■f* ». 4 I 4 ♦ . •/ • >'"> N* « • «* - - : ’.X * *» • * 4* . . ? a *» * .r'K * > * •v » ■ « t -•■l.t * « ■ r*. 4« ' 18 »«■ R«- k '■ kÚ. F*' ’i' - ♦ ’ ' » ' « .te’T 7 F i te » « > 4 y z • • ■if* •< BL ¡■'’'•tir fr „ • • : J.-' * 4 « ■ * • > 9 ' .. » • 4 Va • 1 • ’• • •• •• . a et «Vf •V r • . - _ ’» Ve • ■ - . jt ., ■« * * I . a 1 ( • r a f • Jt_ • • * The Roupell Mystery 1 • i By 0 Austyn Qranville « •I.’1’ S a * / X » t • • : 9 » !. U? - a K'-Ü CHAFTEH X! -(t'oatiuued. i lie apring from th* barb, tba water dripping from bl* firm. »Lit* bv-ly and gltotaolng la big drop* > -> (te thick hair oa hi* braving - brat •• he rush'd acruea lb* 6vr ut bi* sitting room, bold g bl« towel around blm with on* bao-1 He op*o*-d tb* door a llttl* way and took In tb* letter. Hull bolding hie towel about blm. h* «too,I eiao, mrig the rnvrlope very A« carefully A* h* he »tood stood thua. thus elth um- f-«< slightly thrown fur forward, ward, all bi« weight ua hla left leg, hla muerl«* •<****! eut Ilk* whipcord* Ill* r/rw were bright sad tb« light of a t>«*w Intervet auddrtilj •prang loro them If« prraa&ted thue • •pletidld »per linen of phy«h'a| Ktmuhood He bad little orcaa.-m for th* briak rut, blng to which b* trraterl hlmaelf. when . b* he-I put -town the letter uuopraed. merely remarking "I woaiier what t'asaagne I* doing at Villeneuve " The heat of hl« young and vlgorou* bvwiy had almost evaporated the moieture lie went back Into hi* bedTrejol ami put on a soft, »liken eult of pajarnaa, caught at the waist with a Lvocad-u! tell lie took a taaaelte! Turkish fee fr-xa I'» peg and put It on hie brad Then te went In tn hla ritncolate am! rolla, ph koi up bl* morning l»*p»r and Lain to tewd lie •blmmed the aheet at diet a lib • languid Interest, eating vary deliberately a* bl« •y* travele«I over the paper Nuddenly he cam* to thl* Kern "Nothing new baa transpired »lace yesterday In regard to the murder of Mme lioupell at tbe filatemi Vili* nstie*-----" II* got ua further fia«b ha dropped tbe (riper and out and t>«k hold of the letter which ba Ua*al over. Charlee 1*’Aubur<>n read them ter Ira very cere fully, alpplng hla bov-ulate *o elowly that the content* of the cup were almost cold before h« finished It. Hereral minutes •tapaed before te finally put tjaaaaga»'« letter on on* *ld” and lay ba<4 to think, It wa* curious that hi« naw Arid of activity abould at last liara brought him Into amtart pr<>fe»«l