Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 193, 24 June 1921 — Page 9
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, 1ND., FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 192L
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The Boscombe Valley Mystery with The MtClure Newspaper Syndicate, ' By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Copyright. 1921. by Harper & Bros. Published by special arrangement
i "You know my method. It Is founded j upon the observance of trifles." i "His height I know that you might
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PART FIVE "It has been a case of considerable j interest," he remarKed. returning to';
hia natural manner. "I fancy that this gray house on the right must be the lod?e. I think that I will go in and have a word with Moran. and perhaps write a little note. Having done that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, and I shall
be with you presently.
It was about ten minutes before we
.r-sauir-u uu iiu, aim uiu.c ui.n. "uu COmDe POOl was SOm Ross. Holmes still carrying with him h in inctwHa "
"What of this 'Cooee!' then?" "Well, obviously it could rot have been meant for the son. The son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the attention of whoever it wac that he had the appointment with. But 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used between Australians. - There is a strong pre
sumption that the person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Bos-
one who had
the stone which he had picked up in
the wocd. "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding It out. "The murder was done with it." "I see no marks." "There are none." ' How do you know, then?" "The grass was growing under it. Tt had only lain there a few days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other Tveapon." "And the murderer?" . "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg. wears thick-soled shooting-boots and a gray cloak.
"What of the rat, then?" Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," he. said. I wired to Bristol for it lat night." He put his hand over part of the map. "What do you read?" he asked. "ARAT," I read. "And now?" He raised his hand. "BALLARAT.' "Quite so. . That was the word the man uttered, and of which -his son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter the name of his murderer. So-and-so, of Ballarat." "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed.
"It is obvious. And now, you see,
f mokes Indian cigars, uses a cigar-jj had narrowed the field down con-
holder, and carries a blunt penknife in
his pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be enough to aid us in our search." Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic." he said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a hard-headed British jury." "Nous verrons," answered Holmes, calmly. "You work your own method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, and shall probably return to London by the evening train." "And leave your case unfinished?" "No, finished." "But the mvstery?" "It is solved." "Who was the criminal, then?" "The gentleman I describe." "But who is he?" "Surely it would not be difficult to
find out. Thi is not such a populous neighborhood." ! Lestrade shrugged his shoulders.! "I am a practical man," he said, "and ! I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking for a left-handed j gentleman with a game-leg. T should ; become the laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." j "All right," said Holmes, quietly, T have given you the chance. Here are' your lodzings. Good-bye. I shall drop ' you a line before l leave.'.' Having left. Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was : silent and buried in thought with a ! pained exnre?.-ion upon his face, as xone who finds himself in a perplexing1 position. - I "Ixiok here, Wats-on," he said, when! the cloth was cleared; "just sit down j in this chair and let me preach to you ; for a little. T don't rjuite know what j to do. and I should value your advice. Lieht a cigar, and let me expound." I "Prav do so." ! "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about young Mc-; Carthv's narrative which struck us both instantly, although they impress-, rd me in his favor and you against; him. One was the fact that his father should, according to his account, cry: 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you ', understand, but that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double point our research must commence, and w? will begin it by presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." i
siderably. The possession of a gray garment was a third point which, granting the son's statement to be correct, -was a certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a gray cloak." "Certainly." "And one who was at home in the district, for the Pool can only be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could hardly wander." "Quite so." "Then comes our expedition of today. By an examination of the ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." "But howdid you gain them?"
is boots, too, might be told
from their traces." "Yes, they were peculiar boots." "But his lameness?" "The im-jression of his right foot
was always less distinct than his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped he was lame." "You were yourself struck by the "But his left-handedness." nature of the injury as recorded by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from immediately behind and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind that tree during the interriew between the father and son. He had even
smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special knowledge of tobacco ashes enabled me to pronounce as an Indian cigar. 1 have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different varieties
of pipe, cigar, and cigarette, tobacco. Having found the ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety which are rolled in Rotterdam." "And the cigar-holder?" "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt penknife."
"Holmes," I said, "you have drawn I
a net round this man from which he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the direction in which all this points. The culprit is " "Mr. John Turner." cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of our sittingroom, and ushering in a visitor. Tomorrow The Bascombe Valley
Mystery, concluded.
child was playing In the barnyard at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Ridenberger, and was attacked by a turkey gobbler. One wing of the gobbler scratched the boy's eye. The boy was taken to a specialist, who stated an
operation would be necessary to save it ,
Indians associated the beaver with the creation of the world, and would
I not kill it.
ORDERS FAVORABLE REPORT
bill to permit the territorial govern-
ON PHILIPPINE MEASURE ! ment in the Philippine Islands to ln-
WASHINGTON, June - 24. Favor- crease its bonded indebtedness from able report was ordered Thursday by ! $15,000,000 to $30,000.00. Prompt acthe senate committee on territories ! tion on the bill will, be sought by
I and insular possessions, on the house j Chairman New of Indiana.
Child, Attacked by Turkey Gobbler, May Lose Sight C ENTER VILLE, Ind., June 24. Robert Joseph Knone of Indianapolis, was seriously injured while visiting his grandparents here recently. The
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