The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-02-27

the footprints of Mile. Stangerson's
f1ance. The marks made by the bicycle
may have been made by his bicycle.
He had usually left it at the chateau.
Why did he take it to Paris on that
particular occasion? Was it because
he was not going to return again to the
chateau? Was it because, owing to the
breaking off of his marriage, his rela.
tions with the Stangersons were to
cease? All who are interested in the
matter affirm that those relations were
to continue unchanged.
Frederic Larsan, however, believes
that all intercourse was at an end.
From the day when NJ. Darzac accom-
panied Mile. Stangerson to the depart
ment store until the day after the
crime he had not been at the Chandler.
Remember that Mile. Stangerson lost
her reticule containing the key with
the brass head while she was in his
company. From that day to the even
ing at the Elysee the Sarbonne pro-
fessor and Mile. Stangerson did not
see one another. but they may have
written to each other Mile Stanger-
son went to the postoffice to get let
ter which Larsan says was written by
Robert Darzac, for, knowing nothing
o; what had passed at the Elysee, Lar
san believes that it was NJ. Darzac
himself who stole the reticule and the
key with the design of forcing her con-
sent by getting possession of the pre-
cious papers Of her father-papers
which he would have restored to him
ment was to be fulfilled.
"All that would have been very
doubtful and almost absurd hypothe-
sis, as Larsan admitted to me, but for
another and much graver circum-
stance. In the first place, here is
something which l have not been able
| to eXplain-M. Darzac had himself on
the 9th gone to the postoffice to ask
for the letter which mademoiselle had
called for and received on the previ-
GUS evening. The description Of the
man who made application tallies In
every respect with the appearance Of
M. Darzac, who in answer to the
! quCotlOho put " AlLl NY lhc
magistrate denies that he went to the
postofice, Now, even admitting that
the letter was written by him, which
| l do not believe, he knew that Mile.
| Stangerson had received it since he
had seen 1t in her hands in the garden
at the Elysee. 1t could not have been
he, then, who had gone to the post
office the day after the Oath to ask
| for letter which he knew was no
longer there,
'To me 1t appears clear that some
body strongly resembling him stole
Mile. Stangerson's reticule and In that
letter had demanded of her something
which she had not sent him. He must
have been surprised at the failure Of
his demand; hence his application at
the postoffice, to learn whether his let
ter had been delivered to the person
to whom it had been addressed. Find
ing that 1t had been claimed, he had
become furious. What had he de-
manded? Nobody but Mile. Stanger-
son knows. Then on the day follow
Ing 1t Is reported that she has been
! attacked during the night, and the
next day l discovered that the pro-
fessor had at the same time been rob-
bed by means of the key referred to
In the poste restante letter. 1t would
seem, then. that the man who went
to the postoffice to inquire for the let
ter must have been the murderer. All
these arguments Larsan applies an
against NJ. DarZac. You may be sure
that the examining magistrate, Lar
san and myself have done our best to
get from the postofflce precise details
relative to the singular parsonage who
applied there on the Oath of October
But nothing has been learned. We
dUl't know where he came from OF
where he went. Beyond the descrip,
tion which makes him resemble NJ
Darzac we know nothing.
II have announced in the leading
journals that handsome reward will
be given to a driver of any public con
yeyance who drove fare to 40. Post
Office, about 10 o'clock on the morning
Of the oath Of October. Information tC
be addressed to M. r. at the Office OF
the EpoQue. but no answer has result
ed. The man may have walked. but as
be was most likely In q hurry there
was chance that he might have gone
In a cab. Who, keep asking myself
night and day. is the man who sc
strongly resembles NJ. Robert Darzat
and who Is also known to have bought
the cane which has fallen into Lar
sans hands?
"The most serious fact is that NJ
Darzac was at the very same tim'
that his double presented himself a
the postoffice down for lecture at tn,
Sorbonne. He had not delivered tina
lecture, and one of his friends took hi
place. When ! questioned him as t
how he had employed the time he tolt
me that he had gone for stroll in th
Bois de Boulogne. What do you thlnl
Of a professor who instead of givlni
Ills lecture obtains a substitute to g
for a stroll In the Bois de Boulogne
When Frederic Larsan asked him 70
information on this point he quietl.
replied that 1t was no business Of hi
. how he spent his time In Paris, Of
which Fred swore aloud that he woul'
, find out without anybody's help.