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4 i *' A PARIS MYSTERY. [continued FROM FIRST I’age."] ago—on a dark and wet night, a gentleman drove up to his door in a cab and came into his shop. The gentleman asked him whether i he could, in less than an hour, fabricate a key 1 exactly like one which he showed him. The ; key was of simple construction. Benoit said, ' ‘Yes, easily;’ and at once went to work. The gentleman waited. He was a foreigner, of that Benoit is certain, but cannot guess the country to which he belonged. He was in Evening dress, and wore a fur cloak. The locksmith noticed specially his dark eyes and sallow complexion; could indentify the stranger if he met him again, especially if he h'-ard him speak. When Benoit had finished the key, which he did in half an hour, the stranger gave him three francs, the sum asked, and at once drove away. I showed B'-noit the key of Meissner’s room, now lying on that bureau; he declared it to be the same size and shape as the one which had served him for a model.” Here Fllotin stopped, as if he had run down. “Is this Benoit available as a witness!” asked Sapinaud, who like myself had listened with close attention to Pilotin’s narrative. “M. de Bourdon says that he will live,” answered Pilotin tersely. “Messieurs,” said Blery, “you have heard; now you shall see—Pilotin, fetch a cab. We are on the eve of a discovery.” We took our seats in the conveyance with cut asking any questions. Sapinaud and I exchanged a glance which said, Let us leave the revelation to M. Blery; he has an eye for dramatic effects. Pilotin mounted on the box; I noticed that he carried a short crowbar. The coachman hod evidently received his directions before hand. He drove us up the steep, narrow Rue St. Jacques, into the very heart of the Isatin Quarter. He stopped at last where the Rue St. Jacques intersects the Rue Cujas, at a pork-butcher’s shop, with the name Pajol over the door. Pilotin alighted, and held open the door of the cab while we got out. M. Blery entered the pork butcher’s shop and presently reappeared with M. Pajol, fat faced and blqe aproned. “Messieurs,” said Blery, “M. Pajol will now take us to the room of that tenant of his who, since Christmas Day, has disappeared.” M. Pajol bowed, smiled blandly, rubbed his fat hands, and led us up the dark, moldering staircase. When we had reached the sixth story Sapi naud and I paused to take breath. “A little higher, Messieurs, if you please!” said M. Blery. We toiled up with many stumblings after the detectives, until we reached the gar rets, in the very top of the roof. The stair way leading to these was little better than a ladder, where the hands had to assist the feet of the climber. “This is the door,” said Pajol. Pilotin took a big bunch of keys from his pocket and tried them one after another; none fitted. “No matter!” said Blery. “See, place the crowbar here—now, a little force—and, presto, wo have the door opened I” Sapinaud and I followed the detectives into the room,Pajol bringing up the rear. The spec tacle which met our eyes was a strange one. The small window in the roof, thickly coated with grime and soot, admitted only a very feeble light into the garret. A deep layer ot dust rested on everything. In the centre of the garret stood a brazier, filled with char coal ashes. On the wretched truckle-tied lay a heap of clothes, as if they had been thrown hastily down. Throe largo traveling trunks occupied about half the entire space of the chamber. We looked on In wonderment while the de tectives made a business-like inspection of the room before touching anything. Suddenly Pajol plucked Blery’s sleeve, and, pointing to tlie charcoal-brazier—“lt was with that same brazier he did it I” he whis pered. Blery nodded. “Now, Pilotin,” he said, “let us begin our search.—Approach, Mes sieurs, if you please. I have the idea that among these clothes here” pointing to those on the truckle-bed—“we shall, perhaps, make a discovery." Sapinaud and I drew near, and looked on curiously. The clothes consisted of a dress suit, a fur paletot, and a crush hat Blery felt tho breast pocket of the coat, and, with a smile of triumph, draw out a dagger sheath made of greqn silk and lacquered wood, in ahape like a dotted fan. / / WwiOfJ Li.bn f Z/i s' J" 11 "" 111111T - /Irate out n dorypcr shoaih made of given Still <md /aeqaerad wood. “You have seen h mething like this before. Messieurs, is it not sof’ said the detective. “And this—this alsw you will recognise T— and he showed us a key which he had found in another pocket. An exclamation—a sig nificant “Ah'”—ev-aprd from Sapinaud and myself at the same moment. M. Blery smiled again. Pilotin next oixmod the traveling-trunks. They wore found to contain elothea fur the sutwt part ; among which wore one or two dresses, evidently Oriental. There were also a number of letters, some in our own lan guage, aw in a foreign character, which I easily recognized as Ja;antw& Sull M. Blery had mg sjsiken a word of ex planation. He socnied to enjoy onr complete mystification. “Ptiotin.’’ he said at last, when his search was finished, “you will remain here on guard until you are relie vol. You will allow nt> on*' to enter without a written order from Monsieur the Prefect. M.reueura, if you will return with me to tho prefecture, I shall have the pleasure of explaining to you what you hare seen here. That will boa more conrenirut place fur duutg so." Leaving M. l*njdX we drove back to the Prefreture, where M. Btery rveunad his nar rwtivw. “Monsieur,” be said to me, “wflj remember the surmtoe be bad formed—or. as I prefer to coll it, the ktea that the area twin of Messsner, who was certainly a foreigner, may pombly tetre beena JauuMsa I doteted on follow injj up this clewT” “In the lists at the prefecture I find the names of betw'een sixty and seventy Japanese returned by the hotel keepers and proprietors of furnished houses in Paris. About forty of these are still resident here. Over twenty have returned to their native country. 'The remainder are dead, and buried in Paris. “I make special inquiries with regard to ! these last; it seems to me very probable that . the victim of Meissner’s extortions should be among them. One of the names is Sangura, a native of Yeddo, no profession, returned by Lunel, a keeper of private apartments, of the most expensive description, in the Avenue du Roi de Rome. I visit Lunel, who remem bers his lodger Sangura perfectly. He bad occupied for a year the finest suite of rooms on the first floor of Lunel’s house. Ho was a Japanese of noble birth and great wealth, who intended remaining for three years in Europe. The seductions of Paris had proved too strong for M. Sangura, however; his style of living, Lunel assured me, was fabulous. He always rode out with two grooms behind him. His dinner never cost him less than two hundred francs, as he never dined alone. He would go behind the scenes of the theatres with his pockets full of jewelry. He made presents of the most splendid character; to one actress, it is said, he gave a set of diamonds worth thirty thousand francs; to another a barouche and a pair of English horses with silver mounted 1 * mess. “The rent was always paid to Lnnel quar terly, In advance. About the end of th© third quarter, Lunel’s experienced eye began to see symptoms of a change in his tenant's disposition and mode of life. Sangura was no longer high-spirited and gay; there was almost continually a cloud on his face. First one of the grooms was dismissed; then the other; then the valet. Finally, the riding horses and the cabriolet were sold. One by one Lunel began to miss from his tenant’s apartment certain costly articles of jewelry, with which Bangura had decorated it when he first came. Lunel inferred that these were being sold, aa the difficulties of his tenant grew more pressing. Little by little Sangura’s wardrobe disappeared also—a bad sign, Lunel thought; but the fourth quarter’s rent was paid, and so he was safe. “At the end of the fourth quarter, San gura—whose apartment was by this time stripped of everything belonging to him which had the least value—disappeared himself. Lunel never saw him again; but, about thre - nionths after, he remembers having read an account of a suicide committed somewhere in the Latin Quarter by an unknown foreigner, supposed to be a Japanese, and having fan cied that this might be his former tenant. “Lunel further hands to me a bundle of letters, which had arrived for his tenant sub sequent to bis disappearance. I examined these; with one exception they are the unpaid bills of M. Sangura’s tradesmen. The excep tion is a letter addressed in a female hand; ft is here—Monsieur can examine it for hnu self.” M. Blery, drawing out a bulky pocket book, took from it a letter in a delicately tinted envelope, addressed in faint violet ink: “M. de Bangura, I*Avenue du Roi de Rome, 801.” I read the letter, then handed it to Sapi naud. It was as follows: “My own one, why hide thyself thus? Cans’t thou think thy poverty will change me? Come to me as of old. Thine own Clotilde.” The letter was dated “Rue de la Reine, 48; Wednesday morning.’’ “As Messieurs may suppose,” continued M. Blery, “I lose no time in visiting No 48 Rue de la Reine. At first lam refused admission; Mlle. Ducbastre, the premiere danseuse at the - Theatre—for she and no other is Clotilde —can see no one. I pencil on a card there words, ‘lt is the affair of the Japanese, Sangura,’ and give the maid five francs to , carry it up to her mixtrem. In two minutes I stand in the presence of the beautiful Mlle. Duchastro. “I can easily see on the lady’s face the signs of emotion. I infer at once that this has not been an ordinary acquaintance, but a case of true affection. ‘Mademoiselle,* I say, with an air of deep respect, ‘pardon my intrusion; but I am engaged in an inquiry into the red end of M. de Bangura. I have found frtex. one of your letters that you knew him, and I beg of you to give me any information ytao. may passe® as to his affairs.’ “Mlle. Ducbastre seems to take a plesumre in talking to any one of her dead lover. She tells me—with real emotion, with frequent teare—this story, which I repeat to MendeuM: “MademoimUe had formed the acquaint ance of Sangura about six months after his arrival in Paris; they soon farmed a mutual attachment. The Jajmncse was handsome, his manners were distinguished; the courtesy of a gentleman, tho generosity of a prince. His generosity, iudixd, was so lavish that it eventually proved his rain. Mademoiselle pleaded with her lover to curb his expendi ture, to give up gambling and betting at Chantilly and Ixmgch&inpe; it was of no avail. He persistwi in lealing her with costly pres ents; which she areurod me—and I believe her —caused hor more pein than pleasure to re ceive. The worst feature in Bangura's care. MalemoireUe informed me, was that he had Ircdually fallen into the power of some ewish money-lender, who, she thought, re sided on the left lank, but whore name she had never board. As Sangura’s funds dimin ished, this mail’s bold on him increased; the unfortunate Japanere grew evary day moodier and more depressed. , Sne divined that he was now living by the sale of his wardrobe and effects: but he never told her so, and she did not dare to touch on the sub ject, “At an early period of their acquaintance Bangura had given her to wear, not to keep, a pearl of extraordinary sire and beauty; ex plaining to hor that this gem was the great heirloom of his house; that he, as the eldest sou of his dead father, had tho custody of it, an<l that if anything happen>xi to it be wotdd be dishonored in the eyes of all his relative. There was nothing he would iot give to his Clotilde, Sangura had said, except only this pearl; nevertheless, she might wear it as an ornament, since he knew that in her charge it would be safe. “One morning Sangura ru<hed into h>r room, in a state of great agitation, ami, claiming that he was ruined and ui done, asked for the gem. His mistress gave it to him with trembling hands; he rushed out of the clamber, and Mlle. Ihicliastre never again saw her hirer oliva “About three months after, Mademoi'*!!* read in the journals the repo rt of a suicide in the Rue St. Ja*quea—the suicide of a ymr g foreigner, suppoaoi to be a Japanese. Bb hatrtened to the morgue: it was the i.nfor tunate Sangura. He had found a laut re fug» in the mireiable garret which Mee>ieurs visited to-day. Too proud to return to his mistress, all his means exhausted by tl • ra pacity of the old monay-tender. be ha I starred there till his last sou was >pe->t. Thm one night bo Hosed up carefully ere j crevice in door or window; lighted a ■ harco ’ fire in the brazier; lay down on his wretched pal«4—and, three da_<s afterward, was f0t0.4 th<(c. lying dead. The Star, DOUGLASVILLE, GA. 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