The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-19
the setting sun wore euficient to mark tho
house even had Miss Hunter not been stand
ing smiling on tho door step.
HnYA mnnnDnl LIZ In a ok Ad HnlnnAa

house even had Miss Hunter not been stand
ing smiling on tho door +. etep. ,u,
iauS ' tSnaanss noise eams from
...nHThqt i Me- !Teiler in tho cellar" said che
Her husband lies snoring on tho Kitchen
rrHg Here are nis Keys which arc duplicates
with entHasasme. now, load TIC wa S.'a aed
we shall soon be at the end q this business"
toowca down p ma I pasyasa '1 and n M" our
Hunter had described. Holmes cut 5ho cord
triSd tho vsrioas keys in tho lock. but without With
success. No sound camo from, within. and at
Think, Miss fIunSr thai. We had had hotter 60 60
and sT M"' sSo Whether ss %s
sdSs an Cd SIisS ct
wns 10 iarnit lit ssys a. li,'H pallSt LsJ
light above was open ana tho prisoner gone.
There has boon some viainy hero" cried
Holmes This beauty has guessed Miss Hun;
but how"
IL ss tn TT s W. shf Hssst
the end r & SSnS Tns eador against the
~ ladder was not thcre when the Rucas-
-" lIe has come back and ione 1t. I tell you
that no is a clever and dangerous man; l
Not be .sp nGh II ths
hnE that fS w9si$ BE as y" we'll ii1 for
y9n t, have your pistol ready"
| fore man appeared at the door of the room, a
KEY fat and EnrIy man with heavy stick II
against tho wall at the sight. but Sherlock
a%YSS@ Hiaih' said I he. "Whores your
TIE fat man oHst his oyos round and then up
& is f ior mo to ask you that" he shreked
You thieves! SPIES and th;cyesl have
fHpsh hHvT nSI %s IN
::.IiEcs gone for INC loE." cried Miss Hunter.
n naT2 my ,Ns tr5rt Said All, uoms
We had hardly. reachcd tho door when We
sS%a WHICH "H"Ss ,% p9@' sen SfFt'ss
came staggering out tho side door. ' ''' y.
:, MY COL" ho cried Som. ono has loosed
hS k1GT es us Or R4f be- Si ton S for two days
Holmes and l rushed out and around the m:
gle Of the house. with roler hurrying behind
black muzzic buried in Rucastle's throat.
While he wrthcd and, screamed unon tho
and it fell over wlth'its keen white teeth still
meeting in tho great crnascs Of his mock. With
| IuHcn ltnOT VIC HepiTulcu Inem anu carried
him. living, but horribly mnnGled. into the
| house. We laid him upon the DRAWN room
nnd dSsr@tGhnG the & ToGr
we were ali assembled round him. whom the
door orcned and tall. gaunt woman entered
Mrs. Tollor!", cried Miss Hunter.
he came back. before De went up to you. Al.
miss. it is pity yo. did not let me know what
at ysrS ns '1 Sqd have told
,na MSs s more a. about
| this matter than any one else.
., Yes sir. do and l am ready enough to tell
less. that am ST i il n. the DARK N'' ''A
a"ns it f sors NOW could :sc
ha got out from tho cellar. II there's police
Court business over this you'll remember that
was Miss Aice's friend. too co. ''''A0' anu '""'
rasn s ~ homs Miss Ass
@ sas s "f Ref snd nd no ssS
in a nS but It never really became bad
| Alice had rights o: her own by will. but she
wa, SO a1iet and patient. she was. that shs
everything in Mr. IsucastIes hands He knew
he was safo with her; but when there was a
would ask, for ali that tho law would give
him. then her father thought it time to put a
|
that whether she married or not he could use
%hcl she wouldn't do It he kept on worry
! in" her un;il she got brain fever. and for six
weeks was at death door; Then she got bet
ter az + al wSrn to fhhd2T Snd With her
change in her young man. and he stuck to her
as true n. man could be-
plan t. break on the rourtship. He shut her
up in prison. Is one might say in a room above
! there. where Sh" could set none and none
| could hNr and husband Ill a at. a,
her food NJ every day. Still her father couldn't
| pend h"r Will AMI she woul not So much n.
| look at tho PAPER b. wanted EHr To sign. Vhbn
| he brought Mss Hunter h,ro down from Lon
don. and il ; Won inrfll how; like those two
dn5s. .wh,n NJ. Fowler used {" come, he would
SIC his girl as he Thought, u;hing in tho
Sn ye ave s al seo Wc s nj n hm
| his honrt. nHd ha rnui mako n" mean,
inGs Of i it at all but ono Az
road an what SEQ Letw;, N ~ j. neither
nr" 9 ,,i IL o I II az h"s"niGis
tree, 6ardnl gentleman. and / promised nm
ca@ s Mr @ wa BE- n ", ; as
e,car Or him y Min. his ladder nm n$ ths
i"u;s a4o Mr., Fowi'r got Miss Knrae, AWAY.
! SouthanIp'"" now. A. might havo t5ld you
i Il y?u h''d9t loon 81 quick to lock ms
/ III VIC fbtI ''lii'.
| " lnrl H'ir, w owe you an apology. Mrs.
| To!,'r," sGid holmes Tor Won havs certainty
cleared W cyerJthin:: which puzzled rs. And
hero come the country surgeon aud Mrs Eu-
| castle. - rriuk. Watson. TINT We had better
| escort Miss lldrtcr lhc.. TO Winchester, a it
| seems 70 mo that our locus s;ardi' now is
| rath 'ra questionable one
And ;h,!s was solycl tho nystory OF tho sin,
istcr, house, With the coprnr brooches IN front Of
| the door. Mr.. RUrnstle survived. hut was nj
ways n broken man. E"lt nlivu solely Through
thH,cHrc Of his devoted wife. Ihey stu live
ftl.,tr n ri n ~ CO
| much 81 Rucnstic's past life that 10 nnds II
| difficult to part from them Mr.. Fowler and
Miss RucastIo were married. by special license
in Solthamrton hr day aftnr their fight. and
he is now Tie holder Of 4 q pycrnment am amt
| ment in tho island u Maurltius. Al t. HIss
Nio!;t Hunter my fricnd Holmes, rather to
tcrcst In her whom oac" she had ccasol 10 ba tho
critrc Of one 0f his Problems. and sha IL now
| the head Of It private Soho | at Waisall. whera
Ueiioys she has met With much success.
TIE END.
The Moon Was Fooled.