Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-04-22

wrong / was Interested only III the
health Of Mile stangerson, which was
daily improving, when something oc-
Cured that is even more mysterious
than-than the mystery Of the yellow
room"
sImpossible!" I cried. "What could
be more mysterious than that?"
"Let us first go back to NJ. Robert
Darzac." said Rouletabille, calming
me. 81 have said that everything
seems to be pointing against him. The
marks of the neat boots found by
Frederic Larsan appear to be really
the footprints Of Mile. stangerson's
! fiance. The marks made by the bicycle
may have been made by his bicycle.
He had usually left it at the chateau.
WHY did he take 1t to Paris on that
particular occasion? Was 1t because
he was not going to return again to the
i chateau? Was it because, owing to the
breaking off Of his marriage, his rela-
lions with the Stangersons We're to
cease? All who are interested in the
matter affirm that those relations were
| to continue unchanged.
s'Frederic Larsan, however, believes
| that all Intercourse was at an end.
From the day when NJ. Darzac accom-
| panied Mile Stangerson to the depart
ment store until the day after the
crime he had not been at the Chandler.
Remember that Mile Stangerson lost
| her reticu1e containing the key with
| the brass head while she was in his
| company. From that day to the even
! ing at the E1ysee the Sarbonne pro-
fessor and Mile. Stangerson did not
see one another, but they may have
written to each OTHER. Mile. Stranger
son went to the postoffice to get a let
| ter which Larsan says was written by
Robert Darzac, for, knowing nothing
of what had passed at the Elysee, Lar
san believes that it was NJ. Darzac
/ himself who stole the reticu1e and the
KEY with the design Of forcing her con-
sent by getting possession Of the pre-
cfous papers Of her father-papers
which he would have restored to him
on condition that the marriage engage
ment was to be fulfilled.
AL that would have been very
doubtful and almost absurd hypothe-
| sis. as Larsan admitted to me, but for
another and much graver circum-
stance. In the first place, here is
/ something which have not been able
| to explain-M. Darzac had himself on
| the 9th gone to the postof6ce to ask
| for the letter which mademoiselle had
called for and received on the previ-
Gus evening The description Of the
man who made application tallies In
every respect with the appearance Of
M. Darzac, who in answer to the
questions put to him by the examining
magistrate denies that he went to the
postofice Now, even admitting that
the letter was written by him, which
I do not believe, he knew that Mile
Stangerson had received it since he
had seen it in her hands In the garden
at the Elysee. It could not have been
he, then, who had gone to the post
Office the day after the Oath to ask
! for a letter which he knew was no
longer there
''To me it appears clear that some
bod. strongly resembling him stole
Mile. Stangerson's reticule and In that
letter had demanded Of her something
which she had not sent him. He must
have been surprised at the failure of
his demand, hence his application at
the postoffce, to learn whether his let
ter had been delivered to the person
to whom it had been addressed Find
Ing that it had been claimed, he had
| become furious. What had he de-
handed? Nobody but Nile. stanger-
son knows. Then on the day follow
Ing it is reported that she has been
attacked during the night, and the
next day I discovered that the pro-
fessor had at the same time been rob-
bed by means Of the key referred to
In the poste restante letter. It would
seem, then, that the man who went
to the postof1ce to inquire for the let
ter must have been the murderer. All
these arguments Larsan applies as
against M. Darzac You may be sure
Inat the examining magistrate, Lar
san and myself hare done our best to
get from the posto.f1ce precise details
relative to the singular parsonage who
applied there on the oath of October
But nothing has been learned. We
don't know where he came from or
where he went. Beyond the descrip-
ton which nakes him resemble NJ.
Darzac we know nothing.
I have announced in the leading
Journals that handsome reward win
De given to driver Of any public con.
veyance who drove a fare to 40. POST
offlce, about 10 o'clock on the morning
OF the oath of October. information to
be addressed to M. r.. at the Office of
the Epoque, but no answer has result
ed. The man may have walked bI1t az
ne was most likely II hurry there
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