The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-08


 bed that the intruder had hurriedly scopied the paper with a. dark blue hpencn about an inch and a half f2euG
 HODAY'S INSTAIIMENT. Mir. Soames was somewhat over whe1ned by this flood of information. Il can follow the other points, said the, "but really, in this matter of the !, Holmes held out a. small chip with EAhe letters MN and a. space of clear wood after them.
 tsYou see D
 ] ~No, fear that even now-'
 watson, I have always done you lAn injustice. There are others. What Ecould this MN be It Is at the. end bof word. You are aware that tJo11ann F'aber is the most common Fnaker,s name. Is it not clear that sthere is just as much of the pencil left as usually follows the Johann?" file held the small table sideways to ithe electric light. T was hoping sthat if the paper on which he wrote was thin, some trace of it might lcome through upon this polished sur 2face. No, I see nothing. I don't gthink there is anything more to be table. This small pallet is, I pre- Isume. the black, doughy mass you spoke of. Roughly pyramidal in sshape, and hoI1owed out, I perceive.
 
 very w interesting. And the cut-a tfositive tear, see, It began with a thin scratch and ended in Q jag Eed hole. I am much indebted to syou for directing my attention to this case, MT. soames. Where does that 4 door lead to
 ITO my bedroom
 s-IIave you been in it since your Hdventure?'
 'sNo, came straight away for you.
 tT should like to have a glands round. What a charming, old-fash- toned roomi Perhaps you will kind l,iy wait a minute, until have exam } bined the floor. No, I see nothing. What about this curtain? You hang your clothes behind it. If anyone < room he must do it there, since the { bed Is too low and the wardrobe toe shallow. No one there, l supposeE /
 As Holmes drew the curtain l was aware, from some little rigidity an6 .alertness of his attitude, that he was Eprepared for an emergency. As ( matter of fact, the drawn curtain fdisclosed nothing but three or fou' < of pegs. Holmes turned away, an' stopped suddenly to the floor.
 "IIalloal What's this?' said he.
 It was a small pyramid of black putty-lilxe stuff, exactly like the on Eupon the table of the study. Holme ! held it out on his open palm in tn glare of the electric light.
 "Your visitor seems to have lief traces in your bedroom as well as
 s.What could he have wante : there?"
 1T think it is clear enough. To came back by an unexpected way and so he had no warning until
 were at the very door. What coul he do? He caught up everyth1p (which would betray him and he rush ed into your bedroom to conces himself.'
 M "Good gracious, MT. Holmes, do yo
 mean to tell me that, all the time | was talking to Bannister in this room X hewe had the man prisoner if we ha only known it?
 "So I read it. . Surely there is another alternatlv
 MT. Holmes I don't know whetht
 you observed my bedroom window
 "I,attice- e-paned, lead frameWor
 +hree senarate windows, one swingir ] on hinge, and large enough to adm a man."
 HExactly. And it looks out on 2
 angle of the courtyard so as to 2 ~,,r+Iv invisible The man mig E have effected his entrance there, le Y [, traces as he passed through the be | -oom, and finally, finding the do
 open, have escaped that way
 Holmes shook his head ampatler
 .I,et us be practical" said he.
 understand you to say that there " | three students who use this stair, a W are in the habit of passing So door?"
 # ssYes, there are"
 -"And they are all in for this exa1 ination
 "Yes.''
 E~ ~Have you any reason to susp' anyone of them more than the or ers7"
 31 in- .'It is very dencare it, 1i1. . auesIno' to 4l1 M suspicion where there are no proof
 asI.et us hear the suspicious V look after the proofs. 1T will tell you, then, in a I
 words the character of the three IT
 who inhabit these rooms Ihe loV & If the three is Gilehrist "a fine sen M ar and athlete, plays in the Rus +aam and the cricket team for
 college, and got his Blue for hurdles and the long jump. He me manly fellow. His father Y E tha notorious Sir Jabez Gilchrist, V ruined himself on the turf. E scholar has been left very poor, N he is hard-worklng ana lhousIrie V He will do well.
 .4The second floor is inhabited E DauIat Ras, the Indian. He is Ee rn3et. irscrutab1e fellow, as most lWf f fi,ose Indians are. He is well E is in his work, though his Greek is
 i weak subject. He is steady
 mefhodical
 McIAren He is~ a brilliant fe1
 when he chooses to work-one of
 t1 brightest inte1lects of the univers M Ebutsaaei dissipated and