The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-09

MY Cod" cried our client what
a blind beetle | have been"'
Now you see the point about the
handwriting. Suppose that some one
turned up in your place who wrote a
completely different hand from that in
which you had applied for the vacancy,
or course the game would have been
up. But in the interval the rogue had
learned TO initiate you. and his posi-
ton was therefore secure, and | pre-
, sumo that nobody in the office had
ever set eyes upon YOU
Not SOUL groaned Hall Pycroft.
very good. OF course. it was of
the utmost importance to prevent you
from thinking better Of it, and also TO
keep you from coming into conact
with any one who might tell you that
your double was at work in MaWSon
office. Therefore, they gave you
handsome advance on your salary and
ran off to the Midlands, where they
gave you enough work to prevent your
going to London, where you might
have burst their little game up. That
is all plain enough
But why should this man pretend
to be his own brother?"
We'll, that is pretty clear also
There are evidently only two of them
in it. The other is personating you at
eager and then found that he could not
find you an employer without admit
ting a third person into the plot rhat
he was most unwilling to do He
changed his appearance as far as he
could, and trusted that the likeness
which you could not fail to observe,
would be put down to family resem-
blance. But for the happy chance OF
the gold stuffing, your suspicious
w nrOh1 been
aroused"
Hall Pycroft shook his clenched
hands in the air. Good Lord!' he
cried, while / have been fooled in
this way, what has this other Hall Ply
croft been doing at Mawson's? What
should we do, Mr. Holmes? Tell me
what to do
I'VE must wire to Mawson's."
They shut at II on Saturdays
Never mind. There may be some
dOorkeeper or attendant"
'Ah yes, they keep permanent
guard there on account of the value of
the securities that thy hold. | remem-
Der hearing it talked of in the CITY,"
Very good; we shall wire to him,
and see if all is we'll, and if clerk of
your name is working there. That is
clear enough; but what is not so clear
is why at sight of US one of the rogues
and hang himself"
The paper" croaked a voice be-
hind US. The man was sitting up,
blanched and CHASTITY, with returning
reason in his eyes, and hands which
rubbed nervously at the broad red
band which still encircled his throat.
The paper! OF course!" yelled
Holmes, in a paroxySm of excitement,
Idiot that | was! | thought SO much
of our visit that the paper never enter
ed my head for an instant. To be sure,
the secret must lie there" He flattened
it out upon the table, and a cry of tri-
umph burst from his lips. Look at
this. Watson he cried. 1T is Lon
don paper, an early edition Of the
evening Standard. Here is what we
want. Look at the headlines: Crime
in the City. Murder at Mawson & Will
liamS'. Gigantic attempted robbery.
Capture of the Criminal. Here. Wat
SON, we are all equally anxious to hear
it, SO kindly read it aloud to us
1t appeared from its position i'm the
paper to have been the one event of
importance in town, and the account OF
it ran in this way:
"A desperate attempt at robbery,
eliminating in the death of one man
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