Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 187, 17 June 1921 — Page 9

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1921.

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The Adventure of the Priory School with The McClure Newspaper Syndicate. 8y SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Copyrlsht. 1921- by Harper & Bros. Published by special arrangement

' Part Five At eleven o'clock the next morning my friend and I were walking up the famous yew avenue of Holdernesse Hall. We were ushered through the m!ie-nifif.nt TTiirahethan doorway and

into his Grace's study. There we found Mr. James Wilder, demure and courtly, but with some trace of that wild terror of the night before still lurking in his furtive eyes and in his twitching features. "You have come to see his Grace? I am sorry but the fact is that the Duke is far from well. He has been very much uyset by the tragic news. We received a telegram from Dr. Huxtatle yesterday afternoon, which told us of your discovery." "I must see the Duke, Mr. Wilder, "But he is in his room." "Then 1 must go to his room." I believe he is in his bed." "I will see him there." Holmes' cold and inexorable manner showed the secretary that it 'was useless to argue with him. "Very good, Mr. Holmes, 1 will tell him that you are here."

After an hour's delay, the great nobleman appeared. His face was more cadaverous than ever, his shoulders had rounded, and he seemed to me to be an altogether older man than

he had been the morning before. He greeted us with a stately courtesy and seated himself at his desk, his red beard streaming down on the' table. - "Well. Mr. Holmes?" said he. But my friend's- eyes were fixed upon the secretary, who stood by his master's chair. "I think, your Grace, that I could peak more freely in Mr. Wilder's absence." The man turned a shade paler and raft a malignant glance at Holmes. "If your Grace wishes " "Yes, yes, you had belter go. Now Mr. Holme3, what have you to say?" My friend waited until the door had closed behind the retreating secretary.

"The fact is, your Grace, said he. i "that my colleague-. -Dr. Watson, and I myself had an assurance from Dr. f

Huxtable lhat a reward had been otfared in this case. I should like to nave this confirmed from your own lips." "Certainly, Mr. Holmes." "It amounted, if I am correctly informed, to fhe thousand pounds lo any one who will tell you where your son is?" "Exactly." "And another thousand to tKf man who will. name the person or persons v. ho keep him in custody?" "Exactly." "Under the latter heading is included, no doubt, not only those who may have taken him away, but also those who conspire to keep him in his present position?'.' . . "Yes. yes," cried the Duke impa

tiently.. "If you do your work well Mr. i

Sherlock Holmes, you will have no reason to complain of niggardly treatment." My friend rubbed his hands together with an appearance of avidity which was a surprise to me, who knew his frugal tastes. "I fancy that I see your Grace's check-bcok udou the table," said he.

"I should be glad if you would make i me out a check for six thousand pounds. It would be well, perhaps,:

for you to cross it. The Capital and Counties Bank. Oxford Street branch, ni-p. mv- appnts "

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right in his chair, and looked stonily at my friend. "Is this a joke, Mr. Holmes? It is hardly a subject for pleasantry' " "Not . at all your Garce. I wa: never more earnest in my live."

"What, do you mean, then?" "I mean that I have earned the rejARAGEMAN j MADE HAPPY BY HEALTH TEST!

ward. I know where your son Is, and' I know some, at least, of those who are holding him." The Duke's beard had turned more aggressively red than ever against his ghastly white face. "Where is tier" he gasped. "He is, or was last night, at the Fighting Cock Inn, about two miles from your park gate." The Duke fell back in his chair. "And whom do you accuse?" Sherlock Holmes' answer was an astounding one. He stepped swiftly forward and touched the Duke upon the shoulder. "I accuse you," said he. "And now, your Grace, I'll trouble you for that check."

Never shall I forget the Duke's ap

pearance as he sprang up and clawed with his hands, like one who is sink

ing into an abyss. Then, with an ex

traordinary effort of aristocratic self-

i command, he sat down and sank bis i I face in his hands. It was some minutes before he spoke. ; "How much do you know?" he asked at last, without raising rhis S head.

J Vli lUgUlCl lack A (-,.-. - "Does any one else beside your friend know?" "I have spoken to no one."

The Duke took a pen in his quivering fingers and opened bis checkbook. "I shall be as good as my word Mr. Holmes. I am about to write your check however unwelcome the information which you have gained may be to me. When - the offer was first made, I little thought the turn which events might take. But you and your friend are men of discretion, Mr. Holmes?" "I hardly understand your Grace?" "I mu3t put it plainly, Mr. Holmes. If only you two know of this incident, there is no reason why it should go any farther. I think sixty thousand dollars is the sum that I owe you is it not?" But Holmes smiled and shook his head. "I fear, your Grace, that matters

can hardly be arranged so easily. There Is the death of this schoolmaster to be accounted for." "But James knew nothing of that. You cannot hold him responsible for that. It was the work of this brutal ruffian whom he had the misfortune to employ." "I must take the view, your Grace,

that when a man embarks upon a

his desk. "I appreciate your conduct In coming here before you spoke to any one else," said he. "At least, we may take counsel how rar we can minimize this hideous scandal." ,.,ctiv," paid Holmes. "I think, your Grace, that this can only be done i, aosoluie irankness between us. I

hear of it. If it will not re-act upon the fate- of James." "our secretary?" "No, sir, my son." It was Holmes' turn to look astonished. "I confess that this Is entirely new to me, your Grace. I must beg you to be more explicit."

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am disposed to help your Grace to the

crime he is morally guilty of any best of my blhty. but in order to do priory School, concluded.)

other crime which msy spring from1"0- 1 niui uuucisiauu i uw it." I tail how the matter stands. I realize j f

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you are right. But surely not in the eyes of the law. A man cannot be condemned for a murder at which he was not present, and which he loathes and abhors as much as you do. The

i W ilder, and that he is not tne mur

derer." "No, the murderer has escaped." Sherlock Holmes smNed demurely. "Your Grace can hardly heard of

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was he with horror and remorse. He lost not an hour in breaking entirely with ths murderer. Oh, Mr. Holme3, you must save him you must save him! I tell you that you must save

him!" The Duke had dropped the;

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was pacing the room with a convulsed ; friend. face and with his clenched hands rav-i "You seem to have powers that are

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DRASTIC ECONOMIES NEW FRENCH POLICY : (By A8(wltd Pr) PARIS, June 17 Consolidation ol loans, no more issues of bank notes, no more extraordinary credits and the inauguration of economies of the most

drastic nature comprise the financial policy of the French government. The guiding principles of this policy were outlined before the chamber of deputies ftnance committee by M. Doumer. minister of finance, yesterday the minister remarking that the budget for 1922 had been cut from twenty-six billion francs to twenty-three billion. He estimated the revenues for the year overed by the budget would be only seventeen billion but expressed the hope the deficit might be made up from the proceeds of national defense bonds now being issued, the sale of war stocks, customs and the war profit tax. If these proved insufficient, M. Doumer declared he was in favor of a substantial increase of the tax on business turnovers.

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