The Mystery of the Yellow Room

ark, under the window of the vestibule, a man, evidently a servant at the chateau, cam

gistrate, you know, is q

use to us and set off running towards

," I said, "it would be

h him. But, at the chateau, a gendarme placed in the vestibule denied us admi

e chamber of the victim w

ught it his duty to inform the examining magistrate of this, who decided to proceed immediately with a brief examination. At this examination, the Registrar

fatiguing yourself, to give some necessary details of

will tell you all I know. When I entered my c

will ask you some questions and you will answer them.

so, m

minute and precise as possible. I wish to know all

r was already at work in the laboratory. We worked together till midday. We then took half-an-hour's walk in the park, as we were accustomed to do, before breakfasting at the chateau. After breakfast, we took another walk for half an hour, and then returned to the laboratory. There

ilion at five o'clock, did

er went into it, at my re

nd nothing sus

ntly no,

rer was not yet concealed under the bed. When

was no reason

pavilion some length of time,

out an

s. Footmarks have been found in the park, leading away from the window of the vestibule, but none ha

on't re

angerson. It

when you

Stangerson. I

ember remarking aloud: 'Daddy Jacques must

ng your absence, and before going out, he had opened it? Yo

Stangerson.

ratory from that hour up to the mo

were engaged on work that was pressing, and we lost no

dine in th

r that

stomed to dine i

arely di

ave known that you would

my gamekeeper, who detained me a moment, to ask me to accompany him on an urgent tour of inspection in a part of the woods which I had decided to thin. I put this off until the next day, an

id you go to your chamber while y

t mid

er "The Yellow Room" in t

blinds and light

nothing s

had seen. Daddy Jacques is an ho

hat Daddy Jacques remained with you al

m sure of it. I hav

r and locked and bolted it? That was taking unusual precautions, knowing that

ateau and Daddy Jacques would be going to

g that you borrowed Daddy Jacques's revo

rm anybody,-the more, because my fears

was it yo

ual sounds, sometimes footsteps, at other times the cracking of branches. The night before the attack on me, when I did not get to bed

How

ther had finished the resume of his works on the 'Dissociation of Matter' for the Academy. I did not wish that that important work, which was to have been finished in the course of a few days, should be delayed by a change in our daily habit. You can well understand that I did not

of no enemi

No

mademoiselle, that t

d to caus

ently, my child, suc

pri

ve told you that I h

gh

ght to have told me of

ve been

Yellow Room" locked

g very tired, I at

t-light was

it gave a ver

oiselle, tell u

ther I had been long

uttered

-a horrible cry-'Mu

my

ttered a

amber. He sprang at me

fled when suddenly I

table and grasp the

t moment the man had

shed in over my head

diately struck a ter

assed more rapidly th

nothi

ou no idea as to ho

rom your

know nothing more. O

nd one, when on

ou saw tall or sh

hadow which appear

ot give us a

re, monsieur, than th

fired at him. I k

on of Mademoiselle S

ntly for Monsieur Robert

unt it to my friend with great exactitude, aided by an excellent memory. His docility still surprised me. Th

secretary of my young friend and acted as if he could refu

d spent their time on the day of the tragedy, as she had stated it to the magistrate. The circumstance of the dinner in the laboratory seemed to interest him in the highest degree; and he had

ed, I said: "The examination ha

back," said M

upon it," said Roulet