Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-13
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b. accident, get CTandall quickly eS-
planned its presenc2 in the talk that
have lust had with him. He kept
This chap. Toung, there IN BIS rooms
for two weeks, .rying to worm on Of
him the secret With which Young lad
been irving to blacfmail the old gen
eral. When Young disappeared he
left the syringe behind him
$50" I exclaimed In excitement
"the M stery Of the yellow letter vas
a Matchmaking plot. against General
Parrish
mo-" said Davis, II tloa's think The
Parrish case had anything to do With
the other chain of suicides, unless It
was that both devilish plots originated
in the drug-fevored, mnlegolert brain
of the poor fellow In yonder. 1t Is
true that General Parrish got yellow
letters. Once a week fer months and
months he has found one In his mail.
each more threatening, more raenaclTg
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 hin!
to public shame, and disgrace hin In
the eyes of his beloved daughters"
"But how did you learn al thls?"
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 II
retailing to Crandail the dresd-,nsplr-
ing phrases he had employed and IN
dilating on the terror they undoubted-
" were causing tho general Il Is
small wonder that the sight Of you
and Louise examining the scrap O. one
of the yellow letters, coming as It d!d
right on top Of Katharine's desperate
act, brought on stroke OF paralysis"
"Poor old man." I said, how he
must have suffered"
Ear more than We can imagine"
said Davis. q rio not think 2ay >rn
but half-craZed drug ftcnd. oirl.ei:
Icould have conceived such rcfhetr"1
of torture as OF always using the sand
peculiar yellow stationery. THAI
what a shock Il must have given Goa.
teral Parrish each time he saw one oi
those yellow envelopes lurking among
his morning mail! Think Wha, ;.
strain il must have been as he wait
ed morning after morning for them
10 hic DUfnI CT,
'lence! Think what horrible sperterS
in yellow must have haunted nis
brain as he tried to sleep! No Won
der he collapsed when he did"
''Dut are you sure Young wrote Al.
1.-THE: yellow letters"
"Certainly,"' said the inspector, get
ting up from tte. bench and enteElnng
the cottage E. ):
When; he returned few minutes
later, he had IN his hand bundle OF
YELLOW. pa per. and envelopes. As T,eX..
amined them saw that they wero. OF
exactly. the color and texture Of II
the fragments OF yellow letters that,
had seen. =; -"
Where did you find theLliH' | asked
"Insa cupboard oyer: there by The
fireplace.!> don't know whether you
noticed it or not, but over there, 100
Is the typewriter on which Young
wrote the letters that he gave Ronser
to mail for him"
What makes you think Rousef
mailed ,them?"
There are six different things chat
prove Rousers connection WITH
,Youns;s. fiendish- plots. The stamps
were nut or. by a lcft-handed man, end
Rouser was left.handcd. The answers
were received In the Ardway post
Office, where Rouser WAS postmaster
Lock BOX H. 10 which they Wero adj
dressed, was not entered in the list
of boX-holders. You yourself found
large sum OF money in tho post-of'!co
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"
"IIow did you learn that7'
young, Ii seems" tho Inspector
continued, "is we'll known In Ardway.
his boyhood having been spent in the
town. His father was well-to-do
lawver who became addicted 10 drugs.
His mother died IN the state asylum
for the insane. The constable, Dodds,
has known him for many years. He
went to Harvard and there was .
classmate for a 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
Dit has been a mystery 10 every one
where he got considerable sums that
he has had al times. With all his
faults, he has much magnetism and 6
plausible tongue and makes friends
readily. So far as | can discover:
after he had coHcoctod his plot against