The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-31
which lie behind it"

from the reured S1Ga-a
presented as great a contras, To :
as the front of a picture does IL IN.
back. It was one of the main artcr-
les which convey the traffic of -
city to the north and west. Tho
roadway was blocked with the i'm
ems stream of flowing in
a double tide inward and Qtward
while the foot-paths were black With
the hurrying swarm of pedestrians
1t was difficult to realize as We
looked at the line of fine shops ana
stately business premises that they
really abutted on the other side upon
the faded and stagnant square which
we had just quilted.
Let me see," said Holmes. stand
ing at the corner, and elancing along
h line, Il should like just To re-
member h order of the houses here.
exact knowledge Of London. There
is Mortimer's, the t~obacconist. the
little newspaper shop, the Cobure
branch of h City and Suburban
Bank, the Vegetarian Restaurant.
and McFarlane's carriage-building
the other block. And now. doctor.
we've done our work, so it's lime we
had some play. y sandwich and A
cup of coffee, and then off to violin
land. where all is sweetness and deli
cacy and harmony, and there are no
SA1SAlS & Us Win
their conundrums."
My friend was an enthusiastic
musician, being himself not only n
very capable performer. but a com
poser of NJ ordinary merit. All the
afternoon he sat in the stalls wrap-
ped in the most perfect happiness.
gently waving his long, thin fingers
in time to the music, while his gent
ly smiling face n mis- languid.
dreamy eyes were as unlike those Of
Holmes, the sleuth-hound, Holmes
the relentless, keen-witted, ready
handed criminal agent, as it was pos
sible to conceive. In his singular
character the dual nature alternate
ly asserted itself, and his extreme ex-
actness and a~StuteneSS represented, as
l hav often thought, the reaction
against the poetic n contemplative
mood which occasionally predomi-
mated in him. The swing of his
nature took him from extreme Ian
quo 70 ~devouring energy; and, as |
knew Well, he was never so truly
formidable as when, for days on end,
he had been lounging in his arm
chair amid his improvisations and his
black-letter editions. Then it was
that the lust Of the chase would sud
denly come upon him, and hat his
brilliant reasoning power would rise
to the level Of intuition, until those
who were un~acquainted with his
methods would look askance at him
as on a man whose knowledge was
not that Of other mortals. When [
saw him that afternoon so enwrap-
ped in the music at st. James's Hall
I felt hat an evil time might be com
ing upon those whom he had set
himself to hun down.
You want to go home, no doubt,
DOCTOR" he remarked, as we emerged.
yes, it would be as we'll"
And l nave some business to do
which will take some hours. This
business at Coburg Square is serious.
Why ~serious?"
"A considerable crime is in con-
temptation. 1 have every reason to
believe that we shall be in time to
stop it. But today being Saturday
rather complexities matters. / shall
want YOU help tonight"
AT what timer"
Ten will be early enough"
Il shall be at Baker Street at
ten"
Very well. And, say, doctor,
there may be some little danger, SO
kindly put your army revolver in
turned on his heel, and disappeared
in an instant among the crowd
I trust that 1 am not more dense
than my neighbors, but l was always
oppressed with a sense of my own
stupidity in my dealings with Sher-
lock Holmes. Here l had heard what
he had heard, I had seen what he
had seen, and yet from his words it
was evident that he saw clearly not
only had happened, but what
was about to happen, while TO me
the whole business was still confused
and groteSque. AS / drove home to
my mouse in Kensington l thought
over 1t all. from the extraordinary
story OF the r~ed-headed COPPER of the
E~ncyciopedia" down to the visit to
Saxe-Ceburg Square, and the orninous
WerdS with which he had parted
from me. What was this nocturnal
Expedition, and why should / go
armed? Where were we going, and
what were we to do? l had the hint
from Holmes that this sm~ooth-faced
p~aWnbroker's assistant was a formid-
aDle mana man who might play u
deep game. | tried to puzzle it out,
put gave it IN In docnair and set