Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1913-05-14
CHAPTER xlV.-(contlnued,)

GHRF Sh NiN'-ASO"N'"NN .
"But are you sure Young wrote all
the yellow lStters?"
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 bundle OF
yellow paper and envelopes. AS l ex-
amined them ] saw that they were OF
exactly the cdlor and texture OF all
the fragments of yellow letters that
had seen.
Where did you find themH" asked.
"Tn a cupboard over there by the
fireplace. / don't know whether you
noticed It or rot, but over there, too,
IL 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 fiendIsh plots. The stamps
we're put on By left-handed man, and
Rouser was left-handed. The answers
were received in the Ardway post
once, where Rouser was postmaster
Lock Box II, 20 which they were ad
dressed, was not entered In the list
OF box.hold0rs. You yourself found
a large sum of money in the post-oftict
cash.draweq that had no business be
ing there. Rouser himself mysterious
ly disappeared when he found tha
some one was on the trail Of the vel
low letters. And lastly, Rouser anC
Young for weeks have been togethe
most Of the time"
"How did you learn that?"
young, it seems" the inspecto
continued, as we'll known in Ardway
his boyhood having been spent in tn
town. His father was well-to-d
lawyer who became addicted to drugs
His mother died In the state asylum
for the insane. The constable, Dodd'
has known aim for many years. H
went to Harvard and there was
classmate for a while Of Crandall. H
has been going from bad to wors,
each time he returned to Ardway o
his periodic visits seeming to be nor
and more addicted to morphine. HI
Inheritance WIS spent long ago an
II has been 3 mystery to every or
where he got considerable sums Thu
he has had ut times. With all b
faults. he has much magnetism and
plausible tongue and makes friend
readily. So far as l can dscove
after he had concocted his plot again
General Parrish he had some difficult
in obtaining satisfaction and tried
enlist the aid Of Crandall. Cranda
went at once to General Parrish al
was ordered out OF the house. era
dali. despite his treatment by the &c
eral. was determined to solve the my
terry, and for months kept track
Young, trying 70 worm out the seer
and render him powerless. At tim
he gave Young small sums and for
while. as l have said, had him in /
rooms. One day Young disappeart
taking with him some jewelry Of Cra
dall's and it was only few days a
that Crandall succeeded in finding h
here in Ardway Young, havi
Failed to blackmail General Farrii
tried to open up negotiations for t
bale Of his documents through CIR;
Gall. Crandall, Of course, could I
communicate with General Parrish,
be called Katharine on the telepho
and made an appointment with h
Evidently he explained the whole
fair to her, and when the negotiate
failed It was more than she col
bear"
THAT all seems logical, l said, %
I fail TO see yet what connection tn
Is between General Parrish and
Andrew Elser. Nor do see the c
nection between the suicide Of the
woman IN the hotel az Ardway ;
the suicide of the young woman
the park lake, yet in each Of th
cases there wore yellow letters"
81 do not se1 1t myself, yet" {
Davis frankly, and yet know it
lists. know tiAt the hellish idea
drove them all to death was plan
by that distorted brain inside the
tags there"
He was silent for several min