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Updated: June 11, 2025
With him they may now ask: How did the murderer escape from The Yellow Room? Before mounting the three steps leading up to the door of the pavilion, Rouletabille stopped and asked Monsieur Darzac point blank: "What was the motive for the crime?" "Speaking for myself, Monsieur, there can be no doubt on the matter," said Mademoiselle Stangerson's fiance, greatly distressed.
I could not help rising and following her. An old man gave her his arm and, as they passed, I heard voices say: 'Professor Stangerson and his daughter. It was in that way I learned who it was I was following. "They met Monsieur Robert Darzac, whom I knew by sight. Professor Stangerson, accosted by Mr.
I need not tell the reader that all that passed in the laboratory was immediately and faithfully reported to me by Rouletabille. It was not till six o'clock that I left the chateau, taking with me the article hastily written by my friend in the little sitting-room which Monsieur Robert Darzac had placed at our disposal.
"He had not specially 'made up' as Darzac to buy the cane; he had come straight to Cassette's immediately after he had attacked Mademoiselle Stangerson. His wound was troubling him and, as he was passing along the Avenue de l'Opera, the idea of the cane came to his mind and he acted on it. It was then eight o'clock.
I had only time to ask him one question before he left. "Are you not afraid that other attempts may be made while you're away?" "No! Not now that Darzac is in prison," he answered. With this strange remark he left. I was not to see him again until the day of Darzac's trial at the court when he appeared to explain the inexplicable.
It would seem, then, that the man who went to the Post Office to inquire for the letter must have been the murderer. All these arguments Larsan applies as against Monsieur Darzac. You may be sure that the examining magistrate, Larsan, and myself, have done our best to get from the Post Office precise details relative to the singular personage who applied there on the 24th of October.
Had he not told me that there were surface indications against Monsieur Darzac much more terrible than that of the cane found by Larsan? "Everything seems to be pointing against him," replied my friend, "and the situation is becoming exceedingly grave. Monsieur Darzac appears not to mind it much; but in that he is wrong.
When Darzac went to Epinay, expecting to find Ballmeyer or Larsan there, he was met by an accomplice of Larsan's, and kept waiting until such time as the "coincidence" could be established. It was all done with Machiavellian cunning; but Ballmeyer had reckoned without Joseph Rouletabille.
Monsieur de Marquet compressed his lips and seemed ready to relapse into obstinate silence. He only relaxed a little when Rouletabille no longer left him in ignorance of the fact that we were going to the Glandier for the purpose of shaking hands with an "old and intimate friend," Monsieur Robert Darzac a man whom Rouletabille had perhaps seen once in his life.
"'I have seen them; they are the marks of the neat boots, the same as those we saw on the border of the lake. "'Can you deny that they belong to Robert Darzac? "'Of course, one may be mistaken. "'Have you noticed that those footprints only go in one direction? that there are no return marks? When the man came from the chamber, pursued by all of us, his footsteps left no traces behind them.
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