Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-30

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 were solid and intact At last he gave
 grunt of satisfaction and declared
 Now am at ease!'
 Well, do you believe that the poor
 dear young lady was shut up when
 she was being murdered--when she
 cried out for helpT walled Daddy
 Jacques.
 l Yes" said the young reporter, dry
 ing his forehead; ''the yellow room
 was as tightly shut as an iron safe" "The Bete du Bon Dieu," muttered
 Daddy Jacques-'the Bete du Bon Dieu
 herself, if she had committed the crime, could not have escaped. Lis tenl Do you hear itf Hush.- Daddy Jacques made us sign to keep quiet and, stretching his arm to-
 ward the wall nearest the forest, lis- tened to something which we could | not hear.
 its answering" he said at length. T must kill it. It is too wicked, but it's the Bete du Bon Dieu. and every night it goes to pray on the tomb of St. Genevieve, and nobody dares to touch her for fear that Mother An genOux should cast an evil spell on them"
 How big is the Bete du Bon Dieuf P Nearly as big as a small retriever monster, tell you. An, have asked myself more than once whether it was not she that took our poor made molselle by the throat with Der claws. But the Bete du Bon Dieu does not wear hobnailed boots, nor fire revolv- CTS, nor has she hand like thatp ex- claimed Daddy Jacques. again point ing out to us the red mark on the wall Besides, we should have seen her as we'll as we would have seen a man."
 Evidently" said. Before we had seen this yellow room I had also asked myself whether the cat of Mother An genoux"-
 You alsor' cried Rouletabille.
 Didn't your l asked.
 Not for a moment. After reading the article in the Matin I knew that cat had nothing to do with the mat ter. But swear now that frightful tragedy has been enacted here. You say nothing about the Basque cap or the handkerchief found here. Daddy Jacques"
 "Of course the magistrate has taken them" the old man answered hesi- tatingly.
 ''i haven't seen either the handker- chief or the cap. yet I can tell you how they are made" the reporter said to him gravely.
 ''Oh, you are very clever" said Dad dy Jacques. coughing and embar- rasscd.
 '@The handkerchief Is a large one. blue with red stripes, and the cap is an old Basque cap. like the one you are wearing now"
 You are wizard.'' said Daddy Jacques trying to laugh and not quite succeeding. How do you know that the handkerchief Is blue with red stripesw
 Because if 1t had not been blue with red stripes it would not have been tound at all"
 Without giving any further atten- ton to Daddy Jacques my friend took a piece of paper from his pocket and. taking out pair of scissors. bent over the footprints. Placing the pa- per over one of them. he began to cut In short time he had made a perfect pattern. which he handed to me, begging mc not to lose It.
 He then returned to the window and. pointing to the figure of Fred eric Larsan. who had not quilted the side of the lake, asked Daddy Jacques whether the detective had. like him. self. been working in the yellow room.
 NO" replied Robert Darzac. who since Rouletabille had banded him the p'nce of scorched paper had not nt- tered word. He pretends that he does not need to examine the yellow room. He says that the murderer rra9e h's escape from 1t in quite a nst- rral way and that he win this evening axpisin how he dia IT,"
 As he listened to what NJ. Darzae lad to say Rouletabille turned pale.
 Has Frederic Larsan found out the | truth, which I can only guess at?' be He is very clever--very l clever-and ndmire him. Yet have | discovered many things
 Moral or materialT" asked
 Several moral, one material. This, | for example"
 And rapidly he drew from his waist coat pocket piece of paper in which l he had placed light colored hair from ! woman's head.