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By GASTON LKROUX rfc
CHAPTER VII.
In Which Rouletabllle Sets Out on
an Expedition Under the Bed.
lOULFTABILLE. havlug pushed
open the door of the yellow
room, puused ou the threshold.
The chamber was dark. Dad-
Uy Jacques was about to open the
blinds when Rouletabllle stopped him.
"Did not the tragedy take place in
complete darkness V" be asked.
"No, young man; I don't think so.
Mademoiselle always had a night light
on her table, and I lit it every even
ing before she went to bed. 1 was a
sort of chambermaid, you ' must un
derstand, when the evening cutne. The
real chambermaid did not come here
much before the morning. Made
moiselle worked late far into the
night."
"Where did the table with the night
light stand far from the bed?"
"Some way from the bed."
"Can you light the burner now?"
"The lamp Is broken and the oil that
was In It was spilled when the table
was upset. All the rest of the things
in the room remain Just ob they were.
I have only to open the blinds for you
to see."
"Wait."
Rouletabllle went back into the lab
oratory, closed the shutters of the
two windows and the door of the ves
tibule. When we were in complete
darkness he lit a wax vesta and asked
Daddy Jacques to move to the middle
of the chamber with It to the place
where the night light was burning
that night.
Daddy Jacques, who was In his
stockings he usually left his sabots
in the vestibule entered the yellow
room with his bit of a vesta
vaguely distinguished objects
thrown on the floor, a bed in one cor
ner and in front of us to the left the
gleam of a looking glass hanging on
the wall near to the bed.
"That will do. You may now open
tne blinds," said Rouletabl"".
"Don't come any fartk Daddy
Jacques begged. "You muy make
marks with your boots, and nothing
must be deranged. It's an idea of the
magistrate's, though he has nothing
more to do here."
And he pushed open the shutter.
The pale daylight entered from with
out, throwing a sinister light on the
saffron colored walls. The floor for
though the laboratory and the vesti
bule were tiled the yellow room had a
flooring of wood was covered with a
eingle yellow mat which was large
enough to cover nearly the whole
room, under the bed and under the
dressing table, the only piece of furni
ture that remained upright. The cen
ter round table, the night table and
two chairs had been overturned. These
did not prevent a large stain of blood
being visible on the mat, made, as
Daddy Jacques Informed us, by the
blood which had flowed from tho
wound on Mile. Stangerson's forehead.
Besides these stains drops of blood
bad fallen in all directions, In line
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 had fallen
from the wound of the man who had
for a moment placed his red hand on
the wall. There were other traces of
the same hand on the wall, but much
less distinct.
"See-see this blood on the wall!" I
could not help exclaiming. "The man
who pressed his hand so heavily upon
It la the darkness must certainly have
thought that he was pushing at a door.
That's why he pressed on It so hard,
leaving on the yellow paper the terri
ble evidence. I don't think there are
many bands In the world of that sort
It is big and strong, and the Angers
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 hand," I con
tinued, "we see that after leaving Its
Imprint on the wall the touch sought
the door, found it and .then felt for the
lock."
"No doubt," Interrupted Rouletabllle,
chuckling, "only there Is no blood
either on the lock or on the bolt"
What does that prove?" I rejoined,
with a good sense of which I was
proud.': "He might have opened the
lock with hla left hand, which would
have been quite natural, his right band
being wounded.'
"He didn't open It at all," Daddy
Jacques again exclaimed. "We are not
fools, and there were four of us when
we burst ooen the door."
"What a queer hand I Look what a
fmwr hand It Is!" I said.
"It la a very natural hand," said
Rouletabllle, "of which the shape has
been deformed by its having siippea
on the wall. The man dried his hand
on the wall. He must be a man about
five feet eight In height"
"How do you come at thatf
"By the height of the marks on the
wall."
My friend next occupied himself
with the mark of the bullet In the
wall. It was a round hole.
"This ball was fired straight, not
fmm ahova. and consequently not
from below."
Rouletabllle went back to the door
and carefully examined the lock and
the bolt, satisfying himself that the
door had certainly been burst open
from the outside, and, further, that
the key had been found in the lock on
the Inside of the chamber. He finally
satisfied himself that with the key In
the lock the door could -not possibly
be opened from without with another
key. Having made sure of all these
details, he let fall these words, "That's
better!". Then, sitting down on the
ground, he hastily took off his boots
and in his socks went into the room.
The first thing he did was to exam
ine minutely the overturned furniture.
AVe watched him In silence.
"Young fellow, you are giving your
self a great deal of trouble," said Dad
dy Jacques ironically.
Rouletabllle raised his head and
said:
"You have spoken the simple truth,
Daddy Jacques. Your mistress did
not have her hair in bands that even
ing. I was a donkey to have believed
she did."
Then, with the suppleness of a ser
pent he slipped under the bed. Pres
ently we heard him ask:
"At what time, M. Jacques, did M.
and Mile. Stangerson arrive at the
laborotory?"
"At 6 o'clock."
The voice of Rouletabllle continued:'
"Yes, he's been under here, that's
certain. In fact there was nowhere
else where be could have hidden him
self. Here, too, are the marks of his
hobnails. When you entered, all four
of you, did you look under the bed?"
"At once. We drew It right out of its
place."
"And between the mattresses?"
"There was only one on the bed, and
on that mademoiselle was placed, and
we m. Stangerson and the concierge lm-over-
mediately carried It Into the labora
tory. Under the mattress there was
nothing but the metal netting, which
could not conceal anything or any
body. Remember, monsieur, that there
were four of us, and we couldn't fall
to see everything, the chamber Is so
small and scantily furnished, and all
was locked behind In the pavilion."
I ventured on a hypothesis:
"Perhaps he got away with the mat
tressIn the mattress! Anything Is
possible in the face of such a mystery. I
In their distress of mind M. Stanger- !
son and the concierge may not have
noticed they were, bearing a double
weight, especially If the concierge
were an accomplice. I throw out this i
hypothesis for what It Is worth, but It
explains many things and particularly
the fact thnt neither the laboratory
nor the vestibule bears any traces of
the footmarks found In the room. If .
In carrying mademoiselle on the mat- j
tress from the laboratory they rested '
for a moment there might have been '
an opportunity for the man in It to
escape."
"And then?" asked Rouletabllle, de
liberately lnughlng under the bed.
I felt rather vexed and replied:
"I don't know, but anything appear!
possible."
"The examining magistrate bad the
en me idea, monsieur." said Daddy
Jacques, "and he carefully examined
the mattrpss. He was obliged to lauga
it the Idea, monsieur, as your frleiu
t doing now, for whoever henrd of
I mattress having a double bottom?"
My friend alone (seemed able to tn lit
) 'telligently. He called out from un-
x the bed:
"The mat here has been moved out
f place, Who did It?"
AVe did, monslour," explained Dad
dy Jacques. "When we could not find
the assassin we ' asked ourselves
whether there was not some hole In
the floor."
"There Is not" replied Rouletabllle. I
"Is there a cellar?"
"No, there's no cellnr. But thnt has
not stopped our searching and has not
prevented the examining magistrate
and his registrar from studying the
floor plank by plank, as If there bad
been a cellar under It."
The reporter then reappeared. His
eyes were sparkling and his nostrils
quivered. He remained on his hands
and knees. Thus he made bis way to
the four corners of the room, so to
speak, sniffing and going around ev
erythingeverything that we could
see, which was not much, and every
thing that we could not see, which
must have been Infinite.
The toilet table was a simple table
standing on four legs. There was
nothing about it by which it could
possibly be changed Into a temporary
biding place. There was not a closet
or cupboard. Mile. Stangerson kept
her wardrobe at the chateau.
Rouletabllle literally passed his nose
and hands along the walls, constructed
of solid brickwork. When be bad
finished with the walls and passed his
agile fingers over every portion of the
yellow puper covering them he reached
to the celling, which he was able to
touch by mounting on a chair placed
on the toilet table, and by moving
this Ingeniously constructed stage
from place to place he examined ev
ery foot of it When he bad finished
his scrutiny of the celling, where he
carefully examined the hole made by
the second bullet, he approached the
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I window and ouce more examined the
iron bars and blinds, all of which
were solid and intact. At last he gave
a grunt of satisfaction and declared,
"Now 1 am at ease!"
"Well, do you believe that the poor
dear young lady was shut up when
she was being murdered when she
cried out for help?" walled Daddy
Jacques.
"Yes," said the young reporter, dry
ing his forehead; "the yellow room
was as tightly shut as au iron safe."
"The Bete du Bon Dleu," muttered
Daddy Jacques "the Bete du Bon Dieu
herself, if she had committed the
crime, could not have escaped. Lis
ten! Do you hear it? Hush!"
Daddy Jacques made us a sign to
keep quiet and, stretching his arm to
ward the wall nearest the forest lis
tened to something which we could
not hear.
"it's answering," he snld at length.
"I must kill it. It is too wicked, but
it's the Bete du Bon Dleu, and every
night It goes to pray on the tomb of
St. Genevieve, and nobody dares to
touch her for fear that Mother An
genoux should cast an evil spell on
them."
"How big Is the Bete du Bon Dleu?"
"Nearly as big as a small retriever
a monster, I tell you. Ah, I have asked
myself more than once whether It was
not she that took our poor made
moiselle by the throat with her claws.
But the Bete du Bon Dleu does not
wear hobnailed boots, nor fire revolv
ers, nor has she a hand like that!" ex
claimed Daddy Jacques, again point
ing out to us the red murk on the wall.
"Besides, we should have seen her as
well as we would have seen a man."
"Evidently," I said. "Before we had
seen this yellow room I had also asked
myself whether the cat of Mother An
geuoux" "You also!" cried Rouletubllle.
"Didn't you?" I asked.
"Not for a moment. After reading
the article In the Matin I knew that
a cat bad nothing to do with the mat
ter. But I swear now that a frightful
tragedy has beeu enacted here. You
say nothing about the Basque cap or
the handkerchief found here, Daddy
Jacques."
"Of course the magistrate has taken
them," the old man answered hesi
tatingly.
"I haven't seen either the handker
chief or the cap, yet I can tell you
how they are made," the reporter said
to him gravely.
"Oh, you are very clever," said Dad
dy Jacques, coughing and embar
rassed. "The handkerchief Is a large one,
blue with red stripes, and the cap Is
an old Basque cap, like the one you
aro wearing now."
"You are a wizard!" said Daddy
Jacques, trying to laugh and not quite
succeeding. "How do you know that
the handkerchief Is blue with red
stripes?"
"Because if it had not been blue
with red stripes it would not have
been found at all."
Without giving any further atten
tion to Daddy Jacques my friend took
a piece of paper from his pocket and,
taking out a pair of scissors, bent
over the footprints. Placing the pa
per over oue of them, he began to
cut. In a short time he had made a
perfect pattern, which he banded to
me, begging mo not to lose It.
He then returned to the window
and, pointing to the figure of Fred
eric Larsan, who had not quitted the
side of the lake, asked Daddy Jacques
whether the detective had, like him
self, been working in the yellow room
"No," replied Robert Darzac, who
since Rouletabllle had banded him the
piece of scorched pnpor had not ut
tered a word. "He pretends that he
does not need to examine the yellow
room. He says that the murderer
made tils escape from It tn quite a nat
ural way nnd that he will this evening
explain how he did It."
As he listened to what M. Darne
bad to say Rouletabllle turned pale.
"Has Frederic Larsan found out the
truth, which I con only guess at?" he
murmured. "He Is very clever very
clever and I admire him. Yet I have
discovered many things."
"Moral or material?" I asked.
"Several moral, one material. This.
for example."
And rapidly he drew from his waist
coat pocket a piece of paper In which
he had placed a light colored hair from
a woman's bead.
to bb coimnuro.
8YNOP3IS.
CHAPTER I A mysterious at
ttmpt la made at midnight to mur
der Mile. Stangerson, daughter and
assistant of. Prof. Stangerson, who U
at work on his theory of the dlssoci
a' Ion of matter in a pavilion near his
chateau. Pistol shots and the young
! woman's cries for help are heard
behind the lock el and bolted door of
her chamber, the yellow room. The
cries are answered by Professor Stan
no: and Daddy Jacques, an aged
servant. Aided by the concierges,
Bernler and his wife, they break open
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the door and find Mile. Stangerson
woonlng and half strangled, with a
wound in her temple, but find no
trace of her assailant. The only
possible outlet from the yellow room
the do)r. The weird cry of the
tete du bon Dieu," a cat belonging
to -Mother Angenoux, a recluse, is
heard Just before Mile. Stangerson's
rien. II Joseph Rouletabllle, a re
porter-detective, is Introduced to the
eader by M. Salnclalr, the narrator
of the story. Rouletabllle declares
he revolver was fired by Mile. Stan
gerson, wounding her assailant In
he hand. Salnclalr Is to use his
rlendshlp with M. Darzac, Mile. Stan
person's lover, to Introduce Rouleta-
llle into the chateau. Ill Rouleta
Mile induces M. de Marquet, the ex
amining magistrate, and M. de Ma
lelne, his registrar, to talk about the
case. The only posisDie point or
gress from the pavilion for the
murderer has been the window of the
pavilion's vestibule, near which blood
stains have been found. The win
dow, however, was found latched af
ter the assassin's escape. A bullet
hole Is found In the celling of the
yellow room. fV. Shortly before
the attack the announcement of the
ingagement of Mile. Stangerson anc
M. Darzac had bean made. V Roc
ietabllle and Sinclair are informe
by Frederic Larsan, a famous detec
tlve working on the case, that the
concierges have been arrested. Meet
ing M, Darzac, Rouletabllle utters t
mystic sentence, "The presbyter,
has lost nothing of its charm nor iht
garden its brightness," which seems
to terrify Darzac. VI The arrest ol
the concierges Is due to the fac
that they were seemingly near tin
he pavilion when the crime was com
mltted. Their denial of guilt is doubt
ed. Rouletabllle and Darzac become
friendly. A mutton bone such as 1h
used by French assassins, has been
.'ound I t Mile. Stangerson's room anc
Rouletabllle finds In oue of the
profesosr's retorts a partly burnet,
paper bearing the strange sontenct
about the presbytery.
IT seems likely that
a conspicuous
place In the an
nals of legal proceed
ing will be given
the case of the Buck
Stove and Range
company of St. IO'.ils
against Fauiucl (Juni
pers and rher o.'Ii
elaUof tlie?-nierlcnii
Federation ff Lnlinr.
a Ions time has a
jons mitc:ell. tourt ()1.(k.r ,,r(jdU(.e(
such a profound Bonsall;n throughout
the country as that of Jud':e Daniel
Thew Wrls;!it of the supreme court of
the District of Columbia In sentencing
to Imprisonment the president, vice
president and secretary of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor. These three
posts are held respectively by Samuel
Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank
Morrison, all men of high reputation
as citizens and widely known and es
teemed In the world of labor.
Sentence was Impound on the three
labor men in consequence of their al
leged contempt of court In violating
the order enjoining them from placing
on the "unfair" or "We don't patron
ize" list of the. American I'ederatloa-
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TROY TIDINGS.
Troy, Jan. 23 Troy Is still on the
map. We have had snow, plenty of
It, ice too, mail very little wishes
for a county bridge innumerable, j
Troy was the center of excite-1
mont: Telephone meeting; bridge
building discussed for further orders.
Most of the settlers are very anx
ious about a bridge. Some few have
refused to sign the petition and
when it Is against a man's interest
to sign a petition he is excusable,
well maybe he can't write.
Read the advertisements.
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byteriim Church. Office in Her- fA
& land liuikling. Enierpries.
1st the corporation which occupies the
position of plaintiff in the proceedings.
The appeal was taken from Judge
Wright's court to the court of appeals
JUDOE DAMKIi TUBW WItlOHT.
of the District of Columbia, and the
labor leaders were released ou bonds.
Judge Wright was appointed to his
present post by President Roosevelt In
11)03. He was born In Cincinnati in
1804 and comes of a family of lawyers
ind Jurists. After graduating from
high school and the Cincinnati Law
ichool he begun tho practice of law
ind held several minor public posts.
Ho was chosen a judge of the court of
:-ommou pleas of Hamilton county, O.,
In 1893. Dining his practice before
the bar he made several lights for the
protection of labor Interests.
Mr. Gompers, who was sentenced by
Judge Wriylit to a term of one year in
lall, will be lifty-nlne years of ago ou
the 27th of January and has been con
nected with efforts to organize work
ing people since his fifteenth year. He
was born ln England and Is a cigar
maker by trade. In fact, ho can roll 11
pretty good cigar now. He was one of '
the founders of the Federation of Ln- ;
bor and witli an Intermission of one
year has been its president Blin'e 1SS2.
Mr. Mitchell, who was sentenced to
nine months' imprisonment, retired
but recently as president of the United
Mine Workers of America ou account
of ill health. He has always been
counted n close friend of Presldeut
Roosevelt, and It was supposed that
the latter would desire especially to
modify the action of the court In his
case If tho opportunity presented and
ho could consistently do so. But Mr.
Roosevelt has stated that as the mat
ter stands the caso Is not before hltn
In any ollkial way and Is not likely to
be. Mr. Mitchell, who was at the
head of the United Mine Workers for
nearly a decade, has been regarded as
a labor leader of n conservative type.
Born in Illinois In 1S70, he worked In
coal ml!ie:i before he was n dozen
years old and joined the Knights of
Labor when he was fift-e'i. lie ob
tained finite a fair education through
nl'Iit study and reading, studied law
nnd has written on economic (iiestions.
Frank Mi.nison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor, was
cenleiii ed by Judge
Wright to a term
of six. months. Mr.
Morrison is forty
one years old and
was for years one
of the most active
members of Chica
go Typographical
union. No. 10. He
represented the
printers in the Chi
cago Federation of
Labor and in 189(1
whs a delegate to
t li v International
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union convention at Colorado Springs,
which chose hi in as one of its dele
gates to the Federation of Ijibor. He
was elected secretary of tho latter
body at the succeeding meeting.
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Earthquakes and Eruptions.
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy Is
very popular with his subjects, and Ills
popularity Is In part due to tho way
In which he e::crts himself whenever
there Is any prat calamity like that of
the recent earthquake tn Sicily and
Cnlahrln. During the last eriptlnn of
Vesuvius, when GOO people were sup
posed to have Uwt their live?, he was
very energetic ln devising weans for
the public safety or for succoring the
victims of the disaster. Tho king even
went into places of dimmer himself in
his eagerness to see tbot everything
possible was being done in b"'.ial? of
his afflicted sub
jects. At the time
of the recent earth
quake shocks the
Italian monarch was
bunting In n district
near Naples. He at
once Issued orders
that preparations be
made for a trip to
Culubrla, which Is
ln southern Italy kinu tictoh km
and with Sicily MAKrru
forms the center of I'm earthquake
district. Between fie eftrihiunke fit
1905 in this district. wUfh fstTOj-r,l
thirty towns and cost about 3,000 lives,
Rnd tho eruption of Vesuvius In the
spring of 100(1, the southern portion ef
King Victor Emmanuel's realm has ln
recent years been very much 111 treated
by tho forces of nature.
THE STEINHEIL CASE.
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Stoinheil and the House In Parts
In Which Ha Lived.
The strange case of Mme. Stoinheil
continues to excite the Interest of
rnrls. The woman who had so many
Intrigues with famous men of France
M. STKlUIIKIb AND nolTHII HK I.IVK1) IN.
has retained to in unusual degree In
a person of her age hnr remarkable
beauty, aud her daughter U nlxo s
handsome woman. This fact Is not
lost upon the French public, suscepti
ble as It Is to the ronuiutlc features
of a en nu. The bouse lu which U.
Stelnhell lived and In which he wns
murdered has naturally figured n good
deal lu the proceedings. The T
rlslans have studied carefully the de
scriptions n the newspapers of the
location of his apartments, of those
of hU wife and her mother. Mme.
Jupys, numbered In the cut 1, 2 and
8 respectively.
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