The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-02-15

minister to Persia. Educated Elton ant
oxford. Served in Jowald campaign
Afghancampaign. Charasiab dispatch
rs), Sherpur and Cabul. Author o
Heavy Game of the Western Himalay,
as USS1); Three Months in the Jun.
gle, QSS4). Address, Conduit street
Clubs, the Anglo-Indian, the Tanker.
Vile, the Bagatelle Card club"
on the margin was written, ii
Holmes precise hand: The SECOND
most dangerous man in London"
This is astonishing" said +. az
handed back the volume. The mans
career is II a of an honorable soldier
1T is true" Holmes answered. 'UE
to a certain point he did well. He was
always a man of iron nerve, and the
story is still told in India how he
craWled down a drain after a wounded
~man-eating tiger. There are some trees,
Watson, which grow to a certain height,
and then suddenly develop some un-
slightly eccentricity. You will see 1t
often in humans. I have a theory that
the individual represents in his de-
Nelopment the whole procession Of his
ancestors. and that such a sudden turn
10 good or evil stands for some strong
influence which came into the line of
his pedigree. The person becomes, as
it were, the epitome Of the history Of
his own family"
1T is surely rather fanCiful."
We'll, l don't insist upon it. What
ever the cause. Colonel Moran began
to so wrong. Without any open scan
dal, he still made India too hot to hold
aim. He retired, came to London, and
again acquired an evil name. 1t was
at this time that he was sought out by
Professor Moriarity, to whom for a
time he was chief of staff. Moriarity
supplied him literally with money, and
USED MIN only in II or two very high
class jobs, which no ordinary criminal
could have undertaken. You may have
some recollection Of the death Of Mrs.
Stewart. OF Lauder, in 1887. Not?
Well, l am sure Moran was at the bot
tom OF it. but nothing could be proved.
SO cleverly was the colonel concealed.
that, even when the Moriarity gang
was broken up. we could not incrim-
mate him. You remember at that
date. when I called upon you in your
rooms, how I put up the shutters for
fear of air-guns? No doubt you thought
me fanciful. I knew exactly what 7
was doing, for I knew Of the existence
OF TINS remarkable gun, and I knew also
that II OF the best shots in the world
would be behind It. When we were In
Switzerland he followed us with MORT
arity. and it was undoubtedly he who
gave me that evil five minutes on the
ReichenbaCh ledge.
''~J Iiillih lIlCIl L 1Cdu VI
papers with some attention during my
soJourn in France, on the lookout for
any chance Of laying him by the heels.
SO long as he was free in London, my
lite would really not have been worth
living. Night and day the shadow
would have been over me, and sooner
or later his change must have come,
What could I do? I could not shoot,
him at sight, or 1 should myself be In
the dock. There was no use appealing
TO a magistrate. They cannot inter-
on the strength of what would APP
pear to them to be a wild suspicion.
L could do nothing. But I watched
criminal news, knowing that SOON
ar or later I should get him. Then
the death of this Ronald Adair.
chance had come at last. Knowing
what l lid, was it not certain that
Colonel Moran had done it? He had
played cards with the lad. he had fol-
owed him home from the club. he had
Snot him through the open window.
lhere was not a doubt of it. The bull
cts alone are enough to put his head
n a moose. I came over at once. I
seen by the sentinel, who would,
knew, direct the Colonel's attention
o my presence. He could not fail to
connect my sudden return with his
>r1me, and to be terribly alarmed. I
vas sure that he would make an at
to get me out of the way at once,
md would bring round his murderous
for that purpose. I left him an
mark in the window, and,
warned the police hat thew
night be needed-by the way, Watson,
.ou spotted their presence in that
with unerriug accuracy
ook up what seemed to be a judicious
,ost Tor observation. never dreaming
nat he would choose the same SPOT
or his attack. Now. my dear Watson,
.oes anything remai for me to ex-
lain?"
Yes" said I. '"You have not made
t clear what was Colonel Moran's
aotive in numbering the Honorable
Adair?"
All! my dear Watson, there we come
nto those realms OF conjecture, where
he most logical mind may be at fault.
.ach may form his own hypothesis
the present evidence, and yours
5 as likely to be as correct as mine,
You have formed one, them"
i think that it is not difficult to
Hplaln the facts. 1t came out in evil
ence that Colonel Moran and young
.dalr had, between them, won a con-
amount of money. Now,
loEan undoubtedly played foul-of
lat | have long been aware. be-
eve mat on the day Of the muruer
,dair had discovered that Moran was
ieatihg. Very likely he had spoken to
I'm privately. and had threatened to
Spose him unless he voluntarily re-
gned his membership Of the club,
promised not to play cards again.
IS unlikely that Il y%oungster like
unlr would at one make a hideous
by exposing a well known man
} much older than himself. Probably
e acted as | suggest. The exclusion
ON his clubs would mean ruin to
loran. who lived by his ill-gotten
ard gains. He therefore murdered
dair, who at the time was ~endeavor-
g to work out how much money he
lould himself return, since he could
ot profit by his partners foul play.
Ie locked the door lest the ladies'
1ould surprise him and insist upon
what he was doing with these
imes and coins. VIII 1t pass?"
Il have no doubt that you have hit
pom the truth"
1T will! be verified or disproved at
lie trial. Meanwhile, come what may,
olonel Moran Will trouble us no more.
he famous air-gun will embellish the
cotland Yard museum, and once more
II. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote
Is life to examining those interesting
tile problems which the complex life
f London SO plentifully PRESENTS"
Continued Next Week)
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