Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-04-08
r. Mystery of the Yellow Room.
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-----,-aaIoss- axattoaeee say. Une IA
n s,or with Tire proceedings and per
que" Of this pavilion could choose his
Vns fine for entering the yellow
room" ~ -s : -
Ri ~ had boan i'm the laboratory" said
N. NOW w do We know thatT' replied
san There waa The dinner in the
. l,arotorv. the coming and going of
iapg sorvants in attendance, There was
gus .bsmtcaI experiment. being carried
ho+ween 10 and IL o'clock with NJ.
S Sa his daughter, and Daddy
Zones engaged at the furnace in a
o arror Of the high chimney. Who can
ssr that the murderer-an intimate, a
oIord-did not take advantage Of that
L.l. to slip into the yellow room
aftor having taken off his boots in the
. Iavatory"
III Stangerson'
"Donbtless, but it is not impossible.
oosert nothing. AS to the escape
from the pavilion, that's another thing
tho most natural thing in the world"
Far q moment Frederic Larsan paus-
od-a moment that appeared to US
rorv long time. The eagerness with
which we awaited what he was going
10 tell us may be imagined. ....-z
81 have not been fa the yellow room,"
ba continued, ''but I take it for grant
ad that you have satisfied yourselves
+bot he could have Eaft the room only
by way Of the doog 1T is by the door,
+hpn. that the murderer made his way
mt At what times At the moment
when 1t was most easy for him to do
SCAT the moment when it became
most explainabIe-GQ, completely ex-
nJainable that there can be no other
exclamation. Let US go over the mo-
ments which followed after the crime
had been committed. There was the
first moment, when M. Stangerson
and Daddy Jacques were close to the
door ready to bar the way. There was
the second moment, during which
Daddy Jacques was absent and NJ.
Stangerson was left alone before the
door. There was q third moment,
when NJ. Stangerson was joined by the
concierge There was a fourth mo-
ment, during which NJ Stangerson,
the concierge and his wife and Daddy
Jacques were before the door. There
was fifth momeat, during which the
door was burst open and the yellow
room entered. The moment at which
the fight is explainable is the very mo-
ment when there was the least number
Of persons before the door, There was
one moment when there was but one
personal Stangerson. Unless a COM
plicity Of silence on the part of Daddy |
jacques Is admitted-in which I do not
believe-the door was opened in the
presence of NJ. Stangerson alone, and
the man escaped
Here we must admit that nj. Stan |
gerSon had powerful reasons for not |
arreStlng or not causing the arrest of |
the murderer, since he allowed him to |
reach the window in the vestibule and |
closed It after him. That done, Mile.
Stangerson, though horribly wounded,
aSa sui strength efaougf4, and no doubt !
III obedience to the entreaties Of her
mEner' to refastesp the door of her
chamber with both the bolt and the
ock before sinking On the floor. We
W not Know Wf99 cee9farnitted the crime;
we 90 not know of what wretch M.
ana Mile StangersoF4 are the victims,
Out there is no dot1bt that they both
Ano" Inc secret must be a terrible
one Tor the father had not hesitated
~ ieaFe his daughter to die behind the
uooF which she had shut upon herself
'etilole Tor him to have allowed the
assassin to escape. For there is no
olner way in the world to explain the
lnuFderers fight from the yellow
room"
Inc silence which followed this dra-
uatlc and lucid explanation was ap-
palllng. We all Of US felt grieved for
Tue hlnstrious professor. so driven into
. corner by the pitiIess logic of Fred
e1e LafSan, SO forced to confess the
whole truth Of his martyrdom or to
t Aeep Silent and thus make a vet more
terrible admission. The man himself,
a a Fefltable statue Of sorrow. raised
Ills hand with a gesture SO solemn that
vs. oo#ed our heads to it as before
something sacred. He then pronounc-
- .nese words in a voice SO loud that
: seemed to exhaust him:
ami, !, swear by the head of my suffering
salld | never for an Instant left The
o oJot OF her chamber after hearing her
o or Tor help; that that door was not
.a% While l was alone In the labo-
t ta.oEy' and that, finally, when we en-
r p,aa, the yellow room, my three do
-ss'lcS and |, the murderer was no
~ there! I swear I do not know
The murderer!"
M, MUST l say It, in spite of the solem-
ao .S OF M Stangerson's words we did
peAeVe In his denial? Frederic
!. 4@tsan had shown us the truth ana