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No paper discontinue • until all arrears are paid, unless at the opinion of the publisher, '• date to which every substription paid is denoted on the label. • 'Advertising ratee-Transied advet. tisements, 10 cents per nonpariel line for firrit ineettion and 3 cents per line for ea.elt subsequent insert. Stnall advertieenlente not to exceed one inch, such as "Last." "Strayed," or "Stolen," etc., ht- serted once for 85 cents and each subseattent insertion 10 cents. ontrattnica,tiOns !Mended fot publica- tion must, as a guarantee of gotta faith, be a.ecompanted by the name of the Vtriter. W. J. miTotint,L, &Arta and Inopribtor. triton News.k ra Mystery of The Yellow Room By GASTON LEROUX * ccsPYRIGHTlliENTANcos floortng of wood -was covered with a single yellow mat whicit was large enough to cover nearly the whole room. under the bed end under the dressing table, the only piece of turn1. tare that retnained uprigitt. The cen- ter round table, the niglit table and two chaire bad been overturned. These ald not prevent 4 large stain of blood being visible on the mat, made, as Daddy Jacques lefornsee us, by the blood which had flowed from the wound ors Mlle.. Stangerson's ftrehend. Besides these stains drops of blood luta fallen in all .directions, 1line with •the visible traces of the foot- steps. large and black, of .the Murder- er. Everything led to the presumption that these drops of blood bad fallen from the wound of the man wile had for a moment placed las red band on the wail, There were other traces of tbe same band on the wall, but much les e distinct. "6e' -see this blood oti the Wain" I could not help exclaiming. "The man who pressed his band so heavily•upon It in the darkeess must certainly have thoug.ht that be was pushing at a door. That's why he pressed on it so hard, leavitig on the yellow paper the terri- ble evidence, 1 don't th1nk. there are Many hands in the world of that sort It is big and strong, and the fingers are nearly all one as long as the other.. The thumb Is wanting, and we have only the mark of the palm, but if we follow the trace of the band," I con- tinued, "we see. that •after leaving Its imprint on the wall the touch sought the door, found it and time felt for the lode" "No doubt," interripted Rouletabille, obeekling, "only - there is nt) blood either on the lock or on tbe bolt." "What -does that prove?" I rejoined, with a. good sense of which I was protal,e "Ile• telgett ,have opened the • lock With his left hand, walch would here been quite 'It Aural, his right .hand -being, wounded." "He didn't open it at all." Daddy afnermee again eeclaimed "We are not pots, and there were our �f us when we beret open tile door." . • ."-What a queer hand! Leek what a queer bana it is!" I staid, "It Is a very natural hand," eted eof weicb the Ethane has been deftresed by its Mixing slipped on tbe wall. The man dried his hand tbe wall. Ile must be a man about five feet eight in height." • • • . , ' "How do you come at••that?" , • "By the height.of the marks on the wail." • • • - My' friend rieit . occupied himseli. with the mare of the bullet in the well.. It was a round hole. • "This ball was fired straight, not tam above, AIud consequently: not from" belo W." s• • . Rouletabille Went back to tbe door and carefully examined thelock and •t he bolt, satisfying hitnself that the ertor , had certainlybeen burst open from the outside, ..and, further, that the key baa been found .iu the lock on t he' inside . Of the 'chamber._ ..11e. flap ilY. eatietied hheself that. With tbe key ie • the kick the.. deer . could net Possibly be opened -from ..withaut oeth another • key.. Having made sure Of .all these details, he let fail these words, "Tbars' better!" Then, sitahageed,41%tn the ground, he hastily took boots audati Ills seeks went into the room, The. first tiling he dad was to exam- ine .minutely the overturned furniture. We watcbed him in silence. •• "Young follow, you are giving your; self ft greet deal. of trouale,"'said Dad- dy 'Jacques ironicany. •, • Rouletabille raised ,his head and said: . have spoken the simple truth, Daddy -Jacques. Your mistress •did .not have her heir in 'lianas' that even - leg. I was a donkey to intae believed she did." • •• Then, with tbe suppleness of a ser- pent, he .elipped under the bed. .. Pres- ently we beard him ask: • "At what time, M. Jacques, dtd M. an Vile. Stangerson arrive at the laberatoey?" • ' - "AI 6 o'clock." :• . :The's-eke of rtouletabille continued: 'Yes, he's been under here. .that's eertale. In • fact. there was • nowhere dee where. he .could have hidden him- self. Here,' too, • are. the marks of his hobnails. When you entered, all fear of you, did you loop under thebed" "et once. We deew.it right Out of its place." . •• '; • • "And between the reiattresses?" "There was ()My one on the bed. and. on that maaernoiselle was placed, and M. Stangerson and .the concierge ine mediately tarried it into the labora- tory. Under the .rtinttress there was nothing but the metal netting, which could not. conceal anything or ah - body.. Iternember, monstenrthat there were four of us. aud we couldn't fall to see everything, tile chamber as so. small and scantily furnisbed, and all was locked bottle(' Inthe pavilion." I ventured on a hypetbesis: • "Perhaps he got away 'itetb the mat- tress -in the mattress! Anything is possible in the face of such a Myetery. In their distress of mind el. Stanger son runt tbe concierge mey not have notieed they were bearing a double weight, eepeelally if the • coneierge were an accomplice. 1 throw out this hypothesis for what it le svcrth, but It expiaine many things and particularly the fact that 'neither the laboratory nor the vestibule bears any traces of the footmarks found in the room. If in carrying mademoiselle .ott the treta trees frOM the laboratory they rested for a moment tbere might have been aro opportunity for the train in it to eecape." "And thettr asked Itouletabille, de. llberately laughing under the bed. I felt tattler Vexed and replied: • "/ don't know, but anything appears possible." eza"tining magistrate had the same idea, monsieur," said /teddy ;litclues, "and be carefully. examined Thi tnattrees, it1e Was obliged to laugh *t the idea, monsieur, as your friend is doing now, for whoever heard of a mattress having a double bottom?" • My friend alone seemed able to talk intelligently. lie called out froai un- • der the bed: • "The mat here has been moved out of place, Who did it?" 'We did. monsieur," explained Dad- dy Jacques. "When we could net tied • the assassin we asked ourselves whether tbere was not some hole in the floor." "There is not," replied Rouletabille. Is there a cellar?" • "No, ehere's no cellar. But that has not stopped our searcbing and has not • prevented the examining magistrate • stud his registrar from studying the floor plank by plane, as if teem hail been a cellar unaer it." ''he reporter then reappeared. lElis eyes were sparkling and his nostrils iluivered. He remained .on his bands and knees. Thus he made his way to the four corners of the room, so to speak, sniffing and going around ev- erything -everything that we could see, welch was not mica, ad every- thing that we could not see, which mest have been Infinite. Tile toilet table was a simple table • standing on four legs. There was nothing about It by which it coula possibly be changed into a temporary biding place. There %ITS not et closet or •cupboard. Mlle. Stangersoa, kept her wardrobe at the ehnteau. a Rouletabille literally passed his nose • and hands along the .walls„ constructed • of solid brickwork. Wben he had enished with tbe walls and passed his agile Masters over every, portion of the yellow paper covering them he reached. to the ceiling, which he . was able to. touch by mieuuting on a chair placed on the toilet table, and by moving tbie ingeniously- • -constructedstage from place to 'place he examined ev- ery foot. of it. Wben he bed finished • his serutiny of the eellia,g, where he • carefully examined the hole made by thesecond bullet, he -approached the window and once more examined the Iron bars and blinds, all of which were solid and intact.. At last be gave a grunt of- sattisfaetion and declared, -"Now I fan at easel" . • • "Well, AO you believe that the poor dear young lady was shut up when she .wasabeing murdered -when -she- cried out for help?" wailed DadelY Jacques. •• . • -. , "Yes," said the youtig repeater,. dry- ing les forebeed; "the yellow rtrout -was as tightly sbut as au ken safe." , Bete du Bon Dien," muttered Daddy Jacques -"the Bete du Bon Dieu • herself, it she .had comuaitted • the crime, could not have escaped. • Lis- ten! Do you bear It? Hush!". . Dae(ly . Jacques made us a sign t0. keep meet and, stretehing bis arm to- ward the' wall nearest the forest, lis- tened to something Which wecould not -bear. "It's.auswering," he said at Length. e1 must kill it. 11 is too wicked, but ;Ws' •the Bete du' Bem. Dieu, and every nigitt it goes to petty ou .the twilit of. St 'GeneVieve; :and .. -nobody dares to theele bee for fear -that Mother An. genoux ehouid eatatean evil 'spell ma them." •. • . • .•• flow bigale the Bete do BOn , "Nearly as big as. re Sawa retriever- • a monster, a tell you. Ale -1 have asked Myself more than ouce whether it •was not she that took our poor made- emiselle by the throat with 'her claws. but the Bete du Bon Dieu does tiot wear hobnailed boots, nor tire revolv- ers; nor !ma she a hand -like that!". 'ex- claimed Daddy. Jacques, again point.; lug out to us .the red mark ou the wall. "Besides, we ,should have seen her as well as We. Would have seen a . "Evidently," 1 said. "Before we had seen this selloav Now I had also asked myself whether the cat of Mother An- genoux"- • • • . a • • .11:ou alsoli' cried Bouletabille., "Didn't you?" 1 asked. "...Not for .a moment. After reading. the article in the Math] a knew- that a cat had nothing to do with the mat- ter. But 1 sweae.now that ra frightful tragedy has been enacted here. You sey nothing about the &lege°. cep or the bandkerchief found here, 'Daddy Jacques." .-"Of, course the magistrate bas taken • therm" .the old man answered hesi- tatingly, ' • "I beven't seen either -the handker- , chief or the cam yet 1 den tell you bow they are inade," the reporter said to him gravely. • "Oh, you are very clever," sold Dad- dy Jacques, coughing ' and enabar- reseed. • "The handkerchief ie a large one, blue with red stripes, and the • cap Is no old Bisque cap, like the one you are wearies now." • "Yee are a • wizard!" said Daddy jaceues. .trying to laugh and not quite • suc...eeding. "How do you enow that tbe hanilkerchief Is bine with red ettapee?" "Beennse if It hed not been blue with red stripes It would not have been found at all," • Without'giving tiny fernier ntten- 'don to Daddy Jacqnee my friend took it piece of proof from his poeket and, taking out a pair of scissors, bent o'er the footprints, Piaeing the pa- per over .one of them, be began to cut. In n short time he bad made a perfect pattern, which lie handed to me, begging tee not to lose it. • Ile then' returned to the window end, pointing ttr the figure of Fred. erie Lersan, who had tun quitted the side of the lake asked Daddy jaeques whether the detective had, like him- self, been working in the yellow. room. "No," replied Robert Darztie, who sineTtouletitbillelnal handed Mar the pleee of- scorched paper had not nt. tered a word. "Ile pretends that he does not need to examine the yellow room, lIe says that 'the murderer made his escape from It in unite a bat - Ural way and that he will thlwevening • explain bow he did it." • As be listened to what AI. Dame had to say Rouletabille turned pale. • "Ilas Frederic Larson found out the trette which I can only guess at?" he munnuree. "Ile is very clever -very clever -and I admire itim. Yet I have discovered many things." "Moral or material?" 1 milted. "Several inoral, one material, This, for example," And rapidly he drew from his waist- • coat pocket a Piece of Paper 10 which he bad placeal a ligbt colored hair front a woman's ead. CHAPTER VHI. The Exemining Magistrate Que. !lone Stangereen. ^ IVO minutes later, as Rouleta. bille was bending over the foot- prints diecorered in the park, J under the window of the veste bele, a roan, evidently n servant at the elm team eatne towara us rtiplaty and ettileO out to M. Damao!, then coining • out of the pavilion:• • "NI. Robert. the magistrate. you know, Is questioniug reedemoiselle," " M. Darzac uttered a muttered. ex- euse to us and set off running toward the • ettateau, the man running after • "We must know," said my retold "Let's go to the chateau." And be drew tne wile lain. But at the cha- • teau • a gentle:elle placed in the vesti- bule detect] us admission up tbe stair - else of the tirst floor. We were obliged tie wait'downstairs, lads is what teemed in the ciumther of the • victim while we were waiting below. The family doctor, findiug that Mlle-. Stangersou was Inueli better, but fear - Mg a- relapse -which would no longer permit of her being questioned, had thought it his date, to inform the ex - emitting magistrate of this, who de- cided to proceed immediately with a brief eiaminntiote At thls examine - tion the registrar. el. Stangerson and • the doctor were present. . Later 1:ob- tained the text of the report of the ex. ateinatien, and I give it here in all its • legal dryness: • a• • • •.. • "Question. Are you able, madernoa selles • without too tench • fatiguing yourself; to. give- seine necessary -de- tails of frightful attack ,of wbich you have been the victita? Answer, I feel much better, mousieur, and 1 will tell you alt 1 Itnow. When 1 entered my chamber I did 'not notice.anythiug unusual there. •• "Q. Wbat did you do On that day? 'I want you to lie as 'minute" and pre- cise as possible. 1 wish to know all, you did that day if it is uot asking, too much of you. A. I rose tote, at 10 o'clock, for ley . father and 1 had re- • turned 'home late on .the night previ- ously,having been to dinner at the re- ceptioe giveu by the president of the republic in honor of the Academy of Sciefice of Philadelphia.. Wimp I left thy chameer at half past id my father Was already at work in the Ittboeatoey, We Worked togtther till midday. We teen took, half an hour's walk in the park, as we were aecustotnea to do, before .breakeasting at the chateau. After breakfast we took another Walk for half an hoar faun teen returned to the laboratory. • There we Lound' my chambermaid, who had cisme to set my room inorder. 1 wentante the yea low mote to give her saineeslight or- • aers, ,and ihe directlyafterward. left the pat -pion, and I resumed my 'work with My fftlher .At 5 e'clock we melee went for a wale in the 'park and after. ward .haa ten, ' eQ. Before leaving the pnvilion at. 5 o'clock did you go luto your chamber? A. No, monsieur. My father went into it, at my remit*, to bring me' my hat. • "Q. And be found nothing suspicious .there. A. Evidentlyno, monsieur. • "Q. at is, then, fewest certain that the 'Murderer Was not yet contented • under the bed. • When you went out was the door of theroom locked? A. No; tbere was no reason for locking it • •"Q. You were absent from the pavil- ion some length of time, M. Stangerson and you? A.. About an hour. • eQ. It was • during that hour, no doubt, time -the murderer got frith the pavilion. But bowl Nobody knows. Footmarks have been found In the park leading Away from the window of .the vestibule, but none: has been found going toward it. Did you notice Whether. thevestibele Window Was. open when you went out? A. I don't remember. . "M. Stangerson-alt Was teased. "Q. And when you iaturned? "Mlle. Stangersen-I did not notice. "M. Stangerson-it was still closed. 1 remember remarking alettd, 'Daddy aacques must surely have opened it while we were away.' "Q. Strange! ?Jo yeu recollect, Stangerson, If -Miring your absence and before going out he had opened it? roe returned to the laboratory itt Velock and resumed work? "Mlle. Stangereoe-Yes, monsieur. • "Q. And you did not leave the labo- ratory Prom that hour up to the IRO - /ilea when yeti entered your chamber? Stangerson-Neither my (bligh- ter nor I, monsieur. We were engag- ed on work flint was pressing, end we lost not a moment, neglecting every- thing el.ee on that necount. "Q. Did yoU dine In the labOratory? A. For that mem . "Q. Are you accustomed to dine in the laboratory? A, We rarely dine there. "Q, Could the nmederer lute° known that you would dine there that even- ing/ "M. Stangersoe-Good henvensa think' not. it waft only when we re- turucti to the pavilion at d oceloeit that we tlealded, Ma daughter and 1, to dine them At that moment 1 was ,spoken to by My gamekeeper, wit° .detained nie n Momeut to tisk 12H4 to Actompana WM On Mt ttegent tour of inspettion in it part ,of the woods which 1 had de. • tined to thin. I put this tiff until • eest day and Weevil Min as he wi- le/leg by ties chateau to tee the etew ard that ne should ate 1,1 the tate eratory. Lie kft tee te execute the errand. and 1'rejoinc.1 lay daughter, Imo was uiready ut work. "Q. At what hour, madonoisell% 011 yoa go le 5010 VIM Miler W hilt. your ftultit:iri4tiztitititel 'to work theme A, At "Q. Did Daddy Tweezes enter the yellow room iu the coulee of the even- • 1111tien44ll g?.e.tTilughstbut the .blinds ima tight "Q. Ile saw nothing suspieious? A. tie woula have told us if he had riven. Daddy Jammes is an. temeet mau and • greatly itttached to me. "Q. Ton affirm, el. Stangerson, that Daddy Jacques remained with you all • the thee you were in tbe laboratory? • "M. Stangerson-1 am sure of it hare no doubt of that. "Q. When you entered your cluitn- • ber, mademoiselle, you immediately sbut the -door Slid locked arid bolted it? Was not that taking unusual pre- 101IS, !mowing that your ...father and your servunt were there? Were you in fear of something? A, My fa. fifer would be pet -eyeing to tbe tegu, and Diuldy Jacques would be go- ing to his bed. And,- in fact, I did feha,Qr .soynztiii Ni,neg, re 'so much in fear of something that you borrowed Daddy Jaeques' eevolver without telling blm you bad done so? A. That is true. 1 did not wisit ft alarm anybody, the more because my, fears might have proved to have been foolish. "Q. What was it you feared? A. I hardly know how to tell you. For several nights 1 seemed to hear, both in the perk and out of the park, around the pavilion, unusual sounds, sometimes footstep, at other times the tracking of bratiches, The night • before the attack on we, when 1 did not get to bed before 3 o'clock in the • morning, on our return from the Ely. see I stood far a moment before my wirelovy. and I felt sure I saw shad- cl1418... 110W mane? A. Two, 'limy nowee round the lake. Then the moon • beeente clouded, and 1 lost sight of them. At this titne of the season every year I have generally returned to My apartment in the chaterm for the win. Me but titis year I saki to myself that • I would not 011it• the pavillon before my father, had finished the resettle of his works on the *Dissociation of Mat,. :ter' for -the academy. • I did not wish • that that important work, which was to hard beeu finished in the dourse-of a few days, sbould be delayed by a allege in our daily habit. You can well understand that 1 did not wish to slime of my Widish fears to my fa- ther, nor did I say anything to Daddy Jacques; who, I knew, would not ,leave been able' to hold his tongue. Know - Ina that be bad a revolver ia his room; took tolvantoge of , his absence and borrowed it, placing it in tae drawer ot my night table. • • • "Q. You know of no enemies you .have? A. None,' • .. "Qs You understand, Mademoiselle, that these precautioes aee calculated to einuse surprise? • • '111. Stangersote-Evidently, my ebild, such precautions are very surprising. "A. No, because I have told you that had been uneasy for two:nights, • "el. Stangerson-You .ought tO heye told me Of•that. This misfortune would have been avoided.. •. • "Q. The door of the yellow room locked, did you go to bed? A. Yes. and, being very tired, I at .(ince Went. to Fle• ".eQ1).. The nig. ht liglit was still 'bur;le; ing? A. Yes, but it gave a Very feeble "Q. Time, madenioiecile, tell us what happened.. A; I do not knew Whether I hall .been long 'asleep, but suddenly 'I awoke and uttered a loud cry. ' "M. Stangerson-yes; a .borriale. cry. 'Murder.' It.still rings lu my ears. • "Q. You. uttered a loud cry? A_ A. Man was in my "chamber. He spraug at: inc mid tried .to strangle the, was nearly stifled wben suddenly A wee able to reach the drawer of my night table and grasp the revolver which I hed placed in 11,•• At that Luca meet the man baa totted me to the foot .of rils bed 'mid brandished over my head ft. sort of mace. . But I bed. th'dd Ile immediately struck e terra ble blow tit Ina bead. All- that, emu- sieur, passed more rapidly than I eaa tell it, end 1.1thow nothing more. "Q. Nothing? Have eou no •idea as tt how the aesassiu could eseape.from • yoer chrenber? • As None whatever. I entity Atoning more. One does not know what is passing around one %tett one is uneonscious.• "Q. :Was the man you aim tallor elicit, little or big? A. I saw. only a • ehadow which appeared to Inc formid- able. •• • . • "Q. You cannot glee. as :any -Indica- • tions/ A. 1 .know nothing mommon- sieur, than that n man threw himself upon me and that I fired at 11110, I. • know nothing more." Here the interrogation of Mlle. State. gersou couchaled., ' • * * *' •* tionletabille waited patiently eoe et. Itobert Darzec, who soon appeared. From a room near the chamber of Stangerson he had heard the in- terrogatory anti now came to recount it to my friend with geeat exactitude, :titled by an excelleut memory, Ilis docility still surprised me. Thanks tohasty eaten notes, he wits retie to eoproduee almost texturaly tbe clues, tions and tbe 011SWPI'S given. It -looked as ft M. Darzae were be. Ing employed as the secretnry of tuy yotttig friend and acted.as if ll'e could refuee bini nothing -nay, more, as if under a compulsion to do so. • The fact of the closed window struck the reporter as it had struck the meg- istrate. Tho eircumetanee of the din- ner in the laboratory also stemmed to iutetest hive in the kighest degree . . end he had it repeated to Mtn thrae times. Ile also wanted to be sure that the forest keeper knew* that the pro. tassel' and his daughter Were going to dims in the laboratory tied how be bad come to know it When NI. Dame had finished 1 said, "The exernination has not advitneed the problem mech." "It tuts put it bade" Mid M. Ditrztte. "It bits thrown light upon it," said ltduletablile thoughtfully. ClIAPTER. IL snitsonnustitesommipstinostimpowitit Reporter and Deteqtive. 011LETA.11ILI.O. Darzne mai V went back toward the pavilion. At some distance front the building the reporter made 11,10 *top and, pointing to a smelt clung:1.0f treesto the right of us, said: "That's where tbe murderer eames from to get lute the pavilion." As tnere were other patebee of trees; of the same sort between the great oaks, I asked why the murderer had chosen that one rather than any of the' others. Itouletabille answered me pointiug to the path which ran quite close to the thicket to the door of the "That path ls. as you see, topped with gravel," he sale. "The man must have passed along' 11 going to tbe pa- vilion, since no traces of his steps have been found on the soft ground. The man didn't have wings; he vertikede but he walked on the gravel, witich left no impression of. his tread. 'Tbo gravel has. in fact, been trodden by many other feet since the path is the most direct way between the pavIllea arid the ebateau, As to the thickets made of the sort of shrubs tbat dotal nourish in the rougb season-I:rungs and fuebsias-it offered the murderer a sufficient hiding place until it was time for Mw to make his way to the pavilion. It was while hiding M. Heat clump of trees that he saw M. and Mile. Stangerson and then Dear Jacques leave the pavilion.. Grovea has been spread nearly, rery nearly, up to the 'whidews of tbe parttime. Tire footprints of it Mon Parallel with *he' wall. marks which we win examine presently and wieleb I have alrertfir Been, prove that he only needed to make one striee to find himself io front of the vestibule window, left open by Daddy Jacques, The men drew himself up by bis bands and ets- tered the vestibule." . (TO BE CONTINUED.) • ...r.00111116 PURIFIED HIS BLOOD Dr. Morse's Indian Root PlUoi Healed Mr. Wilsorars Sorest When the sewers of the body-boweitk kidneys and skin ducts --get clogged ups . the blood quickly becomes impure abet frequently sores break out over the body. The way to hcal them, as Mr. Richard Wilson, who hive e near London, Ont.,. found, is to purify the blood, • He •writes: "For some time I had been in a lows, • depressed condition. •My appetite left me and 1 soon began to suffer from Ina, gestion. Quite a number otstnall sores and blotalles formed ail over my skin.' 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