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TI B WEEKLY SjL A JEi. Vol. VII.-NO. 9. C, D. CAMP, i Civil Engineer & DOUGLASVILLE Ga B. G. GRfCGS, ATTORNEY AT LAW Douglasville, Georgia. W" ILL practice In a.ll the cqnitib State and Federal.; Jau*Bly. John. M. Edge, ’ *->**’. X»r»iuigl Miwvllle* *" O W* I I, L practice In all the court?, and promptly attend to all business en rtfatfaM«M*i® care. SFS; s; JAMES, / attorney «.t Tunw, DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA. Will practice in the Courts of Doug* laß,Campbell, Carroll,Paulding,Cobb JKultfOq. and adjoining counties. Prompt fttention given to all bus- 1 nCss, bMMw' ***rr — * ■ ' 1 ’ “ THOMAS W. 1 ATHAM, Attorney at law FiKBCHX, GSOI <H t. Will practice in all the Courts both State anl Federal. Special attention given to suits s against Railroads and other Corpo rations, Will attend regularly the SttpeHw and other courts of Douglas county. T. S. BTJTLfIR House T»m,l iitoi*. ’ DUJGLA VILLE, - GA L L make old.far»UnreJLook as will a W new. Give him » irKUThtbls Hue. 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S,ad so f 1 alar. ffO s BI T ’ ~ The burst l«Msie » f tie u« rtuus people ia * Snnnaeh Itttter*. wJweh m •unra perfect digrstton Mui assmulattcn. *»td th# aotira perftwwuMMof their Pmm> « <«»*» Wy l** U»er *»d bowel*. A» the kvstvm aeqairw* tone throwph lb* tntnenee » .«f «M* bt-«l«w we-dusuie. l« anr, grow ' atraaavr awl more tmcKpot. b,-«d»riwa «mmw 4 tpM that natnehsu. anxiety which >» • peetthan’v <T the dysoeplte, gitva Why “'J to chrerftda «• To establish health tw* a*wv b-swulatma. »*<• the peerless lavtenr yA, F*r <Mde by all Lhacgiete and Deakm * A |f PARIS mystery' By the Author of tl My Ducats and Mij Daughter.” CHAPTER X. Before ten o’clock noxt morning M. Blery had appeared. He was a little man, very shabbily dressed, with a napless felt hat and a gray overcoat, the sleeves of w hich were made too short, yet revealed no linen. His features were thin and sharp; his eyes were keen and restless; his mouth was habitually pursed as though secrets must ooze out if he opened it. He came up to me quickly, bowed, and cast a glance around him which seemed to take in myself, the room nnd all its contents in a sec ond of time. ; “WMarsal?—-Ah! Then I have the honor to salute the gentlenaan who assaulted my friend Pj’, is it not so?” I confessed to this wit h a smile, but pleaded that tha assault had tx»n involuntary—that I aad not known it was the friend of Monsieur. “No matter,” eaid M. Blery; “and what, then, does Monsieur think of the exploit of tny friend Pyf—the achievement that has covered him with gl >Ty ?” “You mean the arrest of M. Girard?” “Certainly I that is Wlwt 1 mean.” “Since Monsieur asks me, I think that his friend Py made a serious mistake on that oc casion. I have some hope that Monsieur may be of the same cpink n?” M. Blery gave me a crafty look out of his little sharp eyes, then ho said, slowly: “My frien 1 Py is a very clever man; he has great sagacity, and a brain—ah, admirable! But he believes tod much in his good fortune. Ah, Monsieur, one should never believe in that! My friend Py goes to tbo native town of the murdered man; he finds out the nephew’s name—comes back to Paris; finds out his domicile—comes hare; finds the nephew himself, asleep, no wrist-button in one of his sleeves—arrests him. Ah, it is all so simple, so easyl No, things should not happen so in our line: when they do, one should say to himself, halt!—this goes on too smoothly—the second step ia seen almost be fore the first Is taken—it is one piece <rf luck after another—beware of a trick 1 Py did not do this; he trusted his good fortune, and —you see 1 Yes, it is as Monsieur says, he has made a mistake.” “You have, then, been following the case, M. Blery f “I have made inquiries,” said th© detective, •till vpry slowly, and giving me a curious, cunning look as he spoke—“yes, I have made inquiries. I' h ive even reached a certain point in the case, but I can go no further.” , “For want of evidence!” “No, Monsieur, not at aM. For want of money.” I “Ah I That is all! Well, if money is wanted It will be forthcoming. And if M. Girard’s innocence were established this would become a valuable document, is it not so?” The detective’s eyes twinkled as he read the paper signed by Raoul, offering a reword of twenty thousand francs for the detection of the criminal. He did not ask where the money was to come from. . “It is well,” he said, handing me back the paper; “I trust Monsieur and his friend as men of honor. Let us bo frank. Let us play! an open game, cants on the table!’’—M. Bic ry’s manner changed completely after he had •eon the document “That is what I desire,” I said. “Good. Now, the way is cleared, let us eomo to business. I hear of Monsieur at the prefecture of police, where he examines and takes tracings of the two daggers. Where, may I be permitted to ask, does Monsieur hear of mef’ “First from the janitor Mouton, at No. 18 Passago do Mazarin; next from M. Beauvais, of the Rue d’Anjou.” M. Blery looked at me again, and fur about a minute raid nothing. Then: “Monstonr has made certain discoverißsr -Vaalhava” _ “And has no doubt gone aver the cridcr.es 'aken befure Monsieur the judge?” “Yes.’ ■‘T B’o ’ iv-e HT®W : *7 trust Mbnjtiettr and hi» friend cu men of “And has iu».lo notes of his discoveries and his idea* in ixwdiug the evidence!" “Yes; 1 have noted whatever <v- Jurred to me-dhat fa, whatever »%rn<jd worth preserving.” “If Monsieur will read his notes, that, I think, would be the quickest way of going to work With perntisMiin of Monsieur, I will light a cigar and listen." I took out ths Betas I hs»l made ami rend thorn; at first ne* without sows trepidation In submitting my amateur work to such a But the attention with which JI lilorylfaten at! ixwmuml me. Tha ftrst-jwfai taken up in my notes wa» ex iM not be supprerd to Iteto juwmftdlfated the <news. Bad Undone •to, he WJI I>A wt t.h-' very night of the ■ttafaVtett SMdM faKh language to fcfa uwelv m b* h A o>s--. •-.« jtottld not have . «#! asd WWwfefad a wtwpoa that must ’h the trima. A l n . wt Douglasville, Georgia, Tuesday March 31 1885. .&« S.pSrtal tiim WKSvYW »‘H 1 fatal Christmas eve, had been perfectly sano; of that there was no doubt vv hatever. “Girard then,” I went on, “did not premed itate the crime. If he murdered his uncle witnout premeditation, what is tho most natural thing to suppose? Surely this—that he entered the room, asked his uncle for money, was refused with tauntsand insults that lashed him into fury, and finally, in a paroxysm of fury, slew the old man with a single blow. “But against this conjecture there is the medical and police testimony as to 1 he position in which the corpse was found. AH the wit nesses concur in stating that ho was found lying between his cha.r and the writing table, as if he bad been struck suddenly and silently from behind. Had tho blow been preceded by an altercation, that would cer tainly have been heard by tho copyizt Pernet, w'hose room is divided from Meissner’s by a thin partition. Had there ban a hot dispute, face to face, between uncle and nephew', tho blow' would almost certainly have been struck in front, and not planted under tho shoulder blade. I “There being a difficulty in the way of both of th<;so conjectures, tho judge of instruction adopted a third. He supposed that Girard had armed himself with a dagger merely to frighten tho old man, nnd that he bad bom led to murder him in a moment cf homicidal mania—changing his purpose before a w ord bad passed. This conjecture is one way out of tho difficulty ” “Ingenious, but unsatisfactory,” observed 1 M. Blery. “I am charmed to find that Monsieur agrees with me. Now, as to the question of time.” | “Ah! as to the question of times” said M. ! Blery, rekghling his cigar. “As to that, there are three witnesses of chief importance—Sophie Mouton, daughter of tho janitor; the police sergeant Gamier, and Pemet tho copyist. Nono of these wiG nesses were able to make a definite statement; ' Pemet was so positive in his uncertainty that i hisevidence may be set aside. On the night of ( ;he murder Girard parted company from me, ' as you w ill remember, at 10 o’clock precisely; j going by the Rue de I’Odeon, he can scarcely i have reached the Passage de Mazarin before I twenty minutes past ten. Sophie Mouton, ‘a i little before or a little after ten’—l quote her I words exactly—sees tho figure of a man, not ! one of tho tenants, pass her door going towards the court. If this was a little before ten, tho man cannot have been Girard; and ’a little after ten* is probably not so much as twenty minutes. The police sergeant Gamier began by stating his belief that it was half-past ten when tho man rushed past him in the Rue de Biche. Girard himself asserted in his Evidence that it was half-past ten o’clock wheu he came to the Passage; ho has siir.-e explained this to M. Supinaud, his counsel, ■by the state ment that hu did not follow tho most direct i way from the Rue de I’Od.eon to the I‘aasage. I But putting aside Girard’s statement, and : I taking simply the evidence of Sophie Mouton ' j and of Garnier, apart from the judge’s in- • spiration, I rea.-h this conclusion—that tho i I man whom tho police sergeant saw rush by him in the Rue da Biche and tho man whom tho janitor’s daughter saw hastening through the passage were not one and tho same per son. The former teas liaoul Girard; the latter was the assassin ” “Ah, another point I And now shall I toll Monsieur how’ he goes on? He has shown that Girard did not premeditate tho crime; he i goes on to show that the real assassin did— that ho had his plan of operations. Is it not •of’ I ‘ ‘That is certainly how Igo on,” I answered, admiring the readiness with which the do- , tective took up my train of reasoning. I “Yes," continued Blery, “that is the next ! step, undoubted!j’.” He was now walking up and down the room as he spoke, empha sizing his words by flourishes of his cigar which had gone out. “Girard entered Meiss net’s room by tho window; tho assassin did not. No man with a plan of operations would attempt such a thing; ho would calculate hii chances, and find them twenty to one against his doing it unobserved. Your friend is a man of unusual agility, is he not?” “Yes, he is a trained gymnast.” “Ah, but was theasrassin a trained gym nast? The balance of protabllitiesis against f it. No; he did net enter by the window. How, then, did ho enter ? You say, naturally, . by the door. I ray j us, but how? The d x»r I of Meissner’s room is found 10. ked, the key bringing within; tho janitor has de-lared in ■ evidence that there is no duplicate key to any room in the house. You tell me that thb i assassin must havo procured a second key to fit tho lock of Meissner’s door. I say, good; but again, how? Ytell mo—but no, I for get» Monsieur cannot know this; ho has not seen the key <XAleissnwr’s dwr.” “No; you were beforehand with me there.” “Well, here is tbs key.”—M. Leery L;.d it before me on the talde. —■’ ‘Gut assassin has his I plan of opera;u ns; that is agrued. What, i th. n, does ho do? His natural c< nrse is to j obtain tempo rarvpo«y«'ssi.>n at Meissner's key, in order to have a duplicate made fr iu it. Now, ohserve the key. It ia of simple con struction; an expert locksml th cmld fa-hion one like it in half an boar. lh ; s key of Meiss- tor's was always in one of two place®—either it hung on its nail it his room, when ho was • it home; or on the rack in the jnmh'r's nxen, when he wnsahroad. AA*eFUppo?JO<nir nrxvssm to Lave wa'<h d Meissner's movement s car~ billy; to l#»th’rouglJy acquainted with Ivs mbits. Il v k rows that every evening with sat fail tho old money-lender goes out at ssx i >’elock, and returns at nine. Good; ho will wt k to gam poßxsskn of tho key U'twren these bourn. N >w, Monsieur, yem have talked with Mouton tho janitor, end with his daugh er Bujdre. You have made notes cf your xxuversation with ttevo persons; I have made aoue- I never do. I carry them all here"— XL Blery tapped his brow—“but I should be glad to listen to y< urs. You found Hit? child Sophiv Mout« n intelligent, did you not!” i “Certainly. Bbe appears to have been sornc ’ what agitated during her examinaticn by tho I judge, but «he answered my qucstituis mart 1 daarly.” i “Aa she did miun. And miw, Monsieur, tor th® notes of your conversation.” t “Very good; hero they are: Wsphie Mcn ’ ton state?# that about two menths ago—th j exact date she cannot remexubor—a man aune to No. 13 Passage de Mazarin desiring to Joseph Meissner. It after rix oMock; Me issuer bad gone out aa nmai. ft> pbj® Mouton, who chancel to be ak-nn in the janitor's room, sawl *• to Meissner's vaster. “ ‘The stranger, Sophie Mouton says, was evidently as ’mgner. both from h;sappt»r --j ance ami acront He was of medsusn height sori xun ' ” ‘*Ut medium boight and dim figure—tbafc •to, 1 -*.' . s i3it? r Md<iM. : “ ‘Had a dark complexion, straight black hair, and very dark, sunken eyes. Sho could not guess to what nation be belonged; he did not look like either an Italian or a Spaniard ; seemed more foreign than that—such was the phrase. He must have come from a warm climate’ ” “A warm climate!” murmured M. Blery. “Proceed, Monsieur, proceed!” “ ‘Because he shivered constantly, and complained bitterly in his broken French of the cold. He was in evening dress, and wore a fur cloak hung loosely over Iris shoulders. “ ‘When informed that Meissner had gone out he seemed annoyed, and asked at what hour he might be expected to return. The girl told him at nine o’clock; then the stran ger, looking at the weather, which was wet, aiid dowifnt his dre?;s boots, which were thin, asked Sophie to oblige him by fetching a cab, as he had dismissed his on arriving. Leaving him alone in the room, Sophie ran to the stand at tho corner of tho Rue St. Andre and brought a cab; the stranger thanked her, gave her a five-franc piece, and then drove I off, after saying that ho would return that night, as ho wished to see Meissner par ticularly.’ ” “Left alone in the janitor’s room,” said M. Blery, “he takes down Meissner’s key from the rack. Pi-oeeed, Monsieur, proceed!” “ 'About eight o’clock he camo back ; he ex plained that he had not understood v hat the girl had said; thought she had mentioneel I eight, not nine, as the hour of Meissner’s re ' turn; ho fe>und French so difficult to under- I stand! It mattered little, however; be? would wait, if they woulel allow him. Mouton the I janitor had by this time come bock from the ; wineshop; with him the stranger gat, talk- I ing very affably in his broken French. Mouton recollects having told the stranger, in tho couree of conversation, that he re minded him in speech and appears neo of an other foreigner, a client of Meissner s. who ' had been accustomed to visit the usurer fro ! quently, up to alxmt a year before. The ■ stranger remarked that that might possibly I bo one of his conqiatriots, but did not men tion to what country ho belonged. i “ ‘After talking for about half an hour, tha ! stranger suggested that the girl should be sent i I for a bottle of wine. Mouton agreed with i alacrity; the stranger gave Bophio money to ; pay for it. During her absence it seems that he asked Mouton to look out and tell him whether it still rained; the janitor complied, going to the outer door, and so leaving the stranger alone in tho room for, perhaps, a minute.’” “During which minute,” obiorved M. Blery, “our man replaces Meissner’s key on the rack.” “No doubt, i Wdl: Sophie Mouton returns with the wine; tho stranger sits down, fills glasses for Mouton ard hini ; self, and ehats with the janitor for a few j minutes longer. Suddenly ho rises, saying that he wishes to so© whethe r th® rain bar stopped. Ho goes to the outer door—and ! never returns. ’ ” i “Preci-ely,” said M. Blery; “never re turns. No; ho has got what he came for. And now, Monsieur, let me ask you if you put any question to the janitor Mouton re garding th st other foreigner of whom he was reminded by his complaisant visitorF “Yes; it occurred to me that this was sig nificant.” “Admirable!” murmured M. Blery; “admir able i lie neglects nothing not a single point! A bom detective!—Well, Mon sieur?” “This other foreigner, Mouton informed me, had been for a long time, more than • year, most assiduous in liis visit® to the old I usurer. Ho was one of those unfortunates, the janitor said, whom Meissner had ‘flayed. At first he used to drive up to their door in ■ cabriolet, or rido with a grown following him but toward tha end of his acquaintance‘witt the old Jew his clothes had bocome shabby, and finally Meissner had given the order that he was to be admitted no more. It wa« mon than a year, Mouton told me, since he had last seen this man.” “Monsieur attaches an evident importance to this other foreigner. H i thinks that then may be some connection between him anc Mouton’s mysterious visiter of two month; backf’ > “T'cr. They were very like each other, tin janitor says—tho same build, the same cast . of features, the same accent in their sj>eech > I connect them with eo- h other; I connect ] them also v. ith tho weapon usod in the coni / mission of the crime. The dagger is o| Japanese workmanship; the two foreigner! i may be—it is a mere surmise, but there is a; least Kmcthing in its favor—the two for signers may Le Japanese.” “That is more than a surmise, Monsieur— ii is an idea; an idea which ium ai<o occurred tx myself. And now as to the daggers—l tain it we gained precisely the saute informatioi from M. B.xxuvaui?'’ “No doubt, but I shall ask your attentiox to one point regarding tho d tgg' .re, which 1 think of con <quen<e. 1 take no cre-lit t< myself for this discovery; it was made bj the liap;;.e.;t of chances.” M. Blery yausod in his walk through tlu room fcnd ksfcued very attentively. “A JapauosA dagger is found behde tin corpse of Meissner; ono exactly like it it found ia tho culltH-tion of M. <L» St. Iloront. The chief characteristic of these daggers ii their rarity; that of the Passage de Mazarin, before the discovery of tius other, was pro nounced by exmotaseura to be unique. Tin De St. Fio’.viit dagger has a sh.xith shaped like a clase.l fan; presumably, that found in Mejtm-■r’s room vould ha% ea similar sh'-ath. “Mei -sner t-b'ained this dagger, which h< suheequcutly gav a to Ids neplasw, from & rich fureiguer wb■> '.as ono of his clients. Ttw questam wo hare to deal wth is this—can w« prove that Glror-l s story is true? Can w» prove that bo i silly sxfld t'oo weapon gives hinxby Lis uncle? In a word, can we she * that tl.oro i® a third dagger cf this kind in s exv-ten'.eJ It so,can vo Cad it? “On each of the daggers no w at the pre ectirre there h graves the Image of a flower. 3n each, beside that flower, there fa inscribed i sing’e word. The word cat the De St. Florent logger meems Ev.in,-sc*mce; that, on the other Huston. “Here is wfaat I find written in this book, rhe hook, I may tell you, belongs to M. leauvais. It js In English, and is called The Buddhist Belief'—Biridh’sm, I need not tsmind M. Rh-ry, is tho religion of the Iwpanese. Tha book wax given to my Fiend Girard, by IL l>aavais, oa the very light of the munler. tol'otransinted. Ever ;tnre it ha« hun ia a corner of this r<xw; art night I pic koi it up, to rr: urn it to its ywnro. I wa< Miv rugering the pnges, Jxinkmg of the viait I had juA jaud to M. ' KA-'..- Subscription: 61;M Cash Per Annum. BeOuvafa, and of the friforfoatCoi he had ’ riven me regarding the words graven oa the laggont and thair meaning. All at onco it lashed through my mind that hero, in this ’ rery book, I had seen something—l could lot recall distinctly what, but still I was sure, lomething —which connected itself in iriy mind with tho words Evanescence and Il lusion. I searched through the book; at last I found this paragraph, which I translate: Tilakuna, the Three Signs: There are three Things on which the mind of the Ascetic ought to dwell forever; Anitya, Evanescence; Anatma, Illusion; Dukha, Sorrow. These three Signs belong to every existing thing.' “Hero, you will observe, are three words taken from the sax red writings of the Bud ihists —the mystic number Three. We find the word for Evanescence inscribed on one 1 agger-blade; the word for Illusion on an other. What is the natural assumption? Is it not that the smith Tokotaru in Yeddo forged three, daggers, on each of which he chased one of these mystic words? If Mon iieur succeeds, as I do not doubt ho will, in finding the dealer in curiosities to whom Girard sold his weapon, I venture to predict that he will find graven besido the flower on its blade the remaining sign of the three —the word for Sorrow.” “ Admirable!” said M. Blery again; “Mon sieur, this is more than ingenious; it is sub tile. You call your discovery a happy chance; doubtless, to a certain extent, it was so. But the inference you draw from it—ah, that fa quite another thing! It is, I repeat, admira ble; Monsieur should certainly have been a detective!” I disclaimed the compliment; but M. Blery politely insisted that it was deserved, and as sured me that, had I only had t he proper train ing, I might have reached a grade in the pro fession scarcely second to his own. “Your discovery,” ho. said, “supplies an important link in the chain of evidence. The theory of the crime which wo have both of us formed, each independently of tho other, determines tho line of action to be followed. I shall begin to-day; before a week fa over, if our theory proves correct, I shall have laid my hand on the assassin.” I gave M. Blery a little roll of notes; I had contrived to borrow some money for this special purpose. When I apologized for the smallness of the amount “Do not speak of it,” said M. Blery; “thia fa ample. If I succeed in finding the real criminal, as I hope to do, I receive five thou sand francs from the authorities, twenty thousand francs from your friend—a suffi cient reward. Besides, I take an interest in the case, in M. Girard, and in the charming young lady, his betrothed. And I shall havt a satisfaction, I confess it, in overthrowing the theory of my friend Py. Ah, it win be beautiful!—beautiful I A child might see the difference between our methods. Is it not so, Monsieur F’ “Certainly. The judge and your friend Py start from tho assumption of Girard’i guilt; we start from the assumption of his innocence.” “Oh, no, MonsieurP’ exclaimed M. Blery, whom this answer seemed to disappoint greviously- “no! We start from no assump tion; wo assume nothing. It fa this; let me explain: Py and the judge look out for facti to support their theory; wo discover fact* and construct our theory from thorn. Py says it is all easy, simple, straightforward, the evidence lies nt your hand; wo say, no, it is complex, difficult, obscure; you have to go in search of the evidence, jxissibly far.” Bo saying, M. Blery bowed himself out, taking with Mm the key of Meissner’s door and tho tracings of tho daggers, and promis ing to communicate with mo at the end of 10 days, if not sooner. I did not Inquire what hfa plan was; I could see that he would havw disliked such a question. And X had Dow great confidence in M. Blery. CHAITER XL After M. Blery’s departure, I naturally suf fered a reaction from tho excitement of th< last few days, and tho hopefulness of my in terview with tho detectiv’). It was difficult to remain inactive and not to despond. But, for the sake of Mlle. Dumaino, whom I saw every day, I strove to be cheerful. I also wrote to Raoul, ami, without raising hii hopes unduly, hinted that things were begin- I ning to wear a more favorable aspect. , i The days I'assed without any word from j M. Blery, and each day deepened my anxiety ; At last tho fourteenth day came, and every i eno of its hours seemed to me as long as ■ ! month. I dared not go to Gabrielle; I could not haro concealed my disquietude. But in tho evening there came a telegram i from Blery, tho most joyful message I have ever received in my lite, Ixxause it nssuxed mo that my friend wai safe. M. Blery tele graphed fro. i Rome: “I Laroeuecoeded; the dagger is found. I return to Paris direct.” I ran at once with the telegram to the Rue de I’Odcon, and spent the rest of the evening with Mm*. Dumaine and Gabriella, explain ing tho discoveries wo had made, and listen ing to tho outpourings of their joy. I u-w iD~y f d ; '■ J I ‘aK-A v? z ITt/h Jfme. Dnnmfne and CkibrMle, e» ? plaining (hr discorerics fee had made. Next tno-ning I sawthoadvocatoßaptnoud, a-.d told bi ncf too now evidence fa Raoul’s favor. He rdvLsol ino to ray nothing, fa the meantime, to Itooul. “H'S ci v.oit,■* !’. >m’ 1, “until Dlcry returns and tei!, ur the whalestory. Then, ft tl eevi denoe he hns found prov*w v hat jm sry it prove*. I w.ll fruno a statement and lay it ! txforotho Imp-rial p-orurator. After that Girard win r,o doubt 1» released from deten- / . torn, eluv r with or without UmL’* Nc-xtn. .i~«sarr ived in T'nrfa, | and erst i»« a astefcg mo to come to Ufa* the pi~*fe» .u;e of poaca, and to bring Sawfaaud alto. I wus fortunate encrigh to • OspSOAod tr> Ute fcalle des Pha-PiTthfa’ tie «*MCe unrobed, and #e hastened to the There we found M. Blery, In his napless hat? tad shabby gray overcoat, just as he had ap peai'ed in Rome, and whocotild tell how many Other European capitals? The room in which he received us was small, but well lighted; itu furniture consisted of two chairs and a bureau in common pine wood; Gfi the bureau lay an almanac, a Faris Directory and a Universal Guide to all the railways bf tho world. M. Blery gave each of us a chair, and himself re mained standing with hfa back to tho light. “Messieurs/’ he? sfiid, “I am charmed tor have the honor of this visit. I rush at oncer into the middle of things. In the conversa tion which I had with M. Marsal 15 days ago, there was one point we did not discuss— namely, the apparent want of motive for the crime. I presume, however, that Monsieur, in his very intelligent examination of the case, did not fail to give this point his atten tion?” “No,” I said; “I considered the point, and came to a certain conclusion.” “We may suppose,” said M. Blery, “that the assassin of Meissner had one of two ob jects in view—either revenge or plunder. If it was simply revenge, why did he ransack the strong boxes and cabinets? If it was' plunder, why did he leave so much portable booty behind? The Judge—again fitting tho facts into the theory—accounted for this by the eccentricity, amounting to insanity, of the criminal, terror-stricken by hfa crime. How, Monsieur, do you account for it?’ “I account for it,” I said, “in quite anotheri way. I account for it by the conjecture of a search on the part of the assassin; and, since all the lock-fast places were not opened, by a sedreh for a special object." “Exactly, said M. Blery; “the conclusion to which any unbiased mind, possessing suffi cient acuteness, would naturally come. What were the judge’s words? ‘This/ he said, ‘fa the obscure point of the case; but the difficulty here tells as forcibly against any other theory of the crime as against the theory that Girard is the guilty ;>efsein.’ A somewhat rash assertion, Monsieur the Judge! The cir cumstances certainly’make against hfa theory, but they confirm ourS. Yes, search tor • special object, that fa it I And the special object?’ “A compromising paper,” suggested Rapfa naud, “left in Meissner’s hands by one of hfa clients.” “An excellent hypothesis,” said Blery; “bnfa here, fortunately, we can dispense with hy* - potheses; we have facts, as I shall show you.- Since leaving M. Marsal, a fortnight ago, t have been in London, Brussels tad Home. X have been in search of the missing dflggen I started here in Paris, at the Palais Royal, X found it correct, as did my friefid Py, that there was now no dealer in curiosities there to whom Girard had told hfa Weapon. But I found that two years flgb there was a dealer' in curiosities th®;-®; ft man who had fled by night, carrying the valuable part of his stock in trade with him, and leaving his rent un paid. I traced this man to London; with the help of my friend Briggs* of Scotland Yard, I find him. He has by this time sold the dag ger, but he names the purchaser, Igo to the purchaser, but he also has parted with it*-in brief, I followed this dagger to Hrtfafefa, I followed it to Rctae.- It) that city it-Mui come into tho possession of a French artfat, who fa by no means well off. I tell him for what purpose I require the dagger; he agrees to sell it. It fa theii in pledge; we go to the pawnshop, we redeem it—and I leave Rome with it in my keeping. Here, Messieurs, fa the dagger.” M. Blery laid it on the bureau before u& “Observe the one word written beside the flower: compare it with these characters, traced by M. Beauvais, and which stand for the word ‘sorrow’—you see they' are the same. Thus th® conjecture of M- Marsal fa proved to be perfectly correct; thi fa the missing dagger of the three—th® one given by Meissner to hfa nephew two years ago.” ' I could not look without emotion on thfa weapon, which had so nearly proved fatal to my friend, and which now had been found just in time to save him. “So much for the dagger,” continued M. Blery, "now for the key.” He touched a hand-bell on the mantelpiece; the door opened and a little man, red-haired, pock-marked, and with furtive eyes, appeared. “This, Messieurs, fa Pilotin,” observed M. Blery, with the air of one exhibiting an in-' ferior animal, “Pilotin, one of my aides. You will tell these gentlemen, Pilotin, what , were the instructions I gave you before I left for London.” “Monsieur gave me this key,” said Pilotoil, laying it beside the dagger on the bureau. “Monsieur told me he hod reason to believe' that a key bad been fabricated from thfa as a model, about two months ago, by a locksmith living within a certain radius of the Passage da Mazarin. Monsieur also gave me a descrip tion of the person who had ordered the key to be fabricated, and directed me to discover the locksmith.” “And jou made inquiries I" prompted Ble ry, whoee aide s))oke in a monotonous voice, with the inflection of one who repeats a lesson by rote. “I begin by consulting the directory and visiting all the locksmiths within the radius. No result. I widen my circle; still no result. I begin again by inquiries into the private lift* of certain locksmiths, who are in the habit of doing work at home; still there is no dew. I begin to despair of satisfying Monsieur, when I make a lucky find. Passing along the Rue Bt. Louis I observe a small shop whose shut ters are closed; its exterior fa fresMy painted t, above the door is a sign: ‘L. Benoit, Lock smith.’ I ma>,e inquiries. I learn from the neighbors that Benoit fa a yemng man, very sober, veiy industrious, who came from Lim oges to Paris about three months ago sod opened thfa shop. About a fortnight ago hs> had injured hfa hand w ith one of his took, and had been taken to the Hotel Dieu for proper treatment. I conjecture that thfa may be our man; the fact of his shop being so re cently opened accounts tor hfa name not being in tbe dir ictory. Igo to the Hotel Dieu, but tun told that I cannot sec Mm; be is suffering from blood poisoning and fa very ill I ask who fa the doctor attending him, and am informed that it Is the Doctor de Bourdon. M. de Bourdon, as Messieurs will remember, was ooeof the medical w itnesses at the inquiry into the murder of Mdssner. I see him; I teU him that my miwaon fa connected with tho affair (A the Pawsage de Mazarin. M. de Bourdon takes an interest in that affair; be allows me to roe hfa patient Thfa fa Bo ncut’s story: About a month after hs had . opened his shop—that fa. about two mentis* [CONTINUED TO FOURTH PAGB.J