The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-07-15

h4fENL know now TO tell you. Fol
GsvSrs1 nights I seemed to hear. boil
IN tie park and out of the park
arovHs the pavilion. unusual sounds
sometimes footsteps. at other times
tie cracking Of branches. The night
before the attack on me, when / did
not get to bed before o'clock In the
morning. on our return from the Ely.
see I stood for a moment before my
window, and | felt sure / saw shad.
How many1 A. Two. They
moved round the lake. Then the moon
became clouded, and / lost sight OF
them. At this time Of the season every
year I have generally returned to my
apartment In the chateau for the win
ter, but this year said to myself that
would not quit the pavilion before
my father had finished the resume Of
his works on the Dissertation of Mat
ter for the academy. did not wish
that that important work, which was
TO have been finished in the course Of
q few days. should be delayed by a
change In our daily habit. You can
well understand that did not wish to
speak of my childish fears to my ia
Their, nor did say anything to Daddy
Jacques, who knew. would not have
been able to hold his tongue. Know
ing that he had a revolver In his room,
/ took advantage Of his absence and
borrowed it. placing it In the drawer
of my night table.
20. You know of no enemies you
have? A. None.
20. You understand, mademoiselle,
gnat these precautions are calculated
20 cause surprise?
IN. Stangerson-Eviden my child
such precautions are very surprising.
"A. No, because have told you that
] had been uneasy for two nights.
m. Stangerson-You ought to have
told me of that. This misfortune would
have been avoided.
20. The door of the yellow room
locked, did You go to bed? A. Yes, and,
being very tired. I at once went to
sleep.
20 The night light was still burn
tngf A. Yes, but it gave very feeble
light
20. Then. mademoiselle, tell us what |
happened. A. do not know whether
had been long asleep, but suddenly
awoke and uttered loud cry.
an. Stangerson-Yes a horrible cry,
Murder 1t still rings in my ears.
20. You uttered a loud cry2 A. A
man was in my chamber. He sprang
at me and tried to strangle me.
was nearly stified when suddenly
was able to reach the drawer Of my
night table and grasp the revolver
which had placed In 1t. At that mo-
msnt the man had forced me to the
foot of my bed and brandished over
my head a sort Of mace. But l had
fired. He Immediately struck terri
BILE blow at my head. All that, mon
sieur, passed more rapidly than l can
tell 1t, and know nothing more.
%. Nothing? Have you no idea as
to how the assassin could escape from
your chamber2 A. None whatever.
know nothing more. One does not
know what is passing around one .
when one is unconscious.
20. Was the man you saw tall or ,
short, little or big? A. l saw only :
shadow which appeared to me formid 4.
able.
20. You cannot give us any indica- !
ion? A. l know nothing more, mon L
'ieur, than that a man threw himself I
lpon me and that fred at him.
NOW nothing more" a
Here the interrogation Of Mile. Stan r
person concluded. I
Nouletabtrle waited patiently Tor M. d
aobert Darzac, who soon appeared.
From g room near the chamber Of
dlle Stangerson he had heard the In /,
and now came to recount t
! to my friend with great exactltude, IL
tded by an excellent memory. His d
ocility still surprised me. Thanks
. hasty pencil notes, he was able to N
sproduce almost textually the ques-
Ions and the answers given.
II looked as II NJ Darzac were be-
ig employed as the secretary Of my 4
Dung friend and acted as II he could Y
efuse him nothing-nay, more. as II
nder compulsion to do so.
The fact of the closed window struck
le reporter as 1t had struck the mag
trate. The circumstance Of the din
n in the laboratory also seemed to
terest him in the highest degree, =
I'd he had q repeated to him three
mes. He dlso wanted to be sure that
Y. .corest keeper knew that the pro-
and his daughter were going to
~ Ia the laboratory and how he had =
me to know 1t. -
When NJ Darzac had finished / said,
rhe examination has not advanced
e problem much"
'Tt has put 1t back" said NJ. Darzac.
ut has thrown light upon It," said
thoughtfully.
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