The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-04-30

and it is W to the next chap to go ahead
with the material furnished. Sherlock
Holmes was like the Old-fashiOned doctor.
He handled the whole show. And, speaking
OF angels-the recording kind seem to
hear the flutter Of ones wings. That abOm-
lift starts off like a cOvey of par
tridges in the woods down Wiscasset
way"
"And why" 1 asked, always on the alert
for trickery, should you think it's Per-
Vter that flushed it2'
jacques smiled teasingly. "My gift. My
appalling, awe inspiring and, as you must
admit, well oiled and working mental ra-
do"
"Were you expecting him?" I asked,
thinking Of the last time when b. had
told me that Pervier was always on the
dot.
81 have been expecting him to call me
NJ or send me a pneu to ask for a rendez-
VOuS, but this will be the first time that
ne has come without that fOrmallty, so
thaG the case must be a pressing one. Here
In France there are conventions to be OBJ
served even in the suppression Of crime
ana, as you must have noticed, pOliteness,
also"
I was reminded Of a little boy trick he
mad played on us one day when walking
home from school on a road where a new
ran OF snow was as yet untracked. Jacques
had said, Bill Sawyer is coming round the
pend ahead with his old white horse and a
load or cOrdWOOd." A moment later Bill
sawyer appeared about a furlOng away
we youngsters were obliged to admit the
supernatural powers Of Jack-Wees Hug-us,
as our juvenile wit had dubbed him. But
1 questioned Bill afterwards and discovered
the fraud, or call it close reasoning.
JacqueS, as a boy Of flaWless d
had his desk in the last row, near a front
window. He had seen Bill pass on his way
from the saw mill with the wood sled when
It had first started to snow hard, so that
the tracks on the road, already sheathed
WIN ice, were quickly Oblterated. He had
Inat morning heard his father tell Bill to
IeIeh more wood at knocking OFF time
early in the winter. The elapsed time
jacques figured closely was Just about
right for Bill to be coming back from the
cut with his load especially as Bill had two
uItie girls IN scnOOl to whom he would
want to give a ride home on the sled. Easy
enough, when one stops to think.
SO now 1t proved in the case Of Pervier
Tor Jacques smiled and said as If indeed
tea0lng my own thought, 81 no longer
nave 60 indulge in fake mystery, Johnny
Last time 1T was the cOncierge's dog. But
the concierge n the dog are out on an
effand OF my own. AS you know, how
ever, you have to close the door Of the liff
smart TO make the circuit for the Ions
start, and, as you also may have noticed, Il
closes with a slam. Everybody slams &C bu
Pervle7, all Of whose movements are silent
He has either cultivated silence OF move
ment or more likely, it's a natural manner
Ism. dtd not hear the door slam befOr'
ne III started. Est gratia. It is PROB
ABLY FeEVier. And he is in a-hurry."
Not so hard when you come to think
Pervier IL was, and with characteristic pun
~CniOusness be apOlOgized for coming an
announced. As / had anticipated, his er
RAND was to request Jacques services II
the IineO case. There had been some men
ton OF it IN the papers, but not very much
EerYier, ia his succinct, mechanical wa.
that was as e~mOtlonless and exact as q ma
cnlne, q loom Of which the shuttle slip
PACK ana forth Co weave It's fabric, pro
ceeQed Immediately Co but Us in possession
Of the facts.
The Tineo family had been many year
g wen to DO and respected one Of Madrid
Already wealthy, Senior Tineo had aus
mented hisefOrtune during che war. Bef0r
tn4e MS commerce had been CoostWls
shipping, small steamers that carried prin