Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-03-12

asking his master to dress as quickly
as possible In few words | eN-
| planned to NJ. StangerS"m what WAS
| passing. He armed himself with re.
yolvrr, followed me, and we were all
three speedily in the gallery Sine"
| had seen the murderer seated AT the
desk ten minutes had elapsed NJ.
Stangerson wished to spring upon The
assassin at once and kill him. ! made
hilu understand that. above all, he
must not miss him
| "Nhen / had sworn To him that his
daughter WAS not in the room and in
no danger he conquered his Impotence
| and left me 10 direct the operations l
| told them that they must come to me
| the nuncni | called to them or when
| | fired my revolver | then sent Dad.
| DIV jacques TO place himself before
| the window ut the end of tlr. right
| gallery | chose that position for Dad
| DIV Jar,ltl"s because | bclirNrd hat the
murderer, tracked on leaving the room.
| would run through The gallery toward
| thu. window which he hll left open
| and, instantly seeing that il was
guarded by LAr~Hn, world pursue his
collr>" along the right gallery There
he would encounter IAG'i! IHcuura.
who would prevent his ~lri ing ont
If til" window into the para tndrr
| the window there MAS 4 ~,'ri Of but
| Tres. W mile all he other " IluloW> HI
thu, galleries were Al such Il height
| from III" gr"uln tlat il WAS almost
| inp"~ Idle TO jump from Them with
| cal breaking ones neck All the doors
and WIriuWS, including those Of the
! lumber ru"In at The end Of lh' right
"a ,rrl rs / hHh rapidly assured my
self were strongly secured
| .lItiiu. Indicated to Daddy Jacques
| the post he WIS t" occupy and having
o,rm .rjln taIlr. up his pnsiiirn placed
| VI >iAngrrsuI ON The lHnhin" nj the
| head If the stairs mot far from the
| door nf his daughters Anlrruunl F,v-
| Fry hang )rl me to >upru~'' That when
| surprised the murderer il lI." room
| h" W"tlld run hy way Of the ante.
| ruulu rather than the brl,Ivir where
| HE women were. anal If which the
| door aust have been !u"krd by Mile
Ssrn@rrS"n herself IT, ~ | thought,
| SIN jDI taken refuge in the buuAOir
tor The purpose Of avoiding the muir
| lrrH who WAS coming 10 see hrr In
alr, ease he mu>t return ln the gal
berry where my people were awaiting
liln II every p"$>ih" issue.
ION coming there h" would see on
his left NJ. StHng"rS"n. He would turn
t" III" right. toward the off turning
gallery. tho way he had prrnrrangcd
for tli4ht, where ut the Intersection of
the TWO galleries he would see at
once. rs have explained "m his left
F'rrrlrrir I.arS:tu nj the end Of lie oft
turning gallery and in front Daddy
JacVu''S nj the end of the right gal
lrry. VI StAngcrson and myself would
arriv" Ivy way Of the back Of The cha.
team He is ours, He can no longer
escap" us, was sure Of that
"Thc plan l had formed seemed to
me the best, the surcst and the most
simple. 1t would. no doubt, have been
simpler still If we had been able to
place some one directly behind the door
of mademoiselle's poudoir, which open
cd out Of her bedcham ber and in that
way had been In a position to bestege
thestw doors of the room in which the
man was But We could not penetrate
the b"ud"ir except by way of the draw
ing room. the door of which had been
locked on the inside by Mile Stanger-
son. But even if had had the free
disposition of the bOudoir | should
have held to the plan had formed.
because any other plan of attack would
have separated lis ut the moment of
the struggle with the man. while my
plan united us all for the attack at a
spot which l had selected with almost
mathematical precision. the intersec-
tion Of the two galleries
"Hav'ng so placed my people, l
again left the chateau, hurried to my
ladder and. replacing ir, climbed up,
revolver in hand
IF there be any inclined to smile at
my taking so many precautionary
measures l refer them to the mystery
of the yellow room and to all the
proofs we have of the weird cunning
of the murderer. Further if there be
some who think my observations need
lessly minute at a moment when they
oughtto be completely held by rapid
ty of movement and decision of action
Ireply that have wished to report
here at length and completely all the
details Of Il plan of attack conceived
SO rapidly that it is only the slowness
Of my pen that gives an appearance
of slowness to the execution. | have
wished by this slowncss and precision
to be certain that nothing should be
omitted from the conditions under
which the strange phenomenon was
produced, which. until some natural
explanation of it Is Forthcoming, seems
to me to prove. even better than the
theories of Professor Stangerson. the
dissertation OF matter-I VIII even say
the instantaneous dissertation of mat
ter.
CHAPTER XVI.