Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-05-06

haen well enough to move about 10 her
room. which have not yet seen ner
leave This nervousness and sudden
care on her part, which had struck
Nc. Darzac, had given me also food Tor
thought. At the time OF the crime IL
fhe yellow room there can be no doubt
that she expected the murderer. was
he expected this night? Was 1t she
herself who had opened her door TO
him? Had she some reason for do
inc so? was she obliged to do it?
was it a meeting for purposes OF
crime? Certainly it was not lovers
meeting, for believe Mile. Stranger
son adores NJ. Darzac.
1T is possible that there was some
reason for the awful silence. My IN
teryention might do more harm than
good. How could I tell? How could
I know I might not any moment cause
another crime? IL I could only see
and know without breaking that 81
lence.
ST left the anteroom and descended
the central stairs to the yestibule and
as silently as possible made my way
to the little room on the ground floor
where Daddy jacques had been sleep
ing since the attack made at the pa
Yilion.
II found him dressed, his eyes wide
open, almost haggard. He did not
seem surprised to see me- He told
me that he had got up because he had
heard the cry Of the Bette du Bon Dieu
and because he had heard footsteps in
the park close to his window, out Of
which he had looked and just then
had seen black shadow pass by.
asked him whether ne nad a nTedrm
Of any kind. No, he no longer kept
one since the examining magistrate
had taken his revolver from him. We
went out together by little back
door into the park and stole along the
chateau to the point which is just be-
low Mile. Stangerson's window.
II placed Daddy Jacques against
the wall, ordering him not to stir
from the spot, while /, taking advan-
tage OF q moment when the moon was
hidden by a cloud, moved to the front
of the window out of the patch Of
light which came from 1t, for the win
dow was half open. Il could only
know what was passing In that silent
chamber! returned to Daddy jacques
and whispered the word ladder in his
ear. At first I had thought Of the
TaS oh foY
an observatory, but Immediately saw
that from the way the window was
half opened should not be able to see
from that point Of view anything that
was passing in the room, and want
ed not only to see, but to hear, and to
act.
Greatly agitated, almost trembling,
Daddy Jacques disappeared for mo-
ment and returned without the ladder,
but making signs to me with his arms
as signals to me to come quickly to
him. When I got near him he gasped,
Gomez
He led me round the chateau, past
the donjon. Arrived there. he said:
" cut ~ enS oonJoA LII sedIcA u
my ladder, and In the lower part Of the
don1on which serves me and the gar
dener for lumber room I found the
door open and the ladder gone. On
coming out that's what caught sight
Of by the light Of the moon
AND ne pointed to the farther end
OF the chateau, whers ladder stood
resting against the stone brackets sup
porting the terrace, under the window
which ! had found open. The projec-
ton OF the terrace had prevented my
seeing It. Thanks to that ladder, it
was quite easy to get into the of turn
ing gallery OF the first door, and had
40 doubt or 1t having been the road
taken by the unknown.
sSWe ran to the ladder, but at the
moment Of reaching it Daddy jacques
drew my attention to the half open
door Of the little semicircular room
situated under the terrace at the ex-
tremity Of the right wing Of the cha
teaa, having the terrace for it's roof.