The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-17

SO mednly OF him.
"What will he do?"
What I should do"
VIVA would you do, them"
Engage a special"
But it must be Late
by no means. This train stops at
Canterbury; n there is always at
least a quarter of an hours delay at
the boat. He will catch us there
"One would think that we were the
criminals. Let US have him arrested
on his arrival"
three months. We should get the big
fish, but the smaller would dart right
and left out Of the net. On Monday
we should have them all. No, an ar
rest is inadmissible."
What, them"
I'VE shall get out at Canterbury
"And them"
We'll, then we must make a cross
country journey to New Haven, and
SO over to Dieppe. MOriarity will
again do what I should do. He will
get on to Paris, mark down our lug
gage, and wait for two days at the
depot. In the meantime, we shall
treat ourselves to a couple of carpet
bags, encourage the manufactures Of
the countries through which weEtravel.
and make our way at leisure into
switzerland, via Luxembourg and
BaSte."
At Canterbury, therefore, we alight-
I'd, only to find that we should have
to wait an hour before we could get
a train to NeWhaven.
/ was still looking rather ruefully
after the rapidly disappearing lug
gage-van which contained my ward
robe when Holmes pulled my sleeve
and pointed up the line.
ALREADY, you see,' said he.
Far away, from among the Kentish
woods there rose a thin spray Of
smoke. A minute later a carriage and
engine could be seen flying along the
open curve which leads to the sta
ton. We had hardly time to Jake our
places behind a pile of luggage when
it passed with a rattle and a roar,
beating a blast of not air into our
faces.
There he goes" said Holmes, as we
watched the carriage swing and rock
over the points. Their are limits, you
see, to our friends intelligence. It
had he deduced what [ would deduce
and acted accordingly"
"And what would you have done
had he overtaken us?"
Their annot be the least doubt
that he woul have made a murderous
attack upon me. 1t is, however, a
game at which two may play. The
question now is whether we should
take a premature lunch here. or run
our chance Of star ing before we reach
the buffet at Newhaven."
We made our way to Brussels that
night and spent two days there, NOV
ing on upon the third day as far as
Strasburg. On the Monday morning
Holmes had telegraphed to the Lon
don police, and in the evening we
found a reply waiting for US at our
hotel. Holmes tore it open, and ther
with a bitter curse hurled it into the
CRATE.
81 might have known it." he groan-
ed. "He has escaped
"Moriarty
They have secured the whole gane
with the exception Of him. He has
given them the slip. Of course wher
had left the country there was nc
one to cope with him. But l did think
that 1 had put the game in their
hands. l think that you had better
return to England, Watson
"Why?"
Because % will find me a dan
gerous companion now, This mans
Occupation is gone. He is lost il he
returns to London. If read his char
acter right he will devote his whole
energies to ~revenging himself upon
me. He said as much in our short in
terview, and I fancy hat he meant it
[ should certainly recommend you &c
return to your practice
1t was hardly an appeal to be sue
cessful with one who was an old cam
paigner as we'll as an old friend. we
sat in the ~Strasburg salle-a-manger ar
gning. the question for half an hour
but the same night we had resumed
our Journey and were we'll on u way
to Geneva.
For a charming week we wandered
M the Valley of the RhOne, and theT
branching off at Leuk, we made ou1
way over the Gemmi Pass, still deeI
in snow, and so, by way of Interlaker
to Meiringen. 1t was a lovely trip
the dainty green Of the spring below
the virgin white Of the winter ABOVE
h,,t il was clear to me that never fol
one instant did Holmes forget the
shadow which lay across him. In tn
homely Alpine villages or in the onel1
mountain passes, 1 could still tell oS
his quick glancing eyes and his snar[