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The Hound of the
le•skervilles
.Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes.
BY A. CONAN DOYLE.
• AuthOrof "The Green Flag'and "The Great Boer War"
. •COPYright 090O) ItY A. Conan Doyle. '
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— - ..---- - "-10--een:iiiiiiiiied bog wideetretehed n"-
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delirious in a high fever, under. the
care of Dr. Mortimer. The two of-theeh 1 e th r
aWaY until it merged, into the russet
were destined to travel together Mend ° °Pe° 0 e reee '
the world before Sir Henry had be
come once more the bale, hearty Mini
that be had been .before he become
master of that ileomened estate.
And uow I come rapidly to the con,
elusion of this singular narrative, is
which 1 have tried to make the readet
sharenthose darn fears and vague sun
mises which clouded our lives so len&
and ended in so tragic a manner. 00
•the morning after the death of the
hound the fog had lifted and we -were
guided by Mrs, Stapleton tonthe point
where they had found a pathway
through the bog. It helped us to realize
the borror of this woman's life when
we saw the eagerness and joy with
which she laid tis on her hueband'e
track. We left her standing upon the
thin peninsula of firm, peaty soil
which tapered out into the widespread
bog: From the end of it a small wand
planted here and there showed where
-theneeth zig-zagged from tuft to tuft
of rushes among those green -scummed
Pits and foul quagmires which barred
the way to the stranger. Rank reeds
and lush, slimy water -plants sent an
odor of decay and .a heavy nrlasmatic
vapor into our laces, while a false step
plunged us more than once thigh -deep
Into , the dark, quivering mire, which
shook for yards in soft undulations
around our feet. Its tenacious grip
plucked at our heels as we walked, and
when we sank into it it was as if some
malignant hand was tugging us down
In -to those obscene deptimenogrim and
purposeful was the clutch in which it,
held llS. Once only we saw a trace that
someone had passedthat perilous way
before US. From amid a tuft of cotton.
grass which bore it Op out a the slime
some dark thing was projecting.
Holmes sank to his waist as he Step-
ped from the path to eeize it, and had
we not been there to drag him out he
could.never have set his foot-unon firm
land again. Te held are old black boot
in the air. "Meyers, Toronto," was
•prieted on the leather inside.
"It is worth a mud bath," said he. "It
Is our • friend' •Sir ..Henry's. missing.
"Thrown there by Stapleton in , hte
ffight."
"Exactly: He retained it in his hand
. after Using it to set the hound upon.
the track. He fled when he knew the
game •was- up, still clutching it. And
he hurled it away atthis point of his
flight: We. known at least that he came
so far in safety." : •
But more than that we Were never
destined to know, though there was
mtich which we Might surmise. here
wai no chance -of finding footsteps in
the mire, for the tieing intt ',00zed
swiftly in upon 'them, but as we at last
reached, firmer ground "beyond the
morass we all 'oohed eagerly for them.
But no slightest. 'sign /in- them • ever
men our eyes, the earth told a true
•
story, then Stapleton never reached
that island of refuge towards which he
straggled through the fog upon • that
. last night. Somewhere in the heart of
, the? great teetineadp.: Mire, ecenhint*
:of the.b.40, morass Ohielt
had Seeked'heii its, fhb -cold and .ceitel-
heafted maw is for ever butted. • • "
e•Maner tripes we found Of him in the
bog -girt island where he had hid his
savage ally: A. huge driving -wheel and
a silent half-filled with rnblidslesliowed
'the position Of an abandoned mine.13e'
side it Wereethe crumbling remains of
the cottager; of the Miners, driven
away no doubt .by the foul reek of the
surrounding swamp. In one Of 'these a
staple, and chain witha quantity Of
gnawed bones showed where the ant,
Mal had been confined. A skeleton
with a tangle of brown hale adherhig
to it lay among the debris. '
'•"A dog!" said, 'telexes. "By Jane, a
curly-haired spaniel.. Pear Mortimer
will never nee his pet again. Well. I do
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The next instant Holmes had emptied five
barrels of his revolver into the brute. •
not know that this place contains( any
secret which we have not already
fathomed. He could hide his hound,
but he could not knell its voice, and
hence came those cries will& even in
daylight were not pleasant to hear. On
an emergency he could keep the hound
In the outhouse at Itferripit, but it was
always a risk, and itwas only on the
supreme day, which he regarded as
the end of all his efforts, that he dared
do it. This paste in the tin is no doubt
the luminous mixture with which the
creature was (lathed. It was suggest-
ed, of course, by the story of the fam-
ily hellhound, .and 'by the desire be
frighten old Sir (Merles to death. No
Wonder the poor debil of a contriet ran
and screamed, even as our friend did,,
and is We ourselves might have done,
When we savt such a creature bound-
ing throUgh the 'darkness of the Moor
upon his track. It Was a cunning de -
Vice, for, apart from the chance Of
(hieing your victim to his death, what
peasant would venture to inquire too
closely into such a creature should he
get sight of it, as Many hale done, Up-
on the moor/ / Said it in London, Wa-
lton, and / say it again new, that hatter
yet heare WO helped to bent down a
Mere danget-Ous" Man than he who le
lying yonder" -he swept hie long OM
toWttrde the liege mottled expel** Of
CHAPTER XV.
It was the .end of November, and
Holmes and I sat, upon a raw and fog-
gy night, on either side of a blazing
fire in our sitting -rem in Baker Street.
Since the tragic, upshot of our visit to
Devonshire he 'Ind been engaged in
two affairs of the utmost importance,
in the first of which he bad exposed
the atrocious condect of Colonel Up -
wood in connectioh with , the famous
card scandal of the Nonpareil Club,
while la the second he had defended
the. unfortunate ,Mme, ,Montpensier
from'the charge of murder which hung
over her in connection with the death
of her stpdaughter,M1le. Carere, the
young lady who, as it will be remem•
bered, was found six months later
alive and married in New york. My
friend. was in excellent spirits oven the
secedes which had attended a suceess-
sion of difficult and Important cases,
so that I .was able , to induce hiln to
discuss thee details of the Baskerville
mystery. I had waited patiently for the
opportunity, 'for I 'was •aware that he
would never permit cases to Overlap,
and that his • clear and logical mind
would 'not be drawn from_at% present
work to dwell .upon memories of the
past. Slr Henry and Dr. ;Mortimer -
were, however, In London, on their
way' to that long Voyage which had.
°been recommended for the restoration
of his shattered 'nerves. They had call-
ed upon us that ,very afternoon, 'so.
that it was natural that the suhjeet
should come up for discussion.
"The whole course of events," •naid
Holmes, "from the point of view of the ,
men who. called himself Stapleton Was
simple and direct, althotigh•to us, who
had no means ht the • beginning , of .
knowing the motives of his actions- and .
cmild only learn Part of the facts, it
all- appeared 'exceedingly complex. I
have had the advantage of two conver-
sations with Mrs. Stapleton, and the
case has now been so entirely 'Cleared
up that I' ani not aware that there' IS -
anything which has remained a, secret
to us. You 7111 find a few notes Upon
the matter under the heading B in my -
• indexed list 'of. cases." . . •
Perhaps you would kindly give me
skefeh of the course Of events from
'memory." • •
'4.derrainly, though I !cannot guaran-
tee that I carry all the feats in -my
mind. Intense mental concentration.
• has a curious Way of -blotting but what
has passed. The barrister who bas his .
'castrat his fingers' end, and is able to
argue with an expert uptin• his ...own
subject, finds that a week or two of
the courts wjll drive it all out of• his
head once more. So each of my cases
displaces the last, • and Mlle. Carere
, hes blurred 'my -recollection of. Bee.
To -morrow •sonae *other
little problem maybe submitted to ray
notice Which will turn dispoesess
the' fair French lady -and' the intamous
/Teemed: ,So far as ;the case of the
Hound goes; how.ever, I will give yen.
A.h,ectetee„-of eventaes nearly. as.I can,
..,eattleYmetisth :suggest aeything.. which I.,
may have:forgotten. • , -
"My inquiries show, beyond all
ques-
tIon • that the family portrait, did hot •
Ile, and that this fellow was indeed a
Baskerville. . He 'was ea. son of. :that -
'Rodger Baskerville 'the yeunger .bro- •
tner of 'Sir Charles, .who fled with a
sinister reputation to SeutkAmerita,
;Where • he. was eaid to have_diee 'un- •
married. He did, as a matter of fact,:.
marry, and_liad One child, this fellow,.
whose realnettle is the same as his
father. He He married Beryl Garcia,,, one.
*of the beauties of Costa Rica; and, hav-.
Ing purloined a Considerable. sum. of .
public ittorieje,-he-changed his•nante to
Vandeleur and fled to Zeeland, where.
he established a. seliderth' the east ofe
Yorkshire. His •re'ason for attempting
this *special. line of business was that
he had struck up, an acquaintance with
a Consumptive 'tutor upon the voyage
lime, and that he had treed this man's
ability to Mike the undertaking a 'sue -
cess. Fraser, the tutor,
"died, however,
ct
an -the school which had begun Well
sank from disrepatte into infamy. The•
Vandeleuris found it convenient to
change their name to Stapleton, an
hebroughtthe remains of his fortutte,
his • Schemes for the future, .and his •
taste for entomology to the south of
.England. "lean:int the British Mueeum
that he Was.a recognized authority Up-
on' the subject, and that the name of
Vandeleur • has been permanentlyat-
tached ton certain moth 'which lie had,:
In his Yorkshire •days, , been the first .•
to describe. • • . •• '
"We now come to that portion of-hfre
life which has prOved to be of awhile-
• tense interest to us. The fellow had*
evidently made •ineuirynand found that .
telly two lives intervened between.hini
and a valuable estate. When he watt
,to Devonshire hisplaris were,l.believe,
eiceedingly hazy, but that he meant
---raisehlef-from•-the-list-inevident-frorra •
the way in which he took his wife with
In the character of his sister. The:
idea of using her as a decoy'was clear-
ly already in his taind, though be may
not have been certale how the details
of his plot were to ne arranged. Ile
meant in the end to'haire the estate,
and he Wasready to use any toed or
run any risk for that end. His first act
.was -to establish himself as near to
his .ancestrat home as he could, and
, hie second was to cultivate a friend.
ship with Sir Charles Baskerville and
with the neighbors.
."The baroxiet himSelt told him about
the family hound, and so prepared the
way for hie. own.death, Stepletran, as
will 'continue 0' callhim, knew.that
tffe old. man's heart wee weak and that
a shock would kill him. So much he
had learned from Dr. Mortimer. He
had heard- also that Sir Charlet was
superstitious and had .taken this grim
legend very eeriously. • His ingenious
mind instantly suggested •a way by
Whichthe baronet assist .be done to
death; and yet it would be hardly pee.
Bible to bring home the guilt to the.
real rnurderen
"Having conceive e the idea he pro -
needed to carry it out *with conSider.
able finesse. An ordinary schemer
would have bee e Content teelvorlt with
a savage hound. The uee of artificial
Means to Make the breattire diabolical
was tt, nagh..of genius upon his part
The dog he bought in London from
Hese and Manglers, the dealers In Pul-
ham goad. It was the strongest and
most savage In their posseesion. Ile
brought It down by the NOrth DeVon
line and walked It great chstattee over
the moor so as to get it home Without
ezeitleg any remarke. lie had already
on his ineect hunts learned to pene•
trate the Grimpen Mire, and so had
foetid a safe hiding -place for the
creature.' Here he kennelled it and
waitedllt 1 t 111Calieabcome.
Be time coming. The
old gentleman could not . be decoyed
outside of hits grounds at night. Sever-
al times Stapleton lurked about with
his hound, but without avail. It was
during these fruitless quests that he,
or rather his a11Y, was seen bypeas.
ante, and that ie legend of the de,
Mon dog received a new confirnaation.
He had hoped that his wife might lure
Sir Charles to his ruin, but here she
Proved unexpectedly independent, She
would not endeavor to entangle the
,..moledat_gewnthlrembaninilata_dseelniver,timeAtamlattach-
his enemy. Threats and even, I. am
sorry to say, blows refused to move
her, she would have nothing to do
-with it, and for a time Stapleton, was
at a deadlock.
"He found a way out of his diffi-
culties thrcitigh the chance that Sir
Charles, who had conceived a friend-
ship for him, made him the minister,
of his charity in the case of this un-
fortunate Woman, Mrs, 1.4ntra Lyons.
By representing himself as a single
man he acquired complete influence
over her, and he gave her to under-
stand that in the event of hen obtain.
Ing a divorce from her husband he
would marry her. His plans were sud
denly brought to a head by his known
edge that Sir Charles was about to
leave the Hall on the advice of Dr.
Mortimer, with whose opinion he him-
self pretended to Ceincide. His must
act at once, orbusvictim might get he.
yond his power. He therefore pet pres-
sure Upon _Mrs. Lyons to write this lea
ter, imploring the old man to give her
an interview on the evening before his
departure for London. He then, by a
e specious argument, prevented her from
going, and so had, the change for
which, he had waited.
"Driving back in the evening from
...Coombe Tracey he was in time to get
his hound, to treat it with his infernal
paint, and to bring thebeast round' to
the gate at which he had reason to
expect that he would find the old gen-
faihio'n, mid that'fdr reihi lie has Veal
a desperate and dangerous Men.
"We bad an exanaple of his readi-
ness of resource that morning when he
dot away from up so suceessfully, and
also of his audacity In sending, back
my own name to me through the cab-
man. From that moment he understood
that I had taken over the case in Lon-
don, and that therefore there was no
cliance for him there. He returned to
Dartmoor and awaited the arrival of
the baronet."
"One montent!" ;paid I. "Yea have,
no doubt, described the sequence of
events correctly, but there re one point
which you have left unexplained. What
became of the hound when its master
_was in London?"
matter and it is undoubtedly of import.
once. There can be AO question that
Stepleton had a confidant, though it
is -unlikely that he ever placed himself
in his power by sharing all his plans
.with him. •There was an old manser-
vant at Merripit , House, whose name
was Anthony. His connection with the
Stapletoes can, he traced for several
years, as far back as the school-masten
ing days, se' that he must have been
aware thet hnis manter and mistress
were really husband and wife. This
•man has disappeared and has escaped
from the country. It is suggestive that
Anthony is not a common name in
figland",-While Antonio is so in all
Spani
g aecen • have myself
• hernela lean eineennwe-zene,
curie)"
tries; . Th man,. like Mrs. Stapleton
seen thls old man cross • the Grimpen
Mire by tire path which Stapleton had
marked out. It is very probable, there
fore, that in the absence of his, master
It was he who cared for the hound,
though he may never Ilene knownthe
purpose for which the beast was used.
"The Stapletene then went down fa
Devonshire, whither they were - soon
followed by Sir Henry and you. One
word no* as 'f5 how I etood, myself' 'at
that Unice It may possibly . recur to
your memory that when I. -examined
the. paper upon which the .printed,
wends were fastened I made a close izi.
tleman waiting; The dog, incited by its•• spection for the water -mark. in doing
. master, sprang over the wicket -gate , no I held it within a few inches of my
and pursued the unfortunate baronet, eYea, an.d was conscious of a faint
smell of the scent known as white jos-.
who tled sereanaing down the Yew' Al-
ley: In that gloomy tunnel it =Mt in- samine. There are Seventy-five ' per-
deed- have been a dreadful sight' tosee fumes, which'it is very snecessary that
• that huge blank creature, with its a criminal • expert . should be able to
flaming jaws and blazing eyes, bound-dlstlnguish
froni.eack.other, and ca,see
ing alter its victim. He fell dead at the have more than .once within. mi. OWZ ,
end of the alley from heart disease ,experience depended . upon their
and. terror. The hound had kept upon
prompt recognition. The 'scent suggest-.
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the . grassy border while the baronet ed the presence' of a lady, and already
•bad run down the path, so that no my thought began to turn towards the
track but the man's was visible. on ; Stapletons. Thus I had made certain of
e h: •
-seeing hini lying still -the creature had thound,and had guessed at the
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probably approached to sniff at him, ariminal before ever we went to theWest Country.
• • . • '•
but finding him dead had. turned away
'again. It Was then that it left the pria I ."It was my game to watch Staple -
which was actually 'observed by Dr. ton. It was.. evident, however, that I
- IVIortimer. The hound was called . couldnot dothis if I Were with. yeti
and hurried' away to its' lair in' the since he would be keenly On his guard.
Grimpen. Mire, and a mystery was left I deceived everybody,. therefore; your
:which puzzled the authorities, alarmed self. included, and I came down secret.
.d to be in Lon.
the country'sitle, and finally brought ly when I was suppose
Loi -
the case within the, scope i of. our Ob- don. My hardships were not so •great
servation. as you imagined, though such trifling
• •, .
"So Much .for 'the 'death of sir detwer mutt, ?clever interfere with the
I • -
Charles BaskervilleYou perceive the investigation • of a ease. I Stayed for
,:
the most Part at Coombe Tracey, and
devilish coning of it, for really ' only used the het upon the moor when
would be almost impossible to mane a
ease against the real mdrdeter• MIs it was necessary to be near th,e scene
of action. Cartwright had come dawn
only accomplice was one who could with me, and in his disguise as a
'never. give him away, and the knifes. 'cinintry boy he wee en great assistance
que, 'Inconceivable nature of the de. •
to me. I was llependept upon him for,
• vice :onIn'terned to make It more effec- food and clean linen. When was
bye. Botinof the women concerned in watching Stapleton, Cartwright • was
the case, Mrs. ' Stapleton and Mrs. frequently watching you, so.that I was
suspicion
Laura Lyons, were left. against Stapleton. Mrs. with a strong * Ole to keep. my hand upon ..all the.
Stapleton knew that be had designs 'strings.' ' •
"I have already told non that -your
'Upon the old man, and also of. the "ex- '
reports reached .me 'rapidly; being for-
istence of the 'mend. Mrs. Lyons knew reports
instantly from Baker Street to
• neither of these things, but had been
impressed by the death occurring. at.' Then. were of great
• se:rwlvicbeetoTrmaer and especially that one
the time of • an, uncancelled appoint- •eincident1111Y'.qraellfuleepieee' of hie
merit whiehlwas only Iniciwin 'to hint.
'bkith, of • tifeenvere ander his graph y of Stapl.eton,s. I was • Able.. to
ittitendf the 'man and
influence, and he had nothing to leer establish the ide
from them. The first half .of his toot e the Woman, and knew at last exactly
the .thete difficult•still remained. •
erably complicated;,through the ince
I nVed.: The case.' had. been: could-
was-successnilly • accomplished; but how
dent of the escaped convict and -the. re-
: "It is possible that Stapleton did not latiOns between' him and the Barry-
Canada.know of the existence of en, heir • in. More!: Ttis also you cleared up. in a
. In any case he Would ...very
• soon learn it from his friend Dr. Moe- very- effectiv.e way, though I 'Mean
timer, lead he was told NT. the Tette''ready come to the same conclusiM
, from my own 'observations. • • •
•: all details about • the arrival of Henry •
might
• ' '
possibly • be done to death .in • .edge 'of the whole business, but I had
upon the Moor •I had a complete knave'',
'By the time that you discovered me*
that this young stranger from Canada Baskerville, Staninton's first idea was
Londen without coming down to Dev- not a case .which could go to a, jury.
Even Stapleton's attempt upon Sir
onshire •at all.: ge, dig-trueted his wife Henry that night which ended in the
ever since she•h'ad refused to help him
In laying a trap for the old- man, and , death of Inc unfortunate convict did'
n,ot help us much in proving murder
. he dared not leave her long out of hie
sight for fear . be should lose • his. against our man. There seerhed to be
alternative but to catch him red -
influence eve'', • her. • It was for n°
thin •reason that he took her to. handed, and to do So We had to use Sir
Henry, alone •and apparently • .unpro-
find, at the Mexborough Private Ho -
London with him. They ' 'edged, I tected, as a bait. We did • so, and at the
•
. tel, in Craven Street;whichteas actual-
cost of a.seVere shock to our client we
1Y One of those Called upon by
my succeeded in cdrapleting our case and
.
agent in search of evidence Here h driving' Stapleton to .his destruction.
or Spaaish-A.merican coun-
• . e That ir Henry' should have been ex.
.kept Ills wife imprisoned in her room -
posed to this is, I must confess, a re -
while he, disguised in a beard, follow-
ed Dr. Mortimer to Baker Street and
afterwards' to the station and to the
Northumberland Hotel: His wife had
some inkling of his Plans; but she bad
such a 'fear, of her husband -a fear
founded upon brutal iletreatment-
that she dare not write to Warn the
• man whom she knew to be in danger.
If the letter should fall into Stapleton's
hands her own life would not. be safe.
Eventimlly, as we know, she. adopted
the expedient of cutting out the words
• which would form the Message, and
addressing the letter in a disguised
hand. It reached the 'baronet, and gave
him the first Warning of his danger.
"It was very essential for Stapleton
to get some Grticle of Sir Henry's -ate
fire so that, in case he was driven to
use the dog, he might always have the
means of setting him upon his traek..
With characteristic promptness and au-
dacity he set about this at once, and
we cannot doabt that the boots ° or
chambermaid of the hotel was wen
bribed to help him in his design, By
chance, hOwever, the first boot whith
was procurecf-for him was a new one
and, therefore, useless for his purpoee.
He then had it returned and obtained
another -a most instructive incidett,
since It proved conclusively to
Mind thet we were dealing with a real
hound, as no other supposition dbUlcl
eeplain this anxiety to obtain an old
boot and this indifference to e heW
one. The reeve outre and grotesque an
incident is the more carefully it deser-
ves to be examined, and the ery-
point which appears to complieate a
ease is, when duly considered mad
scientifically handled, the one which is
most likely' to Outdate it.
"Then We had the visit from our
friends next morning, shadowed al-
ways by Stapleton in the cab. From his
knowledge of our rooms and of my ap-
pearance, as well as from his general
conduct, I am inclined to think that
Stapieton's career of Crime has been
by to means limited to this single Bare
Iterville affair. It is suggestive that
during the last three years' there have
been four considerable borglariert in
the West Counl.-f, for none ef Which
Wee any crimitalever arrested, The
last of these, at rOlkeitteme Court, in
May, was remarkable for the 001d.
blooded pistoling of the page, who tur.
prised the masked and solitary'
lar. I cannot doubt that Stapleton
ornifda racettenait irt
1[11.11,
proach to My Management of the ease,
nut we had no means of foreseeing the
lerrible and paralyzing spectacle
which the beast. presented, ter could
we predict the fog which enabled him
to burst upon us at such short notice.
We succeeded in our object at a cost
which both the specialist and Dr. Mor-
-timer assure nae will be e temporary
one. A long journey may enable our
friend to recover not Only from his
shattered nerves, but also from . his
wounded feelings. His love for the lady
Was deep and sincere, and te him the
saddest part of all this' black business
was that he should have been deeelved
by her.
'It only remains tonindicate"fhe part
which she had played throughout.
There call be no doubt that Stapleton
exercised an influence over her which
may have been love or May have been
fear, or very possibly both, since they
are by no means incompatible elm.
tions. It was, at least, absolutely effec-
.
titre. At his command she consented to
pass as his sister, though he'fouhd the
limit of his power over her Wen he
endeavored to make her the direct ac•
eessorY to murder. She Was ready to
warn Sir Henry so far as she 'eouid
without implicating her husband, and
again and again she tried to do so.
Stapleton himself seems to •have been
capable of jealousy, and when he saw
the baronet paying court to the lady,
even though it -as part of his own
still he could not help Interrupt -
frig With, a passionate outburst Which•
revealed the fiery soul which his, self-
contained manner so cleverly conceal-
ed. Be encouraging the intimacy he
made it certain, that Sir Henry would
frequently conte to leferripit House and
.that he would Sooner or Tater atet the
opportunity Which he desired. On the
claY of the &ISIS, however, hiel wife
turnpd suddenly dgainst him. She had
learnedsomething of the death of the
convict, and She knew that the hound
was being kept in the out -house on
the evening that Sir Henry Was com.
Ing to dinner. She taxed her husband
with hie Intended erinte, and a furious
scene followed, in Which he sheered
her for the first Mite that she had a
'Heal In his leVe.'116F fidelity turned in
an instant to bitter hatred and he ea*
that she Weald betray him. He tied her
Up, therefore, that she might have he
°Wee Of Warning Sir Henry, and he
hone& no anubt. when thAtztude
eomi-
•
trsstd put down frin' ih/ronet'll Oath
to the curse of his family, as they eer-
tainly would ea; fereeuld win his wife
hack to accept an accomplished fact
and to kee anent upon what she
knew. In thie homy that in any case
he made a m alculation, and that,
if we bad not be there,, bus doom
would none the les 'a+e been sealed.
A woman of Spanish blood does not
eendone auch an InJury lightly. And
now, my dear Watson, wi out -refer.
ring to my notes, 1 cannot ve YOU a
mere detailed account of this urious
case. I do not know that anythi es•
asential has been left unexplained:
-- "He could. not hope. to frighten S
Henry to death as be bad done the old
uncle with hie bogie bound."
,.......n.T.henbeest-waseetavage-and---hale--
starved. If its appearance 414 not
frighten Its victim to death, at least it.
would paralyze the 'reeistance which
might be offered."
"No doubt. There only remains one '
difficulty. If Stapleton came into the
succession, how could he explain the
fact that he, the heir, bad been living
unannounced under another name so
close JO the property? How could he
claim it without causing suspicion and
inquiry?" 0
"It. is e formidable difficulty, and I
fear that you ask too much when YOU
expect me to solve it. The past and the
present are within the field of my In.
quiry, but what a man may do in the
future is a hard question to answer,
Mrs. Stapleton, has heard her husband
discuss the problem on several occe,
slow. There were three possible •coUr-
ses, He might claim :the property
from South • America, • establish bit
• identity before the British authorities
there, and so obtain the fortunnwith-
out ever coming to England at all; or • •• •
he might adopt an elaborate ,disguise
during the Short time that' he need be
In London; or, again, he mignt furnish
an accomplice with the proofs and pa
-
Pers, putting lira in as heir, and re-
taining a claim upon Some proportion
of his income. We cannot doubt from
what we know of him that, he would
bave found some way out'of the diffi-
culty. And now my deer Watson, we -
have had some eeks of severe .work,
and for one e ening, I think,- we may
turn, our thou hts into more pleasant
channels. I ha a box for 'Les Hugue-
nots.' Have you heard the De Reszkes?.
Might 1 trouble you then to be ready
In half an hour, and ,we cat stop at
Marcinys for a little dinner on the
way?"
THE END. ,
• •
' Indians Are Pagans Still.
• Rev. .J. Samans, Indian agent, .has•
just completed his • anntal trip, knong
the Indians ori the Lake of the Woods
and the Lake 'Winnipeg 'districts,. and •
he statea, in in interview at Winnipeg, •
that the Indians both in •Western On- •
tario and Manitoba; as far as lie has .•••
;visited them were in the best eendi-
tion, haVing.plenty of money, an abuncl;
aneeof food and being in an excellent
state -of bealth, The Indians In- the
Lake 'of the Woods, :he says, are still
pagan; and the attitude of these natives
to religlon.is quite decidedThey re-. • ;
fuse absolurely to allowtheir' children
. to attend- any. school whet* religion is
"taught in any, form to any .extent.
They have to objection to their -chil-
dren learning to vvrite, read and.cipher '
.but they are Most. determinedly OP -
o
' posed to .the teaching of religion. The .
best means of 'dealing with the chit...
dren Of. the Indiins are in the board-
ing • schools., . There, .. are ichOols • at
Norway :House, .Keriora, Shoal. Lake,. •
Fort Frances and .at Port,41exander.. • In • .
the Lake. of .the tikoode district there
is much more. evidence of the influence
. ofliquor, arid Its barmfal effects of the
natives of the country. .
•
. . .
• Huxley .and Hunt In Canada. .
One is Sometirri •rde-picartir;6.---risid-.
er "what might have been", corms°-
.
tion .With.Vanada and .Canadian• -,
tutions.,- . For instance, Ho1maiflunt,
the painterof that famous picture, "The '
tight of. the World," once thought of,
corning to .Canada to take up 'farming,.
Would Hunts have. 'made Canada more . •
artistic and have wrought Ont his great ".
,Works here, or would he have become
:a peer .karmer instead of a great paint- ,
*or.; • and done no good 'either for. himself
Or 16r Canada: 'But • an even mote in- • " •
-.Westing speculation is that concern -
Ing -Huxley, who once.. came near be- •
'Mg " a professor of Toronto University:,
Would the.great scientist -have.been• as
successful as he Was in England, or
would the the environment have cramped
his energies? Would Huxley haVe'been
promoted and appreciated,. or, would he
have • been rnisturderatood and .•kept
down,,. dwarfed for want Of material .
and inspiration? In any event, it is in .
such men a nation lives .and te "more .
Canada can attract or develop the more
rapid will be progress, the deepet'and
fuller her current of life,
Luxury For Paupers.'•
One of the members of the EpSoni '
Board of .Guardlans, On the Occasion of
a recent , visit to the workhouse, te7
corded hisimpressions in the •visitors'
look as 'follows.: '"I. have inspected the
hue, and It seems to Me the most. •
comfortable dwelling.bouse . in the
town." ' • ••
• •
Formulae Amplest -AI of Theft.
'Ate Idea of priVate Property 1* -
never been fully accepted by the mass-
es of the people and never had their
cosdial approval as an instituticm. The
most popular ebngs and ballads of our
nation in all ages, it -may -be • noted,-
--have been tliiiii-Vvhich describedsym-
pathetIcally atraeks ofl prieate proper-
ty front the Roble Hoed cycle to the
broad sheets in which Turpin and
ShePPard were made heroes. Even
nowadays the litentture that really
tenches the peoPle; the literature that
the educated Classes seldom so much
-as see exposed for sale, the lite.ratarre
that is sold' in the small "general" '
shop in the back street and costs fewer
pennies than the novel .we know costs,
.shillings, still very largely deals with
the rotaantic exploits of the robber.
He is never a villain; he Is noble and
• generous to a fault, but lie is con-
einced of the impropriety of persons
• having too much money.- London
Heim
"Goleta to the Doge."
• The phrase "going to the dogs" has
puzzled the explainers of metaphorical
' expressiens rather -needlessly. It has
even beth] suggested that it is a pro-
fane perversion of "going to the gods,"
and an allusion has been detected ta
"cants," the dog throw, the worst
throw with the dice among the ancient
liommug Shakespeare's "Throw physic
to the dogs" and the Scriptural "Give
not that whieh is holy unto the dogs"
• have been quoted in connection with
the expreesdon. But it **ems a fairly
obvious reference to the fate of the
Wornout '.horse, Condemned to be
Slaughtered. The oid Oro* Otto% °Go
to the Otani" May be eoispared,
felting as it 414 to the Greek's horror
of bath* hie body liett tekbutted as
food for eartioe birds.#-Loadort Spec -
Won
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