court in his story has ever No novelist including an assize-
produced such a lurid effect as has been seen this week at Beauvais. In the dock was a man with only half face. He had no tongue left, and when. isters to the presiding judge's questions could not be conveyed by a nod or a shake of the head, he gave them in writing Through the bandages that swathe the place where his jaw should have been, projected a rubber tube which enables him to breathe and another through which he receives. liquid foo. When he became agitated these artificial appendages quivered in ghastly unison, A year ago this Crépin, infatuated with a woman named De-Narche, the wife of a railwaymen who had charge of a level crossing and who was frequently absent on other duty, leaving his wife to look after the gates. Although she was 35 years old and had five children, Mme. Delarche was not insensible but from another man named to the other sex. She used to receive visits not only from Crépin Grémont, whom she preferred, Crépin was of a violent and jealous temperament, and Mme Delarche remarked one day to a woman, friend, "He will do me in some day." Nearly a year ago, Crépin, strolling out with his gun, called at the crossing-keeper's cottage and found
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