Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-03-19

"'Who"
1.-The man.
Saw him! Why. he had big red
beard and red hair
"'That's how he appeared to me-
said
"'And to me, said Larsan.
The great Fred and l were alone
III his chamber now to talk over this
thing We talked for an hour, turn
ing the matter over and viewing it
from every side, From the questions
put by him. from the explanation
which he gives me, 1t Is clear to me
that In spite OF all our senses he Is
persuaded the man disappeared by
some secret passage in the chateau
known to him alone.
He knows the chateau, he said to
me; he knows it WE'LL
He Is a rather tail man, we'll
built, l suggested.
"'He is as tall as be wants to be-
murmured Fred.
II understand, said But how do
you account for his red hair and
beard?
TOO much beard, too much hair
false saye Fred
/ That's easily naM. You are al
ways thinking of Robert Darxac. You
can't get rid of that idea! I am GER
tain that he is innocent
SO much the better. l hope So,
but everything condemns him. DID
| you notice the marks on the carpet?
Come and look at them
~ have seen them They are the
marks of the neat boots the same as
those we saw on the border Of the
lake.
"'Can you deny that they belong to
Robert Darzacr
| "'Of course ons may be mistaken
".Have you noticed that those foot
| prints only 60 in one direction, that
there are no return marks7 When the
man came from the chamber, pursued
BY all Of JUS, his footsteps left no! traces
behind them. 4o,se II &ss4 4
| He bad perhaps been In the cham
Der for hours. The mud from bis boots
had dried, and he moved with such
rapidity on the points Of his tcss. We
saw him running, but ws did not bear
/; his stepa.' Il
II suddenly put an end to this IDLE
chatter, void OF any logic, and made a
sign to Larsan to listen.
There, below, some one Ii shutting
a door
Il rise. Larsan follows me. We
descend TO the ground door of the
chateau. @ l lead him to the little semi
circular room under the terrace be
meath the window of the on turning
gallery. | point to the door, now
closed. open a short time before, under
which a shaft OF Light Is visible.
1 \" The forest keeper!' says Fred
Come onH I whisper.
Prepared, l know not why. t. be-
fieve that the keeper is the guilty man
Fl 10 TO the door and rap smartiy on It
Some might think that we were
rather late in thinking OF the keeper,
since our FIRST business after having
found that the murderer had escaped
us in the gallery. ought to have been
TO search everywhere else--around the
chateau. In the park "A 5ss8 II
! Had this criticism been made at the
time we could only have answered that
the assassin had disappeared from the
gallery In such way that we thought
he was no longer anywhere! He had
slus1ed us when we all had our hands
stretched out ready to seize him y
when we were almost touching him.
4 We had no longer any ground for hop
ing that we could clear up the mys-
terry Of that night.
AS soon MS / raped at the door 1t
was opened, and the keeper asked as
quietly what we wanted. he was nm
dressed and preparing to 90 70 bed
The bed had not yet been disturbed.
| We entered and affected surprise
s Not gone to bed yet r isi
No, he replied roughly. II have
been making q round Of the park and
In the woods. am Only inst back
and sleepy. Good night!'
Listen, said An llour ago there
was q ladder close by POUR window,
" What ladder7 did not - any
ladder. Good ni1bt