Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 216, 22 July 1921 — Page 7

The Red-Headed League By SIR ARTHUR CON AN DOYLE Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Bros. Published by special arrangement with The McClure Newspaper Syndicate.

PART FIVE "You want to go home, no doubt, doctor,! he remarked, as we emerged. "Yes. it would be as weu. "And I have some business to- do This) which wm tan eome mu. , business at Coburg square is Renous." "Why serious?" "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But today being Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help tonight." "At what time?" "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." "Very well. And I say, doctor, there may be some little danger, so kindly put your army revolver In your pocket." He waved his hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the crowd. I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbors, but I was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard. I had seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that he saw clearly not only what had hardened, but what was about to happen, while to me the whole business was Btill confused and grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to SaxeCoburg Square, and the ominous words with which he had nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? Where were we going, and Twhat were we to do? I haa tne nini. f-9from Holmes that this smooth-faced ... . M - 1 J pawnDroKers assistant, was a lornnuable man a man who might play a deep game. I tried to puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair, and set the matter aside until night should bring an explanation. It was a quarter past nine when I started from home and made my way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered the passage, I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, one of whom I recognized as Peter Jones, the official police agent, while the other was a long, tiling sadfaced man, with a very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. "Ha! our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his pea-jacket, and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in tonight's adventure." "We're hunting in couples again, doctor, you see," said Jones, in his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do the running down." ' I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," observed Mr. Merryweather, gloomily. "You may place considerable confidence In Mr. Holmes, sir," said the police agent, loftily. "He has his own little methods, which are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It X Is not too much to say that once or P twice, as in that business of the v Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly correct than the official force." "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it Is all right," said the stranger, with deference. "Still. I confess that I miss my rubber. It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I have not had my rubber." "I think you will find." said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will play for a higher stake tonight than you have ever done yet, and that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merry weatner, the stake will be some 30,CO0: and for you. Jones, it will" be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "John Clay, the murdered, thief, Too Much of a Good Thing "It Is six years since I had my first stomach trouble. It rapidly grew worse. My food would not digest and I was reduced to skin and bone. My doctor put me on a starvation diet, and when my pains grew worse I concluded it was too much of a good thing. On the advice of my druggist I tried Mayr's Wondprful Remedy, and am now entirely well." It is a simple, harmless preparation that removes the catarrhal mucus from fne intestinal tract and allays the inflammation which causes practically all stomach, liver and intestinal ailments, including appendicitis. One dose will convince or money refunded. Clem Thisi tlethwaite's 7 drug stores, A. G. Lu- . , ken and company and druggists everywhere. Advertisement. 20 Discount on all Repairing during July and August. DUSTY'S SHOE REBU1LDE6S M SS Of0SIT( JHt STOUBO SrtFSAOW Of GAS OfFKt note eta STORES The Cake That Pleases Zwissler's Butter Maid Cake at AIL Groceries

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smasher, and forger. He's a young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on lm- tan on criminal in London. I He's a rema.rkahl man 1e vn- ria . j His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to find the man himself. Hell crack a crib in Scotland one week and be raising money to build an orphan age in Cornwall the next. I've been on hia track for years, and have never set eyes on him yet." "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you tonight. I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It'is past 10, however, and quite time that we started.. If you two will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow In the second." Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive, and lay back In the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in the afternoon. WTe rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit streets until we emerged into Farringdon street, "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow Merry weather is a bank director, and personally interested in the matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog, and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon any one. Here we are, and they are waiting for us." We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had found ourselves in the morning, Our cabs were dismissed, and, following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. Within there was a small cor ridor, which ended in a very massive iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all round with crates and massive boxes. "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked, as he held up the lantern and gazed about him. "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon the flags which lined the floor. "Why. dear me, it sounds quite hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet," said Holmes, severely." You have already imperiled the whole success of our expedition.! Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" The solemn Mr. Merryweather

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