The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-01-20
The Mystery
Of
TheYeIIOw Room
By GASTON LEROUX
Copyright. 1908. by Brentano's
CHAPTER Nv.
"In the Bosom Of Wild Nature"

II II VI Tic OlutSl CudItduA tuc
lie de France, where so many
building remains of the feudal
period are still standing. Built origin
ally in the heart Of the forest in the
reign of Philip lie Bel, 1t now could be
seen few hundred yards from the
road leading from the village of Sainte-
Genevieve to Monthery. A mass Of
inharmonious structures, it is dominat-
ed by donjon.
1t was in this place, seemingly be-
longing entirely to the past, that Pro-
fessor Stangerson and his daughter in
stalled themselves to lay the founda-
. tions for the science Of the future.
When NJ. Stangerson bought the es-
tate, fifteen years before the tragedy
with which we are engaged occurred,
the Chateau du Chandler had for
long time been unoccupied. Another
old chateau in the neighborhood, built
in the fourteenth century by Jean de
Belmont, was also abandoned, so that
that part Of the country was very lit
tie inhabited. Some small houses on
the side of the road leading to Corbeil,
an inn, called the Auberge du Don
jon, which offered passing hospitality
to wagoners-theSe were about all to
represent civilization in this out Of the
way part of the country, but a few
leagues from the capital.
But this deserted condition Of the
place had been the determining reason
for the choice made by NJ. Stangersop
and his daughter. NJ. Stangerson was
already celebrated. He had returned
from America, where his works had
made great stir. The book which he
had published at Philadelphia, on the
"Dissociation of Matter by Electric
Action" had aroused opposition
throughout the whole scientific world.
NJ. Stangerson was Frenchman, but
tiers relating to legacy had kept him
for several years in the United States,
where he had continued the work be-
gun by him In France, whittier he had
returned in possession Of large for
tune.
Mile. Stangerson was at the time
when her father returned from Amer
1ca and bought the Chandler estate
twenty years of age. She was ex-
ceedirgiy pretty, having at once the
Partisan grace of her mother, who had
died in giving ber birth, and all the
splendor, all the riches Of the young
American blood of her parental grand
father, William StangersOn. A citizen
Of Philadelphia, William Stangerson
had been obliged to become natural
lied in obedience to family exigencies
at the time of his marriage with a
French lady.
twenty years Of age, charming
blond. with blue eyes, milk white
complexion and radiant with divine
health, Matbilde Stangerson was one
Of the most beautiful marriageable
girls in either the old or the new world.
IT was her fathers duty. in spite Of
the inevitable pain which separation
from her would cause him, to think Of
her marriage, and he was fully pre-
pared for II. Nevertheless he buried
himself and his child at the Chandler
mt the moment when his friends were
expecting him to bring her out into so
cfety.
Questioned by her friends. the young
girl replied calmly, "Where could we
work better than in this solitudeT
For Mile, Stangerson had already be-
gun to coIlabofate with her father in
his work. 1t could not at the time be
Imagined that her passion for science
wouId lead her so far as to refuse all
the suitors who presented themselves
to her for over fifteen years. The
young girls extreme reserve did not al
first discourage suitors, but at the end
of few years they tired Of theil
guest.
One alone persisted with tender te
nacity and deserved the name of "eter
mai fance," name he accepted with
melancholy resignation; that was NJ
Robert Darzae, Mile. Stangerson was
now no longer young, and it seemed
that, having found no reason for mar
rying at five and thirty, she would new
er find one.
Suddenly some weeks before the
events with which We are occupied {
report-to which nobody attached any
importance, so incredible did it sount
was spread about Paris that Mile
Stangerson had at last consented t
GROWN" the inextinguishable flame o.
NJ. Robert Darzac! 1t needed that NJ
Robert Darzac himself should not den!
this matrimonial rumcr to give 1t al
appearance of truth. SO unlikely did 1
seem to be well founded. One day
however. VI. Stangerson, as he wa