charles Kinert of Richmond, was here recently on businens. Mr. and Mrs. Ot Thornburg have been visiting Anderson relatives. Mrs. Deem, who has been visiting here for several weeks, has started for her home in California. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hunnicutt cf Blountsville, arrived here Saturday morning to visit relatives. Rev. Hannah Stanley will leave December 25th for Winchester, where the Christian quarterly conference will be held. Miss Clive Gail Hayes, who is librarian and a popular socity girl of Lafayette, 111., arrived here Saturday morninig to spend the holidays with her sister, Mrs. Joseph Haxton and family. Howard Ballenger of Chicago. Joe and Jesse Osborn, Arthur C'.eveng?r and Albert Ballenger of Purdue. Rev. Fred Greenstreet. Rev. Archie Manning and Rev. Morris Ballenger of Depauw and Miss Edith Scantland of Earlham, are here for the holidays. MONEY LOANED Low rates, easy terms. Thompson's loan and real estate agency. Wide stairs. 710 Main street. Bond's automatic! phone No. 2008. 1-wed-thttrs-frt-sat-tf IThe Hub Of Tfce Bodjr. Th crgan around which ail th other cmrar olve. and poa which they are larzely c ndent for tbeir welfare, is tbe stoma len tbe functions of tbe stomach become ; ' ired. tbe bowels and liver also become -oeed. ' To cure a disease of tbe stomach, ih bowels get a 90 cent or fl bottle of Dr. Ca ell's Syrup Pepsia at toot dmg-git's- It . ie promptest relief for cosstinaxioa aad dys t-psi ever ccmpooaded.

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