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W0 m WMJllk nM(Bmg Pineaples, Oranges, Banannas, Strawberries, Cherries and all kinds of Florida vegetables arriv ing daily. They also have nice NEW GROCERIES Fine Cigars and Tobaccos which They will sell Cheap. Get their PRICES BEFORE i SHE ettirfi of RJLOCK. OX MES By A. CON AN DOYLE, Author of "Th Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Hound of the "Btskervilles." "The Sign - of the Four. "A Study In Scarlet." Et i ILLUSTRATED 1 BY P. D. STEELE YOU BUY - - - - 342 3E n ft Great line of Men's and Ladies' Shoes at $3.50 arid $4.00. Krd8 Wart M you here! I'll take the armchair In the middle. I think that we are now sufficienty imposing to strike terror into a guilty breast. Kindly ring the bell!" Bannister entered and shrank back in evident surprise and fear at our ju dicial appearance. "You will 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 of his hair. 1 "I have told you everything, vsir." "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 in order to conceal some object which would have shown who had been in the room?" Bannister's face was ghastly. No. sir; certainly not. "Now, sir, you must see that after Bannister's words your position is hopeless 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 where 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 pa- I pers were In your room the case began I to take a definite shpe in my minJ. "It is only a suggestion." said Holmes The printer one could, of course, dis- 2.00 D DIXIE GIRL We lead all others in good Shoes at moderate prices. ' BIROWN SHOE CO., 107 North Main Street ftT $1.50. Phone 295 FURNIT ORE? If it is a gocart, a an iron or brass i ' lace curtains or nish or beautify call on 4 room of Matting, i bed, a pair of anything to f ur the home then y ? The SpenGer Housef urriishing Go SPENCER'S LEADING ljURNITURE DEALERS. w. n BKITT, Mgr SEEL WE o OR ON FOR CASH EASY PAYMENTS. ' . i 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 hiding in that bedroom." Bannister licked his dry lips. -j "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 sullen defiance. "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 going 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- Copyright by Collier Weekly. Gilchrist. 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 miss. 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. It 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 dismissed that. The man who entered knew that the papers were there. How did he know? . ... ; "When I approached your room 1 examined the window. You amused me by supposing that L was contem plating the possibility of some one hav ing in broad daylight, under the eyes of all these opposite rooms, forced him self through It. Such an idea was ab surd. 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 high, and I could lo 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 unusual 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 nothing until In your description of Gilchrist you mentioned tha: 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 : This young fellow had employed his afternoon at the athletic grounds, where he had been practicing the jump. He return ed carrying his jumping shoes, which are provided, as you' are aware, with several sharp spikes. As he passed your window he saw, by means of bis great height, these proofs upon your table and conjectured what they were. j No harm would have been done had it not been that as he passed your door he I perceived the key which had been left by the carelessness of your servant. A sudden impulse came over him to en ter and see if they were indeed the proofs. It was not a dangerous ex ploit, for he could always pretend that heteardTiim at the ery 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, butdeepens In 'the direction of the bedroom door. That in itself is enough to show us that the shoe had been drawn In that direction and that the culprit bad taken refuge 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 ath letic grounds this morning, saw that tenacious black clay is used In the Jumping pit and carried away a speci men 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 bewilder ed 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 befo-e 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 . "I am Indeed pleased to hear that you did not intend to profit by your unfair advantage," said Soames. "But why did you change your purpose?" Gilchrist pointed to Bannister. "There Is the1 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 escfp'iig by that window, it was in c;vJ.:LIe. Can you not clear up the !at point In this mystery and tell us the reasons for your action?" it was simple 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 ho was ruined I came to the college 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 , old days.. v 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 under stood their message. If Mr. Soames saw them the' game was up. I flopped down into that chair, and nothing would budge me until Mr. Soames 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 natural, sir, that I should save him, and wasn't It natural also that I should try to speak to bim as his dead father would have done and make him understand that he could not profit by such a deed! Could you blame me. sir?" ' . , ' . ;. ; . "Nov 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 fu ture how high you can rise." Interesting - in tneniseivro unci XV&e same time most conducive to a ff!;y of those peculiar powers for wh;A v friend was famous. As 1 turn oJ e pages I see-my notes upou the reiJ t story of the red leech and tha Urx) death of Croby, the banker, ai so I find an account of the Aa;o, tragedy and the singular content Jf . the' ancient British barrow. Th mous Smitb-Mortimer succession e comes also within this period, mil S( do '"the -.tracking .and arrest of 11 Hrmivftrd assassin, an exi which won for Holmes an autogii,. letter of thanks from tne irencii n t lOIlVf i urn i i. he had simply looked In to ask a ques- alone here, and no one need ever know i tion. one word of what passes between us. WeIL when he saw that thev were We can be perfectly frank with each mdeed the proofs it was then that he other. We want to know, Mr. Gilchrist vfeirled to lomntntinn tt0 nf k?q how you, an honorable man, ever came to commit such an action as that of i yesterday." The unfortunate young man stagger ed back and cast a look full of horror and reproach at Bannister. yielded 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. The Adyeivijre the Golden Pince-Nez of No. 10 of the Series jno, no, Air. iruennst, sir, l never ; to coPy them. He thought the tutor said a word never one word!" cried ; mUst return by the main gate and that the servant. ' he would see him As wo Irnnw ho ilSo, but you have- now." said Holmes, j came backby theside gate. Suddenly (Cf fright, 1904, h -rf- Cemaa DoyU mm! Collier' i t , ( CofirH. 190$, by IdtClur,, Phillip St Co.) HEN I look at the three massive manuscript vol umes which contain our work for the year 1804, I confess that it is very, difficult for me out of such a wealth of mate rial tojseleet the cases which are most dent and the order of the Legion Honor. Each of these would furu the whr1e T nm I a. uurruuvc, uui - - j; opinion that none of them unites many singular points of interest as tb episode of Yoxley Old- Place, which in eludes not only the lamentable dath of, young WlUoughby Smith, but also those subsequent developments whirii threw so curious a light upon the causes of the crime. It was a wikL tempestuous night, to ward the close of November. Holmes and I sat together in silence all the evening' he engaged with' a powerful lens deciphering, the remains of the original Inscription upon a palimpspst, I deep In a recent treatise upon sur gery. Outside the wind howled down Baker street, while the rain beat fierce ly against the windows. It was strange there, in the very depths of the town, with ten miles of man's handi. work on every side of us, to feel the Iron grip of Nature and to be conscious that to the huge elemental forces all London was no more than the molehill that dot , the fields. I walked , to the window and looked out on the deserted street. The occasional lamps gleamed on the expanse of muddy road and shin ing pavement. . A single cab was splashing its way from the Oxford street end. "Well, Watson, it's as well we have not to turn out tonight," said Holmes,! laying aside his lens and rolling up the palimpsest. "I've done enough for one sitting.' It Is trying work for the eyes. So far as I can make out It Is nothin? more exciting than an abbe's accounts dating from the second half of the fif teenth century. Hello, hello, hello! What's this?" Amid the droning of the wind there had come -the stamping of a horse's noors ana tne ion g grina or a wneei as it rasped against' the curb. The cab which I had seen had pulled up at 'our door. "Whnt can he want?" I ejaculated as a man stepped out of It. "Want? He wants us. And we. my poor Watson, want overcoats and cra vats and galoches and every aid that man ever invented to fight the weather. Wait a bit though! There's the cab ofT again! There's hope yet He'd have kept it if he had wanted us to conic. Run down, my dear fellow, and open the door, for all virtuous folk have beerv long in bed." When the light of the hall lamp fell upon our midnight visitor I had no dif ficulty In recognizing him. It was young Stanley i Hopkins, a promising detective, in whose career nolmes had several times shown a very practical interest. "Is he ln? he asked eagerly. "Come up, my dear sir," said Holmes voice from above. "I hope jou have no designs upon us such a night as this." The detective mounted the stairs, and our lamp gleamed upon his shining wa terproof. I helped him out of It. while Holmes knocked a blaze out of the log in the grate. ow, my oear Hopkins, draw up and warm your toes." said he. "Here's a cigar, and the doctor has a prescrip tion containing hot water and a lemon which Is good medicine on a night like this. It must be something Important which has brought you out In such a gale." . "It is indeed, Mr. Holmes. I've had a bustling afternoon, I promise you. Did you see anything of the Vox ley case In the latest editions?" "I've seen nothing later- than the fif teenth century today." . "Well, it was only a paragraph and all wrong at that, so you have not miss ed anything. I haven't let the grass grow under my feet. It's down in Kent, seven miles from Chatham and three from the-railway Hue. I was wired for , at 3:15, reached Yoxley Old Place at 5. ?aaxlucted my Investigation, was back i . - i 1 1 i i jv rr-. . . . - . ... . . .. . . - i GET it ONE ONE OF THESE FOUNTAIN SlBiff ' AND SAVE MONEY ' I t i Vd ; .. . WEE K ONLY, MAY 29 TO JUNE For one Week only, wd; will sell a pure gum, two quart, rapid FLOW FOUNTAIN SYRINGE for- 59 CENTS. This Syrinee has never sold fnr 1pm thn M nr and the regular price is $1.25. While we have a good stock of these syringes on hand the probabilities are that there will not be enough to last thmncrfi tVi HllTTilir'QTr' -frioriri 'ra-f 4-Trio nrto Tra cola Trill r1 nco o o errn oo fViic Inr 10 oof'l "'A 3 'wra tirl eh r avfon H nTTn4- At " SsiDnsIiDimii0 115 M. Mmsax StlFeett 18,
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