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Wkek KNDINO 3°, 1915
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PICTURES AND THE PICTUREGOER
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Irini on. hi vain he searched the room Perhaps, lie thought, hi father had taken the papers with him So desperate had lie become that he |0ok, the risk. Sfasking his face, he went into his father's bedroom. and as gent lj .1 possible inserted his hand under 1 li • pillow. Tin' action aroused the old General, who sprang from the bed ami grappled with tlif intruder, Forward ami back thej struggled until the General, seizing his sworcf lunged at his opponent Realising that his life was uow at stake, Jules seized a heavj ornament ami b truck the ■ !il man. With a groan of anguish he subsided senseless to the floor, and Jules, seising the packet, Bed from tha house
He handed the papers to the spy, and, iving tin money, went to Du Vorchien, who gave him the 1 O I'. '1'.' stop tlif bleeding of the wound in his arm. he bound it round with his handkerchief.
For hours General Bleriol lay unconscious. "When he recovered he missed the papers, ami gradually pieced toge ther the incidents of the midnight
Bttuggle. To his isjfe he .said. "1 was
robbed last night. Mj assailant was an officer. [ saw his Uniterm 1 wounded him in the arm. and be Btrack me on
the head."
Then his wife remembered that she had hoard Jules moving about in the night. But no, her boy would not rob his father.
•' Whoever committed the theft will be shot as a spy," said the old soldier. fiercely.
At the fort the Genera] sent for Juniere. " The papers you delivered to me last Bight were stolen by an officer. I wounded him in the left arm. We must go quietly to work." And to the Major he said. '"Search for an officer with a wounded arm."
The morning had found Jules in a miserable and depressed condition. Now that the excitement of the night had gone, he realised the enormity of his offence, and began to scheme a way out. Supposing bis father remembered that
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he had wounded his assailant in the arm! Upon whom could he east suspicion:' The thought of Jeffrey came uppermost. His brother officer had robbed him of the girl he loved, and now, perhaps, he could pay him out.
At least he could try. As he walked to the house he plotted to ruin his rival. Jeffrey and Marie were seated very closely together when he arrived, and an engagement-ring sparkling upon the hand of the girl confirmed bis suspicions that she loved Jeffrey. The newcomer looked so unhappy that the lovers saw that something was wrong, and Marie left the two men alone.
" What is troubling you, Jules ? " asked the other.
" Oh, things are rotten. I seem to have made a mess of everything," replied the schemer.
"Is it lorr.s: Speak! Tell me the truth t "
" Cheer up, man ; keep a brave heart. We shall need all our strength
a 1'iitly." said the buoyant lmer.
Suddenly Jules took a clasp-knife from his pocket. " I have nothing to live for," he cried, and was in the act of stabbing himself when Jeffrey sprang forward and received tha point of the knife in his left forearm. Jules expressed his deep regret, and carefully bound up the other's wound. '' Don't tell mj father or mother," he said ; it will break their hearts."
Then the villain went home, removed the bandage from his own arm, and hid his bloodstained handkerchief under clean linen in his wardrobe.
Meanwhile the officers of the garrison were individually called before the General, who, on one pretext or another, touched or seized the left arm of each one. As soon as Jeffrey reported for duty he was sent to the General, and almost shivered with pain as his arm was unexpectedly seized.
Remembering his promise to Jules, he offered no explanation when asked how he came by the wound, and was immediately arrested.
The proceedings at the court-martial were brief. To all the officers the wound was conclusive evidence of guilt, but Jeffrey would not say how it was inflicted.'
■• Lieutenant le Brand refuses to explain how he received . wound," said General Bleriot to his son'.
" Your son might be able to explain it." replied Jeffrey.
•• 1 cannot." said Jules, robbing his in-other-officer of the last chance.
And Jeffrey le Brand, true to his promise to a man he believed was his friend, heard the President say that, found guilty of high treason, he would die at sunrise.
Jules' mother fought against the idea that Jules knew, at least, something of the theft. Her boy's manner had been so strange 01 late, and to day he looked