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V "V- ' :- i v- 14 un I V i 4 ill if. VI i -1 I- BAftNEY GOOGLE Barney's also going: to have . , , , tT TT?UE THAT (y Your husbAMO A oq HUMANE socKXrf) ADVENTURE OF THREE STUDENTS BY HOLMES (Continued from Paee Fourteen) th middle. I think that we are now sufficiently imposing to strike terror into a guilty breast. Kindly ring the bell!" Bannister entered, and shrank back in eTldent surprise and fear at our Ju dicial appearance. "You wili kindly close the door," said Holmes. "Now, Bannister, will you please tell us the truth about yester day's Incident?" The man turned white to the roots jt his hair. "I have told you everything", sir. "Nothing to add?" "Nothing at all, sir." "Well, then. I must make some sug gestions to you. When you sat down on that chair yesterday; did you do so j in order to conceal some object wnicn would have shown who had been in the room ?" Bannister's face ws ghastly. "No, sir, certainly not." "It is only a suggestion." said Holmes suavely. "I frankly admit that I am unable to prove It. But it seems prob able enough, since the moment that Mr. Soames' back was turned, you re leased the man who was hidins in that bedroom." Bannister licked his dry lips. "There was no man, sir." "Ah, that's a pity. Bannister. Up to now you may have spoken the truth, but now I know that you have lied." , The man's face set in sullence de fiance. "There was no man. sir." "Come, come, Bannister!" "No, sir, there was no one." "In that case, you can give us no fur ther information. Would ' you please remain in the room. Stand over there near the bedroom door. Now. Soames, I am soing"to ask you to have the great kindness to go up to the room of young Gilchrist,' and to ask him to step down into yours." An instant later the tutor returned, bringing with him the student. He was a fine figure of a man, tall, lithe, and agile, with a springy step and a pleas ant, open face. His troubled blue eyes glanced ,at each of us, and finally rest ed with an expression of blank dismay upon Bannister in the farther corner. "Just close the door," said Holmes. "Now, Mr. Gilchrist, we are all quite alone here, and no one need ever know one word of what passes between us. We can be perfectly frank with each ( other. We want to know, Mr. Gilchrist, how you, an honorable eman, ever came to commit such an action as that of .yesterday?" The unfortunate young man stag gered back, and cast a look full o fhor ror and reproach at Bannister. "No, no,- Mr. Gilchrist, sir. I never said a word never one word!" cried the servant. "No, but you have now," said Holmes. "Now, sir, you must see that after Ban ,nister's words your position is hope less, and that your only chance lies in a frank confession." For a moment Gilchrist, with uprais ed hand, tried to control his writhing features. The next he had thrown him self on his knees beside the table, and burying his face in his hands, he had burst Into a storm of passionate sob bing. "Come, come," said Holmes, kindly, "it is human to err, and at least no one can accuse you of being a callous crim inal. Perhaps it would be easier for you If I were to tell Mr. Soames what occurred, and you can check me wheer I am wrong. Shall I do so? Well, well, don't trouble to answer. Listen, and see that I do you no injustice." "From the moment, Mr. Soames, that you said to me that no one, not even Bannister, could have told that the papers were in your room, the case be-. gan to take a definite shape in my mind. The printer one could, of course, dismiss. He could examine the papers in his own office. The Indian I also thought nothing of. If the proofs were in roll, he could not possibly know what they were. On the other hand, le seemed an unthinkable coincidence that a man should dare to enter the room, and , that by chance on that very day the papers were on the table. I dis missed that. The man who entered knew that the papers were there. How did he know? "When I approached your room, I examined the window. You amused me by supposing that I was contemplating the possibility of some one having in broad daylight, under the eyes of all thes opposite rooms, forced himself through It. , Such an idea was absurd. I was measuring how tall a man would need to be in order to see, as he passed, what papers were on the central table. I am six feet hiffh, and I could do it with an effort. No one less than that would have a chance. . Already you see I had reason to think that, if one of your three students was a' man of un usual height, he was the most worth watching of the three. "I entered, and I took you into my confidence as to the suggestions of the side table. Of the center table I could make noftiing, until In your description J of Gilchrist you mentioned that he was a long-distance Jumper. Then the whole thing came to me in an instant, and I only needed certain corroborative proofs, which I speedily obtained. "What happened was this. The young fellow had employed his afternon at the athletic grounds, where ' he liad been practicing the Jump. He returned carrying his Jumplng-Bhoes, which are jorovlde'd, as you are aware, with sev eral sharp, spikes. As he passed your window h saw, by means of his great kelght, these - proofs upon your table, and conjectured what they were. No harm would have been done had it not been that, as he passed your door, he perceived the key whrati had been left by the carelessness of your servant. A sudden Impulse1 came over him to en ter,., and .see If they were Indeed th ' ' ' : i ' . I : ' "T" proofs. , It was not a dangerous exploit, for he could always pretend that he bad simply looked 'in ' to .ask a ques tion. . .. . v "Well, when he saw that they were ' ' . '! I- ' V- : " Ml" fl BE (SOWS NOU-V OH - T" lu AsKC LEAVE 1 I ' ,. I I ' W iHlill VERY -tk6M indeed the proofs, it was then that he yielded to temptation. He put his shoes on the table.' 'What was -it you put on that chair near the window?" "Gloves," said the young man. Holmes looked triumphantly at Ban nister. "He put his gloves on the chair, and he took the proofs, sheet by sheet, to copy them. He thought the tutor must return by the main gate, and that he would see him. As we know, he came back by the side gate. Suddenly he heard him at the very door. There was no possible escape. He forgot his gloves, but he caught up his shoes and darted into the bedroom. You observe that the scratch on that table is slight at one side, but deepens in the direc tion of the bedroom. That in itself is enough to show us that the shoe had been drawn in that direction, and that the culprit had taken refuse there. The earth round the spike had been left on the table, and a second sample was loosened and fell in the bedroom. I may add that I walked out to the athletic grounds this morning, sajw that tena cious black clay is used in the jumping pit, and carried away a specimen of it, together with some of the fine tan or sawdust which is strewn over it to prevent the athlete from slipping. Have I told the truth, Mr. Gilchrist?" The student had drawn himself erect. "Yes, sir, it is true," said he. "Good Heavens! have you nothing to add?" -cried Soames. "Yes, sir, I have, but the shock of this disgraceful exposure has bewildered me. I have a letter here. Mr. Soames, which I wrote to you early this morn ing in the middle of a restless night. It was before I knew that my sin had found me out. Here it is, sir. You will see that I have said. 'I have determined not to go in for the examination. I have been offered a commission in the Rhodesian police, and I am going out to South Africa at once'." "I am indeed pleased to hear that you did not intend to profit by your unfair advantage," said ' Soames. "Bnit why did you change your purpose?" Gilchrist pointed to Bannister. "There is the man who set me in the right path." said he. "Come now. Bannister," said Holmes. "It will be clear to you, from what I have said, that only you could have let this young man out, since you were left in the room, and must have locked the door when you went out. As to his escaping by that window, it was in credible. Cah you not clear up the last point in this mystery, and tell us the reasons f or your astion?" "It was simfjle'' enough, sir, if you only had known, but, with all your cleverness, it was impossible that you could know. Time was, sir, when I was butler to old Sir Jabez Gilchrist, this young gentleman's father. When he was ruined I came to the collese as servant, but I never forgot my old em ployer because he was down in the world. I watched his son all I could for the sake of the old days. Well, sir, when I came Into this room yesterday, when the alarm was given, the very first thing I saw was Mr. Gilchrist's tan gloves a-lying in that chair. I knew those gloves well. --and I -understood their message. If Mr. oS&mes saw them the game was up. I flopped down into that chair, and nothing would budge me until Mr. Soames he went for you. Then out came my poor young master, whom I had dandled on my knee, and confessed it all to me. Wasn't it nat ural, sir. that I should save him, and wasn't it natural also that I should try to speak to him as his ! dead1' father would have done, and make him un derstand that he" could not profit by such a deed? Could you blame me, sir?" "No, Indeed," said Holmes, heartily, springing to his feet. "Well, Soames, I think we ' have- cleared your little problem up and our' breakfast awaits us at home.' Come, Watson! As to you, sir, I trust that a bright future awaits you in Rhodesia, .For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, now high you can rise. (THE END) The Financial Outlook for 1921 SEVENTH YEAR Not an Annual Review, but a, compre hensive, conservative and valuable book orf what the .master, minds of America believe 1921 will unfold. An indispensable guide to the -business man and financier alike. Partial Summary of Contents Opportunity, v . The 1921 Outlook. A Composite Picture of Financial and Business America as seen through the eyes of 25 America Leaders of In dustry. Stock Market Averages for 1920.' Ten Year Price Range of Leading Stocks. - - -,r Ebb and Flow of Price Waves for 95 Years. Trend of Stock Prices During and After the War. Thirty Seasoned Investment and Spe cialty Opportunities. Complete Sales Record of N. "V fnrh Market for 1920. . ' . Copy . 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