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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1921.
The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb By 61 R ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Bros. Published by special arrangement with The McClare Newspaper Syndicate.
PART FIVE "I threw myself, screaming against the door, and dragged with my nails . at the lock. I Implored the colonel to let me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my face the weight would came upon my
spine, and I shuddered to think or that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black shadow wavering down upon me Already I was unable to stand erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope back to my heart. "I have 6aid that though the floor and celling were of iron, the walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around. I saw a thin line
of yellow light between two of the boards, which broadened and broadened as a email panel was pushed backward. For an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me bow narrow had been my escape. "1 was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, while shetheld a candle in her right. It was the same good friend whose warning I had so foolishly rejected.
" 'Come! come! she cried, breath
lessly. 'They will be here in a mo
ment. They will see that you are not
there. Oh, do not waste the so-pre
cious time, but come!
"This time, at least, I did not scorn
her advice. I staggered to my feet
and ran with her along the corridor
and down a winding stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and, just
as we reached it, we heard the sound
of running feet and the shouting of
two voices, one answering the other,
from the floor on which we were and
from the one beneath. My guide
stopped and looked about her like one
who is at her wits' end. Then she
threw open a door which led Into
bedroom through the window of which
the moon was shining brightly " 'It is your only chance, said she
'It is high, but it may be that you can
Jump it.'
"As she spoke a light sprang into view at the lurther end of the passage,
and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bed-room, flung open the window, and looked out. How Quiet and sweet and wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I hesitated to jump until I 6hould have heard what passed between my savior and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms
round him and tried to bold him back. "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried, in English, 'remember your promise after the last time. You said it should Hot be again. He will be silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted.
struggling to break away from her.
'You will be the ruin of us. He has
seen too much. Let me pass, I say!' He dashed her to one 6ide, and rush
ing to the window, cut at me with his
heavy weapon. I had let myself go.
and was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was con
scious of a dull pain, my grip loosened
and I fell Into the garden below.
I was shaken but not hurt by the
fall; so I picked myself up and rushed
off among the bushes as hard as I
could run, for I understood that I was
far from being out of danger yet.
Suddenly, however, as I ran, a deadly
dizziness and sickness came over me.
I glanced down at my hand, which was
throbbing painfully, and then, for the first time, saw that my ( thumb had been cut off and that the blood was pouring from my w und. I endeavored to tie my handkerhief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the rose-bushes. "How long 1 remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been a very long time, for the moon had sunk and a bright morning was breaking when I came to myself. My clothes
were all sodden with dew, and my coat-6leeve was drenched with blood
from my wounded thumb. The smart
ing of it recalled in an instant all the
particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with the feel
ing that I might hardly yet be safei
from my pursuers. But, to my astonishment, when I came to look around me, neither house nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the hedge close by the high road, and just a little lower down was a long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the very station at which I had arrived upon the pre1 vious night. Were it not for the ugly
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into your hands, and shall do exactly! what you advise." We both sat In silence for some little time after, listening to this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he placed his cuttings. "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It appeared in all the papers about a year
ago. Listen to this: "Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged 26, an hydraulic engineer. Left his lodg
ings at ten q'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was dressed
In," etc., etc. Ha! That represents the
last time that the colonel needed to
have his machine overhauled, I fancy." "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the girl
said."
"Undoubtedly. It is emit clear that
the colonel was a cool and desperate
man, who was absolutely determined t that nothing should stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-j out pirates who will leave no survivor
from a captured ship. Well, every moment now is precious, so if you feel
equal to it, we shall go down to Scot
land Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for Eyford." (Tomorrow The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, concluded.)
March 5, 1861. He was educated ati Stevens Institute of Technology, Ho boken, N. J.; and at Columbia univer-J sity. graduating as a mechanical and: electrical engineer. Four fundamental inventions of Mr. Hewitt the vaporized mercury electric lamp, the static converter or rectifier used to convert alternating currents into direct currents, the electrical interrupter, and the wireless receiver were developed by him as the result of years of .experimentation with electric currents passing through mercury vapor. He devised the telephone relay and electric wave amplifier, as well as apparatus for use in
connection with the pba-ne and telegraph.
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USE RIB TO RESHAPE JAW ERINCETON, Ind.. Aug. 26. By a process of bone grafting, surgeons hoija to restore the features of Thelma Huffman, 14 years old, daughter of Mr., and Mrs. William Huffman of Win slow. The child was injured in an (automobile accident early in May. Heir lower jaw bone was split open and: so badly shattered that some of the fragments of bone were lost. The bomn grafted in the child's jaw was removed from one of her, ribs. She stool the operation well.
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wound upon my hand, all that passed
during those dreadful hours might
have been an evil dream. "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I arrived. I inquired of" him whether he had ever heard of Colonel Lysander Stark. The namewas strange to him. Had he observed a carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had
not. Was there a police station anywhere near? There was one about three miles cff. "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first to have my wound dressed, and
then the doctor was kind enough to Ijring me along here. I put the case
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