Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-01

your short sight It is little trying to do
so much typewriting?"
''I did at first" she answered, but now
1 know where the letters are without look
ing" Then, suddenly realizing the full
purport of her words, she gave violent
start and looked up. with fear and aston
ishment upon her broad good-humored
face. You've heard about me, Mr..
Holmes" she cried, "else how could you
know all that?"
"Never mind" said Holmes laughing; IL
is my business to know things. Perhaps
1 have trained myself to see what others
overlook. If not, why should you come to
consult me7'
II come to you, sir, because I heard
of you from Mrs. Etherege, whose hus-
band you found so easy when the police and
everyone had given him up for dead. Oh, Mr..
Holmes I wish you would do much
for me. I'm not rich, but still have a
hundred a year in my own right, besides
the little that make by the machine, and
l 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 inger-tips together. and his eyes
to the ceiling.
ABdln d Sldllieu lOOh came over the SOlle-
what vacuous face of Miss Mary Suther-
land. yes, 1 did bang out of the house."
she said. "for it made me angry to see
the easy way in which Mr.. Windibank-
that is, my father-took it all. He would
not go to the police, and he would not
go to you, and so at last, as he would do
nothing, and kept on saying that there was
no harm done, it made me mad, and 1
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, my stepfather, 1 call him father,
though 1t sounds funny, too, for he is only
five years and two months older than my
self"
"And your mother is alive?"
"Oh, yes mother is alive and well. 1
wasn't best pleased, Mr. Holmes, when she
married again so soon after fathers death,
and man who was nearly fifteen years
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 a traveller in wines.
They got e4,70O for the goodwill and in
ltT6Sls WHICH WASH I near dS lluCh dS
father could have got if he had been
alive
1 had expected to see Sherlock Holmes
impatient under this rambling and 'rcon-
sequential narrative. but, on the contrary.
he had listened with the greatest concen-
tration of attention.
your own little income" he asked, does
II 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 a
sum as hundred a year, with what you
earn into the bargain you no doubt travel
little and indulge yourself in every way,
l believe that a single lady can get on very
nicely upon an income of about ECO"
Il could do with much less than that
Mr.. Holmes but you understand that as
long as 1 live at home 1 don't wish to be
burden upon them and so they have the
use of the money just while l am staying
with them. OF course, that is only just
for the time Mr.. windibank draws my
interest every quarter and pays it over tC
mother. and I find that l can do pretty
we'll with what l earn at typewriting. II
brings me twopence a sheet, and l car
often do from fifteen to twenty sheets IN
a day"
You have made your position very cleal
to me-" said Holmes. This is my friend
DR.. Watson, before whom you can speal
as freely as before myself. Kindly tell u'
now all about your connection with Mr.
Hosmer Angel"
A flush stole over Miss sutherlands face
and she picked nervously at the fringe o.
! her Jacket II met him first at the gas
} filters ball" she said. They used TO senC
! father tickets when he was alive, and thel
afterwards they remembered US, and sen
them to mother. Mr.. Windibank did no
wish us to go. He never did wish US 4
} go anywhere. He would get quite mad 1
I wanted so much as to join the Sunda!
, school treat. But this time I was set Of
going and l would go; for what right hat
/ he to prevent? He said the folk were no