Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-09-09
Ihc Adventure al
the Golden
'Pince-Nez
No. 10 of the Series
Continued from Saturday

mo, 1t was all trodden into mire."
tut tut! Well, then, these tracks
upon the grass, were they coming ,or
goingy"
ut was impossible 10 say. ,sThere
was never any outline" :.
"a large foot or "a smallT' ,
you could not distinguish"
Holmes gave an ejaculationAof i'm
patience.
Ing hurricane ever since" said he.
1T will be harder to read now than
that palimpsest. Well, well, 1t can't
be helped. What did you do. Hop.
kins, after you had made. ccrtainA that
you had made certain Of ,nothing?'
Il think l made certain Of good
deal, Mr.. Holmes. knew, that some
one had entered the house cautiously
from without l next examined the
corridor. 1t is lined with cocoanut
mating and had taken no impression
of any kind. This brought me into
the study itself. 1t Is scantily fur.
nlshed room. The main article is II
large writing table with a fixed
bureau. This bureau consists, OF u
double column of drawers, with "a CEN
trail small cupboard between them.
The drawers We're open, the cupboard
locked. The drawers, 1t seems, were
always open, and nothing Of value
was kept In them. There were some
papers of Importance In the cupboard,
but there were no signs that this had
been tampccd with, and the professor
assures me that nothing was missing.
1t 10 certain that NO robbery has been
committed.
Il come now to the body of the young
man. 1t was found near the bureau,
and just to the left of 1t, us marked
upon that chart. The stab was on the
right side Of the neck and from behind
forward, so that it is almost impossi.
BILE that 1t could have been self in
fiicted"
"Unlcss he fell upon the knife" said
Holmes
Exactly. The idea crossed my
mind. But we found the knife some
feet away from the body, SO that
seems impossible. Then, of course,
there are the mans own dying words.
And, finally, there was this very i'm
portant piece of evidence which was
found clasped in the dead mans right
hand"
From his pocket Stanley Hopkins
drew II small paper packet. He un:
folded II and disclosed n golden pince.
nee, with two broken ends OF black
silk cord dangling from the.end Of It,
"Willoughby Smith had excellent
sight" he added. There can be no
question that this was snntched from
the face or the person of the, assassin"
Sherlock Holmes took theiglasses In
TO his hand and examined them with
the utmost attention and interest. He
held them on his nose endeavored TO
read through them. went TO the win
dow and stared up the street with
them, looked ut them most infinitely In
the full light Of the lamp and finally,
with n chuclilc. seated himself at the
table and wrote a few lines upon
sheet OF paper, which hcttossed across
to Stanley Hopkins.
"That's the best l cam do for you"
saiu ne III may prove TO be or some
use"
Inc astohished detective read the
note u'ouu' IL run us follows;
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,h,ct , nnso , ,ts o eno nns d remarkanly
upon either side OF II. She has n nnc,cr.
cd forehead, a pecring expression and
propaDy rounded shoulders; There are
an optioinn M ieost tw,c. %mr,ng ,hn n, ~
few months. As her glasses are OF re-
marknble strength and ms opticians are
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