The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1912-08-31

left the syringe Denihu hlm-
$50" exclaimed In excitement.
'the mystery OF the yellow letter was
n Matchmaking plot against General
Parrish"
mo" said Davis, II don't think the
Parrish case had anything 70 do with
the other chain OF suicides, unless IL
was that both devilish plots originated
in the drug-fevered, malevolent brain
OF the poor fellow in yonder. II Is
true that General Parrish got yellow
letters. Once a week for months and
months he has found one in his mail,
each more threatening, more menacing
than its predecessors. He has for a
long long time been living in daily
dread that the anonymous writer OF
these letters might at any moment
carry out his threats and expose him
TO public shame, and disgrace him in
the eyes of his beloved daughters"
But how did you learn all this?"
asked.
Young boosted to Crandall about
the weekly letters. SO sure did he
feel that General Parrish would not
dare openly to prosecute him that with
fiendish malignity he took delight in
retailing TO 0randall the dreadinspir-
ing phrases he had employed and in
dilating on the terror they undoubted-
by were causing the general. II is
small wonder that the sight Of yop
and Louise examining the scrap Of one
q he yellow letters, coming as 1t did
r. ht on top OF Katharines desperate
act, brought on stroke Of paralysis"
Poor old man." said, how he
must have suffered"
Ear more than we can imagine"
said Davis. II do not think any one
but a half-crazed drug fiend. either.
could have conceived such refinement
OF torture as OF always using the same
peculiar yellow stationery. Think
what q shock II must have given Gen
eral Parrish each time he saw one OF
those yellow envelopes lurking among
his morning MALL Think what a
strain Il must have been as he walt
ed morning after morning for them,
bearing the burden OF his awful 81.
lencel Think what horrible specters
IN yellow must have haunted his
brain as he tried TO sleep! No won
der no collapsed when he did"
But are you sure Young wrote all
the yellow letters?p
Certainly" said the inspector, get
ting up from the bench and entering
II = cottage.
zen he returned a few minutes
J or he had in HIS hand bundle OF
ow paper and envelopes. AS / ex-
q ned them saw that they were Of
{ city the color and texture OF all
& 4 fragments OF yellow letters that
] lad seen.
Where did you find them?" ! asked.
In a cupboard over there by the
fireplace don't know whether you
noticed II or not. but over there. too,
is the typewriter on which Young
wrote the letters that he gave Rouser
to mail for him"
What makes you think Rouser
mailed them? p
There are six different things that
Young's iendish plots The stamps
were put on by left-handed man, and
Rouser was left-handedI The answers
were received in the ArdwbY post
office, where Rouser was postmaster.
Lock Box II, TO which they were adj
dressed, was not entered I'm the list
Of box.holders. You yourself found
large sum of money In the post-ofIice
cash-drawer that had no business be-
ing there. Rouser himself mysterious
~ disappeared when he found that
some one was on the trail OF the vel
low letters. And lastly. Rouser and
Young for weeks have been together
most OF the time"
How did you learn that?"
Young, IL seems" the inspector
continued, SIS well known in Ardway.
his boyhood having been spent In the
town. His father was a well-to-do
lawyer who became addicted TO drugs
His mother died i'm the state asylum
Tor the insane. The constable Dodds.
has known him for many years. lie
went 20 Harvard and there was a
classmate for while OF Crandall. He
has been going from bad to worse,
each time he returned 10 Ardway on
his periodic visits seeming 10 be more
and more addicted TO morphine His
inheritance was spent long ago and
II has been a mystery TO every one
where he got considerable sums that
he has had az times. With all his
faults. he has much magnetism and a
plausible tongue and makes friends
readily. So far as | can discover.
after he had concocted his plot against
General Parrish he had some difficulty
In obtaining satisfaction and tried TO
enlist the aid Of Crandall. Crandall
went nj once 10 General Parrish and
WIS ordered out OF the house. Gran
& espIte his treatment by the gen
-, determined TO solve the mys.
for months kept track Of
rvinp 10 worm ont the secret