Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 August 1887 — Page 1

THE_MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment

The tarmtl notice baa been given taking from the management of the Vandalla the supervision of the C. H. 4 D. official*. Mr. Waite, vice president and general manager of the C. H. A D. and Mr. Nellaon, general superintendent of the same company, art no more general officer* of the Vandalia. Likewise Mr. Short, who is secretary and treasurer of the C. H. A IK, la no longer secretary

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treasurer of the Vandalia. Presi4mt McKeen will discharge the duties of-general manager, Col- Hill will, in his *nnparatlvely new title of assistant general manager, be superintendent of tfbe Vandalia as he was before, and Mr. Farrington, instead of assistant secretary -to Mr. Short will be secretary as before, as Mr. Cruft will be treasure* instead of Assistant to the C. H.

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treasurer. We are sure all Terre Haute tis glad because of these changes, more •or less expected. One of the worst omens of the Ives management was the stringing out ef titles of officers. We'unsher* in Terre Haute had not been educated up to the new things in titles. So It Is that when It is announced that Mr. Mc­

Keen will "discharge" the duties etf "general manager" as well as those of president, we know that, as in old times, Riley McKeen is "running the Vaa,'' the Col. Hill 1» superintendent and that George Farrlngton is secretary and agent and Will Cruft is treasurer. We k*ow, indeed, that the Van is "our" road,— at least for the time being. All this

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while it brings joy, doea-not-en-tirely reassure those who "think twice about such things. Many of the railroad men, rejoicing at the return of Mr.. Mc­

Keen, still havo forebodings that his return to the presidency may not be permanent. Thoy think that he is really anxious to get out of the business and fear that at some day, not far distant, he will lot go of the road and seek that peace of retirement which he congratulated himself on finding when young Mr. Ives came out into the west.

It is expected that when tho distillery twgins operations in November the produet will be so groatly increased that Instead of four ten will be smploy«d by the governiont. This fart has not been proclaimed with loud voieo or big type because it means a renewal of tho difficulties that beset the appointing power when the change in administratration took place. To fill the six additional gangers' positions and the two or tlire® now storekeepers there would be not loss than 100 applicants if the fact were mado known. Sub rosa, then, It Is now made known that Sonator Voorhees, ex-Congressman Lamb and Collector Manson are quietly considering tho names of the favored few who, being aware of tho probable opening here, made application for appointment." Of course, all these appointments are contingent on tho decision of the distillery people. If they conclude to run the institution at its full capacity it would make work for nearly twenty gangers The capacity is to be about 7,000 bushels a day, whereas the old distillery when Inst In operation, was grinding about 1,500 bushels. As near as can be learned tho new concern Is to start off at ttoe rate of about 3,500 bushels. All tlita, however, Is contingent, on the outcome of the dickering* now going on between Mr. Fairbanks and the new whisky trust or pool. Ho was not In the "combine" «t its Inauguration but has received

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he remains out he will try to "cut a fat hog" by running wide open and fighting the trust on the price. If he tries to do this he has a big fight on hand, which may or may not prove to be disastrous to him but would*at least make room for nianv employes. If he goes into the trwst then it will have to be determined at what capacity he shall regulate the output, and It may be that though the distillery is twice as large that there will lie loss product than In the old concern and consequently fewer employes.

The employment of child labo# flTWcoming one of the question# of thehfrar, and some measure should b© adopted to put an end to It, The condition of aflfeirs in New York where the State factory inapeciot* have rendered their first annual report, Is an alarming one. Over twelve hundred children under sixteen years of age are employed in one cotton mill at echoes, and there to a corresponding amount of Illiteracy. Fully one-third the affidavit# made by children were signed with a crtwm. ?Vr all the talk •bout pauper Immigration from Europe it Is stated that the children immigrating from Europe are actually better informed than the working children of New York, l-nder the guidance of diecm* and ktr minded men this subject Is being dltctwsed, and la being acted upon In legislative halls-and Indeed It seem* time something should be done.

The Insanity of a young married man in Spartansburg. S. C,, is attributed by the doctors solely to his excessive use of cigarettee. Boycott the nasty thing.

Colonel Talmage, the late manager of the Wabash system, well known here in Terre Haute aa a just and fair minded man, left a will cutting off the children of bis first wife with a pittance and leaving his living wife and her ehildren the bulk of his fortune, as did DePauw, all of which suggests that men may be considered staunch in their adherence to right principles and yet be guilty of the most atrocious fault of forgetting the dead. A man who will ill-treat the children of a first wife to enhanoe the benefits conferred on the children of a later marriage, maat have had a weak spot in his character.

An Anna Katharine Green or a Wiltiie Collins would find in the mysterious murder near Chicago an outline for a story of mystery, and the Chicago dailies without any particular effort at romanoe, are making very interesting reading of it. Giving a fairly good looking woman of wealth, an old but persistent lover, mysterious meetings in an out of tho way place, a murder, and a refusal of the dying man to name bis assailant—these are enough to prove the correctness of the old saying that that 4tnJA itestranger than fiction."

Joe Howard writes from Long Branch that Lily Langtry has ceased to be at tractive as aside show. She rides, drives and promenades the hotel corridors without being stared at. People have got enough of her off the stage, though she will no doubt continue to draw crowded houses for another season or season or two as a stage show. Then she will drop out of sight but she will be a rich woman—made so by the gullible Amer'oan public.

In a few more days the toothsome oyster will emergo from his temporary obscurity and take first place among the restaurant products of the country. For nearly 300 years oysters have been con sidered unseasonable during the season between April and September and for the most part tho dainty bivalvo is not chewed but eschewed during May, Jane, July aud August. It is pleasant to bear that tho coming crop promises to be a large one. ______ I

It seems to be a popular thing for persons to date their farewell messages from St. Louis hotels. Within a week two Indlanans have done so, ono of them from Terre Haute. Beginning with the Maxwell-Preller tragedy Louis, hotels have along fiat of deadlw swouui for. If this wero a Chicago newspaper it would bo pertinent to remark that nowhere is one so near death as in St Louis. ______ -*1i

Boston, so fertile in wise suggestions, has made a good one in advising that banana peels, instead of being thrown on the sidewalks to entrap unwary passersby,should be given to the horses who will eat them yith avidity. Like Portia's mercy, such an act would be twice blessed first in saving the pedestrian's legs and second in giving the poor horse a pleasant bite. Try it, banana fiends!

It is said that tho number of saloons in Burlington, Iowa, has nearly doubled since the prohibitory law went into force. That sounds rather strange but the people arc getting used to strange stories from prohibition centers. There seems to be more downright lying to the square inch where prohibition is alleged to prevail than in all other portions of the world put together.

Civil service reform(f) Hlgglns has driven some prominent Democrats of his State, Maryland, into open rebellion and they openly announce their intention of supporting the Republican candidates in the coining election. The President before he gets through with Higgins will wish ho had dropped him like a hot potato—or else given up his nonsensical drivel about civil service reform. ______

If the author of "Robinson Crusoe were living nowadays and owned the the copyright of his book, he would have as good a thing as anyone need want. Whenever a story of adventure, like those of Haggard and Stevenson becomes popular, it has the effect of stimulating the demand for the most famous of all books of that kind, and "Robinson Crusoe" at once take# on a new lease of life.

Of course it was bound to come. A man who, for season after season, insisted upon inflicting the public with the same old chestnuts about the ancient negro as did Milt Barlow, was sure to get in jail. That distinguished individual has been in Ludlow street jail, New York, since February last, on proceedings by his wife for divorce and alimony.

The lords of creation can retire to the roar. A recent Investigation has discovered the fact that women are the "brainy" half of the sex. Thus In the weight of man's brain as to the body the average Is aa Id&SO, wbile In woman it to as 1:98.46, a difference of .04 in her favor. No wonder womankind are making their way. ___»

Mrs. 0*Xs»l, oi Bar Harbor, Maine, to reported to have made 9^000 In the last four years. A boom la the soapsuds business may be expected.

While the Washington departments were trying to learn if there really was any trouble with Colorow'a Indiana, and the red-tape correspondence was gotag on, several fights have taken place and It begins to look as if all the prelimiftariee necessary to prolonged Indian had been gone through with. It la old story. The ounce of prevention lost in the use of red tape.

It la curious how money to sometimes made. There to Rev. Dobbins, of Camden, N. J., for instance. He has made a fortune by marrying young couples who ran away from Pennsylvania* Hie fees have amounted to 9600 in a week and It to aaid he has made |2S,000 in the last two yean. Funny, isn't it, that a man ehould get rich by marrying people?

Another technicality has crept Into iltfe way of jastiee, and the boodler Sharp baa been granted a stay, and will probably get anew trial instead of spending that time in jail. What with "technleallity" and "jeopardy" and the 11 ko, the law we get now days is .rather of an inferior article. Or rather, it is poor justice while it may be good law.

Mrs. Cordelia Busteed, of New York* has applied for divorce from her husband ex-Judge Busteed, and the fact has been disclosed that for more than twenty years the two have lived as strangers In the same bouse, their conjugal life appearing perfectly happy to those who knew them. They must be a remarkable pair of people. s-

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A missing boat from the steamer City of Montreal had thirteen survivors in it, and of course with that unlucky number attached to it, it was given up for lost. But the boat and the thirteeu passengers have turned up all right and perhaps some persons may be cured of the foolish superstition about thirteen.

Terre Haute people who are interested in South Hutchinson, will be glad to learn of tho importance the place is attaining in the outside world. A Chicago couple whose mysterious disappearance was a nine days' wonder, have turned up in South Hutchinson to which plaee they eloped, were married and settled.

A pretty story comes from Russia of Prince Wittgenstein dying for grief at the loss of his wife, who was a fisherman's daughter that he had educated. Although enormously rich, the pjinoe oould not live without the wife of whoj he Wfcthio foritf. %ie Russlaus live in cold country, but they appear to have very strong sflfections.

A Chicago preacher has felt it necessity to resign because his expressions of warm sympathy for working won did not please his purse-proud congregation. Ho is very fortunate in getting out of that kiAd of church, even if he should have to stay out of a church altogether. _____

If young Mr. Ives should get to be a companion of young Mr. Ward at Sing Sing, what a good time they cotild have in comparing notes! From present indications Mr. Iven will have to do some pretty tall work to keep out of the company of tho brilliant "young Napoleon" No. 1.

Tho stories in tho Arabian Nightedo not seem to be so far out of the way after all. The Ameer of Afghanistan was recently afflicted with a boil and when his court physician failed to relieve the pain off went the doctor's head. That Is the way they used to do it in Alladin's time.

W. H. Flugerald, a young printer working on the case at Little Rock, Ark., has been left $500,000 by the death of an uncle at Lansing, Mich. What a prospect for starting new papers printer Flugerald now has! sp

Sam Jones to going to

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brother John, who, he says, is a better preacher than himself. Sam has found evangelism so good a bnsinesss that he is willing bis brother John should have whirl at it.

An article in* the August Atlantic to entitled "The Spell of the Russian Novelists." It does not deal, aa might be supposed, with the peculiar manner in which the Russian novelists spell their names.

In Chicago recently Mr. Halter married Miss Rope, the officiating clergyman being Rev. Mr. Knott. That couple is not likely to get untied very soon.

The latest fad in *ocial entertainments in New York to progressive dinners. Small tables to the number of ten accommodating four each, are used, and so mqch time to consumed that the dinner serves for a whole evening, and the guests depart immediately after. Pivors are sometimes served with the last coarse.

An eastern railroad advertises "Positively the Last Excursion." Most People in these parts have taken their last excuralon for some time to oome.

A hotel clerk says the hardest thing he has to do is to look pleasant every time he is spoken to. The proprietor expects it and the public expects It.

The use of the corset to traced back six centuries, and it was then, as now, an object of satire.

The Rambler.

ASS OBSERVATIONS ON MATTERS AROUND TOWN,

If a variety of new attraetione added to the customary ran of sush displays, ingenious advertising and plenty of it will make the Yigoeoanty fair a success then that of next week will certainly be 411 overwhelming success. With a baby •pmWj bicycle races, horse racee, balloon races, and the Visual fine show of stock and miscellaneous articles, certainly |wrr person can find something interring on the grounds. If good weather «dded to the attractions the attendance 1 doubtleea be larger than ever before the society will make some money, directors have certainly labored to os a good fair, and-such efforts be rewarded In the proper man

The fair has been Improving every and this year will be an extra ef #rti: movement is on foot to have the res and business honaes close on Friafternoon in order to give employes ance to attend the fair, and it ought be successful. There was but little position to closing on Friday afterttjron of race week, and it will probably he observed again if the proper efforts are used. By all means close on Friday afternoon. _____ •When we had about given up the idea of ever obtaining natural gas here, the news comes that the greatly sought for article is coming to the surface in the the river well, but through so much water as to render it impossible to ifcy to What extent it has been reached. The hole is over eighteen hundred feet deep, and is cased with a four and a half inch pipe. The volume of gas la not very strong, else it would force the water from the hole, but it burns readily and there are faint hopes that, now that gas has been discovered even in such small quantity, we are not entirely out of the naturnl gas belt. The work at the Macksville well is progressing slowly owing to amount of water that is being forced up, filling the hole. The well is over eight hundred feet deep.

George W. Davis the present city clerk, will close his second term next week, and goes oat of office with the proud dls-. tinction of having been one of the most j-jflmpetent and obliging officials the city .^is ever had. His popularity la *ot branded by party lines, and the illll&f

who* can go out«of office, as he can, with the respect of the people and tho esteem 'of those who have been associated with him, is indeed very fortunate. Mr.

Davis has not yet decided what he will do, but a man as capable ae he, is not likely to be long in finding something good. His efficient and clever deputy, John L. Seeman, who has not been In very good health, will rest this winter, to get in good shape for a visit to Europe next spring, when he will spend several months upon the continent.

California is nothing if not original, says a gossiper in the San Francisco Chronicle. The latest idea in mementoes to be given by a lot o* men to one of their number who Is leaving them is quite unique and quite Californinn. Of course he gets a dinner, and after dinner every everyone of the guests writes his name and an appropriate legend in lead pencil on the front of his dress shirt, and the guest has it framed in plush and hung up in his room after he gets sober.

An authority on canned goods reveals the interesting fact that most of the jellies in the market are made of appleparings and cores. Sometimes the stock is kept so long that it will not make jelly then they make strained honey out of it. This is called enterprise in America. In France they call it criminal, and send the men who practice it to

There to a law in Washington Territory compelling the teachers oi public schools to teach physiology and hygiene, and if they do not teach the same they can not draw school money also, if the pupils will not study those studies they can be expelled from school.

A pony owned by W. H. Ellis, of Bloomingburg, N. Y., carries the children to school in the (horning, trots home alone, is hitched up in the afterboon and started off to school, where it waits until school to dismissed, when it takes the children home.

We learn of a novel arrangement in bridal tours, which to said to hare originated in Chicago. After the wedding ceremony,the parents of bride and groom start on along tour, leaving the family mansion for the enjoyment of the young couple. _______________

A Philadelphia publisher says the revised Bible has Mien flat. "Hundreds of thousands of copies remain on the shelves, and the people will not hare them at any price. They stick to the Bible of their fathers and mothers."

A Philadelphia paper rises to remark that "whatever the newspaper of the future may be, it will never be what woman wants It to be until it to wholly made upof krre versea, deaths and marriagea, and dry goods advertisementa."

THJS MOON WAS f,OW.

The moon was low and the night was late As he said good-bye at the garaen gate. Across the fields to the silver gloom The camp gleamed white like a marble tomb. He whispered softly :uAt break of day I march with the soldiers far away. **W1U you give me a kiss before I got Just one kiss, Mamie, you eantaay »o.M He looked so brave In his sheulder straps Perhaps It was wrong, and yet perhaps— When he asked tor1 a kiss what oould I say would be heartless to tell him to ride away. Not a word of love had he said till then My mother had taught me to shun the men:— A boy like this did ihy mother mean? He was only twenty and I sixteen, I lifted my lips, and he bent his own A kiss—and I stood at the gate alone. He leaped to the saddle, he touched the rein. "Oh! keep my kiss till I oome again." He rode away In the silver gloom To the camp as white as a marble tomb. The news eame home from the cruel South— And theklss Is like death upon my mouth —[Home Journal

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Roger Laroque.

Adapted and Translated fro frl the French of Jnles Mary.,

BY OLIVE HARPER.

*:jRogtr! Rogtrf Great God/" At me corner of the alley of Montalals, which descends to tho lake, and at two steps from the woods of the Villed'Avray, some fifteen years ago, behind its climbing plants, stood the prettiest and most coquettish little country house possible to imagine. The Villa Montalais, as it was called, had been bought a few years previous by M. Roger Laroque, a well known mechanical engineer, whose workshops were situated in St. Maur street, and who had, besides, an appartment on the Boulevard Malesherbes, at No. 117.

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In the winter he inhabited his apartments, and in summer he took refuge, with his wife and daughter, at Villa d' Avray, but every morning his business called him to Paris, to his shops in St. Maur street, and there ho breakfasted, but returned in the evening at about 7 o'clock to dinner, a habit of life quite ordinary with Parisians who, during the summer, divine their existence in two parts, the day for Paris, the night for the country,

On the evening which affords the commencement of our story, in July, 1872, at 8 o'clock, quite at variance with his usual habit, Roger Laroque bad not yet return ed. The dinner was waiting. In the parlor, where two windows opened out upon the terrance, and in the dining room there was no one to be seen, and one would have declared the house uninhabited, so calm aud quiet it seemed in the midst of the silence of the fading light.

Still, at the left of tbe parlor, two voices whispered. On that side was Mme. Laroque's sleeping apartment, even still deeper plunged in tbe fast coming darkness. No light burned, neltber lamp nor candle. Two voices, one superb, grave and sweet, of such timbre as would cause you to love the speaker without even seeing her, and tbe other, infantine and crystal in its childish music. They were the voices of Mme. Henriette Laroque and ber little daughter, Suzanne. Mme. Laroque drew an easy chair near the window, which was partly open, and seated herself there, drawing Suzanne close to her.

This evening thev awaited tbe coming of Laroque with impatience, and the very cottage, with its profusion of flowers and festal appearance, seemed to be surprised at this silence and solitude. It was Suzanne's seventh birthday, and she was tbe only child, a little spoiled bv tbe adoration of her father, ana now, since the day before, the mother was trying to teach her a pretty little speech which she waa to make to her father upon his return. They were pretty little words of welcome Mid so they sat here In tbe "sera over and ov not be forgotten.

oook, and a maid whose name was Viotoria and who had been but two days inher service. The dinner was a silent one for In spite of herself a vaguo sentiment' of fear oppressed the heart of the young, wife. Two or three times before R»ger* had been retarded, but be had .ilways telegraphed.

Tnia evening, no news. WhyT They returned to the bedroom. Another hour dragged by. Roger did not come. Hen- I, riette sat dlatraoted by the window, crouching in tbe deep recesses of the easy ohair. Victoria wanted to bring lights, but she opposed. Ten o'clock! "Are you asleep, darling?" a»k» Henriette. "$To, mamma," answered tbe child, whose eyes were wide open. "Don't you want to go to bed?" "Oh. no I want to wait and kiss papa

when he oomes." Henriette, a prej* of anxiety, stepped it on the baloony and leaned upon the rail, looking downward towards the road

whloh Roger, coming from the cars, habitually took. Suzanne, standing beside her, looked also. The night was: very warm, without a cloud. The Villa Montalals was separated from tbe Villa d'Avray by gardens snd trees. Opposite it, in the chestnut grove, a little to the left, was a neat little house, with green blinds, which stood directly on the street while the villa, on the contrary, wasseparated from tbe street by a lawn, oonstantly refreshed by a little fountain. This cottage was lighted, and the open windows sliowed a room furnished with!: mahogany, having a table in the middle and at tho baok a rtbrt ef a secretary desk pushed up against the wall. At this instant 11 clock sounded, and Honriette felt a cold shiver of apprehension run over her, and she interlaced her hands with fear.

At this instant a man of medium height passed through the lighted room and seated himself at the secretary, which he opened. They oould see him distinctly, and Henriette and Susanne looked at him. It waa the occupant of that cottage, and his uarne

Henriette bent over her child aud kissed her forehead. "I will call Victoria to undress you and put you iu bed," said she. "On, mamma, ono minute more. Papa cannot bo much longer." "No, dear, it Is very late. You will bo tired."

And the young mother stoppod aside and touched tho boll. Victoria not answering at once, she rang aguiu and returned to tbe balcony. The moon shone pure in a serene sky. Opposito the! neighbor with slow and circumspect movement and avaricious eujoyment, counted his gold and notes. Victoria came in. "Light a lamp and tbe night light," said Henriette, "and then cotuo aou take

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ing thorn over and over again, that they mill' riette made a gesture of surprise.

light not be forgottei The half hour past 8 struck, and Hen

Your father will not dine at home this evening. Come," said she "I do not wish you to wait any longer."

They went Into the dining room. Mme. Laroque rang and ordered that dinner be served. There were at tbe villa bat three servant*—« coachman, a

Suzanne." At the same instant the little girl leaned over tho balcony clapping her hands, laughing and calling: "Papa, papa! We have been walling for you. I aid not go to sleep."

And a man came up the stroot, a few paces from there. He was tall, and wore alight gray hat, and was dressed in a light gray redingote, with cape ovor the shoulders. At Suzanne's cry he slipped under tbe shadow of the chestnut trees before the house, and Henriette by stooping, had seen him also. "Rogor, Roger!" called sho, "why are you so late? If you knew how uneasy wo have been.'*

But the man. whether he heard or notf answered nothing. He crept along now, stopping under tho trees from trunk to trunk, getting always nearer Laronette'a cottage. All at once ho had to pass a clear space, and the moon shone full upon him again. "It is Roger. What is he doing? Where is he going? murmured Henriette.

Suzanne, astonished, kept silent, but her eyea followed her father with an uneasy curiosity. And the mother, she scarcely breathed, her heart wrung by an agony of fear. Her hands clenched fiercely on the iron of the balcony. Her face was pale, her teeth set, and the man passed the trees and peeped furtively into the neighbor's cottage. "Why," said Suzanne, "papa is going to see the neighbor."

A few seconds passed. Lnrnnette aroso and, standing near his secretary, closed the drawers and locked them with slow, methodical movements. Suddenly something passed behind him which He did not perceive, but which from their balcony Henriette and Suzanne saw. Tbe door at the I

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nette. I "Our new neighbor has returned,"I said tho littlo girl.

The man had taken from his coat apocketbook and had ompt led and xpread out before him an imtuetiHO sum of money in bank notes and rollp of gold pieces, apparently a fortune, which he began to arrange methodically, counting^ ana recounting with visible pleasure. Henriette and Suzanne saw his profile only, his back boing turned towards tho entranco to his room. Thoy heard tho first quarter ring on tbe church clock.

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ly, without noise evidently, as Laronotte beard nothing, and a man, who looked tall and robust, suddenly appeared behind him, with his back turned to tbe window. Almost falling forward from tbe balcony, Henriette watched him with dilated eyes. What was about to happen there? Was that really Roger? The man lifted bis two arms above tbe bare bead of tbe miser Laronette. Henriette tried to cry out, to warn him, but tbe cry stifled in her throat and she gave but a hoarse cry of fright: "Roger! Roger! Great God!"

Tbe scene lasted but a second. The two lifted fists fell, but Lar"M?tte turned at tbe same instant, escaping the blow. He gave but one cry of "Murder!" and then there was a short but deadly struggle. Tbe murderer's hat fell, a summer bat, bigb. gray, and bearing a black ribbon band. The candle tolled on tho table, but before it went out a dark face, covered by a thick, black beard appeared like a flash. There was no noise. Darkness reigned in the room. Iaronette, weak aa he waa, tried to defend himself. The murderer was a colossus. Still tbe fear of death lent him force. Laronette tried to cry for h«Jp. Then there was a flash and a beavy detonation, and that was all.

Henriette drew back, with chattering teeth. Great drops of sweat stood on her brow. She looMed like one suddenly gone mad. She repeated, breathless, in aa agony of torture at this sudden rending of all her happines: "Roger! Can Itoe? He? Ob, horrible!"

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