The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-01-29

80. You were so much I'm fear of
something that you borrowed Daddy
Jacques revolver without telling him
you had done so? A. That is true.
did not wish to alarm anybody, the
more because my fears might have
proved to have been foolish.
20. What was 1t you feared? A.
hardly know how to tell you. For
several nights / seemed to hear, both
in the park and out of the park,
around the pavilion, unusual sounds,
sometimes footsteps, at other times
the cracking of branches. The night
before the attack on me, when | did
not get to bed before 3 o'clock in the
morning. on our return from the Ely
see / stood for moment before my
window. and l felt sure l saw shad-
ows.
30. How many? A. Two. They
moved round the lake. Then the moon
became clouded, and | lost sight of
them. AT this time of the season every
year l have generally returned to my
apartment in the chateau for the win
ter, but this year said to myself that
l would not quit the pavilion before
my father had finished the resume of
his works on the Dissertation of Mat
ter for the academy. l did not wish
that that important work, which was
to have been finished In the course of
few days, should be delayed by a
change in our daily habit. You can
well understand that did not wish to
speak of my childish fears to my IA
ther, nor did l say anything to Daddy
Jacques, who, l knew, would not have
been able to hold his tongue. Know
ing that he had revolver In his room.
l took advantage Of his absence and
borrowed it. placing 1t in the drawer
Of my night table.
20. You know of no enemies you
have? A. None.
20. You understand, mademoiselle,
that these precautions are calculated
to cause surprise?
IN. StangersOn-Evidently my child.
such precautions are very surprising.
"A. No, because have told you that
had been uneasy for two nights.
IN. Stangerson-You ought to have
told me Of that. This misfortune would
have been avoided
"QI The door of the yellow room
locked did you go to bed? A. Yes, and.
being very tired. l at once went to
sleep.
30. The night light was still burn
ing? A. Yes. but 1t gave very feeble
light.
80. Then. mademoiselle, tell us what
happened. A. do not know whether
had been long asleep, but suddenly
awoke and uttered loud cry.
IN. Stangerson-Yes, Horrible cry.
Murder 1t still rings in my ears.
80. You uttered leud cry? A. A
man was in my chamber. He sprang
at me and tried to strangle me. l
was nearly stifled when suddenly 1
was able to reach the drawer of my
night table and grasp the revolver
which / had placed in 1t. At that mo-
ment the man had forced me to the
foot Of my bed and brandished over
my head sort of mace. But l had
fired. He Immediately struck a terri
BILE blow at my head. All that, mon
sieur, passed more rapidly than can
tell It, and know nothing more.
20, Nothing? Have you no idea as
to how the assassin could escape from
your chamber? A. None whatever. l
know nothing more. One does not
know what is passing around one
when one is unconscious.
20. Was the man you saw tall or
short, little or big? A. saw only
shadow which appeared to me formid-
able.
20. You cannot give us any indica-
ton? A. know nothing more, mon
sieur, than that a man threw himself
upon me and that l fired at him. /
know nothing more"
Here the Interrogation Of Mile. Stan
gerson concluded.
Rouletabille waited patiently for M.
Robert Darzac, who soon appeared.
From q room near the chamber of
Mile. Stangerson he had heard the in
terrogatory and now came to recount
it to my friend with great exactitude,
aided by an excellent memory. His
docility still surprised me. Thanks
to hasty pencil notes, he was able to
reproduce almost textually the ques-
lions and the answers given. p
1t looked as If NJ. Darzac were be-
ing employed as the secretary Of my
young friend and acted as If he could
refuse him nothing-nay, more. as If
under compulsion to do so.
The fact Of the closed window struck
the reporter as It had struck the mag
istrate. The circumstance of the din
ner in the laboratory also seemed to
Interest him in the highest degree.
and he had it repeated to him three
times. He also wanted to be sure that
the forest keeper knew that the pro-
fessor and his daughter were going to
dine In the laboratory and how he had
come to know It.
When Nj. Darzac had finished l said,
"The examination has not advanced
the problem much"
at has put 1t back" said NJ. Darzac.
at has thrown light upon It," said
Rouletabille thoughtfully.
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