Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-10-09

II IudL way.
The question then came to me-"
continued Davis, "how could Crandall
nave known of the hidden danger
that threatened General Parrish? 1t
was highly improbable that the gen
eral would confde a thing of this sort,
either to his daughter or to her fan
ce. He must have come on it in some
other way. | judged that when he
revealed his knowledge to the general,
the latter, in fear that his daughter
might learn what he had been trying
to keep from her, in rage ordered
Crandall from the house.
"The only logical way for Crandall
to be restored to favor was for him
to clear up the mystery that was men
acing the general. AS he had been at
work on it for some time, 1 felt sure
that in his rooms we would find a clue
to the address of the persons we were
seeking. l was confident, too, that af-
fairs We're approaching a crisis. Gran
dali apparently had taken Katharine
into his confidence. 1t looked as if
some plan they might have made had
failed and that this failure had driven
Katharine to despair. With the lock
box in Ardway as a clue, with the left
handed stamp as evidence and with
C~randall's movements to watch, / felt
certain that We could quickly solve
the whole mystery"
"But how about the morphine sy-
ringer" I asked again.
Il hardly gave it a second thought.
For all l knew, it may have come there
by accident, yet Crandall quickly ex-
planned it's presence in the talk that
I have just had with him. He kept
this chap, Young, there in his rooms
for two weeks, trying to worm out Of
him the secret with which Young had
been trying to blackmail the old gen
eral. When Young disappeared he
left the syringe behind him."
go" I exclaimed in excitement,
"the mystery Of the yellow letter was
a blackmailing plot against General
Parrish
NO." said Davis, II don't 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-fevered, malevolent brain
of the poor fellow in yonder. It 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 it's 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 ?" l
asked.
Young boasted to Crandall about
the weekly letters. So sure did he
feel that General Parrish would not
dare openly to prosecute him that with
fiendish m~alignity he took delight IL
retailing to Crandall the dread-inspir-
ing phrases he had employed and in
dilating on the terror they undoubted-
ly were causing the general. It is
small wonder that the sight of you
and Louise examining the scrap of one
Of the yellow letters, coming as it did
right on top of K~atharine's desperate
act, brought on a stroke Of paralysis"
Poor old man." l said, "how he
must have suffered"
Ear more than we can imagine
xaid Davis. 81 do not think any one
but a h%alf-crazed drug tiend, either,
could have conceived such refinement
of torture as of always using the same
peculiar yellow stationery. Think
what a shock it must have given Gen
eral Parrish each time he saw n 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 81
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 a few minutes
later he had in his hand a 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?" I asked.
"In a cupboard over there by the
fireplace. I don't know whether you
noticed it 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?"
There are six different things that
prove Rouser's connection with
Young's f1endish plots. The stamps
were put on by a left-handed man, n
Rouser was l~eft-handed. The answers
rxyora rooo;u0d ~ tho Ar6UyQV most.