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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1907-06-13, Page 740110,13th, 1907 Minos MewbAteuuric4 WO. )41oTeggart, M. D. ,I0Taggeal0 4, 1 McTaggart Bros, -BANKERS-- 4 GENERAL BANKING ,SUSI- NESS TRANSACTED. NOTES DISCOUNTED. DRAFTS ISSUED.. INTETtviST ALLOWED*ON_ POSITS. SAT.IE IsToTES PURCH- ASED. — i•ropF., M. BRYTIONE, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR NOTARY, PUBLIC, ETC. OFFICE -Sloane Block-CLINTON, -11.1DOUT & HALE Conveyancers, Commissioners,. Real Estate and Insurance Agency. Money• to loan. 0. B. HALE - JOHN1.1.1:DOUT .1010.1•11,11. THE TOURIST SEAS() e IS now on and a Chanel' to trasei offered to t110441 wo eeend the 'hest part of the year on the tarn', or in the small settleutentS. 1.4r ProVince has mere irteteatlege. sorts than Ontario The charm:rig Muskolta Lakes, Gen:elan. nay, Lake of Bays, 'remegaen, Aleoliquia Pari, Lake Huron Beaches, Kewartha. Lak- ee, $t. Lawrence !I sten %%Ito Mous/tales, Sea e'ewt .1 am estuall Exposition, Ete. The Grand% Trunk Railway System Ann „pen neeti one nee _a cone. fortable fourney to any of the atone poiat4n agol Hat hunt C111111 I have been appointed agent for the MAssay-Haeris Coin, pany in this district and will keep on hand e. complete list . Of supplies in my .„store oppos- --itenthe--1VIalsons Bank. DRS. GUNN & GUNN , • Dr. W. Gunn L. R. C. P. dr L.R.C.S. -Edinburgh- Dr. J. Nesbit Gunn M. R C. S. Eng, - L. R. C. P. London Night calls ateffront door of residence on Rattenbury street, opposite • Presbyterian church OFFICE- Ontario street-CLINTON —DR. J. W. SHAW— • -OFFICE- - RATTENBURY ST. EAST, -CLINTON,- DR. 0. W. THOMPSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given en eisonees of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat...-. -Office 'and Residence - HURON ST. SOUTH, CLINTON • doors west of the Commercial hotel. -DR. F. A. AXON. - (Successor to Dr. Holmes.) Specialist in Crown and Bridge *lark. Graduate of the Royal Collage of Dental Surgeons of Ontario. 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Yeer.• Holinee- vine " • Parties desirous to effect insurance Or transact otger business will be promptly attended to on applieation" to any of the above officers iddeessecie to their respective' postoffices, Losses inspected by .the director whe Jive ueareet the scene. Kill thorn all. ..110 news flies • Wax about, when mama ae % directed. DRU•GGISTS, GROCERS AND GENERAL STORES 10c. per packet, or 3 packets for esc. wilt past a emote neason. ca<47-sez -4•4:4++44-4-44--++++++,* 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. ' e + . 1 144..-4-4-444-+-4•44++++ — - ..---- - "-10--een:iiiiiiiiied bog wideetretehed n"- 1 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 FOR -SALE BYW, H. HELLYA.R CLINTON, GRA :• .111 'AV 11"SYSTEM -:-TIME TABLE. - Trains will arrive at an depare-7 from Clinton station as follows ; BUFFALO AND GODERICH Dry Going East 7.38 a. m. 8.23n1). m. , .5.20p. m. ' 10.15 a. ,12.56 p. 0..40 p. 'm. 10.47 le .m. C I .4 46• II Going West , II. 61 44 LONDON, , HURON dt BRUCE DIV. Going South rs 4, • Going North Is 7.47-a. ea. .4.23 p. rn, 10.15 a. tn. 6.35 p. -- • KORT Ti" AN,1 I•6* CO 4/4 111 For Soo, Por i Arthur, FL William and Dahill. Leave 111 Sarnia.3.30Juno 3.7,12. Sailing. of May 24, . tern. ,Asy 20, 24. 29, June 4, 13,•through to Duluth. FonSaeltSfe. Maris and Way knits, Leave Collingtesaul 1.30 1)416,0v/en Sound 11.30p.m.,Tute- Asy• Thursday and Saturday. rorParrySouad and French River. Leave Collingeood 10,3() 0. nt. IVionday etuf Fridey. TOUR FREIGHT SOLICITED. hamillee awl &torah lhe hem. 4 - - Mai TS AND INCORMAII(im FROM etn RAILWAY PASSENtiCR A0eNTS 1. 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-. ; 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 . 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 re •