The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-01-15
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can assure you, for we have carefully
examined the wound. There was nc
blood on the hair, and the arrangement
or 1t has not been disturbed since tho
crime was committed"
You are sure? You are sure that
on the night Of the crime she had no,
her hair In baldsT
quite sure" the magistrate contln
ped, smiling, because / remember tho
doctor saying to me while he was ex
aiming the wound: 1T is great pity
Nile. Stangerson was In the habit OF
drawing her hair back from her fore.
head. If she had worn it in bands
the blow she received on the temple
would have been weakened 1t seems
strange to me that you should attach
30 much Importance to this point"
"Oh, If she had not her hair In bands
give 1t up" said Rouletabille, with a
despairing gesture.
And was the wound on her temple
bad one?' he asked presently.
Terrible"
with what weapon was II nader
'That is secret Of the investiga-
ton"
"Have you found the weapon-what-
ever 1t WASP
The magistrate did not answer.
And the wound in the throat?"
Here the examining magistrate read
fly confirmed the decision of the doc
tor that, II the murderer had pressed
her throat few seconds longer, Mile.
6tangerson would have died Of stran-
gulatiOn,
'"The affair as reported in the Matin,"
said Rouletabille eagerly, seems to me
more and more inexplicable. Can you
tell me. monsieur, how many openings
there are In the pavilion? mean
doors and windows"
'There are five," replied Monsieur
de Marquet, after having coughed once
or twice, but no longer resisting the
desire he felt to tx Of the whole of
the incredible mystery of the affair he
was investigating. "There are five, Of
which the door of the vestibule is the
only entrance to the pavilion-a door
always automatically closed, which
cannot be opened, either from the out
er or inside. except with the two spe-
cial keys which are never out Of the
possession of either Daddy Jacques or
M. Stangerson. Mile. StangersOn had
no need for me, since Daddy jacques
lodged in the pavilion and be-
cause, during the daytime, she never
Iaff Inn 70 aII
rushed into the yellow room. after
breaking open the door of the labora-
tory, the door in the vestibule re-
manned closed as usual and Of the two
keys for opening It Daddy Jacques had
one in his pocket and NJ. Stangerson
the other. AS to the windows OF the
pavilion. there are four. the one win
dow of the yellow room and those Of
the laboratory looking out on to the
country. the window in the vestibule
looking into the park
'Tt Is by that window thst he cscar
ed from the pavilion" cried Rouleta
bile
"How do you know that?'
GLOW? Oh, the thing is simple
enough! As soon as he found he could
not escape by the door of the pavilion
his only way out was by the window
I'm the vestibule, unless he could pass
through q grated window. The win
dow of the yellow room is secured by
iron bars. because it looks out upon
the open country; the two windows Of
the laboratory have to be protected in
like manner for the same reason. AS
the murderer got away / conceive that
he found window that was not bar
red-that of the vestibule, which opens
on to the park-that is to say, into the
interior of the estate. There's not
much magic in all that"
Eyes" said NJ de Marquet, "but what
you have not guessed is that this single
window in the vestibule. though 1t has
no iron bars. has solid iron blinds.
Now. these. iron blinds have remained
fastened by their iron latch, and yet