Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 128, 9 April 1921 — Page 9

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. RICHMOND, IND SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1921.

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THE NAVAL TREATY By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Bros. Published by special arrangement with. The McClure Newspaper Syndicate.

PART SIX The table was all laid, and just as I was about to ring Mrs. Hudson - mterd with the tee and coffee. A few minutes later she brou&ht in three covers, and we ali drew up to the table, Holmes ravenous, I curious, and Phelps in the gloomiest state of depression. "Mrs. Hudson has risen to the occasion," said Holmes, uncovering a dish of curried chicken. "Her cuisine is a little limited, but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman. What have you there, Watson?" "Ham and eggs," I answered. "Good ! What are you going to take,

Mr. Phelps curried fowl or eggs, or will you heJii yourself?" "Thank you. I can eat nothing," said Phelps. 'K)h, come! Try the dish before - you." "Thank you, I would really rather not." "Well, then," raid Holmes, with a mischievous twlHkle, "I suppose that you have no objection to helping me?" Phelps raised the cover, and as he did so he uttered a ecre&m, and sat there staring with a face as white as the plate upon which he looked. Across i.h? centre of it was lying a little cylinder of blue-gray paper. He caught It up, devoured it with his eves, and

then danced madly about the room.

him from fainting.

"There! there!" said Holme.-?, soothingly, patting liira upon the shoulder, it was too bad to spring it on you like this, but Watson here will tell jou that I never can resist a touch of the dramatic." Phelps seized his hand and kissed it. "God bless you!" he cried. "You have saved my honor." "Well, my own was at stake, you know," said Holmes. "I assure you it is just as hateful to me to fall in a

you to blunder

case aa it can be to over a commission."

Phelps thrust away the precious document into the innermost pocket of his coat. "I have not the heart to interrupt your breakfast any further, and yet I am dying to know how you got it and

where it was. Sherlock Holmes swallowed a cup of coffee, and turned his attention to the ham and esrgs. Then he rose, lit hia pipe, and settled himself down into hia chair. ril tell you what 1 did first, and how I onnte to do it afar-vards," said he.

! "After leaving you at the station ' I

went for a charming walk through tomo admirable Surrey scenery to a pretty little village called Ripley, where I had my tea at an inn, and took the precaution of filling my flask and of putting a paper of sandwiches in my pocket. There I remained until evening, when I set Off for Wokinar again, end found myself in the high-road outside Briarbrae just after sunset. "Well, I waited until the road was clear it is never a very frequented one at any time, I fancy and then I clambered over the fence into the ground's." "Surely the gate was open!" ejaculated Phelps. "Yes, but I have a peculiar taste in these matters. I chose the place where the three fir-trees stand, find behind

pressing it to his bosom and shrieking ! their screen I got over without the out in his delight. Then he fell back j least chance of any one in the house into an arm-chair so limp and exhaust-1 being able to s?e me I crouched down ed with his own emotions that we had J among the bushes on the other side, 10 POUr brandy down his throat to Wppd and nru.wriA f mm nne tn tho nlher

witness the disreputable state of my trouser knees until I had readied the clump of rhododendrons just opposite to your bedroom window. There I squatted down and awaited development?. "The blind was not down in your room, and I ecu Id see Miss Harrison sitting there reading by the table. It was qu irter-past ten when she closed her book, fastened the shutters, and retired. "I heard her shut the door, and felt

quite sure that she turned the key in the lock." "The key!" ejaculated Phelps. "Yes; I had given Miss Harrison hv Btrnctiona to lock the door on the out

side and take the key with her when' the went to bed. She carried out every cne of re y injunctions to the letter, and certainly without her co-operation you would not have that paper in your coat-pocket. She departed then and the lights went out. and I wias left squatting in, the rhododendron-bush. "The night was fine, but still it was

a very weary vigil. Of course it has the sort of excitement about It that the sportsman feels wtten he lies beside the watercourse and waits for the big game. It was very long, though almost as long, Watson, aa when you and I waited in that deadly room when we looked into the little problem of the Speckled Band. There was a churchclock down at Woking which struck the quarters and I thought more than once that it had stopped. At last, however, about two In the morning, I suddenly heard the gentle sound of a bolt being pushed back and the creaking of a key. A moment later the

servants' door was opened, tnd Mr. 1 Joseph Harrison stepped out into the moonlight." "Joseph!" ejaculated Phelps "He was bare-headed, but he had. black cloak thrown over his shoulder, so that he could conceal his face in an instant if there were any alarm. He walked on tiptoe under the shadow of the wall, and when he reached the window he wwked a long-bladed knife through fhe sash and pushed back the catch. Then he flung onen the window, end putting his knife through the crack in the shutters, he thrust the bar up and swung them open.

I "Prom where I lay I had a perfect view of the inside of the room and of every one of his movements. He lit the two candles which stood upon the

mantelpiece, and then he proceeded to turn back the corner of the carpet in the neighborhood of the door. Presently he stooped and picked out a eauare piece of board, such as Is usually left to enable plumbers to get at

the joints, of the gas-pipes. This one covered, as a matter of fact, the. T joint which gives off the pipe which supplies the kitchen underneath. Out of this hiding-place he drew that little cylinder of paper, pushed down the board, rearranged the carpet, blew cut

the candles, and walked straight into knowing the Foreign Office well, upon

nis way. wneu I heard that some one had tfeen so anxious to get into the bedroom, in which no one but Joseph could have concealed anything you

uj wr uarrauve now you nau

few minutes elapsed, as you remember, make that draght efficacious, and that before the sleepy conuuisslonnalre ; jj quite relied upon your pelng uncond.rew 7L ??tl??JLXh i'ctou. Of course, tl understood that

mine wt-ic jun cuuugu i' uio . , , thief time to make bis escape. . he would repeal the attempt whenever -ui . . urtir. i.v v,-Ht could be dona with safety. YOcr

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my arms aa I stood waiting xor nun outside the window. "Weil, he has rather more viciousnesa than I gave him credit for, has

Master Josenh. He flew at me with

liia knife, and I had to grass him

end got a cut over the knuckles,

frtrm T YmA 4 iiniw hand ctr mm. HH onaiwed in oi-flnt if ,avwriii..

i-w ih. nniv pro hA th sftnmrvf m. ,1 I really wa of immense value, he had

ooiild see with when we had finished, j night upon which the nurse was ab- nceled it in what he thought was f

tut he listened to reason ana gave up i sent, snowing that the Intruder was ; ,J , 7' , " ' i

twice, turned Joseph out when you arrived first train, and having examined his SSJS "T? l Mi- HriS?S T'n,'i:iTTy icir boot ured Myself that ltf"ttA- kept Mis Harrison in i. Hh chanced to certainties, especially as ' . I fContlnned on Page Fourteen)

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Forbes this morning. If he Is quick

enough to catch his bird, well and good. But if, as I shrewdly nuapect, he finde the neat empty before he gets there, why, all the better for the government. I fancy that Lord Holdhurst for one, and Mr. Percy Phelps for another, would very much rather tlit the affair never got as far as policecourt." My God!" gasped our client. "Do you tell me that during these long ten weeks of agony the stolen papers were within the very room with me all the time?" So it was." "Aad Joseph! Joseph a villain and

a thief!"

Hum! I am afraid Joseph s cnaracter is a rather aeeper and more danperous one than one might judge from bis appearance. From what I have heard from him this morning, I gather that he has lo?t heavily in dabbling with stocks, and that, he is ready to do nnvthing on earth to bettor his fortunes. Reing an absolutely selfish man. when a chance rsem"1 itself he did not allow either his sister's happiness or your reputation to hold his

Percy Phelps sank back in his chair. "My head whirl-;." said he. "Your words have daed we." "The nrineinal difficulty in your ,

exse " remarked Holmes, in his didactic fashion, "l?y in the fact of there being too much evidence. What was vital was overlaid and hidden by what was irrelevant. Of all the facts which were presented to us we had to pick just those which we deemed to be .ntiai anrl then piece them together

in their order, so as to reconstruct this very remarkable chain of events. I had already begun to suspect Joseph, from the fact that you had intended to travel home with him that night, and that therefore it was a likely enough thing that he should call for you.

l and carrying it to the French eaibaasy. ta-k by more eerloua aicknea Mrs

or wherever he thought that a long Amanda Flint. Rout 4. Kaw Hbiladai1 nto ... ue vr t,A t.u nhla. O.. writaa: "Folva Honay and

" . " '"Tf ..r ' 1 Tar cured my little-irl of tha worst

tieatlioff concn. i na

rudden return. He, without a mo-!

triad man

meat's warning, was bundled out of tbtnrs and found nothing to help until

rd i 1 K,t ''y " Money ana ir. iwn

immtdltlf raiiei irom oiiirtiiini. fkk-

"How blind I have been!"

"The facts of the case, as far as I have worked them out, are these: This

josepn Harrison entered the oflice ! Ms room, and from that time onward

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""f" l"f v-ur aireet aoor, ana there were always at least two or ; ins-r tearing- coughs. A. G. Luken Co.. Knowing his way he walked straight! you there to prevent him from regain-1 Cit-2i Main Si Advertisement, into your room the instant after you ' ing his treasure. The situation to him ' 1 e e e e e e" eTae eeeeeeeoo

ieu it. tnndlng no one there he must have been a maddening one. But promptly rang the bell, and at the in-! at last he thought he saw his chance, slant that he did so his eyes cuught ! He tried to steal in, but was baffled the paper upon the table. A glan.-e ! by your wakefulness. You may remem-

bnowea mm mat chance had put iu his j ber that you did not take your usual

way a state document of immense j draught that night"

value, and in an instant he had thrust i "i rememher I

it into his pocket and wa gone. A I "I fancy that he had taken steps to

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