The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-04

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light yet. How have the years used
you? You look the same blithe boy
as ever"
Il feel twenty years younger, +
Holmes. | have seldom felt so happy /
as when l got your wire asking me
to meet you at Harwich with the car. I
But you, Holmes-you have changed
very little-save for that horrible
goatee."
These are the sacrifices one makes /
for ones country, Watson" pulling at
his little tuft. Tomorrow it will be
but a dreadful memory. With my
hair cut and a few other superficial
changes | shall no doubt reappear at
| Claridge's tomorrow as l was before
this American STUNT beg your par
| don, Watson, my well of English seems
/ to be permanently defiled-before this
American job came my way"
But you had retired, Holmes. We
heard of you as living the life of a
/ hermit among your bees and your
books in a small farm down upon the
South Downs"
Exactly, Watson. Here is the fruit
of my leisure ease, the magnum opus
of my latter years." He picked up the
the title, Practical Handbook of Bee
Culture, with some Observations upon
the Segregation of the Queen" Alone
did it Behold the fruit of pensive
nights and laborous days when I
watched the little working gangs as
once l watched the criminal world of
London"
But how did you get to work
again."
"Ah, l have often marvelled at it
myself. The Foreign Minister alone
l could have withstood, but when the
Premier also designed to visit my hum
Bile roof! The fact is, Watson, that
this gentleman upon the sofa was a
bit too good for our people. He was
in a class by himself. Things were 60
ing wrong, and no one could under
stand why they were going wrong.
Agents were suspected or even caught,
but there was evidence of some strong
and secret central force 1t was alb
solutely necessary to expose it Strong
pressure was brought upon me to look
into the matter. 1t has cost me two
years, Watson, but they have not been
devoid of excitement. When I say
that l started my pilgrimage at Chica-
at Buffalo, gave serious trouble to the
constabulary at Skibbareen and so
eventually caught the eye of subor-
dinate agent of Won Bork, who rec
commended me as a likely man, you
will realize that the matter was COM
pick. Since then | have been honored
by his confidence which has not pre-
vented most OF his plans going subtIy
wrong and five of his best agents be-
ing in prison. l watched them, Watson,
and l picked them as they ripened.
Well, sir, I hope that you are none
the worse!"
The last remark was addressed to
Won Bork himself, who after much
gasping and blinking had lain quietly
listening to Holiness statement
Though unmusical, German is the
most expressive of all languages" he
observed, when Won Bork had stopped
from pure exhaustion. "Hullo. HuHoi"
he added, as he looked hard at the
corner of a tracing before putting it
in the box. This should put another
bird in the cage. | had no idea that
the paymaster was such a rascal
though I have long had an eye upon
him. Mister Won Bork, you have a
great deal to answer for
Il shall get level with you, Alta
mont" he said, speaking with slow
deliberation, IF it takes me all my
life shall get level with you"
The old sweet song" said Holmes
How often have I heard it in days
gone by. 1t was a favorite ditty OF
the late lamented Professor Moriarty
Colonel Sebastian Moran has also been
known to MARBLE it. And yet live and
keep bees upon the South Downs"
Curse you, you double traitor
cried the German, straining against
It his bonds and glazing murder from
his furious eyes.
s mo, no, it is not so bad as that,
q said Holmes, smiling. LAS my speech
J. surely shows you, Mr.. Altamont o.
Y Chicago had no existence in fact.
n used him and he is gone"
s. Then who are you?"
Is ut is really immaterial who I am
but since the matter seems to interes
t. you, Mr.. Won Bork. may say that thi:
4. is not my first acquaintance with the
q members of your family. l have done
= good deal of business in German!
J. in the past and my name is probabl!
e familiar to you
d, Il would wish to know it, said thu
1t Prussian grimly.
1T was I who brought about tn,
IT separation between Irene Adler ant
the late King of Bohemia when you
c. cousin Heinrich was the Imperial En-
voy. 1t was who saved from murder
20 by the Nihllist Klopman, Count Vol
y, und Zu Grafenstein, who was you
I'd mothers elder brother. II was 7"
There is only one man." he cried
Is Exactly" said Holmes.
d; Won Bork groaned and sank on tn
al sofa. And most of that information
came through you" he cried. "Wha
is it worth? What have I done? l
is my ruin for ever!"
ut is certainly a little untrus
s. worthy" said Holmes. ut will reuuir
some checking and YOU have little tim
" to check it. Your admiral may find tn
~ new guns rather larger than he o.
:" poets, and the cruisers perhaps a trifl
Z faster
There are a good many other point
of detail which will, no doubt, com
-, to light in good time. But you hav
. one quality which is very rare in
&c German, Mr.. Won Bork; you are
IS sportsman and you will bear me no il
will when you realize that you, VIII
to have outwitted so many other peopl