The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-01

help the King of Bohemia, the singu-
lar experience of Miss Mary Suther-
land, the problem connected with the
man with the twisted lip, and the In
cident OF the noble bachelor, were all
matters which are outside the pale OF
the law. But in avoiding the sensa-
tional, fear that you may have Dor.
dered on the trivial"
THE end may have been So" ] ans
wered, but the methods ! hold to
have been novel and of interest"
'Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do
the public, the great unobservant pub
lie. who could hardly tell weaver by
his tooth or a compositor by his left
thumb, care about the finer shades of
analysis and deduction! But, indeed,
if you are trivial, cannot blame you,
for the days of the great cases are
past. Man, or at least criminal man,
has lost all enterprise and originality.
AS to my own little practice, it seems
to be degenerating into an agency for
recovering lost lead pencils and Civ
| ing advice to young ladies from board.
| ing schools I think that I have
touched bottom at last, however This
note | had this morning marks my
/
tossed a crumpled letter across to me
upon the preceding evening, and RAJ
/ thus:
Dear Mr.. Holiness am very anx
ious to consult you as to whether
! should or should not accept a situa
tion which has been offered to me a:
/ governess. l shall call at half-pas
1 fnr do nt fpn
ence you.
! yours faithfully,
VIOLET HUNTER"
DO you know the young LADY,"
asked.
i Not 10
1T is half-past ten now"
Yes, and l have no doubt that i!
her ring"
ut may turn out to be of mor'
interest than you think. You remenl
Der that the affair of the blue car
buncle, which appeared to be a mer;
whim at first, developed into seri
Gus investigation. 1t may be so il
this case, Also
We'll, let US hope so. But gu
doubts will very soon be solved, fo
here, unless I am mistaken, is the pc!
: son in question"
AS he spoke the door opened All
J young lfdy entered the room Sh
was plainly but neatly dressed. wit,
bright, quick face, freckled like
plover's egg, and with the brisk mar
ner of a woman who has had her ow
way to make in the world.
, You will excuse my troubling you
f l am sure" said she, as my compaI
! ion rose to greet her, "but have ha
5 a very strange experience, and as
: have no parents or relatives of an
: sort from whom I could ask advic,
: thought that perhaps you would b
kind enough to tell me what l shoul
do
Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter
shall be happy to do anything that
|, can to serve you"
1 I could see that Holmes was favoI
: ably impressed by the manner an
: speech of his new client. He locke
: her over in his searching fashion, an
i then composed himself, with his lid
: dropping and his finger tips togethe
t to listen to her story.
2 Il have been a governess for flv
0 years, said she, lin the family {
SOlOASI OpeQC0 munro, out TWO month
ago the colonel received an appoin
! ment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, an
| took his children over to America wit
z him, so that l found myself without
! situation. | advertised, and l answe
r ed advertisements, but without SUI
cess. At last the little money whic
= had saved began to run short, and
q was at my wits end as to what
! should do.
There is a well-known agency fl
a governesses in the West End Gale
! Westaway's, and there l used to ca
4 about once a week in order to 81
r whether anything had turned l
= which might suit me. Westaway w;
n the name of the founder of the Blu:
Il ness but it is really managed by Mi
" STOPPER. She sits in her own lit
II Office, and the ladies who are seeki1
n employment wait in an ante-room, al
7 are then shown in one by one, VIII,
she consults her ledgers, and Sc
4 whether she has anything which wou
If Isuit them.
wi We'll, when called last week
n was shown into the little Office
,r usual, but I found that Miss Stop
was not alone nrndi Ciore1u 81 a