Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-03-19

again for some time. He aroused s, a.
self later to tell me Of how he came so
set the two concierges free.
Il went lately to see M. Stangerson
and took with me a piece of paper on
which was written, I promise, what
ever others may say, to keep in my
service my two faithful servants, Ber-
nier and his wife I explained to him
that by signing that document he
would enable me to compel those two
people to speak out, and declared
my own assurance of their innocence
of any part in the crime. That was
also his opinion. The examining mag.
istrate after it was signed presented
the document to the Berniers, who
then did speak. They said what I was
certain they would say as soon as they
were sure they would not lose their
places.
They confessed to poaching on NJ.
Stangerson's estates, and it was while
they were poaching, on the night OF
the crime, that they were found not far
from the pavilion at the moment when
the outrage was being committed
Some rabbits they caught in that way
were sold by them to the landlord Of
the Donjon inn. who served them to
his customers or sent them to Paris
That was the truth, as had guessed
from the first Do you remember what
| said on entering the Donjon inn2
We shall have to eat red meat-nowr
| had heard the words on the same
morning when we arrived at the park
gate. You heard them also, but you
did not attach any Importance to them
You recollect when we reached the.
park gate that we stopped to look at J.
man who was running by the side OF
the wall, looking every minute at his
watch. That was Darsan. Well, be-
hind US the landlord Of the Donjon inn,
standing on his doorstep, said to some
one inside, We shall have to eat red
meat-now.'
"Why that now? When you are. rs
l am, In search of some hidden secret.
YOU can't afford to have anything es-
cape you. You've got to know the
meaning Of everything. We had come
into rather out Of the way part OF
the country which had been turned
topsy turvy by crime, and my reason
led me to suspect every phrase that
could bear upon the event Of the day.
Now I took to mean, since the out
rage In the course of my inquiry,
therefore, l sought to find a relation
between that phrase and the tragedy.
We went to the Donjon inn for break
fast I repeated the phrase and saw
by the surprise and trouble on Daddy
Matthews face that had not exagger-
ated its importance so far as he was
concerned.
81 bad just learned that the coz
cierges had been arrested. Daddy
Matthew spoke of them as of dear
friends-people for whom one is sorry.
That was a reckless conjunction Of
ideas, said to myself. Now that
the concterges are arrested, we shall
have to eat red meat No more con-
cierges, no more game! The hatred eK-
pressed by Daddy Matthew for M.
Stangerson's forest keeper-a hatred
he pretended was shared by the ecu
cierges-led me easily to think Of
poaching. Now. as all the evidence
showed the concierges had not been in
bed at the time Of the tragedy, why
! were they abroad that night7 As par
Elephants In the crime? was not dis
posed to think so. I had already ar
rived at the conclusion, by steps iof
which, will tell you later-that the as-
sassin had had no accomplice and that
the tragedy held a mystery between
Mile. Stangerson and the murderer,
mystery with which the concierses
had nothing to. do.
| with that theory in my mind, I
searched for proof In their lodge,
which, as you know, I entered.
found there under their bed some
springs sland brass wire An
thought these things explain why
they were out III the park at uights
was not surprised at the logged u
lenee they maintained before the sx-
amining magistrate, even under the ae-
cusation so grave as that OF being ae-
completes in the crime Poaehins
would save them from the assize eo0rt.
but It would lose them their places.
and as they were perfectly sure of
their innocence Of the crime they
hoped 1t would soon be established,