Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-09-18
.he Adventure OF
the Missing Three
Quarter
No. III of the Series
CONTINUED from Saturday

CONTINUED from Saturday
Dcar me, dear me - the postofIlce
AgninV' Holmes sighed YEARLY. "a
most urgent telegram WINS dispatched
to You from London by Godfrey
staunton at 6:15 yesterday evening-a
telegram which is undoubtedly associ.
atcd with his disappearance-nnd yet
you have not had II. II IL most cul.
pable. l shall certainly go down to
the Office here and register COM
plant"
DR.. Leslie Armstrong sprang up from
behind his desk, and his dark face was
crimson with fury.
"Ill trouble you to walk out OF my
house. SIR" said he. "You can tell your
employer, Lord Mount-James, that
do not wish to have anything to do
either with him or with his agents
No, sir-not another word" He rang
the bell furiously. "John. show these
gentlemen out" A pompous butler
ushered US severely to the door. and
we found ourselves in the street
Holmes burst out laughing.
"Dr. Leslie Armstrong is certainly a
man Of energy and character" said he.
81 have not seen a man who. II he
turns his talents that way. was more
calculated to oil the gap eft by the
illustrlous Morinrty. And now. my
poor Watson, here we nre, stranded
and friendless In this inhospitable
town, which we cannot leave without
abandoning our case. This little inn
Just opposite Armstrong; house Is
singularly adapted to our needs. II
you would engage front room and
purchase the necessaries for the night,
] may have tine to make a few In.
quiries."
These few inquiries proved, however,
to be a more lengthy proceeding than
Holmes had imagined, for he did not
return to the inn until nearly o'clock.
. He was pale and detected, stained with
dust, and exhausted with hunger and
fatigue. A cold supper was ready up.
on the table, and when his needs were
satisfied and his pipe allght he was
ready to take that half comic and
wholly philosophic view which was
natural to him when his affairs We're
| going awry. The sound of carriage
wheels caused him to rise and glance
out Of the window. A brougham and
pair Of grays stood before the doctors
door.
ITS been out three hours" said
Holmes. started ut G:30, and here 1t
Is back again. That gives q radius Of
ten or twelve miles, and he does 1t
once or sometimes twice day"
mo unusual thing for doctor In
practice"
But Armstrong is not really a doc
n consultant, but he does not care for
general practice, which distracts him
from his literary work. Why, then,
does lie make these long Journeys,
which must be exceedingly irksome to
him, and who Is 1t that he visitsT'
Ills coachman"--
"My dear Watson, can you doubt
that It was to him that first applisdf
| do not know whether II came from
his own innate depravlty or from the
promptlngs Of his master, but he was
rude enough to set dog ut me. Nei.
ther dog nor man liked the look Of my
stick. however, and the matter fell
through. All that l have learned
got from friendly native In the
yard of our own inn. II was he who
told me Of the Doctors habits and Of
his daily journey. At that instant, to
give point to his words, the carriage
came round to the door"
Gould you not follow itr'
Excellent, Watson! You are scln.
tillating this evening. The idea did
cross my mind. There Is, as you may
have observed, bicycle shop next to
our inn. Into this / rushed, engaged n
bicycle and was able to get started be-
fore the carriage was quite out Of
sight. ! rapidly overlook 1t, and then,
keeping at discreet distance Of hun
dred yards or so, | followed its lights
until we were clear Of the town. We
had got well out on the country road
when a somewhat notifying incident
occurred. The carriage stopped, the
doctor alighted, walked swiftly back to
where had halted and told me in an
excellent sardonic fashion that he fear
ed the road was narrow and that he
hoped his carriage did not impede the
passage of my bicycle. Nothing could
have been more admirable than his
way Of putting 1t. ut once rode past
the carriage, and, keeping to the main
road, went on for a few miles and
than haltad In n conyaniant nloca IN