Ah! it was fortunate for me that Monsieur Stangerson was in the laboratory when the affair took place and had seen with his own eyes that I was there with him; for otherwise, with this business of my revolver, I don't know where we should have been,--I should now be under lock and bar.

Justice wants no more to send a man to the scaffold!'" The editor of the "Matin" added to this interview the following lines: "We have, without interrupting him, allowed Daddy Jacques to recount to us roughly all he knows about the crime of The Yellow Room.

We have reproduced it in his own words, only sparing the reader the continual lamentations with which he garnished his narrative.

It is quite understood, Daddy Jacques, quite understood, that you are very fond of your masters; and you want them to know it, and never cease repeating it--especially since the discovery of your revolver.

It is your right, and we see no harm in it.