Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-07-08
The Mystery OF
The Yellow Room
By CASTOR LERoUx = '0pff's7' sssfnnrAno.
By CASTOR LER0Ux

ner OF the chateau, another on TINS
| s,,nnort. one hand on the cornice or
tha keepers door and the other on the
terrace. and Larsan was clear OF the
| oronnd. The rest was easy. His act
fng 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
| . ~ he also had been drugged so that no
suspicion should fall on him for my
condition. Had I not been thus over
| novered Larsan would never have en-
tered Mile. stangerson's chamber that
NIGHT and the attack on her would not
have taken place.
A groan came from Darzac, who ap-
peared to be unable to control his sui
ferings
sYou can understand" added Roule-
tabille. sthat Larsan would feel nlm-
self hampered from the fact that my
room was SO close to his and from
suspicion that I would be on the
watch that night. Naturally he could
| not for d moment believe that ! sus-
pected him, But I might see him leav-
ing his room when ne was about to go
TO Mile. stangerson. He waited till
was asleep and my friend saincla1r
was busy trying TO rouse me. len
minutes after that mademoiselle was
calling ont sMurder!' /"
"How did you come to suspect Lar
san?'' asked the president -
'My pure reason pointed to him.
That was why watched him. But
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 7 felt myself losing
control Of 1t. I had allowed myself to
! be diverted by fallacious evidence, but
recovered and again took hold Of the
right end. satisfied myself that the
murderer could not have left the gal
Iery, either naturally or supernatural
". narrowed the field Of considera
ton 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, NJ. Stan
gerson, Frederic Karsan 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 30 me that the
/ fifth could not have escaped, It was
evident that one OF the four present
in the gallery must be a double he
must be himself and the murderer also.
Why had not seen this before? Sim
nlE because the phenomenon OF the
double personality had not occurred
before in this inquiry.
Now, who OF the four persons in the
| gallery was both that person and the
assassin? / went over In my mind
what I had seen. had seen at one
| and the same time NJ. stangerson and
the murderer, Daddy jacques and the
murderer, myself and the murderer, SO
that the murderer, then, could not be
either NJ. stangerson, Daddy jacques
or myself. Had seen Frederic Lar
san and the murderer at the same
time? No. Two seconds had passed,
during which lost sight Of the muir
derer, for, as ] have noted In my pa
pers, he arrived two seconds before
M. stangerson, Daddy Jacques and
myself at the meeting point Of the two
galleries. That would have given Lar.
san time to go through the off turn
ing gallery, snatch off his false beard,
return and hurry with us as II, like us,
IN pursuit OF the murderer. / was sure
now I had got hold Of the right end in
| my reasoning. With Frederic Larsan
was now always associated In my mind
| the personality Of the unknown OF
whom was in pursuit-the murderer,
in other words.
THAT revelation staggered me.
tried TO regain my balance by going
over the evidences previously traced.
!. but which had diverted my mind and
led me away from Frederic Larsan.
What were these evidences?
First had seen the unknown in
Mile. stangerson's chamber. On going
to Frederic Larsans room / had found
Larsan sound asleep.
"second.-The ladder.
Third had placed Frederic Tar.
san at the end Of the off turning gaI.
lery and had told him that / would
rush into Mile. stangerson's room fa
try TO capture the murderer. Then !
returned to Nile. stangerson's cham.
Der, where had seen the unknown.
Inc flrsf evidence did not disturb