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If you require Glasses don't fail to see Dr. Ovens. • -TIME .T A B LE - Trains wilt arrive at and dspart from Clinton Station as follows : BUFFALO tieing East 11 11 ti GI Sloing West It 14 11 11 11 14 Tli ffIcKillop Mutual Fite Insurance Colman -Farm and Isolated Town Property- -Only Insured- • -OFFICERS- , J. B. McLean, Piesident, Seaforth P. 0. ; M. HcEwen, VicesPresident Brucefield P. 0. '• '1'. E. •Hays, Sec.- Treasurer, Seaforth P. 0. -Directors- ' . • William Chesney, Seaforth ; John me to reconstruct the occurrence and I Grieve, Winthrop ; George Dale, Sea- make of it two phases. each separated forth John Watt, Harlock ; John from the other In dine by the space Bennewies, Brodhagant James Evans, of several hours -one phase in whieh Beechwood ; , James Connolly,' Mile. Stangerson • bad 'really been' at- Goderich. ' tacked. the other phese in which those -AGENTS- • ' who beard her cries thought slie was Robert Smith, Harlock ; E. Hin- being attacked. 1 had not then exam- chley, Seaforth ; dames Cummings, ined the yellotv room, What were the Egmondville ; J. W. Yeo, Ilohnee- marks on Mile Staugersou? 7:bere +stile. , . were merits of strangulation and the . , 'wound from a hard blow on the tem - Any money to be paid in may he paid to Tozer dr. Brown, Clinton, 'or Ple. The marks of strangulation .did not •interest me much., They might at Cutts grocery, Goderich. ' have been made before, and Mile. Parties desirous to effect insurance Stangerson could have concealed them or transact other nusiness • will be by a 'collaret or any sitnilar article promptly attended to on applicatiOn of apparel. I had to suppose this the to any of the above officers addressed e - to their respective postoffices. Losses Moment I was ompellect to reeon street the occurrence by two 'phases. inspected by the nireefor who livee nearestthe cene Mile. Stangerson had, no doubt, her . , s. . own reasons for so doing, since she had told her father.nothing of it and Clinton Neva -Record 41.•••• The Mystery .of The Yellow Room By GASTON LEROUX * COPY.R1GHT,• 1908, By BRENTANO'S mernmermem inn Juni-peri3aps ar ben" entreaty to away witu 'Menu arter sne 'Dad germ avoht all scandal." back to tier -chamber at midnight. She "No, M. President." protested the did uot see them and undressed by the yeaug muncertain glimmer of the nan. "You forget that, stunned Wit Ilght, by the attack made on her, Mile. Stan- She went to bed wornout by anxiety and fenr-a fear that had made her re- gerson was not in a condition to have wade such au appeal. Nor could she main fn the laboratory as late as pos.. have locked and bolted herself in her Bible. reoln. You must also remember that "My reasoning .had thus brought me M. Stangerson has sworn that the door fo the second phase of the tragedy was not open." when Mile Stangerson was alone in • "That however, Is the only way In the room. I had now to explain the which It can be explained. The yen revolver shots fired during the second low roon3 was as closely shut as an phase. Cries of '1FIelp! Murder!' bad Iron safe, To use your own expres- been heard. HOW to explain these? on, it was impossible for the As to the cries, I Was in no dfilleulty; simur- derer to make his escape either natu- since she was alone in her room these rally or Supernaturally. When the room could result from nightmare only. My was broke et lute be was not there! He explanation of the struggle and noise tenet, therefore, have escaped." that were heard is simply that In her "That does not follow," nightmare she was haunted by the ter - "what do you mean?" ribie experience she bad passed through here was no need for him to ea in the afternoon, In ber dream she cape -if he was not there!" sees the murderer about to spring upon "Not there" her. and she cries, 'Help! Murder!' "Evidently not. He could not have Her hand wildly seeks the revolver she Leen there if he were not found there." had placed within her reach on the "nut what about the evIdeucee of his night table by the side of her bed, but pregence?" asked the president. • her hand, striking the table, overturns "That. M. President. Is where we It, and the revetver, falling to the floor, have taken hold of the wrong end. discharges itself. the bullet lodging in the ceiling I knew from the first that 'From the time Mlle. Stauderson shut ' , herself In . her room to the time ber the bufiet to the ceiling must have re - door was burst.open It was Impossible suited from an ate:Merin Its vete Posi- tion suggested 00 neeitlent to my mind for the murderer to escape. He was not found because he was not there and so fell In with my theory of a ditping that ,time," nigntniare. I no longer doubted that "But the evidences?" the attack had taken place before "Then have led us astray. In rea- mademoiselle had retired for the night. soiling on this mystery we must not After wakening from her frightful take them to mean what they appals, dream and crying aloud for help she witty mean, Why do we conclude the 1101.1 fainted. . . murderer was there? ,Because .he left "My theory, based on the evidence his tracks lu the room! Good! But of the shots that were heard at mid- i:nay he not have been there before. night, demanded two shots -one which wounded the murderer at the tirne of the roorxi was locked? Nay; he must his attnek and one fired at 'the time ha re been there before. Let us look hies the matter of these traces and of the nightmare. The evidence given see if they do not point to my con. by the Benders before the examining, elusion. . • mngistrate was to the effect that only one shot had been heard. M. Stan - "After the.publication of the article ;semen testified to heariug a dultsound in tbe Matin and tny conVersation with first, followed by a sharp ringing sound. the examining magistrate on the Jour - The dull sound I explained by the :ley from Paris to Epinay-sur-Orge I falling pi' the marble topped table; the was certain that the yellow .room had- rInging'''sound was the shot from the been hermetically settled, se to. speak, revolver. I was now convinced 1 was and that censequentlY the murderer right. Tile shot that had wounded the had escaped before Mlle. Stangerson ..and of the murderer and had caused bad gone into -her chaniber at mid- it to bleed so that he left the bloody • nigbt. • imprint on •the wall was. fired .by ' a.At the tittle I was much puzzled. mademoiselle In self defenee before Mlle. Stangerion could not have been the :second phase, when she bad been her own murderer, since tbe evidences really attaelted: The shot le the cell - pointed to some other person. The as- Ing which the Berniers bearel was tbe sassin, then. had come before ft that accidental shot during the nightmare.. were so, how was it that mademoi- ..l'had now to explain the wound 'on wile had been attacked after, or, man the temple. It was not severe enough er, that she appeared to have been at- to have been made by means of -the tacked after? It was necessary for AND GODERICH DIV 7.35 a. m. 3.07 p.m. 515 p. m, 11.07 a. in. 1.25 p. m. 6.40 ; p.m. 11.28 p. tn. 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RETT.7111e1 TICItETS AT SINGLE FARE • "411 d:11t. 411ii; yr iL lter te.ret tattle. sinee she had route to retie the threats of her pursuer The mur- derer was about to strike her on the with the mutton bode, it terrible we.ipon lit tile hands of a Larson or tnifinieyer. but she tired In and the shot wounded t he band t bit i held the weapon. The bone fell to the floor covered with the Wood of the inurtier• er, who staggered. clutt•lied tit the •well for support, Imprinting on it the MI aterks, and, fearing another bullet, fled. "She saw bitn pass through the 10)0- rotory and listened. Ile was long at the window. At length be jumped front it. She dew to It and shut It. rho danger past all her thoughts were of her father. Had he either seen or nenrd? At any cost to herself she binillktaneexpertsiodns rferotumrnieti. dmheTflomusndwhtehne member the bamboo cane? I was sur- ddaoourg:tfert nthey eitihoei w rtotboomractioorsyed baenndd'innigof s PristehdattoevfiinddenicAersaagua thnasclt a moitbdeer tn oDuasre, ,r Dar - over her desk nt work!" zee. Had It not been purchased by a Turning toward M. Darzac, Rouleta- man whose description tallied exactly bille cried: with that of Darzac? Well, just be - "You know the truth! Tell usethell. fore I saw him off at the train after if that Is not how things happened." the recess during the trial I asked him 9 don't know anything about it," ree wby he hadn't used the cane evidence, nlied M Dame. - He told me he had never had any in - "1 admire you for your silence," said tention of doing so; that our discov- Rouletabille, "but if Mile Stangerson ery of it in the little inn at Epinay knew of your danger she would release had much embarrassed him. If you you from your oath. She would beg will remember, he told us then that of YOU to tell all she has confided. to the cane had been given him in Lon - you. She would be here to defend don. Why did we not immediately • you!" say, to ourselves; 'Fred is lying; he M. Darzac made no movement nor could not have had this cane in Lon - uttered a word. He looked at Roulette don; he was not in London; he bought bille sedly. it in Paris?' Then you found out on "Flowerer," said the young report- inquiry at Cassette's tbat the cane had er, "since mademoiselle is not here I been bought by a persou dressed very must do it myself. But, believe me, like ,Robert Darzac, though, as we M. Darzac, the only weans to save learned later from Darzac himself, it Mlle. Staugerson and restore her to was not he 'who 'ad made the pur- her reason is to secure your acquittal." chase. Couple this with the fact we "What is this secret motiver that eiready knew from the letter at the compels Mlle Stangerson to hide' her posterestante thatthere was actually knowledge from bet, father?" asked a man. in Paris who was passing as the president.' •• Robert Darzac. Why *did we not im- "That, mousieur, 1 do not know," mediately fix on Fred himself? said Rouletabille. "It Is no busiuess "Of course his position was against of mine." us, but when we saw the evident Tbe president, turning to M. Dame eagerness on his part to 'find convien endeavored to induce him to tell what ing evidence Agaitist Darzac-nay, even he knew. the passion he displayed in his inir- "Do you still refuse, monsieur, to tell suit of the man -the lie about the cane us how you employed your time during should have had a new • meaning for the attempts on the life a mile. Stan- ua: If you ask why Larsen bought the gersonr . • cane if he bad no intention of menu - "I earnest tell you anything, mon- teetering evidence against Darzac by means of it, the answer is quite sim- sieTubre."p resident turnedto Rouletabille ple. He had been woundedIn the as if appealing for un explanation. hand by Mlle. Stangerson, so that the n • "We must assume, M. President, that. %cane was useful to enable him to close M. Robert Darzac's absences are remem- rose- his band In carrying It, You - . . ly connected with Stangerson's brieerd itt. noticed that he always car- . . "All these details came back- to my Mind when I had once fixed on Larsen as the crimiiial. But they were too late then to be of any use to Me. On the evening when he pretended .to be drugged'I looked trellis hand and saw a thin silk bandage covering the signs • of a slight healing wound. Had we taken a quicker initiative at the tirrie Larsen told us that lie about the cane, I am certain he would have gone off to avoid .suspicion. All the same, we worried Larsen, or Balimeyer, without bur •knowing .it." ' • "But," I interrupted, "if Larsen bad, no intention of using the cane as evi- donee against .Darzac, why had he made himself up to look like tbe Man when he went in to buy it?" . s "He had net specially 'made up' as Darzacto buy the cane; he had come straight to 'Cassette's immediately aft- er. he had attacked, Mlle. Staugersori:" CHAPTER XXVIII. 104.• non non algeoverini (be exact wnY Ile had attempted the murder?" "Quite so. And you." he said, turn- inq the eonvcrsation. -did you suspect not ewe" "A don't see how I you'd have sus- nectea anything. You took great pains to conceal- your thougins from me. Had you already suspected Larson when you sent for me to bring the re- volvers?" "Yes! I bad come to that couclusiou through the incident of the 'inexplica- ble go.ilery," Larsans return to Mlle. Stangerson's room, however, had not then been cleared up by the eyeglasses. My suspicions were the outcome of my reasoniug only, and tee idea of Larsau being tbe murderer seemed so extraor- dinary that 1 resolved to wait for actual enidence before venturieg to act Nevertheless the suspielon wor- ried me, and 1 eornetimes spoke to the detective in a way that ougen to have opened your eyes. I spoke disparag- ingly of his methods. lint eutil 1 found the eyeginsees I could but look upon my suspielon of hint in the light of an absurd hypothesis only. You can imagine my elation after 1 had ex. &Lined Larsan's movements. I re- member well rushing into my room like a madman and crying to you: get the better of the great Fredb get the better of him in a way that will make a sensation!' "But .one important point escaped us both. It was one which ought to have opeued our eyes to Larsen. Do you re - 7 . mutton bone, and nutdemotselle had secret and that M. Darzac feels hen - net attempted to hide It. it .must have Self in honor bound to remain silent. - been made during. .the senond phase. It was to' find •thia out that 1 went to the yellow morn, and obtained my answer" there." ' - 11ouleta1,ille drew a piece ot white folded paper ,frotn his poeket.and tire* out otn It ati almost Invisible Object which he leld between hie thumb and forefinger, s " . "This, M. President" he said: "le a.' hair -a blond heir stained with blood. It is a hair front thehead of Mile. • Stangerson. I found it stieking.to one Misfile. • "I think, however, you knout of tbe corners of the overturned tableenough now to acquit M. Robert Dar - The .corner .-of , the table Was: itself zaC, unless Lateen, should return, and .stained with blood,s.:1 tiey stainhard- 1 don't think he will,"..he added, with . ly .visiblen but it told inc that oe els- laugh. . • . , Ing from. ber bed Mile. Stangerson had "One question more,". said the 'west - fallen heavtly and had struck her head dent,' "Admitting your explanation, on the corner ef its Marble top, we know that Larsen wishedsto turn !I had stilt to learn, in addition to suspicion on 111..- Robert. Darzac, but the name otthe assassin, which I did why should he throw, suspicion on Daddy Jacques -also?" "There came In the professional de- tective, reensinue, who proves himself an unniveler of mysteries, by annihi- lating the very proofs be had accumu- lated. He's a very cunnineman, and a similar trick had. often enabled him to :turn suspicion front himself.. Ste. proved the :innocence Of one before ac, cusing the other.. You can easily be - neve, monsieur; that so complicated a scheme as this must have been , long. and carefully. thought out in advance by IsarSari.• He. found the opportupitn to rob Daddy Jacques of 'a .pair of old boats and a cestoff Basque cap. which the servant had tied up in a hand.ken chief with the Intention of carrying them to a friends a chartoal burner on the read Epina.y. When the crime was discovered Daddy Jacques had immediately recognized these objects as his. They were extremely corn - promising, which explains his .distress at the time when we spoke to him about them. Larsen confessed it a.11 to me." It may be that Larsen, who,since his three attempts has had everything in training to cast suspicion on M. Dar - sac, had fixed on just those occasions for a meeting with M. Darzac at a spot most compromising. Larsan is cunning enough to have done that." The president seemed partly nen- vinced; but, still curious, he asked; "But what Is this secret of Mlle. Stingerson?" . "That I cannot tell yOu," said Route - had made it understood to the examin- later, the dine of the original atteck. I learned this from the examinetion of . Mlle. Stangerson and her father. though the answers given by the former were well. calculeted to deceive the examin- ing magistrate.' nine. -Stangerson had stated very minutely how she. had spout: the whole of her time that day. We established the fact tbat the mur- derer had introduced himself into the pavillon betweeu 5 and 0 o'clock. At a qu:trter peat 0 the professor and his 'daughter had restimed their work. At 5 the: professor bad been with daughter, and since the -attack took placesiu- the prOfessor'S absence from .his. daughter I .ltad M find' out just when he left her. The professor had stated -that at the time .whern he and • 'his daughter were -about to .re-enter .the laboratory lie .was met by the keeper and held in conversation about the cutting of some wood and the poachers. Mlle. Stangerson was not -with.him then. since the professor said, left the keeper and rejoined my daughter, who was at work in , the laboratory.' "It was during that short interval of time that the tragedy took place. That Is eertain. In my mind's eye I sew Mile Stangerson re-enter the pavilion, go to her room to take oft' her hrit and find herself faced by the murderer. He had been in the pavilion for some time waiting for her. Ile lied arranged to pass the whole night there. Ile had taken .off Daddy Jacques' 'hoots, be bad removed the papers front the cab'. net and bad then silppen under the boa. Vending the. time 'beg, be had.. risen. gone agate into the laboratory, then into the vestibule, looked into the gdrden and had seen, coming toward the pavilion, Mlle. Stangerson-alone. He would never have dared to lath& her at that hour if he had not found her alone. Ins mind was made .up. tie would be More at ease alone with Mlle. Stangerson In the pavilionthan he wortid have been in Gin middle of the night, with Ffinitly Jacques Moo,. Ing in the attle, So he shut the vest'. bole window. That explains Why neither M. Stangerson nor the keeper, who were at some distance from the was not aware that so many .evidences pavilion, had heard the revolver shot. had been loft, After she had been at- I "Then he went back to the yellow tacked she had only time to hide the room. Mlle. Stangerson came in. What traces, of the man's fingers on her neck P,..ssed Must have taken place very and to burry to the la boratory. Had quickly. Mademoiselle tried to call for she known of the bone, the rap and help, but the man had iteized her by tly.k handkerchief she would have made the -throat. Her hand had sought and grasped the revolver whieh..she, had Ing magistrate that the attack. had taken place iit. the eight during the second phase. . She was forced to say that; otherwise her father would have questioned her as to ber reason for having said nothing about it. ."But 1. could nonexplain the blow on the- templeI understood It even less when Ilearned that the mutton bone bad, been found' in her. room. She could not hide the fact that she had been struek on the head-, and •yet t1.14 :tvonnd eppeared • -evidently to have been inflicted during the 'first 'phase. since 'it required the presence 'Of the murderer; 1 thought Mile.-Stangerson had eidden the wound by arranging her heir in bands on her forehead: . "As to the Mark of the hand on the wall, that lied evklently been made during the arst phase -when the mur- derer was really there. All the traces of his presence had naturally been left during the first- pitase-the mutton bone, the black footprints, the Basque cap, the handiterchlet the blood on the wall, on the door and on the floor. lf those traces were still all there they showed that Mlle. Stahgereon, who de- sired that nothing should be blown, had not yet had time to clear them away. This led me to the •conclusion that the two phases had taken place one sbortiy after the other. She had not had the opportunity, after leaving her room and going back to the labo- ratory to her natber, to get back again to her room and pet it in order. Iler father was all the time with her, work- ing. So that after the first phase she did not re-enter her chamber till mid- night. Daddy Jacques was there at 10 o'clock, as he was every night, but he went in merely to close the blinds aud light the night light. Owing to her disturbed state of mind she bad forgun ten that Daddy Jacques would go into her room and had' begged him not to trouble himself. All this was set forth in tbe article In the Matin. Daddy Jaeques did go, however, and in the dim light of the room saw nothing. '1111e. Stangerson must have lived Some austiotis moments vvhile Daddy Jacques wee absent, but 1 think she CHAPTER XXVII. In Which It Is Proved That One Does Not Always Think of Every- thing. REAT excitement. preealied when liouletabille had .finished. The courtroom beeame agitet- ed with the murmurings Ot suppresse0 applause. Maitre Henri Robert called for an Adjournment of the trial and was supported in his mo- tion by the public proseentor himself. The ease was .adjourned. The next tiny M. Itobert Darzac wag released ism bail, while Daddy Jacques received the immediate benefit of "a no cause for action." Sorel) was everywhere made for Frederic !stream but in vain. M. Dame finally escaped the awftd Calamity which at one time led threat- ened him. After a visit to Mlle. Stan- gerson he was led to hope that site might by careful nursing one day re- cover her reason. 'Mendota° and 1 left Versailles to- gether, after having dined at The Dog That Smokes. In the train 1 put O number of questions to him. "My friend," 1 said, "1 ant still in the dark as to your reason for going to Ameriett. When you ieft the Glan. tiler you led found out, If I rightly un. derstand‘, all about Vrederie .Larsan. unentou tato i.ue neune. -1111.bilder Sta.ngerson, however. bad fallen int love, To her Jean Roussel was every-, thing that her love painted Wm. She was Indignant at her father's attitude and did not Conceal her feelings. Her father sent ber to stay with an aunt in Cincinnati. There she was John(' by Jean Roussel and. in spite of the - reverence she felt for ber father, ratv away with him to get married. 'limy went to Louisville and lived' there for some time. One morning, bow-, ever. it knock came at the door of the house in which they were, and the p0 - nee entered to arrest Jean Roussel. It TO 134 CONTINUED.) THe LAND, Am the land; The great new land, That peopl'e who are athirst and Watt Gaze out upon with parched desire. Deep rivers run tor countless league* Through forests where the red deer roam. Birds nest within the branches of, the( trees, And myriad young arise to pay the toll. The rivers hold a living wealth That rapid nor the bar turn back; From Delta to the fount they upward press; Their spawn replenish the tithe . Exacted of the higher life. Broad plains thrust upward to the sun, The parent oody of the grain; And bold safe nurtured in their breasts The fattened roots of lowlier food. Fruits glint, blood -red and green and gold, All sweet and goodly in the sun. With lesser splendour ripe the nuts High -held in stately homes. , • * . * ,1 am the land - God's heritage to man; And :nourish hint with wine of • strength, I hold. him to my breast and Reep• hint clean Front all that blacks the soul, My. hili send down their wealth on - loam A lavish gift -to toil. My mountains store the rivers' need;; - I cradle in my lap the -rain. Herds wander in my vast domain, . And fatten off my stare, I am the mother, and the land, The sun smiles upon me and the . stars; . • Rain slakes my thirst, and play the winds. I am -the land- • The mother ot all that is, The Mystery of Mademoiselle Stan- gerson. 1.111IN.0 the days .that followed 1 had several .opportunities to question Ttouletabille as to his reason for his voyageto Amer - lea, but I obtained no more precise an- swers than he bad given Me' on. the evening .of the adjournment ,'of. the trial, when we were on the train for •Paris. Oue day, hewevet, nn my still pressing.:hlin, he said'. "Can't you understand that I lad to know Ltirsim's true personality?" • "No doubt". I said, "but why .did you,go to America to find that out?" He sat smoking his pipe and made no further reply. I 'began to see that I was touching on the secret that con- cerned Mlle. •Stabgerson. ROuletabille evidently had fonnd it necessary.fo go to America to fled out what the mys- terious tie tvae that bound her to Lar- sen by so strange arid terrible a bond. In America he had loathed 'who Lar- sen wits nod had obtained information which closed his mouth.- He bad been to Philadelphia. And now wbat .was ,this mystery which held Mile. Stangersee and M. 'newt Derzac in so thexplicable a si- lence? After SO many years and the publicity given the case by a curious and sharnelese neess, now that M Strtugerson -knows all and hats forgiven all, • all may be told. In every phase of this remarkable story Mlle. Stan - preen had always been the sufferer. The beginning dates from the time when, as a young girl, she wan living with her father hi Philadelphia. A. visitor at the•house. tI Frenchman, bad sueceeded by his wit, grace and per- sistent attention in galeing her affec- tions. Ile wits said to be rich and had asked Inc of her father. at. Stanger - son, on making inquiries as to M. Jean !Mussel, found that the man was a swindler and an adventurer. Jean IIMISsel was but another of the many names- under which tbe notorious Dail; ineyer, a fugitive from `Prance, tried to bide himself. M. Stangerson did not know of his • identity with Dall- meyer. /le learned that the man was simply Undesirable for his &tighter, Ile riot Only retheed to give his consent .the marriage, but „denied idin oh - o'er me 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- incre.asing sales prove their merit. Physicians prescribe them. a 25c. a box. naaciitte'ntiii an Active Man. Those who have read the accounts •of the numerous hangings in the Pro- vince of. Ontario at the hands of one .Arthur- Ellis have wondered perhaps. what had become of John. Radcliffe. 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