Show dangerous Ian Iange gerou rous conspirator probably no well meaning poet wit was 8 cvet more taken by surprise than was M pech a gentle and anti mild mannered frencl dramatist of the seventeenth SM century w he was one day arrested for high treason trea tr ela son i ho be was peacefully ully eating his ills dinner at it village inn the I 1 he landlord of the inn where there he lie was in the hibit habit of 0 dining discovered ered on a table a 0 piece of paper on which were written some unintelligible phrases and below in n 1 plain bold hind hand h ind litre here I 1 will lilt 1111 L the ling king the landlord consulted with the chief 0 of police cleany this clew to a conspiracy ought 01 klit to bo be followed up the person per soil abc had left the paper hid had already been re marked m irked tor for his absent air and gleaming eye that man was rc the chief of police instructed the land lord ford to send for him the tile next time the tile con coll spi come to dinner when wl en Pech autro was shown the erl ert dence of hia ills guilt he lie forgot the tile awful charge against him and exclaimed I 1 well I 1 am glad to we see that paper I 1 have hai e looked everywhere tor for it it is part of a tragedy I 1 am writing it i the dim climax ix of my best scene where nero Is io to br be killed it comes in ili here let me read road it tc you and he be took a thick from on b his Is pocket monsieur you may anish your dionci and your tragedy in ili peace wild sald the chief of police and ho he beat a hasty retreat youtha youths coin companion p anion |