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RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1921.
The Adventure of the Three Students By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Bros. Published by special arrangement with The McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
working and Industrious. I well
He will do
PART TWO.
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whelmed by this food of informotion, Daulat Rag the Indian. He is a quiet,
"I can follow the other Doints," said
he, "but really, in this mater of the length" Holmes held out a small chip with the letters NN and a. space of clear wood after them "You see?" "No, I fear that even now" "Watson. I have always done you an Injustice There are others. What could this NN be? It is at the end of a word. You are aware that Johann Faber is the most common maker's name. 13 it not clear that there is just as much of the pencil left as usually follows the Johann?" He
held the small table sideways to the electric light. "I was hoping that if the paper on which he wrote was thin, some trace of it might come through upon this polished surface. No, I see nothing I don't think there is anything more to be learned here. Now for the central table. This small pellet is, I presume, the black doughy mass you spoke of. Roughly pyramidal in shape and hollowed out, I perceive. As you say, there appear to be trains of sawdust in it. Dear me,
this is very interesting. And the cut;
a positive tear, I see. It began with a thin scratch and ended in a jagged hole I am much indebted to you for directing my attention to this case, Mr. Soames. Where does that door lead to?" "To my bedroom." "Have you been in it since your adventure?" "No, I came straight away for you." "I should like to have a glance 'round What a charming, old-fashioned room! Perhaps you will kindly wait a minute, until I have examined the floor. No, I see nothing. What about this curtain? You hang your clothes behind it. If anyone were forced to conceal himself in this room he must do it there, since the bed is too low and the wardrobe too shallow. No one there, I suppose?" As Holmes drew the curtain I was aware, from some little rigidity and alertness of his attitude, that he was prepared for an emergency. As a matter of fact, the drawn curtain disclosed nothing but three or four suits of clothes hanging from a line of pegs. Holmes turned away, and stooped suddenly to the floor. "Halloa! What's this?" said he. It was a small pyramid of black, putty-like stuff, exactly like the one upon the table, of the study. Holmes held it out on his open palm in the glare of the electric light "Your visitor seems to have left traces in your bedroom as well as in your sitting-room, Mr. Soames." "What could he have wanted there?" "I think it is clear enough. You came back by an unexpected way, and so he had no warning until you were at the very door. What could he do? He caught up everything which
would betray him, and he rushed into!
your bedroom to conceal himself. "Good gracious, Mr. Holmes, do you mean to tell me that, all the time I was talking to Bannister in this room, we had the man prisoner if we
had only known it?" "Surely there is
tive, Mr. Holmes. I don't know whether you observed my bedroom window?" "Lattice-paned, lead framework, three separate windows, one swinging on hinge, and large enough to ad
mit a man."
inscrutable fellow, as most of those Indians are. He is well up in his
work, though his Greek is his weak subject. He Is steady and methodical. "The top floor belongs to Miles McLaren. He is a brilliant fellow when he chooses to work one of the brightest intellects of the university; but he is wayward; dissipated, and unprincipled. He was nearly expelled over a card scandal in his first year. He has been idling all this term, and he must look forward with dread to the examination." "Then it is he whom you suspect?" "I dare not go so far as that. But, of the three, he is perhaps the least
unlikely." "Exactly. Now, Mr. Soames, let us have a look at your servant, Bannister." He was a little, white-faced, cleanshaven, grizzly haired fellow of fifty. He was still suffering from this sudden disturbance of the quiet routine of his life. His plump face was twitching with his nervousness, and his fingers could not keep still. "We are investigating this unhappy business, Bannister," said his master.
"Yes, sir." "I understand," said Holmes, "that you left your key in the door?" "Yes. sir."
"Was it not very extraordinary that
you should do th s on the very day when there were these papers Inside?" "It was most unfortunate, sir. But I have occasionally done the same thing at other times." "When did you enter the room?" "It was about half-past four. That is Mr. Soames' tea time." "How long did you stay?" "When I saw that he was absent, 1 withdrew at once " "Did you look at these papers on the table?" "No, sir certainly not." "How came you to leave the key in the door?"
"I had the tea-tray in my hand. I thought I would come back for the
key. Then I forgot." "Ha3 the outer door a spring lock
"No, sir." "Then it was open all the time?" "Yes, sir." "Anyone in the room could get out?" "Yes, sir." "When Mr. Soames returned and called for you, you were very much disturbed?" "Yes, sir. Such a thing has never happened during the many years that
I have been here. I nearly fainted, sir." "So I understand. Where were you when you began to feel bad?" "Where was I, sir? Why, here, near the door." "That is singular, because you sat down in that chair over yonder near the corner. Why did you pass these other chairs?" "I don't know, sir, it didn't matter to me where I sat."
"I really don't think he knew much about it, Mr. Holmes. He was looking very bad quite ghastly." "You stayed here when your master left?" "Only for a minute or so. Then I locked the door and went to my
another alterna-' room.
"Whom do you suspect?" "Oh, I would not venture to say, sir. I don't believe there is any gentleman in this university who is capable of profiting by such an action. No, sir, I'll not believe it." "Thank you, that will do," said
his notebook, broke his pencil, had to borrow one from our host, and finally borrowed a knife to sharpen his own. The same curious accident happened to him in' the rooms of the Indiana silent, little, hook-nosed fellow who eyed us askance, and was obviously glad when Holmes' architectural studies had come to an end. I could not see that in either case Holmes had come upon the clue for which he was searching. Only at the third did our visit prove abortive. The outer door would not open to our
knock, and nothing more substantial a torrent of bad language came from behind it. "I don't care who you are. You can go to blazes!" roared the angry voice. "Tomorrow's the exam, and I won't be drawn by any one." "A rude fellow," said our guide, flushing with anger as we withdrew down the stair. "Of course, he did not realize that it was I who was knocking, but none the less his conduct was very uncourteous, and, indeed, under the circumstances rather suspicious" Holmes' response was a curious one.
Can you tell me his exact height?" "Really, Mr. Holmes, I cannot undertake to say. He is taller than the Indian, not so tall as Gilchrist I sup pose five foot six would be about it." "That is very important," said Holmes. "And now, Mr. Soames, I wish you good-night " '
Our guide cried aloud In his aston
ishment and dismay. "Good gracious,
Mr. Holmes, you are surely not going
to leave me in this abrupt fashion!
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conference by the first of November at the latest. If the house bill carries out its plan tx dispose of both the tariff and the tax bills by the 15th of August, it will be in a position to take a recess at .t i j z
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eer days were recalled in the story of a death graple with a mother bear related by Walter Poster, a cattleman of Oldfort. near here, on his return there today from a cattle-round-up
across the Blue Ridge mountains. Poster, who is suffering with a badly
mashed arm as evidence of his strug
gle with bruin, said he encountered the bear suddenly in a dense under
brush and was forced to rely upon his pocket knife when the animal, inspired to combat by the presence of her three cubs closed in upon him. P. H. Mashberne, who was with Poster was unable to reach the scene of the struggle, the men said, before the bear, getting the worst of the melee, beat a retreat to a distance of about 200 yards, where it was later found dead. Two of the cubs -were shot by Mashberne, who carried a shot-gun.
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governmental expenditures to a
minimum,
The president had planned to divert
y ou aon t seem to realize the position. 1 consideration of the bonus bill in tne
lomorrow is the examination. I must take 6ame definite action tonight. 1 cannot allow the examination to be held if one of the papers has been tampered with. The situation must be faced." "You must leave it as it is. I shall drop round early tomorrow morning, and chat the' matter over. It is possible then to indicate some course of action. Meanwhile, you change nothingnothing at all."
very good, Mr. Holmes."
Members of congress are greatly pleased over the report just issued by the treasury department to the effect that the bookkeeping figures of the government show that for the first time in years the United States government operated completely within its income during the fiscal year which
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time before his death, but he did not complain of any ill effects. He had been in Eaton during the day Saturday and had remarked to friends that his health was the best it had been in the last several years. Mr. Riner was for many years a successful farmer of Gratis township, but left the farm a few years ago, after the death of his wife. He is survived by four sons, Harry and Glen, living in Canada, Cliff, of Cheyenne, Wyo., Edward, of Spokane, Wash . and two daughters, Mrs. Robert Galloway, of Richmond, Ind.. and Mrs. Clyde Zimmerman, of Cincinnati.
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CHICAGO, July 12. Babe Ruth to
day has the distinction of having knocked out a home run in every base
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season. The New York slugger added
the pitchers of the Chicago club to tlHimmilUllltltttlUltlinitrtllllitllHilUtlliltltlHIIIHmilHIIIUIllUIIIIIMUIUliniItt
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senate and had been voted as the next
order of business. Then came the president's visit to
"You can be perfectly easv in vour I the capitol and the announcement that
mind. We shall certainly find some ! he would issue a statement urging that
way out of your difficulties. I will action on the bonus bill be withheld
senate for the time being without recourse to an executive demand, but his
hand was forced because of the absence of any real majority leadership In the senate. While he was discussing with Senator Lodge, at the White House, the advisability of having the bonus bill held up by the finance committee, the
measure had been brought up in tne L,js given as the cause of death. He
had taken a drink of ice water a short
"Exactly. And it looks out on an Holmes. "Oh. one more word. You angle of the courtyard so as to be have not mentioned to any of the
rartly invisible. The man might have effected his entrance there, left traces
as he passed through the bedroom, and finally, finding the door open, have escaped that way." Holmes shook his head impatiently. "Let us be practical," said he. "I understand you to say that there are three students who use this stair, and are in the habit of passing your door?" "Yes, there are." "And they are all in for this examination?" "Yes." "Have you any reason to suspect any one of them more than the others?" Soames hesitated "It is a very delicate question," said he "One hardly likes to throw suspicion where there are no proofs." "Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs." "I will tell you, then, in a few words the character of the three men who inhabit these rooms. The lower of the three is Gilchrist, a line scholar and athlete, plays !n the Rugby team and the cricket :eam for the college, and got h's Blue for the hurdles and the long jump He is a fine, manly fellow. His father was the notorious Sir Jabez Gilchrist, who ruined himself on the turf. My scholar has been left very poor, but he is hard-
take the black clay with me, also the
pencil cuttings. Good-bye." When we were out in the darkness of the quadrangle, we again looked up at the windows. The Indian still paced his room. The others were invisible. "Well, Watson, what do you think of it?" Holmes asked, as we came out into the main street. "Quite a little parlor game sort of three-card trick, is it not? There are your three men. It must be one of them. You take your choice. Which is yours?" "The foul-mouthed fellow at the top. He is the one with the worst record. And yet that Indian was a sly fellow also. Why should he be pacing his room all the time?"
mere, is nothing in that. Many men do it when they are trying to learn anything by heart." "H looked at us in a queer way." "So would you if a flock of strangers came in on you when you were DreDar-
ing for an examination next day, and every moment was of value. No, I see nothing in that. Pencils, too, and knives all was satisfactory. But that fellow does puzzle me." "Who?" "Why, Bannister, the servant. What is his game in the matter?" "He impressed me as being a perfectly honest man." "So he did me. That's the puzzling part. Why should a perfectly honest man well, well, here's a large stationer's. We shall begin our researches here."
Called by Death
V J EATON, O., July 12. DefmUe arrangements had not been made this morning for the funeral of John Riner. past 70 years, who died suddenly Saturday night in West Alexandria, at the home of his son, Harry Riner. Mr. Riner was reposing in a hammock when his life went out. Heart disease
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anything is amiss?" "Xo sir not a word." "You haven't seen any of them?" "No, sir."
"Very good. Now, Mr. Soames, we will take a walk in the quadrangle, it
you please.
Three yellow squares of light shone
above us in the gathering gloom.
"Your three birds are all in their
nests." said Holmes, looking up. "Hal
loa! What's that? One of them seems
restless enough." It was the Indian, whose dark sil
houette appeared suddenly upon his blind. He was pacing swiftly up and down his room. "I should like to have a peep at each of them," said Holmes. "Is it possible?" "No difficulty in the world," Soames answered. "This set of rooms is quite the oldest in the college, and it is not unusual for visitors to go over them. Come along, and I will personally conduct you." "No names, please!" said Holmes, as we knocked at Gilchrist's door. A tall, flaxen haired, slim young fellow opened it. and made us welcome when he understood our errand. There were some really curious pieces of mediaeval domestic architecture within.
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