The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-06

aud boy in buttons entered to announce
Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady her
self doomed up behind his small black tig-
ure like full-sailed merchantmen behind
a tiny pilot-boat. Sherlock Holmes well
coined her with the easy courtesy Tor
which he was remarkable. and having
closed the door and bowed her into an
arm chair, he looked her over IN the
minute and yet distracted fashion which
was peculiar to him. -
do you not find, he said, THAT with
your short sight it is a littls trying to do
so much typewriting2"
II did at first," she answered. "but now
know where the letters are without LOOK,
ing" Then, suddenly realizing the full
purport of his words. she gave violent
start and looked up with fear and aston
ishment upon her broad good-numoTrea
face. you've heard about me-, Mr.
Holmes" she cried. "else how could you
know all that?"
Never mind" said Holmes, laughing,
ait is my business to know things. Per-
haps have trained myself to. see what
others overlook. If not, why should you
come to consult me?"
~ came TO see YOU, sir, because heard
of you from Mrs. Etherege, whose husband
YOU found so easy when the police and
everyone had given him up for dead. Oh,
Mr. Holmes | wish you would do as much
for me- I'm not rich, but still have a
hundred year in my own right, besides
the little that / make by the machine, and
| would give it all to know what has be-
come of Mr. Hosmer Angel"
"Why did you come away to consult me
in such hurry" asked Sherlock Holmes,
with his finger tips together and his eyes
to the ceiling.
Again startled look came over the
somewhat vacuous face of Miss Mary Suth-
Il So . nh
she said, 'for 1t made me angry TO see the
easy way in which Mr.. Windibank-that
is my father-took it all. He would not
20 to the police and he would not go to
you, and so at last, as he would do moth
ing and kept on saying that there was no
harm done. il made me mad, and L Just
put on my things and came right away to
you"
Your father ?" said Holmes, "your step
father. surely, since the name is different.
yes nv stepfather. | cali him father,
though il sounds funny, too, for he is only
i've years and two months older than my
self
"And your mother is aliye?"
ooh. yes mother Is alive and WELL I
wasn't best pleased, Mr.. Holmes, when
she married again so soon after fathers
death, and man who was nearly fifteen
wears younger than herself. Father was a
plumber in the Tottenham court road,
and he left a tidy business behind him,
which mother carried on with Mr.. Hardy.
the foreman, but when Mr.. Windibank
came he made her sell the business for he
was very superior being traveller in
wines. They got 4, 700 for the good will and
interest, which wasn't near as much as
father could have got if he had been
alive
had expected to see Sherlock Holmes
impatient under this rambling and incon-
sequential narrative. but, on the contrary,
he had listened with the greatest concen-
tration OF attention.
Your own little income" he asked,
"does il come out of the business?'
'Oh, no. sir. 1t is quite separate. and
was left me by my uncle Ned in Auckland.
1t is in New Zealand stock, paying AZ per
cent Two thousand FIVE hundred pounds
was the amount, but can only touch the
interest,"
"You interest me extremely" said
Holmes. And since you draw so large
sum as hundred year, with what you
earn into the bargain, you no doubt travel
little, and indulge yourself in everyway.
/ believe that single lady can get on very
nicely upon an income of about ESQ.,"
81 could do with much less than that,
Mr.. Holmes, but you understand that as
long as live at home don't wish to be a
burden to them. and so they have the use
of the money just while am staying with
them. Of course that is only just for the
time. Mr.. Windibank draws my interest
every quarter, and pays 1t over to mother.
and find that can do pretty well with
what earn at typewriting. 1t brings me
twopence a sheet, and can often do from
fifteen to twenty sheets in a day"
You have made your position very clear
to me" said Holmes. This is my friend.
DIR. Watson, before whom you can speak
as freely as before myself. Kindly tell us
now all about your connection with Mr..
Hosmer Angel"
A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face,
and she picked nervously at the fringe of
her jacket. II met him first at the gas
filters ball." she said. 'rhey used to
send father tickets when he was alive, and
then afterward they remembered US and
sent them to mother. Mr.. Windibank did
not wish us to 60 He never did wish us
TO 90 anywhere. He would get quite mad
if wanted so much as to join Sunday
school treat. But this time | was set on
going and / would go, for what right had
he to prevent? He said the folk were not
fit for US to know, when all fathers friends
were TO be there. And he said that | had
nothing fit to wear. when had my purple
plush that L had never so much as taken