The Springdale news., 1912-11-22

of torture as of always using the same peculiar yellow stationery. Think what shock it must have given Gen eral Parrish each time he saw one of those yellow envelopes lurking among his morning mail Think what a strain it must have been as he wait ed morning after morning for them. bearing the burden of his awful si- lence! Think what horrible specters in yellow must have haunted his brain as he tried to sleep! No won- der he collapsed when he did"
 But are you sure Young wrote all the yellow letters ?"
 Certainly" said the inspector, get ting up from the bench and entering the cottage.
 When he returned few minutes later he had in his hand bundle of yellow paper and envelopes. AS ex- amined them l saw that they were of exactly the color and texture of all the fragments of yellow letters that had seen
 Where did you find them?" asked.
 
 fireplace I don't know whether you noticed 1t or not. but over there, too, Is the typewriter on which Young wrote the letters that he gave Rouser to mall for him"
 What makes you think Rouser mailed them?
 There are six different things that prove Reuser's connection with Yeuns's fiendish plots. The stamps were put on by a left.handed man, and Rouser was left=handed The answers were received in the Ardway post office, where RoHser was postmaster. Lock Box F, 10 which they were ad- dressed, was not entered in the list of boX=holders. You yourself found q large sum of money in the post office cash drawer that had no business be- ing there. Rouser himself mys erious- ly disappeared when he found that some one was on the trail of the yell low letters And lastly, Rouser and Young for weeks have been together most of the time"
 How did you learn that?''
 Young, it seems" the inspector continued, .is we'll known in Ardway, his boyhood having been spent tn the town. His father was well.to-do lawyer who became addicted to 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 a classmate for while of Crandall. He has been going from bad to worse. each time he returned to Ardway on his periodic visits seeming to be more and more addicted to morphine. His inheritance was spent long ago and 1t has been mystery to every one where he got considerable sums that he has had at times. With all his faults, he has much magnetism and a plausible tongue and makes friends readily So far as I can discover. after he had coneocted his plot against General Parrish he had some difficulty in obtaining satisfaction and tried to enlist the aid of Crandall Crandall went at once to General Parrish and was ordered out of the house. Gran dall, despite his treatment by the gen eral, was determined to solve the mys- tery, and for months kept track of Young. trying to worm out the secret and render him powerless. At times he gave Young small sums and for a while, as l have said, had him in his rooms. One day Young disappeared, toE h{ ol 0f ~ dall's and 1t was only a few days ago that Crandall succeeded in finding him here in Ardway. Young, having failed to blackmail General Parrish, tried to open up negotiations for the sale of his documents through Gran dall. Crandall, of course, could not communicate with General Parrish. so he called Katharine on the telephone and made an appointmen with her. Evidently he explained the whole af- fair to her, and when the negotiations failed 1t was more than she could bear"
 That all seems logical" said, "but fail to see yet what connection there Is between General Parrish and old Andrew Elser Nor do 1 see the con- nection between the suicide of the old woman in the hotel at Ardway and the suicide of the young woman In the park lake. yet in each of these cases there were yellow letters"
 '1 do not see 1t myself, yet" said Davis frankly, ''and yet I know it ex- ists. l know that the hellish idea that drove them all to death was planned by that distorted brain inside the cot tage there"
 He was silent for several minutes as he ga2ed at the rising sun, seeming. ly absorbed in the glorious spectacle
 "I'n find outt" he said explosively "lll make him tell"
 What are you going to do?" I asked. How will you make him ?"
 For answer he took from the pocket of his coat two sets of thin steel cuffs, one for the arms and the other for the ankles. and stepped within the cot tage. followed wonderingly and