The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-21

Jul 4AAL IAOAE IlEAllOuS. II YOU out
make such reparaion as is in your
power, by telling US where the beryls
are, all shall be forgiven and forgot
ten
Keep your forgiveness for those
VINO ask for 1t, he answered, turning
away from me with a sneer. saw
that he was too hardened for any
words Of mine to influence him. There
was but one way for 1t. 1 called in
the insp and gave him into Gus
tody. A search was made at once, not
only OF his person, but of his room,
and Of every portion of the house
where he could possibly have con-
cealed the gems; but no trace of them
ed boy open his mouth for all our per-
SuaSiOnS and our threats. This morn
ing he was removed to a cell, and I,
after going through all the police for
malities, have hurried round to you,
to implore you to use your skill in UNI
travelling the matter. The police have
openly confessed that they can at pres
ent make nothing of it. gu may go
to any expense which you think neces-
sary I have already offered a, reward
of $1,000. My God, what shall I do.
have lost my honor, my gems and
my son in one night. Oh. what shall
I dol"
He put hand on either side of his
head, and rocked himself to and fro.
droning to himself like a child whose
grief has got beyond words.
Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some
few minutes, with his brows knitted
and his eyes fixed upon the fire.
DO you receive much company
he asked.
None, save my partner with his
family, and an occasional friend of Ar
several times lately No one else, I
think"
do you go out much in society %
Arthur does. Mary and I stay at
home. We neither Of US care for it
CHAT is unusual in a young girl
''She is of a quiet nature. Besides,
she is not SO very young. She is four
and twenty"
This matter, from what you say,
seems to have been a shock to her
also
@Terrible! She is even more af-
fected than I.
you have neither of you any doubt
as to your sons quite"
How can we have, when I saw him
with my own eyes with the coronet in
his hands?"
4 hardly consider that a conclusive
proof. Was the remainder of the cor
Onet at all injured!'
Yes it was twisted
DO you not think, then, that he
might have been trying to straighten
God bless you! You are doing what
you can for him and for me. But it
is too heavy a task. What was he do
ing there at aI12 If his purpose were
innocent, why did he not say so %
Precisely. And if il were guilty,
why did he not invent a lie2 His 81
lence appears to me to cut both ways.
There are several singular points about
the case. What did the police think
of the noise which awoke you from
your sleep %
"They considered that it might be
caused by Arthur closing his bedroom
door"
a likely story! AS if a man bent
on felony would slam his door 50 as to
wake a household. What did they say,
then, of the disappearance of these
gems ?"
They are still sounding the plank
ing and probing the furniture in the
hope of finding them"
Have they thought of looking out
side the hOuse2"
Yes, they have shown extra ordinary
nary energy. The whole garden has
already been minutely examined"
Now, my dear sir said Holmes lis
it not obvious to you now that this
matter strikes very much deeper than
either YOU or the police were at first
inclined to think2 It appeared to you
to be a simple case, to me it seems
exceedingly complex. Consider what
is involved by your theory. You sup
/ pose that your son came down from his
bed, went, at great risk. to your dress
ing room. opened your bureau, took
out the coronet, broke off by main
force a small portion of it. went off to
some other place, concealed three
gems out of the thirty mine with such
skill that nobody can find them, and
then returned with the other thirty-siS
into the room in which he exposed
himself to the greatest danger of be-
! ing discovered I ask you now, Is such
d theory tenabie %
But what other is there?" cried the
banker, with gesture of despair. III
his motives were innocent why does
he not explain them ?"
cit is our task to find that out" re-
piled Holmes; $50 now, if you please
Mr.. Holder, I'VE viii set off for
Streatham together and devote an hour
1 to glancing a little more closely into
I details"
MY friend insisted upon my accom-
/ panying them III their expedition
which I was eager enough to do, fol
1 my curiosity and sympathy were deep
! ly stirred by the story to which we haC
I listened. confess that the guilt of the
4 bankers son appeared to me to be as
/ obvious as it did to his unhappy faith
/ er, but still l had such faith in Holmes
/ Judgment that [ felt that there mus
/ be some grounds for hope as long as
/ he was disSa tiSfied with the acce pteC
! explanation He hardly spoke a wore
/ the whole way out to the southern SUI
burb, but sat with his chin upon his
! breast and his hat drawn over his eyes
/ sunk in the deepest thought. Our client
appeared to have taken fresh heart al
the little glimpse of hope which hac
been presented to him. and he ever
broke into a desultory chat with ms
/ over his business affairs. a short rail
way journey and shorter wall
brought US to Fairbank, the modes
residence of the great financier.
Fairbank was a good-sized square
house of white stone, standing back {
little from the road. A double car
riage-sweep. with a snow-clad 1awT
stretched down in front to two large
iron gates which closed the entrance
/ On the right side was a small WoodeI
thicket. which led into a narrow patti
between two neat hedges stretching
from the road to the kitchen door anC
forming the tradesmen's entrance. o.
the left ran a lane which led to TIN
stables and was not itself within thu