The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-14

( " 1iiSA was liltSd ih
Ducaess-of-Devonshire fashion over
her ear. From under this great
panoply she peeped up in a nervous
hesitating fashion at our
while her body oscillated backward
and forward, and her myers fidgetted
with a plunge, as of h swimmer
who leaves the bank, she hurried
across the road, and we heard the
sharp clang Of the bell.
II have seen those symptoms be-
fore" said Holmes, throwing his
! cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation
upon the pavement always means an
! affaire de occur. She would like ad-
vice, out is not sure that the matter
is not too delicate for communica-
ton. And yet even here We may
discriminate When a woman has
been seriously wronged BY a man she
no longer oscillates. and the usual
symptom is q broken bell wire. Here
VIC may take it that there is a love
matter, but that the nader is not SO
much angry as perplexed, or grleTed.
But here she comes in person to re-
solve our DOUBTS"
AS he spoke there was a tap at the
door, and the boy in buttons entered
to Miss Mary Sutherland,
While the lady herself doomed be-
hind his small black figure like a
f~ull-saiied merchant-man behind a
I tlIy piiOI DOdl. 0lCIlOck Holmes
welcomed her with the easy courtesy
for which he YVES remarkable, and
having closed the door, and bowed
her into an armchair, he looked her
over in the minute, and yet abstract
ed fashion which was peculiar OF
him.
"Do you not find" he said, that
with your short sight it is a little
trying to do SO much type writing?:
Il did at first" she answered, but
now I know where the letters are
! h looking" Then. suddenly
realizing the full r Of his words,
she gave a violent start and looked
up. with fear and establishment upon
her broad, good-hun1ored face.
you've heard about me, Mr..
Holiness she cried. "else how could
you Know al that?"
Never mind" said Holmes. laugh
ing; sit Is my business to know things.
Perhaps l have trained myself to see
what others overlook. II not, why
should you come to consult me?'
81 came to you, sir. because I heard
OF you from Mrs. Etherege, whose
husband you found SO easy when h
police and every had given him
up for dead. Oh, MIR. Holmes, I wish
you would do as much for me. I'm
not rich, but still l have a hundred
a year in my own right, besides the
little that 1 make by the machine.
and l would give it all to know
has become Of Mr.. Hoslner Angel
"Why did you come away to con-
suit me in such q hurry?' asked Sber-
lock Holmes. with his finger-tips to-
gether, and his eyes to the ceiling.
Again a startled look came over the
somewhat face of Miss Mary
Sutherland. Yes, | did bang out Of
the house." she said, for it made me
angry to see the easy way In which
Mr.. Windibank-tnat is, my father
took it all. He would not go to the
police. and he would not go to YOU
and SO at last, as he would do moth
ing, and kept on saying that there
was no harm DONE. it made me mad,
and / just on with my things and
came right away to you"
Your father said Holmes. your
step-father, surely, since the name is
different"
Yes, my step-father. I call him
father. though it sounds funny, too.
for he is only five years and tive
months older than myself"
And your notner is alive?"
"Oh yes, mother Is alive and we'll.
/ wasn't best pleased, Mr.. Holmes.
when she married again so soon after
fathers death, and a man who was
nearly fifteen years n than
herself. Father was a plumber in the
Tottenham Court Road, and he left
a tidy business behind him. which
mother carried on with Mr.. Hardy,
the foreman; but when Mr.. Windi-
bank came he made her sell the
business, for he vas very superior.
being a traveller in wines. They got
E4,7eo for the goodwill and interest,
! which wasn't near as much as ia
Their could have got If he had been
alive
I had expected 10 see Sherlock
Holmes impatient under this rambling
and inconsequentiai narrative, but,
on the contrary, he had listened with
the greatest concentration Of atten-
ton.
Your own little income he ask
ed. does it come out Of the bust
neSS?"
ON no, sir. It Is quite separate,
and was left M by nv Irrc,a Ned IN
! It Is IN New Zealand stock,