Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-03-05
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CHAPTER XVI Continued.
stBut are you sure Y oung wrote all
the yellow letters :" f5,
Certainly, said the inspector, get
ting up from the bench and s entering a
the cottage. ii K n ,t3
.s5i When he returned few minutes
! later he Had IN his hand ia bundle OF
yellow paper and envelopes. As 4 ex *.
amined them Il saw that they were sof.
exactly the color and texture OF all
the fragments Of yellow letters that
\ had seen. & Il III 3 i, z;
here did you find them ri asked az
..In cupboard over there by the
L 5ireplace. / don't know whether you
noticed 1t or not, but over there, too,
{ IS the typewriter on which Young
n wrote the letters that he gave Rouser,
to mail for, him" 81. iii \. n
.'What makes you think Rouser
mailed them 2" lss.s 4 n
"There are six different things that
prove Rouser' connection with
y Young q Sfendish plots. The stamps
were put on by 3 left-handed man l and md
I iRouser was t:-handed. The answers
were received III the. Ardway post
& once, where Rouser was postmaster.
0 Lock Box u Z .Sto. which they were adj
dressed, 1was mot entered in the list
Of box.holders You yourself found
4 = large sum Of money in the post. ofhce
Y sash-drawer that had no business be-
ing there. Rouser8 himself mysterious
4 " disappeared when he found that
some one was on the trail Of the vel
low letters. And lastly; Rouser; and
H Young for weeks have been together
4 most Of the time. .52
{ss5f .How did you learn that Il
YGang, 1t seems" the. inspector
! CONTINUED, lis well known In Ardway,
his boyhood having been spent in the
4 town. His father was e well-to.do
lawyer.who became addicted to drugs.
h His mother died in the state asylum
4 Tor the insane. The constable, Dodds.
4 has known him for many years. He
" went to Harvard and there was q
sclassmate for while of Crandall. He
4 has been going from bad to worse,
each time he returned to Ardway on
I, his periodic visits seeming to be more
i and more addicted to morphine. His
4 inheritance was spent long ago and
1T has been a mystery to every one
wi here he got considerable sums that
4 he has had at times. With all his
faults, he has much magnetism and q
plausible tongue and makes friends
!. readily. So far as VI can discover,
4 after he had concocted his plot against
Il General Parrish he had some diff1c Guilty
IN obtaining satisfaction and tried to
u enlist the! aid Of Crandall. Crandall
/ went at once to General Parrish and
was ordered out Of the house. Gran
dali, despite his treatment by the gen
eral, was determined to solve the mys-
Y terry, and for months kept track Of
4 Young, trying to worm out the secret
\ and render him powerless. At times
i he gave Young small sums and for q
while, as, 1 have said, had him in his
4 rooms. One day Young disappeared,
taking with him some jewelry Of Gran
dall's and it was only 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
4 dali. Crandall, OF course, could not
communicate With General Parrish, so
q he called Katharine on the telephone
and made an appointment with her.
Evidently he explained the whole at.
fair to her, and when the negotiations