Lower coast gazette., 1913-02-01
Copyright 1911 The Bo9bs-MerriIC 60.

but d haif-crazed drug fiend, either
could have conceived such reiinemen
Of torture as OF always using the sam
peculiar yellow stationery. Thin
what a shock it must have given Ger
eral Parrish each time he saw O
those yellow envelopes lurking among
his morning MALL Think what
strain it must have been as he wait
ed morning after morning for them
bearing the burden of his awful 81
lonce! Think what horrible specteri
in yellow must have haunted hiE
brain as he tried to sleep! No won
der he collapsed when he did"
But are you sure Young wrote al.
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 7 ex.
amined them ! saw that they were Of
exactly the color and texture OF ali
the fragments Of yellow letters that
had seen.
Where did you find them?" l asked.
"In a cupboard owe there by the
fireplace I don't know whether you
noticed it or not, but over there, too,
is the typewriter en- 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
were 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 IL, to which they were adj
dressed, was not entered in the list
Of box-holders. You yourself found
a large sum of money in the p~ost-offce
cash-drawer that had no business be-
ing there. Rouser himself mysterious
iy 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 thst?"
young. it seems" the inspector
continued, "is we'll known in Ardway,
his boyhood having been spent in the
town. His father was a well-to-do
who became addicted to drugs.
His mother died in the state asylum
for TIE insane. The constable, DodGs,
has known him III many years. He
went to Harvard and thcse was .
clasemata f3r a Y CT Craaialll. He
las hGea going LSn bad to y-orse,
each tina lie returned to Ardway on
periodic visits seeming to be more
and iaore addicted to morphine. His
inheritance was spent long ago and
{ has been a mystery to every one
where he got considerable Sums that.
leShav had att times. With all his
ha has much magnetism and d
plausible tongue ard makes friends
readily. Z SO far as | can discoYer,
after he had concocted his plot against
ieneral Farrieh he had some difficulty
III obtaining satisfaction and tried to
enlist the aid OF CrandaIl, Crandall
went at once to General Parrish and
'ves ordered cut Of the house. Gran
deli, despite his treatment by the gen.
sral, was determined to solve the
cry, and fer months kept track of
young, trying to worm out the secret
md render him powerless. At times
ie gave Young small sums and FOR a
Thile, as have said, had him In his
'ooms One day Young disappeared,
with him some jewelry Of Gran
laHs and it was only q few days ago
hat Crand0ll succeeded in finding him
ere in Ardway. Young, having
allied 10 blackElail General Parrish,
RED to open Up negotiations for the
ale OF his documents through Gran
all. Crandall, of course, could not
communicate with General Parrish, SO
e called katharine on the telephone
nd made an appointment with her.
'v.dent,y he explained the whole af-
sir to her, and when the negotiations
1t was more than she could
ear"
THAT all seems logical" I said, "but
fail to see yet what connection there
between General Parrish and old
ndrew Eiser. Nor do / see the con.
sction between the suicide of tho cid
oman in the hotel at Ardway and
Q suicide of the young woman in
e park lake, yet in each of these
SEES there were yellow letters"
i do not see it nysels, yet said
Wis frankly. "and yet I know it ex.
g. know that the hellish idea that
owe them all TO death was planned
that distorted brain inside the cot
Sc there"
He was silent for several minutes
he gazed at the rising sun. seeming.
absorbed In the glorious spectacle.
I'll find OUT" he said explosively.
make him tell" y
What are you going to dot"
ked. "How will you make him."
gor answer he took from the pocket hi
his coat two sets Of thin steel cuffs. nj
9 for the arms and the other for the
kles. and stepped within the. cot. Iii
e. | followed wonderinglys and ur
tched him as he turned Young over
his face and, Bringing his hands
'ether behind him. snapped on the pr
-. lie shackled his feet, too, and ar
n picking up g stout rope, passed w
the Two sets ef sl,gck,es q.