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We started

Leaning back in the cab, this amateur blood-hound caroled away like a lark, while I meditated upon the many-sidedness of the human mind.

CHAPTER V.

OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR.

Our morning's exertions had been too much for my weak health, and I was tired out in the afternoon. After Holmes's departure for the concert I lay down upon the sofa and endeavored to get a couple of hours' sleep. It was a useless attempt. My mind had been too much excited bv all that had occurred, and the strangest fancies and surmises crowded into it.. livery time that I closed my eyes I. saw before me the distorted, baboon-like countenance of the murdered man. So sinister was the impression which that face produced upon me that found it difficult to feel anything but gratitude for him who had removed its owner from the world. If ever human features bespoke vice of the most magiiiruanI. type, they were oertainlv those of Kuoch .1. Drebber, of Cleveland. Still, I recognize that justice must be done, and that the d'*pravily of Ihe victim was no condnnement in the eyes of the law.

The more 1 thought of it the more oxtra-ifdinary did my companion's livpotl ei'.s. that the man had been poisoned, appear. 1 remembered how lie ha Mii:T"d his lips. a.nd had no doubt th.it he had deteeted something which had given rise to the idea. Then, again, if not puson. what had caused th" man's death, sinco there was neither wound nor marks of strangulation? IJut, on the other han 1. whose blood was that which lay so thickly upon the floor? There were no signs of a struggle, nor had the victim any weapon w'!lh which he might have wounded an an'agonist. As long as all these questions were unsolved. I felt that sleep would be no easy matter. cither for Holmes or myself. His quiet, self confident manner convinced me that lie had already formed a theory which explained ail the facts, though what it was I could not for an instant conjecture.

He was very late in returning—so late that I knew that the concert could not have, detained him all the time. Dinner was on the table before he appeared. ••It. was magnificent," he said, as lie took his seat. "Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the

BY A. COXAX DOYLE.

PART I.

(Being & reprint from th.' reminisccnces of JOHN H. WATSON, M. D., late of the Army Medica Department.]

CHAPTER IV

^There's a lmlf-sovereirn for you,'" my companion said, standing up and taking his hat. "I am afraid. Ranee, that you will never rise in the force. That head of yours should be for use as well as ornament. You might have gained your sergeant's stripes last night. The man whom you held in your hands is the man who holds and whom

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tlie clue of this mysterv, ... ,, wear,, seeking. There" is no use of up woman wedding rin« fell upargulns about It now: I tell you that on the Hour. It is just as well itdoes it is so. Come along, doctor.''

gether, leaving our informant ... credulous, but obviously uncomfort- answered. h..' one sent to e\ery

bj0 I paper this mot ny immediately aft"The blundering fool!" Holmes er the atTair. said, bitterly, as we drove back to He th. ,?pcr across to me, our lodgings. -Just to thmk-of his and I glanced at the p.-.e indicated, having such an incomparable bit of It_ivas the fiist .ir louncciiietit in the grttaek, and not taking advautasej

"I am rather in the dark still. It Plain BoM wedding ring found in is true that the description of this' ^10 roadway between the White le description of man tallies with your idea of the second party in this mystery. But why should he come back to the house after leaving it? This is not the way of criminals." "The ring, man. the ring that was what he came back for. If we have no other wav of catching him we can always bait our line with the ring. I shall have him, doctor—I'll lav you two to one that I have him. I must thank you for it all. I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study I ever came across a study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't, we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it. and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. And now for lunch, and then for Norman Neruda. Her attack and her bowing are splendid. What's that little thing of Chopin's she plays so magnificently: a -1 a-1 a -1 a lira -1 av."

"I can understand. There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination where there is no imagination there is no horror. Have you seen the evening paper?" "No." "It gives a fairly good account of the affair. It does not mention the fact that when the man was raised

off for the cab to-' Vvhv.

"Look at this advertisement," he

ran, "a

Hart Tavern and Holland Grove. Apply Dr. Watson, 221ii Baker Street, between eight and nine this evening." "Excuse my using your name," he said. "If 1 used my own some one of these dunderheads would recogI nize it, and want to meddle in the affair." "That is all right," I answered. "But supposing any one applies, I have no ring." "Oh,yes, you have," said he, handing me one. "This will do very well.

It is almost a fac simile." "And who do you expect will answer this advertisement?" "Why, the man in the brown coat —our florid friend with the square toes. If he does not come himself he will send an accomplice." "Would he net consider it as too dangerous?" "Not at all. If my view of the case is correct, and I have every reason to beiieve that it is, this man would rather risk anything than lose the ring. According to my notion he dropped it while stooping over Drebber's body, and did not miss it at the time. After leaving the house he discovered his loss, and hurried back, but found the police already in possession, owing to his own folly in leaving the candle burning. He had to pretend to be drunk in order to allay the suspicions which might have been aroused by his appearance at the gate. Now put yourself in that, man's place. On thinking the matter over, it must have occurred to him that it was possible that he had lost the ring in the road after leaving the house. What would he do then? He would look out for the evening papers,, in the hope of seeing it among the 'articles found. His eye, of course, would light upon this. He would be overjoyed. Why should he fear a trap? There would be no reason in his eyes why the finding of the ring shouid be connected with the murder. He would come. He will come. You shall see him within an hour." "And then?" I asked. "Oh. you can leave me to deal with him then. Have j'ou any arms?" "I have my old service revolver] and a few cartridges." "You had better clean it and load it. He will bo a desperate man, and though I shall take him unawares, it is well to be ready for anything."

I went to my bedroom and followed his advice. When 1 returned with the pistol the table had been cleared and Holmes was engaged in his favorite occupation of scraping upon his violin. "The plot thickens," he said, as I entered. "I have just had an answer to my American telegram. My view of the case is the correct one." "And that is?" asked eagerly. "My fiddle would be the better for new strings." he remarked. "Put your oi.stol in your pocket. When the fellow comes, speak to him in an ordinary way. Leave the rest tome. Don't frighten him by looking at him too hard.*' "It, is eight o'clock now," I said, glancing at my watch. "Yes. He will probably be here in a few minutes. Open the door slightly. That will do. Now put the key on the inside. Thank you. This is a queer old book I picked up at a stall, yesterday—'De Jure inter G'entes'—Published in Latin at Liege in the Lowlands, in 1642. Charles's head was still firm on his shoulders when this little brownbacked volume was struck off." "Who is the printer?" "Philippe de Croy, whoever lie may have been. On the fly leaf, in

power of speech was arrived, at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly very faded ink, is written *Ey Vbris influenced by it. There are vague' Guiliolmi Whyte.' I wonder Who memories in our souls of those misty William Whyte was? Some pragcenturies when the world was in its matical seventeenth century lawyer, childhood. "That's rather a broad idea," I remarked. "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature." he answered. "What's the matter? You're not looking quite yourself. This Brixton Road affair has upset you." "To tell the truth, it has," I said. "I ought to be more cc.se-hardenGd after my Afghan experiences. I saw my own comrades haeked to pieces at Maiwand without losing my aerve."

I suppose. His writing has a legal twist about it. Here comes our man. I think."

As he spoke there was a sharp ring at the bell. Sherlock Holmes rose softly and moved his chair in the direction of the door. We heard the servant pass along the hall, and the sharp click of the latch as she opened it. "Does Dr. Watson live here?" asked a clear but rather harsh voic*. Wc could not hear the servant's reply, but the door closed and some one bejjan to ascend the stairs, The

footfall was an uncertain and shuffling one. A look of surprise passed over the face of my companion as he listened to it. It came slowly along the passage, and there was a feeble tap at the door. "Come in I cried.

At my summons, instead of the man of violence whom we expected, a very old and wrinkled woman hobbled into the apartment. She appeared to be dazzled by the sudden blaze of light, and, after dropping a curtsev, she stood blinking at us with her bleared eyes and fumbling in her pocket with her nervous, shaky fingers. I glanced at my companion, and his face had assumed such a disconsolate expression that it was all I could do to keep my countenance. The old crone drew out an evening paper, and pointed at our advertisement. "It's this as has brought me, good gentleman," she said, dropping auother curtsey "a gold wedding ring in the Brixton Road. It belongs to my girl, Sally, as was married only this time twelvemonth, which her husband is a steward aboard a Union boat, and what he'd say if he come 'ome and found her without her ring is more than I can think, tie being short enough at the best o' times, but more especially when he has the drink. If it please you, she went to the circus last night along with—" "Is that her ring?" I asked. "The Lord be thanked!" cried the old woman. "Sally will be a glad woman this night. That's the ring." "And what may your address bo?" I inquired, taking up a pencil. "13 Duncan street, Houndsditch. A weary way from here." "The Brixton Road does not lie between any circus and Houndsditch," said Sherlock Holmes, sharply-

The old woman faced round and looked keenly at him from her little red-rimmed eyes. "The gentleman asked me for

address," she said. "Sally lives in lodgings at 3 Maytield Place, Peckham." "And your name is—" "My name is Sawyer—hers is Dennis, which Tom Dennis married her—and a smart, clean lad, too, as long as he's at sea, and no steward in the country more thought of but when on shore, what with the women and what with liuuor-shops—" "Here is your ring, Mrs. Sawyer," I interrupted, in obedience to a sign from my companion "it clearly belongs to your daughter, and I am glad to be able to restore it to the rightful owner."

WTith many mumbled blessings and protestations of gratitude, the old crone packed it away in her pocket, and shuffled off down the stairs. Sherlock Holmes sprang to his feet the moment she was gone and rushed into his room. He returned in a few seconds enveloped in an ulster and a cravat. "I'll follow her," he said,hurriedly "she must be an accomplice, and will lead me to him. Wait up for me."

The hall door had hardly slammed behind our visitor before Holmes had descended the stair. Looking through the window, I could see her walking feeblv along the other side, her pursuer dogging her some little distance behind. "Either his whole theory is incorrect," I thought, "or else he will be led now to the heart of the mystery."

There was no need for him to ask me to wait up for him, for I felt that sleep was impossible until I heard the result of his adventure.

It was close upon nine when he set out. I had no idea how long he might be. but I sat stolidly puffing at "my pipe and skipping over the pages of Henri Murgher's "Vie de Bolieme." Ten o'clock passed, and I heard the footsteps of the maids as they pattered off to bed. Eleven, and the more stately tread of the landlady passed by my door, bound for the same destination, It was *lose upon twelve before I heard the sharp sound of his latch-key. The instant he entered I saw by his face that he had not been successful. Amusement and chagrin seemed to be struggling for the mastery, until the former suddenly carried the day, and he burst into a hearty laugh. "I wouldn't have the Scotland Yarders know it for the world," he cried, dropping into his chair "1 have chaffed them so much that they would never let me hear the end of it. I can afford to laugh, because I know that 1 will be even with them in the long run." "What is it, then?" "Oh, I don't mind telling a story against myself. That creature" had gone a little way when she began to limp and show every sign of being foot-sore. Presently she came to a halt, and hailed a fourwheeler which was passing. I managed to be close to her so as to hear the address, but need not have been so anxious, for she sung it out loud enough to be heard at the other side of the street, 'Drive to 13 Duncan street, Houndsditch,' she cried. This begins to look genuine, I thought, and having seen her safely inside. I perched myself behind. That's an art which every detective should be an expert at. Well, away we rattled, and never drew rein until we reached the street in question. I hopped off before we came to the door, and strolled down the street in an easy, lounging way. 1 saw the cab pull up. The driver jumped down and I saw him open the door and stand expectantly. Nothing came out. though. When I reached him he was groping about frantically in the empty cab. and giving vent to the finest assorted collection of oaths that ever I listened to. There was BO sign or trace of his passen

ger. and I fear it will be some time before he gets his fare. On inquiring at No. 13 I found that the hou.se belonged to a respectable paperhanger, named Keswick, and that no one of the name either of Sawyer or Dennis had ever been heard of there." "You don't mean to say," I cried, in amazement, "that that tottering, feeble old woman was able to get out of the cab while it was in motion, without either you or the driver seeing her?" "Old woman be d!" said Sherlock Holmes, sharply. "We were the old women to be so takeii in. It must have been a young man, and an active one. too, besides being an incomparable actor. The get-up was inimitable. He saw that he was followed, no doubt, and used this means of giving me the slip. It shows that the man we are after is not as lonely as I imagined he was, but has friends who are ready to risk something for him. Now, doctor, .you are looking done up, Tako my advice and turn in."

I was certainly feeling very weary, so I obeyed his injunction. I let| Holmes seated in front of the smoldering tire, and long into the! watches of the night heard tha low, melancholy wailings of his violin, and knew that he still pondering over the strange problem which he had set himself to unravel.

CHAPTER VT.

T0KIAS GREGS0N SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO.

The papers next day were full of the "Brixton Mystery" as they termed it. Each had a long account of the affair, and some had leaders upon it in addition. There was some information in them which was new to me. I still retain in my scrap book numerous clippings and extracts bearing upon the ease. Here is a condensation of a few of them:

The "Daily Telegraph" remarked that in the history of crime there had seldom been a tragedy which presented stranger features. The German name of the victim, the absence of all other motive, and the sinister inscription on the wall, all pointed to its perpetration by political refugees and revolutionists. The Socialists had many branches in America, and the deceased had. no doubt, infringed their unwritten laws and been tracked down by them. After alluding airily to the Vehmgericht, aqua tofana, Carbonari, the Marchioness de Brinvilliers, the Darwinian theory, the principles of Mai thus, and the Ratcliff highway murders, the article concluded by admonishing the government and advocating a closer watch over foreigners in England. (TO HE CONTINUED.

THE RETIRED BURGLAR.

His Fondness for Liittle Children Gets Him Into Trouble.

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"I always was fond of little children," said the retired burglar, "and once I served a terra on that account. I had gone into a house in the western part of the State and rummaged about down stairs, and finally got up and got into a room where there was a man and his wife and a baby, ali asleep. The babv was in a cradle that stood at the foot of the bed not far from the cradle, standing against the wall, was the bureau. I transferred whatever there was of value in the bureau, and then I turned to the baby 1 couldn't help it. I turned my light on the kid to loak at him, and it woke him up. He stared at me a little and then he began to smile and double up his lists at me. "Well, he looked so funny that 1 chucked him under the chin, and that seemed to tickle him immense he threw up his legs and arms, and laughed more'n ever, and tried to say something all he could say was 'Goo—o—o,' but that was enough. You've heard of women so tired that you couldn't wake 'em up firing a cannon in the next room, that would wake up in a minute if the baby turned in its cradle. Well, when this baby said 'Goo—o—o' its mother not only woke up instantly but she began to get up before she was fairly awake and all the time she was looking toward the cradle, and she saw the light long before I could douse it. Then she screamed and I made a great break for the door. "But the man got there before I did and, besides being very quick, he was very able-bodied and not the least bit afraid in fact, he was a better man than I was, and the upshot of this business was that I got four j'ears and six months just for stopping to chuck a little shaver under the chin,"

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THE KENTUCKY SERIAL

\nother Chapter of the Sam© Old Story.

Noar Stanton, Ky., Saturday, Oscar Morton was hanged by a mob. .Morton had killed a citizen and was released or. bond. Ho then proceeded to pet drunk and went on a hunt for the SheriH and killed him. Morton was jailed fur the l.ist offense. A mob quickly formed and Marched to the jail. The jailer v.-as overpowered and ihe keys to Morton's rell obtained. He was found lying in iii?hirt sleeves on the floor of his ceil. and. after a bitter struggle, was seized and dragged our. He then became very imprudent. and told the mob that he did not care what thev did with him provided lhey did their work quick. After a short parley he was taken, to a little bridge some distance from town, and the rope was placed around his neck. The leaders irew their guns and told him to jump or I'lse lie would bo riddled with bullets. Turning around, the doomed man cursed his captors, and, uttering wild imprecations, leaped into space, The jump broke his neck. and. after dangling in th" air for poino minutes, ho became, still, and a voilv :f shots were, fired into him. The in oh then dispersed, and the body was left iancling from the bridge.

Willis Griffey, a negro, who was brought lo Princeton. Ivy., two weeks ago from Christian county for safe keeping, was taken from thecounty jail, Monday night, and hanged two miles south of town. UrifTey assaulted Miss Lena Kerry, the adopted daughter of a wealthy Christian county couple, while she, was on her way home from church four week's ago.

M'KTNLEY'S TOUR.

Governor McKinley spoke at .Madison, Wisconsin. Tuesday, to an immense audience. Among the interested listeners was Senator Vilas, who had entered the hall unobserved, and secured a seat where ho supposed tie would not be. seen. It was a .irainatic scene when Governor McKinley took up the Senator's speech. As McKinley said. see that Senator Vilas has said," there, went, tip a shout, and a hundred university boys shouted: "There he is tell him." Governor McKinlev turned about surprised at, the interruption, and Ihe distinguished senior Senator from tho !!adger State looked down rather crestfallen from his perch high up in the narrow winding stairway in the corner back of the platform. lie was almost among the gallery gods, who perched upon tho big steel supports of the roof, and he looked almost, an sheepish as a boy discovered in mischief. McKinley caught sight of the. Senator, smiled and nodded a recognition, but, Vilas was too much confused to acknowledge the greeting, as the big crowd cheered and laughed, and some nf the hoys called out, "Go on. Governor, you will converthinh" McKinley raised iiis hand deprecatingly and at, once, proreeded to read from the Senator's speech and then to reply to it. He afterward remarked to the committee that. he. regretted that the Senator had not been invited to the platform.

CATHOLICS AND THE SALOONS.

The birthday of Father Matthew, tho noted Catholic temperance apostle, was celebrated in a notable way at Chicago. Dct. 10. Thirteen thousand people participated in the parade, which was reviewed by Governor Altgeld, Mayor I lothkins, and other notables. A. mass meeting ivas held at the Auditorium, at which Hishop Watterson. of Columbus,. O., was the chief orator. The Hishop took strong ground in favor of total abstinence, and the. abolition of the saloon. The following letter was received from Mgr. Satolli:

I am pleased to hear that my recent, decision has produced so happy an effect,. It is a matter of deep regret that, so many Catholics are engaged in the saloon traffic, which, by itsabuses. ist.be cause of so much harm to their fellow-men ami scandal to the non-Catholic brethren. Fondlv trusting that this abuse may lie mitigated, if Dot. obliterated, and this cause of reproach may be removed from the Catholics :f America!. I remain, yours very sincerely in Christ.

FliAXC1S AlICJiBISHOI' SATOI.u. Delegate Apostolic.

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Marvels of Ingenuity That Wera Made by Old-Time Inventors.

A thoughtful looking little old £rent!eimm nat in tho (tinted House last evening w.ileiiiui: tno poo pie pass in and out find listening to sruilehes

couversation-': which w:i': wafted to his ears, says tho Philadelphia press. Jio sat hIoivj in a eoc:ic.r .smoking" a pine with a lonir, slender stem. Jfis black coat is ornamentod with nraid. and his jLV'ny hair was topped \y a black silk skull cap. The jfonlleman is Auguste Hi are, of Paris, an inventor of mechanical toys. Ho has spent his life in this work, and each ensuing year brings him addition interest in it. Mr. Hiare has a mar'.'Hous fund 1 of .anecdote, especially il uf, the wonI ders of automata, and takes great pleasure in 11Jkiny about the latter. "Puppets or Marionettes worn patronized.'1 he said, "both by the (iroe'iC.s and the Koinans and automata, which ar^ the inventions now principally de. il'. in. also go back to a-remote period. Vulcan's tripod on wheels ha* the authority of Homer Daedalus made moving statues Archvtajr of

Tarentum, in 400 H. C., invented a wooden pigeon that could ll.v in tho air. in \ho pi \-tccnth century Regiomantamons made an iron fly which moved through, the atmosphere, and afterward an automatic which, on the arrival of the Emperor Maximilian at Nutemburg. liuw iurth to meet him. "But one of the most wonderful of such inventions of which we

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record was a. group of automata, constructed by Philip Ciimui lor Louis XIV. This consisted oi a coach and four horses that Marted with a- crack of a whip, the horses prancing, trotting and galloping in turn. It, ran along until it got in front of the king, when it stopped. When a toy footman descended. and. opening the carriage door, handed out a lady -with born grace,' aa tho records tell us. Tin? lad made a courtos.v, presented a petition to tho king1, re-entered her carriagw and Wa8 driven rapidly away. Such is a description of this most wor»derfi:4 automaton," concluded Mr. Hia.re. "I never saw the toy itself, of coure. hut the description just given toyo.«. tallies word for word with an authentic record. 1 memorized the latter at one time, so marvelous did it seem to me."1

How the filft Was Mnrkcd.

"One of the funniest things that I have heard for a, long time happened a few years ago," said a westerner to a New York Evening-Sun man, "out in Indiana, where one of the 'pillars of 30cityT is a wealthy and generous old soul with an immense fortune—the resuit of an invention of an ingenious triangular bit of iron designed for the noses of hogs and callcd a hog-ringer. Now, it happened that the protty daughter of his pastor was about to b« married and (surely a bride may indulge in a little ladylike wonder as to such things) and speculation was rife in the pastor's family as to what the g-ood 'pillar* would send as a gift. On the morning- of the wedding-day there came to the house a great box bearing the card of the wealthy inventor.

With pleased anticipation it was opened. It contained a dinner service of solid silver, exquisite in design and finish. With little cries of rapt.ure the bride took out piece after piece and placed thorn side by side. Ttien a queer little mark, where the monogram usually is, caught her attention she bent over it, and what do you think? Exactly in the most conspicuous plaeo on each piece the de.ar oid donor, with happy inspiration, had had his liog-ringer engraved.1'

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