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

flo service in the midst OF the press
;no crowd. He thanked me and foid
me he was returning to America three
DAYS later-that is to say, on tne zoln'
tbe day after the crime. | talked VIII
hin, about Philadelphia. He told me
he had lived there for five ana TWEEN
tv years and that it was there ne nao
met the illustrious Professor Stranger
son and his daughter. He drank
GREAT deal of champagne, and when
left him he was very nearly drunk.
ss1ch were my experiences on that
avening. and I leave you to imagine
what effect the news OF the attempted
murder of Mile. stangerson produced
ON me-With what force those words
pronounced by M. Robert Darzac,
Must I commit a crime, then, TO win
vor1?, required to me. Il was not TINS
nhrase. however, that | repeated TO
him when we met here at Chandler.
The sentence Of the presbytery and rne
BRIGHT garden sufdced to open the gate
of the chateau. If you ask me II ] be-
ueye now that NJ. Darzac IS the muir
derer / must say [ do not l do NOT
think ever quite thought that. At the
time T could not really think seriously
OF anything, had SO little evidence TO
go on. but I needed to have at once the
nroof that he had not been woundeu in
the hand.
ssWhen we were alone together told
him how I had CHANGED to overheaf
mart of his conversation with Mile.
stangerson in the garden Of the Elysee,
and when repeated to him the Words'
Must / commit a crime, then, to win
YOUR he was greatly troubled, though
much less so than he had been by hear
ing me repeat the phrase about the
presbytery. What threw him into
state of real CONSERVATION was to
learn from me that the day on which
he had gone to meet Mile. stangerson
at the Elysee was the very day on
which she had gone to the postoffice
for the letter It was that letter per-
haps which ended with the words,
The presbytery has lost nothing of its
charm nor the garden its brightness.
MY surmise was confirmed by my find
ing, if you remember, in the ashes OF
the laboratory the fragment Of paper
dated Oct. %. The letter had been
written and withdrawn from the post
Office on the same day.
"There can be no doubt that on re-
turning from the Elysee that night
Mile. Stangerson had tried to destroy
that compromising paper. It was In
vain that M. Darzac denied that that
letter had anything whatever to do
with the crime I told him that in an
affair so filed with mystery as this he
had no right to hide this letter; that I
was persuaded 1t was Of considerable
Importance that the desperate tone in
which Mile. Stangerson had pronounc-
ed the phrase; that his own tears and
the threat of crime which he had
professed after the letter was read
all these facts tended to leave no room
for me to doubt. NJ. Darzac became
more and more agftated, and deter
mined to take advantage Of the effect
had produced on him. You were on
the point Of being married, monsieur
I said negligent1y and without looking
at him, and suddenly your marriage
becomes impossible because OF the
writer Of that letter because as soon
as his letter was read you spoke Of the
necessity for crime to win Mile.
Stangerson. Therefore there is some
one between you and her-some one
who is preventing your marriage
with her; some one who has at
tempted to kill her so that she
should not be able to marry And
/ concluded with these words: Now,
monsieur, you have only to tell me in
confidence the name of the murderer
The words I had uttered must have
struck him ominous1y, for when I
turned my eyes on him / saw that his
face was haggard, the perspiration
standing on his forehead and terror
showing in his eyes.
Monsieur he said to me. T am
going to ask Of you something which
may appear insane, but In exchange
for which I place my life in your
hands. You must not tell the magis-
y T.
the garden of the Elysee; neither to
them nor to anybody. I swear to You
that am innocent, and know, I feel.
that you believe me, but would rath-
er be taken for the guilty man than
see justice go astray on that phrase.
THE presbytery has lost nothing OF
its charm nor the garden It's bright
ness The judges must know moth
ing about that phrase. All this mat
ter Is in your hands. Monsieur.
leave it there, but forget the evening
at the Elysee. A hundred other roads
are open to you IN your search for
the criminal. I will open them for
you myself will help you. VIII
you take up your quarters here2 You
may remain here to do as you please.
Eat, sleep here, watch my actions. the
actions Of all here. You shall be mas
ter Of the Chandler, monsieur. but for
get the evening at the Elysee.'"
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