Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-03-04

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dy Jacques was about to open the
blinds when Rouletabille stopped him.
did not the tragedy take place in
complete darkness?' 2, he asked.
mo, young man; | don't think so.
Mademoiselle always had a night light
on her table, and I Lit It every even
ing before she went to bed. I was a
sort Of chambermaid, you must un-
derstand, when the evening came. The
real chambermaid did not come here
much before the morning. Made
moisella worked late-far into the
night"
Where did tie table with the night
light stand-far from the bed 2"
''some way from the bed
"Can you light the burner now?"
eThe lamp is broken and the oil that
was in 1t was spilled when the table
was upset. All the rest of the things
in the room remain just as they were.
| have only to open the blinds for you
TO see"
WAIT"
Rouletabille went back into the lab
oratory, closed the shutters Of the
two windows and the door Of the YES
Thule. When we were in complete
darkness he lit a wax vesta and asked
Daddy Jacques to move to the middle
OF the chamber with it to the place
where the night light was burning
that night.
Daddy jacques, who was in his
stockings-he usually left his sabots
in the yestibule- entered the yellow
room with his bit OF a vesta. We
vaguely distinguished objects over
thrown on the floor, a bed In one cor
ner and In front Of us to the left the
CLEAN of looking glass hanging on
the wall near to the bed.
t'That win do. You may now open
the blinds said Rou1etabflle.
'eDon't come any farther Daddy
Jacques begged sfYou may make
marks with your boots, and nothing
must be deranged. It's an idea OF the
magistrates, though he has nothing
more to do here"
And he pushed open the shutter
The pale daylight entered from with
out, throwing sinister light on the
saffron colored walls The foor-for
though the laboratory and the vestf-
bule were tiled the yellow room had a
flooring Of wood-Was covered with
single yellow mat which was large
enough to cover nearly the whole
room, under the bed and under the
dressing table, the only piece of furnI-
ture that remained upright. The CEN
ter round table, the night table and
two chairs had been overturned These
did not prevent large stain of blood
being visible on the mat, made, as
Daddy Jacques Informed us, by the
blood which had flowed from the
wound on Mile. stangerson's forehead.
Besides these stains drops of blood
had fallen in all directions, In line
with the visible traces of the foot
steps, large and black, Of the murder
er. Everything led TO the presumption
that these drops OF blood had fallen
from the wound Of the man who had
for moment placed his red hand on
the wall. There were other traces Of
the same hand on the wall, but much
less distinct.
fSee-see this blood on the Wa11r' I
could not help exclaiming. 1.-THE man
who pressed his hand SO heavily upon
It In the darkness must certainly have
thought that he was pushing at a door.
That's why he pressed on It so hard,
leaving on the yellow paper the terri
bic evidence. / don't think there are
many hands il the world Of that sort.
e is big and strong, and the fingers
are nearly al one as long as the other.
The thumb is wanting, and we have
only the mark OF the palm, but If we
follow the trace OF the hand,,' con
Enued, 1--WE see that after leaving its
imprint on the wall the touch sought
the door, found 1t and then felt for the
ock.''
NO doubt, = Interrupted RouIetabtl1e,
chuckling, only there Is no blood
either on the lock or on the bolt.''
what does that proven rejoined,
with a good sense OF which / was
proud. He might have opened the
ock with bis left hand, which would
nave been quite natural, his right hand
being wounded,
He didn't open 1t at al, = Daddy
Jacques again exclaimed. I'VE are not
socTs and there ware four ~ nc 4sYTn-1