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1 « .;• V CHAPTEUIX A BHKAX IS THE CIIA1M. It was late In the afternoon before I woke, strengthened and refreshed. Sherlock Holmes still sat exactly as I had left l'>m, save that he had laid aside his violin and was deep in a book, lie looked across at me us 1 stirred, and I noticed that his face was dark and troubled. “You have slept soundly,” he said. ••I feared that our talk would wake too, uave considered ami there is a search you. “Have “I heard noth intr,” 1 answered, you had fresh news, then?" “Unfortunately, no. 1 confess that I sra surprised and disappointed. I ex pected something definite by this time. Wiggins has just been up to report, lie says that no tract; can be found of the launch. It is a provoking cheek, for every hour is of importance.” ••Can I do anything? I am perfectly fresh now, and quite ready for another night’s outing.” “No; we can do nothing. We can only wait. If we go ourselves, the mes sage might come in our absence, and delay be caused. You can do what you will, but I must remain on guard.” “Then I shall run over to Caml>cr- well and call upon Mrs. Cecil Forrester. She asked me to, yesterday.” “On Mrs. Cecil Forrester?" asked Holmes, with the twinkle of a smile in his eyes. “Well, of course, on Miss Morstan- too. They were anxious to hear what happened.’’ “I would not tell them too much,” laid Holmes. •‘Women are never to be sntirely trusted—not the best of them.” 1 did not pause to argue over this itrocious sentiment. “I shall be back in au hour or two,” I remarked. •‘All right! Good luckl Hut. I say, If you are crossing the river you may is well return Toby, for 1 don’t think it is at all likely that we shall have my use for him now.” I took our mongrel accordingly, and efthim, together with a hull sovereign it ths old naturalist’s In I’inchin lane. It Camberwell I found Miss Mors tan a little weary after her night’s adven tures, but very eager to hear the news. Sirs. Forrester.too,' was full of curios ity. I told them all that we had done, suppressing, however, the more dread ful parts of the tragedy. Thus, al though I spoke of Mr. Kholto’s death, I said nothing of the exact manner and method of it. With all my omissions, however, there was enough to startle and amaze them. “It is a romance!” cried Mrs. Forrea- tyy. “An injured lady, half a million it treasure, a black cannibal and a wooden-legged ruffian. They taka the place of the conventional dragon or wicked earl.” “And two knight-errants to the res cue," added Miss Morstan, with a bright glance at me. “Why, Mary, your fortune depends upon the issue of this search. I don’t think that you are nearly excited enough. Just imagine what it must be to be so rich and to have the world at your feet!" It sent a thrill of joy to my heart to notice that she showed no sign of ela tion at the prospect. On the contrary, she gave a toss of her proud head, as though the matter were one in which she took small interest. “It is for Mr. Thaddeus Sholto that I am anxious,” she said. "Nothing else is of any consequence; but I tbink that he has behaved most kindly and honorably throughout. It is our duty to clear him of this dreadful and un founded charge.” It was evening before I left Camber well, and quite dark by the time I reached home. My companion’s book and pipe lay by his chair, but he had disappeared. I looked about in the hope of seeing a note, but there was cone. “I suppose that Mr. Sherlock Holmes has gone out," I said to Mrs. Hudson as she came up to lower the blinds. “No, sir. He has gone to his room, sir. Do you know, sir,” sinking her voice into an impressive whisper, “I am afraid for his health?” "Why so, Mrs. Hudson?" “Well, he’s that strange, sir. After you was gone he walked and he walked, up and down, and up and down, until I was weary of the sound of his footstep. Then 1 heard him talking to himself and muttering, and every time the bell rang out he came on the stair-head with: ‘What is that, Mrs. Hudson? 1 And now he has slammed off to his room, but I can hear him walking away the same as ever. I hope he’s not going to be ill, sir. I ventured to say something to him about cooling medicine, but he turned on me, sir, with such a look that I don’t know how I ever got out of the room.” "I don’t think that you have any cause to be uneasy, Mrs. Hudson,” I answered. “I have seen him like this before. He has some small matter up on his mind whicli makes him restless.” I tried to speak lightly to our worthy landlady, but I was myself somewhat uneasy when, through the long night, I still from time to time heard the dull sound of his tread, and knew how his keen spirit was chafing against this involuntary inaction. At breakfast time he looked worn and haggard, with a little fleck of feverish color upon either cheek. “You are knocking yourself up, old man,” I remarked. “I heard you march ing about in the night” “No, I could not sleep,” he answered. “This Infernal problem is consuming me. It is too much to be bulked by so petty an obstacle, when all else had been overcome. I know the men, the launch, everything; and yet I can get no news. 1 have set other agencies at work, and used every means at my dis posal The whole river has been searched on either side, but there is no news, nor has Sirs. Smith heard of her husband. I shall come to the conclu sion soon that they have scuttled the craft But there are objections to that.” “Or that Mrs. Smith ha* put us on a wrong scent." “No, I think that may be dismissed. I had inquiries made, and there is a launch of that description." “Could it have gone up the river?” sons for his deductions. When I tooKeq back on t!»e long chain of curious cir cumstances, many of them trivial in themselves, but all tending in the same direction, I could not disguise from myself that even if llelmes’explana tion were incorrect the true theory must l>e equally outre and startling. At three o’clock in the afternoon there was a loud peal at the bell, an authoritative voice in the hall, and. to my surprise, no less a person than Mr. Athelney Jones was shown np to me. \ ery different was he, however, from the brusque and masterful professor of common sense who had taken over the ease so confidently at Fpper Norwood. „ ! His expression was downcast, and his that possibility bearing meek and even apologetic. party who “Good day, sir; good day," said he. “Mr. Sherlock Holmes is out, I under- j stand.” 'Yes. and 1 cannot lie sure when he . .9-,g i wil1 1* 2 bock. Hut perhaps you would care to wait. Take that chair and try one of these cigars.” “Thank you; 1 don’t mind if I do," said he, mopping his face with a red bandanna handkerchief. “And a whisky-and-soda?” Well, half a glass. It is very hot for the time of year; and I have had a good deal to worry and try me. You know my theory about this Norwood case?” 'I remember one.” that you expressed CLAD IS KUDE SAILOR DRESS. will work np as far as Richmond. If no news comes today, I shall start off niywfif tomorrow, and go for the men “Well, I have been obliged to recon sider it. I had mv net drawn tightly round Mr. Sholto, sir. when pop lie went through a hole in the middle of it. He was able to prove an alibi which could not be shaken. From the time that he left his brother's room he was never out of sight of some one or other. So it could not be he who climbed over rather than the boat." Hut surely, roo, “ an<1 through trap-doors. It’s a surely, we shall hear something.” j dark case, and my professional We did not, however. Not a word cre dit is at stake. I should lie very glad came to us either from Wigginsor from the other agencies. There were articles in most of the papers upon the Norwood tragedy. They all appeared to be rather hostile to the unfortunate Thaddeus Sholto. No fresh details were to be found, however, in any of them, save that an inquest was held upon the following day. I walked over to Camberwell in the evening to to report onr ill success to the ladies, and on my return I found Holmes de jected and somewhat morose. He would hardly reply to my questions, aud busied himself all evening in an abstruse chemical analysis which in volved much heating of retortsand dis tilling of vapors, ending at last in a smell whieli fairlv drove me out of the apartment. Up to the small fours of tlie morning I could hear the clicking of Ids test-tubes which told me that he was still engaged in his malodorous ex periment. in the early dawn I woke with a start, and was surprised to find him standing by my bedside clad in a rude sailor’s dress, with a peajacket, aud a coarse red scarf round his neck. “I am off down the river, Watson," said he. “1 have been turning it over in my mind, and I can see only one way out of it. It is worth trying, at all events.” “Sorely I can come with you, then," said I. “No; you can be much more useful if yon will remain here as my represent ative. I am loath to go, for it is quite on the cards that some message may come during the day, though Wiggins was despondent about it last night. I want you to open all notes and tele grams, and to act on your own judg ment if any news should come. Can I rely upon yon?” “Most certainly." “1 am afraid that you will not be able to wire to me, for I can hardly tell yet where I may find myself. If lam in luck, however, I may not be gone so very long. I shall have news of some sort or other before I get back." I had heard nothing of him by break fast time. On opening the Standard, however, I found that there was a fresh allusion to the business. “With reference to the Upper Norwood trag edy,” it remarked, “we have reason to Ix-iievc that the matter promises to be even more complex and mysterious than was originally supposed. Fresh evidence has shown that it is quite im possible that Mr. Thaddeus Sholto could have been in any way concerned in the matter. He and the house keeper, Mrs. Hernstone. were both re leased yesterday evening. It is be lieved, however, that the police have a clew to the real culprits, and that it is being prosecuted by Mr. Athelney Jones, of Scotland Yard, with all his well-known energy and sagacity. Fur ther arrests may be expected at any moment.” “That Is satisfactory sm far as it goes," thought I. “Fricn” Sholto is safe at any rate. 1 wonder what the fresh clew may lie; though it seems to be a stereotyped form whenever the police have made a blunder.” I tossed the paper down upon the ta ble, but at that moment my eye caught an advertisement in the agony column. It ran in this way: “Lost. — Whereas Mordecai Smith, boatman, and his son Jim left Smith’s wharf at or about three o'clock last Tuesday morning in the steam launch Aurora, black with two red stripes, funnel black with a white band, the sum of five pounds will be paid to any one who can give information to Mrs. Smith, at Smith’s wharf, or at 221 b Baker street, as to the whereabouts of the said Mordecai Smith ana tha launch Aurora.” This was clearly Holmes' doing. The Baker street address was enough to prove that. It struck me as rather in genious. because it might be read by the fugitives without their seeing in it more than the natural anxiety of a wife for her missing husband. It was a long day. Every time that a knock came to the door, or a sharp step passed in the street, I imagined that it was either Holmes returning or an answer to his advertisement I tried to read, but my thoughts would wander off to our strange quest and to the ill-assorted and villainous pair whom we were pursuing. Could there be, I wondered, some radi cal flaw in my companion's reason ing? Might he be suffering from some huge self-deception? Was it not possible that his nimble and specu- lative mind had built up this w ild theory upon faulty premises? I had never known him to be wrong; and yet the keenest reasoner may occasionally be deceived. He was likely, I thought, to fall into error through the over refinement of his logic—his preference for a subtle and bizarre explanation when a plainer and more common place one lay ready to his hand. Yet, on the other hand, I had myself seen of u little assistance. “We all need help sometimes,” said I. “Your friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, is a wonderful man, sir," raid he, in a husky and confidential voice. “He's a man who is not to be boat. I have known that young man go into a good many cases, but I never taw the case yet that he could not throw a light upon. He is irregular in his methods, and a little quick, perhaps, in jumping at theories, but. on the whole, 1 think he would have made a most promising officer, and I don’t care who knows it. I have had a wire from him this morn- ing, by which I understand that he has got some clew to this Sholto business. Here is his message.” He took the telegram out of hia pocket, and handed it to me. It was dated from I’oplar at twelve o’clock. “Go to Baker street at once,” it said. “If I have not returned, wait for me. I am close on the track of the Sholto gang. You can come with us to-night if you want to be in at the finish." “This sounds well. He ha* evidently picked np the scent again,” said I. “Ah, then he has been at fault too," exclaimed Jones, with evident satisfac tion. "Even the best of us arc thrown off sometimes. Of course this may prove to lie a false alarm; but it is my duty as an officer of the law to allow no chance to slip. But there is some one at the door. Perhaps this is he.” A heavy step was heard ascending the stairs, with a great wheezing and rattling as from a man who was sorely put to it for breath. Once or twice he stopped, as though the climb was too much for him, but at last be made his way to our door and entered. His ap pearance corresponded to tha sounds which we had heard. He was an aged man, clad in seafaring garb, with nn old peajacket buttoned up to his throat. His back was bowed, his knees were shaky, and his breathing was painfully asthmatic. As he leaned upon a thick oaken cudgel his shoul ders heaved In the effort to draw air into his lungs. He had a colored scarf round his chin, and 1 could see little of his face save a pair of keen dark eyes, overhung by bushy white brows, and “WHAT IS IT, MY MAX?” I ASKED. long gray side-whiskers. Altogether he gave me the impression of a re spectable master marriner who had fallen into years and poverty. “What is it, my man?” I asked. He looked about him in the slow me thodical fashion of old age.'' "Is Mr. Bherlock Holmes here?” said he. “No; but I am acting for him. You can tell me any message you have for him." "It was to him himself I was to tell it,” said he. “But I tell you that I am acting for him. Was it about Mordecai Smith's boat?” “Yes. I knows well where it is. An’ I know* where the men he is after are. An’ I knows where the treasure is. I knows all about it.” “Then tell me, and I shall let him know.” “It was to him I was to tell it," he repeated, with the petulant obstinacy of a very old man. “Well, you must wait for him.” “No, no; I ain’t goin’ to lose a whole day to please no one. If Mr. Holmes ain't here, then Mr. Holmes must find it all out for himself. I don’t care about the look of either of you, and I won’t tell a word.” He shuffled towards the door, but Athelney Jones got in front of him. "Wait a bit, my friend,” said he. “Yon have important information, and you must not w alk off. We shall keep you, whether you like or not, until our friend returns.” The old man made a little run to ward* the door, bnt, as Athelney Jones put hi* broad back up against it, he recognized the uselessness of resistance. “Pretty sort o’ treatment this!” he cried, stamping his stick. “I come here to see a gentleman, and you two, who and I never saw in my life, seize me uu IUC '-»n»va »***“—v —* . ... a » • ••« the evidem*. and I had heard the rea- treat me in this fashion. “You will l»e none the worse,” I said. “We Jiall rnuorapense you for the lose of your tiiae. bit over here on the sofa, and you will not have long to wait.” He came aernss sullenly enough, and seated ii.mself with his face resting on his hands. Jones and 1 resumed our cigar., and our talk. Suddenly, how ever. Holmes' voice broke in upon us. “I think that you might offer me a cigar, too," he said. We Isith slartcd in our chairs. There was Holmes sitting close to us with an air of quiet amusement. •’Holmes!" I exclaimed. “You here! But where is the old man?” “Here is the old man,” said he, hold ing out u heap of white hair. "Here he is—wig, whiskers, eyebrows, and all- I thought my disguise was pretty good, but 1 hardly expected that it would stand that test." "Ah. you rogue! ’ cried Jones, highly delighted. '‘You would liave made an actor, and a rare one. You had the proper workhouro cough, and those weak legs of yonrr; are worth ten pound a week. I thought I knew the gliut of your eye, though. You didn’t get away from us so easily, you sec.” “I have been working In that get-up all day," said ho. lighting his cigar. "You see, a good many of the criminal classes Ix-gin to know me—especially since our friend here took to publish ing some of my eases; so 1 can only go on the warpath under some simple dis guise like this. Yon got my who?" “Yes; that was what brought rao here.” "How has i<>ur ease prospered?" “It has all come to nothing. I have had to release two of my prisoners, and there is no evidence against the other two.” ’Never mind. We shall give you two others in the place of them. But you must put yourself under my orders. You are welcome to all the official credit, but yon must act on the lines that I point out. Is that agreed?” “Entirely, if you will help me to the mcr ‘Well, then, in the first place I shall want a fast police-boat—a steam launch -to be at the Westminster Stairs at seven o'cloclc.” “That is easily managed. There is always one about there; hut I can step across the road and telephone to malic sure.” ‘Then I shall want two stanch men, in case of resistance." ’There will be two or three in the boat. What else?” ‘When we secure the men we shall get the treasure. I think that it would lie a pleasure to my friend here to take the box round to the young lady to whom half of it rightfully belongs. Let her lie the first to open it. Eh, Watson?" “It would be a great pleasure to me.”’ “Rather an irregular proceeding,” said Jones, shaking his head. “How ever, the whole thing is irregular, and I suppose we must wink at it. The treasure must afterwards be banded over to the authorities until after the official investigation.” “Certainly. That is easily managed. One other point. I should like much to have a few details about this matter from the lips of Jonathan Small him self. You know I like to work the de tail of my cases out. There is no ob jection to my having an unofficial in terview with him either here in my rooms or elsewhere, as long us he is ef ficiently guarded?” “Well, you are master of the situa tion. I have had no proofs yet of the existence of Jonathan Small. How ever, if you can catch him, I don’t see how I can refuse you an interview with him.” “That is understood, then?” “Perfectly. Is there anything else?” “Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will lie ready in half an hour. 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Leave Charleston 4.12 a m Lanes 0.80 a w Kingstree 0.44 a in Arrive Florence 7.65 a in No. 32. l, eavo Charleston 4.80 p m Lanes 0.08 p m Kingstree 0.23 p ra Arrive Florence 7.15 p in No. 52. Leave Charleston 7.00 a in Arrive Lanes 8.35 » i£ No. 52 runs through to Columbia via Central R. R. of 8. C. Train Nos. 78 and 14 runs via Wilson uiid Fayetteville—Short Line—and makes close connection for all points North. J. F. DIVINE. Gen. Supt. 4*7ILMINGTON, COLUMBIA * V? AUGUSTA KALROAD. In effect June 3, 1894. SOUTH BOUND. No. 5b. Leave Wilmington 8-30pm Marion 0.24 p in Arrive Florence 7.06 p in No. 50. Leave Florence 7.80 p m Sumter 8.88 p m Leave Sumter 8.88 p in Arrive Columbia 10.00 p m No. 68. Leave Florence 8.15 a m Arrive Samter 4 19 a m No. 58. Leave Sumter 9.48 am Arrive Columbia 11.05 a m No. 52 run* through from Charles ton via Central Railroad; leaving Lanes 8-38 a m, Manning 9 15 a m. NORTH BOUND. No. 56. Leave Columbh .... . 4.30am Sumter...- . 0.43 a m Arrive Florence . 8.00 a m Leave Florence 8.25 a m Marion 9.06 a m Arrive, Wilmington 11.50 a m No. 58. Leave Columbia 4.25 p m Arrive Snmter 5.48 p m No. 50. Leave Columbia Sumter 6.05 p m Arrive Florence 7.15 p m No 53 runs thiougu w cnarleston via central Railroad, arriving Man ning 6.21 p m. Lanes 7.00 p m. Charleston 8.40 p m. Trains on South and North Caro lina R. R., leave Atkins 9.40 a. m. and 6.30 p. m., arriving Lucknow 11.10 a. m. and 8.00 p. m. Returning leave Lucknow 6.45 a. in. and 4.20 p m., ar riving Atkins 8.15 a. m. and 5.50 p. m. Daily except Sunday. Trains on Wilmington, Chadbourn and Conway Railroad leave Chad- bourn at 11.30 a in, arrive at Conway l. 45 p m, returning leave Conway at 2 30 p. m., arrive Chadbourn 4:50 p. m. Leave Chadbourn 6.85 p m arrive at Hub 6-20 p. m. Re turning leave Hub 8.15 a m, arrive at Chadbourn 9.00 a m. Daily exepet Sue lay. Trains leave Pregnalls 8.30 a. m., Snmmerton 9 48 a. m., Snmter 10.85 a. m., Darlington 11.55 a. m., Ben- nettsville 12.48 p. m., arrive Hamlet l. 40 p. m. Returning, leave Hamlet 2.10 p m., Bennetteville 8.00 p. m., Darlington 3.52 p. m., Samter 5.11 p. m, Snmmerton 5.58 p. m., arrive Pregnalis 7.81 p. m. JOHN F. DIVINE. Gann Say'*.