Page Six. THE CAUCASIAN. I Thursdav, January 30, 1913. TRUTH ABOUT THE CASE The Experiences of M. F. Goron, Ex-Chief of the Paris Detective Police Edited by Albert Keyzer THE STAINED COLLAR 0 I I V r Mi ml (Copyright ty J. ES, sir; my mistress left borne yesterday afternoon at four o'clock to call on Mme. Meiser, where she stayed till nine In the eve ning; and from that mo ment I have not heard of her. I sat up all night, and Brune, the dog, never left off howling. I am certain something has happened." Two big tears ran down her wrinkled face. "How long have you been with Mme. Servois?" I asked. "Twelve years. I came to her a few days after her husband died. This morning at ten I became so nervous that I went down to Nogent-sur-Marne to see Mme. Meiser; and when I learned that my mistress was not there I called on M. Edouard. But he could give me no tidings of her." "Who is M. Edouard?" "Mme. Servois's nephew, or, rather, one of her nephews. My dear, good mistress! I am sure she has been mu mur " I Haw the woman was becoming hys terical, and advised her to go homo, promising to search for Mme. Servois. I .learned that Mme. Servois was a widow of about forty-five, comfortably off, living in the Rue Labie, a quiet Btreet leading from the Boulevard Pereire. Her only relatives were two nephews, the sons of her deceased sis- Marne. It. Lippiucoli Cu t ten, and was now going to call at an other cafe where, perhaps, be might have found "work." This cafe, to which she conducted me, was filled with smoke, and the audience roared the refrain of a song delivered by an elderly man with a long red nose and laughing eyes. Aft er a quick glance through the room, my companion walked up to a table occupied by five art students and four girls comfortably squeezed to gether. "Have any of you Been Auguste to night?" asked Claire. No; nobody had seen him. The girl after a moment's silence turned to me. "I will make another try will you come?" The next place with which I was very familiar was a third-rate night restaurant. Somebody was presiding over an old piano in the corner, but the clatter of plates and the noisy laughter drowned every other sound. "I wonder wtiat has become of him?" said Claire, "He is not here; nor did I see him last night. I shall wait here a little while." As I was ordering refreshments, a youth passed. "Seen Auguste tonight?" Claire called to him. "No, nor last night. But I caught sight of him yesterday at Nogent-sur- He was walking down a pri ms." I replied. 1 cannot give sc pinion. Sinoe the day Mme. Metier igttly or wrongly reeognlied the re 2iains as those of the missing woman I faaTe had nothing bat supposition to guide me." At Mme. Servois bankers. I learned that she kept her securities at home in an Iron safe, and regularly with drew the greater part of the sums collected for her. Neither they nor the lawyers had the faintest idea how much money she had la her posses sion, as she never volunteered any statement; but they thought the amount must be considerable. I was growing Impatient. Thus far no fact that could In any way assist my search had been brought to light Certain deductions k2 me to suppose that Mme. Servois might have been murdered, while at other moments I was inclined to agree with Josephine that the body found In the Fontaine bleau Forest was not that of her mis tress. But, In that case, what had be come of her? While I was groping my way through this mist it was reported to me. late one afternoon, that Auguste had reappeared. He had gone back to his old lodgings and paid the six weeks' rent he owed. That same evening at nine I entered the cafe where I had first met Claire. Claire was sitting at a little table opposite a tall youth, who, even without the de scription I had of him, I at once recog nized by his likeness to Edouard. But he, who had been portrayed to me as shabbily dressed, wore a new suit of well-fitting clothes, and now and then looked down with evident pride at the gold watch chain that adorned his waistcoat I waited till it was sttrsed. "yo3 are tntTeifed !a ktsewtre what befell Mine. SrvcJa. ?be may possibly have been tfcs victim of a foul plot; and I ask you cow to r?iy to my questions," i am sorry," he said, after a pac. "I cannot oblige you. My business la Nogcnt-sur-Marce was of a strictly private nature, and had nothing to do with my aunt's disappearance." "You will. I am afraid, think as very Indiscreet, If I ask you now how It Is that you. who for the lajt threw years have not had a fiTe-franc r !? in your pocket, are all at one remark ably Gush?" He changed color, and watehfd m a moment "M. Goron." be at lat excising i. "I have made a lucky troe; and. I r-i-'at, it Is a private matter that dr not concern any one." "I have no rirht" I r tort el, "to pry Into your a"a!rs; but you must ex cuse me If I draw my own conclusions from your attitude. I have no more to say to you. Good night." He moved toward the door, and then suddenly turned around. , "M. Goron," he cried. "I have not withheld any information from you. because I have none to offer. But let me give you some advice. Beware of my brother. With his sanctimonious airs, bo is an unprincipled black guard!" I watched him cross the road, while out of the darkness one of my men. dressed like a laborer, emerged, and shadowed him. I was making no headway. There were no tidings of Mme. Servois; the body at the morgue had not been offi cially identified. Mme. Mesler and Josephine had nothing but lamenta- Ys- "And ytrj otaa ta sy 5t ! ttftr thai stain yotj draw yosr ir.fr.rtrr? I wttl i;!!a It all to yoa aSt I tite rout 3 rcy deductieri rr tns. Yen might tzi ttxraa now. ;?!t;s, a Utile too suttle." Tfcirtea days elapsed, as I tbeo gat a of relief, for I had o!ed my prch'eta. I st a mAC to Aujr-t and he soon jst ta aa ar Iwan. drerd ta another nw u!t cf eIotb- M V , aatkms to hear th mystery cleared tsp. tad uked to tx r ret en t at th Interview, "M Aurute. ! bjcn. "can yoa g1r. m- sny tilings cf yoar a-ctT" -No. !r" "IWf th!f cot distress jcuT "It do " Then put your n!nd at ret Mme. Servois Is in the bcU of health, and went to lf.dcn with a yocng Kcriitb rr.an. c&!i-J Jam Brijs. They hav takn a furnished arartroent In Baker itr-i. Would you Ilk to know the number? August gate a slight start. 'I don't rr.'r.J tc-tl'r.g you, M An al lis 4 Zrm far. At4 as s6t r sr c 19 4rra!x aayUlag ta case ItTitft ? tx&' " 'Tea heard, or co-sr. I rssa?ks4 to feisa. W Uram. SrU' 41$?' - as 4 tu W.cry It ssJi4r " Ye. sir.' t?t tae ftzZ, CtCt8 s?-4 tt wcnjJ-4 b 3 t slt. afed ti.a: th 5!ic. Tjisc oa a rosu: st, wcwi4 sewa Ur cf liir rarch" "Te. M. A- rsst," I s4 to tsat youth. "It wm ym tr1f4 f fc5 ts. A t i ytni tin Ifcte4 Ts5'f to ytmr as C fit lr- tr-rti-ait; rfs; 'a.:! 11. i I s -f. sb sa!4 yoy ttr.er fcr ytmr n rtM-r .! A cgv ',. I ta afr!4 b r.ow itrik yJ ot of tr tn' W!t Mrs SerscJs' !rde s44res to. tr.y pot ".. It rest u ruy I ne to c ;- of ray J"ct Uni YarS r!ir-:t, a?.5 r-ied prvtr.r I reply that at "Lai a34rr a Mr Briers and a French t r Tt!s Mr i?r!s ttry to Eve. u i trainer's Sfcs'stafct ho hd ccm- to Ix rdt ri In cr?s Sled . , " . . 1 wur Dusiness I v.f-w c.:cier j in s-uste. I continued, that, s'though of 1 . , . . . . . . n . ; fee v one cf ytur frirras; ara It s quite etiVct that Mir Sfi! hd late I haJ no r:iJ ci retarding your aunt's fate. I nevertheless was del'ghW. when, searching your apart ment. I came upon the. truth." "TLo collar'" cried M. F. ; "we have at last come to It " "Yes; wo have come to It The crumpled collar was in a drawer hid den behind a lot of handkerchief and ribbons, "it wemed so out of place that it attracts! my attention. 1 took it up, and at the back di8covrrd a slight sttin. which on careful exami nation proed to have been cauised by hair-dye. ter. Auguste. the elder, a genuine vate road with a young chap who Bohemian, having failed in various , looked like a jockey." professions, took up painting and I "What on earth was he doing at earned his living by drawing portraits ! Nogent-sur-Marne?" remarked Claire. for one franc each in the cares in And I asked myseir tne same question. Montmartro, where ho was well known, j remembering that Mme. Servois had His younger brother, Edouard. was a not been heard of since she went to stock-broker's clerk, ttoth visited their ( that place the day before, aunt pretty regularly, especially Au- j Four days elapsed, and every morn guste, who frequently applied to her ( ing and afternoon Josephine came to for sranll loans. I was also informed me, to know whether I had any tid that Mme. Servois had made a will ings of her mistress. Mme. Mesier bequeathing them the bulk of her , and Edouard likewise called; but none property. Mme. Servois entertained j of them could supply any clue. As to very little; but, music-mad, was seen Auguste, who, as I discovered, lived at every concert and matinee. Her j in a small bedroom on the sixth floor closest friend was Mme. Meiser, and . in the Rue Houdon, he had not been during the last two years the two had home for several days, nor had Claire been inseparable. j seen him. Josephine, the woman who came to This is how matters stood when on me, had given me Edouard's address, the fifth day Paris was startled by the and I asked him to call. He was a news of a horrible discovery in the sickly youth, prematurely bnld, with j Fontainebleau Forest. A party of hol an unpleasant rasp in his voice. He iday-makers had been picnicking in could throw no light on the affair and the neighborhood c? Barbizon and had confirmed Josephine's statement that I gone for a ramble, when, passing his aunt's day was regulated by the ; through some bushes, two of them clock. She always went to bed at , stumbled over a sack. They cut the ten; and tbo fact of her having stayed rope with which it was tied, and be out all night certainly looked Buspl- held the headless body of a woman. C10US j I immediately went to Rarbizon to "She may have met with an accl- : inspect the ghastly find. The head dent," he eald "but I dread worse." j was absent, the arms and legs were "What makes you suppose this?" J mangled beyond recognition, and ac- He shrugged his lean shoulders, and cording to the medical evidence the I repeated by question. criraf ha been committed a "I don't know. It's a presentiment ' couple of days before. The skirt still j LiUUg lu lUf uuuy. it whs a biirj I material called, I think, foulard, of a ! dark blue color with little white dots printed all over it. My first thought, of course, was of I have." "Where Is your brother?" I asked. I don't speak. His address is wher ever he can obtain lodgings on tick. Fou'll find him any night knocking about La Butte. You don't need a letter of introduction," he added, with a chuckle. I dismissed my unpleasant visitor and an hour later saw Mme. Meiser, Mme. Servois, and I begged Mme. Mei?er and Josephine to assist me in my investigations. The condition of the body rendered identification almost impossible, but Mme. Mesier at once recognized the dress as hav- a weiipreservea lasnmnauiy i.u . Josephine Bhook her head aBd de woman with dazzling white teeth. j clared the whJte gpotg Qn her mJa. Mme. Servois, she stated, had spent wro Mrfr a few hours with her and had left her , . aa 1 DTTCai l A3 ATI 111 vT. KJ A UIVUW, at about nine o'clock, making an ap pointment to meet the following aft ernoon. She was very much dis tressed, and begged me to do all in my power to discover her missing friend. "That young Edouard," I said, "did not faeem very upset." "I am not surprised," she retorted; "he is a selfish little brute. My friend always disliked him and preferred Auguste, vagabond as he is." "Having known Mme. Servois inti mately, can you think why she should have gone away?" "No, I cannot. If there had been a secret in Tier life she would have con fided it to me. It seems extraorai faary." I had already sent the exact descrip tion of Mme. Servois to every police commissary in the metropolis; and, that same night after dinner, went to Montmartro to have a talk with Au guste. His brother had spoken the truth. Auguste was well known in that part of the town, and in less than a quarter of an hour I ascertained where to find him. It was in one of those quaint, email cabarets which abound at Mont martre, where for the price of a glass of beer one can listen to recitations and songs by talented, out-of-elbow artists, to many of whom Montmartre Is the first step on the ladder to fame. Mile. Claire, a pretty girl with Clec Merodlc hair, who sang some senti mental ballads, was, I had been told, Augusta's particular friend. It struck eleven o'clock, and there was no sisrn of Auguste. I saw Claire omoii mom. whence she tsuuci a emerged with her hat and cloak and tfton urnlked ranldly to the door. t followed her. and asked where I onM find Auguste. She replied that she had been waiting for him since not!" exclaimed said Mme. Mesier. "I swear it is Josephine. "Where did she buy the material, or who made the dress?" I asked. Unfortunately neither of them knew. Mme Servois had the year before made a tour through Germany and had bought the costume there, lost her hert to that youth. h4 taken you Into her ronfiictir. 4. with your assistance, r in a ay Hh h!nv Why? That la the only i-oir.t tout which I am rot quit certain Ya tuirfct en!!jti.ien me?" Ai.ut lookvd no tfcep'.sb that M F. and I tuirtt out laurhk;j: "I have. nc-tMr.c to add." rroane-d Aurust "yu ferreted It all tut your self. As to lh rfamtj why my aunt was in uch a hurry to sway with ! Jimmy, that Is a oMnion you had bter put to her When a woman of her ajr low lr hart hi usually lots her h-!d ; w-!l " And he atriiked ut of th room. Mmo SVro!n marri.! Mr. Urtrrs; but left hhn x months later, after j which r t!j-n'3 to !aria. Mrklnc j consolation in r-li;1on. Khe bejuath ! ed her fortune to th Church and to j charitable ins'itutions August and j Edouard Inherited nnthlug. WHAT IS THE HARDEST SH0T7 ! Golfing Experti Find It Hardto AQree As to the Mcst DifTtcult Plays on the Links. It was sugRffted by Mark AUrlon the other day that th most difficult shot in golf Is tho full cli-f-k shot up to the hol with the following wind. Tfd Hay writes us that ho consider "the most di.Hcult fhot is a full hot up to the hole with a cl k, with the ball lying on a hanging U and oa hard ground " C. H. Mayo hrta Fympathy for those who find ptitting on sun baked green an ordfal froi which they sdirlnk. "Personally, I think." he writes, "that the two-foot put Ih the hardest stroke in the game, a o much de;nds on It." He might have added that If the put be downhill Its terrors are in creased a hundredfold. "The most difficult shot I know." writes George Duncan, "Is a full ban up to tbo hole with the wind blowing i in from the back." Duncan does not specify that the full phot is to be made with a cleek nor does he make Ray's stipulation about the kind of 11 and the nature of the ground, j Mr. J. Lawrence C. Jenkins, the I Scottish International and semi-finalist In last year's Irish championship, re plies: "One day, one shot; another day, another shot" Ho points out that it is difficult to give a straight answer to the question, because "one day you may be playing best the shot you were worst at the previous day." Pall Mall Gazette. I AT ONCE RECOGNIZED HIM BY HIS LIKENE55 TO .EDOUARD uoes your mistress dye her hatrr I asked Josephine. again Claire's turn to sing, and, walk ing to his table, said: "Good evening. I am M. Goron, and am anxious to have a chat with you. As it is too noisy -here will you como with me to my office, where we can smoke a cigarette?" He gave a passing nod to Claire, who was in the midst of her song, The body was transferred to Paris ana we uiuve iuiuci w i and exposed in the morgue, where- ture. unon matters became still more com- "Do you know," I said, "that your ! plicated, for a farmer from Lisleux aunt, Mme. Servois, has mysteriously recognized the dress as that of his sis- disappeared ana tna cer inenas are ter, who had run away from her home concerned about her?" a month ago; and a corn merchant in He nodded. the Rue Vieille-du-Templo was equally "Do you likewise know that a worn- ncittvA !! it hna heloneed to his i an'a maneled remains have Deen Paris slang for Montmartre. divorced wife. How, in view of these conflicting statements, could I hope to trace the murderer? I instructed my chief assistant to follow up the vague clues supplied by the farmer and the corn merchant, and imposed upon myself the task of discovering whether there was a connecting link betweeu Mme. Servois' disappearance and the finding of the body. The coincidence of Auguste having been seen at Nogent-sur-Marne, the day Mme, Servois called there on her friend, had caused me to have his lodgings watched night and day. But, thus far, he had not turned up there nor at his favorite haunt, where Claire was still waiting for him every night I next saw Mme. Servois lawyer, who was very anxious about his client "Young Edouard," he said, "has al ready been to see me several times. He knows that in the event of his aunt's death he will inherit a large share of her property, and his thoughts seem to run more on the money than on the fate that may have befallen her. M. Goron, do you really think that the body found is hat nf Mme. Servois? In the face of all these contradio- found near Barbizon, and that Mme. Mesier firmly believes they are those of your aunt?" He nodded again. "Knowing all this," I continued. "how is it that you should have se lected this moment to vanish in an inexplicable manner?" He cleared his throat and said: "I was compelled to absent myself on an Important matter. "What matter?" "That's my business. Why do you ask?" "I will tell you that later. Where did you go?" "That's also my business." "Do you know whom your aunt went to see the day she disappeared?" 'Tes, she went to see Mme. Mesier." "How do you know?" "I read it in the papers." "Where were you that day? "Why do you ask?" "Because you, too, were at Nogent- sur-Marne. and I thought that you might give me some information about Mme. Servois movements. He blew a cloud of smoke and re mained silent "Wor mora reasons than one, I re- tions to offer; and Auguste had man aged to entangle the affair still more by imparting to it another mysterious note. Thus far with me everything was hypothesis, and my only chance of finding a clue was to make a thor ough inspection of Mme. Servois' apartment The day following, at two in the afternoon, I drove with M. F. , the examining magistrate, to the Rue Labie. M. F. 's secretary accom panied us. It was a cosy, well-furnished apartment the pictures and ornaments bespeaking the woman of taste. Followed by the faithful Jose phine, who, as usual, burst out crying the moment she caught sight of me. I began my inspection of the place. I lost no time ver the drawing-room. dining-room, and boudoir, but made straight for Mme. Servois bedroom. for it is a woman's bedroom that un folds secrets not so easily found in any other corner of a house, and it is there I have always come upon the personal touches that help me in my searches. An hour later, cn our way back, M F. . who had been watching me from a corner of his eye, said, "Yon look pleased, Goron. Have yon any good news?" :Yes," I replied, "the news is rather eood. I have a proof that the lady who has given me so many sleepless nights is alive and well. "How did you find It out? cried M. F excitedly. "By this." And I handed him a white satin col lar lined with silk, very much crum pled. "How do you deduce anything from that?" he exclaimed. "Look at the back!" I retorted. Ha turned the collar around and around. "Do you refer to that little stain?" the last three "'Yes, sir.' "'Since when?' " 'Only within months.' ' 'Did your mistress take a bag with her the day she went to Nogent-sur- IJarner " 'Yes, sir. The little yellow leather bag she generally takes when she goes there, to carry book and other things. "I explored every nook and corner. and did not discover a single bottle of hair-dye. And the truth flashed upon me. When a woman especially one of mature age starts on a jour ney, she may forget or leave behind many indispensable things but her hair dye never. I had not the slight- est doubt that Mme. Servois had left Paris for some mysterious reason, and that there was a man in the case. My next step was to discover her where abouts; and, armed with a list of all the hairdressers In the metropolis, I called every day at a certain number of places, unM I came to the shop of M. H , in the Rue Croix-des-Petits- Champa. In reply to my question whether Mme. Servois was one of his clients he shook his head. But I guessed he did not speak the truth and soon frightened him into confess ing that he supplied her regularly with hafar dye. "Have yon sent her any of labs? I asked. "He hesitated a second, and burst out: " 1 can't help It! I don't see why I should get into trouble over this business. Look here, M. Goron, a young gentleman called and asked for a bottle of my dye. He paid for it, he returned and said that, as he was no hand at making parcels, be begged me to tend the stuff to Mme. Serrol To Test Darwin's Theory. Dr. John B. Wateon, director of the psychological laboratory at the John Hopkins rnrversity, has adapted a unique method of testing the Darwin ian theory. Seven weeks ago a monkey was born at the institution. The parents, who were very intelligent had been trained carefully by the scientists, and the offspring of such parents is be lieved to afford an opportunity of de termining how near to a human being a monkey can be brought The little fellow has not yet been taken from his mother, who fondle and guards him with jealous care. When ready for schooling every effort will be put forth to develop his mind along lines that will tax his mental capacity to assimilate knowledge. Rejected let Cream Suit. A south side young man. who hs a reputation for wearing the sportiest clothes to be obtained, recently de cided to give one of his very light suits to the colored houseman. The young man took the suit from his room and went down into the yard where the servant, who is especially black, was working. "Look here," he said. Tv got a fine suit here which I would like to see you wear." The colored fellow took one look at the suit and exclaimed: "Lawsee, boss, I couldn't wear that suit I would look like a fiy In a bot tle of milk, and you knows that's a terrible disgusting sight" Exchange. Grusl Insinuation. "Baggs told the boys he was very angry when they put a monkey la the picture w?th him." "Yes, and the boys told him they knew It for anyone could see he waa beside himself." Explaining. I know a man whose life Is al ready between two covers, but nobody has ever read it" "Who Is he?" The sandwich man,

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