The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-09-12

produced SO terrific an effect hat he
drove those who saw it out of their
senses? The only suggestion in this
direction comes from Mortimer Ire
gennis himself, who says that his bro
Their spoke about some movement
in the garden. That is certainly re-
markable, as the night was rainy,
cloudy, and dark Anyone who had
the design to alarm these people
would be compelled to place his very
face against the glass before he could
be seen. There is a three-foot flower
border outside this window, but no in
dicatiOn of a footmark. 1t is diff
cult to imagine. then, how an outsider
could have made SO terrible an i'm
preston Upon the company. nor have
we found any motive for so TRANCE
and elaborate an attempt. You per-
ceIve u difficulties, Watson?'
They are only too clear" 1 an
sWered with conviction.
And yet, with a little more mate
rial, we may prove that they are not
insurmOuntable," said Holmes. II
fancy that among your extensive ar
chives, Watson, you may FIND some
while, we shall put the case aside un-
til more accurate data are available,
and devote the morning to the pursuit
OF neolithic man."
l may nave commented upon my
power of mental detachment,
but never have I wondered at it more
upon that spring morning in
Cornwall when for hours he discour-
sed upon celts, arrowheads. and
shardS as lightly as if no sinister
mystery wa waiting for his solution.
It was not until we had returned in
the afternoon to our cottage that we
found a visitor awaiting us, who soon
brought our minds back to the matter
in hand. Neither Of US needed to be
told who that visitor was. The huge
body. the craggy and deeply-seamed
face with the fierce eyes and hawk.
like nose, the grizzed hair which
nearly brushed Jul cottage ceiling,
the beard.-golden at the fringes and
white near the lips, save for the nj
cOtine stain from his perpetual cigar
these were as we'll known in
London as in Africa, and could only
be associated with the personality of
DR.. LeOn Sternda1e, the great lion
hunter and explorer.
We had heard of his presence in
the district, and had once. or twice
caught sight of his tall figure upon
the moOrland paths. He had
made no advances to US, how
nor woul we have dreamed of
doing so to him, as it was we'll known
mat It was MS love OF SeCluS1On
caused him to spend the great
er part Of the intervals between his
journeys in a small bungalow buried
in the lonely wood of Beauchamp Ar
rance. Here, amid his books and his
he lived an absolutely lonely
life, attending to his own simple
heed to the affairs of his ~neighbors.
1t was a surprise to me, THEREFORE, to
him asking Holmes. in az eager
voice, whether he had made any ad-
vance in his reconstruction of this
wants, and paying little apparent
episode. THE county po-
are utterly at fault" said he: but
perhaps your wider experience has sug-
gested some conceivable explanation.
My only claim to being taken into
confidence is that during my
residences here I have come to
know this family of Tregennis very
weil-indeed upon my Cornish moth
er's side I could call them cousins
and their strange fate has naturally
been a great shock to me. I may tell
you that I had got as far as Plymouth
my way to Africa. but the news