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nd aS THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1005, (ining at home and dining at undue length, 1 thought it was a dinner party, ‘Cos we ‘int, awmed, s'help me Gord!” “1 tell you it was this one, Can't yon whistle for the police’ Raffles differed; in the end we proved right. Wheels grated in the drive, a “Ah, you're a knowin’ one,” said Rosenthall, fingering his triggers, “But “Police be damned! I've had enough of the blessed police. me in his own way. With that he dragged me from all other h any mo against a door, and sent a bullet crashing through the wood within carrlage and pair stood at the ateps; there was a stampede from tho dining- You've streck a knowin'er."* “Then we'd better get back and make sure of the other rotter.” inch of my ear, room, and tho ioud voices died away, to burst forth presently from the porch “Ho, yuss, we know all abaht thet! Set a thief to ketch a thief—ho, “Oh, make sure o' yer skin, That's what you'd better do, Jala, you “You drunken focl! It'll he murder!" shouted Purvis, getting im yuss," black hog, If T cateh you sknikin'’ * # * way a second Lime, 7 T@t mie make our position perfectly clear, We were over the wall, at the side of the house, but a few feet from the dining-room windows, On onr right, one angle of the building cut the back lawn in two diagonally; on ovr loft, another angle just permitted us to see the jutting steps and the walting carriage. We saw Rosenthall come out—saw the glimmer of his diamonds before anything. Then came the pugilist; then a lady with a head of hair ike a Lath sponge; then another, aud the party was complete, 8 creeping from the drawing-room on my “Wha' do | care?) He's armed, isn't he? I shot liim in self-defense. hands and knoes, my own revolver be a warning to others, Will you stand aside, or d'ye want it yourself?’ swinging by its steel ring from my “Yon're diunk,” sald Purvis, still between us. “I saw you take @ teeth, tumulerful since you come in, and it’s made you drunk as a fool, Pull y % For an instant TE thought that the Self together, old man, You ain't a-going to do what you'll be sorry for, bis! ’ “Then 1 won't shoot at him, I'll only shoot roun’ an’ roun' the bogsar,, 4 Yow'e quite right, ole feller. Wouldn't hurt him, Great mishtake. Roun’ ‘ My eyes had torn themselves from the round black muzzles, from the I never heard the threat. 1 accursed diamonds that had been our oe snare, the pasty plz-face of the over- fed pugilist and the flaming cheeks and hook nose of Rosenthall hime volf. I was looking beyond them at the doorway filled with quivering hall also was deserted. [was wrong, and Terept upon a Kaffir on all fours, Tae nat Oran erent axsltarien ty i silk anil! pitiehy black faces, white Poor devil, I cout not bring myself 48’ reun’, There—Iike that!” ei UARAUN Belier ati s with them,” he whispered, ‘This is great! eye-balls, wooly pates, But a sudden to den! him a base blow, but 1 threat- His freckled paw shot up over Purvis's shoulder, mauve lightning cam® “The Gard nie silence recalled my attention to the ened him most hideously with my re= {eH his ving, a red flash from his revolver, and shrleks from the women as) © ¢ Gardenia!” the millionalie had bawled. millionaire. And only his nose re- volver, and left the white teeth chat. the reverberations diced away, Some splinters lodged in my hair, Next Instant the orize-fighter disarmed him; and I was safe from tha 7% devil, but Mnally doomed to the duep sea. A policeman was in our midst. 7) He had entered through the drawing-room window; he was an officer of few! words and creditable promptitude, Ina twinkling he had the handcuffs on iny wrists, while the pugilist explained the situation, and his patron reviled” the force and Its representative with impotent malignity. A fine watch they 9) kept; a lot of good they did; coming in when all was over and the whole) might have done worse. | L turned Into the first room 1 household might have been murdered in thelr sleep, The offleer only i st room T Geigned to notice him as he marched me off. came to. Tt was a bedroom—empty, "\Vo know all about you, sit,” sald he contemptuonsly, and he refused 97) though lit up; and never shall E for- the soyereign Purvis proffered, “You will be seeing me again, sir, at He get how [ started as 1 entered, on Marylebone, ‘ here ne 7 h aT ‘ “Shall | cone now?" cncolntoning: the awtit villain th “Ng you please, alr, T rather think the other gentleman requires you | was myself at full leneth in a piers more, and 1 don't fancy this young mun means to give much trouble,” is glass! Masked, armed and ragged, [ “Oh, I'm coming quietly,” 1 said, y: + sarr! ra f n| . And I went. ° WAR nest AY eebnlom (O88) 2Ueh D} Ii silence we traversed perhaps a hundred yards. Tt must have been 7 the hangman, and to one or the other : midnight, We-did not meet a soul, At last I whispered: “And that's best of all,” said Raffles, standing upright as hoofs and tnined its color. wheels crunched through the gates and rattled off at a fine speed, nee WARE I whispered, trembling with excitement, with a hoarse oath, “Spit ft out, or, ‘They'll be clearing away. Yes, here come their shadows, The drawin by Christmas, PI drill yout” toom windows open on the lawn, Bunny, It’s the psychological moment, Whort price thet brikewater?” Where's that mask?” T produced it with a hand whose trembling I tried in vain to still, and could have died for Raffles when he made no comment on what he could not fall to notice. His own hands were firm and cool as he adjusted my mask for me and thon his own, “By Jove, old boy,” he whispered cheerily, “you look atout the greatest ruffian Tover saw! These masks alone will down a nigger, if we meet one. But I’m gled I remembered to tell you not to shave. You'll pass for White- chapel if the worst comes to tho worst and you don’t forget to talk tho lingo. Better sulk like a mule if you're not sure of it, and leave the dialogue to me; but, please ourestars, there will be no need. Now, are you tering in his black head as T took the stairs three at a time, Why IT went upstalrs In that decisive fashion, as though it were my only course, I can- not explain, But garden and ground floor seenied alive with men, and [ “What d'ye mean?" ho whispered i i drawled Railles coolly. “mh Rosenthall's revolvers were seribing widening orbits. “Whort price thet brikewater— old T, D, B.2" “Where In hell did you get hold o that?” asked Rosenthall, with a rattle in his thick neck meant for mirth, You may well arst,” says Raf- rengy? a, fles, “It's all over the plice wrere 1 T made up my mind. “How on earth did you manage 1t?” Quite, come from," Did myself in the wardrobe behind “Purely by luck," sald Rattles, ut na me luck ie got, aean are ot your gag?” “Who © ie Ah yot?” 4 etyit Bee id vove through knowing every Lrlelk of those lack-garden walls, and the double "Yep." Nine aha Bprrnds such 2 the mirror, and there I stood shiver TPO nave these toga with the rast over at Chelsea. ‘The helmet {s one of Ing and cursing my fate, my folly. collection T made up at Oxford; here {t goes over this wall, and we'd bet- ug) ote “T dunno," says Raffles; “arst Shooter? the gen'leman on ver left; p'r’aps ‘e "Yes," knows,” “Than follow me.” In an instant we were over the wall, In another on the lawn behind the house. ‘There was no moon, ‘The very stars in thelr courses had veiled themselves for pur benefit. Terept at my leader's heels to some French win- “dows opening upon a shallow verandah, He pushed. They yielded “Lack again.” he whispered; “nothing but luck! Now for a light.” (he alge of RinvganeGhe next he had Ard the light came! pocketed his pistols on a professional A good score of electric burners glowed wed for the fraction of a second, instinct and was upon us with his then rained merciless white beams Into our blinded eyes, When we found fi our sight four revolvers covered us, and between two of them the colossal “Ont of the Hght—out o' the frame of Rauben Rosenthal! shook with a wheezy Jaughter from head to foot. light!’ yelled Rosenthal) in a frenzy. Gagd evenig, boys,” he hiccoughed. “Glad to see ye at last. Shift foot He was too late. No sooner had or finger, you on the left, though, and you're a dead boy, I mean you, you rly ¥ AK D y i ys an vou, § the burly pugilist obstructed his fire Rosenthal answered their shrieks greaser!”” he roared out at Raffles, "I know you. Tyo heen waitin’ for you. than Rallies was through the window with n roav for silence; the woman’, the Third Adventure of I've been watchin’ you all this week! Plucky smart you thought yerselt, at ¢ ; » I, fo 1 I took the stairs three at a time. f ze hi DURE your ght y at a bound; while [, for standing still with the bath-sponge hair swore at “RAFFLES, THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN’’ and Raffles most of all -Raflles first ter carry the coat and belt before we meet a real officer, { got them once and Jast--for T daresay half an hour, for a fancy ball—ostensibly-—and thereby hangs a yarn, T always thought ‘Then the wardrobe door was flung they might come in useful a second time, My chief crux to-night was get- Na} Sabie Me ting rid of (he hansom that brought me’back, I sent hin off to Scotland auddenly open; they had stolen into yarg with ten bob and a special message to good old Mackenzle, The wholo” the room without a sound; and L wits detertive department will be Bt Rotenthae pba Hee an poe of O rs ¢ "4 , course, T speculated on our gentleman's hatred of the police—another huge hunted downstairs an ignominious STS" ‘hack, If youd got away, Well and good; if not, I felt he was the captive, man to play with his mouse as long as possible, Yes, Bunny, tt'e been more Gross scenes followed in the hall; of a costume plece than I Intended, and we've come out of It with a good the ladies were now tipon the stage, deal lers credit, Hut, by Jove, we're Jolly Iteky to have come out of tt” and at sight of the desperate criminal & AU (THE they screamed with one accord, In truth, I must have given them fair cause, though my mask was now torn 4 away and hid nothing but my left ear, NEXT SATURDAY—‘‘Le Premier Pas,’’ The gentleman on his left had turned livid with emotion, Guilty conscience never declared itself in plainer terms. For a moment his small eyes bulged like currants in OND.) eect BEAR EAMG ae ae ears and next one 6" and saying nothing, was selentifieally felled to the floor, him shrilly in return; the placy became a Babel impossible to deseribe, 1 ree ae aap aang eters rth ae Bagutie Aca a a a But rs left 1 cannot have beer many moments without my senses. When I recoy- member wondering how long It would te before the police appeared, Purvis F ‘; iil ie’ leaden | BRERTA vat Bins, vacks every night, all ered them there was a groat to-do in the garden, but I had the drawing-room and the ladies were for calling them in and giving me in charge without There will be Thirteen Adventures in this OAIVHENE) guW hos) dhWled RAITIeR! “don't exolte,) Tela fal . to myself. 1 sat up. Rosenthall and Purvis were rushing about outside, ,delay. Rogenthall would not hear of It. He swore that he would shoot man * 1 te et Jon’t sweat to know ‘ow you brung it orf. On’ e. Hsafalr cop. 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You won't mind my my chair, But suddenly a little ohilt of doubt onmme bor, rushed upstairs to explain the matter to my put I soon worked my way through that and out at (esting yo, wIH you? Let me see—how are Ayr: upon me \ 9 wife, and joined Holmes upon the doorstep, the other end. [was fairly at the end of my tether shires?! “oT must be frank: with you,’ sald I. ‘Mawson only OC “Your neighbor Is a doctor,” said he, nodding at at jast and could hardly find the stamps to answer ‘A hundred and six and a quarter Wo a hundred — gives me two hundred, but Mawson 9 safe, Now/ the brass plate. the advertisements or the envelopes to atick (hem to I five and seven-cighths,” really, | know so little about your company that! Yes; he bought a practice, as T did." I had worn out my boots paddling up dffice stuuirs, And New Zealand Consolidated? “Ah, smart, smart!’ he cried, In a kind of eostasy “An old-cstablished one?” and I secmed Just as far trom getting a billet ts A hundred and four,’ of delight, ‘You are the very man for us, You are “And British Broken Hills?’ not to be talked over—and quite right, too, Now, "Just the same as mine, Both have been ever — oyor, BY SIR A. CONAN DOYLE. sinus the houses Wore BNE” eels hale umtusy cal HA wanTTe CINE Seven to seven-and-six,’ here's a note fora hundred pounds, and if you thinte “aw a \ioaney & f vs, “Ah! ‘Then you got old of the best of the two.” 00 { ree “Wonderful,” he cried, with Mls hands up,‘ that wo con do business you may Just allpile Bite ‘ the great stock-broking firm in Lombard street, 1 wands Up. "Phe oie packet naan advance upon your salary.’ hat tean ite fite in with all (hat Lo tave heard, My boy, “I think I did. But how do you know?" dare say B.C, is not much in your I are very much too good to be a clerk “By the stops, my boy, Yours are worn three tei} (Lopymeht, 1002, by Harper & Brothers, nat is very handsome,’ said 1, ‘When should I TLY aft nt closed," ou that this i about the richest house In Chi His iy, hagas . FRAG BOuENY closed, Inches deeper than his, But this gentleman in the fonaon. ‘The advertizoment. was to be answered by ot Mawson's!" take over my new duties? @ connection in the Paddington district ot at all, T should wish nothing better than to cit is my client, Mr. Hall Pyeroft, Allow mo to jetter only, Esent in my testimonial and ay ton, ‘This outburst rather astonished me, as you can “Re In Birmingham to-morrow at one,’ sald he, Old Mr. Farquhar, from whom I purchased — have some more of such experiences,” introduce you to him. Whip your horse up, cabby, but without the least hope of getting It, Back came think, ‘oll,’ sald 1, ‘other people don't think quite ‘I have a note in my pocket here which you will it, had at one thine an excellent general \ro.day, for example?” piety ge SRA Lal al eataeet ets ou tree woe At answer by return, saying that if I would appear so much of me as you seem to do, Mr. Pinner, L take to my brother, You will find him at No, 1208 y ‘ound aclng was a well- ; 4 : te : aie sale W * ‘ 5 ; uy, y rf next Monday I might take over my new duties at had a hard enough fight to get this berth, and Lam Corporation street, where tie temporary oMces of Practice; bit his age and an affliction of the nature Yew, to-duy, It you Itke, bullt, fresh-complexioned young fellow, with a frank, — Gnoo, provided stay Appearance was satisfactory. very glad to have It! : the company are situated, Of course, he must con= @t St. Vitus's dance from which ho suffered had “And as far off as Birmingham?" honest face and a slight, erlep, yellow mustache, He x74 Gav knows how thee things are worked. Some — 6 «pooh! man, you should soar above it, You are fitm your engagement, but, between ourselves, ft very much thinned It, The public, not unnaturally, “Certainly, tf you wlah It" wore a very shiny top hat and a neat sult of sober ponte wiy that the manager Just plunges his hand nye jy your true sph Now, r'll tah yan will be all vight, Bree CALNE BENS SL REDS aio aun OLNee mt ay Melhor when h He ts al vein MU CHAE Cie have Wear taneiled Into the heap and takes the firat one that comes — how it stands with What have 1 to , ‘Really, I hardly know how to express my grate a 4 helghbor's when he goes, He is always Young oily ik B Anyhow, it was my! innings that time, and T don offer enol hen easure y tude, Mr, Pinner,’ said 1. must himself be whole, and looks askance at the ready to work off the debt” cockneys, but who give us our crack volunteer FeR!- Ay wisn to feel totter pleased, ‘The screw WAS A — "Blittyt wut whon comnared witit Mewson'a tee tleht nt at all, my boy, You have only got your curative powers of the man whose own cuse Is be- ! Nothing could be better,” said Holmes, lein- and who (urn out more fine athletes and young aw rlac, and the duties juet about the 15 Gack, Let me cc, When ao. Vou fo to Maw. ‘Teserts. ‘There are ono or two small things—mere yond the reach of his drugs, Thus as my predeces- ne pack In his chair and looking keenly at me from spartan than any body of en in thee Walanay: same as itt Coxon's, ' son's?! formalities—which I must arrange with you. You sor weakohed’ hie practice declined. until) when Under hls haltoloned eyes, “C perceive that you His round, ruddy face was naturally full of cheer. “And now I come to the queer part of the busi “On Monday,’ have a bit of paper beside you, there, Kindly write ‘8 of his mouth seemed to me te have been urwell lately, Simmer colds are always Ness, but Lhe corn upon it, “I am perfectly willing to act as business purchased li from him, It had Sunk from twelve ‘A Nias seaie AS poss. Twas In diggings out Hampstead way, No, 17 "Ha, ha! T think T would risk a ittle sporting v Ith fs t MAL Pe pulled go nit d NAIC CO ae a ao Potter's terrace, Well, 1 was sitting doing a smoke — flutter that you don't go there at all.' Manager to the Franco-Midiand Hardware Come hundred to Hitle more phan three hundeed a yoar, 1 L was confined to the house by a severe chill for NOt, however, until we were in @ first-class carriage 4 Fr ae JUNRUBSIER aweonteh pany, Limited, at a minimum salary of £600,""* had contidence, however, In my own youth and thee days let week, I thought, however, that I Nd well started upon our journey to Tirmingham Bes Ta SINR aoe Ee Ry IaNannny en “ONos aif Dy that day you will bo che buatness “did as he asked, and he pot the paper in his energy, and was convinced that in a very few years Bee St araty trace GU lies, Ya thee Eyes yes ‘a Jen wriek Saeeoe was which Orr witch had ‘Arthur Planer, Financial Agent,’ manager of the Mranco-Midiand Hardware Company, Pocket , f the concern would be as flourishing as ever. GHGS TOR Hid Sas eo toe ee + : printed upon it, Lhid never heard the name before — Limited, with a hundred and thirty«four branches in Thote I one other detail,’ aaid he, "Whee ab | j ctee Ae aut oy ae Et We haves olin run hore of seventy minute and could not fmaglne what he wanted with me: — the towns and villages of France, not counting one — you Intend to do about Mawson’? For three months after taking over the practice I My dear fellow, you know my methods," Holines remarked, “I want you, Mr. Hall Pycroft, jue ot coutwe, Lasked her to show him up, In he jn Brossels and one In San Ri “L had forgotten all about Mawson's In my Joy. 7 ‘. Ub) Y on rl " r ver ff 4 psish iS £ i " eS ww y , . was kept vory closely at work and saw little of my weenie My thant to tell my friend your very Interesting experience — walked, a middle-stxed, dark-haired, dark-eyed, ‘Thin took my breath away. ‘I never heard of 11,’ TW writo and reslany’ said 1, friend Sherlock Holmes, for I was too busy to visit wand reat what?” Sans you ete oe pa is me, or With more innek-beurded man, with a touch of the Hebrew — sald I, Pr oisely wie I don't want you 8 fhe M had Bakor street, and ho seldom went anywhere himself, strom your alippers,"” stall It possible, 18 will Be of use to me to hear gout hia nose. Ho tid w brisk Kind of way with Vary likely not, Tt has been Kept very quiet, & Faw Ofer ¥ Marth Mawson's manager, has gone " . the succession of events again, It Isa case, Wat- iim and spoke sharply lke a man who knew the forthe capital was ali privately subscribed, and it's UP to ask him about you, and he was very offensive; ‘save upon professional business, I was surprised, I glanced down at the new patent leathers which son, which may prove to have something In tt, Or Jars of time too good a thing to let the public into, My brother, accused me of coaxing you away from the service of therefore, when, one morning in June, as T sat read- I was wearing.* “How on earth"— I began, but may prove to have nothing, but which, at least, pre- ne, f voli adda} Harry Pinner, Is promoter, and joing the board, after the firm, and that sort of thing, At last I fairly ing tho Dtish Medical Journal ater breabrast, 1 Holmes anawered my question before it was asked, | fenta. those unusual and outre features which are |, ve, Tal BVT Fea pushing: a ehale toward allotment, as managing diroctor, He knew Twas in Jost my temper: ""I¢ you want good men you should “Your slippers are new," he sald, ‘You could not as dear to you as they are to me, Now, Mr. Pycroft, iE) OB! Tanswored, ba 0 ore, anc cd me pay them a good price,” said 1 hoard a ting at the bell, followed by the high, wome- a6 ing thom more than @ fow weeks, ‘The soles Tahal Hal interAupe $oU ogni” ‘him. Wauolay! io ee aes Se ee aunt alate PAY cute’ would rather have. our small Ore enitie ‘ what strident, tones of my old companion's voice, which you aro at this moment presenting to mo sire Our young companion looked at me with a twinkle “Lately engaged at Coxon & Woodhouse's ff anon about him. Parker spoke of you, and that your blir one,” sald tie.’ m "An, my dear Watson,” sald he, striding Into the slightly scorched. For a moment I thought they In his eye. ¥ Kos, ett.! Ma n'a?! brought me hore to-night. We ean only offer youa “ort iay you a fiver,’ sald I, “that when he hag room, “Iam very delighted to seo you! I trust that might haxe got wet and been burned In the drying, “The worst of the story Is," sald he, “that T show (“And now on soe Hae ot ee : hegwarly tive hundred (o start with,’ my offer you'll never so much as hear from him Mrs, Watson has entirely recovered from all the But noar the instep there is a small circular wafer myself up as such a confounded fool. Of course, it “i eda ire har he tases ts eek t have. nuacd “Rive hundred a year!’ T shouted, me of paper with the shopman’s hiecroglyphics upon it, may work out all right, and T don't see that 1 could “Only that at the boginning; but you are to have 1 sald ho, “We picked him out of the |) j Uttle excltements connected with our adventure of — Ham somo really extraordinary stories about your finan: , hha 1» would, of course, have removed this, You have done otherwise; but if 1 have lost my crib and HA UL da . ¥ an overriding commission of 1 per cent, on all bugle gutter, and he won't leave us $0 easily," ‘Thome — Helen of Pour, i had, then, been sitting with your fect outatretched get nothing in exchange, I shall feot what a soft cial ability, tS allbad) Eye te: onan: pont ness done by your agents, and you may take my — were his very words." ‘ H “Thank. you; we aro both very well,” sald I, shak- to the fire, which a man would haruly do even in so Johnnte I have been. I'm not vory good at telling f me Henatemors ese OFM}: v word for it that this will come to more than your “phe linpudent scoundrel!’ I oried, ‘I've never se |) { {nmiilin’ warmly by the hand wot a June as this if he were In his full health,” a story, Dr. Watson, but It is like this with mo: It. salary.’ much as seen him in my life. Why should 1 00) “ ” Like all Holmes's reasoning, the thing seemed “I used to have a billet at Coxon & Woodhouse's, “Of course, I was pleased to hear this, 1 had yi I, ’ " 1 ainh: t Ht » )' |, abet a } » But I know nothing about hardware, sider him in any way? I snail cert ly not write ‘And 1 hope, also,"" he continued, sitting down In ginoticity itself when It was once explained, He of Draper's Gardens, but they wore let In early in always beon pretty sharp in the office, but 1 had wimyt, my boy! You know about figures,’ if you would rather I didn’t.’ i the rocking-chair, “that the cares of medical prac- yead tho thowght upon my features, and his wmile the spring through the Veneauclan loan, as no doubt never dreamed that I was talked about In the city is tlee have not entirely obliterated the interest which had a tinge of bitterness. you remember, and came a nasty cropper, I had in this fashion. 4 you used to take in our little deductive problems," "Tam afald that I rather give myself away when been with them five years, and old Coxon gave mo “You have a good memory?’ said he. : ” ” 1 explain,” said he, ‘Resulte without causes are 4 ripping good testimonial when the amash came; “ ‘Pretty falr,' I answered, modestly, ; On the contrary,” I answered, “It was only last oy ore Impressive, .You are ready to come to dit, of course, wo clerks were all turned.adrift, the ‘Have you kept in touch with the market while The conclusion of this Story will be published in to-morrow’s th aah that I was looking over my old notes and : twenty-seven of us, I tried hore and tried there, you have been out of work? hg Asked, : SUNDA y WORLD MAGAZINE, clagal fying noms Of Gus Peat peay but there. wore lots of other chaps on the samo lay =" 'Yos, IK read the Stock xchange lst every 2 \ 3 welt, and twas a perfect frost for a jong — morning )