Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-20

threshold of which the concierge stood
 with the lamp while her husband and
 I searched for him in every corner of
 the little room, where 1t is impossible for any one to hide himself The door. which
 had been forced open against the wall, could not conceal anything behind it. as we assured ourselves. By :.she win dow. still in every way gecured. no flight had been possible. What thenf
 "But we discovered my revolver on
 the floor-yes, my revor,er! Oh, that
 brought me back to the realityl The devil would not have n.,eded to steal
 my revolver to kill madek,oiselle. The
 man who had been therN had first
 gone up to my attic and taken my re-
 volver from the drawer where l kept 1t. We then ascertained. by counting the cartridges. that the assa ssin had
 fired two shots. An. 1t was fCrtunate for me that N. Stangerson was in the laboratory when the affair took place and had seen with his own eyes that
 was there with him. for otherwise
 with this business of my revolver. I don't know where we should have been--I should now be under lock and bar.
 The editor of the Matin added to this interview the following lines:
 We have, without interrupting him. allowed Daddy Jacques to recount to us roughly all he knows about the crime of the yellow room. We have reproduced it in his own words. only sparing the reader the continual lamen- tations with which he garnished his narrative. We should have liked to put some further questions to Daddy Jacques. but the inquiry of the exam ming magistrate, which is being car ried on at the chateau, makes 1t i'm possible for us to gain admission at the Chandler. and. as to the oak wood, it is guarded by wide circle of police men who are 1ealously watching all traces that can lead to the pavilion and that may perhaps lead to the dis covery of the assassin.
 We have also wished to question the concierges, but they are invisible. Finally. we have waited in a roadside inn. not far from the gate of the cha teau. for the departure os Monsieur de Marquet, the magistrate of Corbeil. At half past we saw him and his clerk and, before he was able to enter his carriage. had an opportunity to ask him the following question:
 Can you, Monsieur de Marquet, give us any information as to this af- fair, without inconvenience to the course of your inquiryT
 "Tt is impossible for us to do it. replied Monsieur de Marquet. T can only say that 1t is the strangest affair I have ever known. The more we think we know something. the further we are from knowing anythingv
 We asked Monsieur de Marquet to be good enough to explain his last words, and this Is what he said, the of which no one will fail to recognize:
 "'If nothing is added to the material facts so far established, fear that the mystery which surrounds the abomina- ble crime of which Mile. Stanger- son has been the victim will never be brought to light, hut it is to be hoped. for the sake of our human req son, that the examination of the walls, and of the ceiling of the yellow room an examinat tion which I shall tomor- tf.tt ,ot f,. I. l,xfl ,x,hx structed the pavilion four years ago. will afford us the proof that may not us. For the problem is this: We know by what way the as- sassin gained admission--be entered by the door and hid himself under the bed, awaiting Mile. Stangerson. But how did he leave? How did he If no trap. no secret door, no hiding place, no opening of any sort Is found; if the examination of the walls--even to the demolition of the not reveal any passage only for human be- Ing, but for any being whatsoever-if he ceiling shows no cracks. if the Acoi hihCo io uhuci ElVuDo D1ScsfSts ,ne must really believe in the devilr'
 'We wanted to know what Daddy Jacques meant by the cry of the Bete lu Bon Dieu' The landlord of the Donjon inn explained to us that 1t is the particularly sinister cry which is uttered sometimes at night by the cat of an old woman-Mother Angenoux, IS she is called in the country. Moth sr Angenoux Is q sort of saint, who ives fin hut in the heart of the forest not far from the grotto of Sainte- Gene vieve."
 In conclusion and at late hour the same journal announced that the chief # the Paris police had telegraphed to he famous detective Frederic Larsan, who had been sent to London for an lffair of stolen securities, to return to Paris