Valentin had then fired aside and the young Alsatian had done effective execution.

"I saw, when we met him on the ground," said Newman's informant, "that he was not going to be commode.

It is a kind of bovine temperament." Valentin had immediately been installed at the inn, and M.Stanislas and his friends had withdrawn to regions unknown.

The police authorities of the canton had waited upon the party at the inn, had been extremely majestic, and had drawn up a long proces-verbal; but it was probable that they would wink at so very gentlemanly a bit of bloodshed.

Newman asked whether a message had not been sent to Valentin's family, and learned that up to a late hour on the preceding evening Valentin had opposed it.