The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-02-13
CHAPTER xIv.-(Continued.)

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 bundle of
yellow paper and envelopes. As ex-
amined them | saw that they were OF
exactly the color and texture Of all
the fragments of yellow letters that
l had seen.
Where did you find them 2" | asked.
In cupboard over there by the
fireplace. l 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 fiendish plots. The stamps
we're put on by a left-handed man, and
Rouser was left-handed. The answers
were received in the Ardway post
office, where Rouser was postmaster.
Lock Box II, 20 which they were adj
dressed, was not entered in the list
OF box-holders. You yourself found
a large sum of money in the post-office
cash-drawer that had no business be-
ing there. Rouser himself mysterious
~ disappeared when he found that
some one was on trail of the vel
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, lis well known in Ardway,
his boyhood having been spent in the
town. His father was a 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 a 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
ii has been a mystery to every one
where he got considerable sums that
he has had at times With all his
faults, he has much magnetism and
plausible tongue and makes friends
readily. So far as | can discover,
after he had concocted 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
dali, despite his treatment by the gen
eraI. was determined to solve the mys-
terry. 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 I have said, had him in his
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 OIL his uOCuHentS through (TdU-
dali Crandall. of course, could not
communicate with General Parrish, so
he called Katharine on the telephone
and made an appointment with her
Evidently he explained the whole af-
fair to her, and when the negotiations
failed it was more than she could
bear
That all seems logical" I said. but
| fail to see vet what connection there
is between General Parrish and old
Andrew Elser Nor do | 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"
u dc not see it myself. yet" said
Davis frankly. land yet l know it ex.
lists. / know that the hellish idea that
drove them all TO death was planned
by that distorted brain inside the cot
tage there
Hs was silent for several minutes