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HONG the mass of papers, le- gal documents, memoirs and extracts from newspapers which 1 have collected relat- Ing to the mystery of tlie.yellow room there is one very interestiug piece: It is a detail of the famous esaminatioa whit' took place that afternoon to the luborntory of Professor Stani ersou be- fore the chief of pollee. T11is narra- tor e 1" from the pelt of '.4. Malelne, the reg;istrai•, who, like the examining tnttglstrate, had spent some of his' leisure tiwe in the pursuit of litera- ture. PRE REGISTRAR'S N.eRRAT1' E. The era twining mugistvete and I, says Al. Atalefne. found ourselves In the .yellow room in the c•nmitnny of the (. ,. uin t tttl Jeer who bad o s r t the asil- b c t ti i lo,l after Professor St Ingersotes de- sigr:s, He bad a worttnein with him. U. de Marqut't had had the wafts laird entirety bare—that is to say. he bad hadthem stripped of the paper which had decorated them. Wows with a pick here and there satisfied us of the non('sistenee of any sort of opening. The fitter and the ceiling were thor- oughly sounded, 'We found nothing. There wits nothing to be found. et. de Marquet appeared to be delighted and never ceased repeating: "What a case! .What 'a case! We shall never know. 'you'll see. bow the • murderer was able to get out of this ro„m!” . Then suddenly, with n radiant face,. he ealled'to the officer in charge of the gendarmes. "Go to the' chateau." he said,' "and request ,M. Stangerson and el. Robert rn rzec to come to me in the Tabora- t'ry, also'Daddy Jacques, and let your teen bring -here the two concierges."' Five minutes''later all were tissem- 1led in the laboratory, The chief of f oifce. who find . arrived 'at the Glen- t'.ier, joined us at that moment.. I was seated at M. Stangerson's desk ready for work when M. de: Marquet made us the following • little speech, as original as it was unexpected: "With your permission. gentlertien, its..examinations teed to nothing; we will for once abandon the old system of interrogation. I will •not hare yen brought before me 'one by one, but 'we will all remain here as Ave are—M.- Stangerson, M. Robert Darzac, Daddy Jacques. and the two concierges; the chief of. police, the registrar and tny- self. We shall alt be on'the same foot, Inge The concierges may for the mo- matt forget that they have been ar- rested. We are going to confer togeth- er. Weare on the. spot where the crime was committed. We have nothing else.'. to discuss but the crime. So let us die- 'cuss it freely, iutelli„ entle or other- w.fse, so•long es we speak „just what is to our minds. There need be no formal- ity or method, vivre this won't help us in any way."• • Then, passing before me, .he said en a low voice:•• . "What do 'you ,think of that, eh? What at scene: Could you have thought of • that? I"tl . make- a little plece •out Of it for the vaudeville." And he rub- bed ,his hands with glee. ' I turned my:eyes owed. Stangerson. • The hope be had received from the doetor's latest reports. who had stated that Mile.. Stangerson might : recover from ler wounds, . bad : not been' able to efface from his .noble features 'the tnarl:.s of the great sorrow that was upon him, Ile had .believed his daugh- ter to be dead. and he was still, bro- ken by that belief: Iiis•c!ear, soft blue eyes expressed• infinite sorrow. • "Now, M. Stangerson," said M. de Dlargiiet, with somewhnt of an impor- tant air, "place yourself exactly where you 'were when Mlle. •Stangerson left yoti.to go to her: cha.nber," M. Stangerson rose and, standing at a certain distance from the door of the yellow roam, said in en even voice and Without the least trace of emphasis, a_ voice which 1 can only describe 'as a dead voice: ' '.I was here. About 11 o'clock, after I had . made a. brief chemical etperi- meat at the furnaces of .the laborite tory. needifg all -the space behind me, 1 had my desk moved here by Daddy Jacques,. Who spent 'the evening in cleaning some of my :apparatus. My daughter had been working at the same desk .with tne, When it was . dale to leave she rose, kissed me and. bade Daddy Jacques good night.. She had to pass behind my desk; nud the floor to enter her 'r chamber, and she could do this only with some Men). tyY-that is to say, 1 was very neer- the place where the crime occurred later." "And the desk?" I asked, obeying. in thus migrate myself in the conversa- tion, the express. orders of my c!i1ef. "As soon'as you beardthe cry of 'Mute der" followed by the revolver shots, what became of the desk?" 1)nddy .Tacgites answered. "We pushed .ft back against the wall here close to where it is at the, present moment, so as to be able to get at tbe door at once." I followed up my reasontug, to which, however. t ntttched but little importance, regarding it ns only a weak bypdthesls, with another quer. tion. " All ht not a man to the room, the desk being so near to the door, be' stooping and slipping tinder the desk have left it unobserved?" "You are forgetting," interrupted At. Stangerson wearily, "that my daughter had locked and bolted the door,. that the door had remained fastened, that. we "vainly tried to force it open when we heard the noise and that we were at the door while the struggle between the murderer and my poor eblld was going on immediately after we beard her stilled Griefs," 'NOMAS BROWN, LICENSED AUC tioaeer for .the - mantles of Huron, and Perth. 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"Strayed," or "Stolen," etc., in• serted once for 85 cents and coot subsequent insertion 10 Centlt. ontnittnieatton3 intended for :publfoa. Witt must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. W. J. MITCHELL, Editor and V'roprtetOt. t rose tram my sear and once more examined the door with the greatest care. Then I returned to myplace, st tvitb a despairing gesture. "If the lower panel of tbe door," I sald, "could be removed without the whole dolor being necessarily open the problem would be solSed. But unfortu- nately that last hypothesis is untena- ble after an examination of the door. it's of oak, solid and massive. You can see that quite plainly In spite of the injury done in the attempt to burst It open." "Alt" erten Daddy Jacques, "it is Ito oM and 0olid door that was brought from the chateau. They don't make such doors now. We bad to tine this bar of Iron to. get it open, all four of us, for the concierge, brave woman she, is, helped us. It pains me to find them both in prison now." Daddy Jacques had no sooner ut- tered these words of pity and protesta- tion than tears and lamentations broke out from the concierges. I never saw two accused people crying more bit - ' 1 -' terly. I was extremely disgusted. Even if they -were were Innocent, I could not un- derstand bow they could behave like that in. the face of ►nisforteue A dig- naffed bearing at such times is better than tears and groans, which most of- ten are feigned. - "Now, then, enough of that snivel- ing," cried A1. de Marquet, "and in your interest tell us what you were doing under the windows of the pavil- ion at the time your mistress was be - Ing attacked, for you were close .to the pavilion when• Daddy Jacques met you." "We were. coming .to • help!" they whined. "If we could outer lay bands on the murderer• he'd never taste bread again!" the womangurgled beteveeu her sobs. As before, 1w•e, were unable to get two connecting thoughts out of them. They persisted in -their denials and swore by heaven and all the saints. Haut they were in bed when they '-heard the sound Oaf the revolver shot. "It was not one, but two shots, that were fired. ' You see you are lying. if you bad beard one you would hae•e beard the other." • ' ' "Mon Dieu! Monsieur, it was the second shot we . heard. We• were sound asleep when the first shot was tired." • "Two shots Were fired," said Daddy Jacques.' "I am certain that all the. cartridges were in my revolver. We found afterward that two had been exploded,- and we heard two shots be- hind the door, Was riot thet. se, M. Stangerson?" I - "Yes," _replied the .professor, "there were. two shots—one dull and the, other sharp and•ringing" t "Why do you persist in lying?" cried AL de Afarquet, turning to the con- ,cierges. "Do you think the police are the fools you are? Everything points to the fact that. you were out of doors _ and near: the pavilion .at the time of :the tragedy. What' were you: doing there? ".So far as l• am coucerned," he • said, turning to Ale Stangerson, "Lean only explain the escape of the mur- derer on the assumption of help froth these two accomplices, As noon as :the• door was forced open and while you, M. Stangerson, were 'occupied with your unfortunate child the .concierge and' his wife facilitated the flight of the murderer, who, screening Mansell behind•tbem, reached• the window in. the vestibule and sprang out of it into the park. - The concierge closed the window after him and fastened the blinds, which certainty could not have closed and 'fastened of a hem- selves. That is the, conclusion 1 rade arrived at, If any . one here lits any other. idea let him state it." AI. 'Stangerson intervened: , "What you say was impossible.. I do not believe. either he the gnilt or in. tbe. eenuivance of .my gencierges, thotrglt 1, Cannot understand what they were doing in the park at that late hour of the night. I say it was im- possible, because Aline. Bernier bead the lamp and did not move from the threshold of the room, because I as open as the door was forced threw' myself en my knees beside my daughter, and no one could have left or entered the room by the door with out passing over her body and fore, Mg his way by me! Daddy Jacques and the concierge bad but to east a glance around the chamber and under the bed, as I had done on entering, to see that there was nobody, in It but my daughter lying on the floor," - "What do you think, AI. Darzac?" asked the magistrate. M. Darzac replied that be bad no opinion to express. M. Dax, the chief of police, who ea far hid been -listening and examining the room, at length deigned to open his lips: "While search is being made for the criminal we had better try to find out them motivefor the crime. That will of e advance us a little, be said. Turningins toward 81. Stangerson, he continued in the even, intelligent tone indicative of a strong character, "I understand that mademoiselle was shortly to have been married?" The -professor lookedsadly at M. Hobert Darzac, "With my friend here, whom I should have been happy to call my son —with M. Robert Darzac." "Mile. Stangerson is much better and his rapidly recovering from ler wounds. - The marriage is simply de- - layed, is it: not, tnousieur?" insisted the 'chief of police. ."I hope so." - "What! Is there any doubt about that?" - A1. Stangerson dld not answer, Af ' Robert Darzac seemed agitated. I saw that itis'' hand trembled as It fingered his watch chain. Al. Das coughed, as click el. de Aiarquet. Both were evi- dently embarrassed. - - - - "'You understand, M. Stangerson," he said, "that lit an affair so perplexing as this we cannot neglect anything. We . must know alk even the smallest and seemingly most futile thing concern- + Ing the victim information appareii?tly the most fneignifieant ' Why do you doubt that this marriage will take : place? You expressed a hope, but the hope implies a doubt. Wby do you doubt?" - Stangerson made a visible effort to recover himself. - - "Yes, monsieur." .lie said at length, "You are right: It will be beat'that you should know something which if I concealed it night appear to be of im- portance.' A3 Darzac agrees wire me • in this."".' M. Darzac, whose pallor at 'that tee - went seemed to me to be altogether 'abnormal, made a : sign ofassent I gathered he was unable to speak; "1 want you to know, then,",eontin- ued' M. Stangerson, "that my daughter has sworn never to leave me and ad- heres firmly to her oath in •spite of all my prayers and ail That 1 have argued to induce - her to , marry. We have known Ai. Robert Derzae many years. Ii:e loves my child, and I.believed .that elle, loved him,because she only re- cently cousented , to - this ':marriage, which' I:desire svitll all my: heart I am an old man, inousieur, and .it Wes a liappy hour to me when I knew that - after l rind gone shewould have at ber side one wilt) loved her and who would help tier in eontinuine our com- mon labors. 1 • love and esteem. Al.. :Dame both for his greatnessof heart 'and for his devotion - to science. 'But • two days before the tragedy, for 1 know not evIat reason, -my daughter declared to me that she would never marry. M. Darzac." A dead silence followed Ai. Stanger - seta's words. It Was a moment fraught with suspense. "1)X1 mademoiselle. give.you anyex- planation--slid she telt von t fen+ "EXCUSE ME, GENTLEMEN THIS COMPARTMENT IS RESERVED." motive was?" asked AI. Pax. "She told me elle was too old to mar- ry; that she had welted too long. She said she had given much, thought to the matter: and while she had a great esteem, even Affection, for AI. Darzac she telt It would be better if things remained as they were." "That is very strange," tnuttered AT. I)ax. "Strange!" repeated el. de Marquet. "You'll certainly not And the mo- tive there, Al. Dax," M. Stangerson saki, with a cold smile: "in any .case, the motive was not theft," said the chiet'impntiently, "Oh, we are quite couvluced of that!" exclaimed the examining ma ts- g trate. At that moment the door of the lab- oratory opened, and the efiteer lu .charge of the gendarmes entered and heeded .a card to the examining magis- trate. AI. de Marquet react It and ut- tered n half .angry exclamation. "This is really tyle much!" he cried. "What is it?" asked the ebief, "It's the card of a young reporter engaged on the Epoque, a AL Joseph Itoutetebilie, It has these words writ- ten on ft, "One of the motives of the crime was robbery," The ebief smiled. "Ah, young Rouletabillel I've heard of him. He is considered rather elev- en I,et him come in." AI, Joseph Itouletabille entered the laboratory, bowed to us and waited. for AI. de Marquet to ask hire to ex- plain his presence. "You pretend, monsieur, 'that you know the motive for the crime and that that Motive—in the face of alt the evidence that has been forthcom- ing—Was robbery?" w "No, monsieur; I, do not pretend that. I do not say that robbery was the mo- tive for the crime, and I don't believe it was." - "(Then what is the meaning of this card?" "It means that robbery was one of the motives for the crime," "What leads you to think that?" "li you will be . good enough to ac- company me I will show ydu." The young map asked us to follow him into the vestilaule, and we did. He.' led its toward the lavatory and begged AI. de Marquet to kneel beside him, This lavatory .is lit by ,the glass door, and when the door was open the light which penetrated was sufficient to light it perfectly. Al. de Marquet and M. Joseph Rouletabille knelt down on the :threshold, and the young man pointed •to a spot on the pavement. "Ti'be stones of the lavatory have not been washed. by Duddy Jacques for, some time." he said.. )•"that can be seen: by the. layer of dd-St that covers them. Now notice here the marks of two large footprints and the black ash they left where they bave'been. That ash is nothing else than the charcoal deet irat corers the path along which. ysost pass through the forest 3:011 mi order to get directly -froth Epinay to the Glandier. You • know there :Is a little village - of charcoal burners at that place who make large quantities- of charcoal. What .the murderer did wasto come- here: at mldday, when there was nobody at the pavilion, and attempt his robbery." "Put what' robbery? Where. do you . see any signs of robbery? 'M4 hat proves to y�u' that a robbery has been coot - 'bitted?" we all cried at once. - - "What put me- en. the trace -01 it" continued the journalist.' • eWits this," interrupted Ai. de Mar- quee still on' his lances.. "Evidently;" said. Itouletabiile. . And \I. de Marquet' explained that there Were. on the dust of the pave- ment -Marks ave-ment,tnnrks of Iwo'. footsteps as well tis the inipreeelon, freshly made, of n heavy rectangular parcel, the marks of the cord with which it :had been fastened being, easily distinguished, "Sou have been here, then"- M. Itou- ',debtlte•? I thought I'had-given.or- ders to Daddy Jacques,. who wa>s left lu .charge of the pavilion, not to allow anybody to enter." - ' • . "Don't sc'utcl Daddy 7aeques.. I catue here With Al. Robert Dinette." . - "Ale indeed!" exclaimed M. de Mar - (Met 'disagreeably. carting tt side glance at ee Darzac, who remained perfectly .silent: "When l saw the hark of the parcol • t h: by the side of the footprints 1 ld'no doutbt as to the robbery," replied Af. Rouletabille.: `'"Phe thief - had not brought a parcel with him. Ile .hnd imide one here --a parcel With the stolen ()Weds no doubt—and ire put it in •this corner, intending to. take it away when the moment ...tne for hirer to make' 'file esc'nne. IIe had also placed his heavy boots bosidc the per - eel, for, .see, . •there; are no marks •of steps lending to the marks left by the boots, 'Which were l'laceti side by side. That .accounts for the fact that the murderer left no trace of his steps When he' fled from the. yellow room, nor. any'in the laboratory,. nor in the vestibule. After entering, the Yellow room' In his boots he Moir thein ori, finding them troublesome or . Because he wished to make as little 'noise as . possible, The marks made by him in going through' the vestibule and the laboratory were subsequently washed out by Daddy Jacques.. Having for conte e reason or other taken orf his hoots,, the murderer WOO. them in his hand and leaved them by the side of the parcel he .had trade. By tl►at time the robbery had been accomplish- ed. The man then returned to the yellow room and slipped under the bed; where the 'mark of his body is perfectly visible on the boor and even on the rant, which has been slightly moved from its place and creased, fragments tof stray also recently torn bear '%winless to the' murderer's movements under the bed." "Yee, yes. We know all about that," said :1I. de llinrgnet "The robber had another motive for returning to hide trader the bed," con- tinued the astonishing boy journalist, "You might thins; that he was trying to hide - himself quickly on seeing, through the vestibule window, 5I, and Allte. Stangerson about to enter the pfwllien. It Mould have been much easier for him to have climbed tip to the attic' and -Bidden there, waiting for an opportunity to get away, if his purpose had been only flight No, no! Ife bad to be in the yellow room," Itere the chief intervened. "That's not at all bad, young man. 1 compliment you. If we do not know yet ' bow the murderer succeeded in getting away we can tit any rate see how he came in foul. r'nm*nitted the robbery. iiut what did 1tt; steal?'t "Something very valuable," replied the young reporter. At that moment we heard a cry from the laboratory. We rushed in and. found Ai. Stangerson, his eyes hag- gard, his limbs tlembting,, pointing to a sort of bookcase which. be had open- ed and which we saw was empty. At the same instant be settle tato the large armchair that was pieced before. the desk and executed, the tears ronin; down bis cheeks: "I. bare been :robbery again! For God's seer, ,do not say at: word of this to lay daughter! .Site would be more pained than 1 am." He heaved a deep sigh and added, in i s g " loos I shalt newer forget, Atter an. what does it matter—so long as she lives!" "She will lire," said M. Dame ina voice strangely touehlug. "And we will find the stolen arti- cles," sale M. Dax. "But what was in the cabinet?" "Twenty years of my life," replied the illustrious professor sadly, "or, rather, of our lives --the lives of thyself and my daughter. Yes, our most pre- cious documents, the records of our secret experiments and our labors o(' twenty years, were in that cabinet.. It is an irreparable loss to us and. i ven- ture to''sey, to sciences. All the proc. esses -by which I had been able to arrive at the precious proof of the de- structibility of matter were there—all:. The man who came wished to take all from me -,my daughter and my work;, my heart'and my soul." And the great scientist wept like a child. Routetabille entered into explana- tions for which there was no need as: to why he had been le to believe that a robbery had been committed, which included the simultaneous discovery he bad made in the lavatory and the empty precious cabinet in the labors. tory. The first thing that tied struck . him, he said, was the unusual form of that piece of furniture. It was very strongly built of fire proof iron, Clearly - showing' that it was intended for the keeping of most valuable objects.. Then be noticed that the key bad been left in the lock. "One does not ordi- narily have a safe and leave it (men!" ' be had said to himself: - This little key, with Its brass bead: and complicated wards, had strongly attracted him—its presenee had sug- gested ugg;ested robbery, . Used in Canada for . over half a century —used in every corner of the world where people suffer from. Constipation and its - resulting troubles - Dr.. Morse's Indian Root Pills,. stand higher in public estimation than any others, and their ever- increasing sales prove their merit. Physicians prescribe them. r 25c. a box. "You will do well, M. de:Marquet, to. ask AI. Stangerson Who usually .kept . that key." said Rouletabille. • • "My daughter," replied. 51. Stanger.: `sun.: "She was never without It." - "Ah, then that changes the aspect of things wbich no longer ecorreapontis with 51. - Itouletabille's. ideas!" cried '51. -de Marquet. "•"If that key never •left Mlle. Stangerson the murderer must have waited :for her in her room for thepurpose of stealing it, and the beenc robbery could not Wive mmit- a ted until after the aftaek bad- been made oh her. But after .the attack fora. persons were iri the laboratoryc - I ean't mnkt it out!" - "Tlte robbery;-' said - • the .reporter; "could only have been committed be- fore the attack upon Atlle.'Stangersoia in her room. When the murderer en- tered the pavilion he already possessed the brass headed. key." That is ,impossible." said AL Stan getson in' a low voice. .e ` "It is quite`• possible, monsieur, me this proves." And the young -man drew a copy Of the Epoque from 'bis pocket dated the • 21st of October' (I recall the fact that the crime was committed .on Mite night between the 24t1i- and. 25th) and, 'show- ing us an advertisement, be read: • • ".'Yefterday a black: satin reticule,: was lost in the Louvre department store. It contained, among *ether things,. a small key with a brass head. A handsome reward will be given to the .person .who has found it. This nergommust a poste' res tante, bu- reau '40, 'to this address: M. A. T. H. S. N.' bo not these letters suggest Mile. Stangerson?" continued the re- IT0 BE CONTINUED.) E6tahlisitcd 1679 .Olt timoorIltG COUGH, CROP', ASTOMA, cci;ciS, nRONcnitIC, 5Cit TIIROAT, CATAREI1, I)IPRTt EPLA Vaporized Cresoleoe stops the pa,•nxy'triit Cl Whooping Cough. 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