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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1907-09-19, Page 7TIIE WIWGRAllf TIMES, SEPTEMBER 19, 1907 -4+#44-4-444-4++++++++++++ ++++++++ The Hound of the askervilles Another Adventure Of Sherlock Holmes. BY A.. CONAN DOYLE. Author of "The Green Flag" and "The Great Boer War" Copyright (1,90.) by A. Conan Doyle, 4444-+•++ +++++++++++++ 44+4+4-44++++++++++++++ "And the one beyond, which shines }to brightly?" "That is certainly the dining -room." "The blinds are up. Yon know the lie sof the land best. Creep forward quietly And see what they are doing --but for 'heaven's sake don't let them know that they are watched!" I tiptoed down the path and stooped behind the low wall which surrounded the stunted orchard. Creeping in its shadow I reached a. point whence I could look straight through the unenr- Ttafned window. There were only two men In the. Totem, Sir Henry and Stapleton. They being overtaken before he can reach sat with their profiles towards me on us. At all costs we must hold our either side of the round table. Iiot1z of grcyund where we are." He dropped on them were smoking cigars, and coffee bis knees and clapped his ear to the and wine were in front of them. Sta- i ground. "Thank God, I think that I platen was talking with animation, but hear him coming," A sound of quick steps broke the silence of the moor. Crouching among the stones we stared intently at the silver -tipped bank in front of us. The steps grew louder, and through the fog, as through a curtain, there stepped the man wham we were awaiting. He the creole of a door and crisp sound of looked round him in surprise as he boots upon gravel. The steps passed Thenemeghe came the clear,lyalong star -lit path, ealong the path on the other side of the he came swiftly along the path, wall under which I crouched. Looking ,Passed close to where we lay, and ver, I saw the naturalist pause at the went on up the long slope behind us. door of an out house in the corner of As he walked he glanced continually the orchard. A key turned in a lock, over either shoulder, like a man who is ill at ease, and as ia elpassed noises there was from withia. cur-ue "Hist!" cried Holmes, and I heard Ines eu th s arp of was only a minute or so inside, and i "Look out! dick m a "cocking pistol, then I heard the key turn once more i e e was It's taming. and he passed me and re-entered the There a thin,hcrisp, continuous of house. I saw him rejoin his guest, and patter from g bank. Theithe heart as I crept quietly back to where my com- withtin crawling bank. wclo lay,a wad panions wore waiting to tell them within fifty yards allf whererewe ceand ala -What I had seen, we glared at it, three, uncertain "You say sen. that the lady is I what horror was about to break from not there?" Holmes asked, when I had the heartanof lat. c was at an instant alt finishedeilo.e, my report. `bow, and I glanced for instant at acs face. It was pale and exultant, his "Where can she be, then, since there 'es shining brightly in the moonlight. is no light in any other room except Hat suddenly they started forward in the kitchen?" rigid, fixed stare, and his lips parted "I cannot drink where she is." in amazement. At the same instant I have said that over the great Grim- Lestrade gave a yell of terror and pen Mire there hung a dense, white threw himself face downwards upon fog. It was drifting slowly in our direc- the ground. I sprang raytpistol,y feet,my tion and banked itself up like a wall mart band grasping my en that side of us, low, but thick and wind paralyzedbby the dreadful shape well defined. The moon shone on it, t which do sprung out upon us fromt and it looked like a great shimmering wasthe shadows of the fog. A houndound, it icefield, with the heads of the distant but �n t such an ta hound as mous coal-black 'eyes tors as rocks borne upon its surface. ' Holmes's face was turned towards it, and he muttered impatiently as he watched its sluggish drift. "It's moving towards us, Watson." "If he isn't out in a quarter of an hour the path will be covered. In half an hour we won't be able to see our hands In front of us" "Shall we move farther back upon higher ground?" "Yes, I think it would be as weIl." So as the fog -bank flowed onwards we fell back before it until we were half a mile from the house, and still that dense, white sea, with the moon silvering its upper edge, sept slow- ly and inexorably on. "We are going too far," said Holmes. "We dare not take the chances of his the baronet looked pale and distrait. Perhaps the thought of that lonely walk across the ill-omened moor was !weighing heavily upon his mind, As I watched them Stapleton rose and left the room, while Sir Henry fill- ed his glass again and leaned back in his chair, puffing at his cigar. I heard "Is that serious?" "Very serious, indeed—the one 'thin„ upon earth which could have .disarranged my plans. He can't be .very long, now. It is . already ten o'clock. Our success and even his life may depend upon his coming out be- fore the fog is over the path," The night 'was clear and fine above acs. The stars shone cold and bright, while a half-moon bathed the whole scene in a soft, uncertain light. Before us lay the dark bulk of the house, its serrated roof and bristling chimneys hard outlined against the silver - spangled sky. Broad bars of golden •light from the lower windows stretch- ed across the orchard and the moor. One of them was suddenly shut off. '; The servants had left the kitchen. There only remained the lamp in the dining -room where the two men, the murderous host and the unconscious guest, still chatted over their cigars, Every minute that white woolly plain which covered one half of the moor was drifting closer and closer to t the house. Already the first thin wisps •of it were curling across the golden -square of the lighted window. The far- ther wall of the orchard was already 'invisible, and the trees 'were standing -out of a swirl of white vapour. As we 'watched it the fog -wreaths came crawl- ing round both corners of the house sand rolled slowly into one dense bank, oh which the upper floor and the roof ifloated Iike a strange ship upon a Shadowy sea. Holmes struck his hand passionately upon the rock h front of ens, and stamped his feet in his impa- tience. Ali Inviting Inspect Nothing better f o r you—moth• ing more inviting than a meat of PlOoney's Perfection Cream Sodas Mooney's Biscuits are an evenly balanced, wholesome, nourishing food, equally good for young and r. old. Made from Canada's finest wheat flour" rich cream and pure butte;t'. Baked by the Mooney i baker in the Mooney way. Sly Mooney's*llo your grocer.' "Give me another mouthful of that bandy and I shall be ready for any thing. So! Now, if you will help me up, c What do you propose to do?" "To leave you. here. You are not fil for further adventures to -night. It you will wait, one or other of us wilt ge back with you to the Hall." He tried to stagger to his feet; but he was still ghastly pale and tronb ling in every limb. We helped him to a rock, where he sat shivering with his face burled in his hands. "We must leave you now," said Holmes. "The rest of our work must be done, and every moment is of In portanco. We have our case, and now we only want our man. "It's a thousand to one against oui finding him at the house," be can tinned, as we retraced our steps swift ly down the path. "Those shots must have told him that the game was up." i "We were some distance off, and this fog may have deadened them." "He followed the hound to call hirn off --of that you may be certain, No no he's gone by this time! But we'll search the house and make sure." The front door was open, so we rushed in and hurried from room to room, 'to the amazement of a dodder ing old manservant, who met us in the passage. There was no light save in the dining -room, but Holmes caught up the lamp and left no corner of the house unexplored. No sign could we' see of the man whom we were chasing On the upper floor, however, one of bedroom doors was locked. "There's someone in here," cried Lestrade. "I can hear a movement Open this door!" A faint moaning and rustling carie from within. Holmes struck the door Just over the lock witch the flat of his foot and it flew open. Pistol in hand, we all three rushed into the room. But there was no sign within it of that desperate and defiant villain whom we expected to see. In stead we were faced by an object so strange and se unexpected that we stood for a mo• mont staring at it in amazement. The room had been fashioned into a small museum, and the walls were lined by a number of glass -topped crises full of that collection of butter• flies and moths the formation of which had been the relaxation of this com- plex and dangerous man. In the centre of this room there was an upright beam, which had been placed at some period as a support for the old worm- eaten balk of timber which spanned . the roof. To this post a figure was tied, • so swathed and muffled in the sheets. which had been used to secure it that one could not for the moment tell whether it was that of a man or a 'woman. One towel passed round the throat and was secured at the back of the pillar. Another covered the lower part of the face, and over it two dark eyes—oyes full of grief and shame and a dreadful questioning—stared back at us. In a minute we had torn off the gag, unswathed the bonds, and Mrs. Stapleton sank upon the floor in front of us. As her beautiful head fell upon her chest I Saw the clear red weal of a have ever seen. Fire burst from its , whiplash across her neck. opeu. mouth, its eyes glowed with a ; "The brute!" cried Holmes, "Here, smouldering glare,. its nuzzle and Lestrade, your brandy -bottle! Put her hackles and dewlap were outlined in in the chair! She had fainted from i11 - flickering flame. Never in the delirious usage and exhaustion." dream of a disordered brain could any- She opened her eyes again.. thing more savage, more appalling, "Is -he safe?" she asked. "Has he more hellish be conceived than that escaped?" dark form, and savage face which "He cannot escape us, madam." broke upon us out of the wall of fog. "No, no, I did not mean my hus- With long bounds the huge black band. Sir Henry? Is he safe?' Cure yourself at home for 3 cents a days creature was leaping down the track, following hand upon the footsteps of cur friend. So paralyzed were we by the •apparition that we allowed him to pass before we had recovered our nerve. Then Holmes and I both fired together, and the creature gave a hideous howl, which showed that one at least had hit him. He did not pause, however, but bounded onwards. Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking' nick, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man r•.un es Holmes ran that night. I am reck- oned fleet of foot, but he outpaced me as much as I outpaced the little pro- fessional. In front of us as we flew up the track we heard seream after scream from Sir Henry and the deep roar of the hound. I' gas in time to see the beast spring upon its victim, hurl him to the ground, and worry at his throat. But the next instant Holmes had emptied five barrels of his revel - ver into the creature's flank. With a last howl of agony and a vicious snap in the air, it rolled upon its back, four feet pawing furiously, and then fell limp upon its side. I stooped, panting, and pressed my pistol to the dreadful, shimmering head, but it was useless to press the trigger, The giant) hound was dead. Sir Henry lay insensible where he had fallen. We tore away his collar, and Holmes breathed a prayer of gra- titude when we saw that there was no sign of a Wettted and that the rescue had been in time. Already our friend's eyelids shivered and he made a. feeble effort to move. Lestrade thrust his brandy -flask between the baronet's teeth, and two frightened eyes were looking up at us. "My God!" he whispered. "What was it? What, in Heaven's flame, was it?" "It's dead, whatever it is," said Holmes, "We've laid the family ghost once and for ever." In mere size and strength it was a terrible creature which was lying stretched before us. It was not a blood- hound and it was not a pm'e mastiff; but it appeared to be a combination of the two—gaunt, savage, and as large as a small lioness. Bven now, in tbo stiliness of death, the huge Jaws seem- ed to be dripping with a bluish liame and the small deep-set, cruel eyes were ringed with fire, I placed my hand up- on tee glowing muzzle, and as I held them up my own fingers smouldered and gleamed in the darkness. "Phosphorus," I said. "A cunning preparation of it," said Holmes, sniffing at the dead animal. "'There is no smell which might have interfered with his power of scent. Wo owe you a deep apology, Sir limey, tor having exposed you to this fright. I was prepared for a bound, but not such a creature as this. And the tog gave us little time to reCeivo huff." "You have saved my life." "Having first endangered it. Are Jdiu strew enough to !stand?" . • "Yes." "And 'the hound?" "It is dead." She gave a long sigh of satisfaction. "Thank God! Thank God! Oh, des villain! See how he has treated me!" She shot her ares out front her sleeves, and we saw with horror that they were all mottled with bruises. "But this is nothing—nothing! It is my mind and soul that he has torture's] and defiled. I could endure it all, ill -usage, solitude, a life of deception, every- thing, as long as I could still clipg to the hope that I had his love, but now I know that in this also I have been his dupe and his tool." She broke into pas- sionate sobbing as she spoke. "You' bear hien no good will, madam," said Holmes. "Tell as then where we shall find him. If you have ever aided him in evil, help us now and so atone." "There is but one place where he can have fled," she answered. 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"He may find his Way in, but never out," she cried. "How can he see the guiding wands to -night? We planted them together, he and I, to mark the pathway through the mire. Oh, if I could only have plucked them out to- day. Then indeed you would have had him at your mercy!" It was evident to us that all pursuit was in vain until the fog had lifted. Meanwhile We left Lestrade in posses- sion of the house while Holmes and I went back with the baronet to Basker- ville Hall. The story of the Stapletons could no longer be withheld from him, ,but he took the blow bravely when he learned the truth about the woman whom he had loved. But the shock of the night's adsientnres bad shattered his nerves, and before morning he lay The next instant Hvlrnes had emptied five barrels of his revolver into the brute. not know that this place contains any secret which we have not already I fathomed He could hide his hound but he could not hush its voice, and hence came those cries which even in daylight were not pleasant to hear. On an emergency he could keep the hound in the outhouse at Merripit, but it was always a risk, and it was only on the supreme day, which he regarded as the end of all Ms efforts, that he dared do it. This paste in the tin, is no doubt the luminous mixture with which the creature was daubed. It was suggest- ed, of course, by the story of the fam- ily hellhound, and by the desire to frighten old Sir Charles to death. No wonder the poor devil of a convict ran and screamed, even as our friend did, and as we ourselves might have done, when we saw 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 driving 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 have done, up- on the moor? I said it in London, Wat- son, and I say it again now, that never yet have we helped to hunt down a more dangerous man than be who is lying yonder"—he swept his lottg arm towards the huge mottled_ expanse of delirious in a high fever, under the care of Dr. Mortimer. The two of them were destined to travel together round the world before Sir Henry had be- come once more the hale, hearty man that be had been before he become .master of that ill-omened estate. i - And now I come rapidly to the con - elusion of this singular narrative, in which I have tried to make the reader share those dark fears and vague sur- mises which clouded our lives so long, and ended in so tragic a manner. On the morning after the death q€ the hound the fog had lifted and we were guided by Mrs. Stapleton to the point where they had found a pathway through the bog. It helped us to realize the horror of this woman's life when we saw the eagerness and joy with which she laid us on her husband's 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 the path zigzagged from tuft to tuft of rushes among those green -scummed ' pits and foul quagmires which barred the way to the stranger. Ranh reeds and lush, slimy water -plants sett an odor of decay and a heavy miasmatic vapor into our faces, 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 into those obscene depths, so grim and purposeful was the clutch in which it held us. Once only we saw a trace that someone had passed that perilous way before us, From amid a tuft of cotton - grass which bore it up out orthe slime some dark thing was projecting. Holmes sank to his waist as he step- ped from the path to seize it, and had we not been there to drag him out he could never have set his foot upon firm land again. Te held an old black boot in the air. "Meyers, Toronto," was printed on the leathegr inside. "It is worth a mudTath," said he. "It is our friend Sir Henry's missing boot." "Thrown there by Stapleton In his flight." "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 tip, still clutching it. And he hurled it away at this point of his flight. We know at least that he camp so far in safety." But more than that we were never destined to know, though there was much which we might surmise. There was no Chante of finding footsteps in the mire, for the rising mud oozed swiftly in upon them, but es we at last reached firmer ground beyond the morass we all looked eagerly for them. But no slightest sign of them ever met our eyes. If the eatth told a true story, then Stapleton never reached that island of refuge towards which he struggled through the fog upon that last night. Somewhere in the heart of the great Grintpen Mire, clown• in the foul slime of the huge morass which bad sucked him in. this eold and trot - hearted man is for ever burled. Many traces we found of him in the bog -girt Island where he had hid his savage ally. A huge driving -wheel and (To be (ootianed ) BANDITS' CAPTIVE. English Youth Ransomed In Turkey For $75,000. Once again Turkish bandits have extorted. their toll from the British Government, who have been compell ed to ransom a deaf and dumb young Englishman to the tune of $75,000. The captive, Mr. Robert Abbott, aged 18, lives with his father, Mr. Alfred Abbott, in the outskirts of Sal- onica, with the open country just half an hour's walk beyond. 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Two vetert !nary surgeons were unable to say what was the nature of the disease, and, after the death of the third" horse, the farmer made the journey to Exeter. The woman known as "The White Witch" visited the farm, and told the matt that he had nndoubted- Iy been "witched." The farmer firm- ly believes that such was the ease. In answer to interrogations by a press man as to whether he really believed,' in the superstition, ' he replied dell- nitely that he WAS sure that it was • right, adding, ":dict it was a good job I went, er else I should have lost everything. it Ilost all my horses, and �was awful. it too nitucb." ......,.......� .. a Typhoid Preventable. The following are some methods of preventing the spread of typhoid. The extracts have been made front literature issued by the Health Branch of ttie Sas- katchewan Department of Agriculture and by the health committee of the city of Winnipeg. Typhoid fever is caused, hi the vast majority of eases by water, milk or food b Booming poisoned and sometimes by tai germs of a previous case• of this disease. Seep your house well ventilated, tbo premises clean, and allow no decaying vegetable or animal matter about. Preveut the entrance of flies and other insects by using screen doors and screen windows. See that alt food it properly cooked and all milk and water used by the house. hold is thoroughly boiled. Water and milk are the two artioles most particularly infected by typhoid. Heat kills the typhoid poison, therefore if your drinktbg water ir not from a source beyond suspicion, boil it for 25 or 80 minutes. Protect your milk from contamination by duet or flies, or pasteurize it, that is, heat to 150 Pahr. or 10 Centigrade. Keep it at this temperature 15 minutes, and then cool rapidly. Dirty hands may have typhoid infra. tion, the tefore wash the hands eerie ull r, before allowing them to conte in Contact with food staffs of any kind, rood becomes infects by flies crawl. ing over it or by dust from the street. Wash thoroughly all vegetables that are intended to be eaten raw, wash in water of known purity, or water which hats been boiled and Cooled, Hum flies out of the house es much as possible by screening all deers and Win- dows and by the use of fly papers. Clover tall food supplies se that flies and dust may not have aoeess'to than. It yeti have a ease of Typhoid iu your house, and the patient Monnet be isolated from the rest' of the family, and have a nurse that does iidthing dee bat attend to his Wants, it is desirable that he be re- meted at once to the hospital. Under no cfrcnrnet•anoes should an itedivic4tusf having to do with the pati•t It. ennui its contact eeith the generat food supply of the house. O!ennliness in one of the Amoebas rafe- guards ragain:st typhoid fever The manure pile or garbage hespis one of the ureeteet breeding grou tides for flies, it is therefore importaut Chet nian- ure or decaying 'natter be not allowed to, accumulate. A Falling of $12,000,000. The nfiiclsl report iesned by the On- tario D'par•tau»ut of Agricniturt, places the yield iu Pour nut of the sive impor- tant grain crops of the Pr. viune a rrtrr below the yield of la -r year, need at much, lose than the average of Oa p rvioui liva years. In peas, the least important crop of the five, there is au increeee in that yield per acre, while in foul and spring wheat, oata, and barley there is A failing. off. After allowing for the iuerease its peas there is a net decline, a.t compared: with the average of the previone live, years, in our five chief gri+t;i crops, or something over 30 000 000 bushels. At a very moderate oaloulatieu this is equi- valent to a remotion of $12,Cf:0,C00 irs the year's income of Ontario farmers. The decline in hay represents a loss of. say, $0,000,000 more, but tine cosy be at least partially offset by a better yield its corn. The returns front drrirsing will: also be considerably less than last year,, but frait and poultry will probabiy make a better allowing than in 1900. though not sufnoient to offset the loss in dairying. It is not a good year, but it might haus been much worse. Let us be thankful for the bounties of the previone tea years, and grateful that a measure at. least of good Mime, has been v.,uohshep- ed even fa this season. Fifty years ago there Was sntniexcess for bad roads, for our country w:ay poor°. How it is rich there is no tecease. A. good road is alssays to be de aced ant iia a s. nice of mentors and convenience ttr every traveller. Gaon rids ettraet pop- ulation, tie well as goo5 schu•rle and churches. Good rJarlx improve the vafae of property, so that n is stdd farm lying five mills trout market con- nected by a bad road is of I -es value tbaa an equally good term c•.ti-xt.eted by 0. good road. A larger load Len he tallier drawn by one horse over a gond road than by two over s bad one Good reads encourage the greater ex:ihattge of 'pro. ducts and oonamoditi"s bstwetei one sec• tioa and another Geed roads are of great value as railroad feeders CATARRH If yon want a Mite cure for CTA 1A1'.itH OF THE HEAD, here it is. e . . . . . . OXYGENRTOR THE REASON WHY t BECAt'9k. OXYG BNATO It HEALS 'rhe muton, niemmbrane bring in an inflamed condition, emotes running at the nese; bat when this membrane is healed the discharge teases. Every effort•. "horrid be made to cure Cat artafor it leads to 'Catarrh of the . Throat, Stomach or Bladder, Consump- tion and Bright's l)i ess& "irsygenator" it pat up in large site betties. Price, $1.::1 *LW. 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