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By GASTON LEROUX
Rouletabllle very slowly filled hi?
pipe and lit It. That meant nn Interest
ing story. At that moment we beard
some one walking in the gallery and
passing before our door. Rouletabllle
listened. The sound of the footstep
died nway In the distance.
"Is Frederic Larson In bis room?" I
asked, pointing to the partition.
"No." my friend answered. "lie went
to Paris this morning, still on the scent
of Darzae ho also left for Paris.
That matt'.T will turn out badly. I ex
pect that M. Darzae will be arrested In
the course of the next week. The worst
of It Is that everything seems to be
In league against him circumstances.
things, people. Not an hour passes
without bringing some new evidence
gainst him. The examining magis
trate Is overwhelmed by It and blind."
"Frederic Larsan, however, Is not o
novice," I said.
"I thought so," said Rouletabllle,
with a slightly contemptuous turn ot
his lips. "I fancied he was a much
abler man. I had, Indeed, a great ad
miration for him before I got to know
his method of working. It's deplorable.
He owes his reputation solely to his
Ability, but he lacks reasoning power.
The mathematics of his Ideas are very
poor."
I looked closely at Rouletabllle and
could not help smiling on hearing this
boy of eighteen talking of a man who
has proved to the world that he was
the finest police sleuth hound in Eu
rope. "You smile," he said. "You are
wrong. I swear I will outwit him and
In a striking way. But I must make
haste about it, for he has an enormoua
start of me, given hlin by M. Robert
Darzae, who Is this evening going to
increase It still more. Think of It.
every time the murderer comes to the
chateau M. Darzae by a strange fatal
ity absents himself and refuses to give
any account of how he employs his
time."
"Every time the assassin comes to
the chateau!" I cried. "Has he re
turned, then?"
"Yes. during that famous night when
the strange phenomenon occurred."
I was now going to learn about the as
tonishing phenomenon to which Roule
tabllle had made allusion half an hour
.earlier without giving me any explana
tion of It. At last, in short, rapid
phrases he acquainted me with things
which plunged me into a state Doruer
Jng on complete bewilderment. Indeed
the results of that still unknown sci
ence known as hypnotism, for exam
ine, were not more Inexplicable than
the disappearance of the mutter of the
murderer at the moment when four
persons were within touch of him. I
sneak of hypnotism as I would of elec
tricity, for of the nature of both we
are Ignorant, and we know llttlo of
their laws. I cite these examples be
cause at the time the case appeared to
me to be only explicable by the lnex
pllcable-that Is to say, by an event
outside of known natural laws. And
yet If I had had Rouletabille's brain I
etaould. like him, nave naa n iireseuu
ment of the natural explanation, for
the most curious thing about all the
mvsterles of the Glandler case was the
natural manner In which he explained
them.
I have among the papers that were
sent me by the young man after the
ffalr was over a notebook of bis, In
which a complete account Is given of
the phenomenon of the disappearance
of the "matter" of the assassin and
the thoughts to which It gave rise in
h mind of bit young friend. It Is
w- r i,Vnir n pive the reader
this account rather than to continue to
reproduce my conversation with uouie-
tabll'e.
CHAPTER XV.
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The Trp.
AST night, the night between
the 29th and the 30th of oc
tobr." wrote Joseph Roule
tabllle. "I woke up toward 1
o'clock In the morning. Was It sleep
lessness or noise without? The cry of
the Bete du Bon Dieu rang out with
sinister loudness from the end of the
nnrlc. I rose and opened the window,
rold wind and rain, opaque darkness,
silence. I reclosed my window. Again
the sound of the cat's weird cry In the
distance. I partly dressed In haste.
The weather was too bad for even a
cat to be turned out In it. What did It
mean, then that Imitating of the mew
lng of Mother Angenoux's cat so near
the chateau? I selxea a gooa sizeu
stick, the only weapon I had, and with
out making any noise opened my door.
"The gallery into which I went was
well lit by a lamp with a renecior. i
fpit a keen current of air and on turn
ing found the window open at the ex
treme end of the gallery, which 1 cal1
tha 'nit turning atallery to distinguish
It from the Tight" gallery, on to which
the apartment of Mile. Stangerson
nru.nv These two galleries cross each
other at right angles. Who had left
that window open or who had come to
nn it? I went to the window and
leaned out Five feet below me there
.... nrt of terrace over the semi
circular projection of a room on the
round floor. One could If one wanted
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Jump from the window on to the ter
race and allow oneself to drop from It
into the court of the chateau. Who
ever hud entered by this road had evi
dently not had a key to the vestibule
door. But why should I be thinking of
my previous night's attempt with the
ladder? Because of the open window,
left open perhaps by the negligence of
a servant? I reelosed It, smiling at the
ease with which I built a drama on the
mere suggestion of an opeu window.
"Again the cry of the Bete du Bon
Dicu and then silence. The rain ceased
to beat on the window. All In the cha
teau slept. I walked with Infinite pre
caution on the carpet of the gallery.
On reaching the corner of the right
gallery I peered round It cautiously,
There was another lamp there with a
reflector which quite lit up the several
objects In it, three chairs and some
pictures hanging on the wall. What
was I doing there? I'errect snence
reigned throughout. Everything was
funk in repose. What was the Instinct
that urged me toward Mile. SWnger
son's chamber? Why did a voice with.
in me cry, 'Go on to the chamber of
Mile. Stangerson! I cast my eyes
down upon the carpet on which I was
treading and saw that my steps were
being directed toward Mile. Stanger
son's chamber by the marks of steps
that had already been made there.
Yes, on the carpet were traces of foot
steps stained with mud leading to the
chamber of Mile. Stangerson. Horror,
horror! I recognized In those fast-
prints the Impression of the neat boots
of the murderer. He had come, then,
from without In this wretched night.
If vou could descend from the gallery
by way of the window, by means of
the terrace, then you could get Into the
chateau by the same means,
"The murderer was still In the cha-
teau, for here were marks as of return
ing footsteps. He had entered by the
open window at the extremity of the
off turning" gallery; be had passed
Frederic Larsan's door and mine, had
turned to the right and bad entered
Mile. Stangersou's room. I am before
the door of her anteroom. It Is open.
I push It without making the least
noise. Under the door of the room it
self I see a streak of light I listen,
No sound, not even of breathing. Ah,
If I only knew what was passing in
the silence that Is behind that door! I
find the door locked and the key turn
ed on the Inner side. And the mur
derer Is there perhaps. He must be
there. Will he escape this time? All
depends on me. I must be calm, and
above all I must make no false steps.
I must see into that room. I can enter
It by Mile. Stangerson's drawing room.
But to do that I should have to cross
her boudoir, and while I am there the
murderer may escape by the gallery
door, the door In front of which I am
now standing.
"I am sure that no other crime Is be
ing committed on this night, for there
Is complete silence In the boudoir,
where two nurses ore taking care of
Mile. Stangerson until she Is restored
to health
As I am almost sure that the mur
derer Is there, why do I not at once
give the alarm? The murderer may
perhaps escape, put perhaps l may be
able to save Mile, Stangersou's life.
Suppose the murderer on this occasion
Is not here to murder? The door has
beeu opened to allow him to enter by
whom? And It has been refastened-
by whom? Mile. Stangerson shuts her
self up In her apartment with her
nurses every night Who turned the
key of that chamber to allow the mur
derer to enter? The nurses, two faith-
ful domestics? The old chambermaid,
Svlvla? It Is very Improbable. Be
sides, they slept In the boudoir, and
Mile. Stangerson, very nervous and
careful, M. Robert Darzae told me,
sees to her own pafety since she has
been well enough to move about In her
room, which I have not yet seen her
leave. This nervousness and sudden
care on her part which had struck
M. Darzae, hod given me also food for
thought. At the time of the crime In
the yellow room there can be no doubt
that she expected the murderer. Was
he expected this night? Was it she
herself who had opened her door to
him?, Had she some reason for do
ing so? Was she obliged to do It?
Was It a meeting for purposes of
crime? Certainly it was not a lover's
meeting, for I believe Mile. Stanger
son adores M. Darzae.
"It Is possible that there was some
reason for the awful silence. My In
tervention might do more harm than
good.. How could I tell? How could
I know I might not any moment cause
another crime? If I could only see
and know without breaking that si
lence.
"I left the anteroom and descended
the central stairs to the vestibule and
as silently as possible made ray way
to the little room on the ground floor
where Daddy Jacques had been sleep
ing since the attack made at the pa
vilion.
"I found him dressed, his eyes wide
open, almost haggard. He did not
seem surprised to see me. He told
me that he bad got up because be had
beard the cry of the Bete du Bon Dleu
and because he had heard footsteps In
the park close to bis window, out
he had looked, and Jjusi then
rhjcb
of
Ro
om
had-seelTa" Tilack shadow pass by." I
asked him whether he had a firearm
of any kind. No, he no longer kept
one since the examining magistrate
had taken his revolver from him. We
went out together by a little back
door Into the park and stole along the
chateau to the point which Is Just be
low Mile. Stangersou's window.
I placed Daddy Jacques against
the wall, ordering him not to stir
from the spot, while I, taking advan
tage of a moment when the moon was
hidden by a cloud, moved to the front
of the window out of the patch of
light which come from It, for the win
dow was half opeu. If I could only
know what was passing In that silent
chamber! I returned to Daddy Jacques
and whispered the word 'ladder' In his
ear. At first I had thought of the
tree which a week ago served me for
an observatory, but I Immediately saw
that from the way the window was
half opened I should not be able to see
from that point of view anything that
was passing In the room, and I want
ed not only to see, but to bear, and to
act.
"Greatly agitated, almost trembling,
Daddy Jacques disappeared for a mo
ment and returned without the ladder,
but making signs to me with his arms
as signals to me to come quickly to
him. When I got near him he gasped,
Come!'
"He led me round the chateau, past
the donjon. Arrived there, he said:
" 'I went to the donjon In search of
my ladder, and In the lower part of the
donjon which serves me and the gar
dener for a lumber room I found the
door open and the ladder gone. On
coming out that's what I caught sight
of by the light of the moon.'
"And he pointed to the farther end
of the chateau, where a ladder stood
resting against the stone brackets sup
porting the terrace, under the window
which I had found open. The projec
tion of the terrace had prevented my
seeing It. Thanks to that ladder, it
was quite easy to get Into the 'off turn
lug' gallery of the first floor, and I bad
no doubt of It having been the road
taken by the unknown.
"We ran to the ladder, hut at toe
moment of reaching it Daddy Jacqura
drew my attention to the half open
door of the little semicircular room
situated under the terrace at the ex
tremity of the right wing of the cha
teau, having the terrace for its roof.
Daddy Jacques pushed the door open a
little farther and looked In.
" 'He's not there!' he whispered.
" 'Who is not there?"
" 'The forest keeper."
"With his Hps once more to my car
he added:
" 'Do you know that ho has slept In
the upper room of the donjon ever
since It was restored?" And with the
same gesture he pointed to the half
open door, the ladder, the terrace and
the window In the 'oft turning' gal
lery, which a little while before I had
reclosed.
"What were my thoughts then? I
had no time to think. I felt more than
I thought
"Evidently I felt If the forest keeper
Is up there In the chamber (I say If
because at this moment, apart from
the presence of the ladder and his va
cant room, there are no evidences
which permit me even to suspect blm)
If lie Is there he has been obliged to
pass by the ladder, and the rooms
which lie behind his In his new lodg
ing are occupied by the family of the
steward and by the cook and by the
kitchens, which bar the way by the
vestibule to the Interior of the cha-.
teau, And If he had beeu there during
the evening on auy pretext It would
have been easy for him to go Into the
gallery and see that the window could
be simply pushed open from the out
side. This question of the unfastened
window easily narrowed the field of
search for the murderer, He must be
long to the bouse unless be had an ac
complice, which I do not believe he
had; unless unless Mile. Stangerson
herself bad seen that that window was
not fastened from the Inside, But,
then, what could be the frightful se
cret which put her under the necessity
of doing away with obstacles that sep
arated her from the murderer?
"I seized hold of the ladder, and we
returned to the back of the chateau to
see If the window of tbo chamber was
still half open. The blind was drawn,
but did not Join and allowed a bright
stream of light to escape and fall upon
the path at our feet I plunted the
ladder uuder the window. I am al
most sure that I made no noise, and
while Daddy Jacques remained at the
foot of the ladder I mounted It very
quietly, my stout stick In my baud.
I held my breath and lifted my feet
with the greatest care. Suddenly a
heavy cloud discharged Itself at that
moment la a fresh downpour of rain.
At the same Instant the sinister cry
of the Bete du Bon Dleu arrested me
in my ascent It seemed to me to have ; Ing. gallery, before the window which locked on the IhhIi'o by Mile. Stunner
come from close by me, only a few i j unj fou)1(j 0,en nna bad reclosed. con. But even If I h::d hnd the free
yards away. Was the cry a signal?. 'Under no consideration." I said to i fMnponitlon of the boudoir I should
Had some accomplice of the man seen
tne on the ladder? Would the cry
bring the man to the window? Per
haps. Ah, there he was at the window!
I felt his head above
e me. I heard the
! I could not look
of ,
sound of his breath
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of my head and I uflghtTiiTlost. "Would j
he see nic? Would he peer Into the j
darkness? No; he went away. He had
seen nothing. 1 felt rather than heard
him moving on tiptoe In the room, and
I mounted a few steps higher. My
head reached to the level of the win
dow sill; my forehead rose above It;
my eyes looked between the opening
In the blinds, and I saw ,
"A man seated at Mile. Stangerson's ,
little desk writing. His back was turn- !
ed toward me. A candle was lit before
him, and he bent over the flame, the
light from It projecting shapeless shad- i
ows. I saw nothing but a monstrous,
stooping back.
"Mile. Stangerson herself was not
there! Her bed had not been lain on!
Where, then, was she sleeping that
night? Doubtless In the side room
with her women. Perhaps this was
but n guess. I must content myself
with the Joy of finding the man alone.
I must be calm to prepare my trap.
"But who, then, Is this man writing
there before my eyes, seated at the i
desk, ns If he were in his own home?
If there had uot beeu that ladder un
dcr the window, if there hnd not been
those footprints on the carpet In the
; gallery. If there hud not been that open
I window, I might huve been led to
think that this man had a right to be
there and that he was there as a mut
ter of course and for reasons about
which as yet I knew nothing. But
there was no doubt that this mysteri
ous unknown was the man of the yel
low room, the man to whose murder
ous assnult Mile. Staugerson without
denouncing him had had to submit. If
I could but see his face! Surprise and
capture him!
"If 1 spring Into the room ot this
moment be will escape by the right
hand door opening Into the boudoir, or,
crossing the drawing room, he will
reach the gallery and I shall lose htm.
i have hlin now, und In five mluutes
more lie'll he wafer than If I had him
In a cage. What Is lie doing there,
alone In Mile. Stangerson's room?
What Is he writing? I descend and
place the ladder on the ground. Dad
dy Jacques follows me. We re-enlcr
the chateau. 1 send Daddy Jacques
to wake M. Stnnsersoil and Instruct
him to awnlt my coming In Mile.
Stangerson's room and to say nothing
definite to hlin before my arrival. I
will go and awaken Frederic Larsuu.
It's a bore to have to do It, for I
should have liked to work alone und
to have carried off all the honors of
this affair myself right under the very
nose of the sleeping detective. But
Daddy Jacques and M. Staugerson are
old men, and I am not yet fully de
veloped, I might uot be strong
enough. Lnrsan Is used to wrestling
and putting on the handcuffs. He
opened his eyes, swollen with sleep.
ready to send me flying without in the
tosst believing In my t "porter's fan.
lies. 1 naa to assure mm mat n
uiau was there.
" 'That's strange.' he said. '1 thought 1
left hlin this afternoon In Paris.
"lie dressed himself In haste and
armed himself with u revolver. We
stolo quietly Into the gallery.
" 'Where Is lie?' Lursaa asked.
"'In Mile. Stangerson's room."
"'And Mile. Stnngerhon?'
" 'She Is uot In there,'
" 'Let's go is,'
" 'Don't go there. On the least
alarm the mn will escape. He has
four ways by which to do It the door,
the window, the boudoir cr the room
lu which the women r,:u sbuplug.'
"I'll draw lilm from Lelov.-."
"'And If you full? If you rmly suc
ceed la v. uvdlng him he'll escape
again without reckoning that he 13
certainly armed. No; let me Clrwt tho
expedition, and I'll answer for every
thing." " 'As you like," he replied, with fairly
good grace.
"Then after satisfying myself that
all the windows of the two galleries
were thoroughly secure I placed Fred-
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"'What will Tip yours?' asked Fred.
" 'I shall spring into the room and
knock hlin over for you.'
" 'Take my revolver," said Fred, 'and
I'll take your stick.'
" 'Thanks,' I said. 'You are a brave
man."
"I accepted his offer. I was going to
be alone with the man In the room
writing and was really thankful to
have the weapon.
"I left Fred, having posted him at
the window, and, with the greatest
precnutlon, went toward M. Stanger
son's apartment in the left wing of the
chateau. I found him with Daddy
Jacques, who hud faithfully obeyed
my directions, confining himself to
asking his master to dress as quickly
as possible. In a few words I ex
plained to M. Stangerson what was
passing. He armed himself with a re
volver, followed me, and we were all
three speedily in the gallery. Since 1
had seen the murderer seated at the
desk ten minutes hnd elapsed. M.
Stangerson wished to spring upon the
assassin at once and kill blm. I made
hlin understand that, above all, he
must not miss him.
"When 1 hud sworn to him that hit
daughter was not In the room and in
no danger he conquered his Impatience
and left me to direct the operations. 1
told them that they must come to mi
the moment 1 culled to them or when
I fired my revolver. 1 then sent Dad
dy Jacques to pluce himself before
the window at the end of the 'right'
gallery. I chose that position for Dad
dy Jacques because I believed that the
murderer, trucked on leaving the room,
would run through the gallery toward
the window which he had left open
and, instuutly seeing that It was
guarded by Larsuu, would pursue his
course along the 'right' gallery. There
he would encounter Duddy Jacques,
who would prevent his springing out
of the window into the park. Uuder
that window there was a sort of but
tress, while nil the other windows In
tho galleries were at such a height
i from the grouud that It was ulmost
Impossible to Jump from them with
out breaking one's neck. All the doors
and windows. Including those of tho
lumber room at the end of the 'right
gullery-us I hud rapidly assured my-
self were strongly secured.
"Having Indicated to Duddy Jacques
the post lie wus to occupy and having
seen him take up his posltlou, I placed
M. Stungerson on the landing at the
head of the stairs not far from the
door of his daughter's anteroom. Ev
erything led me to suppose that when
I surprised the murderer la the room
he would run by way of the ante
room rather than tho boudoir, where
the women were, und of which the j
door must have been locked by Mile.
Stangerson herself .If, as I thought,
she had taken refuge In the boudoir
tor tho purpose of avoiding the mur
derer who wus coming to see her. Iu
any case ho must return to the gal
lery where my people were awaltlog
him nt every possible Issue.
"On. coining there he would see on
his left M. Stangerson. He would turn
to the right, toward the 'off turning'
gallery, tho wuy he hud prearranged
for flight, where at the Intersection of
tho two galleries he would see at
oiico, as I huvo explained, on bis left
Frederic Larsuu lit the end of the 'off
turning gallery and In front Daddy
Jacques nt the end of the 'right' gal
lery. M. Staii;,t rso'n nnd myself would
arrive by way of the buck of the cha
teau. He Is ours! lie can no lougci
escape u! I wn sure of that
"Tho plan I hnd formed deemed to
nic the bent, the surest nnd the most
simple. It would, no doubt, have been
simpler still If we had been able to
place some one directly behind the door
of mademoiselle's boudoir, which open
ed out of her bedchamber, and in that
way h: l been In n poult Ion to hosing
the two doors of the room In which the
man was. Hut we could not penetrate
the boudoir except by way of the draw
lng room, the door of whl' h had been
j have held to the plan I had formed
wit hujh: iui, iiui-i iiiiii u iiiiinn i.'.miu
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plan united us all for the attack at a
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Having so placed my people, I
again left tho chatjau, hurrlsd to my
ladder and, replacing it, climbed up,
revolver in hand.
"If there be auy Inclined to srulli at
my ti'.l:lu;j so many precautionary
measures I refer Iheiu to the mystery
of the yellow room and to nil the
proofs we have of the weird cunning
of the murderer. Further, If there bo
some who think my observations need
lessly minute at a moment when they
ought to be completely held by rapidi
ty of movement and decision of uctlou
I reply that I have wished to report
here at length and completely all the
details of a plan of attack conceived
so rupldly that It Is only the ulowucss
of my' pen that gives an appearance
of slowness to the execution. I have
wished by this slowness and precision
to be certain that nothing should be
omitted from the conditions under
which the strange phenomenon was
produced, which, until some nntur.il
explanation of It is forthcoming, rvci :s
to me to prove, even better thr.n the
theories of Professor Stangerson, the
dissociation of mutter I will even ray
the Instantaneous dlFsoclatlou t.i i nat
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The season for coughs and colds is
low at hand and too much care cau
lot he used to protect the children.
V child Is much more llkoly to con
ract diphtheria or scarlet fover
when he has a cold. The quicker
you cure his cold the lej3 the risk.
Chamberlain's t ough Remedy Is the
sole reliance of many mothers, and
few of thosa who have tried It are
willing to use any othor. Mrs. F. F.
Starchcr, of Ripley, W. Va., says:
"I have never used anything other
than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
for my children, and It has always
given goad satls'actlon." This rem
edy contains no opium or other nar
cotic and may be given as confident
ly to a child as to an adult. For sale
hy Umnaugh & Mayflald.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department of the Interior.
U. S. Land Office at La Grande, Or
egon, January 11, 1909.
Notice la hereby given that Albert
L. Chllders, of Enterprise, Oregon,
,uj, on October 16, 1902, made
Homestead Entry, No. 12040, for W
'4 NE V. NV4 SEVi, Section 15,
Township 1 North, Rungo 44 East,
Willamette Meridian, has filed no
ti.o of Intention to make Final FP-'e
Year Proof to establish claim to
Ilia land above described, before D.
W. Sheahan, U. S. Commissioner, at
his office at Enterprise, Oreg.i i,
on the 20th day of February, 19 )9.
Claimant names as wlanii'i'
Frank W. Ileshott, of Wallowa, O a
gon; DavU H. Hearing, of Wallowi,
Oregon; Nicolas W. Ownbey, of En
terprise, Oregon; James W. Chllders,
of Enterprise, Oregon.
F. C. Bramwell, Register.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
(Iso-
latod Tract.)
PUBLIC LAND SALE.
Department of the Interior.
U. S. Land Office at La Grande, Ore
gon. January 16, 1909.
Notice Is hereby given that, as di
rected by the Commissioner of the
General Land Office, under provis
ions of Act of Congress approved
June 27, 1900, (34 Stats., 517), we
will offer at public sale, to the high
est bidder, at ten o'clock a. m., on
the 9th day of March, 1909, at this
office, the following-described land:
SEV4 NEVi Section 24, Township 1
South, Range 41, East Willamette
Meridian, Serial No. 0887.
Any persons clilming adverwly the
above-described land are advised to
file their claims, or objections, on
or before the time designated for
sale. F, C. Bramwell, Register.
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