The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-01

'sHis Grace is by no means convinced that the
you are well aware. DR.. Huxtabe, that his Grace
Is particularly anxious to avoid all public scandal.
He prefers TO take few pepoe as possible INTO ms
"Tbo matter can be easily remedled - said the The
turn to london by the morning train u,,n n
his bsndss M r is
ing and pleasant, so propose to spend few days
%s se 19 t. the my s ou1 na Of
the village inn is Of course for you to decide .no
last stage of indecison, from which he was rescued
by the deep sonorous voice of the rodbearded Duke,
"9fp agree gGeeST With i Mr. W Wider Dr. usable that you
would have done wisely to consult me But since
dcuce. it would indeed he absurd that we should not
avail ourselves of his services. Far from going to
come cor and stay with me at Hodernesse Hal"
remain at the scene Of the mystery
''Just as you like, Mr.. Holmes. Any information
which Mr.. Wilder or can give you is, of course, at
your disposal
M T probably be necessary fo5 me ? to see yo" ,o"
now, sir, whether you have formed any explanation
in your own mind to the mysterious disappearance
''No sir have not"
Excuse me if ailnde to that which is Painful to
you, but T have alternative, Do You think that
the Duchess had anything to do with the mattGri'
The great Minister showed perceptibe. hesitation
"The other most obvious explanation rs that the
child has been kidnapped for the purpose OF ieVy1ng
You have not had any demand Of the sortT''
cone more question, your Grace. understand that
you wrote to your son upon the day when this IN
cident occurred y
Ono, ] wrote upon the day before. -
q Exactly But he received 1T on that day!
have unbalanced him or induced him to take such
step?'
'fDid you post that letter yourself?"
The nohleman $ reply was interrupted by his sec
eaT % nd in N with m 6aS heat ef posting letters
himsclf," " said he. 'Ths letter laid with Others
upon the study table, and myself put them in the
'fYou are sure this one among thcm'"
''How many letters did your Grace write that
F'Twenty or thirty. have large correspondence.
But surely this is somewhat irrelevantF'
Not entirely said Holmes;
advised the police turn their attention to the South
of France. / have already said that do not believe
action but the lad had the most wrong headed opin-
IONS and it is possible that he may have fed to her,
affe sbe a sna @ @ by Ho@ sTs rer o the
could sec that there were other questions which
abTupt manner showed that the interview was at an
end. 1t was evident that to his intensely arIstocrac
M S Was 0 most w abhorrent and that he
feared lest every fresh question would throw fercer
light into the discreety shadowed corners of his duca
When the nobeman and his secretary had left my
friend lung himself at once with characteristic eager
into the investigation,
The boys chamber was carefully examined, and
Welded nothing the absolute conviction that it
was only through the window that he could have
escaped The German masters and effects gave
no further clue, In his trailer of ivy had given
way under his weight and by the light of
lantern the mark the lawn where his heels had
come down. That dint in the short, green grass
the only material witness left of this inexplcsbe
nocturnal fight.
Sherlock Holmes left the house alone aud only
turned after eleven He had obtained a large ord
nance map OF the neighborhood. and this he brought
into my room, where be laid it out the bed and.
having balanced the lamp in the middle of he began
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