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The Mystery
The Yellow
By GASTON LEROUX
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BY BRENTANO'S
,"There., below, Some one Is shutting
a door.'
"1 rise. Larsen follows me. We
descend to the ground floor of the
chateau. 1 lead bin to the little semi-
circular room under the terrace be-
neath the window of the 'off turning'
gallery. 1 point to the door, now
closest, open a short time before, under
which a shaft of light Is visible.
" "The forest keeper!' says Fred.
"'Come coif' 1 whisper.
"Prepared, I know not why, to be-
lieve that the keeper is the guilty man
•1 go Co the door and rap smartly on. It.
"Some might think that we were
rather late in thinking of the keeper,
since our Orst business. after having
g
totted that the murderer had escaped
us in the gallery, ought to have been
to searcheverywhere else—around the
r'hateau, In the park—
"Ilad this criticisin°'teen made at the
tiwe we could only have answered that
the assassin bud disappeared from the
gallery in such a way that we thought
he was no longer anywhere! He bad
eluded us when we all had our hands
stretched out ready to seize him—
when we were almost touching him,
We had no longer any, ground for hop-
ing that we could clear up the mys-
tery of that night.
".\s soon as 1 rapped at the door it
was opened, and the keeper asked us
quietly what we Ranted. He was un-
dressed and preparing to go to bed.
The bed had not yet been disturbed.
"We entered and 1 affected surprise.
"'Not gone to bed yet?'
"'No,' he replied roughly.. 'I have
been making a round of the park and
in the woods. I Am only just back—
end sleepy. Good night!'
•"Listen,' I said. 'An hour ago there
was a ladder close by Your window.'
"'What ladder? I did not see any
ladder. Good night!'
`4nd •he .simply put us .out of the
room. When we were outside I looked
et Larsan. . Tlis face was Impenetra-
hie."•:
CHAPTER XVIII:.
Kouletabille . Has Drawn 'a Circle
Between the Two Bumps on His
Forehead. -
is
E separated on the, thresholds
of our rooms with a melan-
choly 'shake of the 'hands.
.Larsan's - was ail '• original
.brain, very intelligent, butwithout
method. i•did not -go to bed.. -.I await-.
ed the coming of daylight. and then
Went down to the front of, the chateau
and made .a detour, examining every -
trace of footsteps coming towardit pr
going: from It. These, however, were
so nilxed and confusing,.. that _I could
make nothing of them. ' Here 1 may
make •a.remark—i any not:accustomed
to attach an. exaggerated importance
to exterior signs left in the track of a
crime.
• "The method which traces the crim-
inal by means of the tracks of bis foot''
steps ie. altogether pt•imitit e. • So many,
footprints are identical. IIOwever,
the disturbed state of my mind 1 did.
go into, the deserted court and did tools
at all the footprints I* .Could find'there,
seet.in. for s to ind1 ation as a basis
:, o o e c
for reasoning. - '
"Tf I could bitt find a right starting:
point!. In despair I seated myself on a
•stone. • Por over en• hour i busied my-
self with the 'common, ordinary work •
of ti policeman. •Like the least intent; -
gent .of• detectives I went on blindly
over the traces of footprints;which told'
me just no More than they could.
"I.came to the *elusion *that.I Was
a fool; lower in the scale or intelligence
than even the pollee of the modern ro-
mancer. Novelists build mountains of
stupidity. out of a footprint on the.
sand or from an impression of a hand
on the wall., That's the way innocent
filen are brought to prison. It' might
convince- an eZalnining magistrate or
the head of.a detective department, but
it's not proof. You writers forget that
n'bo.t the senses furnish is not proof.
If' L am. taking cognizance -0? what is
t;tfcred inc by my. senses 1 do so "but
to bring : the results within the circle
of my reason. 'That circle maybe the •
most cireutnseribcd but; If it Is, it has
this advantage—it holds. nothing but
the truth! Yes, I swear that I have
never used the evidenee of the senses
but as servants to toy reason.. 1 have
never . permitted theta to; become my
master, They have • not made of ane
that monstrous thing—worse .than >t
blind man -a man who seen falsely.
And that is why I can triumph over•
your. error and your Merely animal in-.
tolligenee. Prederic Larsan.
"13e of good courage. then, Friend
Rouletabille. It is impossible that the:
incident of the inexplicable gallery
.should. be outside the e.ircle of yowl.
salon. Lott know that! 'then hat•
l' t
faith and take thought with yourself
anti -forget not that you took hold •of
the right end when you drew that ter -
see In your brain within which to un•
ravel ' this mysterious piny of decliin..
stance.
To it, once agate! Go back to the
gallery. 'fake your stand on your
reason ,and rest there as Frederic Lar-
sao rests .on his cane, Yon Will then
soon prove that the great Fred is noth-
ing bOt n fool. -30th October. Noon.
"JOSEVII ItOCLETAB1LLI:."
* a * 4 * *
"1 acted as I planned. With head on
tire, I retraced my way to the gallery, .
and" without having found anything
more than I had seen on ,cite previous
night, the right hold I had taken of my
'reason drew ale to something so Impor-
tant that I was obliged to cling to it to
save myself from falling.
"Now for the strength and patience
to find sensible trae••;ts to fit In with
my thinking—and these must come
within the circle 1 have drawn be-
tween the two bttnips on my forehead.
--30th October. Midnight.
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CHAPTER XIX.
h.ouletabille Invites Me to Break-
fast at the Donjon Inn.
D
T was not until Later that Itoule-
tabille sent me the notebook
In- which he had written at
length the story of the phe-
nomenon of tite inexplicable gallery.
Ou the day I arrived at the Glandier
and joined him in his. room he recount-
ed to me, witb•tbe greatest detail, all
that I have related, telling me also
bow -he bad spent. several hours In
Paris, where he lied learned. nothing
that could be of any help to
b m
The event 'of the inexplicable gal-
lery had occurred on the night between
the ., n
9th and 30th of October—that is
to say, three days before my return to
the chateau_ 'It was on the 2d of
Norenibel, then, that 1 went back to
the Glandier, summoned there by my
friend's .telegram and taking the re-
volvers with me.
I am now in Rouletabiile's roo
be has finished his recital.
While he had been telling
,story I noticed him. continually r
the glass of the eyeglasses h
found on the side table. Prom tl
dent' pleasure he.was taking
ban-
-aline; them 1' felt they must be
those sensible evidences destined
to • what he had called the chole
t
right end of his reason,
When he htid finished his recital
aslaed age what. 1 thought of it,
plied that I Was much puzzled
question: Then he ,begged me
in my turn. to take my reason t
"by the right end."
"Very well," I'said. "It seems
that the point of departure of n
son would be this -there can.
doubt that the Murderer you p
was'in•the gallery."' I paused,
"After making so good a star
ought not to stop so soon," he exclaim-
ed. "Come, Make another effort.
"I'll try. Sinee be,disappearec
the galiery ;without passing t
any door or window, he •must.h,
".caped by some other opening."_ •
Rouletabille looked at me pit
smiled carelessly. and remarked.•
m, and
me the
rubbing
e, had
to evi-
in ban -
one of
to en -
of the
be
1 re-
bs his
to try,
n hand
to me
my sea.
be no
issued
start, you
claim-
„
1 from
through
ave es-
pityingly;
that I
Was reasoning -like a postman.or—like,
Frederic Larsau, ' • ..
..Rouletabille had alternate fits of ad-
miration • and disdain' for the' great
Fred: It all depended as -0 whether,
Larsan's discoveries tallied with Houle-
tabille's. reaseni.ng or not. When they.
did he' would, exclaim. "He is 'really
great'". When they did,• riot, ' he would
grunt and mutter, "What an ass!"• •.It
was.'a petty side of the noble character
of•this strange youth. .
Wehad•risen; and he led meiato.the
park. When we-reached'the court and
were making ,toward .the gate, the
' sound .of blinds thrown back against
the Wall made us tura .otir.heads, .and
we saw. at a window on the first floor'
of the chateau the ruddy and. Clean
shaven face of a person .1 did -not rec-
ognize.
•'.`IIeilo!" •muttered 'Rouletabille:. "Art
thur.`ltance!" IIe lowered •bis head,
gtiiekened bis. paee, 'and 1 hear;' hint
tisk. himself between .his teeth: "Was
•
he in the .ch;iteau' theft nigh ?•� gait
is he'.doing berg?" • • ":
We had gone some distance from the
chateau when I asked.• him who this
Arthur ,Rance was. and bow he .had
come to know hlio. Ile referred to bis
story of that morning !fedi rettiem-
tiered that Mr. Arthur. W. Tiance •Was:
'the American from Philadelphia with
whom lie hard. hold so' many drinks at
the 'Ely see reception•
el3ut was .he not to have left. France
alinost immediately?" I asked
"No' doubt: that's why I 'am sur-
prised - to find him here still.. and not
only in France, but above'eli. nt the
Glandier. •Il.e.• did not arrive this
morning, and he did not get here last -
night. IIe trust haave got here before
k
• • f Weht' lately 'to see ! i, Stangerson
and took with me a. piece of paper on
which was avritten, '1 promise, what-
ever others may say, tokeep le my
i service my two faithful servants. Ber-
' flier .incl bis wife: 1 explainedto him
1 that by signing that document he
would enable ine to compel those two
1 people to speak out, and 1 declared:
my own assurauce of their tnuocenc•e
or any part iu the cringe. That was
also bis opinion. The esatnining mag-
: i istrate after it was signet' pliesented
the document to the IBerulers, who
then did speak. They said what 1 was
.certain they wouldsay as soon as they
i ' were sure they would not lose their
ainner, then. \Vhy ardn't the con. Places.'
cierges telt me?" I "They •confessed to poaching on 51.
I reminded nay friend, apropos of the Stangeesmr's estates, and: it was while
concierges, that he bad not yet told me they were penciling, on the night of
what bad led him to get them set at the crime; that they were found not far
liberty, I from the pavilion at the moment when
We were close to their lodge. M. and the outrage was beteg committed,
Mine, Bernier saw us coming: A frank Some rabbits they caught In that way
smile lit up their happy faces. They were sold by thein to the landlord of
seemed to harbor no 111 feeling because the Donjon inn, who served them to
of their detention. My young friend his enstorners or sent them. to Paris.
asked them at what hour Mr. Arthur 'i'hat was the truth, as 1 had guessed
Rance bad arrived. They answered that from the first. Do you remember what
they did not know he was at the cha- I said on entering the Donjon inn?
teau. He must have conte during the 'We shall have to eat red ;meat—novel'
evening of the prevlotasnight, but they I had heard the words on the same
had not had to open the gate for him, horning when we arrived at the park
Youbut
gate.heard them also, you
because, bean a ren walker and a
e
wishing that a carrlage`Shouldbe sent dill not attach ens Importance to them,
to meet him, he was accustomed to get You recollect when we reached the
off at the little hamlet of Saint Michel, part gate that we stopped to look at a
from which he came to the chateau by mala who was running by the side of
way of the forest. He reached the the wall, looking every minute at his
park by the grotto of Sainte Gene- watch. Titut was Larsan. Well. be;
vieve, over the little gate of which hind Us the landlord of the Donjon inn,
giving on to the park, he' elimtied, ' 1 standing on his doorstep, said to some
As the concierges spoke I saw Roule• I one inside, 'We shallhave to eat red
tabtlle's face cloud over and exhibit dis I neat—nowt
appointment —a disappointment, no "Why that 'now?' When you are, as •
doubt, with himself. Evidently he was 1 am, In search of some hidden secret,
a little 'vexed, after haviug worked so Sou can't afford to have anything es -
much on the spot, with so minute a cape you. You've• got to know, the
study of the people and events at the meaning of everything. We had come
into a rather out of the way part of
the country which had been turned
topsy turvy by a crime, and my reason
"You say that A1, Arthur Mance is 1 led we to suspect every phrase that
accustomed to come" to the chateau. could bear upon the event of the day.
When did he come here last?" 'Now,' I took to mean, 'since the out'
"We can't tell yen exactly," replied rage.' In the course of my inquiry,
Aline, Bernier. "We couldn't - know therefore, I sought to find a relation
while they .were keeping us In prison. between that phrase and the tragedy,.
t We went to the Donjon inn for break -
Besides 'as the gentleman comes t r
g a fust." I repeated the phrase and saw
break -
the chateau without passing through
by the surprise and trouble on Daddy
elathieu's•face that I had not exagger-
ated Its importance. so far as he was.
Glandier, that he had -to, learn now
that Arthur Rance was accustomed to
visit the chateau.
our gate be goes away by theway he
cotes."
•"Do you know when he. came the
first time?" concerned. .•
"Oh, yes, monsieur! Nine - years "I had just learned that. the 'on -
ago," eierges had been arrested. Daddy
"He was fu France nine years ago,
:Mathieu spoke of them as of dear
then," said Rouletabille, "and since friends—people for whom one is sorry;
that time, as far as you know, how - That was a reckless conjunction of
ideas.. 1 said to myself. 'Now,' that
many. times has he been at the Glen. the concierges are arrested, we shall
dier?" Bare to eat red meat.' No more con -
"Three times."` cierges: no more ;;ante! Tile hatred ex
- "When did he come the last- time, ai .pressed by Daddy . Mathieu for M.
far as you know?" •
"A week" before the attempt !m• the .
yellow' room." •
Rouletabille put . another question,
this time addressing himself particular-
ly to the woman:
"In the grove of the parquet?"
"In thegroveof the parquet," she
replied.
"Thanks!" said Rouletabille. "Be
ready for me this evening."
Be spoke the Iasi words with a finger•
on hislips ' as if to command silence"
and discretion. - .
• Stat)gerson's forest- keeper -a -hatred
he pretended was shared by the c6tu-
cierges-led ane easily to - think of
poaehang. :Now, as alt 'the evidence
showed the.•concierges had not'been in
. bed at the time of the tragedy, why
"were they abroad tout night.? As par-
ticipants in the. critne?. 1 was not -d.is-
posed to think so.I had already ar-
rived at. .the conciuslon, by. steps of
which I will, tell you later—that the -as-
sassin had :leiclero accomplice and that
'the tragedy held a mystery between
Mile.' Steegerson and the murderer, a
mystery' with which. the concierges
badnothing to do.
•"With that tbebry in .My •mind, I
searched for proof . in_ their lodge,
uppish, as you kttow, 1 entered. I
found . titere • under - their bed . some
springs and: brass, tt-ii`e..
thogghi, 'these ethings explain why
they, were out in the park at' eight!
i was..:notsurprised, at the dogged BI-
len;ce •'tttey el tint:dried •.before: the ex-.
stunning neigistiate.-even' pude!' the ac-
cusation
e-
cusa ' n tio. •rate as 'tile of being ac-
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eornliiices in' the crime .I'oaci,log
would save 't lien] from the assize court,
but it would lose' them their' places,
and, as they were perfectly sure of
their "innocence of the crime .they
hoped It • would soon be established.
and then their pnttching (night; go on
as usual. They vduld oiIWieys confess
later. I; however, hastened their con-
fession by means of the document M, -
St iugerson. signed 'Tey gave all the
neet'ssary ,'proofs,' were set tit liberty
end have. now a lively gratitude for
mc. , Why did t not get theni released
sooner? 'Because I was not sure that
nothing' more than poaching was
against them. I wanted to study' the .
ground. As -the days. went by, my con-
victiou became more. and 'More certain.
The days after tiie events of the Ines
plieable gallery. I -had need • of help .1
We left the park and took the way
to the Donjon inn.. - -
"Do youoften eat here?”
• "Sometimes." • -
"But, you also take your• meals at the
chateau?"
..'Yes, Larson :and I are sometimes
screed in one of our Foote*"
"Hasn't M. Stangerson ever inyited
you to his own table?"
"Never."
'tDoes.'your"presence at the chateau
'displease him
.
"1 don`t. 1 now; but, iii any case, he
does not make .us fetal .that we are in,
his way" •• . - .
"Doesn't he. question yeti?"
"Never.' lie is in the same state of
• mind as he Wesin at :the door of the,
yellow room .when his daughter was
being .murdered .andwhen .'he broke
open the. door and did not fled the
murderer. • Ile. is persuaded since 'he
could discover nothing tint there's no
reason why we should be able to dis=
cover more than. •lie' did. But he has
made • it his duty space Larsan ex=
pressed his theory not to -oppose: us:"
Rouletabille buried hiinself in thought
again foi' seine tune. lIeeiroused bine
self later to tell int' of how he Came to
set .ibe tno,gouderges free. • •
- 1i '4 :s
• r 3sCt
titr?
'
tette;r•,
e:
,
J'
ti
MLLE. TANCIERSON APPEARED
AN/
•
–SLI!~ THRESHOLD Orr Hen`
could rely on, sol - resolved to have
them released et once."
We reached the. Donjon inn artd en-
tered it.
Tills time we did pot sec the land
lord, but were received with a pleas-
aut smile by the changing hostess.
."How's Daddy Mathieu?" asked •
Rouletabille, •
"Not much better, not tnuch better.
Ile le still confined to his bed."
"laps. rheumatism still sticks. to him,
then?"
"Yes. Last - night .-I was • again
obliged to give him tnorphtue, the only
drug that gives him any relief,"
She spoke in a soft volce. Every-
thing about her expressed .gentleness.
She was, indeed, • a beautiful woman, as the iurati
somewhat with an air of indolence, Georgi C'1
or, wilo flew
as it resul
when alighti.
go, and
my life
at this
bide th
more in
astonish
morrow
must be
the Gia
day afte
"I ask
this is a
pation o
him sol
Mile. St
tacked,
been ab
who sho
Ing and
ing a wil
was how
He rept!
ellie, -Ste
lie prote
terminat!
taken w
Mlle. Sta
"To cu
that his
fresh att
the extrn
thing hal
said, 'it
us—for r h
in danger
tiler def
tell of wb
ly aware
The exan
sari are b
in myg
last time
tate trout
bit.
'Why
of the tn.
1 cried..
"Mo Da
bled by u
fu st pesit
"'1? 1
derer?
name?'
"1 at o
gerson:
"Ile get
was sabot
had hit
Madentoi
of the m
himself;
leave' y'Oi
I have at
tetligene
nutty. '.
P•ertinps
(luring
• must net
to-frustr
made.'
"'Hay
Stanger
!No.
es 'you j
the mu
llouleta
Iery•gr
that y9
• "The
was evi
the Ito
would r
ed than
As for
she- wo
murdere
the yell
bl'e gall
nating
ble pow
PU
Dr.M
Heal
When
kidneys
the bloo
frequentl
The way
Nilson, t
found, •
writes:
"V or. so
depressed
me and I
gestion.
and blotch
tried med
many kin
satisfactor
was a 'tl'o
, and I looke
cine that w
At last
'were broug
one of the
have ever.
fled in s ve
my indigest
have a plac
upon as th
Dr. Mors
the system
dealers at 2
'I'lio to:al
the 1 inbro
of embezzle!
pored, .
Earl Wilk
Were badly
lition .:of alt
tvcr: riding,
Mary Dol..
Ile of the m
Thomas \Ie
with great eyes seemingly black and
blue, amorous eyes., Was she happy
with her crabbed, rheumatic' husband?
,The scene at which we had once been
present did not lead us to believe that
she was. Tet there was something in
her bearing that was not suggestive
of despair. She disappeared into the
kitchen to peeper° our repast, leaving
on the table n bottle -of excellent cider.
Rouletabille filled our earthenware.
thugs. loaded his pipe and quietly ex-
plaided to we his reason for asking
.ine to come to the Glandier with re-
t•otvers. . Vaporized Cs'
"1 es," he said contemplatively, look. 1 Whooping Co,
Ing at the clouds of stoke he was
Puffing out, "yes, my dear bey, 1 ex.
poet the assassin tonight." •
A brief silence followed, . which 1
took ease not to interrupt, and then
he went our. '
•'Last night just as 1 was going to
bed M. Robert Darzae kuocked at my
room. When he envie in tie confided
to ate tbnt be was•compelled to go to
Paris the nest day—that Is, this morn -
leg. The reason which made this jour
nes' necessary was at once peremptory
and ntysterlous. It was not possible
for bit to deodetn ire .oltleet to 4v*. 41
FOR ting
ASTHMA, C-.
THROAT.
net exist wht
directly on ntl
es," in the e
throat and at.
outlaws of At
Cr+.hotene fa it
as a eurat'tVe-I
diseaeea. Ct'ti,
it* thirty year''
ser sato tit 11<,
Scfd Xetial,
Scttpt,re
Cresetene 1,
`throat Tablet
And soothing
Irritated din
termini!. lif
Limited, hast
treat, Cenede.,