The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-23
PART FOUR

fHnt TWIN
It was late before Sherlock Holmes
returned. He came back alone, for
Lestrade was staying in lodgings in
the town.
The glass still keeps very high,
he remarked, as he sat down. 1T is
of importance that it should not rain
before we are able to go over the
ground. On the other hand. a man
should be at his very best and keenest
for such nice work as that, and I did
not wish to do it when tagged by a
long journey. l have seen young Nc
Carthy."
And what did you learn from
him?"
Nothing"
Gould he throw no light"
None at all. l was inclined to
! think at one time that he knew who
| had done it and was screening him or
! her, but | am convinced now that he
| is as puzzled as every one else. He is
/ not a very quick-witted youth, though
! comely to look at, and. should think,
sound at heart"
Il cannot admire his taste" I re.
marked, IF it is indeed a fact that
he was averse to a marriage with SO
charming a young lady as this Miss
| Turner"
All, thereby hangs a rather painful
| tale. This fellow is madly, insanely
in love with her, but some two years
| ago, when he was only a lad, and be
fore he really knew her, for she had
been away five years at a boarding
school, what does the idiot do but gel
! into the clutches of a barmaid ir
Bristol, aud marry her at a registry
office? No one knows a word of the
matter, but you can imagine how mad
dening it must be TO him to be up
braided for not doing what he would
give his very eyes to do, but what he
knows to be absolutely impossible. L
was sheer frenzy of this sort which
made him throw his hands up into The
air when his father, at their last inter
view. was goading him on to propose
to Miss Turner On the other hand
he had no means of supporting him
self and mis- father. who was by al
accounts a very hard man, would hav'
thrown him over utterly had he know
the truth. It was with his barmaiC
! wife that he had spent the last thre'
days in Bristol and his father dit
not know where he was. Mark tina
point It is of importance. Good ha
come out of evil, however, for the bar
maid, finding from the papers that h
, is in serious trouble and likely to b.
hanged. has thrown him over utterl,
and has written to him to say tina
she has a husband already in the Bel
; muda Dockyard, so that there is reall
, no tie between them. | think tina
, that bit of news has consoled voun
Mccarthy for all that he has suffered
But if he is innocent, who has don
} All, who? would call your a
| tention very particularly to two point'
: One is that the murdered man had a
appointment with some one at til
v Pool, and that the some one coul
4 not have been his son, for his son wa
\ away. and he did not know when h
+ would return. The second is that til
g murdered man was heard to CT
2. 'Cooee. before he knew that his SO
had returned Those are the crucit
r points upon which the case deDend
. And now let us talk about Georg
J. Meredith. if you please. and we sha
f leave all minor matters until t
morrow"
r, There was no rain. as Holmes ha
# foretold and the morning broke brigl
K and cloudless. At nine o'clock lie
h trade called for US with the carriag
J and we set off for Hatherley Farm ar
h the Boscombe Pool.
~ There is serious news this NOR
# ing" Lestrade observed 1T is sa
v that Mr.. Turner. of the Hall. is
i'll that his life is despaired of"