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The Wingham Times, 1907-07-04, Page 7The Hound 4f the • Baskervlles Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, BY A, CONAN . POYL . Author of "The Green Flag" and "The Great Boer War" Copyright (1602) by A. Coria= Doyle. ♦ itis'+♦+♦♦+++♦+♦4-4-44♦4+4- ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦' round and had just time to catch,- a "Yes, there is a strip of grass about, glimpse of something which 1 took to Six feet broad on either side," be a large black calf passing at the "I understand that the yew hedge head of the drive. So excited and is penetrated at one point by a gate?" alarmed was he that I was compelled "Yes, the wicket -gate which lead's to go down to the spot where the ani- on to the moor," mg1 had been and look around for it. "Is there any other opening?" It was gone, eowever, and the incl- "None." dent appeared to make the worst int- "So that to reach the Yew Alley one Pression upon his mind. I stayed with either has to conte down it from the !hind ail the evening, and it was on that house or else to enter it by the moor. -occasion, to explain the emotion which gate?" he had shown, that he confided to my "There is an exit through a summer- keeptng that narrative which I read to house at the far end," Yon when first 1 came, I mention this "Had Sir Charles reached this?" small episode because it assumes some "No; he lay about fifty yards from importance in view of the tragedy it." which followed, but I was convinced "Now, tell me, Dr. Mortimer—and at the time that the matter was entire- this is important --the marks which ly trivial and that his excitement had you saw were on the path and not on no justification. the grass?" "It was at my advice that Sir Charles "No marks could show on the grass." -was about to go to London. His heart "Were they on the sante side of the was, I knew, affected, and the constant path as the moor -gate?" anxiety in which he lived, however "Yes; they were on the edge of the chimerical the cause of it might be, path on the same side as the moor- . was evidently having a serious effect gate." upon his health. I thought that a few "You interest me exceedingly, Months among the distractions of town Another point. Was the wicket -gate would send him back a new man, Mr. closed?" Stapleton, a mutual friend who was "Closed and padlocked." much concerned at his state of health, "How high was it?" was of the same opinion. At the last "About four feet high," 'natant came this terrible catastrophe. "Tben anyone could have got over "On the night of Sir Charles's death it?" Barrymore-the butler, who made the "Yes" every, sent Perkins the groom on "And what marks did you see by the orseback to me, and as I was sitting wicket -gate?" up late I was able to reach Baskerville None in particular,' Hall within an hour of the event, I Good Heaven! Aid no one ex checked and corroborated all the facts amine?" " which were mentioned at the inquest, I Yes, I examined myself, followed the footsteps down the Yew "And found nothing?" Alley, I saw the spot at the moor -gate It was all very confused. Sir Charles where he seemed to have waited I re_ had evidently stood there for five or marked the change in the shape of the ten minutes." prints after that point, I noted that How do you know that?" there were no other footsteps save Because the �asb had twice dropped those of Barrymore on the soft gravel, from his cigar. "ash finally I carefully examined the "Excellent! This is a colleague, Wat- ibody,which had not been touched un- son, after our own heart. But the til my arrival. Sir Charles" lay on his marks?" face, his arms out, his fingers dug into "He had Ieft his own marks alt over the ground, and his features convulsed that small patch df gravel. I could dis- with some strong emotion to such an cern no others." extent that I could hardly have sworn Sherlock Halmos struck his hand to his identity. There was certainly no atgainst his knee with an impatient ges- physical injury of any kind. But one "If I had only been there!" he cried. false statement was made by Barry- ""It is evidently a case•of extraordinary more at the inquest. He said that there interest, and one which presented imr were no traces upon the ground round manse opportunities to the scientific I did—some lidttle not observe any. But ,expert. That gravel page upon which I andttle distance cif, but fresh clear," might have read so much has been long "Footprints?" ere this smudged by the rain and de - "Footprints." faced by the clogs of curious peasants. try would be too inconceivable a thing, "A man's or a woman's?" Oh, Dr. Mortimer, Dr. Mortimer, to You put the matter more flippantly, Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us think that you should not have called Mr. Holmes, than you would probably :for an instant, and his voice sank al- me in! You have indeed much to an- do if you were brought into personal most to a whisper as he answered:-- swer for." contact with these things. Your ad - "Mr. Holmes, they were the foot- . ,I could not call you in, Mr. Holmes, vice,then, as I understand it, Is that prints of a gigantic hound!" without disclosing these facts to the the young man will be as safe in world, and I have already given my' Devonshire as in London. He comes in CHAPTER III, reasons for not wishing to do so. Be- fifty minutes. What would you recom- sides, besides—" mend?" I confess that at these words a shud• Why do you hesitate?" "I recommend, sir, that you take a der passed through me. There was a "There is a realm in which the most cab, call off your spaniel who is thrill in the doctor's voice which show- acute and most experienced of detec- scratching at my front door, and pro- edtives is helpless."ceed to Waterloo to meet Sir Henry that he was himself deeply moved ""Yon mean that the thing is super- Baskerville." by that which he told us. Holmes lean- "And then?" - ed forward in his excitement and his natural?'" I did not positively say so," "And then you will. say nothing to eyes had the hard, dry glitter which T shot from them when he was keenly ," Ao, but* you evidently think it." hint at all until I have made up my "Since the tragedy, Mr. Holmes, mind about the matter," THE W1NGHANI TIMES JUTS 4,' 1907 ' 7 SCIATICA. Inflammatory or Muscular Rlteumatistn. Lumbago, Neuralgia,—they are all We same to "1 might go the length of saying there is some evidence that this may be so." came of the old masterful Baskerville• strain, and was the very image, they tell me, of the family picture of old Hugo.' He made England to hot to hold him, fled to Central America, and died there in 1876 of yellow fever. Henry is the last of the Baskervilles, In one hour dfive minues• Don't suffer needlessly when yon have a positive and getarenteed curs: in, "Au -4u." Money back of they fail. goc. a box. At druggists, or by mail direct from 64, The Claflin Chemical Co., Ltd., Windsor, Ont. absent-minded fashion. Holmes .stopped him at the head of the stair, "Only one more question, Dr. Morti- mer, You say that before Sir Charles Baskerville's death several people saw this apparition upon the moor?" "Three people did." "Did any see it after?" "I have not heard of any'" "Thank you. Good morning." Holmes returned to his seat with that quiet look of inword satisfaction which meant that he had a, congenial task before him. "Going out, Watson?" "Unless I can help you." "No, my dear fellow, it is at the hour of action that I turn to 'you for aid. But this Is splendid, really unique from some points or view. When you pass Bradley's would you ask him to send up a pound of the strongest shag tobacco? Thank you. It would be as well if you could make it convenient loo Stati on. I have hada wirethat he not to return before evening. Thea I arrived at Southampton this morning. should be very glad to compare impres- Now, Mr. Holmes, what would you ad- cions as to this most interesting prob- vise me to do with him?" lem which has been submitted to us this morning," "Why should he not go to the home I knew that seclusion and solitude of his fathers?" were very necessary for my friend in "It seems natural, does it not? And those hours of intense mental conceit - yet, consider that every Baskerville button during which he weighed every who goes there meets with an evil fate. particle of evidence, constructed alter - I feel sure that if Sir Charles could native theories, balanced one against have spoken with me before his death the other, and made up his mind as to he would have warned me against which points were essential and which bringing this the last of the old race, immaterial. I therefore spent the ttaY and the heir to great wealth, to that at my club and did not return to Baker deadly place. And yet it cannot be Street until evening. It was nearly nine denied that the prosperity of the whole o'clock when I found myself in the sit - poor, bleak country -side depends upon ting -room once more. his presence. All the good work which My first impression as I opened the has been done by Sir . Charles. will door was that a fire had broken out, for crash to the ground if there is no ten- the room was so filled with smoke that ant of the Hall. I fear lest I should be the light of the lamp upon the table swayed too much by my own obvious was blurred by it. As I entered, tory interest in the matter, and that is why ever, my fears were set at rest, for it I bring the case before you and ask for was the acrid fumes of strong coarse your advice. tobacco which took me by the throat Holmes considered for a little time. and set me coughing. Through the haze "Piit into plain words, the matter is I had a vague vision of Holmes in his this," said he. "In your opinion there is dressing -gown coiled up in an arm - *a diabolical agency which makes Dart- chair with his 'black clay pipe between moor an unsafe abode for a Basker- his lips. Several rolls of paper lay ville—'that is your opinion?" around him. "At least I might go the length of "Caught cold, Watson?" said he. saying that there is some evidence that "No, it's this poisonous atmosphere." this may so.' "I suppose it is pretty thick now that natural theoryt be rcorrect your it super- uld you mention it." work the young man evil in London as Thiel.! It is intolerable." .easily as ill Devonshire, A devil with `Open the window, then! You have merely local powers like a parish yes- been at your club all day, I perceive." „My dear- Holmes!" "Am 1 right?" "Certainly, but how—?" He laughed at my bewildered expres- sion. "There is a delightful freshness about you, Watson, which makes it a pleasure to exercise any small powers which I possess at your expense. A gentleman goes forth on a showery and miry day. He returns immaculate In the evening with the gloss still on his hat and his boots. He has been a fix- ture therefore all day. He is not a man with intimate friends. ere, then, could he have been? Is it notobvious?" "Well, it is rather obvious." "The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever ob- serves. Where do you think that I have been?" "A fixture also." "On the contrary, I have been to Devonshire." "In spirit?" "Exactly. My body has remained in ,umberland Hotel," was printed in this armcbair, and has, I regret to ob- I rough characters; the post -mark "Char - serve, consumed in my absence two ing Cross," and the date of posting large pots of coffee and an incredible 1 the preceding evening. amount of tobacco. After you left I I "Who knew that you were going to sent down to Stamford's for the Ord- , the Northumberland Hotel?" asked , nance map of this portion of the moor, Holmes, glancing keenly across at our and my spirit has hovered over it all visitor, day. I flatter myself that I could find "No one could have known. We only my way about." I decided after I met Dr. Mortimer." "A large scale may, I presume?" "Butler. Mortimer was no doubt al - "Very large." He unrolled one sec- ready stopping there?" tion and held it over his knee. "Here "No, I had been staying with a you have the particular district which friend," said the doctor. "There was concerns us. That is Baskerville Hall no possible indication that we intended in the middle." to go to this hotel." "With a wood round it?" "Hum! Somene seems to be very "Exactly. I fancy the Yew Alley, deeply interested in your movements." though not marked under that name, Out of the envelope he took a half - must stretch along this line, with the sheet of foolscap paper folded into moor, as you perceive, upon the right four. This he opened and spread fiat of it. This small clump of buildings ' upon the table. Across the middle of here is the hamlet of Grimpen, where . it a single sentence had been formed our friend Dr. Mortimer has his head- by the expedient of pasting printed quaters. Within a radius of flee miles words upon it. It ran: "As you value there are, as you see, only a very few ; your life or your reason keep away scattered dwelling:3. Here is Latter 1 from the moor." The word "moor" only Hall, which was mentioned in the nar-was printed in ink. rative. There is a house indicated here) "Now," said Sir Henry Baskerville, which may be the residence of the , "perhaps you wail telt me, lir. Holmes, naturalist --Stapleton, if 1 rememberr what in thunder is the meaning of that, right, was his name. Here are two and who it is that tabes so much inter moorland farm -houses, High Tor and j est in my affairs?" Foulmire. Then fourteen miles away !"What do you make of it, Dr. Mor the great convict prison of Princetown. timer? Yen arms+ ams... 4e,... ,r, "•' =., Between and around these scattered nothing supernatural about this, at am interested. "You saw this?" "As clearly as I see you," "And you said nothing?" g?" there have come to my ears several ' "How long will it take you to make ` incidents which are hard to reconcile up your mind?" u • . with the settled order of Nature." "Twenty-four hours, At ten o'clock 1• "For example?" "What was the se?" to -morrow, Dr. Mortimer, I will be "iiow was it that no one else saw much obliged to you if you will call it?„ occurred several people "I finle had seen d that before the terrible event a upon Me here, and it will be of help "The marks were some twenty yards creature upon the moor which tortes- to me in my plans for the future if from the body and no one gave them ponds with this Baskerville demon, and you will bring Sir Henry Baskerville it thought. I don't suppose I should which could not possibly be any animal with you'" have done so had I not known this le- known to science. They all agreed that "q will do so, Mr. Holmes." He scrib , It was a huge creature, luminous, .bled the appointment on his shirt cuff gena'' gnas�,spectral. "There are many sheep -dogs on the gnastly, I have cross -ex- and hurried off in his strange, peering moor?" . "No doubt, but this was no sheep- - amined these men. one of them a hard- -dog" i headed countryman, one a farrier, and "You say it was large?" • one a moorland farmer, who all tell "Enormous." - the same story of this dreadful appari- "But it had not approached the ' tion, exactly corresponding to the hell - body?" hound of the legend. I assure you that '"N" there is a reign of terror in the district • "What sort of night was it?" "Damp and raw." "But not actually raining?" "What is the alley like?" "There are two lines of old yew *ledge, twelve feet high and impene- trable. The walk in the centre is about -eight feet across." "Is there anything between the • kedges and the walk?" A Message for Pile Sufferers Mrs, Geo. H. Slinger, Grant, Russell Co., Ont., writes:—"Eleven years ago I began to suffer with the piles and as they caused keen distress and became Worse I doctored for them, but witlt little or no avail. They were bleeding, itching and protruding and oh! the torture I suffered at times eau never be described. It was with suffering that the bowels moved, and as nothing brought relief 1 and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night" "And you, a trained man of science, believe it to be supernaturale" "1 do not know what to believe." Holmes shrugged his shoulders. "I have hitherto confined my inves- tigations to this -world," said. he, "In a modest way I have combatted evil, but to take on the Father of Evil himself would, perhaps, be too ambitious a task. Yet you must admit that the foot- mark is material." "The original hound was material enough to tug a man's throat out, and yet he was diabolical as well." "I see that you have quite gone over to the supernaturalists. But now, Dr. Mortimer, tell me this. If you hold these views, why have you come to consult me at all? You tell me in the same breath that it is useless to inves- tigate Sir Charles's death, and that you desire me to do it." "I did not say that I desired you to do it." "Then, how can I assist you?" "By advising me as to what I should de with Sir Henry Baskerville, who. arrives at Waterloo Station" ---Dr. hfortimer looked at his watch- .. "in eic- actly one hour and a quarter," could only endure the misery wit To an "}te heten.gt deathhe Of Sir Charles we rth 0 ut hope of cu t and w p • aching hear,inquired for this young gentleman, and "Finally a lady friend told me about found that he had been fanning in Can - Dr. Chase's Ointment curing piles, and,ads. From the accounts which have to my surprise 1 felt retie at once on reached us he is an exceliertt fellow In using this ointment, the little tumors every way 1 speak now not as a tnedi- door disappeared, the ulcers healed and cal man but as a trustee and executor the bowels became regular. This was of Sir Charles's will."' Aye years ago and 1 Have never been "Ther e Is no other ctaimant, Z pre- troubled tvith this terrible ailment since, smite? a thousand thanks to Dr. Chase's Dint- '"1Vone. The only other kinsman tient" Stem we have been able to trace was et of o un s looking7 the u kervi le Y g yen Daa hateRodger haII , Who Pg To persona given dor e. cure for piles or hemorrhoids; three brothers of whom Hoar -Sir this letter should bring new;hope, There Charles Wee the elder. The a coati 5s, we believe, no more effective treat• brother, who, died young, 15 the father meat for piles than art. Chases ointments of tide lad HeiitY, The third, Rodger, .60 cents a box, at all dealers or tataan was the Meek sheep of the family. He sot,, Bates it CO., TOTOiltO. OCVIEr outcome of mY convictions. Hays you turned the case over in your mine?" "Yes, I have thought a good deal Of it in the course of the day." dWhat do you matte of it?" "rtt is very bewildering." ' "It has certainly a character of its own. There are points of distinction about it. That change in the footprints, for example. What do you make of that?" "Mortimer said that the man bad walked on tiptoe down that pardon of the alley." "He only repeated what Borne fool , bad said at the inquest. Why should a man walk on tiptoe down the alley?" 1 "What then?" "He was running. Watson -running desperately, running for his life, rens fling until lie burst his heart and fell dead upon his face." "Running from what?" "There lies our problem. There are indications that the man was crazed with fear before ever he began to run," "How can you say that??" "I am presuming that the cause of his fears came to hint across the mdbr. If that were so, and it seems most probe able, only a man who had lost his wits would have run from the house instead of towards it. If the gipsy's evidence may be taken as true, be ran with cries for help in the direction where help was least likely to be. Then, again, whom was he waiting for that night, and why was he waiting for him in the Yew Alley rather than in his own house?" "You think that he was waiting for someone?" "The man was elderly and infirm. We can understand his taking an even- ing stroll, but the ground was damp and the night inclement, Is it natural that he should stand for five or ten 'minutes, as Dr. Mortimer, with more practical sense than I should have given him credit far, deduced from the cigar ash?" "But he went out every evening." ,3"I think it unlikely that he waited at the moorgate every evening, On the contrary, the evidence is that he avoid- ed the moor. That night be waited there. It was the night before he made his departure for London. The thing takes shape, Watson. It becomes co- herent. Might I ask you to hand me my violin, and we will postpone all fur- ther thought upon this business until we have bad the advantage of meeting Dr. Mortimer and Sir Henry Basker- ville in the morning." CHAPTER IV. to reason met ewe. wee, in h longrun keepawaywealth ith fro I the the video of our imports, and lower the general OW ditions of life in this island.' What do Yee think of that, Watson?" cried Holmes, in high glee, rubbing his hands together with satisfaction. "Don't you think that 18 an admirable sentiment':" Dr. Mortimer looked at Holmes with an air of professional interest, and Sir Henry Baskerville turned a pair of puzzled dark eyesupon me. "I don't know much about the tariff and thing's of that kind," said he; "but it seems to nue we've got a bit off the trail so far as that nate is concerned.' "On the contrary, I think we ars par- titularly hot upon the trail, Sir Henry. Watson here knows more about my ruiethods than you de, but I fear thio (To be continued ) Cs'adipn Trade Ahreed, An unusually Large batch of trade reports has been rceeived at the d.e partment of trade ruled c ,te:nerce. D. H. Ross, 'commercial ar•ent at Mel- bourne, reports that An,-rrel;nn x•he"zt and Horn' are being sant to China and Japan in larger quantities than here- tofore. J. B. Jnekson, trade regent in Leeds, writes: "The sageestinn is made to me that if Canadian shippers desire the dealers to sell their hatter as 'Canadian' and not ea "Ainerienn: why do they not imitate the Danish shippers, elm are required to rimer their shipments with the national trademark." J. S. Lnrke, Calindipn commercial arrant in New South Wales, r sorts dint the Australian wheat harvest is estimated at 71.133,6117 bushels, This would leave about 40,0'10.000 bushels for exhort, this season. The harvest in New Zealand has been so poor that arrangements are new being made to imnort hard wheat flour from Canada. Mr. Larke calls ettentcnn to China as the merle` fur Canadian goods. 1". 13. Rnli, Cnnndian commercial agent in Birmingham. reports that the nuantity of wooden handles required in the mannfeetnres of that city is practically unlimited, and that Cen oda is not availing herself of it as she should. Our breakfast -table was cleared early, and Holmes waited in his dress- ing -gown for the promised interview. Our clients were punctual to their ap- polntment, for the clock had • just struck ten when Dr. Mortimer was shown up, followed by the young baron- et. The latter was a small, alert, dark - eyed man about thirty years of age, very sturdily built, with thick black eyebrows and a strong, pugnacious face. He wore a ruddy -tinted tweed suit, • and had the weather-beaten ap- pearance of one who has spent most of his time in the open air, and yet there was something in his steady eye and the quiet assurance of his bear- ' ing which indicated the gentleman. "This is Sir Henry Baskerville," said Dr, Mortimer. "Why, yes," said he, "and the strange thing Is, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, that if my friend here had not pro- posed coming round to you this morn- ing I should have conte on my own ac- count. I understand' that you think out little puzzles, and I've had one this morning which wants more thinking oiit than I am able to give to it." "Pray take a seat, Sir Henry. Do I understand you to say that you have yourself had some remarkable ex- perience since you arrived in London?" "Nothing of much importance, Mr. Holmes. Only a joke, as like as not It was this letter, if you can call it a let- ter, whicltreached me this'morning," He laid an envelope upon the table, and we all bent over it, It was of com- mon quality, greyish in color. The ad- dress, "Sir Henry Baskerville, North - 7�E .el!anu_..,t. . .; MOONEY BISi:UiT & ;CANDY CO. , STRAT,FollD CANAh.A , .1/ The perpetual charm of freshness and crispness —of daintiness and deli- ciousness — is in every box of Mooney's Perfection Cream Sodas —held captive by the air -tight, moisture -proof packages. There is a best in everything. In Biscuits, it's rooNEdeS. Lord's Day Act. The Lord's Day controversy goes on and threatens a bitterness which might be injurious to the institution itself. It can only be repeated that while the Day of Rest is a boon to toiling humanity which law ought as far as possible to guard, there is no appar- ent warrant for making it a. day of ascetic restraint or gloom. Nothing of course can be allowed to interfere with public devotion or such tran- quility as public devotion requires. Nor can excess be permitted on that any more, than on any. other day; but if recreation and enjoyment, in them- selves innocent and inoffensive, are to be forbidden, on what does the pro- hibition rest? That the Jewish Sab- bath is not binding on Christians it is needless to repeat. though the ques- tion probably is still prejudiced in many minds by a lingering impression of that kind.—Bystander. points extends the desolate, lifeless moor. This, then, is the stage upon which tragedy has been played, and upon warieh we may help to play it again." "It must be a wild place." 1 sharply. "It seems to me that alt you "Yes, the setting is a worthy one. If gentlemen know a. great deal more the devil did desire to have a hand in than I do about my own affairs." the affairs of men—" I "You shall share our knowledge be. "Then you are yourself inclining to fore yon leave this room, Sir Henry. Y the supernatural explanation" promise you that," said Sherlock "The devil's ageuts may be of flesh Holmes. "We will confine ourselves fol+ and blood, may they not? There aro the present with you permission to -+ two questions waiting for us at the out this Very interesting document, which set. The one is whether any crime has must have been putta togetherrand pose been committed at all; the second is, ed yesterday evening. Have you yes. + what is the crime and how was it come terday's Times, Watson?" mitred? Of course, if Dr. Mortimer's "It is here in the corder." rate?" "No, air, but ft might very well come from someone who was convinced that the business is supernatural." "What business?" asked Sir Henry, His Finish. The Stranger—What 1 You don't mean to tell me that your husband's demise was dr to hanging? The Widow—yes; from hanging around saloons too much. 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