Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-03-12

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stream Of light to escape and fall upon
the path at our feet | planted the
| ladder under the window. | am al
most sure bat | made no noise, and
while Daddy Jacques remained at the
foot of the ladder | mounted it very
| quietly, my stout stick in my hand
| held my breath and lifted my feet
| with til" greatest care. Suddenly q
heavy cloud discharged itself at that
moment in Il fresh doWupnur Of rain.
at the same instant the sinister cry
of he I:rlr 'iu Bon Diru arrested me
in my 3srclit 1t seemed To me to have
come from close by me, only few
yards away. Was the cry 4 signal?
Had som" nrrnmplire of the man seen
me on the ladder: W@Aid the cry
bring the man to tn" window? Per-
| haDS. Al there be WAS at the window!
! felt his head aboV" me. | heard the
sound of his breath. could not look
up toward him. The least movement
of my head and might l,,' lost. Would
| he see me- Would Ii" peer into the
! darkness: Ne; hc went away, He had
!
| bin mlrN Ing ON tipt"r in the room, and
| ! mounted a few steps higher. My
| head reached To- the level of the win
dow sill. my forehead r"S" above it;
my eyes looked h"tWr"n the opening
In tn" blinds, aud SAN
AZ man seated mt Mlr StaugcrsOn's
| little desk writing. His back WAS turn
! ,Af,
| EiIu, aIIl IN. bent owe, the. dame. the
light from il prni"rliu" ~haI,rI"ss shad
owS | saw nothing 'lIt Il lnnnStrouS,
St""ping back.
"MlIr. StHngcrSnn herself was not
lht'rr, Her bed had not been lain on!
| Where, then, WIS She Sleeping that
night: Doubtless in the side room
| with her women Perhaps This was
| bul 4 GUESS. i must 'ol,l"ut myself
with the joy of finding tn" man alone
| | must he calm I" prrpHr" my trap.
"Rur Wh" then. is this man writing
| there before my eyes. seated at the
desk, as if Ii" were in his own home:
| If there had not been that ladder uI-
der the window, If there had not been
| those footprints on Ih" carpet in the
gallery If here had not been that open
window. | might have been led to
think that this man bad q right to be
there and hal he was there rs a mat
ter of ruurS" and for reasons about
which as yet | knew nothing. But
there WAS no doubt that this lnysteri-
Gus unknown WAS the man Of the vel
low room the MAN to whose murder
Gus assault Mile. SlaugcrSon without
dcnOuncing him had h;ti to submit. ! (
could but see his face, Surprise and
capture him,
IF | spring into The room ut this
moment he will cs"ap" by the right
hand door opening into he boudnir, OF,
| CROSSING he drawing room, he will
reach the gallery and | shall lose him.
i have him now. and in five minutes
more he'll be safer than if | had him
in Il cage. What is he doing there,
alone in Mile. Slaugerson'S room?
What Is he writing? | descend and
place the ladder on the ground Dad
dy jacques follows me. We re-enter
the chateau. l send Daddy Jacques
to wake NJ. Stnngerson and instruct
him to. await my -cemiHg< in Mile:
Stangersons. rpun and to- say. thing
definite to him before my -arriyal..S.s..>sI
will go ana awaken Frederic Larsan
It's bore to have to do it, for !
should have liked to work alone and
to have carried off all the honors of
this affair myself right under the very
nose of the sleeping detective. But
Daddy Jacques and VI. Stangerson are
old men, aud | am not yet fully de.
veloped. | might not be strong
enough. I.arsan is used to wrestling
and putting on the handouts. He
opened his eyes. swollen With sleep,
rendy to send me flying without In the
least believing In my reporters fan.
cies, l had to assure him that thi.
man was there
That's Strange. he said. 4 thought
left him this afternoon in Paris
He dressed himself in haste and
armed himself with Il. revolver We
stole Quietly into the gallery
"'Where is he" Larsan asked
"In Mile. Stangelson's rooln.'
"'And Mile. Stangerson? 2
/" She IS not in there
Lets go in
Don't go there. On the least
alarm the man will escape. He has
four ways by which to do little door,
the window. the boudeir or the room
In which the women are sleeping
'Pll draw him from below
And if You fail? II you only sue
coed In wonnding him he'll escape
5gain without reckoning that he is
certainly armed. No; let me direct the
expedition, and I'll answer for every
thing,
AS You like he replied. with fairly
good grace.
Then after satisfying myself that
all the windows of the two galleries
We're thoroughly secure placed Fred
eric Larsan atsthe end of the off turn
ing gallery. before the window which
had found open and had reclosed.
Under no consideration, i said to
bi Won