The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-17

grow under my feet It's down b Kent
seven miles from Chatham and three
from ohe railway line. I was wired for
at 3-15. reached Y0xlev Old Place at 3,
conducted my Investigation. was back
at Chariug Cross 10y the last train. and
straight 10 you by cab"
which means. I suppose. that you
are not quite clear about your caseg'
AIt means that i can make neither
head nor TAN Of it So far rs I can see.
it is just as tangled a business as ever
handled. and set at first 6 seemed SO
simples that one couldn't go wrong.
There's no motive. ar Holmes. That's
what b0thers me. L can't PIT my hand
on a motive. Here's a man dead,
there's no denying thst-lo1t so far as
can see. no reason on earth why any
one should wish him harm
Holmes lit his cigar and leaned back
On his chair.
"Let as hear about t.t said he.
'Tve got my facts pretty clear" said
Stanley Hopkins can ] want now is
TO know what they an mean. The sto-
~. so far as 7 can make IL out IS Ike
this: Some years ago this country
house, YoXley Old Place, was taken
by an elderly man, who gave the name
Of Professor Coram. He was an in
valid, keeping his bed half the time
and the other half hobbling round the
house with stick or being pushed
about the grounds by the gardener in
q bath chair He WIS well liked by
the few neighbors who called upon
him. and be has the reputation down
there OF being q very learned man.
Bis household used 10 consist Of an
elderly hOusekeeper, MIS- Marker. and
Of a maid, Susan Tarlton. These have
both been with him since his arrival
and they seem 10 BE women Of excel
lent character. The professor IS writ
ing a learned book. and ne found it
( necessary about q year ago TO engage
a secretary. The first two that be tried
were not successes. but the third. ar.
f Wilioughby smith. q very young man
streight from the university, seems to
have been just what his employer
wanted. His work consisted IN writ
I ing an the morning TO the professor s
/ dictation. and he usually spent the
I evening in hunting up references and
f passages which bore upon the next
days work This WIllO1ghby Smith
\ has nothing against him, either as a
4 boy at Uppingham or as q young man
at Cambridge. j have seen his tesd
/ monials, aud from the first he was d
decent quiet hardWoridng fellow, Will
I no weak spot in him at alL And yet
this IS The lad who has met his dead
this morning in The professors study
under circumstances which can point
only TO murder"
The wind howled AMI screamed al
the windows. Holmes and i drew
/ closer 10 the IRE, while the young in
spector slowly and point By point &c
velOped his singular narrative
IF you were TO search an England
said be, u don't suppose you could
ind a household more self Contained ol
freer from outside Influences. Whole
weeks would pass and not one of then
60 past the garden gate. The pro
fessor was buried in his work end ex
listed for nothing else. Young Smiu
knew nobody in The neighbcrh00d an,
lived very much as his employer did
The two women hod nothing 10 talk
them from the house Mortimer. TIL
gardener, who wheels the bath chain
IS an army pensioner. nn old Crimeal
man Of excellent character He doe
not I've in the house. but in & Tire
roomed cottage 81 the other end @
The garden. Those are the only pee
pie that you would end within Oh
f grounds OF Yoxiey old Place. At e.
same time the gate az The earden IS
hundred yards fr1m the main Len
don 10 Chatham Rad il onens wit