The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-24

1T seems 10 leave inc oklIkueS1 eatue1
blacker than before
$50 think But II we can only trace
L. l. It should clear up the whole ousi-
ness. We have gained chat much. we
know that there Is someone who has
the facts II we can only And her. What
do YOU aaink we should do?
Let Holmes know all about 1t at
once It will give him the clue Tor
which he has been seeking. l am much
mistaken If 1t does not bring him
down."
went at onco to my room and drew
up my report or the morning converse
ton Of Holmes. 1t was evident to me
the notes which had from Baker Street
were few and short. with no comments
upon the. information which | had sup
piled and hardly any to my mis-
absorbing all his faculties. And yet this
new factor must surely arrest his at
sention and renew his interest wish
that he were here.
October. l7th.-All day to-day the rain
poured down. rustling In the ivy and
dripping from the caves thought OF the
onvict out upon the bleak. cold. shelter
.rimes. he has suffered something to atone
or them And then thought of tina,
,tner one-the face IN the cab. the fig
ire against the moon. Was he also out
nan OF darkness? In the evening | put
IN my waterproof and walked far
ipon the sodden moor. full of dark
md the wind whistling about my ears.
Tod help those who wander Into the
,reat mire now. for even the firm, up
and are becoming morass. I found the
black tor upon which / had seen the
solitary watcher and from Its craggy
summit looked out myself across the
maloncholly downs. Rain squalls drtfted
slate-colored clouds hung low over the
landscape, trailing In grey wreaths
down the sides of the fantastic hills In
den by the mist, the two thin towers of
Baskerville Hall rose above the trees.
They were the only signs Of human life
which could see, save only those pre-
slopes of the hills. Nowhere was there
any trace Of that lonely man whom I
had seen on the same spot two nights
before.
AS 1 walked back was overtaken by
DR.. Mortimer driving IN his dog-cart
over rough moorland tracx. which led
from the outlying farmhouse OF Foul
a mde hardly day has passed ,ha, he
has not called at the Hall to see how we
were getting on. He insisted upon my
climbing into his dog-cart and he gave
troubled over the disappearance of his
little spaniel. 1t had wandered on to the
moor and had never come back gave
him such consolation as l might. but
thought Of the pony on the Grimpen Mire.
and dc not fancy that he will see ns
little dog again.
we iolted along the rough road. Il sup
pose there are few people living within
not Rnowf''
"Can you. then tell me the name OF any
woman whose initials are L. l..
He thought, for few minutes, .,..
and iaboring folk for whom can't an
swer but among the farmers or gentry
there Is no one whose Initials are those.
Wait bit though i; ne aaa onlner mi.
tiaIs are L. L.-but she lives in Coombe
WHO is she?.. I asked;
what! Old FrankIand the s., crank ns :, -
LYONS who came sketching on the moor.
s as pI1hh her The fault from what I hear
may not have been entirely on one SIDE,
Yer father refused to have anything TO
do with her. because she had married a
one or two other reasons as we'll So.
between the old sinner and the Young
one the girl has had q pretty bad tine"
II ia fancy old Frankland allows her, a
nittance. but it cannot be more 10. MS
own affairs are considerably involved
whatey>er she may have deserved one
could 70 uhIe not allow her to go hope1essly to
t1s bad. Her story got, about ana
several OF the peon'e here Old somIn;t .f,
,o enable her to earn an honest !Vlns.
S 81 did for one and Sir Charles
FOR another gave trihe myself II
was TO set her up In rvnawriuns GUS
TIE. Tie wanted to know the object ct nv
,nnuiries but maraeed to satisfy MS
curiosity without telling MIN TOO nucn.