The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-03-27

END or the right wing OF the chateau,
which had no other outlet than the
door of the little chamber occupied by
the forest keeper.
The man, though he was evidently
wounded by our bullets, was now
twenty yards ahead of us. Suddenly,
behind us, and above our heads, win
dow in the gallery opened and we
heard the voice Of Rouletabille CRYING
out desperately:
Fire, Bernier! Firew
At that moment the clear moonlight
night was further lit by broad fash.
BY its light we saw Daddy Rcrnlcr
with his gun on the threshold of the
donjon door.
He had taken good aim. The shadow
fell. But as it had reached the end Of
the right wing of the chateau, it fell
on the other side of the angle of the
building-that is to say. we saw it
about to fall but not the actual sink
Ing to the ground. Bernier, Arthur
Rance and myself reached the other
side twenty seconds later The shadow
was lying dead at our feet.
Aroused from his lethargy by the
cries and reports. Larsan opened the
window of his chamber and called out
to us. Rouletabille. quite awake now,
joined us at the same moment, and |
cried out to him:
'IIe Is dead-is dead!
$50 much the better" he said '"Take
him into the vestibule of the chateau"
Then as If on second thought. he said:
"No-no! Let us put him in his own
room"
Rouletabllle knocked at the door.
Nobody answered. Naturally, this did
not surprise me.
HE Is evidently not there. otherwise
he would have come out" said the re-
porter. "Let us carry him to the ves-
tibule then"
Since reaching the dead shadow,
thick cloud had covered the moon md
darkened the night, 80 that we were
unable to make out the features. Dad
dy Jacques, who had now Joined us.
helped us to carry the body into the
vestibule. where we laid 1t down on
the lower step Of the stairs. On the
way, had felt my hands wet from
the warm blood flowing from the
wounds
Daddy Jacques flew to the kitchen
and returned with lantern. He held
1t close to the face of the dead shad-
ow, and we recognized the keeper the
man called by the landlord OF the
Donjon inn the Green Man, whom an
hour earlier i had seen come out of
Arthur RANGES chamber carrying
parcel. But what ! had seen could
only tell Iiouletabllle later when we
were alone.
-
llouletabille and Frederic Larsan ex.
pcricnt ID cruel disappointment at the
rescit Of the nights adventure. They
stupcflction at the body of the Green
Man.
Daddy jacques showed stupidity
sorro wful face and with silly lamenta-
tlons kept repeating that we were mis-.
taken-the keeper could not be the as.
sallant. We wcce obliged to compel
him to be quiet. He could not have
shown greater grief had the body been
that OF his own son. | noticed, while
all the rest of us were more or less un-
dressed ard barefooted, that he was
fully clothed
Rouo,abllle had not left the body.
Kneellng on the 1agStones by the light
Of Daddy Jacques lantern he removed
the clothes from the body and laid
bare its breast. Then, snatching the
lantern from Daddy Jacques, he held
1t over the corpse and saw n gaping
wound. Rising suddenly. he exclaimed
In voice filed with savage irony:
"The man you believe to have been
shot was killed by the stab of knife
In his heaitv'
thought Rouletabile had gone mad.
but bending over the body. ! quickly
satisfied myself that Rouetabllle was
right Not sign OF bullet anywhere.
THE wound. evidently made by a sharp
blade. had penetrated the heart.