Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-03


Eyes, sir"
| "And ready to start with IN explor.
ing ship?"
Yes, sir"
"What wages?"
Eight pounds month"
Gould you start at once?"
"As soon as get my kit"
"Have you your papers?"
Eyes, sir" He took sheaf of worn
and greasy forms from his pocket.
Holmes glanced over them and return.
ed them.
"You are just the man want" said
he. Here's the agreement on the side
table. If you sign it the whole matter
will be settled"
The seaman lurched across the room
and took up the pen.
Shall sign here?' he asked, stoop-
ing over the table.
Holmes leaned over his shoulder and
passed both hands over his neck.
"This will do" said he.
| heard click Of steel and below
like an enraged bull The next instant
Holmes and the seaman were rolling OH
the ground together. He was man of
such gigantic strength that even with
the handouts Holmes had so deftly
fastened upon his wrists he would have
very quickly overpowered my friend
had Hopkins and l not rushed to his
rescue. Only when 1 pressed the cold
muzzle of the revolver to his temple
did he at last understand that resist
ance was vain. We dashed his ankle
with cord and rose breathless from the
struggle
u must really apologize, Hopkins"
said Sherlock Holmes. 81 fear that the
scrambled eggs are cold. However,
you will enjoy the rest of your break.
fast all the better, will you not, for the
thought that YOU have brought your
case to Il triumphant conclusion"
Stanley Hopkins was speechless with
amazement.
Il cont know what to say, Mr..
Holmes, he blurted out at last, with a
very red face. at seems to me that
have been making fool of myself
from the beginning. l understand now,
what l should never have forgotten,
that l am the pupil and you are the
master. Even now see what you
have done, but don't know how you
did it or what 1t sigpiles.n .
We'll. well,.. said Holmes good lu-
moredly. 1--WE all learn by experience,
and Your lesson this time is that you
should never lose sight Of the alterna-
tive. You We're so absorbed in young
| Neligan that you could not spare Il
thought to Patrick Cairns, the true
murderer of Peter Carey"
See here, m1srer,ee. tsaa seaman broke
no complaint Of being man handled in
this fashion, but / void have you call
things by their right names. You say
murdered Peter Carry; say ] killed
Peter Carey, and there's all the differ
enee, Maybe you don't believe what ]
say. Maybe you think am just sling.
Ing you yarn"
mot at ALL" said Holmes. "Let us
hear what you have to say"
Its soon told, and, by the Lord, ev'
cry word Of it is truth. knew Black
Peter, and when he pulled out his knife
whipped harpoon through him
sharp, for knew tha& it was him OF
me. That's how he died. You Gan cal
1t murder. Anyhow, I'd as soon die
with a rope refund my neck as will
Black Peters knife in my heart"
How came you there?" asked
Holmes.
"Ill tell it you from the beginning
Just sit me up little so as can speal
easy. 1t was in 'S3 that it happened
August of that year. Peter Carey wa
master Of the Sea Unicorn, and ! wa
spare harpeener. We We're coming on
Of the ice pack on our way home, wit
| head winds and a weeks southern
gale, when we picked up q little graf
l that had been blown north. There wa
one man on her-a landsman. The grey
: had thought she would founder an
!. had made for the Norwegian coast In
i dingey. guess they were all drowned
j Well, we took him on board, this maj
q and he and the skipper had some Ion
talks In the CABIN. All the baggage v
s took off with him was one tin box. {
e far as / know, the mans name WE
l never mentioned, and on the secor
night he disappeared as If he had new
t. been. It was given out that he hs
Y either thrown himself overheard
e fallen overheard in the heavy wealth
that we We're having. Only one mt
Ie knew what had happened to him, al
(, that was me, for with my own eyes
it saw the skipper tip up his heels al
;" put him over the rail in the mldd
N watch Of a dark night two days befo
Id we sighted the Shetland lights.
"Well, 1 kept my knowledge to q
# self and waited to see what wor
IN come of 1t. When we got back to Sc
re land 1t was easily hushed up. and
/. body asked any questions. A strane
i'd died by accident, and IT was pohod
business to inquire. Shortly after
lie ter Carey gave up the sea, and 1t v
ly long years before could find where
IS. was. guessed that he had done
lis deed for the sake of what was IN Il
tin box and that he could afford n
to pay me we'll for keeping my MOI
shut.
TIL II found out where be was thro,
or sailor man that had met him IN L
I'M don, and down went to squeeze p
The first night he was reasona
ed enough and was ready to give me W
DIV would make me free of the sea for
rs. We were to fix it all two nights la
alf When came / found him three ps
drunk and in vile temper. We
of down, and we drank, and we var
Ill about old times, but the more he dr.
of the less liked the look on his II
,rk spotted that harpoon upon the W