Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 196, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 8, 1893 Page: 3 of 4
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H. FRINGE, See. and Treas.
B. ADOUE, Vice Pres’t.
H. HAMILTON, President.
By EDGAB ALLAN POE
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53— 37th and Ave L
54— 37th and Ave O
56—29th and Ave Q
61— 22d and Postoffice
62— 17th and Postoffice
63— 10th and Market
64— 13th and Ave L
65— 18th and Ave N
71—21st and Ave I
73— 35th and Broadway
74— 30th and Postoffice
75— 29th Street Wharf
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34— 29th and Mechanic 121—32d and Ave K
M onz. «7123—22d and Ave L
124—26th and Market
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“Or not,” said Dupin.
“Well, then, I have received personal
information from a very high quarter
that a certain document of the last im- ■
portance has been purloined from the
royal apartments. The individual who
purloined it is known. This beyond a
doubt. He was seen to take it. It is
known also that it still remains in his
possession.”
“How is this known?” asked Dupin.
“It is clearly inferred,” replied the pre-
fect, “from the nature of the document
and from the nonappearance of certain
results which would at once arise from
its passing it of the robber’s possession
—that is to say, from his employing it as
he must design in the end to employ it.”
‘ “Be a little more explicit,” I said.
“Well, I may venture so far as to say
that the paper gives its holder a certain
power in a certain quarter where such
power is immensely valuable. ” The pre-
fect was fond of the cant of diplomacy.
“Still I do not quite understand,” said
Dupin.
“No? Well, the disclosure of the docu-
ment to a third person, who shall be
nameless, would bring in question the
the honor of a personage of most exalted
station, and this fact gives the holder of
the document an ascendency over the
illustrious personage whose honor and
peace are so jeopardized.”
“But this ascendency,” I interposed,
“would depend upon the robber’s knowl-
edge of the loser’s knowledge of the rob-
ber. Who would dare”---
“The thief,” said G-----, “is the Minister
D---, who dares all things, those unbe-
coming as well as those becoming a man.
The method of the theft was not less in-
genious than bold. The document in
question—a letter, to be frank—had been
received by the personage robbed while'
alone in the royal boudoir. During its
perusal she was suddenly interrupted by
the entrance of the other exalted person-
age from whom especially it was her
wish to conceal it. After a hurried and
vain endeavor to thrust it into a drawer
she was forced to place it, open as it was, j
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LOCATION OF FIRE-ALAKM BOXES.
4—24tn and Strand 43—27th and Ave M
5 —Tremont and M’ket 45—27th and Ave 0%
6— Tremont andWinnie 46—31st and Ave H
7— 20th and Market
8— 25th and Ave I
12— 8th and Ave I
13— 10th and Winnie
14— 18th Street Wharf
15— 21st and Ave A
16— 12th and Strand
17— 14th and Market
21—16th and Ave H
23— 16th and Ive K
24— 22d and Strand . _ -------------
25— 19th and Broadway 72—23d and A ve P
26— 10th and Ave L "" J '
27— 13th and Ave I
81—25th aud Postoffice
. 32—33d ana Market
85— 32d and Winnie
86— 27th and Church ________________I
87— 37th and Postoffice 125—39th and Winnie
88— 12th and Church 12'’
41— 28th and Broadway 132—36th and Winnie
42— lOthund Broadway
“Suppose you detail, ” said I, “the par-
ticulars of your search.”
“You include the grounds about the
houses?”
“All the grounds are paved with brick.
They gave us comparatively little
trouble. We examined the moss be-
tween the bricks and found it undis-
turbed.”
“You looked among D---’s papers, of
course, and into the books of the li-
brary?”
“Certainly. We opened every package
and parcel. We not only opened every
book, but we turned over every leaf in
each volume, not contenting ourselves
with a mere shake, according to the fash-
ion of some of our police officers. We
also measured the thickness of every
book cover with the most accurate meas-
urements and applied to each the most
jealous scrutiny of the microscope. Had
any of the bindings been recently med-
dled with it would have been utterly
impossible that the fact should have es-
caped observation. Some five or six vol-
umes just from the hands of the binder
we carefully probed longitudinally with
the needles.”
“You explored the floors beneath the
carpets?”
“Beyond doubt. We removed every
carpet and examined the boards with the
microscope.”
“And the paper on the walls?”
“Yes.”
“You looked into the cellars?”
“We did.”
“Then,” I said, “you have been mak-
ing a miscalculation, and the letter is not
upon the premises, as you suppose.”
“I fear you are right there,” said the
prefect. “And now, Dupin, what would
you advise me to do?”
“To make a thorough research of the
premises.”
“That is absolutely needless,” replied
G----. “I am not more sure that I
breathe than I am that the letter is not
at the hotel.”
“I have no better advice to give you,”
said Dupin. “You have of course an
accurate description of the letter?”
“Oh, yes!” And here the prefect, pro-
ducing a memorandum book, proceeded
to read aloud a minute account of the
internal, and especially of the external,
appearance of the missing document.
Soon after finishing the perusal of this
description he took his departure, more
entirely depressed in spirits than I had
ever known the good gentleman before.
In about a month afterward he paid
us another visit and found us occupied
very nearly as before. He took a pipe
and a chair and entered into some ordi-
nary conversation. At length I said:
“Well, but, G----, what of the pur-
loined letter? I presume that you have
at last made up your mind that there is
no such thing as overreaching the minis-
ter?”
“Confound him, say I—yes. I made
the re-examination, however, as Dupin
suggested, but it was all labor lost, as I
knew it would be.”
“How much was the reward offered,
did you say?” asked Dupin.
“Why, a very great deal—a very lib-
eral reward—I don’t like to say how
much precisely. But one thing I will
say—that I wouldn’t mind giving my in-
dividual check for 50,000 francs to any
one who could obtain me that letter.
The fact is, it is. becoming of more and
more importance every day, and the re-
ward has been lately doubled. If it were
trebled, however, I could do no more
than I have done.”
“Why, yes,” said Dupin drawlingly
between the whiffs of his meerschaum,
“I really—think, G----, you have not
exerted yourself—to the utmost in this
matter. You might—do a little more, I
think. Eh?”
“How? In what way?”
“Why—puff, puff—you might—puff,
puff—employ counsel in the matter, eh?
—puff, puff, puff. Do you remember the
story they tell of Abernethy?”
“No; hang Abernethy!”
“To be sure; hang him and welcome.
But once upon a time a certain rich
miser conceived the design of sponging
upon this Abernethy for medical opin-
ion. Getting up for this purpose an
ordinary conversation in a private com-
‘ pany, he insinuated his case to the phy-
sician as that of an ordinary individual.
“ ‘We will suppose,’ said the miser,
‘that his symptoms are such and such.
Now, doctor, what would you have di-
i rected him to take?’
“ ‘Take!’ said Abernethy; ‘why, take
advice, to be sure.’ ”
“But,” said the prefect, a little dis-
composed, “I am perfectly willing to
take advice and to pay for it. I would-
really give 50,000 francs to any one who
would aid me in the matter.”
CONTINUED.
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upon a table. The address, however, <
was uppermost, and the contents thu§ 1
unexposed the letter escaped notice. <
“At this juncture enters the Minister i
D---. His lynx eye immediately per- 1
ceives the paper, recognizes the hand- i
writing of the address, observes the con- '
fusion of the personage addressed and .
fathoms her secret. After some business i
transactions, hurried through in his or-
dinary manner, he produces a letter ;
somewhat similar to che one in question,
opens it, pretends to read it and then
places it in close juxtaposition to the
other. Again he converses for some 15 :
minutes upon the public affairs. At
length, in taking leave, he takes also
from the table the letter to which he had
no claim. Its rightful owner saw, but
of course dared not call attention to thei
act in the presence of the third person-
age, who stood at her elbow. The min-
ister decamped, leaving his own letter--
one of no importance—upon the table.”
“Here, then,” said Dupin to me, “you
have precisely what you demand to make
the ascendency complete—the robber’^
knowledge of the loser’s knowledge of
the robber.”
“Yes,” replied the prefect, “and the
power thus attained has for some months
past been wielded for political purposes
to a very dangerous extent. The personage
robbed is more thoroughly convinced
every day of the necessity of reclaiming
her letter, but this of course cannot be
done openly. In fine, driven to despair,
she has committed the matter to me.”
“Than whom,” said Dupin, amid a
perfect whirlwind of smoke, “no more
sagacious agent could, I suppose, be de-
sired or even imagined.”
“You flatter me,” replied the prefect,
“but it is possible that some such opin-
ion may have been entertained.”
“It is clear,” said I, “as you observe
that the letter is still in the possession of
the minister, since it is this possession
and not any employment of the letter
which bestows the power. With the
employment the power departs.”
“True,”saidG----, “and uponthiscon-
viction I proceeded. My first case was
to make thorough search of the minister’s
hotel, and here my chief embarrassment
lay in the necessity of searching without
his knowledge. Beyond all things I
have been warned of the danger which
would result from giving him reason to
suspect our design.”
“But,” said I, “you are quite au fait
in these investigations. The Parisian
police have done this thing often before.”
“Oh, yes, and for this reason I did not
despair. The habits of the minister gave
me, too, a great advantage. He is fre-
quently absent from home all night. His
servants are by no means numerous.
They sleep at a distance from their mas-
ter’s apartment, and being chiefly Neapol-
n---~ - — —j-'i-------1- j have
keys, as you know, with which I can
open any chamber or cabinet in Paris.
For three months a night has not passed
during the greater part of which I have
not been engaged personally in ransack-
ing the D---hotel. My honor is inter-
ested, and, to mention a great secret, the
reward is enormous. So I did not aban-
don the search until I had become fully
satisfied that the thief is a more astute
man than myself. I fancy that I have
investigated every nook and corner of
the premises in which it is possible that
the paper can be concealed.”
“But is it not possible,” I suggested,
“that although the letter may be in pos-
session of the minister, as it unquestion-
ably is, he may have concealed it else-
where than upon his own premises?”
“This is barely possible,” said Dupin.
“The present peculiar condition of af-
fairs at court, and especially of those in-
trigues in which D---is known to be
i involved, would render the instant avail-
1 ability of the document—its susceptibil-
ity of being produced at a moment’s no-
, tice—a point of nearly equal importance
I with its possession.”
“Its susceptibility of being produced?”
I said I.
“That is to say, of being destroyed,”
! said Dupin.
“True,” I observed; “the paper is
; clearly then upon the premises. As for
its being upon the person of the minister,
we may consider that as out of the ques-
> tion.”
“Entirely,” said the prefect. “He has
j been twice waylaid, as if by footpads,
and his person rigorously searched under
) my own inspection.”
“You might have spared yourself this
. trouble,” said Dupin. “D----, I pre-
. sume, is not altogether a fool, and if not
! must have anticipated these waylayings
j as a matter of course.”
“Not altogether a fool,” said G----,
“but then he’s a poet, which I take to be
only one remove from a fool.”
“True,” said Dupin after a long and
were it known that I confided it to any thoughtful whiff from his meerschaum,
— » “although I have been guilty of certain
doggerel myself.”
“Suppose you detail,” said I, “the par-
ticulars of your search.”
“Why, the fact is, we took our time,
and we searched everywhere. I have
had long experience in these affairs. I
took the entire building, room by room,
devoting the nights of a whole week to
each. We examined first the furniture
of each apartment. We opened every
possible drawer, and I presume you
know that to a properly trained police
i- agent such a thing as a secret drawer is
1 impossible. Any man is a dolt who per-
mits a secret drawer to escape him in a
search of this kind. The. thing is so
plain. There is a certain amount of bulk
—of space—to be accounted for in every
cabinet. Then we have accurate rules.
The fiftieth part of a line could not escape
After the cabinets we took the
chairs. The cushions we probed with
the fine long needles you have seen me
employ. From the tables we removed
the tops.”
“Why so?”
“Sometimes the top of a table or other
similarly arranged piece of furniture is
removed by the person wishing to con-
ceal an article; then the leg is excavated,
the article deposited within the cavity,
and the top replaced. The bottoms and
tops of bed posts are employed in the
same way.”
“But could not the cavity be detected
by sounding?” I asked.
“By no means if when the article is
deposited a sufficient wadding of cotton
be placed around it. Besides, in our case
we were obliged to proceed without
noise.”
“But you could not have removed—
you could not have taken to pieces all
articles of furniture in which it would
have been possible to make a deposit in
the manner you mention. A letter may
be compressed into a thin spiral roll not
differing much in shape or bulk from a
large knitting needle, and in this form it
might be inserted into the rung of a
chair, for example. You did not take to
pieces all the chairs?”
“Certainly not; but we did. better—we
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Mrs. Moore,
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Ben Barnes,
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Mrs. Guel,
Mrs. C. Moore,
Whit E. Harris,
Mrs. Mclallan,
W. Posnainsky,
B. F. Yoakum,
Mrs. Higgias,
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examined the rfliigs of every chair in
the hotel, and indeed the jointings of
every description of furniture, by the
aid of a most powerful microscope. Had
there been any traces of recent disturb-
ance we should not have failed to de-
tect it instantly. A single grain of gim-
let dust, for example, would have been
as obvious as an apple. Any disorder in
the gluing, any unusual gaping in the
joints, would have sufficed to insure de-
tection.”
“I presume you looked to the mirrors,
between the boards and the plates, and
you probed the beds and the bedclothes
as well as the curtains and carpets.”
“That, of course. And when we had
absolutely completed every particle of
the furniture in this way, then we ex-
amined the house itself. We divided its
entire surface into compartments, which
we numbered, so that none might be
missed1, then we scrutinized each indi-
vidual square inch throughout the prem-
ises, including the two houses immedi-
ately adjoining, with the microscope as
before.”
“The two houses adjoining!” I ex-
claimed. You must have had a great
deal of trouble.”
“We had, but the reward offered is
prodigious.”
tertaining as of the contemptible about
the man, and we had not seen him for
several years. We had been sitting in
the dark, and Dupin now arose for the
purpose of lighting a lamp, but sat down
again without doing so upon G---’s say-
ing that he had called to consult us, or
rather to ask the opinion of my friend,
about some official business which had
oocaslonea a great deal of trouble • an a a k;
“If it IS any point requiring reflection,”
observed Dupin as he forbore to enkindle
the wick, “we shall examine it to better
purpose in the dark,”
“That is another of your odd notions,”
said the prefect, who had a fashion of
calling everything “odd” that was be-
yond his comprehension, and thus lived
amid an absolute region of “oddities.”
“Very true,” said Dupin as he sup-
plied his visitor with a pipe and rolled
toward him a comfortable chair.
“And what Is the difficulty now?” I
asked. “Nothing more in the assassina-
tion way, I hope?”
“Oh, no; nothing of that nature. The
fact is, the business is very simple in-
deed, and I make no doubt that we can
manage it sufficiently well ourselves,
but then I thought Dupin would like to
hear the details of it because it is so ex-
cessively odd.”
“Simple and odd,” said Dupin.
“Why, yes, and not exactly that
either. The fact is, we have all been a
, good deal puzzled because the affair is so
simple and yet baffles us altogether.”
“Perhaps it is the very simplicity of
the thing which puts you at fault,” said
my friend.
“What nonsense you do talk!” replied
the prefect, laughing heartily.
“Perhaps the mystery is a little too
plain,” said Dupin.
“Oh, good heavens! Who ever heard of
such an idea?”
“A little too self evident.”
“Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ho! ho! ho!”
roared our visitor, profoundly amused.
“Oh, Dupin, you will be the death of me
yet.”
“And what, after all, is the matter on
hand?” I asked.
“Why, I will tell you,” replied the pre-
fect as he gave a long, steady and con-
templative puff and settled himself in
his chair. “I will tell you in a few
words, but before I begin let me caution
you that this is an affair demanding the
greatest secrecy, and that I should most
probably lose the position I now hold
Nil sapientiee odiosius acumme nimio.
—Seneca.
At Paris, just after dark one gusty
evening in the autumn of 18—, I was en-
joying the twofold luxury of meditation
and a meerschaum in company with my
friend, C. Auguste Dupin, in his little
back library or book closet, au troi-
sieme, 33 Rue Dunot, Faubourg St. Ger-
main. For one hour at least we had
maintained a profound silence, while
each, to any casual observer, might have
seemed intently and exclusively occupied
with the curling eddies of smoke that op-
pressed the atmosphere of the chamber.
For myself, however, I was mentally dis-
cussing certain topics which had formed
matter for conversation between us at
an earlier period of the evening—I mean
the affair of the rue morgue and the
mystery attending the murder of Marie
Roget. I looked upon it, therefore, aS
something of a coincidence when the
door of our apartment was thrown open
and admitted our old acquaintance, M.
G----, the prefect of the Parisian police.
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