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A SCANDAL I IN BOHEMIA > ?* 1IY SIK A. CON AX DOYIjB. (Continued from last issue.) Chapter III. | The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the % couch. 1 do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that mn. ment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery to lIolme?s to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted to me. 1 hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are hut preventing her from injuring another. Holmes had sat upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand, and at the signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The word was no sooner out of, my mouth than the whole crowd of spectators, well dressed and ill? gentlemen, hostlers, and servant maids joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds of smoke curled the room, and out at the open window. I caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. Slipping through the shouting crowd ] made my way to tho corner of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my friend's arm in mine and to get away from the scene of uproar. He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes, until we had turned down one of the quiet streets which led towards tho Edgeware Road. "You did it very nicely, doctor," ho remarked. ""Nothing could have ( been better. It is all right." "You have the photograph?" "I know where it is." "And how did you find out?" "She showed me, as I told you she would." "I am still in the dark." r?- "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughling. "The matter was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the street was an accomplice. They were engaged for the evening." "1 guessed as much." "Then, when tho row broke out, T had a little moist red paint in the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." "That also I could fathom." "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me In. What else could I do? And into her sitting room, which was the very room I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your chance." "How did that help you?" "It was all Important. "When a woman thinks that her house is on fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the tiling which she values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have more than once taken advantage of it. In the caso of the Darlington Substitution Scandal it was of use to me, and also in the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby? an unmarried one reaches for her jewelry box. Now It was clear to me that our lady of today had nothing in the house more precious to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a glimpse of it as she drew it out. When I cried out that it was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rase, and, making my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to attempt. to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had come In, and as lie was watching me narrowly, It seemed safer to wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." "And now," I asked. "Our quest is practically finished. T shall call with the king tomorrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will he shown into the sitting room to wait for the lady, hut it. is probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his majesty to regain it with his K* own hands." "And when will you call? "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall have a clear field. Resides, we must he .prompt, for this marriage may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to the king without delay." We had reached Daker Street, and had stopped at tho door. He was searching his pockets for tho key, when someone passing said: "Good night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had hurried by. "I have heard that voice before," j said Holmes, staring down the dimly lighted street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have been?" I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our toast and coffee in the morning, when ? VS.... ~ e - ? ... .. o vii ouuwinui rusneu into tne room. "You have really got it?" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by either shoulder, and looking eagerly into his face. "Not yet." "Hut you have hopes?" "I have hopes." "Then come. I am all impatience to bo gone." "We must have a cab." "No, my brougham is waiting." "Then that will simplify matters." We descended, and started off once more for Briony Lodge. "Irene Adler is married," remarked llolmes. "Married! When?" "Yesterday." "Hut to whom?" "To an English lawyer named Norton." "Hut she could not love him." "I am in hopes that she does." "And why in hopes?" "Because it would spare your majesty all fear of future annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your majesty. If she does not love your majesty, there is no reason why she should interfere with your majesty's plan." "It is true. And yet Well, 1 wish she had been of my own station. What a queen she would have been made!" Ho lapsed into a moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in Serpentine Avenue. The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped from the brougham. "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a questioning and rather startled gaze. "Indeed! My mistress told me 111iti you wero HKely to call. She loft this morning with her husband, by the 5:15 train from Charing Cross for the Continent." "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered hack, white with chagrin and su rprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" "Never to return." "And the papers?'- asked the king, hoarsely. "All is lost!" "We shall see." He pushed past the servant, and rushed into the drawing-room, followed by the king and myself. The furniture was scattered about in every direction with dismantled shelves, and open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small sliding shutter, and plunging in his hand, pulled out a photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler herself in evening dress; tho letter was superscribed to "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend tore it open, and we all three read it together. It was dated at midnight of the preceding night, and ran in this way: "My Dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes,? You really did it very well. You took me in completely. Until after thn nlo ~? a T ,1 iuo uiai in ui hi t?, i linn noi <i suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had been told that if the king employed an agent, it would certainly be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, you made rne reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind old clergyman. Bait, you know, I have been trained as an actress myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coaoliman, to watch you, ran upstairs, got into my walking clothes, as I call them, and came down just as you departed. "Well, I followed you to the door, and so made sure that I was really an object of Interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good night, and started for the Templo to see my husband. "We both thougfit the best resource was flight, when pursued by so formidable an antncnniot ~'~n > DU juu will find the nest empty when you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest In peace. I love and am loved by a better man than ho. The king may do what he will without hindrance from one whom ho has cruelly wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and preserve a weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might take In the future. I leave a photograph which ho might care to possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, very truly yours, 1 Irene Norton, neo Adler." MAKE THREAT GOOD * , GOV. RELEASE UPHOLD HIS NEGRO CHAUfFEUR A V STANDS BY HIS NIGGER The Governor Acids Three More Men a c k to City Constahulnry by Way of s Itetnliution for Fining of His * t v ChaiitYeur for Kxeeetliiig Speed i Limit on the Streets. I "He who laughs last laughs best," ^ remarked Governor IMease Monday c morning in saying that as a result of * the lining of his negro chauffeur by the city of Columbia for speeding ho 1 had added three more men to the 0 Columbia constabulary, each of them drawing a salary of $110 per month, half of which is paid by the county and half by the city. 11 The added expense, the Governor explained, was put on Columbia for fining his negro chauffeur. "I told them at the time it would be a dear line and you can llgure out for your- 1 self just how much those lines are costing the city of Columbia," con- n tinned the Governor. Columbia now has a force, of eight 1 constables, the increase from live to eight being added because of the tin- 1 ing of the Governor's chauffeur, as ' a result of those three occasions on which Columbia lined the negro chauffeur of tlie Governor the city is now paying additional salaries to constables amounting to $ 1 35 each " month and the county of Itichlan i is paying an equal amount. It will he recalled that the Gov- ! ornor's chauffeur was lined on three occasions for speeding, the first time $3.7f>, the second $15.75 ,and the \ third time, $3.75. An appeal was ( taken in the last case to the Circuit Court, and it will come up at the *' nroRnnt form , v?. ? i/ciui i. u vjrui j-. The Governor announced Monday 1 morning that he would retain the Columbia constabulary, the county board of control having requested this course. The Governor, following I the decision of the State Supreme Court on the Well liquor law, had announced that he would "fire" all of the constables on the 1st of June. [ 10. L. Kibler is the chief of the Co- j lumbia constabulary and he has sev- r en men working under him. j "Every time they fine my chauf- \ four I am going to add another con- \ stable," remarked the Governor in f discussing this matter Monday morn- ] ing. t "What a woman?oh, what a wo- I man!" cried the King of Bohemia, \ when we had all three read this epis- I tie. "Did I not tell you how quick B and resolute she was? Would she 1 not have made an admirable queen? I Is it not a pity that she was not on 1 my level?" t "From what I have seen of the lady, she seems indeed, to be on a r very different level to your majesty," a said Holmes, coldly. "I am sorry ? that I have not been able to bring your majesty's business to a more 1 successful conclusion." i "On the contrary, my dear sir," T cried tho king, "nothing could be i more successful. I know that her work is inviolate. The photograph is now as safe as if it were in the I fire." "I am triad to hrvnr vrtnr w ? -_ ^ vt?? ? say so." "I am immensely indebted to you. f Pray toll me in what way I can re- f ward you. This ring " lie slip- c pod an emerald snake ring from his i finger, and held it out upon the palm t of his hand. s "Your majesty has something i which I should value even more f highly," said Holmes. a "You have hut to name it." r "This photograph!" s The king stared at him in amaze- a mont. 1 "Irene's photograph!" ho cried. \ "Certainly, if you wish it." ( "I thank your majesty. Then 1 there is no more to be done in the c matter. I have the honor to wish * you a very good-morning." He bow- < ed, and turning away without observing the hand which the king had stretched out to him, he set off in my < company for his chambers. And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of \ Mr. Sherlock Holmes were beaten by a woman's wit.. He used to make . merry over the cleverness of women, ( but I have not heard him do it of ( late. And when he speaks of Irene ( Adler, or when he refers to her pho- f tograph, it is always under the hon- t orable title of THE woman. (THE END.) , Separate Pullman Coaelies. t Senator E. I). Smith Monday intro- x duced a bill providing that transpor- v tation companies operating Pullman * or other sleeping ears through one A or more States having laws requiring separate coaches or compartments for the races, shall provide separate and distinct accommodations for the r conveyance of white and colored pas- 1 scngers in transit through said i States, such accommodations to be I equal as to comfort. ' < GIBBi.S SCORES BLEASE in;\oi \( i:s (iOVKhnok rou ri* inys Franklin .1 .Mkm's, in All llis CiirtMT as Misgoveriior, Never I>i< 1 Anything as Had. "Probably Franklin J. Moses, in ill his career as Misgovernor of South Carolina, never descended to o petty a plane of official action as his." said Mayor Wade Hampton libbes, of Columbia, Tuesday niornng in a caustic denunciation of the .ction of Clovernor Please in adding hree more constables to the Colunida force, as retaliation because the ity lined his negro chauffeur three , imes for speeding. "1 would say that there are some hings too unspeakably little to be xpressed in words," continued the layer, Haying the Clovernor of South Carolina for liis action. Mayor lihbes dictated the following statement: "If the statement of fact in the tecord of May 2 7 and News and Courier of May 28 is correct (and 1 lereby request that it be verified by eporter's affidavit ), 1 would say that here are some things too unspeakbly little and contemptible to be ex ressed in words, and this is one of hem. "The spectacle of Die viper gninvng the file would !?? only amusing, xcept that the file ought to be put 0 constructive uses. "Probably Franklin J. Moses, in ail lis career as Misgovernor of South 'arolina, never descended to so potty plane of o. .rial action as this. "If you desire my ollieial comments >n this matter and the county dis ensary situation, you will find them n the Annual, now in the hands of he printer. On yesterday the dis>ensaries were closed because of leath in the family of a member of he county board of control. Is this 1 public business or a private affair? "lias not the time come for a lva age?" JilOHT ll()ltKI<: HARRY" MOYFI). + Tody of Father of llobt. K. I*?e to be Heinterred in Virginia. The body of "Light Morse Marry" ,ee, of Revolutionary fame, father of tobert 10. Lee, was disinterred Wedicsday at Dungesness, Cumberland sland, where the remains had been turied for almost 100 years. The >ody was taken to Lexington, Va., or tinal resting place beside that of lis distinguished son, the great chiefain of the Confederacy. A delegation from the Virginia ^gislature, consisting of Mugh A. Vhite, Rockingham County; John O. Daniels, Loudoun County, and John J. Mart, Roanoke, came to Cumberaiul Island after the remains, an apiropriatlon for this purpose having >een made by the Virginia Legislaure. The casket hearing the hero's renains was conveyed to Fernandina iboard a private yacht and there be;an its journey to Virginia via the Ipahnarrl Air l.ino Tlnlliuov ! o mrled in Leo Chapel, on the Washngton and Lee University campus, in jexington, Va., Friday. THICK V <1 lit Hit KABK1T. lodges Large Snake Until It Kills Itself on Stones. Near Wilkesbarre, Pa., in a battle or life between a rabbit and a fiveoot blacksnake, the rabbit triumphal by using strategy. The snake corlerod the rabbit, and as the cotton ail took refuge behind three large itones, the snake attempted to close n on it. The rabbit kept jumping rora one side to another in the small ipaco in which to make the light, and (very time the rabbit jumped, the nake moved back and forth over the itones, one of which was very sharp. The tender part of the snake's body vas finally worn in two by the sharp dge of the stone and as the snake ell in two parts the rabbit jumped >ver the rocks and was soon lost in he woods. FIGHT AT XKCaltO ( III KCH. )ne Man Was Killed and Two Were Kftdly Wounded. John Peay is dead and George and Vash Laney are wounded, as the re'lilt nf O (rdliof'll ?. ? ... .v w. .v p. nvi in iif-, 111 <ii. i icnsjiiu Mains, a nogro church in the Sapps Moss Roads section of Lancaster , :ounty Sunday afternoon. It is said liat the trouble started at an ice ream supper Saturday night between 'cay and tlie two Laneys and was relowed Sunday at the church. Over 00 shots were fired in the melee. Sheriff Hunter left Immediately for he scone and returned Monday night vith Cieorge and Wash Laney, who vcre lodged in jail. Warrants have >een issued for nine other negroes vho participated in the shooting. One Killed ami One Hurt. In a thunderstorm preceding rain Tuesday, about 1 1 o'clock, lightning tilled one negro, Mack Burton, and endored unconscious another, Young dridges. These men were chopping lotton near Prosperity. % iiitwi urn mm THEY HAD AN ENJOYABLE TIME AT THE REUNION. ? LEFT FOR THEIR HOMES * I'nrade (iraiul Climax of Twenty-third Reunion?Southern Heroes Break Camp at Chattanooga?<?rim Iteaper Stalks Mill CliwriiiK Throng and Three Survivors Answer I>aM Call. With flags furled and kits packed many survivors of the Southern army, who attended the twenty-third annual United Confederate Veterans' Reunion at Chattanooga, departed for their homes Thursday night. Death stalked in the midst of the cheering throng, which Thursday participated in the impressive Veterans' parade. Three soldiers, who came to renew campaign friendships, made during the War Between the States, responded for the last time to their regimental calls. Robert Nolen, a Veteran, from Houston, Texas, fell down the steps of the City Auditorium, breaking his neck, B. F. Moore, of Clique, Tex., who was injured in a fall Wednesday, died at a local infirmary Thursday. (J. \V. Mullenix, of Ian'.ale, C,a., entered a restaurant just after the Veterans' parade was ended and dropped dead. Several Veterans were exhausted by the try-tig ordeal ot Thursday's niareh, but at a late hour no additional deaths had been reported. Scenes Thursday night at the railroad stations l>riun*)i? t.-r.ru t.? tlw. eyes of thousands of visitors, who woro returning to tin ir homos after attemlings tin Reunion. Agol soldiers, when parting, clasped each other in warm embraces and uttered fervent prayers that they would meet again at the next Reunion. Many were so feeble that they could scarcely clamber aboard the trains, hut willing hands were ready to assist them. The climax of the R? uninon came Thursday when several thousand Veterans marched and rode through the city streets in their annual parade, aecompained by sponsors and escorted by National Guardsmen from several States. "Scarcely a person of the many thousands who witnessed the striking spectacle Thursday night was able to speak above a whisper, so vociferous were the cheers accorded the gray-haired soldiers. Gen. Hennott 11. Young, of I/Ouisville, Kv, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, led tin; parade on a prancing horse from his native State. Upon reaching his headquarters he dismounted, and standing bare-headed in the sunshine, watched the survivors of the Confederate army pass by. Members of Gen. Young's staff, Governor Hooper, of Tennessee; Miss Kate Daffan, of Austin, sponsor for tlie South, and others were guests of Gen. Young on the reviewing stand. A picturesque feature of the parade was the presence of several negro "uncles," 'who followed their masters through the War 'Between the States. A number of these car ried live chickens, illustrative of the manner in which they foraged when food was scarce during the fierce campaigns. They were heartily cheered hy spectators and acknowledged the greetings with unique hows peculiar to the antebellum negro. Proudly bearing tattered battle flags dimmed by powder smoke and time, the grey-clad survivors of the Confederate army to-day inarched through streets walled on each aide with cheering thousands. Standards horn hy cavalrymen almost encountered over-head arches formed of entwined Confederate and United States flags. Nearly a thousand of the gray-haired Veterans were mounted on the prancing horses of the 11th United States cavalry tendered hy Fort Oglethrope officials, and offering another mute testimonial of the burial of the bitterness which characterized the War Pet ween the States. Hundreds of applauding spectatros, who witnessed the impressive sight, were moved to tears hy the flood of memories it aroused. No its entirety. Only a few stanch survivors were left of the more than six division apepared in a semblance of hundred thousand soldiers who represented the Confederacy in the fiercest struggle of modern times. From the moments Qen. Bennett II. Young, eominander-ln-eJiief of the U. C. V.. appeared bv his staff nntti the hist detachment of Veterans passed, the drill anient was rent with shouts and applause. Gen. Young's staff was followed by the 1 1 til Cavalry Hand, the survivors of the Trans-'Mississippi department, the department of Northern Virginia, the department of Tennessee, Forests cavalry corps and one thousand mounted Veterans. Inter persed among the different commands were the sponsors of the divisions of the Confederate Veterans, in each instance followed by aged soldiers riding in automobiles. The Richmond ! Howitzers, Pelham Guards, of Maccon; Company I), Alabama National Guards, and two companies of Tennmilitia acted as official military es GRAND LODGE CLOSES * KMGIITS Or PYTHIAS HAD A DKI.ICU'W I, TIMK. Tl??? I witch Whs on the Outside to tho Dcli'HatcH at Aiken During tho Whole Session. The (irand Lodge of the Jh uth Carolina domain, Knights of i'ythiaf*, in annual Suite Convention at Aike? Tuesday and Wednesday, came to & close Wednesday morning a few mirvutes before noon, the next ar.sembfry to he held at Cheater. The.husinoae of Wednesday morning was given o*er to routine work, and the election of (Irand Lodge othcers for the cu suing twelve months. Dr. Ceorgo W. Dick, of Sumter, was elected grand chancellor; If. K. Osborne, of Spartanburg, grand vice chancellor; Herbert R. (Jyles, of Aiken, grand prelate; 0. D. Browne, Abbeville, grand keeper of records and seal; Wilson CI. Harvey, of Bhar? leston, grand master of the exchequer; Dr. J. M. Oliver, of Orangeburg, grand master at arms; R. 11. ('ox, of Darlington, grand inner guard; (leorge fUroman, of Orangeburg, grand outer guard, Dr. A Rarlo Booer, of Columbia, grand ti ibuno. The Hon, i.Mendel D. Smith,, of Ct*?n den, was elected supremo repr? sentative for four years, and M. It. I'Ivors, of Charleston, his alternate. The Brand Dodge by vote ]>1 iCed itself on record as being oppose t to changing the minimum ago limi' for entrance to the order from twentyone to eighteen. It made its usual? appropriations, running between $80 and $10 0 to the Baptist, Prevbytetian, Methodist and lOpiscopal orphanages of this State. The success marking the Brand Lodge held at Aiken four years ago characterized the ouo just brought to a close. It has been consorvatIvoly estimated that as many as three hundred delegates from all parts of tho State attended one or more of Its sessions, and tho Knights have boon very profuse in their praises of tho charms and hospitality of Aiken. M 0|l< < Mil \ ill IIU1I1 AllgHWIH I ll?{lday brought over more than IttC Knights wlio joined their South Carolina hrethron in the enjoyment in the theatrical entertainment In the Thestone Theatre that evening, Paul CMlmore in "The llavoc". Thin wan followed by an open air reception In OeddingH Park, where myriad electtrie lights east a brilliant glow, Hundreds upon hundreds of people wore present, moving here and there ami greeting <> 1 <1 friends. ANOTHER FATAL ERROR. ? Woman Pies its Result of Taking (Uchloride of Mercury. Another death from bichloride of mercury taken by mistake for headache tablets occurred at Philadelphia on Wednesday. The victim, Mrs. Louis Zimmerman, twenty-five vee.ia old, took the poison eleven days ago. She quickly discovored her mistake, a physician was summoned and poo was removed to a hospital, i Until Tuesday Mrs. Zimmerman felt confident, that she would recover and discussing the death of B. Sanders Walker at Macon, (la., said to her husband: "1 ought to get well, 1 took such a small dose." Hor temperature and pulse were normal until shortly before doalh, when she complained that she felt as though paralyzed. Physicians had no hope of a cure, and say the fact that the woman lived eleven days is rty markable. corts to tho Veterans. The ranks of ttie Veterans riding in automobiles were swelled from time to time by those who had beliovod themselves equal to marching in the parade, but who were unable to stand the trying ordeal. 'Many of these staggered along bravely attempting to maintain step with the more vigorous comrades. When they were forced to fall out ready hands were extended by the Veterans in the automobiles and amid renewed cheers from the spectators they were hauled aboard to continue tho march under less trying conditions. What was considered one of the most impressive and inspiring spectacles in the parade formed the roar of the parade. One thousand mounted Veterans, proceeded by a cavalry corps of the late Gen. Nathan lVedford Forrest, who won the name ol the "Wizard of the Saddle" during in '? * - * * ? * in*? war neiween trie States, composed this section. Tlie cavalry corps was mounted on its own horses an?fc is said to he the only organized corps j of Forrest cavalrymen in the country. (Jen. H. A. Taylor commanded. The Veterans for the first time j since the War Between the States i were mounted on United States cavalry horses. Many humorous scenes were enacted when the memjbers of the 11th United States cavalry turned their mounts over to the aged Veterans. Some of the Veterans had to bo assisted into the saddle, hut all maintained their seats during the pararto despite the capers of the prancing steeds. Thursday afternoon the Pled Piper of Ilalin, was presented in a local park by several hundred school children in honor of the Veterans.