The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-07-27

head, and rocked himself to and fro.
droning to himself like child whose
grief has got beyond words.
Sherlock Holmes sat silent for
some few minutes, with his brows
knitted and his eyes fixed upon the
fire.
do you receive much company"
he asked.
None, save my partner with his
family, and an occasional friend OF
Arthur's Sir George Burnwell has
been several times lately. No one
else, l think"
do you go out much in society,""
Arthur does. Mary and l stay at
home. We neither of US care for it"
That is unusual in young girl
''She is of a quiet nature. Besides,
she is not so very young. She is four
and-twenty."
This matter, from what you say,
seems to have been a shock to her
also"
Terrible. She is even more af-
fected than l."
You have neither of you any doubt
as to your sons guilt?"
How can we have, when l saw him
with my own eyes with the coronet in
his hands"
81 hardly consider that conclusive
proof. Was the remainder of the coro-
net at all injured?"
Yes, it was twisted"
do you not think. then. that he
might have been trying TO straighten
| it?"
God bless you, You are doing
what you can for him and for me. But
| it is too heavy a task. What was he
! doing there at all? If his purpose
were innocent, why did he not say
so?"
Precisely. And if it were guilty,
why did he not invent a lie? His
silence appears to me to cut both
ways. There are several singular
4 points about the case. What did the
police think of the noise which awoke
you from your sleep"
They considered that it might be
caused by Arthur's closing his bed
room door,"
"A likely storyi AS If man bent
on felony would slam his door so as
to wake household. What did they
say, then, of the disappearance of
these gems?"
They are still sounding the plank
ing and probing the furniture in the
hope of finding them"
Have they thought of looking out
side the house?"
Yes, they have shown extraordin-
airy energy. The whole garden has
already been infinitely examined"
Now, my dear sir" said Holmes.
, is it not obvious to you now that this
, matter really strikes very much
deeper than either you or the police
were at first inclined to think 1t ap-
/, peared to you to be simple case; to
me it seems exceedingly complex.
Consider what is involved by your
theory. You suppose that your son
! came down from his bed, went, at
great risk, to your dressing room,
, opened your bureau, took out your
. coronet, broke off by main force a
{ small portion of it, went off to some
: other place, concealed three gems
out of the thirty-nine, with such skill
a, that nobody can find them, and then
, returned with the other thirty-six
!. into the room in which he exposed
q himself to the greatest danger OF
. being discovered. / ask you now, is
! such theory tenable?"
buI what Olu0T Is InSI6 CFleO
= the banker, with a gesture of despair
. IF his motives were innocent, why
? ? does he not explain them?"
: 1T is our task to find that out,
= replied Holmes; $50, now, if you
= please, Mr.. Holder, we will set off fol-
: Streatham together, and devote ar
. hour to glancing a little more closely
. into details"
o My friend insisted upon my accom-
a panying them in their expedition
e which l was eager enough to do, fo
. my curiosity and sympathy were
II deeply stirred by the story to which
j we had listened. l confess that tn,
4 guilt of the bankers son appeared t
. me to be as obvious as it did to hi
unhappy father, but still | had sucl
IL faith in Holiness judgment that
. felt that there must be some ground
# for hope as long as he was dissatis
" fled with the accepted explanation
X He hardly spoke a word the who'll
a way out to the southern suburb. Blu
1t sat with his chin upon his Breast an
" his hat drawn over his eyes, sunk il
b, the deepest thought. Our client ar
peared to have taken fresh heart a
is the little glimpse of hope which hal
= been presented to him, and he evel
broke into a desultory chat with M
over his business affairs. A short rail
way journey and shorter wal
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