Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-04-02

,cct her, she Is doing all she can to
Illustrate me. That was why I came
on tn" scene too late"'
AT NJ. Robert Darzacs request Roule-
table described the whole scene
Leaning on the wall to prevent him
self from falling he bad made his way
TO Mile. S1angerson'S room, while we
were running after the supposed muir
dercr The anteroom door was open,
and when he entered he found Mile.
Stangrrson lying partly thrown over
the desk Her dressing gown was
dyed with the blood flowing from her
bosom. Still under the influence OF
horrible nightmare.
He went back to the gallery auto
materially, opened Il window. shouted
his order 10 fire and then returned to
thr room. He crossed the deserted
ln.itl"ir. entered the dra wing room and
tried la rouse NJ. StangrrSon. who was
lvi,- un a sofa NJ. Stangers"n rose
s,urllv and let himself he drawn by
Eullctuhillc into the room. where, on
sc,.ng his daughters body, he uttered
4 hcartrending cry. Both united their
| feeble strength and carried her to her
| llrd
Oll his way to rejoin us Koulclabille
,4lsSrd by the desk. On the floor, near
| IT, Ire saw a large packet. He knelt
down. and, finding the wrapper loose,
he examined it and made out an enor-
nous quantity of papers and photo
graphs On one of the papers he read:
"Nrw difercntial electroscopic con
dcnscr. Fundamental properties of sub
stance intermediary between ponder
abe matter and imponderable ether
| Strange irony Of fate that the profess
or's precious papers should be restored
to him at the very time when an at
| tempt was being made to deprive him
Of his daughters life, What are pa
pcrS worth to him now?
The morning following that awful
night saw NJ. de MarQuet once more at
the chat eau with his registrar and gen
darmps OF course we were all Ques-
toned Rouleta billie and | had already
agreed on what to say. | kept back
any Information as to my being in the
dark closet and said nothing about the
drugging. We did not wish to suggest
In any way that Mile. Stangerson had
been expecting her nocturnal visitor.
Arthur Rance told everybody In a
manner so natural that it astonished
me that he had last seen the keeper
| - 4lnI Go ,frx1>
He had come for his valise, he said,
which he was to take for him early
next morning to the st. Michel station,
and had been kept out late running
after poachers. Arthur Rance had. In
deed. intended to leave the chateau
and according to his habit, to walk to
the station.
! NJ Stangerson confirmed what Rance
had said, adding that he had not asked
Rance to dine with him because his
/ friend had taken his final leave of
them both earlier in the evening. NJ.
Rance had had tea served him In his
room because he had complained of q
slight indisposition.
t. Bernier testified, Instructed by Roule.
tablle, that the keeper had ordered
him to meet him at spot near the oak
grove for the purpose of looking out
for poachers. Finding that the keeper
did not keep his appointment he, Ber-
nier, had gone In search of him. He
had almost arrived at the donjon when
he saw n figure running swiftly in a
direction opposite to him, toward the
right wing of the chateau. He heard
revolver shots from behind the figure
lery windows. He heard Rouletabille
call out to him to fire. and he had fired.
He believed he had killed the man un-
til he learned, after Rouletabille had
uncovered the body, that the man had
died from knife thrust. Who had
given 1t he could not imagine Nobody
could have been near the spot without
my seeing him" When the examining
magistrate reminded him that the spot
where the body was found was very
dark and that he himself had not been
able to recognize the keeper before
firing. Daddy Bernier replied that mel
Their had they seen the other body, nor
had they found 1t. In the narrow
court. where FIVE people were standing,
1t would have been strange If the
other body. had 1t been there, could
have escaped. The only door that
opened into the court was that of the
keepers room. and that door was clos
ed, and the key Of 1t was found in the
keepers pocket.
However that might be, the examin-
ing magistrate did not pursue his in
quiry further in this direction He
was evidently convinced that we had
missed the man we were chasing and
we had come upon the keepers body
In our chase. This matter Of the keep
er was another matter entirely. He
wanted to satisfy himself about that
without any further delay. Probably
1t chimed in with the conclusions he
had already arrived at as to the keeper
and his intrigues with the wife OF
Matthew, the landlord Of the Donion