Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-08-16
The Adventure OF
the Priory School
No. s Of the Series

Inc duke leaneu Duck IN MS Cnair ,
and stared with amazcment at my
friend.
you seem to have powers that are
hardly human" said he. 80 Reuben
Hayes Is tnken2 l am right glad to
hear 1t IL 1t will not react upon the fate
of James,"
'Your secretary"
"No, sir; my son"
II was Holmes turn TO look aston
! ished.
II confess that this IL entirely new to
me. your grace. must beg you TO be
more explicit"
II will conceal nothing from you. I
agree with YOU that complete frank
ness, however painful 1t may be TO me,
Is the best policy in this desperate stu
alton TO which James folly and jcal-
ousy have reduced us. When I was n
very young man, Mr.. Holmes. I loved
with such love as comes only once In
lifetime. l offered the lady marriage,
but she refused II on the grounds that
such n match might mar my career.
Had she lived would certainly never
have married any one else. She died
and left this one child, whom for her
sake have cherished and cared for. I
could not acknowledge the paternity to
the world, but I gave him the best of
| educations. and since he came to man.
hood l have kept him near my person.
He surmised my secret and has pre-
sumed ever since upon the claim which
he has upon me and upon his power of
provoking n scandal which would be
abhorrent to me. His presence had
something to do with the unhappy is
sue of my marriage. Above all. he
hated my young legitimate heir from
the first with n persistent hatred.
you may well ask me why. under
these circumstances, I still kept James
under my roof answer that It was
4. because I could see his mothers face
, in his and that for her dear sake there
was no end to my long suffering. All
her pretty ways. too-there was not
one Of them which he could not sug-
gest and bring back 10 my memory I
could not send him away. But feared
so much lest he should do Arthur
, that Is, Lord Saltire-a mischief that
(: dispatched him for safety to DIR.
Huxtable's school.
"James came into contact with this
fellow Hayes because the man was a
| tenant of mine and James acted rs
agent. The fellow was n rascal from
the beginning. but In some extraordi-
nary way James became intimate with
him. He had always taste for low
company. When James determined
10 kidnap Lord Satire II was of this
mans service that De awaited himself.
You remember that wrote to Arthur
upon that last day. Well, James open
ed the letter and inserted n note ask
ing Arthur to meet him In little wood
called the Ragged Shaw, which Is near
to the school. He used the duchess
name and in that way got the boy to
come. That evening james bicycled
over-I am telling you what he has
himself confessed to me-and he told
| Arthur, whom he met In the wood,
that his mother longed to see him,
that she was awaiting him on the moor
and that II he would come back into
the wood ut midnight he would find
man with horse. who would take him
to her. Poor Arthur fell into the trap.
He came to the appointment and found
this fellow Hayes with led pony. Ar.
thur mounted, and they set OF togeth'
er. 1t appears-though this James
only heard yesterday-that they were
pursued, that Hayes struck the pur.
suer with his stick and that the man
died of his Injuries. Hayes brought
Arthur to his public house, the Fight
ing Cock, where he was confined In an
upper room, under the care OF Mrs.
Hayes, who Is a kindly woman, but
entirely under the control OF her brutal
husband.
"Well, Mr.. Holmes, that was the
state of affairs when ! first saw sou
two days ago. l had no more Idea OF
the truth than you. You VIII ask me
what was James motive In doing such