The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-11-25

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lion hunter and explorer.
We had heard of his presence in the
district, and had once or twice caught
sight of his tall figure upon the moor
land paths. Here, amid his books
and his maps, he lived an absolutely
lonely life, attending to his own SIM
pie wants, and paying little apparent
heed to the affairs of his neighbors
II was a surprise to me, therefore, to
hear him asking Holmes in an eager
voice, whether he had made any ad-
vance in his reconstruction of this
mysterious episode. "The county
police are utterly at fault" said he;
"but perhaps your wider experience
has suggested some conceivable ex-
PLANTATION. My only claim to being
taken into your confidence is that
during my many residences here /
have come to know this family of Ire
gennis very well-indeed, upon my
Cornish mothers side l could call
them cousins and their strange fate
has naturally been great shock to
me. / may tell you that l had got
as far as Plymouth upon my way to
Africa, but the news reached me this
morning, and l came straight back
again to help in the inquiry"
Did you lose your boat through
it?
81 will take the next"
"Was your baggage aboard the
ship"
"some of it, but the main part at
the hotel"
81 see. But surely this event could
not have found it's way into the Ply
mouth morning papers ?"
mo sir; l had a telegram"
might I ask from whom? ?"
! 'I have no objection to telling you"
he said. ct was Mr.. Roundhay, the
vicar, who sent me the telegram which
recalled me-"
THANK you," said Holmes II may
say in answer to your original ques-
Etion, that l have not cleared my mind
entirely on the subject of the case,
] but that I have every hope of reach
ing some conclusion. 1t would be pre-
mature to say more"
Then I have wasted my time, and
need not prolong my visit" The fam
|, Gus doctor strobe out of our cottage
in considerable ill-humor, and within
five minutes Holmes had followed
him I saw him no more until the
evening when he returned with a slow
step and haggard face, which assured
me that he had made no great progress
; with his investigation.
, was shaving at my window in the
/ morning when I heard the rattle oil
!; hoofs, and, looking up. saw a dogeart
/ coming at a gallop down the road. II
, pulled up at our door, and our friend
| the vicar sprang from it and rushed
: up our garden path Holmes was al
| ready dressed, and we fastened dowr
, to meet him.
1--WE are devil-ridden, Mr. Holmes
: Ny poor parish is devil-ridden!" hi
) cried. "Satan himself is loose in it,
: We are given over into his hands!"
I "Mr Mortimer Tregennis died dur
!. ing the night, and with exactly thu
r same symptoms as the rest of hi
' family
/ "Mr. Roundhay, we are entirely a
+ your disposal. Hurry-hurry, befor'
0 things get disarranged."
a The atmosphere of the room wa.
g OF a horrible and depressing stuff
5 ness. The servant who had first en-
o tered had thrown up the window, o
t It would have been even more intol
/ cradle This might partly be due t
t the fact that lamp stood flaring an,
q smoking on the center table. Besid
9 1t sat the dead man, leaning back i
e his chair, his Thin beard projectin
e his spectzcles pushed up on to hi
) forehead, and his lean, dark fac
l. turned towards the window and twist
!. ed into the same distortion of terro
q which had marked the features of hi
e dead sister. He was fully clothed
r though there were signs that his Dire:
II sing had been done in hurry w
I had already learned that his bed ha
% been slept in, and that the tragic en-
II had come to him in the early morning
Z One realized the 'red-hot energ
e which underlay Holiness phlegmati
q exterior when one saw the sudde
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