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A STUDY I IN SCARLET Uy Sir A. Con an Doyle. V # CllAPTEi* V. Our Advertisement livings a Visitor. Our morning's exertions had been too much for my weak health, and i was tired out in the afternoon. After Holmes' departure for the concert 1 lo?. .? .?,> uuwn upon the sofa and endeavored to get a couple of hours' sleep. It was a useless attempt. My mind had been too much excited by all that occurred, and the strangest fancies and surmises crowded into it. Every time that I closed my eyes I saw before me the distorted, baboon-like countenance of the murdered man. So sinister was the impression which that face produced upon me that I found it difllcult to feel anything but gratitude for him wno had removed its owner from the world. If ever human features bespoke vice of the most malignant type, they were certainly those of Enoch J. Drebber, of Cleveland. Still, 1 recognized that justice must be done, and that the depravity of the victim was no condonement in the eyes of the law. The more 1 thought of it the more extraordinary did my companion's hypothesis, that the man had been poisoned, appear. 1 remembered how he had sniffed his lips, and had no doubt that he had detected something which had given rise to the idea. Then, again, if not poison, what had caused the man's death, since there was neither wound nor mark of stranirulnt Ion ? ltnt ",n - ? - ' v? v ? v/u IIIU UUM'I hand, whose blood was that which lay so thickly upon the floor? There were no signs of a struggle, nor had the victim any weapon with which he might have wounded an antagonist. As long as all these questions were unsolved 1 felt that sleep would be no easy matter, either for Holmes or myself. His quiet, self-confident manner convinced me that he had already formed a theory which explained all the facts, though what it was 1 could not for an instance conjecture. He was very late in returning?so late and I knew that the concert could not have detained him all the time. Dinner was on the table before he appeared. "It was magnificent," he said, as he took his seat. "l)o you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influnced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its child hood." "That's rather a broad idea," I remarked. "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature," he answered, "what's the matter? You're not looking quite yourself. This Brixton Itoad affair has upset you." "To tell the truth, it has," I said. "I ought to be more case-hardened after my Afghan experinces. I saw my ovrn comrades hacked to pieces at Maiwand without losing my nerve." "I can understand. There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror. Have you seen the evening paper?" "No." "It gives a fairly good account of tho affair. It does not mention the fact that when the man was raised up a woman's wedding ring fell upon the floor. It is just as well it does not." "Why?" "Look at this advert ismcnt," he answered, "I had one sent to every paper tliis morning immediately after the affair." He threw the paper across to me, and I glanced at the place indicated. It was the first announcement in the "Found" column. "In Rrixton Road," it ran, "a plain gold wedding ring, found in the roadway between the White Hart Tavern and Holland Grove. Apply Dr. Watson, 221B Raker Street, between eight and nine this evening." "Excuse my using your name," he said. If I used my own some one of these dunderheads would recognize it, and want to meddle in the affair." "That is all right," I answered. "Rut supposing any one applies, I have no ring." "Oh, yes, you have," said he, handing me one. "This will do very well. It is almost a facsimile." "And who do you expect will answer this advertisement?" "Why, tho man in the brown coat ?our florid friend with the square toes. If he does not come himself % _ mi ,1 ? ne Will wi'iiu nil actumpuuc. "Would he not consider it as too dangerous?" "Not at all. If my view of the case is correct, and I have every reason to believe that it is, this man would rather risk anything than lose the ring. According to my notion he dropped it while stooping over Drebber's body, and did not miss it at the time. After leaving the house he discovered his loss, and hurried back, but found the police already in possession, owing to his own folly in leaving the candle burning. He had to pretend to be drunk in order to allay the suspicions which might have been aroused by his appearance at the gate. Now, put yourself in that man's place. On thinking the matter over, it must have occurred to him that it was possible that lie had lost the ring in the road after leaving the house. What would he do then? Ho would eagerly look out for the evening paper, in the hope of seeing it among the articles found. His eye, of course, would light upon this. He would be overjoyed. Why should he fear a trap? There would be no reason in his eyes why the finding of the ring should be connected with the murder. He would come. He will come. You shall see him within an hour." "And then?" I asked. "Oh. you can leave ine to deal with him then. Have you any arms?" "I have my old service revolver and a few cartridges." "You had better clean it and load it. He will l?e a desperate man, and, though I shall take hi u unawares, it is as well to be ready for anything." 1 went to my bedroom and follow ed his advice. When I returned with tiie pistol the table had been cleared, and Holmes was engaged in his favorite occupation of scraping upon his violin. "The plot thickens," lie said, as I entered. "I have just had an answer from my American telegram. My view of the case is the correct one." "And that is?" I asked; eagerly. "My fiddle would be the better for new strings," he remarked. "Put your pistol in your pocket. When the fellow comes, speak to him in an ordinary way. Leave the rest to me. Don't frighten him by looking at him too hard." "It is eight o'clock now," I said, glancing at my watch. "Yes. He will probably be hero in a few minutes. Open the door slightly. That will do. Now put the key on the inside. Thank you! This is a queer old book 1 picked up at a stall yesterday?4De Jure inter Gentes'? published in Latin at Liege in the Lowlands, in 104 2. Charles' head was still firm on his shoulders when this little brown-backed volume was struck off." "Who is the printer?" "Phillippe do Croy, whoever he may have been. On the fly-leaf, in very faded ink, is written, 'Kx liberns (tulielmi Whyte.' I wonder who William Wliyte was? Some pragmatical seventeenth century lawyer, I suppose. His writing has a legal twist about it. Here comes our man, 1 think." As he spoke there was a sharp ring at the bell. Sherlock Holmes rose and softly moved his chair in the direction of the door. We heard the servant pass along the sharp click of the latch as he opened it. "Does Dr. Watson live here?" asked a clear, but rather harsh voice. We could not hear the servant's reply, but the door closed, and some one began to ascend the stairs. The footfall was an uncertain and suffling one. A loo-: of e .tnr' $ * passe 1 over the face of my companion as he listened to it. It came slowly along the passage, and there was a feeble tap at the door. "Come in!" I cried. Aat my summons, instead of the man of violence whom we expected, a very old and wrinkled woman hobbled into the apartment. She appeared to be dazzled by the sudden blaze of light, and, after dropping a courtesy, she stood blinking at us with her bleared eyes and fumbling in her pocket with nervous shaky fingers. I glanced at my companion, and his face had assumed such a disconsolate expression that it was all I could do to keep my countenance. The old nrnno tlrow (Mil on nvonintr ninur fin/1 pointed at our advertisement. "It's this as has brought me, good gentlemen," she said, dropping another courtesy; "a gold wedding ring in the Brixton Road. It belongs to my girl Sally, and as was married only this time twelvemonth, which her husband is a steward aboard a Union boat, and what he'd say if he come 'oine and found her without her ring is more than I can think, he being short enough at the best o' times, but more especially when he has the drink. If it pleases you, she went to the circus last night along with " "Is that her ring?" I asked. "The Lord be thanked!" cried the old woman. "Sally will bo a glad woman this night. That's the right." "And what may your address be?" I inquired, taking up a pencil. "13 Duncan Street, Houndsditch. A weary way from here." "The Brixton Road does not lie between any circus and Houndsditch," said Sherlock Holmes, sharply. The old woman faced round and looked keenly at him from her little red-rimmed eyes. "The gentleman asked me for my address," she said. "Sally lives in lodgings at 3 Mayfleld Place, Peckham." "And your name is " "My name is Sawyer?hers is Dennis, which Tom Dennis married her? and a smart, clean lad, too, as long as he's at sea, and no steward in the company more thought of; but when on shore, what with the women and what with liquor-shops " "Here is your ring, Mra. Sawyer," 1 Interrupted, In obedience to a sign from my companion. "It clearly belongs to your daughter, and I am glad to ,be able to restore it to the rightful owner." With many mumbled blessings and protestations of gratitude the old crone packed It away In her pocket, and shuffled off down the stairs. Sherlock Holmes sprang to his feet the moment she was gone and rushed into his room. Ho returned in a few seconds enveloped in an ulster and a cravat. "I'll follow her," he said, hurriedly; "she must he an accomplice, and ^ will lead me to him. Wait up for me." The hall door had hardly slammed behind our visitor before Holmes had ^ descended the stair. Looking through the window, I could see her walking feebly along the other side, while her pursuer dogged her some little distance behind. ? ? 1,"M * 1 LI- ?1 > * Ciinitu nig wuoie meory is ineor- . rect," I thought to myself, "or else ^ ho will bo led now to the heart of the mystery." There was no need for him to ask me to wait up for him, for I felt that sleep was impossible until 1 heard the result of his adventure. It was close upon nine when he ' set out. T had no idea how long he might be, but I sat stolidly pulling at ' my pipe and skipping over the pages of llenri Murger's "Vie de Boheme". Ten o'clock passed, and 1 heard the footsteps of the maids as they pattered off to bed. Eleven, and the more stately tread of the landlady 1 passed by my door, bound for the ( same destination. Tt it was close upon twelve before. I heard the sharp sound of his latch-key. The instant he entered I saw by his face that he had not been successful. Amusement ' and chagrin seemed to be struggling ( for the mastery, until the former suddenly carried the day, and he burst 1 into a hearty laugh. 5 "I wouldn't have the Scotland 1 Yarders know it for the world," he < cried, dropping into his chair; "I have chaffed them so much that they : would never let me hear the end of 1 it. 1 can afford to laugh, because I know that I will be even with them in the long run." 1 "What is it, then?" I asked. "Oh, I don't mind telling a story i against myself. That creature had < gone a little way when she began to limp and show every sign of being < footsore. Presently she came to a halt, and hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. I managed to be close ? to her so as to hear the address, but i I need not have been so anxious, for / sho sung it out loud enough to bo ] heard at the other Hide of the street, i 'Drive to 1Duncan Street, Houndsditch,' she cried. This begins to look ] genuine, I thought, and, having seen her safely inside, 1 perched myself ] behind. That's an art which every | detective should be an expert at. i Well, away we rattled, and never i drew rein until we reached the street . in question. 1 hopped off before we came to the door, and strolled down ( the street in an easy, lounging way. I saw the cab pull up. The driver ( jumped down, and I saw him open ( the door and stand expectantly. Noth- ( ing came out, though. When I reached him he was groping about frantically in the empty cab, and giving ( vent to the finest assorted collection of oaths that ever 1 listened to. There was no sign or trace of his pessenger, and 1 fear it will be some time before he gets his fare. On inquiring at No. 1 ft I found that the house belonged to a respectable paper-hanger named Keswick, and that no one of the name either of Sawyer or Dennis had ever been heard of there." "You don't mean to say," I cried in amazement, "that that tottering, feeble old woman was able to get out of the cab while it was in motion, without either you or the driver seeing her?" "Old woman be d d!" said Sherlock Holmes( sharply. "We were ' the old women, to be so taken in. It must have .been a young man, and an active one, too, besides being an incomparable actor. The get-up was ' inimitable. He saw that he was followed, no doubt, and used this means of giving me the slip. It shows that 1 4 ll A O ll'A o ? /* ? > 4 ^ ~ ill*.- 111 ci 11 \> u ill r ill I <1 in IHJl itfS Mini:ly as I imagined lie was, but lias 1 friends who are ready to risk something for him. Now, doctor, you 1 are looking done up, Take my ad- ' vice and turn in." I was certainly feeling very weary, ' so I obeyed bis injunction. I left ( Holmes seated in front of the sniold- ' oring fire, and long into the watches ' of the night I heard the low, melan- ' choly waitings of bis violin, and kne\v ' that he was still pondering over the 1 strange problem which he had set 1 himself to unravel. (To be continued.) James E. Watson's refusal to ap- ' pear before the Senate committee to answer the Mulhall charges is a very frank confession that the charges in bis case are unanswerable. If the f former Republican whip and former f Republican candidate for Governor of ' Indiana bad a plausi.ble explanation J of the damning documents filed against him he would lose no time in 1 presenting bis defence to the court of ' public opinion. -He pleads guilty to ' the indictment. 1 + + ? ( The New York World asks has Re- , publican Congressman Wallin of Am- ( sterdam no better way of preparing ( for the ruin to follow tariff reduction \ than in enlaging the capital of bis ( | cnrpoi and ruR manuracumng easiness? Such disloyalty to party theory and especially to old Schedule K merits the severest condemnation. I I J Ambassador Wilson is also heart Unapproved by Felix Diax, the traitor and ingrate whose life President Madero had generously spared only to have it turned treacherously and mur, derously against him. COULD NOT BUY THEM iH LH.YIX SAY'S TIIK DKM(K'KATS WKHK NOT FOK SALK ? llcthods and Doings of the National Mumifu- ;in eis Association Told on the S.;.nd. The internal workings of the NuAssociation of Manufacturers veto explained to the House lohhy oi.i.nuiee ihursduy by .James L. 10wdi, tormerly manager tjf a trade pubieation issued in connection with the n g tnidation. The witness went at ?reat length into several internal disH utions that disturbed tlte organl/.a ivju cum auacKeu rather bitterly some of its oflicials, partciuiarly .1. i\ Bird, who, lie declared, treated him infair in discharging him from thf 3inploy of the Association. j Little of Dwell's testimony bore on he legislative activities of the Association, although he did describe two jonversatons between Mr. Hird and Sol. Martin M. Mulhall, at which he >vas present. "On one occasion," he said "I knew here was a tremendous fight on in he district of Representative Hughes }f New Jersey. I was talking to Mr. Hird wnen Mr. Mulhall came into the room in his characteristic way and shouted: 'Well, I could have done better if I had had more money. I didn't have enough money. There were plenty of Democrats over there ind 1 didn't have money enough to buy them. I think 1 did well with the money I had, don't you?" On another occasion Dwell said lie beard Mulhall demand $2.r?00 from Hird "for work in Washington." Hird promised him the money, the witness declared. Dwell told the committee of the circumstances of the resignation of Marshall Gushing as secretary of the National Association of Manufacturers. lie said Gushing declined to tell the ofllcers and dircetors the details if the expenditure of money in a campaign to re-elect Representative Littlefiehl, of Maine. "They wanted to know just what be did with the money he had," said 10well. "He said he thought it would not do him or the directors any good if lie told them. He told me he went Iho limit to secure Little field's election. He wouldn't tell the directors, 30 lie resigned. Discussing the dismisal of D. A. Holey and the appointment of F. F. Porter in charge of the Association's campaign for membership. Ewell quoted Cooley as saying that "Porter could get the money, hut lie didn't like his tactics." The committee was anxious to locate Cooley and probably will call him later. ? I/EVER HAS NOT DECIDED +? Whether He Will Enter the Race for the Senate or Not. The Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier says: 'Congressman A. P. Lever, who made an address Wednesday afternoon before the Conference for the Common Good on "A National Programme for the Development of American Agriculture," has been the centre of interest. Scores of people have been asking if he intended entering the race for the United States Senate next year against Senator Smith and Governor Please. When approached about the matter Congressman Lever with that inscrutable Lever smile, would admit nothing further than that, lie was seriously considering the matter. Congressman Lever's room at the Jefferson iiotel was thronged with vistors all the afternoon and it is known that many men from different parts of the State urged him to enter the Senatorial race, and that lie received many flattering proffers >i support. Many iroin (iinerent counties called at his room and offer ?d to back him if he would go into the race, but beyond the statement hat he was seriously considering the tvhole matter, he wouiu not commit It im self." ? ? ? SAVFS < IIIMHtKVS IJVFS lint the Faithful I)<?K is Killed 1 ?y an Escaped leopard. A leopard, which has been at large dnce escaping from a circus at Cookttoon, attacked two children of Wiliam \V a gen m an, at liis farm house, tear Red Lake Falls, Minn., Tuesday. Hie lives of the children were saved >y the family dog, a Scotch colic, .vhieh charged th.e animal, distractng his attention while the children ? raped into the house. After H had tilled the dog the leopard escaped in0 a cornfield. Tin aday afternoon noro than one hundred citizens induding business men and farmers, irgani/.ed to hunt the animal. A huntng party went from Crookaton Sun1 n if K.W ^-1 my u u u nuiiiicu iiunuuucnsi Ml, > Ki11< < 1 by Lightning. W)i"o Bitting at the window, Clif'o -d Palmer, the 13-year-old sen of F. (\ Pilmer, of Pendleton cotton mill *'ns killed by a bolt of ligs'.ning late Wednesday night. Members of the 'amily were attracted to the room ocmnied by young Palmer by smelling jvrning cloth. The lad wns found lead on the floor, his clothes afire. " . # WILL SEEK THIRD TERM ? II I.KASE TO STAND HUt fiOVKItXOH ONCE MOKE. Such Is (lie Unlikely Story That Conies From Washington About South Carolina Politics. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says South Carolinians who have recently been in Washington have mentioned a rumor which they say has been discussed in various parts of their State, to the effect that it has been suggested to Coventor Hlease by some of his friends hat instead of running for the Senate next venr be rpoIc n tntr.i term uk Governor. In support of this advice, according to the story, it is urged that there are a great many more people in the State who are agressively interested ni keeping Please in the Gubernatorial chair than are interested in sending him to the Senate. By the time Senator Smith's present term is over most of the small amount of patronage that comes to the junior South Carolina Senator by reason of the change in the Administration at Washington will have been distributed; and it is hardly necessary to remark that a Senator cannot grant pardons or cut off the heads of State olllcers. Precedent in South Carolina is against more than two successive terms in the Governorship, but it is noted that precedents have never had much weight with Governor Please, and that they do not affect his following. On the other hand it is said, tint a considerable proportion of South Carolina voters who are supporters of Please for the Gevernorship have said that they will vote for omith for reelection to the Senate, on the ground that he lias been active and ? nergetlc particularly in behalf of The farmers and that he deserves to lie encouraged. A good deal of interest is f 11 as to what Governor Please will have to say about the rumor that he is thinking about running again for Governor and undertaking to get a Legislature in complete sympathy with is policies. RAIDS A BLIND TIG EH I F?ile<l to Buy llis Liquor From the County Dispensary % The Charleston Evening Post says the largest and most complete seizure of liquor and llxtures that has been made in Charleston in years occurred Wednesday morning1 ct about I I o'clock when a raiding squad headed by Rural Police Officer J. W. Rurton, and armed with a search warrant, descended upon the establishment of George Schiadaressi, at State and Market streets, and mane a large haul, tearing out the fixtures and clearing out the place generally. The occasion of the raid was the allegation, based upon information gathered by liquor constables that Schiadaressi had recently received a consign- I ment of liquor imported from outside the State. The search and seizure warrant given to the sheriff to serve, was taken out through Magistrate Lunz's office by P. II. Corlcy, a special constable appointed by Gov. Please on the information secured by Constable M. S. Ranks, to the effect that a large consignment of spirituous liquors, imported from other cities and not bought through the local lispensaries had been received by the Schiadaressi establishment. ? LEGISLATORS ARE SENTENCED. + Convicted of llribery and (Jet Terms iri Penitentiary. At Webster Springs, W. Va., sentences were imposed upon the live members of the West Virginia Legislature late Monday by Judge W. S. O'Brien. The legislators were convicted in Superior Court of bribery in connection with the election of a United States Senator earlv in ihu year. The sentences were as follows: Delegates R. IT. (I. Rhodes, Rath Duff and H. 1<\ Asbury, six years each in the penitentiary; State Senator R. A. Smith, five years and six months, and Delegate Davie Hill, five years. In | addition the five are disqualified for life, from holding any public office or oflice of trust. The Augusta Chronicle nays, "Hon. R. It. Tillman holds that the new tariff measure and the new currency measure are necessary, in great degree, one to the other. And he is ready to stay on the job till Christmas." Roth our Senator are sticking close to their posts. Neither of them hardly ever miss a roll call. / We are favor of Rryan talking all he wants to. It was his "talks" that nrnneml ? ~ -1 ? 11 .V x/n.nvM Iiiv; VUIIIIII ^ MIMl lllitutl lilt? election of a Democrat ie President possible. The people will never be able to repay him for all ho has dono for them. Let him continue to talk when and where he pleases. f "It is positively amazing the way some newspapers enthuse over President Wilson's Mexican policy when he has never told anybody wnat his policy is," says the Washington Herald. \ TELLS ABOUT CRIME ? I HUM IV ON STAND TtLLS SENSATIONAL STOKY. DESCRIBES THE SCENE 1 Negro Accomplice of Frank in the Murder of the Young Pencil Factory < ir 1 at Atlanta Tells All Alnuit ! the Awful Prime Fnacted in tho Factory Walls. Counsel for Loo M. Frank, superintendent of the Atlanta pencil factory, <?n ? r? i i 1 for 1 ? f *? ?-? u.i >1 mi iwi i iii" null uui "i Ai;iry iTiiV gan, spent the entire afternoon Monday in a grilling cross-examination of James Conlcy, negro sweeper at tho pencil factory where the girl's body was found. The negro earlier in the day accused the defendant of being a degenerate and charged that Frank the little factory girl because she repulsed his attentions. In his testimony Conlcy declared that on several occasions he stood on guard for Frank, when the l itter was closeted with women. Frank, according to the negro's testimony, was aocustoined to stamp on the floor when he desired C'onley to keep watch. Conley sometime ago made a confession, and while on the stand Monday he stuck to the story he told then. Tho lawyers for the defence tried to break down his testimony, hut Conlcy held his own. In his direct evidence Conlcy gave a circumstantial account of what ho alleged happene 1 at the factory tho day the Phagan girl met h> i death. The negro testified that about noon on tlie day of the girl's disappearance she went into tue room with Frank who thereupon gave him the prejvrranged signal to keep watch. Only a short time had elated, according to the negro, when he heard a muffled scream. A few minutes later he was summoned by Frank, according to the hitter's testimony, apparently being greatly excited. Conley testified that tho factory superintendent's face was crimson; his body and legs were trembling, and that ho clutched a cord with both'hands. "1 wanted her and she resisted me," Frank exclaimed, according to Conlcy. He then told of going at Frank's direction to the machine room, where he found tho body of Mary Phagan. Thorn, ho declared, he bundled tho girl's body In a sack and attempted to take it to tho elevator. Ho was forced to call to Frank to help him, ho said, and together they carried tho body to the elevator. Frank, he declared, turned on the electric-current by which the elevator was operated, and they carried the body to tho basement. There, the negro said, the body was left on a pile of rubbish near the furnace. He told of their going to Frank's office where, he claimed, the factory superintendent offered him $200, and where the negro claimed ho wrote tho notes at Frank's dictation, which later were found near the body of tho girl. Conley testified that Frank continued to become more nervous wbile in the office. Walking back and forth and wringing bis hands. Conley stated that Frank exclaimed: "Why should I hang, I have wealthy relatives in Brooklyn?" "But what's going to happen to me?" Conley said he asked Frank. "I'll take care of you alright," ho said Frank replied, and handed him a roll of bills containing $200. According to tho negro's testimony, Frank told him to go down into the basement, gather up some chips, put them in the furnace, and put the girl's body on top of them. The negro stated that he told the factory superintendent bo was afraid to go into the basement alone, but would go if Frank would accompany him. Frank, according to tho witness, refused to go to the basement, and took back the $200 which he had glven Conley, saying that he would keep it for him. Frank, tho negro said, told him to leave tho building, but to come back in about forty minutes. As Conley was leaving the building Frank accompained him to the stairway, according to the witness, with his arm thrown over Conley's shoulder. The (Ireenwood Journal says "there is a smack of old times in Senator Tillman's reply to the Now Yorker who charged the Sen ltor with ignorance of affairs in Wait Street." The Senator can take care of himself. He may not be ablo to talk as he used to, but'he can write as strong and as caustic as ever he could. ? Young Man Kills Self. Wilton Jefferson, a young man 20 veara of 9i>n ..?j.1 ^ , _ ... >.n. , vvuillHUCU a II M" HI f ill hih homo 10 miles west of Anderson Tuesday, about dark. No ntson has been assigned for the act. He shot himself behind (he right e>\^ with ft pistol. * ? It is about time that the Republican senators and congressmen shoul<\ shut up their hot air and let tho Democrats ruin themselves as the Republicans predict they will do by passing the tariff bill. J