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THE SHADE OF PETERBEE

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sheets. One heard the cries draw cramping fingers snapped the stem, ncar, raucous, imperturbable, like and then blood, mixed with the wine,

} For myself, I would not put the approach of vultures that scent dripped heavy on the floor. match to the beak of gas. The man

death.

Chicot locked to the door. “Good carried himself toọ much ณ. ig:

"He'll be up in a giving orders. I do not love that What is it that they cry↑. What!luck!” said he. under my own tiles, you understand. is it that they cry?" asked the minute."

"Up in a minute!" repeated "Hate It?" questioned Chicot. Spaniard, leaning himself over the

Medina, like one who talks, in his) There is enough of light in other places Me, I love to watch the Chicot drew him back. "Come" sleep Up in a minute! No, no; shadows grow and the far lights he said, "I would not love to pick we must stop him!"

Suddenly he fell silent, frozen. you up from the pave down there. born

And then we stayed silent, for, in Those papers? It is some apache For myself, I had seen; bat it was truth, something had come in with who has knifed a policeman, as the voice that warned Chicot that we were witnesses of some terrible] Medina-something sinister and un- suppose."

We went, all three, back into the sort of nervous' crisis. The natural, not to be seen..

"One usually finds Peterbee here," room and sat down. Medina rolled Spaniard faced the light. He might I said at last, for the sake of say another cigarette restlessly. Some have been cast in bronze

The bent right arm still held the Jing something. "He finishes his how it seemed as though we were

waiting for something something broken glass awry. His face was picture for the Salon, I imagine."

evil and inevitable. The Spaniard what one might picture of a soul in "Sin "Sindon" cried Medina..

"Lend me two sous," bell. don't

His picture is nothing-spoke first. daub...

He drew himself up, tall he said irritably. "I will go down And in the quiet, echoing on the wooden stair, the steps drew slowly and lean, like a lank black cat, and get a paper."

nearer, de "Me," he said, "I have painted the

Two sous! We laughed.

The good Deschanel," said Chicot. It would be perhaps ten seconds prize picture of this year. The ten thousand francs, I have painted it.""He has got a cheque for a picture, before they reached the turn. By It is worth more than two sous, that time we had realised that for "It is finished, then?" I asked. "No," returned Medina, rolling imagine. Will you take that? But some reason it was an affair of vital We are artists of interest to Medina to know whether cigarette. In the half-light his two sous, sir! face showed a curious conceited grin. Montmartre. What would you?" this was Sindon who mounted or not. The cries were below us in the One could almost trace a feeble "I have done some very good work

Istreet.

I went to the window and fount of reassurance springing in to-day-some very good work.

his mind. It was as though, striv will finish the picture to night, but listened.

"What is it. Deschanel?" cried the ing for comfort, he said to himself, now I rest.” Suddenly he leaped,

"This is not Sindon! It cannot be Spaniard. snarling, across the room to 'Chicot's elbow. "God!" be cried. "Why do you hum that?"

It was just the little nursery is of a time, "Pierrot," that Chicot was humming in his nose.

"Ma chandelle est moris

Je n'ai plus de feu,

Ouvrez moi ta porte,

Pour l'amour de Dieu.”

"Why?" asked Chicot, surprised. "May I not sing that? Must every- one sing "Tricotrin?' It was a re- vue, you understand. All Paris wasį

"Hist!"* I said, and leant for Sindon!" ward latening.

On the landing the steps paused. "It is an artist of Montmartre For myself, I heard the little back- who kills himself," I said, for the ward step as the visitant addressed cry had just come to me. "What?" cried Chicot.

flumself to the leap; then, unmis

takably, the jump, the stumble, the The Spaniard nodded and got up, muttered exclamation.. stretching himself. "Deschanel says "Peterbeel" said Chic, wondering

It is an artist of Montmartre who, at the Spaniard's terror. "Peterbee, ing. "I wonder who that can be?" has taken poison," he replied amil-or his ghost!":

Suddenly Medina broke out weep-

ing and rushed to the door. "Not Now, I had not said that. "Some poor devil of a chap," said that!" he cried, "not that! For the mad on it. "In effect," he went on work turned down." Medina walk-

1, "whe grows tired of having his love of heaven, keep him out!”

"Don't be a fool," said Chicot. soberly, for the Spaniard's suddened to the door and back again. The "We must admit old Peterbee." He fury had startled him, "I suppose air of inssitude had fallen from him. laughed a little. the only the reason I hummed

But Medina had clasped the door 3rd Oct.Pierrot' was because I wondered if "Suppose it should be Sindon?” said

he.

handle with both hands and was 12th Nov. Peterbee would by chance arrive to-

a}) his It is a strange thing that the idea pressing against it with night. It is his way to cry at the

·more than his door, 'Open me your door, then, for was in my mind, and Chicot has told strength, with

strength, in effect, for this Medina the love of God. I fell into it with me since that it was in his also.

"Impossible!" I said.. It seemed was mad with terror. "Bindon," he out consideration."

so absurd to consider as a reality wailed, "don't come near me. Don't Medina laughed. "Pardon," he

that this splendid Peterbee, brave, touch me, Sindon! Have mercy! I said. "I have worked hard. Му

choery, strong as an ox, successful, know I did it." I know I put It In nerves are like fiddle-strings, per full of the joy of life and kindness the wine, but I did not make you fectly. But he smiled-"I will

to the unfortunate, could be blotted drink it, Sindon I will do any win the prize-I, Emanuele Silva di

Jout like that.

|thing, I will pray for your soul—” 6th Oct. Medina-the first prize of the

"1" insisted Medina.

The steps had reached the door, 7th Nov. Salon."

"Then our little world of Mont-and a voice, in the accent of Ameri-{ martre would lose a good friend," ca, broke into tupeless song: said I.

"You have Peterbee to reckon with," said I.

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"And you would gain the prize at the Salon," continued Chicot.

In truth, one knew that the busi- ness lay between them, for these yere the giants among the young

The Spaniard laughed softly. men. "Have you seen his picture,But it is of a folly the most ex- treme," he said. "This is some poor

"Ouvrez moi ta port,

Pour l'amour de Dieu.”

It stopped. A hand rattled at the. handle.

That was the end for Medina. It

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after a pause"as good as mine."

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Somehow the fact that Medina the door. The strength drained ont 24th Sept. the window: "Come," said he.

agreed with me stuck in my gorge of him. He sank grovelling. Then, 2nd Oct. "Regard the heavens, how they "Yes," I said, "in a business of this with a sudden spurt of energy, he 20th Oct. flame."

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through the open window. "In 1st Oct. "Epatant," murmured Chicot.

The door few wide.

The Spaniard got up quickly.

"By the great. Mike," said a voice the country from which I come folk

that was not Sindon's. "What game || 21st Sept. say it is a sign of murder or vio-"Oh, light the gas!" he said. "I'm

sick of this darkness." - lent death."

Chicot was ever a bit of a philoso-do you children play? I have come pher. The most interesting pro-back, I'm dead sick of Barbison. blem in your hypothesis," he said, Where's Peterbee?" as he put a match to the gas, "in It was Vanderloo, what would become of Peterbee's "ghost"?"-"

"Fool" cried Medina angrily. There are murders every day."

"In the country, they say many foolish things,” I said.","

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"Vanderloo, I should say," Chicot explained."

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***“Oh," said I," "Vanderloof He's I said..

at Barbizon. He won't be back for "I meant you should," he return-

a month. Yes, he would be pretty ed. "If I could be like the old ass well cut up. The child thinks in other things as I am in those I'd there's no one in the world like 'Bin-do credit to Incle Bam."

don. See how he copies his manner Suddenly Chicot woke up. "Don and dress fun Say you see?? he cried, “Beme

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