Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 27, 1912, Page 4

* Was not a matter in which he himself CHIISCCHCCS of ZSHERIOCK. HOIMES cid Iiustr: OI THE DEVILS FOOT In recording from time to time some of the curious experiences and inter- esting recollections which I assoclate with my long and intimate friendship with Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I have con- tinually been faced by difficulties caused by his own aversion to pub. lcity. To his somber and cynical 8pirit all popular applause was always abhorrent, and nothing amused him more at the end of a successful case than to hand over the actual exposure to some orthodox official, and to listen with a mocking smile to the general chorus of misplaced congratulation. It was indeed this attitude upon the part of my friend, and certainly not any lack of interesting material, which has caused me of late years to lay very few of my records before the public. My participation in some of his adventures was always a privilega Which entailed discretion and reti- cence upon me. It was, then, with considerable sur- prise that I received a telegram from Holmes last Tuesday—he has never been known to write where a telegram would serve—in the following terms: “Why not tell them of the Cornish horror—strangest case I have hand- led.” I have no idea what backward Bweep of memory had brought the matter fresh to his mind, or what freak had caused him to desire that I should recount it; but I hasten, before another cancelling telegram may ar- rive, to hunt out the notes which give me the exact details of the case, and to lay the narrative before my read- ers. It was, then, in the spring of the year 1897 that Holmes’ iron constitu- tion showed some symptoms of giving way in the face of constant hard work of & most exacting kind, aggravated, perhaps, by occasional indiscretions of bis own. In March of that year Dr. Moore Agar, of Harley street, whose dramatic introduction to Holmes I may some day recount, gave positive injunctions that the famous private ngent should lay aside all his cases and surrender himself to,complete rest if he wished to avert an absolute breakdown. The state of his health took the faintest interest, for his men- tal detachment was absolute, but he was induced at last, on the threat of being permanently disqualified from work, to give himself a complete change of scene and air. Thus it was that in the early spring of that year we found ourselves together in a small cottage nmear Poldhu bay, at the farther extremity of the Cornish pen- Insula. It was a singular spot, and one pe- culiarly well suited to the grim hu- mor of my patient. From the windows of our little whitewashed house, which steod high upon a grassy head- land, we looked down upon the whole Binister semicircle of Mounts bay, that old death-trap of salling vessels, with its fringe of black cliffts and surge- Bwept reefs on which innumerable sea- men have met their end. On the land side our surroundings Were as somber as on the sea. It was & country of rolling moors, lonely and dun-colored, with an occasional church tower to mark the site of some old- world village. In every direction upon these moors there were traces of some vanished race which had passed ut- terly away, and left as its sole record strange monuments of stone, irregu- lar mounds, which contained the burned ashes of the dead, and curious earthworks which hinted at prehis- toric strife. The glamour and mys- tery of the place, with ite sinister at- mosphere of forgotten nations, ap- Pealed to the imagination of my friend, &nd he spent much of his time in long walks and solitary meditations upon the moor. The ancient Cornish lan- guage had also arrested his attention, and he had, I remember, concelved the idea that it was akin to the Chal- dean. Our simple life and peace- ful, healthy routine were violent. ly interrupted, and we were precipl- tated into the midst of a serles of events which caused the utmost excitement not omly in Cornwall, but throughout the whole west of England. Many of my readers may re- tain some recollection of what was called at the time “The Cornish Hor- ror,” though a most imperfect account of the matter reached the London press. Now, after thirteen years, 1 will give the true details of this incon- ceivable affair to the public. I have sald that scattered towers marked the villages which dotted this part of Cornwall. The nearest of these was the hamlet of Tredannick Wollas, Where the cottages of a couple of hun- dred inhabitants clustered round an enclent, moss-grown church. The vicar of the parish, Mr. Roundhay, ‘was something of an archaeologist, and as such Holmes had made his ao- uaintance. He was a middle-aged an, portly and affable, with a consid-! rable fund of local lore. At his invi- tation we had taken tea at the vicar- ge, and had come to know, also, Mr. ortimer Tregennis, an independent gentleman, who increased the cleryg: nan’s scanty resources by taking rooms in his large, straggling house. {The vicar, being a bachelor, was glad fto come to such an arrangement, though he' had little in common with his lodger, who was a thin, dark, spec 'tacled man, with & stoop which gave ithe impression of actual physical de w1 ConanDoylc fions by VI Bdrnes ous, but his lodger strangely reticent a sad-faced, introspective man, sit ting with averted eyes, brooding ap parently upon his own affairs. These were the two men who en- tered abruptly into our little sitting: room on Tuesday,” March the 16th shortly after our breakfast hour, as we were smoking together, prepara: tory to our daily excursion upon the moors. “Mr. Holmes,” said the vicar, in an ngitated voice, “the most extraordi- nary and tragic affair has occurred during the night. It is the most un- heard-of business. We can only re- gard it as a special Providence ‘that you-.should chance to be here at the time, for in all England you are the pn¥ man we need.” I glared at the Intrusive vicar with no very friendly eyes; but Holmes took his pipe from his lips and sat up In his chair like an old hound who hears the view-hallo. He waved his hand to the sofa, and our palpitating visitor with his agitated companion sat side by side upon it. Mr. Morti- mer Tregennis's was more self-con- tained than the clergyman, but . the twitching of his thin pands and the brightness of his dark eyes showed that they shared a common emotion. “Shall I speak or you?” he asked of the vicar. “Well, as you seem to have made the discovery, whatever it may be, and the vicar to have had it second- hand, perhaps you had better do the speaking,” sald Holmes. I glanced at the hastily-clad clergy- man, with the formally-dressed lodger seated beside him, and was amused at the surprise which Holmes’ simple de- duction had brought to their faces. “Perhaps I had best say a few words first,” said the vicar, “and then you can judge if you will listen to the details from Mr. Tregennis, or wheth- er we should not hasten at once to the scene of this mysterious affair. I may explain, then, that our friend here spent last evening in the company of his two brothers, Owen and George, and of his sister Brenda, at their house of Tredannick Wartha, which is near the old stone cross upon the moor. He left them shortly after ten o’clock playing cards round the dining- room table, in excgllent health and gpirits. This morning, being an early riger, he walked in that direction be-, fore breakfast, and was overtaken by T We Looked Down Upon the Whole Semi-circle of Mount Bay. the carriage of Doctor Richards, who explained that he had just been sent for on a most urgent call to Tredan- nick Wartha. Mr. Mortimer Tregen- nis naturally went with him. When he arrived at Tredannick Wartha he found an extraordinary state of things. His two brothers and his sister were Beated round the table exactly as he had left them, the cards still spread in front of them and the candler burned down to their sockets. The sister lay back stone-dead in her chair, while the two brothers sat on each slde of her laughing, shouting and singing, the senses stricken clean out of them. All three of them, the dead woman and the two demented men, retained upon their faces an expres sion of the utmost horror—a convul sfon of terror which was dreadful tc look upon. There was no sign of the oresence of anyone in the house. ev cept Mrs. Porter, the cook and house: keeper, who declared that she: had slept deeply and heard no sound dur- ing the night. Nothing had been stolen or disarranged, and there is absolute- 1y no explanation of what the horror can be which has frightened a woman to death and two strong men out of their senses. There is the situation, Mr. Holmes, in & nutshell, and if you can help us to clear it up you will bave done a great work.” I had hoped that in some way I could coax my companion back into the quiet which had been the object of our Journey; but one glance at his Intense face and contracted eyebrows told me how vain was now the expec- tation. % “I will look into this matter,” he said at la: “On the face of it, it would appear to be a case of a very exceptional nature. Have yoi een there yourself, Mr. Roundhay?’ “No, Mr. Holmes. Mr. Tregennis brought back the account to,the vie- arage, and I at once hurried over with him to consult you.” “How far 18 it to the house where this singular tragedy occurred?” | “About a mile inland.” - formity. I remember that during ou short visit we found the vioar garrul ! i “Then we shall walk over together. .But, before we ‘start, I must ask you O e e = At His Invitation We Had Taken Tea - at the Vicarage. a few questions, Mr. Mortimer Tregen- nis.” The other had been silent all this time, but I had observed that his more controlled excitement was even great- er than the obtrusive emotion of the clergyman. “Ask what you like, Mr. Holmes,” sald he, eagerly. “It is a bad thing to speak of, but I will answer you the truth.” “Tell me about last night.” “Well, Mr. Holmes, I supped there, as the vicar has said, and my elder brother George proposed a game of whist afterwards. We sat down about nine o'clock. It was & quarter-past ten when I moved to go. I left them all round the table, as merry as could be.” “Who let you out?” “Mrs. Porter had gone to bed, so I let myself out. I shut the hall door behind me. The window of the room in which they sat was closed, but the blind was not drawn down. There ‘was no change in door or window this morning, nor any reason to think that any stranger had been to the house. Yet there they sat, driven clean mad with terror, and Brenda lying dead of fright, with her head hanging over the arm of the chair. I'll never get the sight of that room out of my mind so long as I live.” “The facts, as you state them, are certalnly most remarkable,” sald Holmes. “I take it that you have no theory yourself which can in any way account for them?” “I’s devilish, Mr. Holmes; devil- ish!” cried Mortimer Tregennis. “It 18 not of this world. Something has come into that room which has dashed the light of reason from their minds. What human contrivance could do that?” “I fear,” sald Holmes, “that if the matter is beyond humanity it is cer- talnly beyond me. Yet we must ex- baust all natural explanations before we fall back upon such a theory as this. As to yourself, Mr. Tregennis, I take it you were divided in some way from your family, since they lived to- gether and you had rooms apart?” “That 18 so, Mr. Holmes, though the matter is past and done with. We were a family of tin-miners at Red- ruth, but we sold out our venture to & company, and so retired with enough to keep us. I won’t deny that there was some feeling about the division of the money and it stood between us for & time, but it was all forgiven and for- gotten, and we were the best of friends together.” “Looking back at the evening which you spent together, does anything stand out in your memory as throw- ing any possible light upon the trag- edy? Think carefully, Mr. Tregennis, for any clue which can help me.” “There i nothing at all, sir.” “Your people were in their usual spirits ?” “Never better.” “Were they nervous people? Did they ever show any apprehension of coming danger?” “Nothing of the kind.” * “You have nothing to add, thenm, which could assist me?” Mortimer Tregennis earnestly for a moment. * “There is one thing occurs to me,” said he at last. “As we sat at the table my back was to the window, and my brother George, he being my part- ner at cards, was facing it. Issw him once look hard over my shoulder, so I turned round and looked also. The blind was up and the window shat, but I could just make out the bushes on the lawn, and it seemed to me for & momenc that I saw something mov- ing among them. I couldn’t even say it it were man or animal, but I just thought there was something there. ‘When I asked him what he was look: ing at, he told me that he had the same feeling. That is all that I can say.” “Did you not investigate?” “No; the matter passed as unim- portant.” “You left them, then, without any premonition of evil?” “None at all.” “I am not clear how you came to bear the news so early this morning.” “I am an early riser, and generally take a walk before breakfast. This morning I bad hardly started when the doctor in his carriage overtook me. He told me that old Mrs. Por ter had sent a boy down with an ur- gent message. I sprang in beside him and we drove on. When we got there we looked into that dreadful room. The candles and .the fire must have burned out hours before, and they had been sitting there in the dark until dawn had broken. The doctor sald Brenda must have been'dead at least ‘8ix hours. There were no signs of vio- lence. - She just lay across the arm of the chair with that look on her. face. George and Owen were singing snatch es of songs and gibbering lke twc great apes. O, it was awful to_see! I couldn’t stand it, and the doctor was as white as a sheet. Indeed, he fell into a chair in a sort of faint, and w¢ nearly had him on our hands as well.” “Remarkable—most ~ remarkable!” said Holmes, rising and taking hig hat. “I think perhaps we had better go down to Tredannick Wartha with out further delay. 1 confess that ] have seldom known a case which at first sight presented a more singular problem.” ! A ~ (Conttnued Monday), considered PRAISED BY HILL (Continued from first page.) ing to achool, and going the only years of their life when they can get an education, to learn something that is of no value to them, and as far as they are concerned, it is a fraud on the part of the school. Taking his time for what? I was told that a class started in to classify books in the library, to classify them by let- ters, and absolutely a number of them did not know the order of the letters of the alphabet. They did not know whether M followed N or fol- lowed D. “We have a new system of learning to read by sight, so that we don’t need any alphabet. We have a great many different new plans, but we will come back to the old plan after while. A great many of these new fashions are of no value except to take up our time. They have been tried out in other countries, but it we want to insist on trying them out, alright, but we would be better off if we wofild make better use of our time.” SUNDAY LESSON FOUND IN LUKE (Continued from first page.) the the 80 cal thy ia. of mirth and splendor, and he ended in hell. - What a warning to this merry-making age. Let the churches be admonished lest they send some they are trying to save, to hell. To get ‘people into the churches in an unregenerate state, and then furnish them mirth and amusement to keep them there, means hell for them in the end. We must not miss the pure grace here ‘taught. The positively wicked conduct is not present here, just un- belief, and after all that is the very thing that lands in hell. Nothing about the beggar’s good deeds, only his name furnishes a key—Lazarus or Eleazar, which means, The Mighty One the Helper, it is enough. The chasm between the saved and unsaved is already, it will be very real then, and it is fixed. The cross only can bridge it. Sinner, do not despise the preaching of the Word, no one will come from hell to tell you of its horrors, and if they did you would not believe. God in grace and mercy has provided the preached Word. Swedish Lutheran. Sunday school will be held at 3:30, evening service at 8 o’clock. . Scandinavian Lutheran. Y Morning séfvice will be held at 10:30, Sunday school at 12 and even- ing service at 8 o’clock. L. Episcopal. There will be no evening services on Sunday, Rev. Parshall being obliged to attend a funmeral in Park Rapids. Sunday school will be held at 10 a. m. Presbyterian. Services tomorrow at the usual hours. Morning worship at 11; Sun- day school and Bible class 12:15; Young people’s meeting at 7. Even- ing Gospel service at 8. Mid-week praper service Thursday evening 8 o’clock. All are welcome. E First Methodist Episcopal Church. who are to be selected by the Repub. lcan state convention - which will meet Tuesday in Concord. meet in state convention in Harris- burg Wednesday to nominate candi- dates for auditor general, state treas- urer and four congressmen-at-large and to select twelve delegates to the national convention. plans so that their control of the con- vention may be unquestioned, and al- ator Penrose and completely. wreck- ing his political machine. the state convention in West Virgin- managers, while Roosevelt is believed to have the lead in West Virginia. during the week than the Republi- cans. preference primaries in Massachu- for the Democrats in Georgia and Florida and state convention in Col- orado, Connecticut and Delaware. s CLASSIFIED CHICKEN AND FOR SALE—Rhode Pennsylvania Republicans are to Encouraged by eir success in the recent primaries e Roosevelt followers are laying with a view of overthrowing Sen- Other events on the Republican lendar for the week will include e state convention in Tennessee and . Tennessee is tlaimed by the Taft The Democrats will be even busier In addition to the presidential setts there will be similar primaries Meet to Uplift the Negroes. Chicago, 111., April 27—Methods by which 'race prejudice may be elimi- nated and by which friendly rela- tions between the white and negro races may be promoted will be dis- cussed by prominent representatives of both races at the fourth annual conference of the National Associa- tion for the Advancement of Colored People which will meet in Chicago to- morrow for a three days’ session. Miss Jane Addams is to preside at the initial session tomorrow evening and the scheduled speakers include Dr. Emil G. Hirsch of Chicago, Oswald G. Willard of New York and Professor William Pickens of Talladega, Ala. LR R R RO R R WO Y ¢ LODGEDOM IN BEMID]I. ¢ 2000600006060 6666 A. 0. U. W. Lodge No. Regular meeting nights—first and third Monday, at 8 ‘o'clock, —at Odd Fellows hall, 402 Beltrami Ave. B. P 0. 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