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The Adventure of the Abbey Grange with The McClare Newspaper Syndicate. By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Bros. Published by special arrangement

PART FIVE. Lady Brackenstall was reclining on the same couch, but looked brighter than before. The maid had entered with us, and began once more to foment the bruise upon her mistress' brow. "I hope," said the lady, "that you have not come to cross-examine me again"? "No," Holmes answered, in his gentlest voice, "1 will not cause you any unnecessary trouble, Lady Brackenstall, and my whole desire is to make things easy for you, for I am convinced that you are a much-tried woman. If you will treat me as a friend and trust me, you may find that I will justify your trust." "What do you want me to do?" 'To tell the truth." k "Mr. Holmes!" "No, no, Lady Brackenstall it is no use. You may have heard of any little reputation which I possess. I will stake it all on the fact that your story is an absolute fabrication." Mistress and maid were both staring at Holmes with pale faces and frightened eyes. "You are an impudent fellow:" cried Theresa. ' Do you mean to say that my mistress has told a lie?" Holmes rose from his chair. "Have you nothing to tell me?" "I have told you everything." "Think once more. Lady Brackenstall. Would it not be better to be frank?" For an instant there was hesitation in her beautiful face. Then some new strong thought caused it to set like a mask. "I have told you all I know." f Holmes took his hat and shrugged his shoulders. "I am sorry," he said, and without another word we left the room and the house. There was a pond in the park, and to this my friend led the way. It was frozen over, but a single hole was left for the convenience of a solitary swan. Holmes gazed at it, and then passed on to the lodge gate. There he scribbled a short note for Stanley Hopkins, and left it with the lodge-keeper. "It may be a hit, or it may be a miss, but we are bound to do something for friend Hopkins, just to justify this second visit," said he. "I will not quite take him into my confidence yet. I think our next ncene of operations must be the shipping office of the Adelaide-Southampton line which stands at the end of Pall Mall, if I remember right. There is a Becond line of steamers which connect South Australia with England, but we will , draw the larger cover first." Holmes' card sent In to the manager insured instant attention, and he was not long in acquiring all the information he needed. In June of '93, only one of their line had reached a home port. It was the Rock of Gibraltar, their largest and best boat. A reference to the passenger list showed that Miss Fraser, of Adelaide, with her maid had made the voyage in her. The boat was now on her way to Australia somewhere in the south of the Suez Canal. Her "officers were the Fame as in 'S3, with one exception. The firvt officer, Mr. Jack Crocker, had been made a captain, and was to take charge of their new ship. The Bass Kock, sailing in two days' time from Southampton. He lived at Sydenham, but he was likely to be in that morning for instructions, if we cared to wait for No: Mr. Holmes had no desire to ffp him, but would be glad to know more ftbout hi.-: record and character. His record was magnificent. There was not an officer in the fleet to touch

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him. As to his character, he was reliable on duty, but a wild, desperate fellow off the deck of his ship hotheaded, excitable, but loyal, hoest, and kind-hearted. That was the pith of the information with which Holmes left the office of the Adelaide-Southampton company. Thence he drove to Scotland Yard, but, instead of entering he sat in his cab with his brows drawn dow;, lost in profound thought. Finally he drove round to the Charing Cross telegraph office, sent off a message, and then, at last, we made for Baker Street once more. "No, I couldn't do it. Watson," said he, as we re-entered our room. "Once that warrant was made out, nothing on earth would save him. Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I bad rather play, tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience. Let us know a little more before we act." Before evening, we had a visit from Inspector Stanley Hopkins. Things were not going very well with him. "I believe that you are a wizard, Mr. Holmes. I really do sometimes think that you have powers that are not human. Now, how on earth could you know that the stolen silver was at the bottom of that pond?" "I didn't know it." "But you told me to examine it." "You got it, then?' "Yes, I got it." "I am very glad if I have helped you." "But you haven't helped me. You have made the affair far more difficult. What sort of burglars are they who steal silver, and then throw it into the nearest pond?" "It was certainly rather eccentric behavior. I was merely going on the idea that if the silver fd been taken by persons who did n IV want it who merely took it for a blind, as It were, then they would naturally be anxious to get rid of it." "But why should such an Idea cross your mind?" "Well, I thought it was possible. When they came out through the French window there was the pond with one tempting little hole in the ice, right in front of their nose. Could there be a better hiding-place?" "Ah, a hiding-place that is better!" cried Stanley Hopkins. "Yes, yes, I see it all now! It was early, there were folk upon the roads, they were afraid of being seen with the silver, so they sank it in the pond, intending to return for it when the coast was clear.

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Excellent, Mr. Holmes that is better than your idea of a blind." "Quite so, you have got an admir. able theory. I have no doubt that my own ideas were quite wild, but you must admit that they have ended in discovering the silver." I "Yes, sir1 yes. It was all your doing. But I have had a had setback." "A setback?" "Yes, Mr. Holmes. The Randall gang were arrested in New York this morning." "Dear me, Hopkins! That is certainly rather against your theory, that they committed a murder in Kent last night." "It is fatal, Mr. Holmes absolutely fatal. Still, there are other gangs of three besides the Randalls, or it may be some new gang of which the police have never heard." "Quite so, it is perfectly possible. What, are you off?" "Yes, Mr. Holmes, there is no rest for me until I have got to the bottom of the business. I suppose you have no hint to give me?" "I have given you one." "Which?" "Well, I suggested a blind." "But why, Mr. Holmes, why?" "Ah, that's the question, of course. But I commend the idea to your mind. You might possibly find that there was something in it. You won't stop for dinner Well, good-bye, and let us j know how you get on." Dinner was over, and the table cleared before Holmes alluded to the matter again. He had lit his pipe and held his slippered feet to the cheerful blaze of the fire. Suddenly he looked at his watch. "I expect developments, Watson." "When?" "Now within a" few minutes. I dare say you thought I acted rather badly to Stanley Hopkins just now?" "I trust your judgment." "A very sensible reply, Watson. You must look at it this way: what I know is unofficial, what he knows is official. I have the right to private judgment, but he has none. He must disclose all or he is a traitor to his service. In a doubtful ;ase I would not put him in so painful a position, and so I reserve my information until my own mind is clear upon the matter." "But when will that be?" "The time has come. You will now be present at the last scene of a remarkable little drama." Tomorrow The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, concluded. JEWISH WOMEN DONATE GOLD AND JEWELS TO FUND. CLEVELAND. O., May 27. Gold, silver and diamonds valued at $10,000 and $2,000 in cash were given by Cleveland Jewish women to Mrs. Chaim Weizmann, wife of the president of the World Zionist Movement, today to be used in caring for women and babies among the immigrants to rehabited Palestine. 3 We Are In Line Va CLOTHING I J. Offered J VA 71 M

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News of the Counties CHESTER. Ind. The Booster class of the Chester M. E. church will give the play, "The Minister's Wife's New Bonnet," at the Fountain City Methodist chjirch, June 1. BLOOMINGPORT, Ind. Lightning struck the barn of Ora Johnson, northeast of Bloomingsport, Wednesday morning, " burning it to the ground. Mr.- Johnson succeeded in getting the four head of horses out safely. Some rye, oats, wheat, straw and a half ton of hay, which Mr. Johnson had bought and put in the mow the previous day, and all of his harness were burned up. Mr. Johnson carried $400 insurance on the barn. ELDORADO, O., A county Chris tian Endeavor society was. formed at Her clothes are too beautiful YouU know her by her equisite towns, tricky eyes and dangerous smile. She's known as "Silky Moll Madden" and. she's wanted from coast to coast at pretest, reported on her way here to pull oS a big job. Catch this dangerous woman and get a big reward. She's outside the law. Her tmam in tomorrow's paper MURRAY Vaudeville BETTER COME EARLY Pipe Organ Concert Orchestra See This Big Laughing Show Today and Last Half LAUGHS! SCREAMS! A Hungarian Rhapsody With MURRAY KISSEN assisted by Harry Weston, Ben Reubens and Frank Corbett, offering the most hilariously funny skit ever presented in vaudeville. This quartet of singers and funsters is offering the same act that headlined all Keith bills for two years, and which was featured in Shubert's Winter Garden show by the Avon Comedy Four. A restaurant scene is depicted, and we guarantee this act to be the greatest laughing act ever booked in Richmond. Doyle and Elaine Two clever girls in a comedy singing act termed "A Study in Tan", offering songs and dialect comedy of the southland. See the old plantation scene. Hear those old southern melodies crooned by two girls who know how to croon them. Great act. Rood and Francis "A Novelty Wire Offering", presenting some new feats on the silver, thread. Aklund and Mae -Versatile Pep" Luck of the Irish Five-reel Feature with James Kirkwood Coming Monday The. Three Of Us; Vera Sabina and Co.; Cliff Clark and Marcelle Hardy. WILLIAM Jl theirwwiXGa RfflTnonntftctrot?

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a meeting held in the court house at Eaton recently. Retv A. C. Barnhart was elected chairman.-' BOSTOX. Ind. Dinner r will be served by the members of the Ladles Aid society of the Boston M; E. church tat the- Masonic hall here - Decoration Day. 60 REFORMATORY PRISONERS ARE MOVED TO STATE FARM JEFFERSON VILLE. Ind.. May 27. Sixty inmates of the Indiana reformatory were transferred from here on Thursday, to the Indiana state farm at Putnamvtlle. The men transferred were all good grade men within three to nine months of parole, and they have been assured of their release if they keep a good record, it was said. The fact that the state farm was. short of men also was a factor in the trans fer, it was said. - ' She hao . tPYouH know- her by her tricky eyaa and her' danserens snula woman that the police are lookmg for. Sera, a hie reward if see her. Catoh this woman! She's outside the law. Details t. ssMsssssisHSSsssBSsBsswawawMSBiaw Come In Out of the Heat! Murrette "Where the Stars Twinkle First" Now Playing You'll have to scramble for a seat! She couldn't make her Ideas behave. They started her off on an elopement butted her into a divorce and then nearly staged another elopement with Hubbv No. 1 while Hubby No. 2 looked on! A SCRAMBLE OF LOVES AND LIVES HUBBIES AND WIVES . Also j t fi A Rippling 2-reel Christy Comedy "SHORT AND SNAPPY KEITH SISTERS Musical Entertainers and Pipe Organ Coming Sunday OWEN MOORE In "DIVORCE OF CONVENIENCE" TODAY and TOMORROW Better Than Anything that. He Has Ever Played Before, it the Critic' Verdict! . - ,.-

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