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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1921.

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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.

PART THREE. There were only four stationers of any consequence in the town, and at each Holmes produced his pencil chips, and bid high for a duplicate. All were agreed that one could be ordered, but that it was not a usual size of pencil, and that it was seldom kept in stock. My friend did not appear to be depressed by his failure, but shrugged his shoulders in half-humorous resignation. "No good, my dear "Watson. This, the best and only final clue, has run to nothing. But, indeed, 1 have little doubt that we can build up a sufficient case without it. By Jove! my dear

fellow, it Is nearly nine and the landlady babbled of green peas at seven-

inirij. wnat with your eternal tobac

co, Watson, and your irregularity at meals, I expect that you will get notice

to quit, and that I shall bhare your downfall not however, before we have

solved the problem of the nervous

tutor, the careless servant, and the

three enterprising students."

Holmes made no further allusion to the matter that day, though he sat lost

in thought for u long time after our belated dinner. At eight in the morning, he came into my room just as I finished my toilet. "Well, Watson," said he, "it is time we went down to St. Luke's. Can you do without breakfast?" "Certainly." "Soames will be in a dreadful fidget until we are able to tell him something positive." "Have you anything positive to tell him?" "I think so." "You have formed a conclusion?" "Yes, my dear Watson, I have solved the mystery." "But what fresh evidence could you have got?" "Aha! It is not for nothing that I have turned myself out of bed at the untimely hour of six. I have put in two hours' hard work and covered at least five miles, with something to thow for it. Look at that!"

He held out his hand. On the palm were three little pyramids of black, doughy clay. "Why, Holmes, you had only two yesterday." "And one more this morning. It is a fair argument that wherever No. 3 came from is also the source of Nos. 1 and 2. Eh, Watson Well, come along and put friend Soames out of his pain." The unfortunate tutor was certainly in a state of pitiable agitatSo when we found kirn in his chambers. In a few hours the examination would commence, and he was still In the dilemma between making the facts public and allowing the culprit tc compete for the valuable scholarship. He could hardly stand still, so great was

his mental .agitation, and he ran towards Holmes with two eager hands outstretched. "Thank Heaven, that you have come! I feared that you had given it up in despair. What am I to do? Shall the examination proceed?" "Yes, let it proceed, by all means." "But this rascal?" " "He shall not compete." "You know him?" "I think so. If this matter is not to become public, we must give ourselves certain powers, and resolve ourselves into a Fmall private courtmartial. You there, if you please, Soames! Watson, you here! I'll take the armchair in the middle. I think that we are now

sufficiently imposing to strike terror into a guilty breast. Kindly ring the bell!" Bannister entered, and shrank back in evident surprise and fear at our judicial appearance. "You will kindly close the door," said Holmes. "Now, Bannister, will you please tell us the truth about yesterday's incident?" The man turned white to the roots of his hair. "I have told you everything, sir." "Nothing to add?" ' "Nothing at all. sir." "Well, then. I must make some suggestionsto you. When you sat down on that chair yesterday, did you do so in order to conceal some object which would have shown who had been in the room?" Bannister's face was ghastly. "No, sir, certainly not." "It is only a suggestion," said

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moment that Mr. Soames' back was turned, you released the man who was hiding ia that bedroom."

Bannister licked his dry lips. "There was no man, sir." "Ah, that's a pity, Bannister. Up to now you may have spoken the truth,

but now I know that you have lied."

The man's face set in sullen defiance. "There was no man, sir." "Come, come, Bannister!" ' No, sir, there was no one." "In that case, you can give us no further information. Would you please remain in the room. Stand over there near the bedroom door. Now, Soames, I am going to ask you to have the

great kindness to go up to the room of young Gilchrist, and to ask him to

step down into yours."

An instant later the tutor returned, bringing with him the student. He was a fine figure of a man, tall, lithe,

and agile, with a springy step ana a

pleasant, open face. His troubled blue

eyes glanced at each of us, and finally rested with an expression of blank

dismay upon Bannister in the farther i corner. I "Just close the door," said Holmes. "Now, Mr. Gilchrist, we are all quite alone here, and no one need ever know one word of what passes between us. We can be perfectly frank with each other. We want to know, Mr. Gilchrist, how you, an honorable man, ever came to commit such an action as that of yesterday?" The unfortunate young man staggered back, and cast a look full of horror and reproach at Bannister. "No, no, Mr. Gilbert, sir, I never said a word never one word!" cried the servant. "No, but you have now," said Holmes. "Now, sir, you must see that after Bannister's words your position is hopeless, and that your only chance lies in a frank confession."

For a moment Gilchrist, with upraised hand, tried to control his writhing features. The next he had thrown himself on his knees beside the table.

and burying his face in his hands, he had burst into a storm of passionate sobbing. "Come, come," said Holmes, kindly, "it is human to err, and at least no one can accuse you of being a callous criminal. Perhaps it would be easier for you if I were to tell Mr. Soames what occurred, and you can check me where I am wrong. Shall I do so? Well. well, don't trouble to answer. Listen, and see that I do you no injustice." "From the moment Mr. Soames, that you said to me that no one, not even Bannister, could have told that the

papers were in your room, the case began to take a definite shape in my mind. The printer one could, of

course, dismiss. He could examine the papers in his own office. The Indian I also thought nothing of. Ifi the proofs were in roll, he could not' possibly know what they were. Onj the other hand, it seemed an unthinkable coincidence that a man should dare to enter the room, and that by chance on that very day the papers were on the table. I dismissed that. The man who entered knew that the papers were there. How did he know? "When I approached your room, I examined the window. You amused

me by supposing that I was contemplating the possibility of some one having in broad daylight, under the eyes of all these opposite rooms, forced himself through it. Such an idea was absurd. I was measuring how tall a man would need to be in order to see, as he passed, what papers were on the central table. I am six feet high, and I could do it with an effort. No one less than that would have a chance. Already you see I had reason to think that, if one of your three students was a man of unusuaJ height,

he was the most worth watching of

tne three.

"I entered, and I took you into my confidence as to the suggestions of the side table. Of the centre table 1 could make nothing, until in your description of Gilchrist you mentioned that he was a long-distance jumper Then the whole thing came to me in an instant, and I only needed certain

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corroborative proofs, which I speedily ohjained. "What happened was this. The young fellow had employed his afternoon at the athletic grounds, where he had been practising the jump. He returned carrying his jumping-shoes, which are provided, as you are aware, with several sharp spikes. As he passed your window he saw, by means of his great height, these proofs upon your table, and conjectured what they were. No harm would have been done had it not been that, as he passed

your door, he perceived the key which

had been left by the carelessness of

your servant. A sudden impulse came over him to enter, and see if they

were indeed the proofs. It was not

a dangerous exploit, for he could al

ways pretend that he had simply looked in to ask a question. "Well, when he saw that they were

indeed the proofs, it was Jhen that he

yielded to temptation- He put his shoes on the table. What was it you put on that chair near the window?" "Gloves," said the young man. Holmes looked triumphantly at Bannister. "He put his gloves on the chair, and he took the proofs, sheet by sheet, to copy them. He thought the tutor must return by the main gate, and that he would see him. As we know, he came back by the side gate. Suddenly he heard him at the very door. There was no possible escape. He forgot his gloves, but he caught up his shoes and darted into the bedroom. You observe that the scratch on that table is slight at one side, but deepens

in the direction of the bedroom door.i That in itself is enough to show us that the shoe had been drawn In that direction, and that the culprit had taken refuge there. The earth round the spike had been left on the table, and a second sample was losened and fell in the bedroom. I may add that I walked out to the athletic grounds this morning, saw that tenacious black clav is used in the jumping-pit, and

carried away a specimen of it, together with some of the fine tan or sawdust which is strewn over it to

prevent the athlete from slipping Have 1 told the truth. Mr. Gilchrist?"

The student had drawn himself

erect. "Yes. sir. it is true." said he.

"Good Heavens! have you nothing

to add?" pried Soames.

"Yes, sir, I have, but the shock of

this disgraceful exposure has bewil

dered me. I have a letter here, Mr.

Soames, which I wrote to you early

this moraine in the middle of a rest

less night. It was before I knew that

my sin had found me out. Here it is, sir. You will see that I have said. 'I have determined not to go In for the examination. I have been offered a commission in the Rhodesian Police, and I am going out to South Africa at once.'" "I am indeed pleased to hear that you did not intend to profit by your unfair advantage," said Soames. "But why did you change your purpose?" "There is the man who set me in the right path," said he. "Come now, Bannister," said Holmes. "It will be clear to you, from what I hare said, that only you could

have let this young man out, since you were left in the room, and must

have locked the door when you went out. As to his escaping . by that window, it was incredible. Can you not

clear up the last point in this mys-j tery, and tell us the reasons for your action?" "It was simple enough, sir, if you only had known, but, with all your cleverness, it was impossible that you could know. Time was, sir, when I was butler to old Sir Jabez Gilchrist, this young gentleman's father. When he was ruined I came to the college

as servant, but I never forgot my old employer because he was down in the world. I watched his son all I could for the sake of the old days. Well, sir, when I came into this room yesterday, when the alarm was given, the very first thing I saw was Mr. Gilchrist's tan gloves a-lvine in that

chair. I knew those gloves well, and I understood their message. If Mr. Soames saw them, the game was up. I flopped down into that chair, and nothing would budge me until Mr. Soames he went for you. Then out came my poor young master, whom I had dandled on my knee, and confessed it all to me. Wasn't it natural, sir, that I should save him, and wasn't it natural also that I should try to speak to him as his dead father would have done, and make him understand that he could not profit by such a deed? Could you blame me, sir?" "No, indeed," said Holmes, heartily,

springing to his feet. "Well. Soames,

i ininK we have cleared your little problem up, and our breakfast awaits

us at nome. come, Watson! As to you, sir, I trust that a bright future awaits you in Rhodesia. For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how high you can rise." THE END. Tomorrow "A Case of Identity."

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