The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-22
I Inc Mystery
 of the Stockholders Clerk

judge. He swears by London. you know: and by Birmingham; but this time I shall follow his advice. Pray consider yourself definitely engaged
 What are my duttes?" l asked
 You will eventually manage the great depot in Paris. which will pour a flood or English crockery into the shops of a hundred and thirty-four agents in France ihe purchase will be completed in a week. and meanwhile you will remain In Blr- mingham and make yourself useful"
 "How2''
 For answer he took a bie rad hooL ont of dra wer
 ms Is a directory Of Paris" said he
 with the trades after the names of the peopie. want you to take 1t home with you and to mark off all the hardware sellers, with their addresses. It would be oi the greatest use to me 10 have them"
 Surely there are classified llstsY I suggested.
 Not reliable ones. Their system Is dinerent from ours. Stick at 1t, and let me have the lists by Monday, at 12. Good day, MT. Pycroft If you continue to fhow zeal and intelligence you will find the company a good master"
 went back to the hotel with the big oook under my arm, and with very con- ihctlng feelings in my breast On the ono hand was definitely engaged and had a 1loO Tn my pocket: on the other, the look or the offices the absence of name on the wall, and other of the points which would strike a business man had left a bad impression as to the position of my em- pioyers. However, come what might had my money. so I settled down to my task All Sunday I was kept hard at work and yet by Monday I had only got as far as 1T. I went around to my employer found him in the same dismantled kind of room and was told to keep at 1t until +n1n g1 Wednesday, it was still unfinished so I hammered away until Friday--that is yes- terday. Then I brought it round to MT. Harry Primer.
 Thank you very much.' said he; "I fear that l underrated the difficulty of the task. This list will be of very ma terlal assistance to me-"
 Tt took some time" said I.
 And now" said he. 'I want you to make list of the furniture shops, for they all sell crockery."
 ''Very good"
 And you can come up tomorrow even Ing, at seven, and let me know how you are getting on. Don't overworlk yourself. couple of hours at Days Music hall In the evening would do you no harm after your labors." He laughed as he spoke, and l saw with thrill that his second tooth upon the left-hand side had been very badly stuffed with gold.
 ohefloch ffOl1neS rubbed hlS hands with delight, and I stared with astonishmert at our client.
 You may well look surprised, Dr. Wat son; but ft is this way" said he: When was speaking to the other chap in Lon don, at the time that he laughed at my not going to Mawson's, 1 happened to mo- t1ce that his tooth was stuffed in this very Identical fashion. The glint of tho gold In each case caught my eye. you see. When put that with the voice and figure being the same, and only those things altered which might be changed py razor or a wig. l could not doubt that 1t was the same man. Of course you expect two brothers to be alike. but not that they should have the same tooth stuHed Tn the same way. He bowed me out and found myself in the street. hardly Knowing whether l was on my head or my heels. Back I went to my hotel, put my head in a basin of cold water. and tried to think 1t out Why had he sent me from London to Birmingham? Why had he got there before me? And why had he written a letter from him self to himself? It was altogether too much for me and I could make no sense of Ii. And then suddenly 1t struck me that what was dark to me might be very light to MT. Sherlock Holmes. 1 had just time to get up to town by the night train to see him this morning, and to bring you both back with me 10 Birming- ham,"
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