The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-01-15
CHAPTER l.
In Which We Begin Not 10
Understand.

caused so much INK TO now
On the 25th Of October, 1892
the following note appeared in the lat
est edition Of the Temps:
"A frightful crime has been commit
ted at the Chateau du Chandler, on the
border Of the forest Of Sainte Gene
We've, above Epinay-sur- Orge, at the
house Of Professor Stangerson. In the
night, while the master was working
In his laboratory, an attempt was made
to assassinate Mile. Stangerson, who
was sleeping In the yellow ROOM a
chamber adjoining this laboratory.
The doctors do not answer for the life
Of Mile. Stangerson."
The impression made on Paris by
this news may be easily imagined. AL
was deeply interested in the labors Of
Professor Stangerson and his daugh-
ter. These labors-the first that were
attempted In Acknowledgement to
open the way for M. and Nine. Curie
to the discovery Of radium. 1t was
expected the professor would shortly
read to the Academy Of Sciences a SEN
sational paper on his new theory, the
dissertation Of matter, a theory des-
tined to overthrow from its base the
whole Of official science, which based
itself on the principle Of the conserva-
ton Of energy.
On the following day the newspapers
were full Of the tragedy. The Matin
published the following article, entitled
"a Supernatural Crime"
''These are the only Details" wrote
the anonymous writer in the Matin,
1--WE have been able to obtain concern
ing the crime Of the Chateau du Clan
der. The state Of despair in which
Professor Stangerson Is plunged and
the impossibility of getting any infor-
nation from the lips Of the victim
have rendered our investigations and
those of justice so difficult that at
present we cannot form the least idea
of what has passed In the yellow room
In which Mile. Stangerson, in her night
dress, was found lying on the floor in
the agonies Of death. We have at least
been able to interview Daddy Jacques,
as he is called in the country, an old
servant in the Stangerson family.
Daddy Jacques entered the yellow
room at the same time as the profess
sor. This chamber adjoins the labo-
ratory. Laboratory and yellow room
are In pavilion at the end Of the
park, about a thousand feet from the
chateau.
at was half past II at night this
honest old man told us, and 1 was in
the laboratory, where M. Stangerson
was still working when the thing hap
pened. j had been cleaning and put
ting instruments in order all the even
ing and was waiting for NJ. Stangerson
to go to bed. Mile. Stangerson had
worked with her father up to midnight
When the twelve strokes Of midnight
had been sounded by the cuckoo clock
In the laboratory she rose, kissed Nj.
Stangerson and babe him good night
To me she said Good night, Daddy
Jacques" as she passed into the yell
low room. We heard her lock the
door and shoot the bolt, so that
could not help laughing and said to
monsieur: There's mademoiselle dou-
BILE locking herself In. She must be
afraid Of "the Bette du Bon Dieu."
Monsieur did not even hear me, he
was so deeply absorbed In what he
was doing. Just then we heard the
distant miawing Of cat. "Is that
going to keep us awake all nlght?"
said TO myself for I must tell you,
monsieur, that, to the end Of October.
I live In an attic Of the pavilion over
the yellow room. so that madcmoiselle
should not be left alone through the
night In the lonely park. 1t was the
fancy of mademoisele to spend the
fine weather in the pavilion. No doubt
she found II more cheerful than the
chateau and, for the four years 1t had
been built, she had never failed to
take up her lodging there in the spring.
With the return Of winter mademoi
selle returns to the chateau, for there
b no fireplace IN the yellow room.
1--WE were staying In the pavil-