The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-05-20

~1REAT excitement prevaile
when Rouletabille had finished
The courtroom became agitat
u ed with the murmurings OF
suppressed applause. Maitre Henr
Robert called for an adjournment OF
the trial and was supported in his mo
ton by the public prosecutor himself
The case IA adjourned. The next
day NJ. Robert Darzac was released on
bail, while Daddy Jacques received
the immediate benefit Of "a no cause
for action Search was everywhere
made for Frederic LarSan, but in vain.
NJ. Darzac finally escaped the awful
calamity which ut one time had threat
cned him. After Il visit 10 Mile. Stan
gerson he was led to hope that she
might by careful nursing one day re-
cover her reason.
Rouletabille and I left Versailles to-
gether, after having dincd at The
Dog That Smokes. In the train | put
a number of questions to him.
MY friend" | said. Il am still in
the dark as to your reason for going
to America. When YOU left the Clan
der you had found out, If | rightly un-
%derstand, all about Frederic Larsan.
You had discovered the exact way he
had attempted the murderF'
"Quite so. And you" he said, turn
ing the conversation, did you suspect
nothing?"
II don't see how l could have sus-
pected anything. You took great pains
to conceal your thoughts from me.
Had you already suspected Larsan
when you sent for me to bring the re-
~volvers?"
Eyes, | had come to that conclusion
through the incident Of the 'inexplica-
BILE gallery Larsan's return to Mile.
Stangerson's room, however, had not
then been cleared up by the eyeglasses.
My suspicious were the outcome Of my
reasoning only, and the idea of Larsan
binary that l resolved to wait for
actual evidence before venturing to
act. Nevertheless the suspicion wor-
ried me, and I sometimes spoke to the
detective in a way that ought to have
opened your eyes. / spoke disparag-
ingly Of his methods. Butte until I
found the eyeglasses I could but look
upon my suspicion of him in the light
Of IN absurd hypothesis only. You
can imagine my elation after had ex-
planned Larsan's movements. I re-
member well rushing into my room
like a mailman and crying to you: I'll
get the better Of the great Fred! I'll
get the better of him in a way that
will make Il sensation
But one important point escaped US
both. 1t was II which ought to have
opened u eyes to Larsan. Do you re-
member the bamboo cane? | was sur
prised to find Larsan had made no use
of that evidence against Robert Oar
FAC. Had it not been purchased by a
man whose description tailed exactly
with that of Darzac? Well, just be-
fore l saw him off at the train after
the recess during the trial / asked him
why he hadn't used the cane evidence.
He told me he had never had any in
tention of doing so; that our discov-
cry Of it in the little inn at Epinay
had much embarrassed him. II you
will remember, he told US then that
the cane had been given him in Lon
don. Why did We not Immediately
say to ourselves: Fred IS lying: he
could not have had this cane in Lon
don; he was not In London; he bought
1T in Paris" Then you found on. on
inquiry at Cassette's that the cane had
been bought by a person dressed very
Ike Robert Darzac, though. as we
learned later from Darzac himself. II
was not he who had made the pur.
chase. Couple this with the fact we
already knew from the letter at the
poste restante that there was actually
a mar In Paris who was passing as
Robert Darzac. Why did we not i'm
medlately fix On Fred HIMSELF
. course HIS position was against
us. but when we saw the evident
eagerness on bis part TO fnd convict.
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