The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-14

NO dCuOL ne Will TeIurn-
 ''Tomorrow is the Varsity football match.''
 q nave no sympathy with these childish games. The young mans fate interests me deeply, since I know him and like him. The football match does not come within my hori- zon at aIl.''
 'I claim your sympathy than. in my investigation of MT. Staunton's fate. Do you know where he is?''
 Certainly not.'
 You have not seen him since .cs- terday?"
 NO. I have not"
 Was MT. Staunton healthy man2"
 Absolutely"
 ''Did you ever know him ill?"
 "Never''
 Holmes popped a shees of paper before the doctors eyes. ''Then perhaps you can explain this receipt ed bill for thirteen guineas, paid by MT. Godfrey Staunton last month to Dr. Leslie Armstrong, of Cambridge. l picked it out from among the pa per5 upon his desk"
 The doctor flushed with anger.
 ''I do not feel that there is any reason why I shrould render an ex- planation to you. Mr- Holmes"
 Holmes replaced the bill in his note book. 'tIf you prefer a public ex- planation, it must come sooner or later" said he. T have already told you that I can hush up that which others will be bound to publish, and you would really be wiser to take me into your, complete confidence"
 T know nothing about it.
 Did you hear from Mr. Staunton in Londol- ?"
 Certainly not"
 Dear me, dear me-the post-office again." Holmes sighed, wearily. "A most urgent telegram was dispatched to you from London by Godfrey Staunton at six-fifteen yesterday evening" telegram which is un- doubtedly associated with his disap- pearance-and yet you have not had it. It is most culpable- I shall cer- tainly go down to the office here and register the complaint
 Dr. Leslie Armstrong sprang up from behind his desk, and his dark face was crimson with fury
 I'll trouble you to walk out of my house, sir" said he. You can tell your employer, Lord Mount-James, that l do not wish to have anything to do with either him or with his agents. No, sir-not another word,'' He rang the bell furiously John, show these gentlemen out'' A pomp- ous butler ushered us severely to the door, and we found ourselves in the street Holmes burst out laughing.
 Dr. Leslie Armstrong is certainly a man of energy and character" said he. "1 have not seen a man who, if he turns his talents that way was more calculated to fill the gap left by the 1llustriouS Moriarity. And now my poor Watson, here we are strand ed and frlendless in this inhoSpitable town, which we cannot leave without abandoning our case. This little inn just opposite Armstrong's house is slngularly adapted to our needs. If you would engage a front room and purchase the necessaries for the night may have time in quiries."
 These few inquiries proved to be a more lengthy proceeding than Holmes had imagined, for he did not return to the inn until nearly o'clock. He was pale and dejected, stained with dust. and exhausted with hunger and fatigue. A cold supper was ready upon the table, and when his needs were satisfied and his pipe alight he was ready to take that half comic and wholly philosophic view which was natural to him when his affairs were going awry. The sound of car glance out of the window. A broughham and pair of grays, under the glare of a. gas lamp, stood before the doctors door.
 Its been out three hours~ said Holmes; started at han-past six, and here it is back again. That gives a radius of 10 or 12 miles, and he does it once. or sometimes twice a day"
 No unusual thing for a. doctor in practice"
 But Armstrong is not really a doctor in practice. He is a. lecturer and a consultant. but he does not | care for general practice, which dis | tracts him from his literary work | Why, then, does he make these long journeys, which must be exceedingly l irksome to him, and who it is that he visits?''
 His coachman-~
 | My dear Watson. can you doubt that it was to him that I first ap- | piled? l do not know whether 1t | came from his own innate depravity 1 or from the promptings of his mas | ter. but he was rude enough to set dog at me. Neither dog nor man liked the look of my stick, however, and the matter fell through. Rela- tfons were strained after that, and | further inquiries out of the question. All that I have learned I got from a | friendly native in the yard of our own inn. It, was he who told me of the doctors habits and of his daily | Journey. At that instant, to give point to his words, the carriage came l round to the door,"
 Could you not follow it?" | Excellent, Watsoni You are scin- tillating this evening. The idea did cross my mind. There is as YOU next to our inn. Into this I rushed | engaged a bicycle, and was abel tC get started before the carriage was quite out of sight. I rapidly over | took it, and then, keeping at a dis. | erect distance of hundred yards o1 so I followed it's lights until we were | clear of the town. We had got wei | out on the country road, when somewhat mort:fying incident occur red. The carriage stopped, the doc tor alighted, walked swiftly back tt
 where I had also halted and tol6
 me in an excellent sardonic fashior
 that he feared the road was narrow
 and that he hoped his carriage dit
 not impede the passage of my bicy
 cle- Nothing could have been nor,
 admirable than his way of putin.
 it. I at once rode past the car riage, and, keeping to the main road
 I went on for few miles, and thel halted in a convenient place to SC if the carriage passed. There wa no sign of it, however, and SO , became evident that it had turne, down one of several side roads whicl , l had observed. I rode back, bu
 again saw nothing of the carriage
 and now, as you perceive. 1t has re , turned after me Of course, ha
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