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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1907-07-11, Page 71 MARTIN - SENOUR PAINTS Sold Subject to Chemical Analysis ! ! This means that you can take any can of "Martin- Senour 100% Pure Paint" off our shelves, have it analyzed by any reliable chemist in Canada, If you do not find it abso- lutely pure and exactly as we claim, we will pay the charges and make you a present of $loo for your trouble. SOLE AGENT IN WINWIAM. Je D: BURNS ��44�B�r'Srtt�li THE WINGIUM ;M TI ES JUJJ 11. 1907 t+++++++++++++,+ ++++++++++++++++++4-41* The Hound of the Baskervlles Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. BY A. CONAN DOYLE. Author of "The Green Flag" and "The Great Boer War' copyright (1QoO b7 A, Conn Doyle, even be bas not quite grasped the eig nificance of this. sentence," "No, 1 confess that I see no connec- tion." "And yet, my dear Watson, there is so very close a connection that the one is extracted out o! the other. 'You,' 'your,' 'your,' 'life,' 'reason,' 'value' ']seep away,' 'from the.' Don't you see nose whence these words have been taken?" "By thunder, you're right!! Well, if :that isn't smart!" cried Sir Henry. "If any possible doubt remained it is ;settled by the fact that 'keep away' :and 'from the' are cut out in one piece," "Well, now—so it is!" "Really, Mr. Holmes, this exceeds :anything which I could have imagined," eaid Dr. Mortimer, gazing at my friend 1n amazement. "I could understand any. .one saying that the worde were from es newspaper; but that you should name which, and add that it came from the leading article, is really one of the most remarkable things which I have ever known. How did you do it?" "I presume, doctor, that you could 'tell the skull of a negro from that of; -an •Esqutmaux?" "Most certainly." "But how?" ' "Because that is my special hobby. The .. differences are obvious. The supra -orbital crest, the facial angle, the maxillary curve, the--" "But this is my special hobby, and the • differences are equally , obvious. There is as much difference to my eyes ''between the leaded bourgeois type of a Times article and the slovenly print .01 an evening halfpenny paper as there .could be between your negro and your Esquimaux. The detection of types is .one of the most elementary branchas •of• knowledge : ,to 'the special•. et - 'pert in crime; though I confess .-that once when • 1. , was very young 1. contused the Leeds •Mercury • with the Western Morning News. But a Times, leader ie entirely distinctive; sand these ,words. could have beets. taken from nothing else. AS it was dime. yes- •.terday the' strong probability was that we should find the words in yesterday's 'Ureic" "So far : as I. can follow you, then, •Mr. Holmes," said Sir Henry Basker- ville, "someone out out this message a with a scissors---" "Nall -scissors," said. Halmes. "You can see that it was a very short -bladed :scissors, since the cutter had to take two snips over 'keep away.' "That is so, Someone; then; cutout •the message with a pair of short - `bladed scissors, pasted it with paste "Gump" said Holmes. "With gum on to the paper. But I -want to know why the word 'moor' :.should have been written?" "Because he 'could not find It in ,print. The others • words were all simple and might be found in any 'issue; but 'moor' would be less com- mon." "Why, of course, that would explain -it. Have you read anything else in this message, Mr. Holmes?" "There are one or two indications, ;and yet the utmost pains have been taken to remove all clues. The ad- ,dress, you observe, is printed in rough characters. But the Times is a paper which Is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated. We , may take • it, therefore, that the letter t Was composed by an educated man who wished to, pose as an uneducated - one, and his effort to conceal his own writing 'suggests that that writing might be known, or come to be known, by you, Again, you will observe that the words are not gummed on in an ac- curate line, but that some are much higher than others. }Life,: for example, la quite out o1 Its proper place. That- WWI hatmay point to carelessness or it may Point to agitation and hurry upon the #+art of the cutter. On the whole I in - .cline to the latter view, since the mat- :ter was evidently Important, and it la` unlikely that the composer of •such letter would be careless. If he were in :a hurry it opens up the interesting question why he should be in a hurry, since any letter posted up to early morning would reach Sir Henry before he would leave his hotel, Did the core - •poser fear an interruption --and tion whom?" "We are corning now rather into the region of guess work," said Dr. Mor- timer. "Say, rather, into the regioln where `'led Maintain Good Health Mr. John L. Hickey, now caretaker of .the public and high schools, Trenton, Ont., states:—"I have used Dr. Chase'e Kidney -Liver Pills and have found them • the greatest medicine I ever tried. I used thein when in the lumber camps and believe by keeping the kidneys and bowels regular and the general health good that they protect a person from• catching contagiousdiseases, which: are so common in the ramp. I have aeon hundreds of then using Dr. Chase's Kid- ney -Liver Pills in the lumber, camp. - They buy them by the dosen when going . in, and to chow how much faith they, bane in theta they buy there when they could get their medicine for nothing by going to the hoepital camp. .Dr. Chalie's Kidney -Liver Pills keep thy' liver; kid- mels and bowels regular and my health ,goal. I would not think of being with- ••ut therm." Dr. chases Kidnelr-I+ivver Pills poeitiveiy curs biliotteners, eoastipa- man and dissaaerr of the kidneys. One• •pill a dose, lig eente Si box, at sit dealer. vet' *limatkilea, Dotal 4 Co., Totea* we balance prellabilitie5 and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination, but we have al- ways some material basis on which to start our speculations. Now, you would call it a guess, no doubt, but I am almost certain that this address has been written in an hotel." "How M the world can you say that?" "If you examine it carefully you will see that both the pen and the ink have given the writer trouble, The pen bas spluttered twice in a single word, and has run dry three times in a short ad- dress, sheaving that there Was very lit- tle ink M the bottle. Now, a private pen or ink -bottle is seldom allowed to be In suck a state, and the combina- tion of the two must be quite rare, But you know the hotel ink end the hotel pen, where itis rare to get anything else. Yes, I have very little hesitation in saying that could we examine, the waste -paper baskets of the hotels round Charing Cross until we found the remains of the mutilated Times leader we could lay our hands straight upon the person who 'sent this .singu- tar message. Halloa! Halloa! What's this?" .. He was carefully examining the foolscap, upon which the -words were pasted, "Well?" • "Nothing," said he, throwing It down. "It is a blank half -sheet of pa- per, without even a watermark upon it. I think we have drawn as much as we can from this curious letter; and now, Sir Henry, has anything else of interest. happened to you since you have been in London?" "Why, no, Mr. Holmes. I think not." "You have not observed anyone fol. low or, watch you?" "I seem to have walked right into the thick of •a dime novel," said our visitor, "Why .in thunder should any- one follow or watch me?" "We are coming to that. You have nothing else to report to us before we go into tbis matter?" "Well, it depends upon what you think worth .reporting." "I think anything out of the' ordin- ary routine of life well worth report- ing." Sir Henry smiled. "I don't know much of .British life yet, for I have spent nearly all sty time in the States and M Canada. But I hope that, to lose ope of your boots is not. part of the ordinary routine of •lite over. here." - "Y:ou' have lost one of your boots?" "My dear sir," cried' .Dr. Mortimer, "ft is only mislaid. You will find. it when you return to the hotel. What is the use of troubling Mr. Holmes with trifles of this kind?" "Well, he asked -me for • anything outside the ordinary routine." "Exactly," said Holmes, "however foolish the incident maj!• • seem. You have lost one of your boots, you say?" • "Well, mislaid it, .anyhow.. I put them both outside my door last night, and there was only one • in the morn- ing.. I could get no sense out of the chap who cleans them. The worst of it is that I only bought the pair last night in the Strand, and I have never had them on." "If you have never worn them, why. did you put them out to be cleaned?" "They were tan -boots, and had nev- er been varnished. That was why I put them out," "Then. I understand that on your arrival in London yesterday you went out at once and bought a pair of boots?" "I did a good deal of shopping. Dr. Mortimer here Went round with me: You see, it I. am to be squire down there I must dress the part, and it neer, i think you could not do better than to tell your story as you told it to us., Thus encouraged, our sclenttfie friend drew his papers from his, pocket, and presented the whole ease aa he And done upon the morning be- fore, Sir Henry Baskerville listened with the deepest attention,, and with an occasional exclamation of surprise. "Well, I seem to have come into an inheritance with a vengeance," said he; when the long narrative wase finished, "Of course,.l've heard of the bound ever since I was in the nursery: It's the pet story of the family, though I never thought of taking it seriously before. But as to my uncle's death-- welll, it all seems boiling up M my head, and I can't get it clear yet. You don't seem quite to have made up mor mind whether it's a ease for a policeman or a clergyman." "Prectsely." "And now there's this affair of the letter to me at the hotel, I suppose that fits into its place," "It seems to show that someone knows more than we do about what goes on upon the moor," "And also," :said Holmes, "that someone is not ill-disposed ° towards you, since they warn you of danger." "Or it may be that they wish, for their own purposes, tet scare me away." "Well, of course, that is possible also. I am very much indebted to -'you, Dr. Mortimer, for Introducing me to a problem which presents several M- teresting alternatives, But the prac- tical point. which we now have to de- cide, Sir Henry, is whether it is or is not advisable for you to go to Basker- ville Hall." "Why should I not go?" "There seems to be danger." "Do you mean danger from this family fiend or do you mean danger from human beings?" "Well, that .is what we have to find out." "Whichever it is, my answer is fix- ed. There, is no devil in hell, Mr. u:• Hbtns• aid there is no man upon earth. whir ern prevent me from going to the heinngof my own people, and you MI? %Ohre that to be my final. an- swer.* His dark brows knitted and his face flushed to a dusky red as he spoke. It was evident that the fiery 'temper of the Baskervilleswas not extinct M this their last representa- tive. "Meanwhile," said he, "I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me. It's a big thing for a man to have to understand" and to decide at one sitting. I should like. to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind. Now, look here, Mr. Holmes, it's half -past eleven. now and I a fl' going hack right away'.to my ho- tel. Suppose you and your friend, Dr. Watson, come round and lunch with us at two? I'll be able to tell you more clearly then how this thing strikes nie.'"; .. "Is that convenient to you, Web son?" "Perfectly." "Then you may expect us. Shall I have se cab called?" "I'd prefer to walk, for this affair has flurried me rather.'+ • "I'll join you in a Walk, with pleas- ure," said his companion. "Then we meet again at two o'clock.' Au revoir, and good morning!" We heard the steps of our visitors descend the stair and the bang of the front door. In an instant Holmes bad changed from the languid dreamer to the man of action. "Your hat and boots,•Watson, qutekd Not a moment to lose!" He rushed Into his room in his dressing -gown and was back again in a few seconds in a frock -coat. We hurried together down the stairs and into the street. Dr. Mortimer and Baskerville were still visible about two hundred yards ahead of us in the direction of Oxford Street, "Shall I run on and stop them?" "Not for the world, my dear Wat- son. I am perfectly satisfied with -your • company it you will tolerate mine. Our friends are wise, for it is certain• ly a very fine morning for a walk." , He quickened his pace until we had decreased the distance which divided us by about half, Then, still keeping., a hundred yards behind, we followed into Oxford Street and so down lie - gent Street. Once our friends stopped and stared into a shop window, upon which Holmes did the same. In in- Stant afterwards he gave a little cry of satisfaction, and, following the direction of his eager eyes, I saw that a hansoin cab with a man inside which had halted on the other side of the street . was now walking slowly onwards again. "There's our man, Watson! Come along! We'll have a good Iook at him, if we can do no more." At that Instant I was aware of a bushy black beard and a pair of 4. I vas neare et a bushy Sleek beard and • pelf of p,ercrsg ores turned`npou us. - may be that T have got a little care- lese in my ways. out Wert. Among other things I bought these brown bo—gave six dollars -fir them—and ' hat's one ertolen before aver I had them on my feet." seeiads a singularly a uselesa:•thins, to *teal," said. Sherlock Holmes. "1 1 confess that I share Dr. Kertimer's be- lief that it will not he lobg before the MOM/ lidea, kr Nth*" t "And nb*fr gentlemen," said the harenet; with dc'elieitfn, "it seerrW16 1 In. • that I .Mete !woken quite eaoliatl about the little that I know. It is time that you kept your proosnter and gtive ! bre a lull account of what ws are ail dri ing at' "d'ertrWittiteletis tt Vett to eef iabls •eas "• HOMO dwrt.bred. "Dr. Marti* t.,l.. OF COURSE YOU CAN CURE. YOUR RHEUMATISM .I No matter bow long you have vuffcred Or what remedies you have tried without relief, Bu -Ju will cure you. We know what Busin has done for people, bedridden and he'pleas, We know what Ian -)u is doing every risy for people tortured with Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lumbago, Neuralgia. Bu -Ju, The Gentle Kidney Pill, cures Rheumatism because it acts directly on the kidney; and stops the poisonous deposit of uric acid in the blood, which moues Rheumatism.Rheumatism.au js wilt cure your Rheumatism, Tat. it 4n our guarantee that your money will be prom- ptly refunded shouid it fail. ' oe a large hoz, At all druggists or b+ mail from Ther Mania Chemicalgeq. I imite'd, Windsor, One 11111 placing qs turned upon ustbzough the side window of the cab. Instantly the trapdoor at the top hear up, some- thing was screamed to the driver, and the cab new madly off down Regent Street, Holrnes looked eagerly round for another, but no empty one was in sight. Then he dashed in wild• pursuit amid the stream of the trafbc, Mit the start was too great, and already the • i cab was out of sight. "There now!" sald Holmes, bitterly, as he emerged panting and white with vexation from the tide of vehicles. "Was ever such bad luck and such bad management, too? Wat- son, Watson, if you are an honest elan you will record this also and set it against my successes!" "Who was the man?" "I have not an idea.." spy,,, "Well, it was evident from what we have heard that Baskerville has been very closely shadowed by someone since he has been M town. How else could it be known so quickly that it was the Northumberland Hotel which he had chosen? If they had followed him the .first day I• argued that they would follow him also the second. You may have observed that I twice stroll- ed over to the window while Dr, Mor. timer was reading his legend." "Yes, I remember." "I was looking out for loiterers M the street, but I saw none. We are dealing with a clever man, Watson, This matter cuts very deep, and though I have not finally made up my mind whether it a benevolent or a malevolent agency which is in touch with us, I Un conscious always of power and design. When our friends left I at once followed them in the hopes of marking down their invisible attendant: So wily was he that he had not trusted himself upon foot, but he had availed himself of a cab, so that he could loiter behind or dash past them and so escape their notice. His method' had the additional advantage that if they were to. take a cab he was all ready to follow them. It has, how- ever, one obvious disadvantage." • "It puts him in the power of the cab- man." "Exactly." • "What a pity we did not get the number!" "My dear Watson, clumsy as I have been, you surely do not seriously ima- gine that I neglected to get the num- . bei? 2704 is our man. But that is no use to- us for the moment." "I fail to see how y:enseould have `done more." "On observing the cab I should have Instantly turned and walked in the other direction. I should then at my leisure have hired a second cab and followed the first at a respectful dis- tance, or, better still, have driven to the Northumberland Hotel and wait- ed there. When our unknown had fol- lowed Baskerville home we should have had the opportunity of playing his own game upon himself, and see- ing where he made for. As it is, by an Indiscreet eagerness, which was taken advantage of with extraordinary quick- ness and energy by our opponent we have betrayed ourselves and lost our man." We had been sauntering slowly down Regent Street during this con- versation, and Dr. Mortimer, with his companion, bad Iong vanished in front of us. ",There to no object in our follow -ing them," said Holmes. "The shadow has departed stud will not return. We must see what further cards we hare in our hands, and play them with deci- sion. Could you swear to that man's face within the cab?" "I could swear only to the beard." "And so could I—from which I ga- ther that in all probability it was a false one, A clever man upon so dell - Cate an errand has no use for a beard sive to conceal his features. Come in here, Watson!" • He turned into one of the district messenger offices where he was Warm- ly greeted by the manager. "Ah, Wilson, I see you have not for- gotten the little case in which I had the good fortune to help•you?" "No, sir, indeed I have not. You Owed nay good name, and perhaps my life," ,. "My dear fellow, you 'exaggerate. I have some recollection,."Wilion, that you had among your boys a lad named Cartwright, who *bowed some ability during the investigation," "Yes, sir, he is still with ug." "couldou ring hini up?—thank you! And 1 •should be glad to have change of this five -pound note." A ied of fourteen, with a bright, keen face, had obeyed the summons of the manager. He stood now gazing with great reverence at the famous detective. "Let me have the Hotel Directory," Said Holmes. "Thank 7011! Now, Cart- wright, there are the names of twenty- three hotels here, alI in the immediate neighborhood of Charing' Cross. Do You see?" "Yes, sir." "You will visit a oh of these in turn." "Yes Sir." "Yott will begin, in each ease by giv- ing the outside porter one shilling, Here are twenty-three shillings" "'Ys, eir," .. "You Wilk toil him that you want to see the waste paper of yesterday, You Will say that an important telegram hitt Miscarried and that you are look- ing for It, You understand?" "Yes, sir." "But what you are retail• looking for is the centre age of the 'Tithes 'with solute holes crit in it with sctseore. Here is a copy of the Tbines. It is this page. You could ,*oily reCobnilse it, could you not'?" • "iii each° ease the• outride. porton Will send t fire hall porter. to whom also , • • you will give a shilling. Here'situ twenty-three shillings. You will then learn in possibly twenty eases out of the twenty-three that the waste of the day before has been burned or re- moved. In the three other cases you will be, shown a heap of paper and You will look for this Page of the Times among it. The odds are enor- mously against your finding it. There are ten shillings over M case of erner- geneies, Let me have a report by wire at Baker Street before evening. And now, Watson, it only remains for us to Dud out by wire the identity of the cabman, No. 2704, and then we will drop into one of the Dond Street pic- tire galleries and fill in the time int- ern Ire are due et the hotel," CHAPTER V. Sherlock Holmes had, is a. very re- markable degree, the power of de- taching his mind at will. For two hours the strange business in which we had been involved appeared to be 'forgotten, and he was entirely absorb- ed in the pictures of the modern Bel- gian masters. He would talk o1 no- thing but art, of which he had the crudest ideas, from our leaving the gallery until we found ourselves et the Northumberland Hotel. "Sir Henry Baskerville is upstairs expecting you," said the clerk. "He Asked me to show you up at once when you came," "Have You any objection to my look- ing ooking at your register?" said Holmes. Not in the least." The book showed that two named had been added after that of Basker- ville, One was Theopliilus Johnson and family, of Newcastle; the other Mrs, Oldmore and maid, of High Lodge, Alton. "Surely that must be the same John- son whom I used to know," said Holmes to the. porter. ".A. lawyer, is be not, grey -headed, and walks with a limp?" • "No, sir, this is Mr. Johnson, the coal -owner, a very active gentleman, not older than yourself." "Surely you are mistaken about his trade?" "No, sir; he has •used this hotel for many years, and he is very well known to us." "Ali, that settles it. Mrs. Oldmore, too; I seem to rememher the name. Excuse my curiosity, but often in can- ing upon one friend one finds another." "She is an invalid lady, sir. Her hus- band was once Mayor of Gloucester. She always comes to us wben she is in town." "Thank you; I am afraid I cannot claim her acquaintance. We have es- tablished a most important fact by these questions, Watson," he con- tinued, in a low voice, as we went up- stairs together. "We know now . that the people who are so interested in our friend have not settled down in his own hotel. That meaus that while they are, as we have seen, very anxious to watch -hire they are equally anxious that he should not see them. Now, this is a most suggestive fact." "What does it suggest?" "It suggests—helloa, my -dear fel- low, what of earth is the matter?" As we came round the top of the stairs we had run up against Sir Henry Baskerville himself. His face was flushed with anger, and he held an old and dusty boot in one of his hands. So furious was he that he was hardly articulate, and when he did speak it was in a much broader and more Western dialect than any which we had heard from him ,in the morn- ing: • "Seems to me they are playing me for a sucker in this hotel," he cried. "They'll find they've started in to monkey with the wrong man unless they are oareful. By thunder, if that chap can't find my missing boot there will be.trouble. I can take a joke with the best, Mr. Holmes, but they've got a bitover the mark this time." "Still looking for your boot?" "Yes, sir, and mean to find it." "But, surely, you said that it was a new brown boot?" "Sri it was, sir. And now it's an old. black one." "What! you don't mean to say "That's just what I do mean to say. I only bad three pairs in the world— the new brown, the old black, and the 1 patent leathers, which I am wearing. {Last night they took one of my brown ones, and to -day they have sneaked one of the black. Well, have you got it? Speak out, man, and don't stand ' staring!" 1 An agitated German waiter had ap- peared upon the scene. "No, sir; I have made inquiry all over the hotel, but I can hear no word of 1t." I "Well, either that boot comes back before sundown or I'Il de the mans. 1 ger and tell him that I go right streleht out of this hotel," "It shall be found, sir ---I promise you that if you will have a little pa- tience ,twill be found." "Mina it is, for it's the last tbtnr o1 • mine that I'll lose M this den of thieves. Well, well, Mr. Holmes, you'll Iexoure my troubling you about such e trifle-•---" "I think it's well worth troubling about." "Why, you look very serious star it." "Kow do you explain it?" . • "i just don't attempt to explain it. It seems the very maddest, queerest thing that ever happened to me." "The queerest perhaps----" said Holism, thoughtfully. "What 40 you snake• of it yourself'`" "Well, I don't profess to understated 1t yet, This ease of yours is very coin- p1ex, Sir Henry. When taken in con- junction with your leacle''s death I am not here that o five hundred0 of the ndred Cates of capital importance which I have handled there is one which Cuts en deep. But we hold several threads In our hands, and the odds are that one or other of them gutdee as M the truth. We may waste time in folios- ing the wrong one, but sooner Or la- ter we Must come upon the right." We had a pleasant luncheon in *Melt little was said isf -the businese which had brought us together. It Was 1e the private 'sitting -room to which we afterwards repaired that liotinet asked Ihtekerville what were his lrtteetiotil., "'Tb ,su to Baskerville Ilett." "land whe P' "At the end of the Week." "On the Whele," laid alolfnelt, Whit tbet your decision is'a it re o'irie I luere ample evidence that yen are ;being dojged i> London, and a;miti the millions of this great city It is difficult M discover who these people are or what their object can he, If their in- P.A. "!!is name," said the cabman, "was ,itr Sherlock I/o/nes." tentions are evil they might do you a mischief, and we should be powerless to prevent it. You did not know, Dr. Mortimer, that you were followed this morning from my house?" Dr, Mortimer started violentiy. "Followed! By whom?" "That, unfortunately, is what I can- not tell you. Have you among your neighbors or acquaintances on Dart- moor any man with a black, full beard?" "No—or, let me see—why, yes. Barrymore, Sir Charles's butler, is a man with a full, black beard." "Hal Where is Barrymore?" "He is in charge of the Hall." "We had best ascertain if he is really there, or 1f by any possibility he might be in London." "How can you do that?" "Give me a telegraph form. 'Is all ready for Sir Henry?' That will do, Address to Mr. Barrymore, Basker- ville Hall. ,What. is the nearest tele- graph -office? •Grimpen. Very good, we will send a second wire to the post- master, ostmaster, Grinipen: 'Telegram to. Mr. Barrymore, to be delivered into his own hand. If absent, please return 'wire to Sir Henry Baskerville, North- umberland Hotel.' That should let us know before evening whether Barry - more is at his post M Devonshire or not." "That's so," said Baskerville. "By the way,, Dr. Mortimer, who is this Barrymore, anyhow?" "He is the son of the old caretaker, who is dead. They have looked after the Hall for four generations now. So far as I know, he and his wife are as respectable a couple as any in the country." "At the same tine," said Basker- vide, "it's clear enough that so long as there are none of the family at the 7 For Diarrhoea, Dysentery AND AL1, Summer Complaints DR. FOWLER/St EXTRACT OF WILD STRAWBERRY IN AN tNSTANTANEOU$ CURL. It has been used in thousands of homer during the past sixty-two years sand Imo always given satisfaction. Every home should have a bottle same bo be ready in case of emergency. Price 35 cents at all druggists si4 dealers. Xao not let some unprincipattett druggist humbug you into taking sa- called Strawberry Compound. The or. tginal is De. Fowege's. The rest are rub. stitutes. Mrs. Q, Bodo, Lethbridge, Attg.a. writes : "We have used Dn. Fowa.'st EXTRACT er WILD STRAWBERRY and found it a great remedy for Diarrhoea„ Summer Complaint and Cramps. Wer would not like to be without it lir taco house " Hall them' people bare a Mighty Mass: home and nothing to do." "That is true." "Did Barrymore profit at all by Sir° Charles's will?" asked Holmes. "He and his wife bad five hundredh pounds each." "Hat Did they know that they would receive this?" "Yes; Sir Charles was very fond of talking about the provisions of his' will." "That is very interesting." "I hope," said Dr. Mortimer, "the you do not look with suspicious eye upon everyone who received a legae, from Sir Charles, for I also had thousand pounds left to me," "Indeed! And anyone else?" 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