The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-01-07
The Mystery OF
The Yellow Room
a., CAGT0N TER0IIX ~ b BRENTANOS
COPYRIGHT. 1908.
BY BRENTANO'S

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. Stangerson
and his daughter. NJ. Stangerson was
already celebrated. He had returned
from America, where his works had
made a 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.
VI. Stangerson was "A F~renchman, but
Of American origin. Important mat
ters relating to a 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 a large for
tune.
Mile. Stangerson was at the time
when her father returned from Amer
lea and bought the Chandler estate
twenty years of age. She was eX-
ceedingly pretty. having at once the
Partisan grace of her mother. who had
died in giving her 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, a charming
blond, with blue eyes, milk white
complexion and radiant with divine
health. Mathilde S~tangerson was n
Of the most beautiful manageable
girls in either the old or the new world.
1t was her fathers duty, in spite Of
the inevitable pain which a separation
from her would aus him, to think Of
her marriage, and he was fully pre-
pared for it. Nevertheless he buried
himself and his child at the Chandler
at the moment when his friends were
expecting him to bring her out into So
ciety.
Questioned by her friends, the young
girl replied calmly, Where could we
work better than in this solitude?'
For Mile. Stangerson had already be-
gun to collaborate with her father in
his work. 1t could not at the time be
Imagined that her passion for science
would 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 at
first discourage ~suitors, but at the end
Of a few years they tired Of their
quest.
One alone persisted with tender tie
nacity and deserved the name Of 'eter-
I nal f%iance," a name he accepted with
melancholy resignation; that was Nj.
Robert DarZac. 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 q
report-to which nobody attached any
Importance, so incredible did it sound
w spread about Paris that Mile.
Stangerson had at last consented to
Grown" the inextinguishable fame of
NJ. Robert DarZac! 1t needed that NJ.
Robert DarZac himself should not deny
this matrimonial rumor to give it an
appearance Of truth. so unlikely did II
seem to be we'll founded. One day,
however, NJ. Stangerson, as he was
lea ving the Academy Of Science, an
nounced that the marriage of his
daughter and M. Robert DarZac would
be celebrated In the privacy of the
Chateau du Chandler as soon as he and
his daughter had put the finishing
touches to their report summing uI
their labors on the "Dissociation OF
Matter" The new household would in
stall itself in the Chandler, and the son
in-law would lend his assistance in the
work to which the father and daughter
had dedicated their lives.
The scientific world had barely ha(
time to recover from the effect of thi!
news when it learned Of the attempted
assassination Of mademoiselle.
ITO no continued