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I i A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA I BY SI K A. TON AN IK)YL1C. In Three (linptcrs?Chupter II. I At three o'clock precisely 1 was at Baker Street, but Holmes had not yet returned. The landlady informed mo that he had left the house shortly g after eight o'clock in the morning. 1 sat down beside the lire, however, with tho intention of awaiting him, however long he might he. 1 was already deeply interested in his inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and strange features which were associated with the two crimes which I have already recorded, still the nature of the case and the exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. In-J deed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my friend had on , j hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a pleasure to me to study his sysAl tern of work, and to follow the quick, te subtle methods by which he disentan8 glod the most inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invari1 able success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to enter 1 into my head. , It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as 1 was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of dis1 guises, I had to look three times bofore 1 was certain that it was indeed 1 he. With a nod he vanished into the IV bedroom, when be emeriron fU-.? 01 ~ " cv'v* 11,1,1 utes tweed-suited and respectable, as y of old. Putting bis bands into bis ])oekets, he stretched out his legs in ^ front of the lire, and laughed heartily for some minutes. "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked, and laughed again until he was obliged to lie back, limp and H( * helpless, in the chair. ? "What is it?" ^ "It's quito too funny. 1 am sure you could never guess how 1 employed my morning, or what 1 ended by ir doing," w "J Can't imagine. I suppose that vi you have been watching the habits, id and, perhaps, the house, of Miss Irene ir Adler." j "Quite so, but the sequel was rathui er unusual. I will tell you, however. lsi I left the house a little after eight oj o'clock this morning in the character a? of a groom out of work. There is a >r wonderful sympathy and freemasonry " among horsy men. Be one of them, ?n and you will know all that there* is to st know. I soon found Iliriony Lodge, tit It is a bijou villa, with a garden at s? the back, but built out in the front 11 right up to the road, two stories, m Chubb lock to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well furv nished, with long windows almost to uf the lloor, and those preposterous d English window-fasteners which a 5V child could on on Unbind fbnrn \irna n nothing remarkable, save that the p passage window could be reached lr from the top of the coach-house. I ei walked round it and examined it ir closely from every point of view, but ul without noting anything else of in't| terest. ir "I then lounged down the street, and found, as I expected, that there &t was a mews in a lane which runs 01 down by one wall of the garden. I c lent the hostlers a hand in rubbing 1 down their horses, and I received in t exchange twopence, a glass of halfand-lialf, two fills of shag tobacco, f and as much information as 1 could a desire al?out Miss Adler, to say noth 1 ing of a half dozen other people in < the neighborhood, in whom I was not f?. in the least interested, but whose - biographies I was compelled to listen >r to." w "And what of Ireno Adler?" I askI ed. T "Oh, she has turned all tho men's 5l heads down in that part. She is the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this n planet. So say the Serpentine Mews, 6 to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, cinveB our at live every clay, e and returns at seven sharp for dinIt ner. Seldom goes out at other times, d except when she sings. lias only one ^ male visitor, but a good deal of him. Y lie is dark, handsome, and dashing; r never calls less than once a day, and )V often twice. Ho is a Mr. Godfrey Norton of the Inner Temple. See the l\ advantages of a cabman as a con ills dant. They had driven him home a >f dozen times from Serpentine Mews, il and knew all about him. When I had Li listened to all that they had to tell, I began to walk up and down near a; Ilriony Lodge once more, and to r think over my plan of campaign. Ic "This Godfrey Nortion was ovi1( dently an important factor in the matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the relation between them, and what the 9 object of his repeated visits? Was 11 she his client, his friend, or his misa tress? If the former, she had probc ably transferred the photograph to r 1.1. ? II * 1 1 ? 41 ia i ? iim ntjcpuiK. u iiiw itil.it;r, it was loss * likely. On the issue of this question depended whether I should continue H my work at Brlony Lodge, or turn 11 my attention to the gentleman's l' chambers In the Temple. It was a 5 delicate point, and it widened the a field of my inquiry. I fear Uiat I 9 bore you with details, but I have to I i let you Bee my little dllliculties, if you are to understand the situation." "L am following you closely," 1 answered. "I was still balancing the matter in my mind, when a liansom cab drove up to Hriony Lodge, and a gentleman sprung out. Ho was a remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and mustached -evidently the! man of whom 1 had heard, lie appeared to be in a great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the maid who opened the door, with the air of a man who was thoroughly at homo. "He was in the house about half an l ah r f? 11 /i t uvui , ?iiu x ' "ii 111 i in <n glimpses Ol him In the windows of the slttlngrooin, pacing up and down, talking excitedly and waving his arms. Of her I could see nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more Hurried than before. As he stepped up to tho cab, ho pulled a gold watch from his pocket and looked at It earnestly. 'Drive like the devil!' he shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to the Church of St. Monica in tin; ICdgeware Road. Half a guinea if you do it in twenty minutes!' "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do well to follow them, when up the lane came a neat little landau, the coachman with his coat half buttoned, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall door into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at tho moment, hut she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. " 'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried; 'and half a sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing whether I should run for it, or whether 1 should porch behind her landau, when :i cn.li nnmo flii-nncri> Hm The driver looked twice at such a shabby fare; but I jumped in before ho could object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.* It was twenty-five minutes to twelve, and of course It was clcpr enough what was in the wind. "'My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the I others wero there before us. The : cab and landau with their steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid the man, and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there save the two whom I had followed, and a surpliced clergyman, who seemed to bo expostulating with them. They were all three standing in a knot in front of the altar, I lounged up the side aisle like any other idler Who has dropped into a church. Suddenly to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to mo, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards me. "'Thank God!' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' " 'What then?' I asked. " 'Come, mnn nr?rr?r?? i.~~ - , ?, vv/mvy , V/lil J 111 1 IX' minutes, or it won't be legal.' "I was half dragged up to the altar, and, before I knew where I was, I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, and vouching for thing of which I knew nothing, and generally assisting in tlio secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. Jt was the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just now. It seems that there had been some informality about their license; that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean to wear it on my watch chain in memory of the occasion." "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what then?" "Well, I found my plans were very seriously menaced. it looked as if the pair might take an immediate do part ure, and bo necessitate very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At tho church door, however, they separated, he driving back to tho Temple, and she to her own house. 'I shall drive out In the park at five as usual,' she said, as she left him. I heard no more. They drove away in different directions, and I went off to make my own arrangements." "Which are?" "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I tun likely to be busier this evening. Itty the way, doctor, I shall want your co-operation." "I shall be delighted." "You don't mind breaking the law?" "Not in the least." "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "Not in a good cause." "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "Then I am your man." "I was sure that I might rely on you." "But what is it you wish?" 1 "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to you. ' Now," he said, as he turned hungri- ( ly on the simple fare that our land* ' lady had provided, "I must discuss it v. hile I eat, for 1 have not much time, It is nearly live now. In two hours we must be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather returns from her drive at seven. We must he at Hriony Lodge to meet her." "And what then?" "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must not interfere, come what may. You understand?" "! am tn lw? nontroH" "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be Home small unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the sitting-room window will he open. You are to station yourself close to that open window." "Yes." "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "Yes." "And when T raise my hand?so? you will throw into the room what I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of lire. You quite follow me?" "Entirely." "It Is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long, cigar-shaped roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, fitted with a cap at either end, to mako it selflighting. Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten minutes. 1 hope that I have made myself clear?" "1 am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, and, at the signal, to throw in this object, then raise the cry of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." "Precisely." "Then you may entirely rely on me." "That is excellent. I think, perllflllC if io olmmd 4 5 ~ 4 ? A. 1 ....i,..., .v, 10 uiiic Liiiti i prepared for the new role I have to play." He disappeared into his bedroom, and ; turned in a few minutes in the el lor of an amiable and simple: i .od Nonconformist clergyman. 1 broad, black hat, his baggy trouss, his white tie, his sympathetic mile, and general look of peering .iiul benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have equaled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every fresh part that ho assumed. The stage lost a tine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when be became a specialist in crime. Tt was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still wanted ten minutes to tho hour when we found ourselves in Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, but tho locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighborhood, it was remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with cigars in their mouths. "You see," remarked Ilolmes, as we passed to and fro in front of the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey Norton as our client is to its COmillGT tO tllP OVOO r?f liin ? i VU U1 llin [/I IllCUbS. Now the question is?where are we to find the photograph?" "Where, indeed?" "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's dress. She knows that the king is capable of having her waylaid and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it over to any one else? She could trust her own guardianship, but she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she had resolved it within a few days. It must be where she can lay here hands upon it. It must be in her own house." "But it has twice been burglarized." "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "But how will you look?" ? "I will not look." "What then?" "I will get her to show me." " Hut alio will refuse." "She will not ,be able to. But I , hear the rumblo of wheels. It is her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." As he spoke, the gleam of the sidelights of a carriage came round the curve of the avenue. It waa a smart I little landau which rattled up to the i DEATH COMES AT LAST THK MACON ItANKEK DIES AFTEK lilt A VIC FIOHT. Tin* Young Itusiness Man Does to llis Fnd With Designation That Commands Admiration. After quietly facing for a week the inevitable result of his mistake in taking bichloride of mercury, thinking it headache tablet, '11. Sanders Walker, prominent young banker and realty dealer of Macon (la., died Thursday morning at 1:35 o'clock. Members of the family had gathered at his bedside several days ago when the doctors announced there was no hope for him, and to them Mr. Walker gave no sign of a tremor, but went to his death with a resignation that has rendered the case more than * usually interesting throughout the country. During tlu> last day he was under the influence of opiates most of the time but in conscious intervals gave evidence that he was not suffering. Scores of sympathetic messages were received by the family and many of them were in the nature of inquiries as to the treatment being given Mr. Walker. It lias been impossible to find out definitely what course the physicians took as they have refused to talk except to briefly trace the progiess of the poison's slow but deadly effect. Members of the family are quoted s expressing much dissatisfaction with some of the reports that have originated in Macon. They declare that Mr. Walker remained constantly in his bed room after it was discovered that he had taken the fatal dose. Interest of specialists and the public generally throughout the country has been aroused by the fortitude with which the young banker has I combated the slow, hut steady, work of the deadly posion. Countless messages conveying sympathy and suggesting methods of treatment have flooded tlie Walker home. Despite assurances of the certainty of death as a result of bis paralyzed organs, Walker's belief that he would recover was not shaken at a late hour. Repeatedly Wednesday he sought to comfort his wife, struggling to bear up under the trying ordeal. The young banker also displayed keen interest in the conferences held by liis physicians and begged his nurse to tell him exactly what conclusions they had reached. Walker frequently requested, until ho became intermittently unconscious to be permitted to talk with his relatives, practically all of his immediate family having been summned to the patient's home when he became til. door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up one of tlie loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in the hope of earning a copper. but was elbowed away by another loafer who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce quarrel broke out which was increased by the two guardsmen, who took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, who was equally hot up?n the other side. A blow was struck, and in an instant the lady, who had stopped from hor carriage, was the center of a little knot of struggling men who struck savagely at each other with their fists and stocks. Holmes dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but, just as he reached her, he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while a number of better dressed people who had watched the scuffle without taking part in it crowded in to help the lady and to attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top, with ther superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking hack into the street. "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. "He is dead," cried several voices. "No, no, there's life in him," shouted another. "But he'll be gone before you can get him to the hospital." "He's a brave fellow. "They would have had the lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a gang, and a rough one, too. Ah! he's breathing now." "lie can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" Surley. Bring him into the sitting room. There is a comfortable sofa. This way, please." Slowly and solemnly ho was borne into Ilriony Lodge and laid out in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings from my post in the window. (To be continued.) Graduates of Naval Academy. Senator Tillman's bill allowing the Secretary of the Navy to assign graduates from the Naval Academy to the lowest commissioned grades in the marine corps, or staff corps of the navy, was ordered favorably reported. The bill would also nullify the Act of 1903, reducing the allotment at the Academy of each Congressman from It is predicted that when the tariff is out of the way many appointments svill be made. TELL AWFUL TALE DIARY OF RESCUED MAN RECORD TERRORS OF COLD ARTEC REGIONS * Story of <airman Arctic Expedition Which .Met Disaster at Spitzbcrnen Given hy Artist llerr Have?Stiffened Dreadfully from Frozen liinibs, Lark of Food and Drink. A description of the terrible Buffering undergone by members of the German Arctic expedition, commanded by Lieut Scliroedor Stranz, which met disaster in Spitsbergen, is given in the diary of the artist Herr Have, one of those rescued. He telegraphed extracts Thursday from Advent Lay. giving details of the movements of the expedition after its members had abandoned their vessel, the Ilorzog lOrnst, Septomebr 21, 1012. The extracts in some places are incomplete and almost incoherent. They say: "The proposal to abandon the ship came from Capt. llitschel at the beginning of September. The vessel then had provisions for four months, besides a large supply of condensed foods, and she was otherwise well equipped. "The party started for Advent Lay and reached a hut on Wide Lay on October 4. Dr. Rudigcr, the ocoanographer, was suffering then from a half frozen foot, two of his toes being in bad condition. I offered to remain with him there until the others could bring back help. The hut contained a month's provisions. "Dr. Itudiger and I were without tools, sleeping bags or lights. I melted some fat and made lights and fashioned some sleeping bags from salted skins, which I found in the hut. Dr. Rudiger's foot became worse and there was no more band age material. "The provisions ran out and we left the hut November 22. honiner to regain the ship. We suffered severly, having nothing to drink, but we finally reached a hut at Mossol Bay, where we found some hard and mouldy bread. "We remained there three days during a storm and then started again for the ship, guiding ourselves by the stars. We arrived at the ship on December 1. "Dr. Rudiger meanwhile had suffered greatly, two more of his toes and four fingers having boon frozen, while his foot became so bad that it had to he amputated. The guides and sailors of the expedition returned unexpectdly to the ship December 24, reporting the loss of Eber hardt. The had no news of Dr. Dettmors or Dr. Moesor, the botanist. They said Sapt. Ritschel had gone on alone to Advent Bay. "Stave died February 2 4, and the Norwegian relief expedition, commanded by Capt. Staxrud, appeared April 21." The expedition started last summer under the patronage of the Duke of Altenburg with the object of finding the northeast passage. DANIEL TRIES AIRSHIP. ? Secretary c?f Navy Travels Eight .Miles Through Air. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels Wednesday afternoon travelled eight miles through the air in a flying boat. "It was delightful; I enjoyed the sensation thoroughly," was the Secretary's reply to an inquiry just after he alighted. The Secretary went up with Lieut. John H. Towers, senior ofllcer of the navy aviation corps, whose camp is across the river from the Naval Academy at Annapolis. The (light was made in the flying boat C-l. The air trip was begun at four minutes to four o'clock. Eight minutes later the trip was over and tho Secretary, after travelling about eight miles at a height of 500 feet, was telling of his experience. Gone to the Canal Zone. Representatives Byrnes and Lever, of the South Carolina delegation, accompanied by their wives, left Washington Friday for New York, whence they will sail for the Canal Zone. BANK OF Coriwai m HAS LARGEST CAPITAL AND SUR COUNTY. MORE THAN THE COMB! 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Judge Parker referred to the need of more care on the nart of rmrnnto ?e the present day and alluded to the present-day fashions as one cause of crime. Ware Superior Court will reconvene in special session June 23 to try Mrs. Lanier, who was jointly indicted with her husband for the death of their child. two to one and would give each the Why Not Paddle Him? At Saluda Julian Warren, white, was lodged in jail Tuesday afternoon by the rural policemen charged with cursing a young lady of the McNary Ferry vicinity on Monday. Tie managed to elude the policemen until Tuesday morning, when it was learned that ho was in Batesburg, where he was arrested and brought to Saluda. ? Crazy Man Kills Five. A patient of the Idaho State Insane Asylum Wednesday ran amuck and killed five other patients. HORRY, 7. S. d r ~ * PLUS OF ANY iRANK TN HORRY [NED CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OF ^TY. $50,(HH) 12,500 [HOLDERS. . . . 50,000 ?OUS 112,r>00 TORS W. A. JOHNSON, J WILL A. FREEMAN, 1 D. V. 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