The evening world. Newspaper, July 29, 1905, Page 11

7 Ta ee ee sel Y 2y 1905. 3 THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING. JU Have a Graceful Arm. € | tow to Develop a Neck, Bust and Shoulders to ri @ Q@ondition of Classic © Beauty — Exercise for | ~ >The Girl Who Bowls Is Sure to Be Strong and _ The Bowling Alley is the Royal Road to Physical Perfection—Makes Musele and Symmetry, Ter Svelt — ae@ustiine: ¢ Improves the Carriage i Poise and Slender Waist and Steadies the Nerves. a“ Line. F OW that the beach and bathing 8 ue i} season is opening into full blast Next try the samo exercise with the § how many of our fair girls are all fy one hand. reversing the hand ong longing that Dame Fashion would in- ved each time, As the ball ase 7 Sist upon long sleeves in the bathing rends throw the head back and $0 exe k suits, so that their lean and. stringy ercise the muscles of the neck and } arms need not be exposed to the tront. gaze of an unfeeling public! Some «& iris can do quite ente stunts ae act Ne Oil year it Mas ak b ti bowling bails; and avery. nee PL La ub ae severe Shas AAEM uty starts the ball from the tRere has been but iittle, If Radeal: t NDB: Che nein cnet eee D le. if, indesd. the ball up the arm, across the cheat any, opportunity at all to develop. ot wr the back of the neck—elther Is ef ; maintain her muscle It has fec'iveoand down the other arm. ‘This simply out of the question, and tenn makes quite a spectacular little pers Galally (Wo, ANG ANIONS: pragtin formance, and one that can quickly be {With the broom might have ‘men Inarned with a litte diligent practiee— y matters somewhat. as our grandmothess wided to which it enualizes the exer asa iL aa are only too w tion of muscular force and keeps the © tell us, there have been other body in perfect poise with the ball whi more tascivacing Chingy to. make 1 Mer Fergect- ite tp prdetenns "hey, Ik ton genres isagreeable means sink comfortathly 3 dd see wha ascii x But the girl who bowls! She it is Now We wend our wiv back to the whordoue ioe tUarsto\ Navel hersunlhiny Dowline alley and begin the practice of sult without any sleeves at all, or to bowling in earnest. Alt these little pre- have the neck cut down just. as low liminaries merely limbered up the mus- as her mother and her modesty will cles, got the nerves in tone and helped aura to establish co-ordination between nerve | Gat on the for fir dnd musele. ‘The girl who does not ex- lip of the season th Fr afternoon a ereise much frequently finds that the fi IBC, BAHED UR FacWare ceoMTOREINE muscles will not respond to her onders, thee baw suites Gaal Chole (Bhi sleat much less her desires, When brain and charms. ‘The rounded arms and full musele uct as one, that is what ts ne and envious admi gin with—slipping the thamb in ihe lit- lose your Comper or rasp up your nerves, ° . a‘ be ition of the others, and fast and furi- tle thumbhole, and letting the ball fill and C you prove to he at Heat the Uttle practice, In children tt ts) often ous the questions poured in upon them the hollow of the outstretcied hand, greatest “duffer’ that ever set foot on Seen to a remarkable degree; but in “What you do to p them so take a little run forward, and {st be- the alleys, just smile, remember your SfoWn folks it often becomes impaired round and polished?" “Do you tuke oil fore you launch the ball assume uw object and keep on practising Now, with the body in correct posi- rubs every night?" “Do you think thit slightly crouching position. There are quits a few little stunts ton, as already outlined—and In bowl massage would be any good at all for No matter if your ball shows a de- with the bowling bill that you can per. $18 Position is rather more than half my billiard ees of arms?” walled L-natured smile and said, with quite form in the privacy of your own bed. ‘he ait oot cual heer oeeat hotell 2. “And oh! my obtrusive bones \sclndting. alr of (mystery: “Well, A room that will doubtless Help qtite a OT fully position, fe 7be alghea’ ainier ek Wits plump: You Jude enldowA tol thervousing alley: To Improve Arms and Shoulders. Her Perfect Poise. lot in making your arms of the grace, “Ke a straight and direct line? To and rosy Ks-entirely helled the pain. ike w ball and roll it: that's all.’ TAND with feet firmly planted in first position, and with a heavy bowiitt ERE the ball is lifted in either hand as high as possible, the feet in the | fully slender and yet plump outline that #2" force upon the stroke hold the ball fully bony arms that poked from out “what! Roll a big bowlng ball all S ball held in both hands tift the ball as high above the head as the arms will H firstpesition, and the body steadied with the other hand on the hips. | is so much admired + as far back of you as you can, swin the full puff of her bathing suit that did over your arms and shoulders! Merc comfortably reach, taking a long, full inbreath as the ball rises, Inflating xhalle as the ball descends, and repeat twenty times with each hand Always’ with the low heel or no hes! (NS tt back and forth’ to gain tmpet duty a sleeve One and all, each sis, P don't for the life of me sce how | te ‘ungs to their full capacity, and exhaling the breath as the ball Mlowly de- | alternately. shoe, stand ervet, and taking the han £2" Your stroke, and stooping slightly, seemed to think that hers was the most you can keep it from. slipping of scends to the level of the waist line. Repeat at least twenty times. ot i ; FS x keeping the hips and knees rigid, swing PaIRTUlly, GAOL OAM IRDIAG GoruenneRS Gane Geetha eee MUSE LOY a a os wt n the two hands lift It slowly as far the waist easily upon the hip joints, , donny instead of bony T would not have oven to think How She Does It. TAND with the feet firmly planted on the floor, the left foot sontewhat tn | and then lower It again to the level of ct tact Muth Straighten up at once ) worry @ second about my looks. Re , B HEN a particulaily forceful bail is vlesived the ball is held well to the vance of the right. Hold the ball in the right hand, and, with hips and | jhe ws % DS USL Oe Gnd (Begin) ton slowly females ieee my fate or my fortune, either,” an- No, you just roll it atong the floor. TIC CHa TREC Le RANG CHA LNUHIBINGIE: ade che entice torkeler' the ibinae lel HEsale HilettRaineae law p 0nd, 1] the waist line, emitting a breath as the breath that you drew when figst grasp- nounced a thin. angular girl, who, nev- Say, . let's all go and do it right " vaetthas See ales dy swings easily upon the waist line, swins J pati descends, Take the heavier ball for ing : end your gular 6 : : 5 body is exerted in a curving swing forwast wien the ball is tunehed, | the body around a little and launch the ball. Pp Ane nee er enor ine ithe ball. Deine texpend yeubltoses 5 ed off her angular lines now HN teach you, you don’t — this after a while, for you_wantto train in the stroke by means of your arms; with a grace and ¢| that went far know how." = ——————— = = the muscles to bear and to direct some use them merely to guide the ball in to redeem her lack of curves, and one ‘w for the girls who cannot have Practise in your bathing sult, or in pair of tennis shoes will prove more with the head well ap, “host out and cided preference for careening to !iher little weight; but be careful not to im- ‘ts Might. Let the force come from the | could vers easily fancy that with the any one to teach them just how !) gain shirt walst and short skirt with your satisfactory then ny other. Have your shoulders back, and feet plaated firmly, side of the alley: no matter If you do POse any undue strain on the arms or Hips and back muscles. | proper amount of flesh upon her bones all those physica! fascinations which sleeves roMed well up, so that there J@ clothing as logse as is co With the right one slightly in advance of the, not knock down « single ve shoulders. You are not trying to get ‘ully. patientiy aml. persisventiyevascaee | she would not have to worry long about the bathing suit displays so freely, the nothing to contine the freedom of ‘he and “appearinces—and don't left, ‘Tak, ‘ood, : BOOk Onn eNO DIDERIN OE SOM Ciceits that wit vive a F Tal bene anGNHlbe eIRioee TEE | erieutdrecatlaasiente elated ts : : J 0 n 1 pr » Take a good, deep, long breath, pin, you are bowling for arms, not for ps that will rival a professional ath- the bench and bathing girl of a pair of sr at Per eee Ser doubtless be o arm and shoulder muscles. Shoes with ever forget appetrances, girls, filling the lungs to their Cuttest capactty. a prize cup or for a record. So take éte's: you merely want to plump and to *FMs that will compare favorably with, aselstance: little or no heels are best, and an old Now you are ready to begin. Stand Do this two or three times. and then heart of grace and do it all over azain, round out a too skinny arm Meth ar thn Waris Gee Mtioeee eta LOGE SOOOODOUTOIYD CLESSLESE CS 0894900868 PERO TIRERE IEEE DO CCECOOCEE GEESE IIOE SE YETTTOOOIDHCHOOOTIOOWOODHIDEHD> $0HVHGHOHHHOHHHHIHOHHHHHOOO DITTO HOGHEDEIHOGD ; s P father had a small factory at Coventry, which he “I did as he ordered, and when the Inwyer arrivet soldier. Others were of a dite during the recon: my uncle's life, and that the danger would be al enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. I was asked to step up to the room, ‘The fic wa struction of the Southern States, and were mostly pressing in one house as in another, ]@ ive ran |@ 1 Ss He was the patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable burning brightly, and in the grate there was a concerned with politics, for he had evidently taken ‘it was in January, 'S5, that my poor father me @ ure, and his business met with such success that mass of black, Huffy ashes, as of burngd paper, — @ Strong part in opposing the carpec-liig politiclins his end, and two years and eight months have . he was able to sell {t and to retire upon a handsome — while the brass box stood, open and empty, beside Who had been sent down from the North elapacd ceincal tens Wuramithaty (imenlibacetisea ) By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. competence. + it. As I glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, Well, it was the beginning of ‘Si when my father happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that. . “My uncle Ellas emigrated to America when he tat upon the Id was printed the treble K which 1 Came to live at Horsham, and all went as well a8 this curse had passed away from the family, and SS — was @ young min and became a planter in Florida, bad read in the morning upon the envelope possible with us until the January On the that it had ended with the last generation, T had (COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY HARPER & BROTHERS.) where he was reported to have done very well, A “wish you, John,’ sail my uncle, ‘to witness fourth day after the new year 1 heard my father begun to take comfort too soon, however; yester= HEN I glance over mfy notes and records of bring a man out on such a day and at such an the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, my Will, I leave my estate, with all its advantages SI¥e @ Sharp ery of surprise as we sat together at day morning the blow fell In the very shape in | Wi the Sherlock Holmes cases between the hour. But I take it that it is more likely to be and afterward under Hood, where he rose to be a @nd all its disadvantages, to my brother, your fe, break st table. There he was, sitting with @ which it had come upon my father." 4 years ‘82 and ‘90 I am faced by so many Me crony of the landlady’s.” colonel, When Lee laid down his arms my uncle father, whenve it will, no doubt, descend to you. If Berg On ner etvaloRe Yn One nana sanu sive (aied The young man took from his waisteoat a erum- wien arcnnt (etoaneevend intecat ime feskurencGet Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his con. returned to his plantation, where he remained ‘or You can «njoy it in peace, well and good! It you © Sans tie ane OUbLretehet i the ether pled envelope, and, turning to the table, he shook p ie cI however, for there came a step in the passage a three or four years, About 1869 or 1870 he came back find you camot, take my advice, my boy, and leave ONC He had always laughed at wh called my out upon it five little dried orange pips. { S no easy matter to know which to choose and a tapping at the door. He stretched out his long to Europe and iovk a small estate in Sussex, near! to your deadliest enemy. I am sorry to give you cocksangia pull tory ubout the Colonel, but he “This is the envelope,” he continued. "The post é an to leave. Some, however, have already acm to turn the jamp away from himsclf apd orshums He hail made a very conalderable for- such @ two-edged thing, but 1c Eg rates leaked very, scared ine mae now that the same mark is London—eastern division. Within are the gained publicly through the papers, and others ‘Ward the vacant chair upon which a newcomer tune in the States, and his reason for leaving them — things are going to take, Kindly sign the paper prec seg comme! uber shies ; , very words which were upon my father's last mese must sit, “Come in!" sald he. was his aversion to the negroes and his dislike of where Mr, Fordham shows you. EAN lea peGecas tia imenn sone ages UK. 1K. 16") and then “Put the papera on th ave not offered a field for those peculiar qualities My Shs Come Ue Ms young, some two- nalon 8 ' re ahs MA OMS) 5 9U) he stammered mundi) h a 0 entered 8 - the Republican policy in extending the franchise to signed the paper as directed, and the lawye MRTyeneETU Raaieueiedlitos leaal A Bae und Roa which my friend possessed in so high a degree, and and-twenty at the outside, well-groomed and trimly Ha was a cingulic jan Merce and quick: soowIe Away with him, ‘Thecsingular (néident made, gain’ is KK What have you done?" asked Holmes whioh it fs the object of these papers to illustrate. clad, with something of refinement and delicacy 1 tempered, very foul-mouthed when he was angry, 48 you may think, the deepest impression upon me, “fe looked inside the. enveln: Ws tye ae Nothing.”” Some, too, have baffled his analytical skill, and his bearing. The Beaming umbrella which he held na of a most retiring disposition, During ail the and I pondered over it and turned it every way in cried. ‘Here are the very lelere, dul what tot ne “Nothing? would be, as narratives, beginnings without an end- Us pe pene Sng Us: IDR MU BAE eke penees a youreitnal be, Hen aera FE GONU IE aves he my mid ovahaiat Halag ale ‘0 Bake ap DOE At written above then Yo tell the truth" —and he sank his face Into his : set foot in the town. He had a garden and two o et 1 eould not shake e vague feeling of dread “'Put the papers on the sundial, Tread, peeping white han have felt. helpless : ng, while others have been but partially cleared — }46 Jooked about him anxiously in the glare of the (nye fields round his house, and there he would which it left vehind, though the sensation grew less eros he pape Brlpheneundlehs FIcenDaGHIN Se li act on a aes : ee 2 pees up and have thelr explanations founded rather lamp, and I could see that his face was pale and taxe his exercise, though very ofien for weeks on keen as che weeks passed, and nothing happened to SWhatronwere® Whal sundialaune asked is writhing toward it, [seem to be in the grasp of upon conjecture and surmise than on that absolute his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is weighed eng he would never leave his room, He drank a disturb the usual routine of our lives, I could see ‘The sundial in the garden. ‘There is no other, Some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight logical proof which was so dear to him, There 1s, down with some great anxiety. great deal of brandy and smoked very heavily, but @ change in my uncle, however, He drank more said 1; ‘but the papers must be those that are dee And no precautions can guard against however, one of these last which was so remark- “I owe you an apology,” he said, raising iB 1. would see no society and did not want any than ever, and he was less inclined for any sor: of stroyed,’ Tut! tut! cried Sheclock Holmes. ‘You must able in its details and so startling in its resulis golden pincenez to his eyes. “I trust that I am friends, not even his own brother. society, Most of his ume he would spend in his "Pooh! sa : act, man, or you are lost. Nothing but energy can ; not intruding, I fear that I have brought some : ! sald he, gripping hard at his cour, a AED that I am tempted to give some account of it, In 6. i “He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to room, with the door locked upon the inside, but ‘We are ina civilized land here, and ‘we san't nave S4¥e YOu. This is no time for despatr spite of the fact that there are points in connection traces of the storm and rain into your snug me for at the time when he saw me first I was a sometimes he would emerge in a sort of Urunker — tomfoolery of this kind, Where dovs the thing ave have seen the police.” with it which never have been, and probably never chamber. n youngster of twelve or so, This would be in ihe frenzy and would burst out of the house and tear from?’ ° Le ea Ant” will be, entirely cleared up. me your coat and umbrella,” sud Holmes. yop as7y, after he had ween eight or nine years in about the garden, with a revolver in his hand, ““From Dundee," T answered, glancing at the “But they listened to my story with a smile. T 0 ‘The year ‘87 furnished us with a long series of hey may rest here on the hook, and will be dry Goastand, He begged my futher to let me live with screaming out that he was afraid of no man and postmark , ; 2 BEEN NOS son conyinced that the Inspector has formed: the cases of greater or Jess interest, of which I retain presently, You have come up from the rwuthwest, ii) oid ne was very kind to me in his way. When that he was not to be cooped up, lke a sheep in a “‘Bome preposterous practical joke,’ said he. Pinion that the letters are all practical jokes. and the records. Among my headings under this one — I see. he was sober he used to be fond of playing buck- pen, by man or devil, When these hot fits were ‘What have I to do with sundials and papers? I tithe Geaths\iof my: relatives were: peally (goes twelve months I find an account of the adventure “Yes, from Horsham." gammon and draughts with me, and he would make Over, however, he would rush tumultuously in at shall take no notice of such nonse dents, asthe Juryoatated, and were not: follbeigehs of the Parado! Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant That clay and chalk mixture which I see Upon ine pis ry sentative both with the ser s and the door and lock and bar it behind him, hke “"l should certainly speak to the police,’ 1 sa nected with the warnings: ae | Society, who held @ luxurious club in the lower your toecaps 1s @ulte distinctive,” with the tradespeople, so that by the Ume that 1 man who can brazen it out no longer against the ‘And be hiughed at for your pains. Nothin Holmes shook his clinched hands in the air, ‘“In- vault of a furniture warehouse, of the facts con- I have come for advice.’ was sixteen I was quite master of the house, 1 terror which lies at the roots of his soul. At such the sort.’ i he erled neoted with the loss of the British bark Sophy Dhet Ja onsltygpt'* kept all the keys and could go where I liked and times I have seen his face, even on a cold day, “Phen let me do so? % however, allowed .me a. policeman, ‘Anderson, of the singular adventure of the Grice = “And help,” MODE GUSH PACERS SE DALE as at iae pl icaulmicavmainiure ay eden tte ote Sew raleed ‘No. T forbid you, I won't have a fuss mady WMO MAY remain In the house with me, Patersons in the island of Ufa, and finally of the Phat is not always so easy." his privacy. ‘There was one singular excepion, fom a basin about such nonsens jhe NS WANTON sen RAEE o Camberwell poisoning case, In the latter, as may “L have heard of you, Mr. Holmes, I heard from however, for he had a single room, « lumbe: + “Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr “It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a al HY PUES SHIANIR ie ie ee hatee |, be remembered, Sherlock Holmes was able, bY atajor Prendergast how you saved him in the up among the attics, which was invariably locked, Holmes, and not to abuse your patience, there came —_YEFY obstinate man. I went about, however, with @ fault! (UNI ated om Ui ah winding up the dead man’s watch, to prove steel Tankerville Club seandal.” and whicn he would never permit either me or any 4 night when he made one of those drunken sallies — Heart which was full of forebodings. hile whacalunsoninee BaD, ee ae hea, bean wounduiUp. |e DSR ee th, "Al of course, He was wrongfully accused of one else to enter. Witi a boy's curiosity, 1 have {fom which he never came back, We found him, “On ehe third day after the coming of the letter “sr aig not know. It waa only to-day that T spoke + therefore the deceased had gone to on ye cheating at cards. peeped through the key-hole, but I was never able When we went to search for him, face downward '™Y father went from home to visit an old frien@ 1, yrijor Prendergast abou my troubles, and was that time—a deduction which was of the greate “He said that you could solve anything.” to see more than such a collection of old trunks and 4 @ little green-scummed pool which lay at the foo. Of hs, Major Freebody, who is in command of on avicad py him to come to you." importance in clearing up the case. All these 1 tte said too much.” tindlas aaiwauld be expected in guch's aah, of the garden, There was no sign of any violenc Of the forte upon Portsdown Hill, 1 was glad tho’ ‘It is really two days since you had the Ietler, ay sketch out at some future date, but none of etnat you are never beaten: “One day—it was in March, 1sst—a letter with a 4nd the water was hut two feet deep, so that the Ne should gu. for It seemed to me that he was 1d have acted before this, You have them presents such singular features as the strange "I have been beaten four timesthree times bY foreign wtamp lay upon the table in front of the Jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, farther from danger when he was aw from HOME: fia, avidence, 1 aundosayethanicthat a aietanene train of vircumstances which I have now taker men and once by a woman.” Colonel's plate, It was not a common thing for brought in a verdict of suicide, But 1, who knew — 0 that, however rr pon ine second save phiced before us—no suggestive detail which up my pen to desoribe, , “But what Is that compared with the number Of jim to receive letters, for his bills were all paid In OW he winced from the very thought of death, had — y'” Rane Selva LORMAN FAD WS. ight help: \uar! Lt waa in the latter days of September, and the your succesgen?” ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. much ado to persuade myself that he had gone out — Mir imploring me to come at once. My father had whore ix one thins” sald John Openshaw, He equinootiat gales had set in with exceptional ylo- ti: true that T have been generally successful.” —‘Wrom india!’ sald he, as he took it up, ‘Pondicherry of his way to meet it, The matter passed, however, 11, the see amarhaal aoa wae ayia corsloen “ . Tummaged (n his cont pockel, And Grawing oMtom® lence, All day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten againet the windows, so that even here in the heart of great, hand-made Landon we were forced to ralse our minds for the instant from the routine of life, and to recognize the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at man- Kind through the bars of his civilization like un- tamed beasts in a cage, As evening drew in the storm grew higher and louder and the wind erled and sobbed like a child in the chimney, Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine s stories, until the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of the sea waves, My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker street, Why," sald I, glancing up at my companion, “that was surely the bell, Who could come to- night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?” ‘Except yourself I have none," he answered, "I do not encourage visitors,’* » “A client, then?" “If 20 it is a serious cave, Nothing lees would Taen you may be wo with me." “I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favor me with some detalls as to your case," “It is no ordinary one." “None of those which come to me are, laat court of appeal.” ‘And yet I question, sir, whether in all your ex- perience you have ever listened to a more mysteri- T am the ous and Inewplicable chain of events than those which have happened in my own family,” You fill me with interest,” said Holmes. “Pray sive us the essential facts from the eommencement and I can afterward question you as to those di tails which seem to me to be mest important,” ‘The young man pulled his chalr up and pushed his wet fect out toward the blaze, “My name," said he, “is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, as far as IT can understand tt, little to do with this awful business, It is an hereditary matter; so in order to give you an ida of the facts I must Ko back to the commencement of the affair, “You must know that my grandfather had two sons—my uncle Elias und my father Joseph, My postmark! What can this be?’ Opening it hurriedly, out there Jumped five little dried o ange pips, wiict pattered down upon his plate, I began to laugh at this, but the lough was struck from my lips at the sight of his fAce, His tip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his skin tne color of putty, and he glared at the envelope, which he still held in his trembling hand. ‘K. K, K.!' he shrieked, and then, ‘My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!’ ‘What is it, uncle?’ I cried, ‘Death,’ sald he, and, rising from the table, he retired to his room, leaving me palpitating with horror, [ took up the envelope, and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the gum, the lorter I three times repeated, ‘There was noth> ing else save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his overpowering tervor? I left the breakfast table, and as I ascended the stair T met him coming down with an old, rusty key, which must have belonged to (he attle, in one hand, and & small brass box, like & cash-box, in the other, ‘They may do what they ke, but I'll check- mate them still,’ said he, with an oath, “Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer,’ and my father entered into possession of (he estate and of some £14,000 which lay to his credit at the bank.” “One moment," Holmes interposed. "Your state: ment is, I foresee, one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened, Let me have the da of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and the date of his supposed suicide. “The letter arrived on March 10, 1883, His death seven weeks later, upon the night of May 2." “Thank you. Pray proceed. “When my father took over the Horsham prop- erty he, at my request, made @ careful examina- tion of the attic, which had been always locked up. We found the brass box there, although {ts contents had ‘been destroyed. On the inside uf the cover was & paper label, with the tnitlals of K. K, K. re- peated upon it, and Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a regis written beneath, ‘These, we presume, Indicated the nature of the papers which har been destroyed by Col. Openshaw. For the rest, there was nothing of much importance in the attic, save & great many scattered papers and note-books beir- ing upon my uncle's life in America, Some of then were of the war times, and showed thst he had done his duty well, and had borne the repute of 4 brave sah ik ai SN cl ae Rh 4 shattered skull, T hurried to him, but he paseed away without ever heving recovered his conscious- ness, He had, as it appears, been returning from Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in bringing in a verdict of ‘Death from accidental causes.’ Carefully as I ex- amined every fact connected with his death, T was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of munter. ‘There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no robb no record of strangers having been seen upon the road, And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ea and that T was wellnigh certain that some foul p had been woven round him "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance, You ask me why I did not dispose of 11? I answer, because I was well convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an Incident in t p of discolored, blue-tinted paper, he laht tt out upon the table, “I have some remembrance,” said ho “that on the day when my uncle burned the papers observed that the small unburned margins whlen lay amid the ashes were of this particular eo T found this single sheet upon the floor of his room, ind Lam Inclined to think that it may be one of the papers which his, perhaps, fluttered out from among the others, and in that way have escaped destruc: Royond the mention of pips, T do not see thet I think myself that it is a page ‘The writing 1s undoubr> tion. it helps us much. from some private diary edly my uncle's."* Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, which showed by ils ragged ets that It had indeed been torn from u book. It was headed, "March, 18/9," and beneath were the follow: ing enigmatical notices: 4th, Hudson came. 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