Show F ANTOMAS RETURNS THE EXPLOITS OF JUVE By Marcel Allain and aeed Pierre From a bag that an attendant handed handed hand hand- hand I ed him Juve drew the garments of the dead w woman oman 1 The he shoes were w by hy a n. good maker the stockings silk with open work Embroidery the underwear was fine linen the corset was well cut Nothing he cried not a mark on this linen Not even the sign of ot th the house that furnished d the various arlous things Fuselier was once more going to suggest suggest suggest sug sug- gest leaving the m morgue when all at once Juve drew from pocket his his his' pocket et a small penknife and opened the little blade Kneeling on the floor and and taking up one by one the dead woman womans woman's s garments he proceeded to probe the seams prick th the trimming of the sleeves eves and undo the turnings All at once he uttered a muffled exclamation In sticking the blade Into th the velvet collar of the bodice he thought a paper rustled He lIe w was s not mistaken be between between between be- be tween the stuff and the lining he found a thin roll of paper pap crumpled stained with blood unfortunately torn With slow movements he Unrolled the crumpled leaflet and spread it on the floor j I Gentlemen Excitement choked the detectives detective's voice Here is what I read At the top are torn words Then I s see e this bit of ot a phrase phrase Goodness of God in Whom I Trust That is scarcely sense sene b but t I read afterward afterward- r I I do not wish to die h having this re remorse remorse re- re I morse to I do not wish to risk his killing me to destroy this secret I 1 write this confession I will tell him it is deposited in a sure place Yes I was the cause causa of the death of that hapless actor Yes Val- Val grand paid for the crime which Gum Gurn committed Yes I sent Val Val- grand to the scaffold by making him hilI pass for Gurn Gum to to Gurn Gumn who 1 killed Lord Bertham Gurn Gum who I sometimes think to myself must be Juve at that last phrase turned still paler It It Is signed he went on mastering I his failure nerve it it is signed to to Lady B I AI M. I Fuselier in his turn 1 became I white as 88 a sheet Juve it is not possible The detective handed to the judge the tiny leaf on which he had just read the name Lady Bertham Dr Ardel to understand Juves Juve's agitation and that of the magistrate and to grasp the Import of the paper just discovered would have had to canto call can to mind an appalling tragedy which three years before had set the whole Parisian world awry with its grim mystery mys mys- tery one tery-one one not solved to that hour Lady I That name for Juve caU called d up a whole blood curdling past He lIe saw in he fancy a great English lady whoso whose husband was murdered by the Canadian Gum Gurn perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps the the- ladys lady's lover It was she whom Juve had so doggedly doggedly doggedly dog dog- I gedly pursued and in the course of a public sitting sitting- of the assize assiz court ourt ac- ac HIP p P t may t. t t Taking up one by one the dead womans woman's garments proceeded to probe the seams seams of having been the accomplice of Gurn Gunn tho the murderer And of Juve Jue following his train thought remembered how he had hats ac accused accused accused ac- ac this tins same lady of having to save her lover the very verv day the tho guillotine was erected for him found means to send in his stead to DIebler s gruesome machine the innocent actor He had even gone the length of al alleging alleging alleging al- al that in being the mistress of Gurn Gum she was that of and ventured to maintain that Gurn Gumn and Fa were the same He had been and still was bold enough nough to pursue pursue pursue pur pur- sue In whom the regular police would not believe yet whose existence Juve luve firmly maintained And now in connection connE with this af affair affair af- af fair in the block but a short while since comparatively commonplace commonplace common- common place all In a moment he found that same Lady Involved In the puzzle in which he was so BO keenly seeking seeking seeking seek seek- ing the key Officially his superiors at the prefecture prefecture prefecture pre pre- the bench M M. Fuselier himself had always declined to admit the existence ex- ex existence existence ex ex- of and consequently that Gurn Gumn was that Gurn Gumn was Lady s lover and above all that Gum Gurn had evaded the guillotine Only two men knew the truth Juve and But to those two the very name of Lady cropping up unexpectedly in a police inquiry suggested suggested suggested sug sug- the tho most appalling mysteries mysteries' Juve read and read again the paper he had Just unearthed unearth d. d Taking line b bj by line the cryptic statement statement statement state state- ment Jute asked himself What d do these phrases signify I do not want him to kill me in order to destroy that secret When Lady wrote that was she angry with Gum Gurn Curn Then what did this other expression mean Gurn Gum who I 1 sometimes fancy may be 1 As he ho put this qi ery to himself himself Juve Juve shook from head to foot What had become of Lady ellham This woman who had passed so mysteriously this woman whose face had been crushed out of all recognition by bv the murderer was she Lady How else olse explain th the discovery In h 11 her r 1 bodice of ot the betraying document Who but she could have had it in l her possession Who Vho else could have so sedulously concealed it I Juve read another sentence I will tell Lell him it is deposited in a safe sate place Yes It was plain the dead woman had hidden her confession about her ller herIn In the lining of her bodice Feverishly Juve took tool up the garments trailing on the the- ground It It is impossible he thought that I should not find another document Th The beginning of this confession I I must have It All at once he stopped short in his search and p pointed out to M Iti Fuselier In the lining of a a. loose pocket rin do the petticoat petticoat-a a fresh hiding place but torn and alas alas' empty To be continued tomorrow |