Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 195, 17 August 1922 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND-, THURSDAY, AUG. 17, 1922. ItMtHMtHtNHfMmtMIHIHHtmHmtmtmMmiHIHHHMltMMMlim HIUIIIIMMimUUUIUmHIMUimUWMUItmimttlllMMIIU THE DISAPPEARANCE LADY FRANCES CARFAX By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Copyright, 1922, by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate. OF CONAN DOYLE SHERLOCK HOLMES

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"But -w hy Turkish?" asked Mr. Sher-' lock Holmes, gazing fixedly at my boots. I was reclining in a canebacked chair at the moment, and my protruded feet had attracted his everactive attention. "English," I answered, in some surprise. "I got them at Latimer's, in Oxford Street." Holmes smiled with an expression of wearv patience. "The bath!" he said; "the bath! Why the relaxing and expensive Turkish rather than the invigoraiing home-made article?" "Because for the last few days I have been feeling rheumatic and old. A Turkish bath' is what we call an alternative in medicine a fresh starting-point, a cleanser of the system. "You say that you have had it because you need a change. Let mo suggest you take one. How would Lausanne do, my dear Watson firstclass tickets and all expenses paid on a princely scale?" "Splendid! But why?" Holmes leaned back in his arm

chair and took his notebook from

his pocket. "One of the most dangerous classes

town. He had been seen talking earnestly to madame on the promenade by the lake. Then he had called. She had refused to see him. He was

English, but of his name there was

moment recall any possible blunder, tion of interest and threw across to

which you have omitted.'

me. "Jagged or torn," was the mes-

money he will probably come back i past the Houses of Parliament and lock Holmes. "I'm going throug'i to Bevington's. I will give you a note (over Westminster Bridge. "These, this house till I do find her.

to them, and they will let you wait i villians have coaxed this unhappy i "Where is your warrant?"

in the shop. If the fellow comes you j lady to London, after first alienating I Holmes half drew a revolver from will follow him home. But no indis- her from her faithful maid. If she ! his pocket. "This will havp tn stn

"Perhaps you would have done no sage, and the place of origin Baden

better," I answered, bitterly. ! "What is this?" I asked. "There is no 'perhaps' about it. i! "It is everything," Holmes an

no record. Madame had left the place ! have done better.. Hare is the Hon. swered. "You may remember mylcretion, and about all, no violence.

immediately afterwards. j Philip Green, who is a fellow lodger seemingly irrelevant question as to put you on your honor that you will, been intercepted. Through some conSo ended the first chapter of my I with .you in this hotel, and we may this clerical gentleman's left ear.,'take no step without my knowledge j federate they have engaged a furn-

;,,, t, cnfl a wntwi tftii in mm me starting point lor a.iou am not answer it. and consent

1 1 has written any letters they have; till a better one comes."

inquiry.

the place which Lady Frances Car-

"Exactly. For" this reason I sent a( For two days the Hon. Philip

fax had sought when she left Lau- " "a" v,u duplicate to tne manager of tne Engnireen me was, i may mention, the

Our opponent opened the door.

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JshnH rw policeman, Annie, saia

Za V-.- : r he. There was a whisk of feminine

made her a

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sanne. Concerning tniS mere nadi, , , , , . . . uscuer noi, wnose answer lies nere. ,wn 01 ine iamous aamirai oi tnai ""'J m-u uau uecu uicir uujBtu

been some secrecy, whick confirmed i elrrKU lulliu "u aitacKea me "What does it show?" i name who commanded the Sea of rrom tne first. Already they have

the idea that she had gone with the " ine 6ireei- "e siariea wnen ne, ..j shows. my dear Watson, that Azof fleet - in the Crimean war) begun to sell part of it, which seems

intention of throwing someone off! ri , we are dea'ine with an exceotionallv 1 brought us no news

her track. Otherwise why should noi; - " r ' . , t v !ni ,ok0iic,i: asked. "I had your note and I

UC1 iu6B6c uo.c u.-u upvui, ";, tjt .Kof Ma m A ; ouicsiu6ri, inioaiuuai, nuii. .'"'I:. j ... . ,

Both she and it reached """". ' " tuio l" ""l South America, is none othpr than muscle or nis powerful frame quiver-i" reiea-sea tne win, or course, U3-

, and they havei" : J UV, ...

become possessed of the valuable - u lue ana na-"

prisoner.

door was opened and shut.

"Our time is limited, Watson," said Holmes. "And if you trv to stop us.

On the evening safe enough to them, since they have!Peters- you will most certainly get

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the Rhenish spa by some circuitous, asSd-!Ho,y feters' route. . tA nr WBt' wh ,a vo1in scrupulous rascals that Australia has

in this affair."

' astute and dangerous man The Rev 'of the third he rushed into our sitting, no reason to think that anyone is in-jburt. Where is that coffin which was have D:- Shlessinger Missionary from;room, pale, trembling, with every terested in the lady's fate. When she brought into your house?" O do: - . . .. u: : i i Q rptcQCoH cVio n-itl aia "What rin vmi want tx-i r Vi ih-at nffi-n

ing with evcitemnt.

"We have him! We have him!" he cried. He was incoherent in his agitation.

Holmes soothed him with a few words

his so-called wife, an English

woman named Fraser, is a worthy helpmate. The nature of his tactics

"Come, now, give us the order of

events," said he,

At Baden the track was not diffi-hn offal-- ! ever evolved and for a young coun-

cult to follow. Lady Frances "had j The stranger held out a ,huge. sun. try it ha tned out some very fin-Rtav-Pd at the Enclischer Hof for a!K, ianj f0. iished types. His particular specialty

fortnight. Whilst there she had made anoloev ' i is tbe beguiling of lonely ladies by, and thrust him into an armchair.

the acquaintance of a Dr. Shlessingerj hope , didn.t harm you when playing upon tneir religious feelings

and his wife, a missionary irom boutii;you accused me Gf hurting her I

America. He was preparing a map my grip of mvsoif. indeed, I'm not of the Holv Land, with special refer-;

ence to the kingdom of the Milianites.j are like nve wires what j want to; suggested his identity to me. and this

upon which he was wntmg a mono- know ., in the first place, Mr. Holmes, graph. Finally he and his wife had re-! is how in the worid vou came to

i turned to London, and Lady i ranees ; near of my existence at all."

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That she is al

ready dead is a very likely supposi

Therefore she must not i 14 is in use- .There is a body in it."

l must se that body. "Never with my consent." "Then without it" With a quick movement Holmes pushed the fellow to one side and passed into the hall. A door half oDen stood immediately

nounce them

be released. But they cannot keep

her under lock and key for ever. So murder is their only solution." "That seems very clear." "Now we will take another line of

reasoning. we will start now, not

from the lady, but from the coffin, j before us. We entered. It was th

Tt ; and argue backwards.

in the world," he said, "is drifin

and friendless woman She is a stray , had started thither iQ their CQm.

she is missed.

has come to Lady Frances Carfax.'

in a worm m iui. ucn .a .,et v,0 v,..

obbled up she is hardly n " -"rr.

I much fear that some evil ' . . . ,A ,Iario sh

had gone off some days nerorenana in , "And she remembers you. It was floods of tears, after informing thOjjn the days before before you found

other maids tnat sne was leaving ter-

'S9 confirmed my suspicion. Thi

nv ! poor lady is in the hands of a most

"Old Susan Dobney with the mob'notJmg ason

cap! I remember her well."

''Shp ramp nnlv Pn firnr aim

was the wife, this time, but the pen- , ,' Vax, Deyona au aouot mat dant she brought was the fellow of the lady is dead. It points also to an

physical peculiarity he was badly i the other. She is a tall, pale woman, ! UI .oaox Dunai wlT-a Proper accombitten in a saloon fight at Adelaide in with ferret eyes." i p?f lmt:nt of medical certificate and

"That is the lady," said Holmes. ""'Viai ,sana'T Pda lne laay Deen "She left the office and I followed ? "siy urdere1- they jeould have her. She walked up the Kennington juried her in a hole in the bank gar-

I was relieved at this sudden descent from the general to the particular. Holmes consulted 'his notes. "Lady Frances," he continued, "is the sole survivor of the direct family of the late Earl of Rufton. The estate went, as you remember, in the male ' line. She was left with limited means, but with some very remarkable old Spanish jewelry of -silver and " curiously-cut diamonds to

which she was fondly attacneo ioo - attached, for she refused to leave

them with her banker and always carried them about with her. A rather pathetic figure, the Lady Frances, a beautiful woman, still in fresh middle age, and yet, by a strange;

chance, the last derelict of what oniy p-nrHl v flpet "

l v xfLiiy y cai o cl&v "u " "What has happened to her, then?" "AV, wkot Viae Vinnnpned to the

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Lady Frances? Is she alive or dean: There is our problem. She is a lady

of precise habits, and for lour years it has been her invariable custom to ivariT KppnnH week to Miss

ii i j ti. i . t . . -,. Dobney, her old governess, who has long retired, and lives In Camberwell. It is this Miss Dobney who has consulted me. Nearly five weeks have passed without a word. The last letter was from the Hotel National at Lausanne." "Is Miss Dobney the only source ,of information? Surely she had other correspondents?" "There is one correspondent who is a sure draw. Watson. That is the

bank. Single ladies must live, and a seperation

their pass-books are compressed diaries. She banks at Silvester's. I have glanced over her account. The last check but one paid her bill at Lausanne, but it was a large one and probably left her with cash in hand. Only one check has been drawn since." "To whom, and where?" "To Miss Marie Devine. There 13 nothing to show where the check was drawn. It was cashed at the Credit Lyonnais at Montpelier less than three weeks ago. Miss Mario Devine was the maid of Lady Frances rarfav Whv she should have paid

her this check we have not yet deter

mined. I have no douDt, no-weer, that your researches will soon clear the matter up." "My researches!" "Hence the health-giving expedition to Lausanne. You know that I cannot possibly leave London while . old Abrahams is in such mortal terror of his life. Besides, on general . principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland .Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the .rimmai riasps Go. then, my dear

Watson, and if my humble counsel can ever be valued at so extravagant a rate as two pence a word, it wait a your disposal night and day to the end of the Continental wire. Two days later found me at the

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vice for ever. Dr. Shlessinger nau paid the bill of -the whole party be-1 fore his departure. "By the way," said the landlord, in conclusion, "you "are not the only friend of Lady Frances Carfax who is inquiring after her' just now. Only a week or so ago we had a man here upon the same errand." "Did he give. a name?" I asked. "None: but he was an Englishman, though of an unusual type." "A savage?" said I. linking my facts after the fashion of my illustrious friend. "Exactly. That describes him very well." To Holmes I wrote showing how rapidly and surely I had got down to the roots of the matter. In reply I had a telegram asking for a description of Dr. Shlessinger's left ear. Holmes's ideas of humor are strange and occasionally offensive, so I took no notice of his ill-timid jest indeed, I had already reached Montpelier in my pursuit of the maid, Marie, before his message came. I had no difficulty in finding the ex-servant and in learning all that she could tell me. She was a de

voted creature, who had only left her mistress because she was sure that

she was in good hands, and because her own approaching marriage made

it better to go to South Africa."

"Ah, I see you know my whole story. I need hide nothing from

you. I swear to you, Mr. Holmes, 1

Road, and I kept behind her.

sently she went into a shop.

p jden. But here all is open and regular.

tion. If not, she is undoubtedly in i Holmes, it was an undertaker's." some sort of confinement, and unable i My companion started. to write to Miss Dobney or her other! "She was talking to the woman be-

Mr jWhat does that mean? Surely that

mat incident i """"s iuom. ua tne taDie, under :t

half-lit chandelier, the coffin was lying. Holmes turned up the gas and raised the lid. Deep down in the recesses of the coffin lay an emaciated figure. The glare from the lights above beat down upon an aged ani withered face. By no possible process of cruelty, starvation, or disease

could this worn-out wreck be the still

friends. All

that she is

my in

instincts London,

tell

but,

me hind the counter. I entered as well.

they have done her to death in some beautiful Lady Frances. Holmes't

way which has deceived the doctor face showed his amazement, and als

and simulated a natural end poison-i his relief. 1 1 3 . i , "Tli.iil,

And yet how strange

BE

A 'ira LsJk 1

y Tke fello

inevitable in any case

Her mistres had, as she confessed with distress, shown some irritability of temper towards her during their stay in Baden, and had even questioned her once as if she had suspicions of her honesty, and this had made the parting easier than it would otherwise have been. Lady Frances had given her fifty pounds as a wedding present. Like me, Marie viewed with deep disgust the stranger who had driven her mistress from Lausanne. With her own eyes she had seen him seize the lady's wrist with great violence on the public promenade by the lake. She believed that it was out cf dread of him that Lady Frances had

accepted the escort of the Shlessing-

ers to London. So far she got in her

narrative, when suddenly she sprang

from her chair and her face was con

vulsed with surprise and fear. "See!" she cried. "The miscreant follows

still! There is the very man of

whom I speak."

Thmiiffh thA rmAn Rifting rnnm

window I saw a huge, swarthy man'tnat there never was in this world awe have at present no possible means

with bristling black beard walking j man who loved a woman witn a more or teinng wnere, we can oniy lane slowly down the centre of the street whole-hearted love than I had for; the obvious steps, eat our dinner, and and starin? eaeerlv at the numbers 1 Frances. I was a wild youngster, I : possess our" souls in patience. Later

of the houses. It was clear that, like! know not worse than otners or my(in tne evening i win strou down ana

myself, he was on the track of the maid. Acting upon the impulse of

ing, perhaps

as 'It is late. I heard her say, or wordijthat shou!d evfr let a doctor api j proach her unless he were a confed

erate, which is hardly a credible prop-

"Could they have forged a medical certificate?" "Dangerous, Watson, very dangerous. No, I hardly see them doing that. Pull up, cabby! This is evidently the undertaker's, for we have just, passed the pawnbroker's. Would you go in, Watson? Your appear

ance inspires confidence. Ask what hour the Poultney Square funeral takes place tomorrow." The woman in the shop answered me without hesitation that it was to be at eight o'clock in the morning. "You see, Watson, no mystery; everything above board! In some way the legal forms have undoubtedly been complied with, and they think that they have little to fear. Well, there's nothing for it but a direct frontal attack. Are you armed?" "My stick!" "Well, well, we shall be strong enough. 'Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just.' We simply can't afford to wait for the police, or to keep within the four corners of the law. Y'ou can drive off, cabby.

Now, Watson, we'll just take our luck

together, as we have occasionally

done in the past." He had rung loudly at the door of a great dark house in the centre of Poultney Square. It was opened immediately, and the figure of a tall woman was outlined against the dimlit hall. "Well, what do you want?" she asked, sharply, peering at us through the darkness. "I want to speak to Dr. Shlessinger," said Holmes. "There is no such person here," she answered, and tried to close the door, but Holmes had jammed it with his foot. ''Well, I want to see the man who lives here, whatever he may call himself," said Holmes, firmly. She hesitated. Then she threw

said she. "My husband' is not afraid! Workhouse

crajcyK upotv roe

the moment I rushed out and accosted him. "You are an Englishman," I said. "What if I am?" he asked, with a

most villainous scowl.

"Where is

Lady Frances, as ne miormeu j tax .' I askea.

He started at me in amazement. "What have you done with her? Why have you pursued her? I insist

nore than ionj.. ouc was j uuu m iui3ci. oam pome, and bore every sign of having j The fellow gave a bellow of anger in ' her youth been a very lively land sprang upon me like a tiger, woman. M. Moser knew nothing of i His hand was on my throat, ahd my anv valuable jewelry, but it had been j senses were nearly gone before an remarked by the servants that the; unshaven French ouvrier, in a blue heaw trunk in the lady's bedroom blouse, dirted out from a cabaret

class. But her mind was pure as ! have a word with friend Lestrade of snow. She could not bear a shadow J Scotland Yard." of coarseness. So, when she came But neither th eofflcial police nor

iu iicai ui iumBB luat x ". Holmes's own small, but very effi-

away the mystery. Amid the crowded

rr.o hml staved there for

weeks. She had been much liked by n -.r, met her. Her age was not

. . i

was always situiiuiuum. n..nv.. Marie Devine, the maid, was as popular as her mistress. She was actuallyengaged to one of the head waiters in the hotel, and there was m difficulty in getting her address. It 11 Rue de Trajan, Montpelier

sne woum nave no muie iu say iu cjent

me. And yet sne lovea me mat is . , . ..t i i 1 1

tne wonaer oi n. luveu iuc "n , mlMnn, nf T r, ti,.

the Lady Frances Car-'enough to remain single all heriwe sought we completely oblit-

sainted days just for my sase aione erated as .f they had never lived When the years had passed and I ' Advertisements were tried and failed, had made my money at Barberton I Clues were followed and led to noth. thought perhaps I could seek her out. jng E criminal resort which and soften her. I had heard that Shlessinger might freqUent was she was still unmarried I found her drawn in vain His Q,d a3sociates at Lausanne, and tried all I knew jwere watched but the kept clear of She weakened, I think, but her will;him And theQ suddeniy after a was strong and when next I called week of helpless SUSpensei there came she had left the town. I traced her! a flash of ligM A silver.and-brilliant to Baden, and then after a time pendafit of old Spanish design had heard that her maid was here. Im been pawned at Bevington's, in Westa rough fellow, fresh from a rougn minist(lr RnaH Tho nawnor.waa

! life, and when Dr. Watson spoke to large ciean-shaven man of clerical an

as he did I lost hold Of myseU ; eaa His name nnd address wm

anger, ne leit me ana en- jiur ajiiomeuL. dui iui . ; demonstrably false. The ear had es-

to that effect.

cusing herself.

The woman was ex

'It should be there

Thank God!" he muttered. "It's

someone else." "Ah, you've blundered badly for once, Mr. Sherlock Holmes,' said Peters, who had followed us into th room. . "Who is this dead woman?" Well, if you really must know, sho is an old nurse of my wife's, Rose Spender by name, whom wa found in the Brixton Workhouse Infirmary. We brought her round here.

called in Dr. Horsom, of 13 Fairbank fill f . -

mas mmo you taicc the address. Mr. Holmes and had her carefully tended, as Christian folk shou!d. On the third day she died certificate says senile decay but that's only the doctor's opinion, and, of course, you know better. We ordered h?r funeral to be carried out by Stimson and Co., of the Kennington Road, who will bury her at eight o'clock tomorrow morning. Can you pick an hole in that. Mr. Holmes?" "I am going through your house," said he. "Are you, though!" cried Peter?, as a woman's voice and heavy steps sounded in the passage. "We'll soon see about that. This way, officers. you please. These men have forced their way into my house, and I can

not get nd of them. Help me to put them out." A sergeant and a constable stood

in the doorway. Holmes drew his card from his case. "This is my name and address. This is my friend, Dr. Watson." "Bless you. sir, we know you very well," said the sergeant, "but you can't stay here without a warrant." "Of course not. I quite understand that." "Arrest him!" cried Peters. "We know where to lay our hand-? on this gentleman if he is wanted." said the seargant, majestically, "but you'll have to go, Mr. Holmes." "Yes, Watson, we shall have to go." A minute later we were m tho street once more. It was only nine o'clock, and wowere off full cry upon the trail at once. First we drove to Brixton

Infirmary, where ' wet it was indeed the truth'

tn fafo anv -man in thn tt-nrlrt " Sh-v IOUna Uldl

closed the door behind us and showed that a charitable couple had called, us into a sitting room on the right! some davs before, that they had side of the hall, turning up the gas'. claimed an imbecile old woman as a as she left us. "Mr. Peters will be , former servant, and that they had with you in an instant," she said. obtained permission to take her away Her words were literally true, for,"11 the- No uprise was express-

up hart hard V timp tr look aronnl : imv. nu oiuca

before now,' She answered. 'It took! the Hnstv nrl mnth-PatPn anartm(.nr'di(li-

longer, being put of the oiMinary.' in which we found ourselves before ! The doctor was our next goal. He

opposite, with a cudgel in his hand, and struck my assailant a sharp crack over the forearm, which made

him leave zo his hold. Then, with a! me

snarl of

tered the cottage from which I had

just come. I turned to thank my preserver, who stood beside me in

mi ic i lotted down, and felt that

Hnimes himself could not have been! the roadway.

,, aHrnit in collecting his facts. "Well. Watson." said he, "a very

Only one

corner still remained in pretty hash you have made of it! liMr. Green?"

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Frances. , ( j surely that of Shlessinger. "That Is for us to find out," saidj Three times had our bearded friend Sherlock Holmes, with peculiar grav-; from the Langham called for news ity. "What is your London address, ! the third time within an hour of this

fresh development. His clothes were

the shadow. No light which I pos-j rather think you had better comej "The Langham Hotel will find me."' j getting looser on his great body. He

messed could clear up the cause tori back with me to London by tne nign. "Then may I recommend that youj seemed to be wilting away in his an-

the lady's sudden departure. fcne express. j return there and be onhand m casa ( xiety. "If you will only . give me was very happy at Lausanne. There An hour afterwards Sherlock; I should want you? I have no de-; something to do!" was his constant was every reason, to believe that sh? Holmes, in his usual garb and style,! sire to encourage false hopes, but you ' wail. At last Holmes could oblige intended to remain for the season in i was seated in my private room atimay rest assured that all that can him. her luxurious rooms overlooking tbe j the hotel. His explanation of his ' be done will be done for the safety j "He has begun to pawn the jewels, lake And yet she had left at a single j sudden and opportune appearance of Lady Frances. I can say no more We should get him now." inrnlvpH her in I was simpliritv itsplf for. findine- thn'fnr tho instant I will lpavp vou this! "What fan T Hn"

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th lifeless pavmenC'Of a week's rent. 1 he could get away from London, he 'Card so that you may be able to keep

Only Jules

He connected tne Sudden ut-pi uuitr j m mc uiasui-ie ui t wumiug mnu ue m mra. nuu.wuu to uiatic uuc ui iici it is pussioie inat ne win go 10 the visit to the hotel a day or i had sat in the cabaret waiting for best efforts for two hungry travellers ' some other pawnbroker in the fu-

They both stopped and looked at me

so I asked some question and then left the shop." "You did excellently well. What happened next?" "The woman came out, but I had hid myself in a doorway. Her suspicions had been, aroused, I think, for she looked round her. Then she called a cab and got in. I was lucky enough to get another cab and so to follow her. She got down at last at No. 36 Poultney Square, Brixton. I drove past, left my cab at the corner of the square, and watched the house." "Did you see anyone?" "The windows were all in darkness save one on the lower floor. The blind was down, and I could not see iij, I was standing there, wandering what I should do next, when a covered van drove up with two men in it. They descended, took something

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the dood opened and a big, clean- naa uee'j "' in. can round tne shaven, bald-headed man stepped; woman dying of pure senility, had lightly into the room. He had a actually seen her pass away, and had large red face, with pendulous cheeks,; s'-fned the certificate in due form, and a general air of superficial ben-l Fins,y we 'ound J'ir J'ay to Sco(evolence which was marred by a!,and ar1- There had ben difficulcruel. vicious mouth. j tie3 of procedure in regard to th.? "There is surely some mistake I warrant Some delay was inevitable, here, gentlemen," he said, in an ! The a?,strate s signature might not unctuous, make-everything-eav voice. f obtained until next morning. .If

"I fancy that you have been misdi-j UUmcau auout nine ne couid

go down with Lestrade and see

acted upon. So ended the day. Sherlock Holmes was too irritable

rected. Possibly if you tried farther

down the street "TViot Ti-ill Art' xco hflvp rn tfmp tn

waste," said my companion, firmly. jf?r conversation and too restless for "You are Henrv Peters, of Adelaide. ! slfP- Finally, just after I had been late the Rev. Dr. Shlessinger. of Ba-caJled m the morning, he rushed into

Aa oriA otV. America T am as l win. ne was m ills Qressin

am

sure of that as that my own name is Sherlock Holmes." Peters, as I .will now call him, started and stared hard at his for

midable pursuer. "I guess your name!

does not frighten me Mr. Holmes

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out of the van. and carried it up thejsaid hCi cooly. -when a man's con-j

steps, to the hall door. Mr. Holmes,

it was a .coffin. ' "You have done excellent work,"

science is easy you can t rattle him. What is your business in my house?"

"I want to know what you hav3

said Holmes, scribbling a few words !done with the Lady Frances Carfax, upon a half-sheet of paper. "We whom you brought away with vou can do nothing legal without a war-!irom Baden" rant, and you can serve the cause Td be very glad if vou could tell

u """"6 """" i" iic'me wnere tnat lady may De, -fetersi

authorities and getting one. There answered, coolly. "I've a bill against

pounds,

For Garage Work of AH Kinds, Call HILLSIDE GARAGE 1134 North Twelfth Street

may be some dimcuity, tut I should

think that the sale of the jewelry should be sufficient. Lestrade will

her for nearly a hundred

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i couple of trumpetry pendants that

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se to all details. Now, Watson," heUhp dealer would hardlv look at Rh

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