Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 133, 15 April 1921 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1921.

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The Adventure of the Dancing Man By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Bros. Published by special arrangement with The MtfClure Newspaper Syndicate.

PART FIVE i "I think. Inspector," Holmes remarked, ' that you would do well to telgraph for an escort, as, if my calculations prove to be correct, you may have a particularly dangerous prisoner to convey to the county goal. The boy who takes this note could no doubt forward your telegram. If there ii an afternoon train to town, Watson, I think we should do well to take it, as I have a chemical analysis of some interest to finish, and this investigation draws rapidly to a cloee." When the youth had been dispatched with the note, Sherlock Holmes gave his instructions to the servants. If any visitor were to call asking for Mrs. Milton Cubitt, no information should be given as to her condition, but he was to be shown at once into the drawing-room. He impressed these points upon them with the utmost

earnestxiss. Finally he led the way j earnestness. Finally he led the way that the business was now out of our hands, and that we must while away the time as best we might until we could see what was in store for us. The doctor had departed to his patients, and only the inspector and myself remained. "I think that I can help you to pass an hour in an interesting and profitable manner," said Holmes, drawing his chair up to the table, and spreading out in front of him the various papers upon which were recorded the antics of the dancing men. "As to you. friend Watson. I owe you every atonement for having allowed your natural curiosity to remain so long unsatisfied. To you. Inspector, the whole incident may appeal as a remarkable professional study. I must tell you, first of all, the interesting circumstances connected with the previous consultations which Mr. Hilton Cubitt has had with me In Baker Street" He then shortly recapitulated the facts which have al

ready been recorded. "I have here in front of me these singular productions, at which on might smile, had they not proved themselves to be the forerunners of so terrfble a tragedy. I am fairly familiar with all forms of secret writings, and am myself the author of a trifling monograph upon the subject, in which I analyze one hundred and

sixty separate ciphers, but I confess that this is entirely new to me. The object of those who invented the system has apparently been to conceal that these characters convey a mes-

is far the most probable, and the circumstances pointed to its being a reply written by the lady. Accepting it as correct, we are now able to say the X 4 symbols stand respective' I 1 ly for N, V, and R. "Even now I was in considerable difficulty, but a happy thought put me in possession of several other letters. It occurred to me that if these appeals came, as I expected, from someone who had been intimate with the lady in her early life, a combination which

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are ' the mre random sketches of j contained two E's with three letters be-

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to the scond meee&ge, out in this fashion:

which worked

A. ELRLES. Here I could only make sense by putting T and G for the missing letters, and supposing that the name was that of some house or inn at which the writer was staying." Inspector Martin and I had listened with the utmost interest to the full and clear account of how my friend

had produced results which had led to

"Having once recognized, however, that the symbols stood for letters, and

bo comnleiA a command over our diffi-

tween might very well stand for thelculties.

"What did you do then, sir?" asked the inspector. "I had every reason to suppose that.

this . Abe Slaney was an American

name 'ELSIE. On examination I found

that such a combination formed the

having applied the rules which guide ( termination of the message which was s tTi all forms of secret writings, the lhree times repeated. It was certainly

solution was easy enough. The first P51" aPPal to 'Elsie.' In this way I contraction, and since a letter from

message submitted to me was so short , JI1U 5L y ana i. But what ap- America had been the starting-point that it was impossible for me to do,Pal could it be? There were only of all the trouble. I had also every

more than to say with some con- ' . l"B wora cn pre- cause to tmnit that mere was some fidence, that the symbol a stood for CdJed Elsie,' and it ended in E. Sure- criminal secret in the matter. The

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all other four letters ending in E, but could find none to fit the case. So now I was in possession of C, O. and M, and I was in a position to attack

the first message once more, dividing

K As vou are aware. b is tne

most common letter in the English alphabet, and it predominates to so marked an extent that even in a short sentence one would expect to find it

most often. Out of fifteen symDois in

lady's allusions to her past, and her refusal to take her husband into her confidence, both pointed in that direction. I therefore cabled to my friend, Wilson Harsreave. of the New York

Police Bureau, who has more than

the first message, four were the same, ; " into words and putting dots for each , once made use of my knowledge of

so it was reasonable to set this down

as E. It is true that in some cases tne

figure was bearing a flag, and in some cases, not, but it was probable, from the way in which the flags were distributed, that they were used to break the sentence up into words. I accepted this as a hypothesis, and 'f noted that E was represented by "Rut now came the real difficulty of the inquiry. The order of the English letters after E is by no means well marked, and any preponderance which may be shown in an average of a printed sheet may be reversed in a single short sentence. Speaking roughly, T, A, O. I, N, S, H. R, D, and L. are the numerical order in which letters occur; but T, A, O, and I are very nearly abreast of each other, and it would be an endless task to try each combina

tion until a meaning as arrived at. I therefore waited for fresh material. In my second interview with Mr. Hilton

Cubitt he was able io give me two other short sentences and one message, which appeared since there as no flag to be a single word. Here are the symbols. Now, in the single word I have already got the two E's coming second and fourth in a word of five letters. It might be 'sever,' or 'lever', or 'never. There can be no question that the latter as a reply to an appeal

eymooi wnicn was still unknown. So

treated, it worked out in this fashion: M .ERE ..E SL.NE.

"Now the first letter can only be A, which is a most useful discovery, since it occurs no fewer tha three times in this short sentence, and the H is also

apparent in the second word. Now it ' ELSIE becomes : i

London crime. I asked him whether

the name of Abe Slaney was known to him. Here is his reply. 'The most dangerous crook in Chicago.' On the very evening upon which I had his answer, Hilton Cubitt sent me the last message from Slaney. Working with known letters, it took this form:

.RE. ARE TO HEET THY GO.

the name:

'The addition of a P and D completed A MHERE A E SL.AX"R IQ TY10C2 V wHlVh n-iA t Vi o , V. n

'Or, filling in the obvious vacancies inl rascal was oroeeedin from nrquairn

to threats, and my knowledge of the

. T crooks of Chicago prepared me to find AM HhRE ABE SLANEY. that he might very rapidly put his

words into action. I at once came to I

time to find that the worst had already occurred." "It is a privilege to be associated with you in the handling of a case," said the Inspector, warmly. "You will excuse me, however, if I speak frankly to you. You are only answerable to yourself, but I have to answer to my superiors. If this Abe Slaney, living at Elrige's, is indeed the murderer, and if he has made his escape while I am seated here, I should certainly get into serious trouble." "You need not be uneasy. He will not try to escape." "How do you know?" "To fly would be a confession of guilt." "Then let us go to arrest him." "I expect him here every instant." "But why should he come?" "Because I have written and asked

him." "But this is incredible, Mr. Holmes!

Why should he come because you have asked him? Would not such a request rather rouse his suspicions and cause him to fly"" "I think I have known how to frame the letter," said Sherlock Holmes. "'In fact, if I am not very much mistaken, here is the gentleman himself coming up the drive." A man was striding up the path which led to the door. He was a tall, handsome, swarthy fellow, clad in a suit of grey flannel, with a Panama

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great aggressive hooked nose, and flourishing a enne as he walked. He swaggered up the path as if the place belonged to him, and we heard his loud, confident peal at the bell.

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