Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 189, 10 August 1922 — Page 10
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RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TE LE GR AM, RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY, AUG. 10, 1922. iuua;.nuwiiiaiiBwmuttiimiiuMumi THE ADVENTURE OF THE ED CIRCLE By Sir Arthur Gonan Doyle Copyright, 1922, by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate. CONAN DOYLE SHERLOCK HOLMES
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lose sight of it Report to me if out of my house before the day is ; more sinister aspect as we proceed.! es, trom that window. They ful," said he. He came over and i he were our father. We had taken anything fresh occurs and rely uron done." jTiis much we can say: that it is no-broke ofi in the middle. We came stood in deep thought while the twoiand furnished a little house in
"wait a Dit, Airs, warren. uo ordinary loue escapade, iou saw ine,over 10 see me reason, tsut since u professionals were examining the ' Brooklyn, and our whole future seera-
i net in 10 ininK. mac woman a lace aL me sian 01 usiikci.1
"Well, Mrs. Warren, I cannot see . that you have any particular cause for uneasiness, nor do I understand Thy I. whose time is of some value, should interfere in the matter. I really have other things to engage me." So ; spoke Sherlock Holmes, and turned back to the great scrapbook in which he wa3 arranging and indexing some of his recent material. But the landlady had the pertinacity, and also the cunning, of her sex. She held her ground firmly. "You arranged an affair for a lod
ger of mine last year," she said
"Mr. Fairdale Hobbs." "Ah, yes a simple matter." "But he would never cease talking of it your kindness, sir, and the way in which you brought light into the darkness. I remembered his
anything fresh occurs, and rely upc
my assistance if it should be needed.
"There are certainly some points ! ?thin.f rash-
hp I this aftair may be very much more mi-! We have heard, too, of the attack upon in continuing the business.
sfe in your hands I see no object! body. "You say that three people I ed assured, when that black cloud ap-
of interest in this case, Watson,
remarked when the landlady hadf01.1"1 tuau appeaieu ai nri, signi. une lar.uiuiu, wuu.u was uuuUUUlcu.j , -wait a bit:'; cried Gregson, eager-;were waiting
lpft us "it mav of course be trivial 1L 18 uuw &Jme uauger is i meaui iui i; wus. ""'""iiy. "in ao you this justice, Mr. at last. "Did -individual Eccentricity or it may be 11 is equally j and the desperate need for secrecy, jHol that l was never , . dose, ? .-val!55!!VZ"ly' aTt clear that his enemies, lying in wait argue that the matter is one of hie or , vet that r didn-, f, ., fnr .... T J:J
.,,tfil ntTM him near your door, mistook your death. The attack upon Mr. Warren h i jd(? 'Z oneTthe Obvious pSbil fy tha ?he!and for him in the foggy morning j further shows that the enemy, who- fhe ofe'exlt to These ffats so we have' ,ah3 1 r , t v. " light. On discovering tneir mistake! ever they are, are themselves not
person now m ine rima m, ue released, him. What they would I aware of the substitution of the female " "I " "Yes; he
iireiy aiuereni irom lac uue wuu cu- . . ,n lodger for the male. It is very curt- " ue . . "That is v
(came out from the flat while you peared which was soon to overspread
downstairs," said he, lour sky.
you observe them
a fellow about thirty, J
dark, of middle size:
gaged them.'
"Why should you think so?" "Well was it not suggestive that the only time tfie lodger went out was immediately after his taking the rooms?" He came back or someone came back when all witnesses were
we can only conjecture." ous and complex, watson. "Well, what am 1 to do, Mr. ' 'why should you go further in -it? Holmes?" jWhat have you to gain from it?" "1 have a great fancv to see. this "What, indeed? It is Art for Art's
lodger of yours, Mrs. Warren." sake, Watson. I suppose when you which a cabman, his "I don't spp how that i to ho man. doctored you found yourself studying: hand, sauntered over
aged, unless you break in the door. 1 cases without thought of a fee?"
"One night, when Gennaro returned from his work, he brought a fellow-countryman back with him. His name was Gorgiano, and he had come also from Posilippo. He was
a huge man. as you can testify, for you have looked upon his corpse. Not only was his body that of a
I always hear him unlock it as I go
out of the way. We have no proor down the stairs after I leave the trav."
back was) "He has to take the tray in. Surely
3our ' new lodger remains in his rooms and you cannot see him. Why bless you, Mrs Warren, if I were your lodger you often would not see me for weeks on end." "No doubt, sir; but this is different. It frightens me. Mr. Holmes. I can't
sleep for fright,
"Well, sir,
opposite glass, may the door
"Excellent!
there's the box-room
words when I was in doubt and dark- that the person who came
ners myself. I know you could if you the person who went out Then, j We could conceal ourselves and see
uuiy HOUia- again, the man who took the rooms; him do it."
wen, wen, airs, warren, let us p0ke English well. This other, howhear about it, then. You don't ob- ever, prints 'match' when it should ject to tobacco, I take it? Thank have been-'matches.' I can imagine you. Watson the matches! You that the word was taken out of a
are uneasy, as I unaerstand, because ; dictionary, which would give the
noun dui not- me piurai. ine laconic i aoes ne luncn: . . v ,v,;,, A ;, i oi coinmenaauun. i am on me ira style may be to conceal the absence "About one, sir." ff hdiCkl"l y life now. Mr. Holmes," said h
yellow
I could arrange a looking l" "u.y " " u"" be, and if you were behind KurTvlfga.
said Holmes.
'When !
"Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last. This is an instructive cse. There is neither money nor
credit in it, and yet one would wish to tidy it up. When dusk comes we
stage ad-
ion.
When we returned to Mrs. Warren's
,as the last to pass me.'
our man, I fancy. I can
"Well, well, we score over vou for give you his descriDtion. and we have
once Mr. Holmes. You must give a very excellent outline of his foot- giant, but everything about him was
us best this time." He struck his! work. That should be enough for ; grotesque, gigantic, and terrifying, stick sharply upon the ground, on ; you." i His voice was like thunder in our
whip in his "Not much, Mr. Holmes, among thojUttle house. There was scarce room, from a four-' millions of London." I for the whirl of his great arms as ho
wheeler which stood on the far side! "Perhaps not. That is why I talked. His thoughts, his emotions, of the street. "May I introduce you! thought it best to summon this ladyjhis passions, all were exaggerated to Mr. Sherlock Holmes?" he said to! to your aid." and monstrous. He talked, orrathe.--the cabman. - "This is Mr. Leverton.j We all turned round at' the words. I roared, with such energy that other of Pinkerton's American Agency." ! There framed in the doorway, was a j could but sit and listen, cowed with "The hero of the Long Island 'tali and beautiful woman the mys- the mighty stream of words. His
Cave mystery?" said Holmes. "Sir, i terious lodger of Bloomsbury. Slowly eyes blazed at you and held you at
she advanced, her fsice Dale and drawn bis mercy. He was tpr-;hi
with a frightful aDDrehension. her eves wonderful man.
fixed and staring, her terrified gaze Is dead!
of knowledge of English. Yes, Wat-
'Then Dr. Watson and I will come
son, there are good reasons to sus-jiound in time.. For the present, Mrs.
broken only by the sharp
tered.
pect that there has been a substitu
tion of lodgers." x "But for what possible end?"
Ah; there lies our problem.
"If I take it up I must understand There is one rather obvious line of; edifice in Great Orme street, a nar-
every detail said Holmes. "Take investigation." He took down the time to consider. The smallest point great book in which, day by day. he may be the most essential. Y'ou say ; filed, the agony columns of the varithat the man came ten days ago. jous London journals. "Dear me!"
ana paiu you ior a iortmgni s Doaraisaid. he, turning over the pages
I am pleased to meet you."
The American, a quiet, businesslike young man, with a cleanshaven,
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1 ou
If I can get Gorgiano
squares of the windows and the blurred -. ' ",'" Vl lue . ... . i . j i ijirc !e .
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ju. utf ms t uuiupctu lttine. iiasiiuiu uiu air wnn a cry 01 joy. he? .Well, we've learned all about Round and round the room she him in America. We know he is at danced, her hands clapping, her dark the bottom of fifty murders, and yet 1 eyes gleaming with delighted wonwe have nothing positive we canlder, and a thousand pretty Italian ex
clamations pouring from her lips
I thank God that he
Warren, good-bye."
ai nau-pasi twelve we iouna our-j from the darkened sittingroom of the!
su"," uu me stips ui .rs. v ai- lodging house, one more dim light
UUU6er- msn, imn. j enow-orics i r,;mmered hjgh up through the obscur-
have killed him!" she mut"Oh, Dio mio, you have killed
Red! him!" Then I heard a sudden sharp
intake of her breath and she sprang
ity.
"Someone is moving in that room,"
street, it commands a view dowsHowe
street, with its more pretentious
and lodging?" i"what a chorus of groans, cries, and! bouses. Holmes pointed with a
"He asked my terms, sir. I sail j bleating! What a rag-bag of singular j chuckle to one of these, a row of resififty shillings a week. There is a j happenings! But surely the most dential flats, which projected so that small sittingroom and bedroom and I valuable hunting ground that evertQev could not fail to catch the eye. all complete, at the top of the house."! was given to a student of the unusual! t "See, Watson!" said he. "'High red
This person "is alone, and cannot be!house Wltn stone facings. There is approached by letter without a breach !the signal station all right. We know of that absolute secrecy which is de-ith3 Place, and we know the code; so sired. How is any news or any mes-isurely our task should be simple, sage to reach him from without? ob-There's a 'To LeL' card in that window.
row thoroughfare at the northeast ,
side or tne tsritisn Museum. Standing ,aM Hnlmpc in a whisner his eannt'taKe nim on. l tracked him over
as it does near the corner of the j"and eager face thrust forward to the j from New York, and I've been close l ,1 it- . ... a. i. : 1 z t j
"Well?"
"He said, 'I'll pay you five pounds a week if I can have it on my own terms.' I'm a poor woman, sir and Mr. Warren earns little, and the money meant much to me. He took out a ten-pound note and he held it out to me then and there. 'You can have the same every fortnight for a long time to come if yon keep the terms,' he said. If not. 111 "have no more to do with you.' " "What were the terms ? "Well, sir, they were that he was to have a key of the house. That
window nane. "Yes. I can see hisl'O aim tor a weeK in London, wait
shadow. There he is again! He has ' ing some excuse to get my hand on a candle in his hand. Now he is peer-j his collar. Mr. Gregson and I ran ing across. He wants to be sure that I him to ground in that big tenement she is on the lookout. Now he begins ; house, and there's only the one door, to flash. Take the message also, Wat-j so he can't slip us. There's three son, that we may check each other. A i folk come out since he went in, but single flash that is 'A,' surely. Now, j I'll swear he wasn't one of them." then.- How many did you make it?j In a few clear words Holmes exTwenty. So did I. That should mean i plained the situation as it had ap'T.' AT that's intelligible enough! j peared to us. The American struck Another 'T.' Surely this is the be- bis hands together with vexation.
viously by advertisement through a newspaper. There seems- no other J way, and fortunately we need concern, ourselves with the one paper only, j Here are the Daily Gazette extracts
of the last fortnight. Lady with a black boa at Prince's Skating Club' that we may pass. 'Surely Jimmy will not break his mother's heart' that anneara tn hp irrplevant. 'If the ladv
was all right. Lodgers often have who fainted in the Brixton bus'
LUIUi AlU, IUU. ill. (111 lu 113 Hit entirely to himself, and never, upon
any excuse, to be Aisturhed. "Nothing wonderful in that, surely?" "No . in reason, sir. But this is out of all reason. He has been there for ten days, and neither Mr. Warren, nor I, nor the girl has once set eyes upon him. We can hear that quick step of his pacing up and down, up and down, night, morning, and noon; but except on that first
night he has never once gone out of
the house." "Oh, he went out the first night,
did he?" "Yes, sir, and returned very late after we were all in bed. He told me after he had taken the rooms that he would do so. and asked me not to bar the door. I heard him come up the stair after midnight." "Rut his meals?"
"It was h!s particular direction !
that we shoujd always, when he rang, leave his meal upon a chair, outside his door. Then he rings again when he has finished, and we take it down from the same chair. If he wants anything else he prints it on a slip of paper and leaves it." "Prints it?" "Yes, sir, prints it in pencil. Just the word, nothing more. Here's onf
she does not interest me. 'Every day
my heart longs 'Bleat, Watson un
mitigated bleat! Ah, this is a littlo more possible. Listen to this: 'Be. patient. Will find some sure means of communication. Meanwhile, this column G'. That is two days after Mrs. Warren's lodger arrived. It sounds plausible, does it not? The mysterious one could understand English, even if he could not print it. Let us se if we can pick up the trace again. Yes, here we are three days later. 'Am making successful arrangements. Patience and prudence. The clouds
will pass. G.' Nothing for a week
after that. Then tomes something
much more definite. 'The path is clearing. If I find chance signal message remember code agreed one A, two B, and so on. You will hear soon. G". That was in yesterday's paper, and there is nothing in today's. It's all very appropriate to Mrs. Warren's lodger. If we wait a little, Watson, I don't doubt that the affair will grow more intelligible." So it proved; for in the morning I found my friend standing on the hearthrug with his back to the fire, and a smile of complete satisfaction upon his face. "How's this, Watson?" he cried, picking up the paper from the table. , " 'High red house with white stone
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"He came again and again. Yet I
was aware that Gannaro was n more happy than I was in his presence. My poor "husband would sit pale and listless, listening to the. endless raving upon politics and upon social questions which mado up our visitor's conversation. Gennaro said nothing, but I who knew him so well I could read in his faca some emotion which I had neve seen there before. At first I thoughs that it was dislike. And then, gradually, I understood that it was moro than dislike. It was fear a deep, secret, shrinking fear. . That night the night that I read his terror I
put my arms round him and I im-
"But you! Y'ou are police, are you
not? You have killed Giuseppe Gor giano. Is it not so?" "We are police, madam."
She looked round into the shadows!
of the room. j
"But w here, then, Is Gennaro?" ! plcred him by his love for me and
she asked. ."He is my husband, i by all that he held dear to hold not!v Gennaro Lucca. I am Emilia Lucca, ! icg from me, and to tell me why thi? and we are both from New York. huge man overshadowed him so. Where is Gennaro?- He called me "He told me, end my own hear; this moment from this window and! grew c01- as ice as I listened. Mv
Tker. r"tved itv thf door-
I ran with all my speed." "It was I who called." said Holmes. "You. How could you call?" "Y'our cipher was not difficult, madam. Y"our presence here was desirable. I knew that I had only to flash 'Vieni' and you would surely come."
poor Gennaro, in his wild and fiery days, when all the world seemed against him and his mind was driven half mad by the injustices of life, had joined a Neapolitan society, the Red Circle, which was allied to the old Carbonari. The oaths and
! secrets of this brotherhood wcr-?
"He's on to us!" he cried. "Why do you think so?" "Well, it figures out that way, does it not? Here he is sending out does it not? Here he is, sending
vmi thprp now" again: unais mat: AJ.it, wny, it messages to an accomplice mere
It was an excellent hiding Dlace ! is tne same message over again. Cur-1 are several of his gang
which she had arraneed. .. The mirror ! ious. Watson, very curious!
was so placed that, seated in the dark
It. is evidently an empty flat to which the confederate has access. Well, Mrs. Warren, what now? "I have it all ready for you. If you
ginning of a second word. Now, then TENTA. Dead stop. That can't be all, Watson? 'ATTENTA' gives no sense. Nor is it any better as three
words
will both come uo and leave vour i W0I'as ai, IL.n, 1A, unless l A
boots below on the landing, I'll put are a person's initials. There it goes ; v thprp nm-" again! What's tbat? ATTE why, it!
The beautiful Italian looked with i frightful; but once within its rui awe at my companion. j no escape was possible. When w "I do not understand how you j bad fled to America Gennaro thoughknow these things," she said. ' that he had cast it all off forever. "Giuseppe Gorgiano how did he " What was his horror one evening to She paused and then suddenly her j meet in the streets the very man who face lit up with pride and delight, j had initiated him in Naples, the gtant "Now I see it! My Gennaro! My man who had earned th sn'endid hpamiful nutiium u hn y name of -'Death' in the south of ltalv.
guarded me safe from all harm, h "e was ltd to the elbow in mardid it, with his own strong hand he j der! He had come to New York to killed the monster!" avoid the Italian police, and he had "Well, Mrs. Lucca," paid the j already planted a branch of this dreadprosaic Gregson laying his hand i fnl society in his new home. AH thii upon the lady's sleeve with as little Gennaro told me. and showed me a sentiment as if she were a Notting summons which he had received that Hill hooligan, "I am not very clear! very day, a Red Circle drawn upon yet who you are or what you are; the head of it telling hi mthat a judge but you've said enough to make it I would be held upon a certain date.
I very clear that we shall want you atlanl his presence at it wa3 required
the Yard." j ana oraerea. "One moment, Gregson." said! "That was bad enough, but wors Holmes. "I rather fancy that thisias to come. I had noticed fo.-
is on once more: ai wny, ne is
we could very plainly see the door op- e;l"s " Iul.lue,ul u L1IUCposite. We had hardly settled down TENTA three times! How otten will
in it, and Mrs. Warren left us, when "c ":a,L 11 Lua. tiw. o ri ti,( the iinisn. He has withdrawn trom
Now he j Then suddenly.
in London.
just as by your own
I brought 1o show you
Here's another MATCH. This one he left the first morning
SOAP, facings. Third floor. Second window
G. That is definite after breakfast we
is i left. After dusk.-
i enoueh. I think
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mysterious neighbor had rung. Pres- fetwmw- nuL uo mctlte ul 1L' ently the landlady appeared with the j w alson tray, laid it down upon a chair beside! "A cipher message, Holmes." the closed door, and then, treading j My companion gave a sudden chuckheavily, departed. Crouching to-jle of comprehension. "And not a very gether in .the angle of the door, we obscure cipher, Watson." said he.
kept our eyes fixed upon the mirror, j "Why, of course, it is Italian! The
DAILY' GAZETTE. I leave that pa-1 must make a little reconnaissance ot Suddenly, as the landlady's footsteps 'A' means that it is addressed to a per with bin breakfast every morning." j Mrs. Warren's neighborhood. Ah.ldied away, there was the creak of awoman. "Beware! Beware! Beware!'
turning key, the handle revoivea ana ; now s mat, watson.'
account he was telling them that there was danger, he broke short off. What could it mean except that from the window he had suddenly eiiher, or in some way come to understand how close the danger was,
lady may be as anxious to give us information as we can be to' get it. You understand, madam, that your husband will be arrested and tried for the death of the man who lies before us? What you say may be used in evidence. But if you think that he has acted from motives which
some time that when Gorgiano cam to us. as he constantly did, in tha evening, he spoke much to me; and even when his words were to mv husband those terrible, glaring, wildbeast eyes of his were always turned upon me. One night his secret cam out. I had awakened what he called '!ove' within him the love of a.
"Dear mr Wat?on. said Holmes, Mrs. warren: wnai news uo juu unus
staring with great curiosity at the us this morning? s lips of foolscan which the landladt! Our client had suddenly burst into had hmded to him. ' this is certainly i the room with an explosive enersy a little unuua!. Seclusion I can which told of some new and momentunderstand: but why print? Printirs-aa development, is a clumsv process. Why not write? j "It s a police matter. Mr. Holmes! What would it surfst Watson?" be cned- "l 11 have E0 more of lt! That he deiired to conceal his! He shall pack out of that with his bag- , l, XirZ igaste. I would have gone straight up han.. 'nA tnr. m. and told him so, only I thought it was
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written wnn a uiuau-uui.cu, "u'f tinted pencil of a not unusual pattern. Y'ou will observe that the paper Is
town awav ?.t tne siae nere auer uip
printing was done, so that the 'S' of 'Soap' is partly gone. Sugcttstive, Watson, is it not?" ,
"Exactly. There was
pome mark, some thumb-print, something which might give a clue to the person's identity. Now, Mr3. Warren, you say that the man was of middle size, dark, and bearded. What age would he be?" "Youngish, sir not over thirty. "Well, can you give me no further
UiUll. tllivuo .
But I'm at the end of my pa
tience, and when it comes to knocking
my old man about "Knocking Mr. Warren about?" "Using him roughtly, anyway."
"But who used him roughly? "Ah- It was this morning, sir. Mr. Warren is a timekeeper at Morton and
evidently : Ur. tn iQ t ty.a hnnctA nftpr
seven. Well, this morning he had not gone 10 paces down the road when two men came up behind him. threw a coat over his head, and bundled him
are not criminal, and which he wouM
wish to have known, then vou cannot j hrute a savage, uennaro naa not serve him better than by telling us 'et returned when he came. H the whole story." pushed his way in, seized me in hi 5 . "Now that Gorgiano is dead we mighty arms, hugged me in hn
and that he must act right awav if! fear nothing." said thp ladv. "w,.i bears embrace, covered me witi
he was to avoid it? What do you was a devil and a monster, and there kisses, and implored me to come suggest. Mr. Holmes?" can be no judge in the world who away with him. I was struggling
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for ourselves. - killed him.
Our official detectives may blunder! "In that
in the matter of intelligence, but
never in that of courage. Gregson; leave things as we found them
climbed the stair to arrest this des-
saw the dim silhouette perate murderer with the same ab-
screaming when Gennaro en-
! tered and attacked him. He struck
case." said Holmes "mv-Gennaro senseless and fled from th-?
suggestion is that we lock this door, nouse wnicn ne was never more 10
go
with this lady to her room, and form our opinion after we have heard
enter, it was a deadly enemy that we made that night. "A few days later came the meeting. Gennaro returned from it with a face which told me that something
into a cab that was beside the curb. They drove him an hour and then otened the door and shot him out. He
lay in the roadway so shaken in his
wits that he never saw what became
two thin hands darted out and luted - Again
the tray-from the chair. An instant !0f a crouchinr: man and the whisk ofisolutely quiet and business-like bear-j what it is that she has to say to us."
later it was hurriedly replaced and I i thp small flame ar.mss thp w-inHnw as i ing with which he would have ascend- Half an hour later we were seated.
caught a glimpse of a dark, beautiful j the signals were renewed. They came ed the official staircase of Scotland all four, in the small sittingroom of! dreadful had occurred. It was worse horrified face glaring at the narrow ; more rapidly than before so rapid Yard. j Signora Lucca, listening to her re-;than we cou!d have imagined possiopening of the box-rocm. Then the that it was hard to 'follow them. The door of the left-hand flat upon! markable narrative of those sinister b,e- The funds of the society were door crashed to, the key turned once; " PERICOLO' 'Pericolo' Eh. the third landing was standing ajar, t events, the ending of which we had '. raised by blackmailing rich Italians
more, and all was silence. Hoinies . what that. V. atson? Danger, isnt it? I Gregson pushed it open. Within alllchanced to witness. She SDoke in ana mreaiening mem wnn woienc
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sioie oown ine siair. ; i aere ne goes again. i'.tti. iianoa, ; l strucK a matcn, ano in tne oetec"I will call again in the evening," ( what on earth " . hive's lantern. As I did so, and as the
said he to the expectant landlady. 1 , The light had. suddenly gone out, the 1 flicker steadied into a flame, we all I cal.
think, Watson, we can discuss this glimmering square of window had dis-; gave a gasp of surprise. On the deal I' "I was born in Posilippo, business better in our own quarters." j appeared, and the third floor formed I hoards of the carpetless floor there ! Naples." said she, "and "was "My surmise, as you saw, proved toja dark band round -the lofty building, was outlined a fresh track of blood. J daughter of Augusto Barel'i
oe tunei-i, saiu ue, spcanus " ueig- ui burning casements. : ! t StODS DOinted towards US. and i was thp chief hn-vcr arA
tional EnE-lish. whir-h for tho cQi-n seems that Castaiotte. our dear
of clearness. I will make grammati- friend and benefactor, had been ap-
proacced. He had refused to yieia
There 'That last
near the who
once the
to threats, notices to
and he had
the 'police.
handed the
It was re
solved now that such an example should be made of him as would prevent any other victim from rebelling
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has been a substitution ot lodgers. idenly cut short How, and by whom? (of which was closed. Gregson flung! in my father's employment and I At the meetinS it was arranged that What I did not foresee is that we , The same thought- occurred on the in- J it open and helped his light full blaze I came to love him as any' woman he and his house Ehonld be blown should find a woman, and no ordinary slant to us both. Holmes sprang upiin front of him, whilst we all peered I must He had neither money nor 'uP with dynamite. There was a woman, Watson " j from where he crouched by the win- eagerly over his shoulders. j position nothing but his beautv and!drawing of lots as t0 who shou!d She saw us. ' aow. in th miHrtio nf thp fir, nf t,Q I ct.m(i, a i.u- carry out the deed. Gennaro saw-
Well, she saw something to alarm, -Come, let us go across ourselves !pnin,r r-nm was WdiPH th fi,rp ! fQ5a ,v air.u "bV,-a f,JL.(K J our enemy's cruel face smiling at
mm bag.
"He speke good English, sir, andjCf the cab. When he picked himself yet 1 thought he was a foreigner byjup he found he was on Hampstead his accent." i Heath; so he took a bus home, and "And he was well dressed?" there he lies now on the sofa, while "Very smartly dressed sir quite j i came straight round to tell you what the gentleman. Dark clothes nothing j had happened." would note." "Most interesting." said Holmes.
her. That is certain. The general se-:and see what we can make of it.
quence of events is pretty clear, is it not? A couple seek refuge in London from a very terribleand instant danger. The measure of that danger is the rigor of their precautions. The man,
who has some work which he must do, desires to leave the woman in abso-
i of an
As we walked rapidly down Howe ,i,..
inure! i giauteu uacii ai iiie uuuuing
enormous swarthy
man, face
his clean-
grotesquely
forbade the match. We fled together, j !
were married at Barf, and sold my
jewels to gain the money which would
as he dipped his hand in No doubt it had been
the
pre-
lined at the top window, I could see.r , , , , t i 5aa -u m t-w
the shadow of a head, a woman's head,"".' , " , v. a T ,
horrible ,in its contortion, and his! take us to America. This
i -
gazing tensely, rigidly, out into the
night, waiting with breathless suspense
circle upon the white woodwork.
His knees were drawn up. his hands
from -the
lntp cofctv irliiln It a Ana it It is nntlffir thp ronca-il nf that i n tm-iim aA I " ' " w " aK"JJ. "
an easy problem, but he solved it in message. At the doorway of the Howe cfntr? . h broal; brown, upturned an original fashion, and so effectively street flats a man. muffled in a cravat . ' a kni.fe driven blade-deep into his that her presence was not even known j and greatcoat, was leaning against the ! throatthere projected the white, haft
to the landlady who supplies her with railing. He started as the hall light uuu-
food. The printed m.xssages, as is now
won -O.P rion't seem to have much "Did he observe the appearance of evident, werp to prevent her sex being "Holmes!" he cried. i himself ! ' cried the American de
nterlal tn helD us. I suppose there; these men did he hear them talk?" j discovered by her writing. The man "Why, Gregson!" said my comDan-; tective. "Someone has got ahead of
material
could not be two people in your rooms, Mrs. Warren?" "No, sir. Ke eats so little that I often wonder it can keep life in one." "Well. I think we must wait for a
r.ttle more material. After all, you;
No; he is clean dazed. He just
knows that he was lifted up as if by magic and dropped as if by magic. Two at least were in it, and maybe three."
"And you connect this attack with
. . . a r v mi iAiii mn tror '
have received your rem, ano ue u ". ' r. rot a troublesome lodger, though he years and no such happenings ever al fs certainly an unusual one. I'.vej came before. Ive hadenoughofhim. it l!,,pn no the matter, and I won't' Money s not everything. 1 11 have him tie
fell upon our faces.
"By George! it's Black Gorgiano
cannot come near the woman, or he j ion, as he shook hands with the Scot- s this time."
will guide their enemies to her. Since! land Y'ard detective. "Journeys end1 "Here is the candle in the window,
with lovers meetings. What bring Mr. Holmes, saia uregson. wny, you here?" ; whatever are you doing?" "The same reasons that brings you," Holmes h?.d stepped across, had lit I expect," said Gregson. "How y6u the candle, and was passing it backgot on to it I can't imagine." I wards and forwards across the win"Different threads, but leading up dow panes. Then he. peered into the to the same tangle. I've been taking darkness, blew the candle out, and the signals." . " j threw it on the floor. "Signals?" j q rather think that will be helpI
he cannot communicate with her di
rect, he has recourse to the agony column of a paper. So far all is clear." "But what is at the .root of it?"
"Ah, yes, Watson severely practic- , as usual! What is at the root of all? Mrs. Warren's whimsical prob-
m enlarges somewhat and assumes aj
arranppH in snn-ip t-'athinn fur it , i
was four,-. ".'': .'".: ... ' ; .
me raiai qisc wnn ine rteu circle upon it, the mandate for murder, which lay upon his palm. He was to kill his. best friend, or he was to
expose himself and me to the ven-
Y'ork ever since.
Fortune was verygood to us at' first. Gennaro was able to do ai fcprvirp for on Italian frpmlpm.in ho'
saved him from some ruffians in the. J ?IS c?mraaes- . , 4V place called the Bowery, and soi AI1 ihat eat together, made a powerful friend. His name!our arfis round each other, each was Tito Castalotte. and he was the l f tref heintg, ech, other the senior partner of the Srea firm 0fitroubles lat 1fyJb!fore "s' Jhte ver Castalotte and Zamba, who are th-'next eveniS had been fixed for the. chief fruit importers of New York. I a,mTpt- By midday y husband Signor Zamba is an invalid, and ourtand 1 rf onvour 7ay to new friend Castalotte has all power but not before he had given our benwithin the firm, which employs more i efaor full warning of his danger, and than three hundred men. He took ! had also left such mformaUon for th
my husband into his employment. ! Tv . ba. u.s mB Ior
made him head of a department, and
I the future.
gentlemen, you know
rr.1 A
every way. Signor Castalotte was a Ior 'uu,s.clea- ere sure that bachelor, and I believe that he feltjour enemies would be behind us like as if Gennaro was his son, and both our own 6hadows. Gorgiano had his my husband and I loved him as If' . (Continued on Next Page)