The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-01
Sherlock Holmes clapped his. hands

Pon my Werd, watson, you are
coming a along NO wonderfully hg1, * You hays
true that you have missed everything
Of Importance, but you have hit upon |
the method, and you have q quick eye
for color. Never trust to general i'm
pressions, my boy, but concentrate your
self upon details. My first glance Is
It t"'i Is, . perhaps, Better frst ITO to
AS YOU observe, this woman
had plush upon her sleeves, which is a |
most useful material for showing traces. |
The double line a little above the wrist,
where the type-writist presses against
sewing machine, Of the hand type,
leaves similar mark, but only on the
left arm, and on the side Of it. farthest
from the thumb instead Of being right
across the broadcast part, as this was.
I then glanced at her face, and obseIry-
ing, the dint Of pincenez at either side
Of her nose, I ventured a remark upon
short sight and type writing, which
seemed to surprise her."
cit surprised me.''
1"But, surely, it was very obvious
was then much surprised and inter
ested on glancing. down to observe that,
were not unlike each other, they We're
really odd ones; the one having slight
" decorated toe-cap, and the other
plain one. One was buttoned only in
the two lower buttons out Of five, and
the other at the first, third, and fifth.
otherwise neatly dressed, has come away
from home with odd boots. half but
toned. it is no great deduction to say
that she came away in g hurry"
"And what else? I asked, keenly
interested, as I always was, by my
friends ineisive reasoning;
written note before leaving home, but
after being. fully dressed. You observed
that her right glove was torn at the
foreinger, but you did not apparently
see that both glove and finger were
stained with violet ink. She had writ
ten in hurry, and dipped her pen too
or the mark Would not remain clear
upon the finger. All this is amusing,
tho rather elementary, but must 80
; back to business, Watson Would you
mind reading me the advertised de-
scription Of Mr.; Hosmer Angel9" 4.
light ns' MI Missing s pi # said sR o s1 the
} morning of the 14th,aa gentleman named
( Hosmer Angel. About fl it. z in. in
) height; strongly built, sallow com
plexion, black hair "a little bald in the
centre bushE black siae.whi si!sSs and
l transparency tlhteu grasses, slghC IN
' last seen, in black frock-coat faced with
Q silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert chain
t and, gray Harris tweed trousers, with
brown CATERS over elastic-sided boots
t Known to have been employed in ar
office in Leadenhall street. Anybody
0r@nRRihn sst witt Etc.; a3o st; ,aid Holmes. "a,
to the letters,'' he continued, glancine
s over them, "they are very common
place. Absolutely no clew in them tx
l Mr.. Angel, save that he quotes Balza'
once. There is one remarkable point
, , h t2o,, which will no doubt strik'
8 "They are typewritten, I remarked
e "Not only that. but the signature j
Q typewriter. Look at the neat littl
f .Hosmer Angel at the bottom. Their
d | is 4, date, you see, but no superscrip
d ton except Leadenhall street, which il
rather vague; The point about 81 tn n
We may call Il H t ;yonclsive. 'A''
. "Of whatg" l.
2 "My dear fellow, is it possible yo'
)! DO not see how strongly it bears upo'
f II cannot say that I do, unless i
We that he Thea tS be aSf br to den
y promise were instituted"
Q "No, that, was. not the point. How
e ever, I shall write two letters. which
o should settle the matter. One is to
It firm in the city, the other is t. tn
r. young lady's stepfather, Mr.. Windi
u bank, asking him whether he could NEE
IS US here at: six clock tomorrow: ever
ing. 1T is Just as we'll that we should d
N business with the male. relatives. An
now, doctor, we can do nothing unit
the answers to those letters come, 8
, we may put our little problem upon tn
y shelf for the Interim
e. / had had SO many reasons to believ
is in my friends subtle powers Of reason
ing, and extraordinary energy in actor
F. that T felt that he must have som
is solid grounds for the assured and cas-
m demeanor with which he treated tn
singular mystery which he had bee
called upon to fa eth 9nce s only h "a
d, King Of Bohemia and of the Irene Adle
8 photograph; but when + looked bac
to the weird business Of the Sign G
r. Four, and the extraordinary circun
n stances connected with the Study
Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strang
" " ts7ssl: indeed which he could not u
d. left him then, still putting at h
40 that when I came again on the. ne1
evening T would find that he held in h
ut hands all the clews which would lea
to up. to the identity Of the disappear;ir
On bridegroom Of Miss Mary Sutherland:
A professional case Of great gravit
ne was engaging my own. attention at Il
ne time, and the whole of next day / WI
en- busy at the bedside of the sufferer.
er was not until close upon six 0 'cloc
le, that T found myself free, and was alb
TO TO spring into a hanson and drive
be Baker street, half afraid that l mig]
be, too late to assist at the denoueme1
w Of the little mystery. found Sherlot
e a Holmes alone, however, half asleep, wi,
MT his long, thin form curled UP in tt
I'd recesses of his armchair. A formidab
I'm array Of bottles and test-tubes, wi
pc, the pungent clearly smell Of hydr
I'd, chloric acid, told me that he had spe
lis his day in the chemical work which W
hs so dear to him.
Of "Well, have you solved its'' I aske
at "Yes: It was the bisulphats
m, fNo, no, the MYSTERY" cried, :,
ne. "Oh that! t thought Of the salt til
IN, have been working upon. There "
nd never any mystery in the matter, tt
he as I said Yesterday, some Of the deta
ca, are Of interest. The only drawback
Ills that there is no law, I fear, that G
len touch the scoundrel.'
ttWho was he, then, and what W
cal his object in DESERVING Miss suth'
The question was hardly out. Of I
at mouth, and Holmes had not yet open
ok. his lips to, reply, when we heard q hea:
TT football in the passage, and q tap
ize the door.