Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-04-09

| both Mile. StangersOn and rid Dar1ac
of an enemy at the same time
The crowd had barely recovered
from the effect of the astonishing rev.
elation when the hearing was resumed,
The question In everybodys mind
was, Admitting that Larsan was the
murderer, how did he get out of the
yellow room?
Rouletabille was Immediately called
to the bar and his examination con g
tinued.
/ You have told u.s. said the presi-
dent, that it was impossible to es-
cape from the end of the court. Since
Larsan was leaning out of his window,
he had left the court How did he do
that" ST. .E
He escaped by most unusual way
He climed the wall, sprang on to thee
terrace and while we were enga ged
with the keepers body reached the,
gallery by the window. He then had
little else TO do than to open the win
dow, get in and call out to u.s. as Il, he
had just come from his own room
To man of Ballmeyer's strength all
that was mere child's play And here,
monsieur, is the proof Of what l say
Rouletabille drew from his pocket 8
small packet, from which he produced
strong iron peg.
This, monsieur" he said. sis
spike which perfectly fits hole still
to be seen in the cornice supporting
the terrace. Larsan, who thought and
prepared for everything in case of any
emergency, had fixed this spike into
the cornice. All he had to do to make
his escape good was to plant one foot
on stone which is placed at the cor
ner of the chateau, another on this
support, one hand on the cornice Eof
the keepers door and the other on the
terrace. and Larsan was clear of the
ground. The rest was. easy. His act
ing after dinner as if he had been
drugged was make believe He was
not drugged. But he did drug me.
OF course he had to make it appear as
II he also had been drugged so that no
suspicion should fall on him for my
condition. Had l not been thus over
t powered Larsan would never have en-
tered Mile. Stangersons chamber that
night and the attack on her would not
have taken place" @
A ,gr0an came from Darzac, who ap-
peared to be unable to control his suf-
fering. r..
"You can understand" added Roule-
tabille, "that Larsan would feel him
self hampered from the fact that my
room was SO close to his and from q
suspicion that J. would be on the
watch that night. Naturally he could
not for moment believe that sus-
pected him. But 1 might see him leay-
ing his room when he was about to go
to Mile. Stangerson. He waited till
was asleep and my friend Sainclair
was busy trying to rouse me. Ten
minutes after that mademoiselle was
calling out .Murderr
| 4HHow did you come to suspect Lar
SAM" asked the president"
! Et'My pure reason pointed to him
That was why watched him. But 7
did not foresee the drugging. He Is
very cunning Yes my pure reason
pointed to him, but required tangible
proof SO that my eyes could see him
as my pure reason saw him. The day
following the incident Of 'the mex
plicable gallery l felt myself losing
control Of it. l had allowed myself to
be diverted by fallacious evidence, but
! recovered and again took hold Of the
right end. I satisfied myself that the
murderer, could not have left the gal
lery, either naturally or supernat ural-
ly. l narrowed the field of considera-
tion to that small circle, so to speak
The murderer could not be outside
that circle. Now. who were in it,
There was. first. the murderer. Then
there were Daddy Jacques, n. Stan
gerson, Frederic Larsan and myself
| five persons in all, counting in the
murderer And yet In the gallery
there were but four. Now, since it
had been demonstrated to me that the
ffth could not have escaped, 1t was
evident that one Of the four present
In the gallery must be double-he
, must be himself and the murderer also
Why had not seen this before? Sim
ply because the phenomenon of the
double personality had not occurred
before IN this inquiry
ITO BE coNTTFUED.l