| Show IU n nA f FAM A FAMOUS STORY Rt I I ill 1 u J iI t dark at n nS I ItJIn S In It till the ot of 11 15 I Ie e the two iJ l luxury or of orta ta iU a mr mf In o wit H friend in ht bin i baric back or book nu IU t Ime No J Rue RUI DIt Pan Paa bour For On J at lel WI We had bad a rJ while ech tu to an CHy Clat ual ob I eerier lal tight ht have seemed anti And dy 1 with the curling eddies r f amok emoke that the at ai i 1 ot of tilt the chamber For Por my lr however hover WM wee l dI certain pica which had mat or I between u at an HI earlier ot of the tI the It f tM the flue llor Morgue un the th thI I 7 the mu w of at t i nop t I looked u Oft It 1 ut of a II the thedoor t door ot of our apartment was wa thrown on 0 and aDd admitted our old t Monsieur ti lj the r ot of the Patti f T inn Ian polka k W we gave him a heart for Or there thre wita WI nearlY halt as 01 a the I U ot of the bout till the mitt man and ad we had not esin him for tor uveral ral yea W We had been I t Ihl th dirk dark and now nowr It r arose for lor the purpose Of lighting a alamp alamp lamp but set down a again without do don 4 n nr 10 0 i saying that he hM bed called to concuR UI or to uk ask the opinion ot or my ionic j business b hail tJ occasioned a great Ireat deal of It If It ts Ii any requiting renee reneer r 4 Uon tion ved ci he A to enkIndle th the wick we examine tl It to better In the dark clark That Is another ot of your odd no not t mid the pretest who had a albion of at calling everything odd that was waa beyond his hll in and thu lived amid all an absolute kLen l of at i Very ery true Mid Dupin as h he sup supplied I plied his with a pipe and rolled l him a comfortable chair I And what I the difficulty now I I 1 asked In the way I hope Oh no nothing of that nature The Th tact fact I In the Is II very simple In indest dt dest and ond I make no doubt that we can n nI I manage it well but theta then I Ih Dupin would like to toi i i heir hear the details of at tI it b because O It Is II so o odd Simple and odd said Dupin DupinS S Why yes ye and not e exactly that i either The fact Ia we have hare all been II a III aI I I I neat great deal the tho affair ts Is tsao Isso so ao simple and iet baffles u us Alto lot at gather N t It I Ia the very Iry simplicity or of Ih the thing which puti puta you at fault said ray my b WhAt nonsense you do replied tha prefect lau laughing Perhaps the ts Is a little too plain Id Dupin Oh rOOt good Who ShO aver eYer heard of at uch auch an Idea i A little too Stat hat bat baha hal hol ho rOAred our profoundly on Dupin you Will be the death ot of me yet ret And what after aU all Is the matter on hand r I asked WhY I will tell jell you Ou replied the IU as lie he gave a ng steady and 1 put and ahl settled lt t In his hll chair I will wil tell you In a few words woNt bat bitt before I begin Jt bit me ea can 1 Ion you OU this Is Ip an affair demanding the le And that I hould moat loss the VOlition position I now LaId bold vre cre It known that I tt it to any on said laid I Or not said MId Dupin ehI titan then I have received person personal Information al from frem R a very ery high quarter S ter that It a certAin document fit at Importance has haa beel bi purloined from the royal apartments J The individual ual who purloined It Is Ie known knon this beyond a doubt he Was WAI seen Men to take it It I 1 Iknon known knon also 1110 thAt It still BUll In hie Illon r t 4 How I Ia this known asked Dupin It ft is II cleArly Interred replied the protect from the nature or at the docu document ment and from the ot of U k certain which would at one once t arise arlle from its Ita passing out ot of the rob F beza that I Ii to say IT from his hii It u ii he must In Inthe 1 th the end to employ It a little more I said I may venture so 10 far Car as to say 1141 sayS S that the It its holder a ocr oer tam power In II a certain quarter where such power I is Immensely valuable t The was WOI fond of at the cant ot of 11 diplomacy l Still I do not quito understand i said Id DupIn No Well the disclosure ot of t the doe doo doer r to n a third person who shall b be bei f i nameless would oula bring In the ther r honor ot of a ot of mo t exalted its Ita Ion and this toot tact ge the holder ut uti i the document an over Ih the who and t 1 I are so 10 nut hut this interposed would denend upon the knowledge of at the losers IDlers knowledge of at atthe the robber Who would dare dar i The thief said 0 1 Is Ie the Minister D D who dares all thin thing those unbecoming coming as a ell AI a those becomIng a aI I man The method of at the theft was wa not notI I leu Ieee ingenious Ulan titan bold The document I tn in letter to be been received by t the robbed f t while In the royal boudoIr Dur Durr During r ing It its perusal she he was u suddenly lit In r ted by the entrance of the her J eXAlted from whom sepSIs 1 t Iy hIt It was WA liar ber wish to con conceal al It After U a hurried and vain endeavor to thrust f ti It In a drawer ah she was forced to place placeit It overt open at as It 11 was upon a table The SW adOre however was uppermost and aneL j the contents thus the letter Itter I 1 1 e eScaped ca fod At thIs thle Juncture enters the Minister D 13 Uk 1111 lynx pe eye Imme immediately the recognises i 1 the of tit the address ob J llerve the ot of the personage 1 ed anti nd fathom hr her secret At tor some hur tied rIM through In his hili ordinary manner he H a letter somewhat similar to t th one une lit In pens pen It II pee tenia tn C It end and th then n It la In lat t close 1011 11 Ion to the other A Again rala ralah h for sonic minutes the Ihl public atTain At length In lea he take also from the I tle the letter to Which he Inti hd no noL L claim 1111 It rightful UW saw ot of I course dared not call attention t U the act liet In the presence nf f the thIrd pot potI I cho ho at bet pr elbow The I minister tvIng 1111 hi fIe of at no the 5 I Ilore rt then theft i i to m me 1 nave hav precisely hr I you demand to tomake make mAk the ser Y I know knowl i r ih hI knowl knowlI I ot ro nt Yi Yea 1 t and the It 11 r thus thu 1 I 1 h I for tor some n T th ut lif ir I for I r PI 11 rl fy cx F t Ill lit Th Ihl personage robbed e more 4 fI every enry da day of t tilt the ther no r of r her letter nut flut I I e r ur cannot be done dOlle openly 1 to despair she has baa eom t r the matter to me o II horn hom said Mid amid a t ot of emoke no more morer 5 r III nl Uld I suppo be di de Sij 1 r r ven en Imagined You fauer me re the tle prefect but It I Ii possible that some Such euch opla Ion ma easy have been entertained It II Is said J I as you rou observe that the letter I lUll In ot of the minister since It II this and not 10 any of the letter which bestows the power With Willa the the power depart nM said laid U II u end u upon till stile COtI cos vIcton I 1 KJ fleet re wu was to thorough search Ida of the UIt mini tar ter hotel hotl and Ian here fa my chief mbar Ibar Iy aln In the ot of search searchIng In Ing without his hll alt all I hive bave warned ot of Ute Ut den dan kr gr Which would result giving him tep tD 10 suspect our design Hut But said J I you ou are quite quit au an felt alt feltIn altin in t the InvestIgations The Th police slav Jay don dOlle this thing often be before tore fore O 0 yes and for tor this reason I did not Tb habit ot of the minister la gave tu too tou a irest t adUa lie lieI U UIS I IS frequently absent from home an night RI HI servant are b by no means numerous The They steep IMP at a distance from their masters apartment and be Inc chiefly Neapolitan are readily made drunk I have ban keys at as you OU know with lIh which I can open an any chamber hamber or cabinet In Paris Pari For three months a night hat ha not passed during the greater part of which I have not hf en been engaged d In till 1 13 M My honor is interested and Ind to mention a great secret the re reward r ward Is III I IUd did not aban the search until I had heroine become that the thief I a more astute atut man ban I fancy tancy I have investigated eyer every nook end corner of the premise In which It I Is possible that the paper tan In be concealed But lut Is It not nol I that altho although h the letter Itter may mar be In possession of cr the minister u as It un It he may have concealed It el thin than upon hie hi own prim lire II Title II I barfly barely Possible said ald Dupin The Th present peculiar condition ut of of af ral faire at court and of those thOle In which it D la ii known to be would render the instant latant of the sua eUI or of being produced at a mo moment monts ment point of nearly equal Importance with It its possession Its Ill of at being pro produced said lAid J I That r I to say lAY of at being destroyed saId aId Dupin Trill I the per In III clearly Irly then upon the premIse All An Anfor for tor II being upon the ot of the minister we e may consider that as out of at the question Entirely Mid the prefect Ue lie hen ha been twice waylaid BI a It If by footpath end and his hta person rigorously searched un nfl der my own inspection You might have Ipa spared yourself thi trouble said Id Dupin I D I pr presume II I riot not altogether r a fool oo end aad It If not net must mut have anticipated th these waylay lags as a matter ot of course Not Ilta altogether ether a foot foal said Id G 0 but then he bes a poet which I take to be only one remove from a tool fool True 1 1 Dupin after a long anti ana delightful whitt tram from hi I 1 4 I have been guilty of cere taint doggerel myself you OU detail said eaid 1 the tho particulars or of your search Why the tact fact Ia we took our time and w we hed everywhere I havo had long lone lX experience In these thelt affairs I took the entire building room b by room the n h or of a whole week to each Wt VI exam examined Iret tb the tore tur dt d each apartment We Ve opened every vry possible drawer anti I presume you know that to a properly trained poll police agent ent such luCh a thinG at as a secret drawer II Any man is II K a adolt dolt dok who permit a secret drawer to escape him In a learch ot of this kind The rite tb thing I Is eO plain there Is Ia a cr tam amount of at bulkot eso to be accounted for in every Then We have accurate rulee The fIftieth part or of a line could not u UI At Ater let er the cabinet we took the chairs chain The cushions cullion wt we probed with the tine fine long needles you ou have seen eHn mil me empty empl From the tables we removed the tops Why io the top of a or other similarly arranged piece ot of furs ture Ie by bl the person wishing to conceal an crUel then the Ie I Ia II a excavated the article deposit within the cavity end the top replaced The bottom ana to tops ot of art u la in the same me way But Dut could not hOt the cavity It be detected I by pounding I asked ked D By no an nl It 16 when the article I Is I deposited a wadding of cot cotton I ton be pieced around It it Beside I in I our cue CUI we were Obliged to proceed wit without bout hOl noise nut But you ou could not have removed you could lOald not hue have taken to an all articles ot of furniture In whIch It would have haf been possible to make a deposit In the manner munn you A IU letter may be compressed Into a thin spiral roll not differing much In all shape or bulk from rom a large lar e le end and andIn In this loran form It might be inserted Into t the h rung 1111 ot of a chair for tor example You did not take tak to pieces all the chairs not lIot bat be we did examined tM the rungs MIlICI of every 11 chair In Inthe the tbt hotel hotl aDd Indeed tb the of every enry or of furniture by the Rid aid of at a MOlt powerful ml microscope Had there been any traces Dt at recent nt d die we should Sot Ot have tailed failed to detect It In A single grain In of Wm tar for would wouW have bae been en al obvious as an apple Any 0 Je die tu the gaping In III the ha Imar sot Seed to SUUn detection I presume you fOU looked to the mir roes rore between th the hoards and the 1 plates and you probed tIM the I bed and rd the bed bood clothes lot as welt well an time UtI curtain and carpets carpet of e and when 11 we hid had absolutely completed particle or of orthe the furniture tn Is We this f w then we ex cx stained the house hOUt iselL We divided It ft entire surface Into compartment which we numbered so that none might b be missed then II we each th In inch throughout the premises Including the two houses Un adjoining with tile the micro 01 c a as The Th two hou houses adjoinIng I ex e you ou must have bad a great dal al of trouble WI W had bed but bill the reward 0 is Ia isYou You U the shoot Ute the All Ali the grounds unit Ire are paved brick The They nv gave u us little trouble We examined th the mess m between the bricks and found lound It t disturbed You lon looked among Ds pap papers n c nun and Into the books of the II w we tN ory pam an antI parcel we not lot nl every wk book but we r r vr r It ten r In each eh not t r t lit with a titers mer it rung ding to the fashion of lone sone of if P f We also altIG 1 th Ih of ever every book over Or lIt t itI II ii h thou moll at aiU 1 rate adm nI applied to 10 sch lh the moat e ot of tb the microscope Had ui 1111 Ii I the I bindIngs been recently with It would have bave bet been utterly Imi iII iI that the tact tut should have e ape t 1 Io Some ft lv or x jut Ir lm the hand or of the bind i e probed with ith the needles You Yuu explOred the beyond flu carpets r fiyod doubt W We every evry car act the boards with the And y Yes tt th fJ paper on the walT walTy walls Yo you IM Into the cellars We e dl did Then I ski you ou ha have ben been make mak lag Ine a and the rhe leter letter t is no riot pose upon the pill h as you OU p I tear fear are an right there said Id the prefect JU A And rM now Dupin what would you OU me to do doT doTo T To m make af a Urh thorough research of at the premises That hat I is replied 0 I am sure ure than I 1 breathe thin than hotel holI t I am that tr the letter I is not at the I I hav have f no better advice t to give Ie you ou said td You haI bevy ot of cour course an accurate of t the letter Oh Ob 1 and aM here bere the prefect pr pro producing a memorandum book proceeded to read al eked a minute account ot of the tbt internal ud and Ir r the external appearance of th the missing document Sn goon after 0 the ot of this description tJ h he Wk hit his departure rl ure more mon entirely alp In stints titan than I had ever ver kon known th the good before fore foreIn In abo abou ft a month f bl he pid pidu paid u UI another visit and u UR occupied ver very narl nearly u as before tore H 11 took tok ft a pip and a chir chair end entered into some Rome or aD At I 1 ad said Wel Weli but G a what tt of the Jur pur letter leUer I presume YOU ou have at atiat made up your fr mind that timers there is II IIno mal no such thing a overreaching the Confound Jm him IlY Iye Iy I made the reexamination however a as Dupin suggested but It was al all labor lost U as UI asI I knew it would fuld be I b how much w was the reward offered did rou ou eay yr a asked ed Dupin Why a very great grea deala vet very lib liberal eral dont like to say laY how bow much precisely but one thin thing I wi will lr say that I mind giving my Individual ch k for tor 0 franca to any one wh who could o obtain m me that let It letter ter The fact act I Is I it I is becoming of at and more Im importance every dy day anti and the reward has been lately double doubled I IC I It were trebled however hover I 1 could do dono 10 no more than I 1 he have done don Why y yea Id Dupin bet Ule whiff of his hll I realy really think 0 0 you have not ex cx the this matter You a little more I think eh how ow 1 In what way ay Wh Why puff pur pur puff you ou might put putt puff emptor employ in the matter pUr put putt puff purt pUr putt Do you remember th the story tor UI tl tell of Abernethy No hang Abernathy To b be Sure ur bal hang him and |
