Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-02-11

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an hypothesis. !"
Rouleta billie sat down in an armchair
lit his pipe, which he was never WIN
ont smoked for few minutes In 81
lence-no doubt to calm the excitement
which visibly dominated him-and then
replied:
ssNo tran will be found, and the mys
terry of the yellow room will become
more and more mysterious. That's
why It interests me. The examining
magistrate is right. Nothing stranger
than this crime has ever been known"
"Have you any idea Of the way by
which the murderer escaped? 2" / asked
"None,' replied Rou1etabille, "none
for the present. But have an idea as
to the revolver The murderer did moi
use It."
"Good heavens! BY whom, then
was it used T.
"Why, by Nile. Stangsrson."
"T don't understand. or, rather, have
never understood" said.
Rouletaball shrugged his shoulders.
sis there nothing in this article In
the Matin by witch zen were particu'
larry struck?
seNothing. I have found the whole OF
the story it tells equally strange
''We1l, but--the locked door-Wfth
the key on the inside?"
That's the only perfectly natural
thing In the whole article
Really! And the bolt?''
''The bolt?'
eyes, the bolt, also inside the room, q
still further protection against entry.
Mile. stangsrson took quite extraor-
binary precautions. 1t il clear to me
that she feared some one. That was
why she took such precautions-even
Daddy jacques revolyer-Without tell
Ing him Of 1t. No doubt she didn't
wish to alarm anybody and, least of
all, her father. What she dreaded
took place, and she defended herself.
There was struggle, and she used
the revolver ski1lfu1ly enough to wound
the assassin in the hand, which ex-
plains the impression on the wall and
on the door OF the large, blood stained
hand Of the man who was searching
for means OF exit from the chamber.
But she didn't fire soon enough to
avoid the terrible blow on the right
temple"
s"Then the wound on the temple was
not done with the gevolver9"
The paper doesn't say 1t was, and
don't think It was, because logically
&c appears TO me that the revolver was
used by Mile. stangerson against the
assassin. Now, what weapon did the
murderer use? The blow on the tenn
pie seems to show that the murderer
wished TO stun Mile. stangerson after
he had unsuccessfully tried to strangle
her. He must have known that the
attic was inhabited by Daddy jacques
and that was one OF the reasons,
think, why he must have used quiet
Weapon-a life preserver Or q ham,
mer."
"All that doesn't explain how the
murderer got out OF the yellow roona,"
I observed.
Evidently" replied Rouletabille, ris-
ing, land that is what has to be ex-
planned. I am going to the Chateau
du Chandler and have come to see
you will so with me-"
"I?
Eyes, my boy, want you. The
Epoque has definitely intrusted this
case to me, and must clear It up as
quickly as possible"
"But In what way can be OF any
use to your"
EN- Robert Darzac is at the Chateau
In Chandler
That's true. His despair must be
II must have a talk with him"
knew M. Robert DarZac from hay-
ing been OF great service to him In q
Evil action while was acting as Sec
rotary to Maitre~ Barbet Delatour. M.
Robert Darzac, who was at that time
about forty years OF age, was a pro-
lessor of physics at the Sorbonne. He
was intimately acquainted with the
and after an assiduous
seven years courtship OF the daugh-
.er had been on the point Of marrying
ler. In spite Of the fact that she had
become, as the phrase goes, ssa person
u q certain age" she was still re-
good looking.
While ! was dressing I called out to
aouletabille, who was impatiently
moving about my sitting room:
Have you any idea as to the MUIR
lerer's station IN lifeg'
Yes he replied 81 think lie he
sn't man In society, he Is at least q
nan belonging TO the upper class. But
hat, again, is only an impression"
what has led You to form it?',
Wen, the greasy cap, the common
handkerchief and the marks OF the
ough boots on the door,n he replied.
II understand" I said. Murderers
lont leave traces behind snen which
ell the truth"
I'VE shall make something ont or
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