The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-18

no monkey could be trained to bring
down any article its trainer wished
for. No, Langton, ingenious as your
theory is, we must dismiss it from the
realms of possibility"
The sun was shining-a rare thing
in London-and Crewe, having care
fully inspected the base of the walls,
now fell back to some distance and
proceeded to take them in as whole.
He fixed both eyes unwinkingly upon
the tower, so that every detail should
impress itself upon either retina.
"And now," said Crewe, I'VE will
take our photograph from the other
side" And we moved round, and
once again he focused his eyes upon
the brick work.
That's ALL" he said, as the sun
went behind a cloud. "I think the
discovery will not prove so difficult
as it appears"
"Hindeed!" said one of the police
men on duty, who overheard this re-
mark. MAY ask, sir. if you can
furnish any clue?"
"Tell the governor of the tower"
said Crewe, smiling, that the rob-
berry was not committed by an Ital-
ian at all, but by South American,
whom you people would doubtless
confuse with Italians, seeing that,
there are not more than half
dozen in England"
"a South American" repeated the
other policeman stolidly. "And doubt
less, sir, his monkey was also
South American" he continued, with
clumsy sarcasm.
"You are quite right" said Crewe
calmly. "His monkey was not
monkey, but it certainly was South
American"
"And you get all, all this from him
specting the brick walls. sir?" the
policeman asked.
every Bit" said Crewe.
"You don't 'appen to know more
about this affair than you have told
us, sir?" said the policeman.
I pulled Crewe away. 'Tt you
awaken suspicion in the minds of
these anticipates you will find your
self arrested on suspicion" l whis-
pered.
We moved off, the policemen follow
ing us with suspicious glances. 1t
was not until we were upon the out
skirts of the crowd that I breathed
freely. "Crewe," said, " it does not
do to prod the British policeman.
Now tell me, were you serious in
uhat vo,I caid about Tho Co,,tb hroar
lean and his monkey?"
"I was never more serious" Crewe
answered. "But said that it was not
a monkey. Tell me. Langton, what
you saw on the tower"
"I saw a series of well-fitted
bricks" I answered, offering good
foothold for fly and possibly for a
small monkey, but certainly not for
man."
"But what did you see on the
bricks in the shape of markings?"
"A few moses. which some scien-
tist might label and classify"
"Tush!" said Crewe petulantly
"This is what saw" He stopped,
produced a pencil and a piece of pa
per from his pocket, and began to
trace series of three-pointed marks
like hens tracks.
There was a well-ordered series
of these" said Crewe, Commencing
upon the nineteenth layer of bricks
from the bottom, and thence running,
with a slightly oblique movement,
clear up to the window" He closed
his eyes. 81 am looking at them now"
he continued. "At intervals corre-
spending, roughly, to every four OF
these tracks, there are slight but
, well-defined depressions in the sur
face having the rough outline of a
| shoe. Fragments of brick have
crumbled here and there under the
pressure of hobnails. In other words,
Langton, our South American friend
did ascend that turret, walking up it's
surface as a fly might walk. What
is the inference?"
That he threw a rope up over the
bars and climbed, pulling himself up
hand over hand. Therefore he is a
sailor" l said, with sudden light.
I Crewe looked at me in great amuse-
ment.
"My dear Sherlock Holmes. you are
quite wrong" he answered. "In.
genious, but speculative. We are
dealing in exactitudes and there is nc
possible evidence to show that the
man threw up rope or is a sailor"
At the juncture a newsboy came
past yelling special edition OF an
evening newspaper. Murder at Not,
ting Hill! Murder at Noting Hill
Full description of scenes of 'orror,"
the vendor called. Crewe stopped to
purchase copy, unfolded the damp
sheet, and read from under a staring
headline:
"A dastardly murder was commit.
ted in the early hours of this morn.
ing at Noting Hill. The residence OF
Mr.. Walter Deans, retired trades
man, was entered, and valuables to
the amount of more than thousand
pounds were taken, and the owner
was shot down while endeavoring, as
is supposed, to defend his home. The
body Of Mr. Deans Was discovered by
his servants about eleven o'clock ly.