Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-12-31

61 copy Of the Malta from 6is poet
q. he showed 1t to hsm and said:
'TAere Is ooe tAiag, monsieur. which
! may inquire 81 yoa without commit
ting an inAlscsetiOa- You have. Of
course. seen tAe account given N the
Maxim? 1t h absurd. 10 II notf''
Mot In the alaghs1st. monsieur"
what! TAe yeslOw room has bat
one barred window. the bars 1T which
have not been moved, and only enc
door. which hsd 10 he broken open.
and the assassin was not fouudr'
THAT'S 20. monsieur: ehat's %.
That's bow the mattsr stands"
Roulotatdlle said 'ue more. but plune-
ed int thought. A @uarter.o an hour
thus pssssd
Coming bsck to himseIs again. Ae
said. addressing the magistrate:
How did Mile. Stangerson wear aher
hair on that EVENING"
~ dent know" repliei NJ. de Mar.
quea.
That 8 a very Important. point. said
| ROUletabllle. 'Mer han was done up
In bands. WASN'T 1t? l feel sure that
Oh that evening. the evening Of the
crime. she had her hair arranged in
hands,
'Then you are mistaken, NJ. Roule.
tabhle. replied the magistrate. Mile.
StangersOn that evening had her hair
drawn UP In knot on the top Of her
head. her usual way Of arranging It,
. her forehead completely uncovered
gHD assure .yOu, for we have carefully
examtaed the wound. There was no
blood on the hair. and the arrangement
Vt II has not been disturbed since the
/ crime was com 1ailteu."
'Aou are sure: You are sure that
OIL the .nfA.t of the crime she had moi
fher hair IN bandsi"
| "Wuile sure" the magistrate cOntin-
| ueu, smiling. because 4 remember the
Hlnining the wound: 1T is a great pit
| Mile. Stangerson was in the habit Of
! dTa wing her hair back from her fore
| head. If she had worn II in bands
| the blow she received ON lhe temple
would have been weakened 1t seems
I, strange to me that you should attach
30 much Importance to this point
':Oh, IL she had not her hair In bands
give IT up" sdsad Rouletabille. with u
| despairing gesture.
".And was the wound On her temple
n tad one?" he; asked preseDtly.
Terrible"
with what weapon was It made!
I -'That liz a secret of the investiRa-
| sion'
~Have you 'fonnd the weapon-what-
ever 1t WAR RsHSt
The magistrate. did not answer
| And the ,w0u4d in the throat?"
Here the examining magistrate read
/ lily confirmed the decision of the doc.
tor that. II the murdere1 had pressed
her tfrOEt a few seconds longer. Mile.
StangereOn .w0nM have died Of stcan-
EnlAtiun,
1.-THE a lfair rs reported in the Matin."
sAld Rouleta billie eagerly. 'seems to me
more and more iinexplicable. Can you
tell use monsieur. how many openings
there are in the pavilion? mean
doors and windows"
|
de Marquet. after having caughed once
or twice. Int no longer resisting the
desire ne felt to talk OF the whole Of
the Incredible mystery of the affair he
! was Investigating There are I'VE. OF
which the door OF the vestibule Is the
only entrance to the pavilion-a door
always automatically closed, which
cannot he OPENED, either from the out
er or inside, except with the two spe-
cial keys which are never out Of the
possession OF either Daddy Jacques OF
NJ. Stangesson. Mile. StangaFson had
no need for me, since Daddy Jacques
lodged In the pavilion and BE-
cause, during the daytime, she never
left her father. When they, all four.
rushed into the yellow room, after
breaking open the door Of the iabora-
tory, the door in the vestfbule re
mained closed as usual and Of the two
keys for opening It Daddy Jacques had
one in his pocket and NJ. Etangerson
the other. A to the windows Of the
pavilion. there are four. the one win
dow Of the yellow room and those Of
| the laboratory looking out on to the
country. the window In the vestibuie
looking into the park"
ut Is by that window that he escap-
ed from the paviliOn!" cried Rouleta-
billie.
'"HOw do you know that?''
"How? Oh, the thing is simple
enough. AS soon as he found he could
not escape by the door Of the pavilion
his only way out was by the window
| in the vestibule. unless he could pass
| through a grated window. The win
| dow of the yellow room is secured hy
iron bars. because II looks out upon
| the open country: the two windows OF
| the laboratory have TO be protected In
like manner for the same reason. AS
, the murderer got away l conceive that
he found window that was not bar
, red-that OF the vestibule. which opens
on TO the park-that Is to say, into the
! interior of the estate. There's not
| much magic in all that"
ssYoc said NJ de Marnuet "bur what