Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 151, 6 May 1921 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1921.

venture of the Golden Pince-Nez By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Copj5ri4uC:iS2lif by Harper & Bros. Published by special arrangement "with The McCluro Newspaper Syndicate.

" PART FIVE. i ' 4''Yes,""rlelMher "I have solved it." Stanley ; Hopkins and I stared in amazement. s Something like a sneer Q&iveredoTer thei;jraunt features of the old Professor. '''. .'indeed! In the gafden?", - '.'No, h .'.:. v ."Here! "When?''. t"This instant." ' ;'You are surely., joking. Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Yon'compel mo to tell jou tha,t this is too serious a. matter to be treated in such a fashion." ,"I have forged and tested every link of my chain, Professor Coram, and I nm sure that it is sound. What your motlyej. are .or, what .exact part you flay in this strange business, I am .not yet able to say. In a few minutes I shall probably .hear it from your own Hps. Meanwhile I will reconstruct what is past for your benefit, so that you may know the information which I still require. ."A lady yesterday entered your study. She came with the intention of possessing herself of certain documents which were in -your bureau. She had a key of her own. 1 "iv; had iift opportunity of f-xamining - yours, and I do not find that slight discoloration which the scratch made upon the varnish? would . have produced. You vere not an aces-ory, therefore and she came, so far as I can read the f-vidence, without, your knowledge to tob yon."' " " The Professor blew a cloud from his lips. "This is most interesting and instructive," said he. "Have you no more to add Surely, having traced lljis lady so far. you c:. also say what lias become of her." will endeavor to do so. In the fist place she was seized by your secretary, and. stabbed him in order to eape. hin catastrophe I am iu-

cllned to regarda an unhappj accl-,

dent, for I am convinced that the lady had no Intention of inflicting so grievous an injury- An assassin does not come unarmed. Horrified by what she had done, she rushed wildly away from the wen? of the tragedy. Unfor

tunately for her. she had lost her j glasses in the scuffle, and as she nasi

extremely short-sighted she was really helpless without them. She ran down a corridor, which she imagined to be thai by which she had come both were lined with cocoanut matting and it was only when it was too late that she understood that she had taken the wrong passage, and that her retreat wa cut off behind her. What was she Udo? She could not go back She could not remain where she was. She must go on. She went on. She mounted, a stair, pushed open a door, and found herself in your room." The old man sat. with his mouth open, staring wildly at Holmes. Amazement and fear were stamped upon hi expressive features. Now, with an ef

fort; he shrugged his shoulders and j

burst into insincere laughter. "All very fine, Mr. Holmes," said

he. But there is one little flaw in i

your splendid theory. I was myself in my room, and I never left it during the day." ?I am aware of that, Professor Coram."

"And you mean to ray that I could lie upon that bed and not be aware that a woman had entered my room?" VT never Raid so. Yon were aware

oft' It. You 'spoke with her. You!

recognized her. You aided her to escape" Again the Professor burst into highkeyed laughter. He had risen to his feet, and his eyes glowed like embers. "You are mad!" he cried. "You are taking insanely. I helped her to escape? Where is she now?" .1'She is thsre." said Holmes, and he pointed to a high bookcase in the corner of the room. I saw the old man throw up his Firms, a terrible convulsion passed over his grim face, and he fell back in' bis chair. .. At the same instant the bookcase it which Holmes pointed swung round upon a hinge, and a woman rushed out into the room. "You, are right:" she cried, in a strange, foreign voice. "You are right! I am here."

She was brown ith the dust, and draped with the cobwebs, which had come from the walla of her hidingplace. Her face too, was streaked with grime, and at the best she could never have ' been handsome, for she had the exact physical characteristics which Holmes had divined, with, in iHldition. a long and obstinate chin. H'hat with her natural blindness, and what with the chance from dark to

light, she stood as one dazed, blinking'

; bout her to see where and who we were. And yet, in spite of all these

disadvantages, there was a certain no

bility m the woman's bearing a gallantry in the defiant chin and in the upraised head, which compelled something of respect and admiration. Stanley Hopkins had laid his hand upon her arm and claimed her as his prisoner, but she waved him aside gently, and yet with an overmastering dignity which compelled obedience. The old man lay back in his chair with a twitching face, and stared at her with brooding eyes. "Yes, sir, I am your prisoner," she said. "From where I stood I could hear everything, and I know that you have learned the truth. I confess it all . It was 1 who killed the youns man. But you are right you who say it was an accident. I did not even know that it was a knife which I held in my hand, for in my despair I snatched anything from the table and struck at him to make him let me go. It is the truth that I tell." "Madam," said Holmes. "I am sure that it is the truth. I fear that you are far from well." She had turned a dreadful color, the

more ghastly under the dark duststreaks upon her face. Site seated herself on the side of the bed; theu she resumed.

I "I have only a little time here," she I said, "but I would have you to know j the whole truth. I am this man's wife, j He is not an Englishman. He is a I Russian. His name I will not tell." j For the first time the old man

stirred "God bless you, Anna," he cried. "God bless you!" She cas-t a look of the deepest disdain in his direction. "Why should you cling so hard to that wretched life of yours, Sergius?" said she. "It has done harm to many, and good to none not even to yourself. However, It is not for me to cause the frail thread to be snapped before God's time. I have enough already upon my soul since I crossed the threshold of this cursed house. But I must speak or I shall be too late. "I have said, gentlemen, that I am

this man's wife. He was fifty and I a foolish girl of twenty when we married. It was in a city of Russia, a University 1 will not name the place." "God bless you, Anna!" murmured ihe old man again. "We were reformers revolutionists Nihilists, you understand. He and I and many more. Then there came a time of trouble, a police officer was killed, many were arrested, evi

dence wa3 wanted, nd in order to ! save his own life and to earn a great ' reward, my husband betrayed his own I wife and his companions. Yes, we j were all arrested upon his confession, j Some of us found our way to the gal- j lows, and some to Siberia. 1 was ' among these last, but my term was not ! for life. My husband camo to England I

with his ill-gotten gains, and has lived in quiet ever since, knowing well that if the Brotherhood knew where he was not a week would pass before pustico would be done."

The old man -reached out a trem-1 bling hand and helped himself to a . cigarette. "I am in your hands, Anna," said he. "You were always good to me." ! '.'I have not yet told you the, height ' of his villainy," said she. 'Among our. comrades of the Order, there was one who was the friend of my heart. He was noble, unselfish, loving all that

my husband was not. He hated violence. We were all guilty if that is guilt but he was not. He wrote fat ever dissuading us from such 8. course. These letters would have saved him. So would my diary, in which, from day to day, I had entered both fny feelings towards him and the view which each of us had taken. My husband found and kept both diary and letters. He hid them, and he tried hard to swear away the young man's life. In this he failed, hut Alexis was

sent a convict to Siberia, where now, at this moment, he works in a salt mine. Think, of that, you villain! -- now, now, at this very moment, Alexis, a man whose name you are not worthy to speak, works and lives like a slave, end yet I have your life in my hands, and I let you go." . Tomorrow The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, concluded.

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