The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-03-18
CHAPTER XIV.
u Fxpect the Assassin This
Evening"

t4hillp $50 as to enable NOll
f., understand TO the various
>.onns myself believe that
+ -, ,d~j..oyn,ei vbot everybody else
un,r.hira for namely. how the muir
Io,,r o..,uod from the yellow room
any orcompIirc and without
MI, St,,,rorscu having had ANYTHING
~ Ia vi,h IT. rut SO lone as | am not
.,,,. ,f five r..l murderer cannot
state tho iho.ry on which | am work
inc 7 can only say that | believe il 10
no correct and in II case IA quite nat
,,rai ,nl sfo,uIn ono As to what hap
unnp5 in ,nis I1acr three nights ago. |
nusi u.lv II Ennt we Wondering for a
whole dry and night. II passes all be-
lief The theory | have formed from
fha Incident il SO absurd that | would
rather matters remained as vet uupX-
uI,iued
Saving which. the Young reporter in
yited me to 30 and make the tour of
the chateau with him. The only sound
TO be heard was the crunching of the
dead leaves beneath cur feet. The ST.
lpnce was SO intense that one might
hovo tboucht the chateau had been
The old stones. the stag
nant water OF the ditch surrounding
tbe donion. tle bleak ground strewp
with tbp dead leaves. the dark, skele-
ton..ike outlines of the trees-all con
trjbuted 70 give TO the desolate place,
now filed with its awful mystery. an
aspect the most luhereai AS we pass
Ell ROUND the uohJoh we met tue Nieeh
Man, the forest keeper VINO ulu no.
greet US, out walked pE rs IL we mao
not existed lie was ioohlhS just as
had Formerly seen MN . tue
WINDOW OF the bohJoh I'M nc hau
still his rowing piece sung at MS
back, his pipe was III his mouth ana
his eyeglasses on his nose
y d XII OF hSh'' HouletaDi'le
SAID 10 me III Il low tone.
"HaV you spoken 10 nlnf asked.
"leS, out could get nothing out OF
him Ills only answers are grunts
n shrugs or the shoulders. lie gen
orally lives on the hrst hoor OF the
donJon-a big room that once served
for an oratory. He lives like a bear,
never goes out without ms gun ana Is
only pleasant with IL girls. Inc
women for twelve miles oun are all
setting their caps FOR him. For the
present he is paying attention to Nine.
Matthew, whose husband IS keeping a
lynx eye upon her In consequence
Af+or n,ss,rr Tho aor,or which 10
.t,otoa 80 10 ovtrono and Of tho
',ft w;nu u - 60 tho Loo,, of tho
,botoau porIot,hilIo noipt;ng RI a
indo uhinh 7 roconriyod os tho
Co. onortnnont ran 90 mo-.
..,f rnr hod hoon horo two ,irbts
wo,,,d horo coon ,o,,r hrr,hlo
,arrart ~ tho TON Of q ioddor ohort
o...n 49, oh,n ,r .h,4 u;n1o,,, >,
A,Tornno.aa1 .a, n,r,r;so 80 th,s
,,noa 80 rootmruoI numnastics ho hoa,
aod ma 70 no+;oo c,rof,,lv tho ov+orior
S;sno.;.;an 90 tho ohatnor Wa ,hor
- go, to-. !. ,u;Jt.u
0I mrst NOW chow, vo, tho fret floor
+hn nho.oo, r-hoyo 7 am ur;,o.
AI Ihn IN lIAI iii
.o,a INV friora To mo,ionoa mo r.
fol,oy him nm q ,,on;Gcon+ aioht ~
e+o ;rs opd;,r J., - Ind;nr on tho frS+
Aoor From this Iondino ono could
noSs 70 tho r;ght or loft WING of the
cbateau NV = ~roIlorv ononinp from II
This Gallery birh ana vidc cvtended
along the whole ,opr,b of tho hpildinp
and was lit from tbe front of the cha.
teau f,circ no north Tho rooms the
windows of which looked TO tbe south
opened ont of tbc gallery. Professor
~Stonpcrsop Inhabited tbc left wing Of
the huilding. Mile. Sfongcrson had bcr
apartment in tho RIGHT wing
We entered the gallery TO the RIGHT.
A narrow Garnet laid on the wayed
oaken floor, which shone like glass.
deadened the sound of our footsteps.
Rouletabille asked me in a low tone to