Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-15
The Adventure of the Golden
 Pince-Nez
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cigarettes will show me-"
 My dear Holmes," exclaimed, sshow on earth
 'sWel. well, you may see for your self. If not, there's no harm done. Of course we always have the optician clew to fall back upon. but I take short cut when I can get it. An, here Is the good Mrs. Marker! Let us en- joy five minutes of instructive con- versation with her.
 may have remarked before that Holmes had, when he liked, peculiar ly ingratiating way with women and that he very, readily established terms of confidence with them. In half the time which he had named he had cap $ tured the housekeeper's good will and was chatting with her as if he had known her for years.
 "Yes, Mir. Holmes, it is as you say. oir. He does smoke something terrible. All day and sometimes all night, sir. I've seen that room of a morning well. air, you'd have thought it was London fog. Poor young Mir. Smith, he was smoker also, but not as bad as the pro- lessor. His health-well, I don't know that it's better nor worse for the smok- ingl'
 "Ah," said Holmes, "but it kills the appetite"
 'sWell. don't know about that, sir.'
 "I suppose the professor eats hardly anythingw
 'Well, he is variable. I'll say that for him."
 "I'll wager he took no breakfast this morning and won't face his lunch after all the cigarettes I saw him consume"
 "Well, you're out there, sir, as it hap breakfast this morning I don't know when I've known him make a better one, and he's ordered good dish of outlets for his lunch. I'm surprised myself, for since came into that room yesterday and saw young Mir Smith lying there on the floor I couldn't bear to look at food. We'll. it takes all sorts to make a world, and the professor hasn't let it take his appetite away"
 We loitered the morning away in the garden. Stanley Hopkins had gone down to the village to look into some rumors of strange woman who had been seen by some children on the Chatham road the previous morning As to my friend, all his usual energy seemed to have deserted him. I had novor EpouD him handle roSa in such a half hearted fashion. Even the news brought back by Hopkins that he had found the children and that they bad undoubtedly seen a woman exact ly corresponding with Holmes descrip- tion and wearing either spectacles or eyeglasses failed to rouse any sign of keen interest. He was more attentive when Susan, who waited upon us at lunch. volunteered the information that she believed Mir. Smith had been out for q walk yesterday morning and that De had only returned half an hour before the tragedy occurred. I could not my self see the bearing of this incident, but I clearly perceived that Holmes was weaving it into the general scheme which he had formed in his brain. Suddenly he sprang from his chair and glanced at his watch. Two o'clock. gentlemen" said he. "we must go up and have 1t out with our friend the professor"
 The old man had just finished his lunch. and certainly his empty dish bore evidence to the good appetite with which his housekeeper had credited him. He was indeed a weird figure as he turned his white mane and his glowing eyes toward us. The eternal cigarette smoldered in his mouth. He had been dressed and was seated in an armchair by the fire.
 "well. Mir Holmes. have you solved this mystery yet?- He showed the large tin of cigarettes which stood on a table beside him toward my companion. Holmes stretched out his hand at the same moment. and between them they tipped the box over the edge For q minute or two we were all on our knees retrieving stray cigarettes from impossible places. When we rose again I observed Holmes eyes were shining and his cheeks tinged with color. Only at a crisis have I seen those battle sig. nals flying
 "ves.- said he. T have solved it"
 Stanley Hopkins and I stared in emazement. Something like a sheer 1uivered over the gaunt features of the old professor.
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 This instant
 ''You are surely joking Mr. Sherlock Holmes. You compel me to tell you I that this ss too serious a matter to be . treated in such fashion.
 ~I have forged and tested every link of my chain. Professor Corsu. and I am sure that it Is sound What your motives are or what exact par you play in this strange business an not yet able to say. Tn a few minutes I shall probably hear it from your own 'ip< Meanwhile will reconstruct what is past for your benefit so that vou may know the information which still require.
 "A lady yesterday entered your study. She came win the intention of DIS sessinz herself Of certain documents vhieh were in your burezu- She had a key of Der Oun- 1 have had an O. po~ru1i-v of exaufufr~ ros1-z and I