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By GASTON LEROUX
CHAPTER. XI.
In rt'hich Frederic Lirstn Explains
How the Murderer Was Able to
Get Out of the Yellow Room.
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I MONO the mnss of papers, le
gal documents, memoirs mul
extracts from newspapers
which I have collected relat
ing to the mystery of the yellow room
there Is one very Interesting piece. It
Is a detail of the famous examination
which took place that afternoon In the
laboratory of Professor Stangerson be
fore the chief of police. This narra
tive Is from the pen of XI. Maleluo, the
registrar, who, like the examining
magistrate, had spent some of his
leisure time in the pursuit of litera
ture. TIIE REGISTRAR'S NARRATIVE.
The examining magistrate and I,
saysM. Mnleine, found ourselves in
the yellow room In the company of the
builder who had constructed the pavil
ion after Professor Stangerson's de
Blgns. He bad a workman with him.
M. de Marquet had bad the walls laid
entirely bare that Is to say. he had
bad them stripped of the paper which
bad decorated them. Blows with a
pick here and there satisfied us of the
nonexistence, of any sort of opening.
Toe noor ana me ceiling were inur
oughly sounded. We found nothing.
There was nothing to be found. M. 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
room!"
Then suddenly, with a radiant face,
be called to the officer in charge of the
gendarmes.
"Go to the chateau," he said, "and
request M. Stangerson and M. Robert
Darzac to come to me In the labora
tory, also Daddy Jacques, and let your
men bring here the two concierges.
Five minutes later all were assem
bled In the laboratory. The chief of
police, who had arrived at the Glan
dler. 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
ta tt was unexpected: .
"With your permission, gentlemen,
as examinations lead to nothing, we
will for once abandon the ofd system
of Interrogation. I will not have you
brought before me one by one, but we
will all remain here as we are M.
Stangerson, M. Robert Darznc, Daddy
Jacques and the two concierges, the
chief of police, the registrar and my
eelf. We shall all be on the same foot
ing. The concierges may for the mo
ment forget that they have been ar
rested. We are going to confer togeth
er. We are on the spot where the crime
was committed. We have nothing else
to discuss but the crime. So let us dis
cuss It freely, intelligently or other
Hse, so long as we speak Just what is
(n our minds. There nee be no formal
ity or method, since this won't help us
tn any way."
Then, passing before me, he said In
a low voice:
"What do you think of that, eh?
What a scene! Could you have thought
of that? I'll make a little piece out
of it for the vaudeville." And be rub
tied bis hands with glee.
I turned my eyes on M. Stangerson.
Tbe bope he bad received from the
doctor's latest reports, who had stated
that Mile. Stangerson might recover
from her wounds, bad not been able
to efface from his noble features the
marks of the great sorrow that was
npon Mm. He had believed his daugh
ter to to dead, and he was still bro
ken by that belief. His clear, soft blue
eves exDressed infinite sorrow.
"Now, JI. Stangerson," said M. de
Marquet, with someviat of an impor
tant air, "place yourself exactly where
you were when Mile. Stangerson left
yo to go to her chamber."
M. Stangerson rose and, standing at
a certain distance from the door of the
yellow room, said in an even voice and
without the least trace of emphasis, a
voice which I can only describe as a
dea4 voice:
"I was here. About 11 o'clock, after
I bad made a brief chemical experi
ment at the furnaces of the labora
tory, needing ell the space behind me.
I bad 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 me. When it was her
time to leave she rose, kissed me and
bade Daddy Jacques good night She
bad to pass behind my desk and the
door to enter her chamber, and she
could do this only with some difficul
ty that is to say, I was very near the
place where the crime occurred later."
"And the desk?" I asked, obeying. In
thus mixing myself In the conversa
tion, the express orders of my chief.
"As soon as yon beard the cry of 'Mur
der? followed by the revolver shots,
what became of the desk?"
' Daddy Jacques answered.
"We pushed it back against the wall
here, close to where It Is at the present
moment, so as to be able to get at the
door at once.'
I followed op my reasoning, to
which, however I,attacbed but little
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importance, regarding It' as "only a
weak hypothesis, with another ques
tion. "Might not a man in the room, the
desk being so near to the door, by
stooping and slipping under the desk
have left It unobserved?"
"You are forgetting," interrupted M.
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 child was
going on Immediately after we heard
her stifled cries."
I rose from my seat and once more
examined the door with the greatest
care. Then I returned to my place,
with a despairing gesture.
"If the lower panel of the door," I
said, "could be removed without the
whole door being necessarily open the
problem would be solved. 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."
"Ah." cried Daddy Jacques, "it is
an old and solid door that was brought
from the chateau. They don't make
such doors now. We bad to use 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 bad 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
terly. I was extremely disgusted. Even
If they were Innocent, I could not un
lerstand how they could behave like
that In the face of misfortune. A dig
nified bearing at such times is better
than tears and groans, which most of
ten are feigned.
"Now, then, enough of that snivel
ing," cried M. 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 only lay hands on the
murderer he'd never taste bread
Hgain!" the woman gurgled between
her sobs.
As before, we were unable tp get
two connecting thoughts out of them.
They persisted in their denials and
swore by heaven and all the saints
that they were in bed when they
heard the sound of the revolver shot.
"It was not one, but two shots, that
were fired. You see' you are lying.
If you had heard pne you would have
heard the other."
"Mon Dieu! Monsieur, it was the
second shot we heard. We were
sound asleep when the first shot was
fired."
"Two shots were fired," said Daddy
Jacques. "I am certain that all the
cartridges were in my revolver. We
found afterward that two bad been
exploded, and we beard two shots be
hind the door. Was not that so, M.
Stangerson?"
"Yes," replied the professor, "there
were two shots one dull and the other
sharp and ringing."
"Why do you persist in lying?" cried
M. de Marquet, 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
aud near the pavilion at the time of
the tragedy. What were you doing
there? So far as I am concerned," be
said, turning to M. Stangerson, "I can
only explain the escape of the mur
derer on the assumption of help from
these two accomplices. As soon as the
door was forced open and while you,
M. Stangerson, were occupied with
your unfortunate child the concierge
mid bis wife facilitated the flight of
the murderer, who, screening himself
behind them, 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 certainly could not
have closed aud fastened of them'
selves. That Is the conclusion I have
urrived at. If any ope here has any
other Idea let him state It."
M. Stangerson intervened:
"What you say was impossible. I
do not believe either in the guilt or
in the connivance of my concierges,
though I cannot understand what they
were doing In the park at that late
hour of the night. I say it was lm.
possible, because Mme. Bernler held
the lamp and did not move from the
threshold of the room, because I as
soon as the door was forced open
threw myself on my knees beside my
daughter, and no one could bave left
or entered the room by the door with
out passing over her body and fore
Ing bis way by me! Daddy Jacques
and the concierge had bnt to cast t
glance around the chamber and under
the bed. as I had done on entering, to
Bee that there was nobody in it bnt
my daughter lying on the floor."
"What do you think, M. DariacT
asked the magistrate.
M. Dareac replied that he bad no
lalon-to express..
"M.-Dax, the chief of police, who so
far bad been listening and examining
the room, at length deigned to open
his lips:
"While search Is being made for the
rlmlnal we had better try to find out
the motive for the crime. That will
advance us a little," he said. Turning
toward M. Stangerson, he continued
In the even, Intelligent tone indicative
of a strong chnracter, "I understand
that mademoiselle was shortly to have
been married?"
The professor looked sadly at M.
Robert Darzac.
With my friend here, whom I
should have been hnppy to call my son
with M. Robert Darzac."
"Mile. Stangerson Is much better
and Is rapidly recovering from her
wounds. The marriage Is simply de
layed, Is It not, monsieur?" insisted
the chief of police.
"I hope so."
"What! Is there any doubt about
that?"
M. Stangerson did not answer. M
Robert Darzac seemed agitated. I saw
that his band trembled as it fingered
Vis watch chain. M. Dax coughed, as
did M. de Marquet. Both were evi
dently embarrassed.
"You understand, M. Stangerson," he
said, "that In an affair so perplexing as
this we cannot neglect anything. We
must know all, even the smallest and
seemingly most futile thing concern
ing the victim. Information apparently
the most Insignificant. Why do you
doubt that this marriage will take
place? You expressed a bope, but the
hope Implies a doubt. Why do you
doubt?"
M. Stangerson made a visible effort
to recover himself.
"Yes, monsieur," he said at length.
You are right. It will be best that
you should know something which If I
concealed it might appear to bp of im
portance. II. Darzac agrees with me
In this."
M. Darzac, whose pallor at that mo
ment seemed to me to be altogether
abnormal, made a sign of assent I
gathered be was unable to speak.
"I want you to know, then," contin
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 all that I bave argued
to induce her to marry. We have
known M. Robert Darzac many years.
He loves my child, and I believed that
she loved him, because she only re
cently consented to this marriage,
which I desire with all my heart. I
am aq old man, monsieur, and it was
a happy hour to me when I knew that
after I bad gone she would bave at
her side one who loved her and who
would help her In continuing our com
mon labors. I love and esteem M.
Darzac both for his greatness of heart
and for his devotion to science. Rut
two days before the tragedy, for I
know not what reason, my daughter
declared to me that she would never
marry J, Pnrssac,"
to be continued.
SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I A mysterious at
tempt is made at midnight to mur-
ler Mile. Stangerson, daughter ami
asbistant of Prof. Stangerson, who Is
at work on his theory of the dissoci
ation of matter in a pavilion near his
chateau. Pistol shots and the young
woman's cries for help are heard
behind the lockei and bolted door of
ler chamber, thq yeHrjw room, Th
:rles are answered by Professor Stan
-MOii and Daddy Jacques, an aged
jervant. Aided by the concierges,
Bernler and his wife, they break ope
the door and find Mile. Stangerson
woonlng and half strangled, with a
wound in her temple, but find no
:race of her assailant. The only
possible outlet from the yellow room
.it the doar. The weird cry of the
"tete du bon Dieu," a cat belonging
to -Mother Angenoux, a recluse., la
beard Just before Mile. Stangerson's
rles. II Joseph Rouletabllle, a re
porter-detective, Is Introduced to the
reader by M. Salnclalr, the narrator
of the story. Rouletabllle declares
the revolver was fired by Mile. Stan
gerson, wounding her assailant in
the hand. Salnclalr is to use bis
riendshlp with M. Darzac, Mile. Stan
person's lover, to Introduce Rouleta
tllle Into the chateau. HI Rouleta
bllle Induces M. de Marquet, the ex
amining magistrate, and M, de Ma
lelne, bis registrar, to talk about the
case. The only poslsble point of
egress . 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. IV. Shortly before
the attack the announcement of the
engagement of Mile. Stangerson and
M. Darzac had bem made. V Rou
letabllle and Sinclair are informed
by Frederic Larsan, a famous detec
tive working on the case, that the
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concierges have been arrested. Meet
ing M. Darzac, Rouletabllle utters a
mystic sentence, "The presbytery
has lost nothing of Us charm nor the
garden Its brightness," which seems
to terrify Darzac. VI The arrest of
the concierges Is due to the fact
that they were seemingly near the '
the pavilion when the crime was com ,
mitted. Their denial of guilt Is doubt
ed. Rouletabllle and Darzac become
friendly. A mutton bone such as Is
used by French assassins, has been
found li Mile. Stangerson's room and
Rouletabllle finds In one of the
profesosr's retorts a partly burned
paper bearing the strange sentence j
about the presbytery. VII In the j
ytllow room Rouletabllle finds a wo
man's hair, which he declares tq be
important evidence. VIII Mile. Stan
gerson tells of her movements on
the day of the attack. She feared
something of the sort, she Bays, af
ter seeing shadows pass in front of
her window and therefore borrowed
Daddy Jacques' revolver. IX Roule
tabllle and Larson clash In their the
ory of the case. The latter tries to
cast susplclno on Darzac. X. At :
the Donjon Inn Rouletabllle gains ad- i
mission for himself and Salnclalr by
saying to the Innkeeper, Daddy Math- :
leu, "We shall have to eat red meat
now." The landlord Is Jealous of
his wife's friendliness with the green
man, forest keeper fgr M. Stangerson
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