Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-04-16
The Mystery
Of
T1eYeII0w Room
By CASTOR LEROUx
Copyright. 1908. by Brentano's
BY CASTOR LEROUX
Copyright. 1908. by Brentano's
Continued

tne hluIutFeE, DADDY jacques ana III
murderer, myself and the murderer. $
that the murderer. then, could not b
either NJ. Stangerson. Daddy Iacuuc
or myself. Had seen Frederic Lar
san ana the murderer mt the sau
time? No. Two seconds had pnsscd
during which ! lost sight of the muir
derer, for, as ] have noted in my pa
pers, he arrived two seconds hrrur,
M. Stangcrson. Daddy Jacques an,
myself ut the meeting point of the tw,
galleries. That would have given Lar
san time TO go through the off turn
ing gallery, snatch off his fnlsr beard
return and hurry with us as If. like us
In pursuit of the murderer. | was sur;
now had got hold of the right end III
my reasoning With Frederic LarsAl
was now always associated in my minr
the personality of the unknown 81
whom ] was in purSuit--thr murderer
IN other words.
That revelation staggered me.
tried to regain my balance hy gun.
over the evidences prey i"lSly traced
but which had diverted nv mind and
IA
What were these evidences:
a5"First.-I had seen the unknown in
Mile. StangersOn's chamber On going
to Frederic l.nrsans room ! had found
Larsan sound asleep.
"Second.-The ladder.
"Third.-~I had placed Frederic Lar
san at the end Of the off turning gal
IN l,a1 fni1 1t,
rush into Mile. Stangerson's room to
try to capture the murderer. Then
returned to Mile. Stansersons cham
Der. where | had seen the unknown.
"The first evidence did not disturb
me much. 1t Is likely that when de-
seended from my ladder. after having
seen the unknown in Mile. Stanger-
sons chamber. Larsan had already fin
1shed what he was doing there Then.
while | was re-entering the cha teau,
Larsan went back to his own room
and, undressing himself. went to sleep
Nor did the second evidence trouble
me. IL Larsan were the murderer he
could have, no use for a ladder, but
the ladder might have been placed
there to give an appearance to the
murderer's entrance from without the
chateau, especially as Larsan had ac-
cused siDarzac and Darzac was not I'm
the chateau that night Further, the
ladder might have been placed there
to facilitate Larsan's flight In case OF
absolute necessity.
But the third evidence puzzled me
altogether. Having placed Larsan at
the end of the off turning gallery,
could not explain how he had taken
advantage of the moment when5I had
gone to the left wing Of the chateau to
md NJ. Stangerson and Daddy jacques
to return to Mile. stangerson's room.
It waH a very dangerous thing to do.
He risked being captured, and he knew
y, And he WAS very nearly captured.
He had not had time to regain his
post. as he had certainly hoped to do.
He had, then. u very strong reason for
returning to his room As for myself,
when senf Dadd w Jacques to the end
Of the right gallery naturally
thought that I.arsan was still at his !
post. Daddy jacques III going to his
post had net looked when he passed
to see whether I.arsan was at his post
or not
THAT. then, was the urgent reason
which had compelled Larsan to 60 to
the room a second time? guessed 1t
TO rbe some violence OF his presence
there. He had left something very
Important In that room. What was 1t?
And had he recovered it? begged,
Nine, Bernier, who was accustomed to
clean the room TO look. and she found
q pair of eyeglasses this pair, nj.
President r. I!
Md Rousetabilie drew the eyeglasses,
Of which we know, from his pocket.
wv hen saw these yeglasses.s lie
continued was utterly nonplused
had never seen 14arsan wear eve.
glasses. What did they mean?s sud.
denly exclaimed to myself, il wonder
~ he is long sighted. had never seen
Iarsan write. He might then be long
sighted The police would certainly
know Sar,d also know II the glasses
we're his. Such evidence would be
tianining. That xplained Larsailss re-
turn. know now that, Larsan3 or
sRallmeyer y long sighted and that
these glassee belonged to him.
now made one mistake. II was not |
aatisfied with the evidence had OBJ
tained, wished 10 see the man i |
face. Had refrained from this the
second terrible attack would not have |
occurred
But asked the president, whya
should Larsan 80 70 Mile. Sfangerson's /
room at all Why should he twice at. |
tempt to murder her n
Because be loves her. NJ. Presid lent.
hat y certainly 4 reason, but,,
a ~ the only reason. He was mad
love, and because Of that and
Other things be wa i pabie 81 COM
naffting any csime. =
ssssl5id VILE. stangersen know this K
! monsieur. but she was Ignorant
~ fale fact that the man who vas pnr. /
t1H73l1fr fsar ssyfr j. Tsssss3 !, u I.