The evening world. Newspaper, February 18, 1905, Page 13

SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURES. oUPPLEMENT Burlder. By Sir A. Conan Doyle. Author of ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,” “The Hound of the Basker- villes,” “The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard, ‘The Sign of the Pop,” “A Study ih Scarlet,” Etc. ne (Copyright, 1908, By dl. Conan Doylevand Collier's Weekly.) (Copyright, 1903, By MeClure, Phillipe & 60.) appeared in last Saturday's Evening World in a color section similar to this.) ROM the point of view of the criminal expert,” ‘@aid Mr. ', Sherlock Holmes, \ “London has become a singularly wn- interesting. city since’. the death’ of ‘the late lamented Professor Morlarity,” \ “IT can hardly think that you would find many decent , citizens to agree with you,” I answered, ei! “Well, well, 1 mudaé snot be selfish,” sald he,* With sa Smile as he\pushed tiaok “his” ' chalr from the breakfast table. “The community ‘Ig ce tainly the gainer, and no oné th loser, save the poor out-of-wor specialist, whose occupation —is gone, With that man in the fiel one's morning paper presented in finite possibilities, ‘Often it wa only the smallest ‘trace, Watson, the faintest Indication; and yet it was enough to tell me that the great, malignant brain was there, as the gentle tremors of the edges of the web remind one of the foul spider which iurks in the centre, Petty thefts, wanton assaults, pur poseless/outrage—to the man who held the clue all couldy, be worked into one connected whole, To the scientific stu- dent of the higher criminal world no capital’ in Europe offered the advantages whith I.ondon then possessed, But new’-—— He shrugged his\shoulders in humorous depre- cation of the state of things which he had himself done av much to produce. At the time of which I speak Holmes had been back for some months, and I, at his request, had sold my practice and returned to share the old quartérs in Baker gtreet, } given, with astonishig mur, the highest