The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-17

/ perf0rmance-very remarkable. Wen,
I think we have exhausted the path.
Let Us go farther. This garden door i8
usually kept open, 7 suppose. Then
7 this visitor had nothing to do but TO
walk in The idea of murder was not
in her mind or she would have provid-
ed herself with some sort Of weapon
/ instead Of having TO pick this knife on
the writing table. She advanced along
/ this corridor, leaving no traces upon
/ the c0coanut mating. Then she found
/ herself in this study. How long was
she there? We have no means Of judg-
ing"
mot more than a few minutes. sir.
I I forgot to tell you that Mrs. Marker,
the housekeeper. bad been in there tidy
| ing not very long before-about a quar-
/ ter OF an hour, she says"
"Wel1. that gives us a Hmit. Our Ia
/ DIV enters this room. and what does she
/ do? She goes over to the writing table.
/ What forg Not for anything in the
drawers. If there had been anything
worth her taking it would surely have
/ been locked up. No. If was for some
/ thing I'm that wooden bureau HellOl
I What Is that scratch upon the face Of
/ #? Just hold a match. Watson. Why
/ did you not tell me Of this. Hopkins
The mark which he was examining
/ began upon the brasswOrk on the right
! hand side Of the keyhOle and extended
I for about four inches, where lt had
/ scratched the varnish from the surface.
'I noticed Il. Mr.. Holmes, but yOu'u
always find scratches round a key
hole"
"This Is recent. quite recent, See how
I the brass shines where it is cut An
old scratch would be the same color as
the surface Look at &c through my
/ lens. There's the varnish too. ike
/ earth on each side Of a furrow. Us Mrs.
I Marker thereE'
A sad faced elderly woman came In
to the room.
"Did you dust this bureau yesterday
rmorningF"
eyes. sir"
Odd you notice this scratchF'
'No. sir; 7 did not"
ct am sure you did not Tor duster
would have swept away these shred8
Of varnish. Who has the key Of this
bureauT'
The professor keeps it on his watch
chain"
'Ts it a simple key"
EMO sir: if is Chubb's key"
every good. Mrs. Marker you can
90. Now we are making q little prog
ress Our lady enters the room, ad-
/ vances to the bureau and either opens
it or tries to do so. while she is thus
( ngaged young WilIoughby Smith en-
ters the room. Tn her hurry to- with
draw the key she makes this scratch
upon the door. He seizes her. and she,
snatching up the nearest object. which
happens 70 be this knife. strikes at him
in order TO make him let go his hold
The blow is a fatal one. He falls, and
she escapes. either with or without the
object for which she has come. Is SUI
san, the maid. there1 Could any one
I have got away through that door after
the time that you heard the cry, su-
sanT
EMO. sir; lt is impossible. Before I
got down the stair T1 have seen any
one in the passage. Besides. the door
never opened or I would have heard
IT,"
'aThat settles this exit Then no
doubt the lady went out the way she
: came. I understand that this other
3 passage leads only to the professor
room. There is no exit that wayf'
mo, sir"
eve shall 60 down &c and make the
acquaintance Of the professor. Hello,
; Hopkins. this IS very important-very
r important indeed! The professors cor
-idor is also lined with coc0anut mat
{ ting
"Well sir. what OF that|
3 Don't you see any bearing upon the
case? Well WELL i don't insist upon
( #. No doubt am wrong. And yet it
@ seems TO me to DE suggestive. Come
with me and Introduce me-"
I We passed down the passage. which
= was Of the same length as that which
p led to the garden. At the end was a
short fight Of steps ending in a door.
b Our guide knocked and then usnered
MS into the professors bedroom
Z Tt was a very large chamber lined
r with innumerable volumes. which bad
t overfowed from the shelves ana lay iu
piles in the corners OF were stacked al
q round at the base Of the cases. The
e bed was I'm the center Of the room, and
@ in it, proDped up with pillows. was tlc
e owner Of the house. have seldom
d seen more remarkable looking person
e II was a gauut aquii.ue face which
't was turned toward as, with pierre
ing dark eyes which lurked ln deer
81 hollows under overhung and tuft
ed brows His hair and beard wer.
2 white save the latter was cur,0usg
stained with yellow around bis mouth
e A cigarette gl0wed amid the tangIe Of
white hair, and the air OF the room
was fetid with stale tobacco smoke
As be held out DIS hand TO Hoiues
lei Continued on Fifteenth Pago)