The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-09-30
The Mystery Of
The Yellow Room
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By GASTONLEROUX

j. the Young man IN low tone III you
lad but begged Mile StangersOn to
eouade In me! But then. everybody
here dIstrusts everybody else. The
Aaughter distrusts her father and even
her lover. While you ask me to pro
tect her, she Is doing all she can to
Illustrate me- That was why ] came
m the scene too late!
Ar N. Robert Darzac's request Roule-
tabflle described the whole scene.
leaning ON the wall to prevent him
self from falling he had made his way
m Nile. Stangerson's room, while we
were running after the supposed MUIR
derer. The anteroOm door was open,
and when he entered he found Mile
stangerson lying partly thrown over
the desk. Her dressing gown was
aved with the blood flowing from her
hosom Still under the influence OF
me drug. he felt he was walking In a
horrible nightmare.
He went back to the gallery aato-
matically. opened a window, shouted
hte order 10 fire and then returned TO
the room. He crossed the deserted
boudoir. entered the drawing room and
tried TO rouse NJ Stangerson, who was
wing on a sofa. NJ Stahgerson rose
Etupidly and let himself be drawn by
RouletabiIle into the room, where, on
seeing his daughters body, he uttered
. heartrending cry. Both united their
feeble strength and carried her to her
bed.
On his way to rejoin us Rouletabille
passed by the desk. On the noor, near
IL he saw a large packet. He kneit
down, and, finding the wrapper loose
ne examined it and made out an enor-'
nous quantity Of papers and photo
graphs. On one of the papers he read;
SNew differential electroscopic con-
denser. Fundamental properties OF sub
Etance intermediary between ponder
able matter and imponderable ether"
Strange irony of fate that the profess
mrs precious papers should be restored
to him at the very time when an at
tempt was being made to deprive MIN
Of his daughters life! What are pa
pers worth to him now?
The morning following that awrul
night saw NJ. de Marquet once more at
the chateau with his registrar and gen.
darmes. OF cCyrSe we were all ques-
Toned. Rouletabille and had ALREADY
agreed on what to say. | kept back
any Information as to my being In the
dark closet and said nothing about the
drugging. We did not wish to suggest
IN any way that Mile. Stangerson nau
been expecting her nocturnal visitor.
Arthur Rance told everybody in
manner so natural that 1t astonisned
me that he had last seen the keeper
toward II O'Clock of that fatal night
He had come for his valise, me said,
which he was to take for him early
next morning to the st. Michel station
and had been kept out late running
after poachers. Arthur Rance had, IN
deed intended to leave the chateau
and, according to his habit, to walk 20
the station.
NJ Stangerson confirmed what Rance
had said. adding that he had not asked
Rance TO dine with him because MS
friend had taken his final leave OF
them both earlier in the evening NJ
Rance had had tea served him In MS
room because he had complained or a
slight indisposition.
Bernier testified, Instructed by Houie'
tabille. that the keeper had ordered
him to meet him at a spot near the OAK
Rrove for the purpose of looking out
FOR poachers. Finding that the keeper
+, did not keep his appointment ne, Der
nier, had gone in search OF him. he
haA almost arrived at the donjon when
10 saw a figure running swiftly IN
direction opposite 10 him, toward the
right wing Of the chateau. He nearo
reyolyer shots from behind the figure
ana saw Rouletabille at one OF the gal
lerv, windows. He heard RouletaDille
ear out to him to fire. and he had hred.
He believed he had killed the man un-
m he learned. after Rouletabtlle nad
uncovered the body, that the man had
lied from knife thrust. VINO hau
Riyen 1t he could not imagine NOBODY
eouId have been near the spot without
INV seeing him." When the examining
magistrate reminded him that the spot
where the body was found was very
lark and that he himself had not been
able to recognize the keeper before
firing. Daddy Bernier replied that nell
ther had they seen the other body, nor
had they found It. u the narrow
court, where FIVE people were standing
n would have been strange II the
Dther body. had II been there. could
have escaped The only door that
opened into the court was that OF fhe
keepers room. and that door was clos
I'd, and the key Of It was found in the
Keepers pocket.
However that might be. the examin-
ing magistrate did not pursue his IN
uuiry further in this direction He
was evidently convinced that we had
missed the man we were chasing ana
we had come upon the keepers body
IN our chase This matter of the keep
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