The evening world. Newspaper, June 17, 1905, Page 13

f \ IRAN EER THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVE! and I think I know how ve worrked it, matter, ll just be clappin’ the darbies then’— By what right?" roared Raffles in a ringing voice, and I never saw his e in such a blaze, "Search us if you like, search every scrap and stitch we poxsese, but you dare to lay a finger on us without a warrant!” “TL wouldna’ dar sald Mackenzie grave as he tumbled in his breast pocket, and Ratfles dived bis hand into his own, “ilaud his wrist!" shouted the Scotchman; and the huge Colt that had been with us many a night, but had never been fired in my hearing, clattered on the table and vas raked in by the captain, “All right,” said Raffles savagely to the mate. { won't try it again, Now, Mackenzie, Ye'll no mi ndle it?” What good would that do me? Anyway, captain, it makes no on these young sparks, an’ “You can let Bo now, let's see your warrant!” Lot me see ft,” sald Raffles peremp- orily and the detective obeyed, Raflles raised his eyebrows as he perused the document; his mouth hardened, but suddenly relaxed, and it was with i smile and a shrug that he returned the paper. “Wull that do for ye?” inquired Mackenzie, t may. 1 congratulate you, Mackenzic ‘ate, Two burglaries and the Melrose o me with a rucful smile. "An' all easy to prove,” ‘I've one o' these for ong one, “To think,” said the captain reproachfully, ‘that my shib should be nade a den of thiefs' It shall be a very disagreeable madder, I have been ybliged to pud you both in trons until we ged to Nables.”” “Surely not!” exclaimed Raffies, “Mackenzie, intercede with him; lon’t give your countrymen away before all hands! Captain; we can't isenpe; surely you could hush it up for the night? Look here, here's every- hing I have in my pockets; yon empty yours too, Bunny, and they shall {trip us stark {f they suspect we've weapons up our sleeves. All I ask is hat wo are allowed to get out of this without gyves upon our wrists!" “Webbons you may not have,” said the captain; “but wad about der year] dat you were sealing?” tok Intotototedolafeled eis bet ejebeleialetatobetabelntotedobobe'eleteletobetelet stot it's a strong hand at any necklace, Bunny!” And he turned sald the Scotchman, you," he added, pocketing the warrant, nodding to me, “only not such a oft Solent N We dt school, Which is ran by “The First Woman Detective,’? mem- bers of the fair sex are taught the art of “shadowing,” Watching shoplift- ers and Wearing dis- guises—Hard ana not always dainty Work falisto the lot of pupils in this school, great deal to be learned before you may hope to obtain recognition among those of the profession. Women detectives are of three class- es: Those who are “shadowe and Dy Nina Carter, work principally on dlverce cases; those N thie day and awe there are achoola WhO are employed in the department [ of every deevintion. for all sorta stores to Keep a lookout for the Hght- of professions, Perhaps the most fingered shoplifter, and those who can jnlque school In Now ork is that for do elther kind of work and successfully » training of women detectives wear a dissguise. hig institution Is located in West ‘Those who wish to become proficient Nwenty- Vat dfs conduct> jn the frst of ¢ claeses must do a by Baith Hee, the first woman 1 great deal of studying. For Instance, New York who was ever granted ade- thare are in the dining-room of Mra. cotive'a Henge, Mrs. Lee, who his tees school three or four titbles cov~ cen tong mn the front rank of the cred with manicure instruments. ‘This Jeroetlve autiness: is now leading 2 may seem a bit absurd to the layman, see ine continually wtcting Gan etaiy but when he considers that In onder to gollect evidence for the people by whom ior this r n she bas converted hy jome into a school for women who she |* employed the woman detective trave a life full of excitement and in- must sometimes enter the service of a worest. womon and play the role of maid, she If you want to become ,a woman de- can easily understand the necessity of seetive must make up your mind this knowledge. t the start that you will have to Mrs, Is an expert manicurist, stand all sorts of hard work; early and ficial masseuse and hairdresser, All late hours must not matter to you; sud- these occupations she teaches her pupils Jon trips across the continent will who belong to the first and third Aftor & while become aulte common- classes, place, and as for using an assur T have known,” said Mra, Lee, lean- name, why, that's an every-day occurs over one of her pupils, ‘many rence have i} and jf you're real busy you'll Wmost as many different ones ay e are days in the year, This Is what Mra Lee will tell you, and she may also add that thero ts a Sieh eb iielelelsiein women detectives who, through a lack of this knowledge, could not take a case t would have brought them a great deal of mon A detective must be almost perfect in evbrything she does, Sei ivttiehileloiotolololelelol By SIR A. CONAN DOYLE. (COPYRIGHT, 19 BY HARPER & BROTHERS.) NE summer night, a few months after my marriage, 1 was seated by my hearth smoking a last pipe and nodding over a novel, for my day's work had been 4n exhausting one. My wife had already gone up- stalrs, and the sound of the locking of the hall Moor some time before told me that the servants had also retired, 1 \pon your Inoleum just thank you, I own portance an hour, had risen from my seat and round to It, was knocking out the ashes of my pipe when 1 “T sco suddenly heard the elang of the bell, Just now,” me T looked at the clock. It was a quarter to twelve. This could not be a visitor at so late an hour, A te lets ot Ieleleieietok: tol dotetel=s The Crooked Man. “Ah! He has left two nail-marks from his boot but I'll smoke a pipe with you with pleasure.” 1 handed him my pouch, opposite to me and smoked for some time in silence. I was well aware that nothing but busin would have browght him to me 80 I walted patiently until he should come that you are professionally rather busy sald he, glancing very keenly across & ‘es, I'va had a busy da. “You shall have it!” cried Raffles, “You shall have it this minute if you guarantee no public indignity on board!” “That I'll see to,” said Mackenzie, “as long as you behave yourselves, 'Yhere now, where is't?” “On the table under your nose.” My eyes fell with the rest, but no pearl was there, only the contents of our pockets—our watch pocketbooks, pencils, penknives, cigarette cases—lay on the shiny table along with the revolvers already mentioned, Ye're humbuggin’ us," said Mackenzie, “What's the use?" ‘m doing nothing of the sort,” laughed Railles, "I'm testing Where's the harm?" ‘It's here, Joke apart?” “On that table, by all my gods,’’ Mackenzie opened the cigarette cases and shook each particular clgar- you, ctte, ‘Thereupon Raifles prayed to be allowed to smoke one, and when his prayer was heard observed that the pearl had been on the table much ionger than the cigarettes, Mackenzie promptly caught up the Colt and opened the chamber in the butt. “Not there, not there,” sald Ratfles; “but you're getting hot. cartridges, Mackenzie emptied them into his palm and shook each one at his ear without result. “Oh, glve them to me!” And In an instant Raffles had found the right one, had bitten ont the bullet and placed the Empercr's pearl with a flourish in the centre of the table, “After that you will perhaps show me such little consideration as is in your power. Captain, I have been a bit of @ villain, as you see, and as such I am ready and willing to He in irons all night if you deem it requl- site for the safety of the ship, All I ask is that you do me one favor ‘irst."" “That shall debend on wad der vafor has been,” “Captain, I've done a worse thing aboard your ship than any of you know, I have become engaged to be married, and I want to say good-by I suppose we were all equally amazed, but the only one to express his ement 8 yon pee aaa Ry whose deeg-chested German oath was tobelebieteleleletei=t Try the am Deorchinga Susrect- for many times the least slip will bring about the discovery of her real mission by the person on whom she Is ‘keeping tabs. And so any of the women pupils who complete the course at the detective school are perfectly able to fill a position of manicurist or hairdresser. The women in this class must be able to pack trunks, mend laces and accomp- sh the hundred and one little things heceasary for a lady's mald to do, and though they may know how to do these things in an amateurish fashion at the start, this will not answer when it comes to Milling a position, the work of which (hey ure supposed to thoroughly undtretand, “Shadowing,” continued Mrs, Lee. “is @ branch of the business that must be learned by practice and experience. No one can teach another person how to shadow a man or woman. The main thing Is to be very non-committal in conversation, to lose your jdentily as Much as possible and to attract litue attention. ‘The woman who has a strik- Ing personality will never make a st cessful ‘shadower.’ In instructing a pupil I always assign her to the class in which she Is likely to be most suc- continually reappearing in bis path he might naturally become suspicious. cessful, i see that young woman over “The department store detective, on ther sald Mrs. Gee, pointing to the other hand, may be as distinguished slender girl who wis bending over In appearance as she pleases, but not hand of one of the pupils, “Well, so the woman who iy employed on out- will make a very excellent ‘spectal side cases, for should the man or wom- woman. hat om ns that she can an under surveillance see one person work oy difficult ASOS She can dis- ris bien eer bbb rblelleleleleleielelelelelelelelololetoialetoteleteiulels “The problem presents features of interest,” said he, "I may even say exceptional features of in- terest, I have already looked into the matter, and have come, as { think, within sight of my solution, If you could accompany tne in that last stop you might be of considerable service to me." 1 should be delighted.” , “Could you go as far as Aldershot to-morrow "I have no doubt Jackson would take my prac- tice. Very good, I want to start by the 11.10 from where the light strikes it, Waterloo."’ had some supper at Waterloo, That would give me time," Then, if you are not too si a sketch of what has happene maing to be done,’ “I was sleepy before you came. 1 ful now." “I will compress tho story as far as may be done without omitting anything vital to the case. It 1s concelvable that you may even have read some account of the matter. I is the supposed murder of Col. Barclay, of the Ro: Munsters, at Aldershot, whieh fam Investigating,” py, T will give you and he seated himself and of what re- # of im= t auch am quite wale- T answered, “It may seom very fools) in your eyes,’ I added, “but “I have heard nothing of tt." Patlent, evidently, and possibly an all-night sitting. really I don't know how you deduced {t.” “It has not excited much attention yet, except With a wry face T went out into tye hall and Holmes chuckled tu himself, locally, The are only two days old, Brlefly “I have the Opened the door, ‘To my astonishment, It was Sher- er my dear Watson," said lock Holmes who stood upon my step, “Ah, Watson,” sald he, “I hoped that I might not be tva e to eateh you,'* “My dear fellow, pray come in.” “You look surprised, and no wonder! Relloved, too, I fancy! Hum! You stil! emoke the Arcadia mixture of your bachelor days then! There's no mistaking that fluffy awh upon your coat It's easy ‘to tell that you have been! accustomed to wear a uniform, Watson, You'll never pass as a pure-bred civilian as Jong as yow keep that hablt of carrying your handkerchief in your sleeve, Could you put me up to-night? “With pleastire? “You taid me that you had bachelor quarters for no, and I see that you have no gentleman yiaitor at present, Your hat-stand proclaims as much.” “I shall bo delighted If you will stay,’ "Thank you, I'll Ml the vacant peg then, sorry to see that you've had the British workman In the house. He's a token of evil, Not the draina, I ” you use a hansom. although used, doubt that you justify the hanson “Hxcellent!" £ erie the latter has missed little sketehes of your which are never Watson, Ul have ther nature, but for an Ins! advantage of knowing your habits, @ short one you walk, and when ft 1s a long one As I perceive that your boots, are by no moans are at “Blementary," sald he, stances where the reasoner can produee an effect which sama remarkable to his neighbor, because the is the base of the deduction, sald, my dear fellow, for the effect of some of these in your own hands some factors in Present I am in the position of these same readers, for I hold in this hand several threads of one of the strangest cases which ever perplexed a man's brain, and yet I lack the one or two which aro of needful to complete my theory, slight flush sprang into his thin cheeks, Instant the vell had lift agalh his face had resumed that red-Indjan com: ? rit Hee at i | posure whie! Lothar taam mene in ute they are these “The Royul Munsters is, as you know, one of the most famous Irish regiments in the British army, It did wonders both in the Crimea and the Mutiny, and has since that time distingulshed itself upon every possible occasion, It was commanded up to Monday night by James Barclay, a gallant veteran, who started as a full private, was raised to come miasioned rank for his bravery at the time of the Mutiny, and so lived to command the regiment In which he had once carried a musket “Col. Barclay had married at the time when he was a sergeant, and his wife, whose maiden name he. “When your round Is dirty, I cannot present busy enough to “It Is one of those Ine one little point which The same may be was Miss Nancy Dovoy, was the daughter of a which is entirely mor former color-sergeant In the same corps. There triclous, depending as it does upon your retaining was, thereto as oan be Imagined, some little the problet social friction when the young couple (for they !mparted to the reader, Now, were still young) found themselves in their new Surroundings. They appear, however, to have quick ly adapted themselves, and Mrs. Barclay has al- ways, I understand, been as popular with the ladiee the rpgiment as her husband was with his brother officers, I may add that she was a woman of great beauty, and that even now, when she haa been married for upwanis of thirty years, she is still of a striking and qucenly appearance, "Co), Barclay's family tite appoara to have been & uniformly ener re Major Murphy, to mies. moat of my aseures me that ever heard of iv] rang, between the But I'll have them, His eyos kindled and a For an upon his keen, Intense int only, When I glanced * a Note lelelelebletlelololoicieleleteilelolelelnit Inlelolnleloloteloteiey inisieleloleieleb liek a A New York School in Which Women Learn How to Become Detectives. E Te Arr Shackle, q MLS ie in SL SUE cL BSS: N 1905, JUNE 17, almest his first contribution to the proceedings, He was not slow to fol- low it, however, with a vigorous protest against the proposed farewell: but he was overruled and the mastertul prison had h He was to have five minutes with the girl while the cap n and Mackenzie stood within range (but not earshot), with their revolyers behind thelr backs, As we and his head bob down, aad his lithe, spare body cut the sunset as cleanly and precisely as thongh he had phinged at his lelaure from a dlver's board! ’ “ . * + Of what followed on deck I can tell you nothing, for I was not there Nor can my final punishment, my long imprisonment, my everlasting dis= were moving frum the cabin {na body he stopped and gripped my hand. ave, concern or profit you beyond the interest and advantage to be “So U've let you In at Jast, Bunny—at last and after all! Ef you knew xleoned from the knowledge that Lat least had my deserts. But one thing how sorry [| am But you won't get much—I don't see why yon L lust set down, believe it who will—one more thing only and Tam done, should get anything at all, Can you forgive me? This may be for years, It was Into a second-class cabin on the starboard side that I was and it may be forever, you know! You were a good pal always when it promptly thrust in irons, and the door locked upon me as though I were came to the serateh; some Gay or other you mayn't be so sorry to res vnother Raflle: Meanwhile a boat was lowered and the sea scoured to member you were a goed pat at the last!” 10 purpose, as 18 doubtless on record elsowhe But elther the setting There was a meaning in his eye that I understood, and my teeth wer set and my nerves string ready as I wrung that strong and cunning hand tor the last time in my life, How that last scene stays with me and will stay to my d see every detall, ev shadow on the sunlit deck! We were slands that dot the course from Genoa to Naples; that was ht! How I among the fol Iba falling of sun tlishing vietims of through his porthole yer over his com over the w trange il boat wi r the 4, the lan back on our starboard quarter, that purple patch with the hot sun setting swallowed in the over ft. The captain's cabin opened to starboard, and the starboard miles astern, either my promenade dec sheeted with sunshine and scored with shadow, was the er The bn deserted but for the group of which T was one, and for the pale, lim, myself had « brown figure further aft with Ratiles, Engaged? I could not believe it, tt cannot to this day, Yet there they stood together, and we did not hear a word; there they stood out aguinst the sunset, and the long, dazzling high= pt way of sunlit sea that sparkled from Elba to the Uhlan's plates; and thoir shadows reached almost to our feet. Suddenly—an instant—and the thing was done known whether to admire or to detest. He caught her before us ali—then flung her from bim so that she almost that action which foretold the next, The mate sprang after sprang after the mate, Raffles was on the rail, “Hold him, Bunny he erled. “Hold him tight!"" And as I obeyed that last behest with all my might, without a thought of what I was doing save that he bade me do it, T saw his hands shoot up + bh delete! delelsteleteleleleletelelleleleleleteleleletevel a thing [ have never & he kissed her fell, Tt was. him and I but only fust, <egrning To Manicure disguises and could appear in all sorts remark to ner husb: back before very long. par, votion On the whole, he Uunks that to his wife was greater than his wife's to be He was acutely uneasy if he were ab- Morrison, sent from her for a day, She, on the other hand, though devoted and faithful, was tess obtrustvely affectionate, But they were in the regi ment as the very model of ued couple Itarclay’s de- turned home, or as sh a middle passed. There was absolutely nothing In their mutual re- Is ar lations to prepare people for the tragedy which nat Lachine ‘This Cree ‘ to fallow. a large glass folding door on to the lawn “Col. Barclay himself seems to haye had soma — is thirty yards a nd singular traits in his character, He was a dashing, — highway by a low wall wit rose, again, a rple “NEXT SATURDAY—7TH RAFLES ADVENTURE, “NO SINECURE.”’ There will be thirteen Adventures in all, a com- plete story every Saturday. and the (wo went off together to thelr me lasted forty minutes, and at a quarter past nine Irving left om which Is used as a s the is ¢ han fron rail abe sank, mote eneath now me island, ves must have blinded havi the spew. chrobblngland. the prinener peering eross the sunlit waters that he believed had closed PU GINE KUNiaHE Was IneAntaneoualy (ust eneteam ny alent tecelved me OF h blaek apes: uct aed ROME © had blown for sito strain an eye, and now T gave It up utterly. dancing in the dim gray distance, drifting toward a a fading all eyes, or else mine were Suddenly the sun sank behind the island waste, und in the middle distance, already dinner: It may well be that all save’ And now T lost what I had found, now Yet anon it would rise tern sky streaked with dead sold and And night fell before 1 knew whether it was a human head or not. detecting a Jewel-Mled pompadour. nt to assure him that she wo\ld She then called for Miss a young lady who lives in the next villa, ting, It Miss Morrison road and ope: divided trom Jovial old soldier in his usual mood, but there were It was into this room that Mrs, Barcliy went upon occasions on which he seemed to show himself — her return, The blinds were not down, for (he room capable of conalderable violence and vindictiveness. — was seldom used tn the evening, but Mrs. Burlay ‘This sido of his nature, however, appears never to herself Ht the lamp and then rang the bell, asking havo beon turned towards his wife, Another fact, Jane Stewart, the housemaid, to bring her a cup of which had struck Major Murphy and t uc of — tea, which was quite contrary to her usual habits, five of the other officers with whom T conversed, ‘The Colonel had been sitting In the dining-room, was the si r sort of depression which cime but hearing that his wife had returned, he joined upon him at times, As the Major expressed It, her In the morning-room, The coachman wiw him the smilo had often been struck from his mouth, cross the hall and enter He was never seen as If by some Invisible hand, when he has been — aseln alive Joining In the gayetles and chaff of the mess-tadle. For days on end, when the mood was on him, ho has been sunk in the deepest gloom. This and a preached the door, was surprised to hear the voices certain tinge of superstition were the only un- Of her master and mistress In furious altereation usual traits in hie chrsacter which his brother of- She knocked without receiving any answor, and even floors had observed, ‘The lotter peculiarity took turned the handle, bit only to find that the door the form of a dislike to being left alone, especially WS locked upon the instde, Naturally enough, she ran down to tell the coois, the coachman ca tho dispute after dark, This puerile * >ture in a nature which waa conspictiously manly had often given tise to comment and conjecture. M3 “The first battallon of the Royal Munsters (whieh Is the old 117th) has been stationed at Aldershot for some years, ‘The married officers live out of of Barclay and of his wife, subdued and abrupt, and the two wo 6 up Into the halt and which was still agreed that onty two volces were to be Barelay's remark go that n ea y barracks, and the Colonel has during ail this timo — Rudible to the listenors, ‘The occupled a villa called Lachine, about half a mile Rand wera most bitter, ant w voleo could be plainly heard. from the north camp. The hovse stands in its own grounds, but the west alde of it is no! more than thirty yards from the high-road. A coarhman and two maids form the staff of servants, ‘These with thelr master and mistress were the sole occupants of Lachine, for the Barclay had no children, nor was ft weual for tiem to have residen’ visitors. “Now for the events at Lachine between nine and ton on the evening of last Monday. “Mr. Barclay was, it appears, a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and bad Interested herself very much in the establishment of the Guild of St. peated over and over aga Ute, with you again! were scraps of her c dreadful cry in the man’s ¥ a pl some tragedy had oceurte to the door and strove to f scream Issued from within, now? What can be done now? T will never so much as breathe You coward! You eowurd! verwation ‘alee, ing scream from the woman. , the co tty He “The tea which had been ordered was brought up at the end of ten minutes, but the maid, as she y with listenod raging. ‘They all heard, those were other her none of them ady’a on the n she raised ‘on cowird! What cn Glye me nding ina sudden with a crash, and Convinced that coachman + shed while scream after was unable, how- Mrs, were (THI END.) tolelniolelelelelollntololelololpintololaleletefolalolod oa Novices begin by learning how to manicure and to do mata’s work— The best methods of “making up’’ are taught—How ito Wear a wig and as- sume barious dis- guises — Searching a prisoner and us- ing the arm shackle —Every technical- of roles, from that of a newly landed Many a shoplifter will conceal smmait it 2 emigrant girl to a dashing young office 4Ticlea of jewelry In her pempadour, ’ d le d, woman. and this mode of dressing the hair is uy isclosed, ‘The art of make-uy is taught In one Very oonveniont to her In her “busi- of the classes, Here a woman is taught ness." how to wear a wig and by little tricks ot only must the store detective a moment, Won't you step upatatra presale. ooh ge hey eo know thi things, but she must be an If the fat shoplifter r es the det of facial expression ange hey entir ‘ Sig a aN Hye UUIGKIS IDR OIG oN ReAmetReg This class In expression |v export aenreher, Thks Is not as easy about her wrist and she ls Inconsoleus pres ting: There is a great tt sunds, for Oy are many pla ly handcuffed to the de tive, 1 of the actress requined In this work about a woman's garments whore Aida, thes the detwotive, wearg Little after all, Tt would never do for an may coneen! her apoils. For Instin LAE Nast ASD TL LR Vath APHeRE woman to maintain an erect not one person in a hundved wou that Navera: eataRe tRee and a dignified manner. Hor Until of looking Into an exquisitely tue thing that by the ny ¢ © character si somp: for a ring or scarfpin, slips In between the must match the character she pomp ov a or acanfbin (Oa ae pee ee Ene nts. She must never take too vor r pleces of jewelry are A EhOnM Taal creat Gan BRE LE uch Interest in things going on about le >the sl of the offender, p ord to instruct her pupils In the me graceful wit her. th “wart Mra. Lee dreases one of nor create t_acene th tye Mra, Lee Js excendingly clever In the shepiifter's art Mrs+ [4 Wer Bs pe and art of make-up, ond in’ teaching y them in a complete sh oplifting: party wiekles, a they might. be pupils she dresses herself In the cos- phernalia and then pro is to take he detec! a great dead heir hiding places the various for, otherwise a shopHfter tume of the character she Is portrays fram thelr hiding plac : Nway, dai would. Ge PAtheR ing and acts the part, T nh the young articles concealed The i ne i We for a detective to hold her prise yvome: iso. 8) ed es i favorite p! 3 for hacing handkerehiefs, i AAA AU A PNT ay a SCL Aldea ra ES b bias walat for Mufty silt: these tech jes of the “bu to Imitate thelr teacher, the loose blouse wu the woman aspiting to hold @& his work all belongs to the first and fons and the deep skirt pockets for eotlve’s een: ain the sone Unird classes of workers, ‘To the middie heavier articles thane te nit wou 3, the store detectives, belongs a When Mrs, Lee has explained the Wiheult fur (tan, nen, ov distinet line of work, shoplifting sult to her pupils she lets iol ln theta ri het ake turns searching, It Is, in- guise herself most successfully. She ts » detective in the store must knkuw then ta Se mena cE Crtbimbrey: Cline Jaina slender that she may bea yery large ‘imost ax much about shoplifiing as de marie n st hoarn Art woman one day and a slonder the thief, She must be able to pers ble. whe Se re one mist use on tha whole of the fA har xirl the next, ‘Those detectives make ceive the deft movement of the shop- yyyon’ diplomacy, Tt w never do “That cannot, be taught, But the most money, even if they do not lifter's hand as she sceretes some ar- (o cred idlaturbance, are it voman ean jeara ive ost superior ds tS an HeenipocKeled She customers, and so Instead of slopping rts of the have the most superior mind Uclo Inher ddeep-nocketed skirt Sho Cutanender of the law. in the cowl ave srance and The girl referred to had becn in the must knaw when sleeves are Oiled with {he BMEMIT oF ie aT ty th : miy become as. good. school for two months, during which small articles whisked from the coun- walk an most courteously eyer a man thought of time she had learned to. wear er, and she must ales be capable of “Madam, to speak to you bolt te abeletodebeininiaiet Joletotoleloteteleleteloboteleiofeleloleteleloioteintelel te t-isteintototetots sielebeleleintelelel-telotelelelateteteleteintetmteteleltek and the maids were too of any assistance to him, him, however, and he ran and round to the lawn, upor One side of his wa distracted with fear to A sudden thought steue through the hall door whieh the long Mrenei windows open the window was open, which T understand wae quite usual in the summor tine, and he passed with. out difficulty into the room, His mistress had ceased ever, jo make to seveam und was stretelod insenstble upon a h, while with lis feet tilted over the side of an arm-ehalr, and his head upen the ground near the corner of tue fender, was lying the unfortunate oldter stone dead in a pool of his own blood, “Naturally, the man’s first thought, on find- ing that he could do nothing for his master, was to open the door. Hut hore an unexpected and singular diMfoulty presented Itself, ‘The key was not In the Inner side of the door, nor could he find tt anye where In the room. He went out again, therefore, throy ye Window, and haying obtained the help of a policeman and of a medical man he returned. The Jody, against whom naturally the strongest suspicion rested, was re ed to her room, still in vaibility, ‘he Colonel's body was then placed upon Qhe sofa, and a careful examing- tion made of the scene of the tragedy, “phe Injury trom which the unfortunate veteran was sufferins was found to be a jagged cut some two inches long at the back part of his head, which had evidently been caused by a violent blow from a blunt weapon, Nor was it diMeult to guess what that weapon may have been, Upon the floor, close to the body, was Iving a sin club of haed carved wood with a bone handle, Colonel pos sossed a varied collection of weapons brought from the different countries in which he had fought. and fact that neither upon Mrs, Barelay’s person nor upon that of the vict'm nor In any part of the room was the missing Key to be found, ‘The door had eventually to be opened by a locksmith from Alder was the state of things, Watson, when upon the Tuesday morning [, at the request of Major Murphy, went down to Aldershot to supple- mont the efforts of the pollee, T think that you will acknowledge that the problem was already one of it Js conjectured by the police that this club was among hia trophies. (Concluded in tocinorrow's Sunday World Mawaatne,) George, which was formed in connection with the Watt Street Chapel for the purpose of supplying h the voor with cast-off clothing, A meoting of the Guild had been held that ovening at eight, and Mrs. Barclay had hurried over her dinner in order to be present at ft. When leaving the house @he wa: heard by the conchman to make some commonplace ar The conclusion of this Story will be published in to-morrow’s SUNDAY WORLD MAGAZINE,