Show at hla his office nt at now scotland yard sat sal inspector bior murphy lur phy chief ot of the all told oft to keep watch over ove r the anarchists lie he was robbed in the perusal of 0 a large offic eaf al looking document when lie was interrupted by the of two of ills hla privet principal p is subordinates defective igan and they tied had come to I 1 aire if he hail bad any orders to give them before they left the yard for or the night als ah boys boy said the ator looking up 1 I was just going to go send d jur fur SOU soil more work air as allied iced mulligan AYO and hot too loo anaw cred the inspector with a 5 I 1 shake of 0 hla his beads 1 I ha have v 0 luat just received word from the french police that lu LAI cleft louis roche and joan jean lerat who from rom paris tor weeks ago aeo are arc reported to be in lonion london Mia sine roche koche find and loral crepea repeated led mulligan thoughtfully tile they a are re ill the c fellows vao at w berv re tried for that Notte dame daina R fral 0 r a areal e rant they yes yc and nho should have been banged bunged for or it replied the inspector 1 I was in paris nt at the time and attended if d the lite trial there was war no b but ut they were guilty they 1 ly denied it but the case cao was waa mismanaged and the jury ury wele Vis geared UrCil for or their ovin OB n skins and the end if it wa wag 8 that three most villainous murd murderers mur dereis erets were vere let loose on society arain it was a uis big bu bumpiness binl miness ness that not noire re dame explosion said eald magee faith Ial ble big enough for anything the women oman and children anil and scores tit of them wele killed or injured onn one family tho the comte do de U A targe find and hla big wire wife anil a 11 d two to daughters daush daught ceif els who were sit ling just where thi ahr bomb exploded were simply limply wiped out a u t I 1 believe at this moment the only y representative of the ile la ex Is the son bon who rt at the time little of the outrage ard and now on fur fr till all I 1 know was serving w walh fill his hl regiment in 11 if f that thal son pon over ever meets mirrine roche koche and lorat lerat therell llie rell be trouble tio uble I 1 ex apet comment yes res it was waa in tile the french papers that when ho he beadi ot of the leot leof t ahr tit trial h aware he would have 1 e the blood of ills mothers murder era cre yet I 1 dare daic ii ay however lie it soon boon cooled down at any rate he has ha s made no mone moe and albats ihala gean n mouths aco nut but to business the french P lice toi tel me that miasmic mul sine and I arat or aro salil said to be here rat for the pui pill polio POBO of committing oil trages in n revenge for our surrendering that ruellan ruin an afar quis auls they rny too loo that they fire arc well with money though where it 11 pup supplied plied comes from Is ii a mystery mystery IC thala the case tho the sooner we get on their track the iho better the inspector paused for a mom lent and fill I 1 searched sear clied amons among the papers on TIN hlf dieh then he handed to the detec lives several phot these Tl icse he sat said are portraits ot of the thice rull lans taken taken when they were in prison in parts look at them well and see that you dont the ras caw cali faces the two detectives examined tile photographs to closely an anxious and prolonged consultation followed when it ans a ended ded was wai far past tile two detectives left the yard and turned down thil the dark find silent embankment tire difficulties end and responsibility q rt f the task that night flight com milled miffed to them lay jay heavy on oil minds neither of the men spoke as they walked walli eil slowly along alone lost in acx lom thought suddenly mulligan stopped and caught ilabee tightly lightly by the arm at the same instant there was wag a brilliant flash of reddish light about two hundred yarda yard a in front ot or thom the next second ond it ii tremendous report almost deafened them for foe it a moment the two detectives det 7 t ives were ware too loo clum founded to thing thine or act Mul ligin however quickly pulled himself tg together etl pm the by heaven I ie he e arll come toni tom we may catch the scoundrels yet without fill an instants hesitation the two men dashed oft off at breakneck speed along alone the amb emb ank arient toward the spot where thy tho explosion had taken place As they dearett it they slackened their pace and kept a shall ahai i lookout yo so that nothing might escape escano them in the darkness A second later they observed a daik mass lying huddled up on the pavement they rhey the object warily it wits waa the lh body or of a man A moments examination showed them that thai ho he had been killed by the explosion ills light arm was waa blown simply to fragments and his right side wi was a bleeding mass of loah and bones and clothes lie he was quite dead detective sergeant mulligan struck a light and examined the hie dead niana mans tice face the chief hero of the notre dame explosion lias has exploded himself the lord bo be praised subsequent investigation confirmed the detectives theory they felt fell no doubt that the man mail killed that night vas as tho the redoubtable anarchist louis roche and that he tied perli hed bv the premature explosion 0 of tile the bomb he was carrying while on its way to commit some diabolical outrage what the outrage intended was and how he had become a possessed of the bomb which front from the fragments ments discovered d Is covered about tho lila scene or of tho the explosion experts expert 9 pronounced to be of excellent workmanship avore not known tor for some rome time at length however llo vever another communication was lec elved front from the french police aich thice light on both these points and ott on many others besides from this communication it appeared that among anarchists in paris it was said that the hie outrage intended wit was a nothing less than the blowing up of the tha louses houses of ciril parliament ar or tit at any rate ot of the clock tower the bomb had been prepared by a person passing among the anarchists under tinder the lite name assumed no aiji 1 acobe this person was to be a man of some wealth and at the same name time little a skilled d chemist and he was devolt devoting ng both his talent and money to the pause r or of anarchism ile he appeared to be known personally to few of tile the breLl brethren iren indeed for or purposes of 0 safety lie mixed little with them living in rooms in the west end of 0 london where lie pro prepared hla his bombs and raceL racelle berlins ln professed anarchists anarchist only from froin limo lima to time in older odor to plan outrages an and provide them with the means of ca carrying them out All asme lerat and the late rocho were nere his hl hiti batca I 1 ond and ills chaben instruments for perfecting lila ills malignant purposes ae ln in fact he had created some battle jealousy in anarchist circles by refusing to place the communication concluded conal eded by stating that the by abich loula louis roche had lout lost ills his life had not in tile the slightest degree discouraged la Re vancho vanche find and his hid associates and that another attempt at might bo be at any moment according to the kuntor among tile militant anarchists tn larla ahls would probably take lake the foint 01 in of an explosion at woolwich arsenal aregnal or at some of the government dockyards doch dock yarda yards on this communication in specter murphy had another consultation with ills subordinates this said bald masco when the inspector has ha stated the effect of tho the friench pollica communication this la Is it a new development in anarchism the gentleman anarchist yes yea and a very awkward one too replied we know something about and lorat both about their barnts anti and their appearances but bui we know Ito thing about this it ilov anali except that ho he I 1 a gentleman and lives tit in tha west end and la Is probably pio bably a frenchman thata too to help MS its much we cant shadow every french gentleman living II 11 ving in west london jondon unit and yet while lies hes avo thero there will be no ceH sallon of out raps ita ilis true h if 1 IN ild now to 01 ol m play only and but c cv it if we catch them he be will soon boon set get other to lake their pill I 1 he 10 carries the sinews at war and nit as long lone aa ho he hoa has money and a bomb manufactory n lace wr we shall have h ivo plen plenty y ot of outrages it si thais quite true 04 in r murphy the pressing pres sang tinn then Is 1 1 how carl can wet we trap rat ln la r I 1 1 I 1 was thinking raid t that at when were fortunate foit folt ono ugh to t trace race miasma and loral lerat we should not nol arrest arral them only OR ly shadow chadow them la re vanche miss must t m meet cc t them some romo time or a oilier anil when ho he d doea ea we could ladow him until we discover whose ills ilia factory Is then wo we might catch the lot A sensible plan ansi answered the in KIi ector but no doubt minnie and lerat arat merl meet others than la I levanche Re vanche now how could you tell which Is which well probably they dont meet I 1 nany many gentlemen french frenchi or argued all so ao we enild should ln ild shadow all ill the well drexel people they pe RIC to or have have tiny any dealings deall ngn with at any rate ran that seems to me the only chance ot of catching la a levanche Re vanche tile the inspector to lay y buck in his big cha chair 1 r a and nd relle cled while he be was waa doing s bo 0 a messenger entered the room 1 and I le I 1 handed him a tAe frieri gram am ile he tore lore t the b envelope open an bigl anerd at tile mea mare aare alien lie tv t i a uy lly jovel jove ho be exclaimed they are U coins 0 ing it juet juat listen portsmouth mouth 1120 0 p m it in harbor no injury to person or bruile property r no nn lie liace ot of I 1 of 0 outrage semi officer to investigate what tin do you think of that looks orl like another bungle sit said mulligan quietly faith it does answered the inspector but li it may put us ua on the track of the rascals ran cala mulligan start you yon by tile the first train find and make search ing in inquiries mulligan did a tait stall by the oral first iram and did make searching inquiries these inquiries resulted in a pretty certain cartain opinion that QA nil he said when tile the telegram was waft received there had bad been another bungle lie ITO discovered that at southsea Soul South liea sea a foreigner on the night of the explosion had dived hived a small rowing boat an anil that that boat 0 h had not been returned HP te discovered r further rise ill or that fragments of 0 a row rowing i n 9 anat similar to the one hired hire d haid had been picked ur up outside portsmouth harbor on showing to the owner of the missing boat boal tho photographs of and lerat that person after some bem hesitation identified alieff 0 as ai a i the foreigner who hired the boat flom these filets drew the conclusion that I 1 had made an attempt to blow lip p the dockyard or the shipping in portsmouth harbor anil and had perished by the premature explosion of oc the bomb and this conclusion was shortly afterward confirmed by advices advises from the french police these theae were to the effect that among pairis pa arts anarchists it was wag stated that the dockyard was the object of attack and that since the attempt was wag made miamie miamme bad been ansing it 11 was added that much dissatisfaction existed regarding la re ke vanche and its ills skill as a bomb maker but that as he alone among london anarchists possessed poR essed funds hi he still c con n hilved in spile of 0 its his successive fa tall II 11 urea fires to maintain his position anil and long lone may he be was waa inspector comment on reading this communication itea te doing more to st suppress I 1 eppress both and the anarchists a r chests ts than all the lite police in europe put together the bout best thing that coull happen would be for him to go eo on blow lne ing up all his big friends until all in fragments and then ahrn fo fob hull him to blow up himself inspector had bad not very long ions to wilt three atler this conversation he received word of an attempted outrage at camplon court the inhabitants of the ilia palace were awakened about midnight ty by a traction doun explosion the guard turned out and after considerable trouble discovered the load dead body of a a man in the gardens evidently lie be like roche and Alla SIl asme ame had been exploded hIni Rs aa inspector murphy called it wisest when ut tempting to blow up camplon court on tho the inspector ex arning the deal dead mail he held had no dInI culty in identifying him as the third of that terrible atlo of desperadoes lerat Jv avery ery one of them then had by the same means as is they had used limed to murder the innocent congregation of notre dame the detectives were still engaged in investigating the circumstances m connected with this explosion when ins inspector pil murpha received ived li a mysterious note it ran as follows all al ly 1 discovered let la ne Re vanche take care ITO he thinks he has ea having lied fled from london cut but the arms or of the brotherhood stretch I 1 tar a r tell him your agent provocateur lh that a t ho be la is now in an aa great danger as he was in Rel belgrave grave road the av engers of blood are after him lip he shall p perish e r isit ANARCHIST Ilu hulio flo cried inspector Inspect ni murphy when he had read his note the third failure has been too much for them and la Re vanche in 1 now to in be blown up himself more power to their elbow I 1 say belgrave Bel Beli Brave trave road paid ald whore where lie his hung out apparently surely with such a straight tip as that we should he be tools fools it if we failed to lay jay hands on him ile he has left it though hough said inspector murphy al if arphy 1 I dont know whether we let acl him and ills his friends friend settle matters between them its ita another case e of tra hlson hison I 1 lva tra lil ron son of nut but the inspector was only jolting joking and half an hour later inter he and mulligan were in fit belgrave nel grave roal searching for the lodgings of the dimang M lil la re vanche they soon discovered the them M too though the name he had passed under tinder with lila ills landlady was not lat la levanche Re vanche but Monta guard the lady gave a very particular r description of 0 f him rod anil stated that the cab which took away him and its his luggage went to vic toria lie he had bad not taken all ha ilia gage and what lie he tied had left behind demonstrated his bis identity with ln it re no vanche it consisted of several uncharged bombs a large bottle of sul bul thuile acid and the materials mater lala for compounding an explosive powder of great strength evidently ho he had left in lt a hurry to 1 murllean Mul llean was delegated the duty of trac llie the missing man the task was no easy one and for more than a month lili reports were not altogether satisfactory ile he had traced la re vanche to paris but there for or a long time he completely lost sight ot of him one morn morning hig just litter after Ini murphy hod had reached his office at lite yard the ih door opened and in wa walked III ad 1 ergeant mulligan though entirely unexpected ho he was received hv by ins ills inspector without tile the slightest indication ca aim of 0 surprise we well 1 whal up now murphy asked in tiia big quiet suanner manner oh ive finished the job sir re paled mulligan pound found ln Re vanche asked murphy mulligan nodded mi M i bead fillad him arrested rented ar asked murphy shook ills his head bead failed to establish hla him Iden Uty asked ii murphy in a tono tone of 0 t mint no a I 1 had some trouble over that I 1 replied mulligan but in the end he a admitted C it himself admitted it himself cried the |