Show I SHYLOCK HOMES His Hip Posthumous Memoirs JL JL AJL A AM X Mr Homes Makes a Sensational Exit w s s if BY JOHN I BANGS ANGS a a e e c c C It to M with peat great t regret tha EDITORs editor of at tile the Posthumous Memoirs of ot k Ie I Homes to b compelled to announce the lit IS litt Unction tin ot of that genial tt 1 sad and 4 talented detect detective t be first inkling of et the ilea awful tact fact to roach reach rea my m was from a over my fay radiator rac rad tor from front Mr Ir r f s Of at f the tte asking a 1 J had rd received r the manuscript of Mr Homes t His HI own copy had lane gone I ne antra astray he M said and hi hie Inquiries addressed ed to Homes had b been beat I een Ut pt Utterly terly trl ignored i no If lf you ou have received Chapter Chayter Cba tel W M kindly Y radiate it tt bee bath to me m since I am m bol boJ holding A AI the tbs presses I for It hissed blued hl d Mr Yr lr It happened that tat 1 too was wu w becoming an anxious on thle re and even aw ay Mr Hr Boswells B w lIs urgent octant message had Jaad beW o 0 flad Rad mine also a tone gone unanswered Holies Hence He I d hack hak b a k Nothing doing doln at t this tb end cad cl Better Petter look bole Homes up In person must meat have bit a happened t to him tor for be he once one told me bed hed anther t write thin than rat eat 1 response pone to this s the startling tan gt tale of or woe and nd villainy set Rt forth below of Ol necessity males make u any fay further Recollections o of tilt tk eminent detective Impossible and n bring ater lera W close clone this more or teas ley important Imp contribution taEng W EDt lish liah he b letter letters HOMES MISSING c Last Lut Sun Seen in Company Comy N a Y o of f Two Yys Mysterious Old t Ad U Ladle dle Undertakes Undertaker to Find a Loet Lest flot An Ali A Interview lAt Jilt With Hb BoyNo Tree Trace Tr ee of the tha t Eminent t Detective Since Last Thursday Night Foul Hay raa Suspected Death of erb Autopsy Arouses an n Awful Artful Suspicion Are A Ones Unes Onesi On i l Copyrighted for tor All AU Hades Haden by James lama Boswell April Ut tat Shylock Homes H Hel tilt the eminent detective Is la I strangely missing tad his kb tJ ar fri nd who have ban looked cooked In vain for him Nita hi in b iris nis bi ab ad 0 med haunts hauts since circa last tut Thursday Thuy night fear that hf lie has haa met with foul font play It Is I known now that through lna hlll successful work In unraveling ai a number num of ote e barra ing mysteries of ot the life age he has h aroused tie jealousy and animosity of certain c dirt pet per peron on in fn Hades H but bat as yet no suspicion attaches atts es to any single individual to warrant art arrest Mr Wr fr Homes hag bas ba r lately b to y received re a number num r of ing I nit letters all 11 of them th m anonymous u and neS has bas repeated repeatedly ly I r been n warned arn by individuals apparently a tearful fearful of the t hI results result of ot o t his hla intrusion Into their affairs lea o share aban abandon n don cIon his profession and nd go N into some outer other line ti f bual bast re fl These threats th thi eta eata however he has ball treated with wick contempt and Dd has bas tearlessly fearlessly tone lone about bout his work wark un deterred d by the fulminations of or hla enemies or the forebodings of ot hie hb Mends friends trI At the tle time tilDe of or JatI b 1 ti ells appearance tarance be he was wu about to announce to the tilt world not nol only the authorship of The T Junius Letters Let and andt that of ot Beautiful Snow Sno but had bad laid hid a convincing i hain of evidence In his hla own mind mineS leading Idine to the be ex JI MUTt of the t man who ho struck BUlle Patterson sad and nd the whereabouts of Moses X when the Light went want out It I t l la nut not believed by well informed persons however that t t the t h Imminent solution of these beat mysteries bas baa bad had badH hadan H an n to do with his bla bl untimely disappearance Cl In Ice fart fact a very oft definite suspicion attaches to 10 two old la Ja dies dl in whose whore b company he be left his hi o on Thursday rt apparently on the tb kindly y mission ml ion of ot en eft enabling abling them to find And a lost dog dOir T room tae ae ac aee e ordin g to tIM the statement of ot toe lee Mr Yr Rome Homes Ho oAke boy IJo bo a somewhat but bat reliable fat at boy q boyDine Dine In the employ of et Charles Chari Dickens Dl called caI at tt t the I office e of or the tb detective on Thursday shortly after luncheon oll The names Hamer they lav lava were ere Mrs YrA Sarah Sarali I amp and Miss lilu XI Betsy tsy Trotwood Mr lr Homes received them t courteously and Inquired th r My Hy y friend Mrs lira Harris has hao lost Ils her h r riot dog do Mr Yr began b ft Mrs Ilia ra Gamp tearfully and I us UI how hoN no there rh re cant cint c nt be not hi n lost loot loa with a 8 gentleman i aa u knows bon u as much mac b as u you Y ou does within reach reuh me sae and II says to her Mr Mrs II Harris Harrl says san we what you ou steeds seeds most mole t is b a s and aad in four tout hours boon your roar dear little Jide will wW be he back baek a ID la the wn wa j light o ot four smite and sad unties with alt air k kat at prevent p trace grace ee x Trotwood nodded her ber acquiescence In Ice tart tar I statement f r But continued Mrs Irs Gamp Game 11 sin lit Harris Ban aei so ao by continue l ab It renoe from trots home base the temptations tua lOns of life Iff in a treat great city that she e aint tot got the l b to spate come her be herself elf so she says s to me m says rays aka lilla h yea yoa se ass the tor for me and tell him bl there hers aint t SIU D I I dont do for him and sad if It hell bep reatoN ply lido to my arms muL And so ro Mr Yr If t to M why wily I have come properly chaperoned e c ed as N you Y Will MUI kindly y observe by my friend Miss MI to Betsy Be T a ladr V of Irreproachable characteristics sad and ad rectitude pas Mr Yr lr Homes Koma laughed lau The finding of lost l st dote dogs madame amid he lat II somewhat out of my mJ line V the Hound of the Basket wheels rt ls 1 de demanded warded Mrs Airs Gamp ap If that dont how yo to ft t prime prim minister of dot dog IP Ko n e ethen then beAl I am m very muck much mistook sad and nd t the tile wary vary v vOI words OI I used toed to Mrs Yn Harris HaMa when w n she att ahe did tar sq cr says nays ys she He won wont t waste wale no DO tone tIIa o ar M eta dot dog Sairy Sary Sat Mrs Airs Harris says ya I hes a human be being ba tat ing that tat Mr AIr Shylock Homes is III says I 1114 tad and there aint alt t no ease tUe of downtrodden humanity that tb the be Le wea t take up cep even eve if It its It only Daly a dog dOC Thaws the precise p Pt word words said stid Mia Trotwood Tr as u reported by Joe the fat tat boy of Mr Yr Home ae otIce o The treat Teat detective was wu obviously flattered lU J He bad had refused of such cases cares In the file put past aa M Mr the records r of at his bis office show how beyond beyond Mt question hot t tUle the Ule sublime confidence in MB Ma hi power of o two into old ladles representing a third apparently p pi very V IT strongly to his heart Jaert I It 4 i t I Judge J e Mrs lint Gamp said call he from year tit t tP emphasis P of the g t In your participles that you Jou ate J the estimable lady of whom m cox Mead friend Martin Chu e has bas told toW me so o much i Aint be he a wonder cried Mrs hits M Gawp Gamp Hes Iee a de detected tested teetH me ate e right sill oft I 1 will take the tH CM taR of Fide yde 1 Ml calk Mr lit r B complacently and aneS if t I be he has baa not Matt gad inte i by this WI time date me I will wAl restore hilt Ye Harris And if be he has haa Mea been ground up into taco T sobbed bibs Mias Betsy Bet Trotwood Homes smiled lied Wen Well Miss Agar XI said aid he b white while ati sages agar look bolt alike to me I promise you that I will wW those bade Into to which Las has to yon YOI toh ta I handed banded over to tile lady y so ae awfully aw n bereft is i a to use ue at her next Sundays breakfast Did D Flo Ia ye any distinguishing features teata s to differentiate him big tram frets other Mias Trotwood darted an as t at Mr Gamp Game win who ho trembled tumbled slightly but immediately rat Ar 1 plied d dYea Yes Yea Mr Homes three heads hed and sad aa as appetite t e fw ice of 01 em emAh Ah please repeat the ue said amid Mr iCi 1 H est perplexed Three heads h one ball bull one sae skye ye one sad and the appetite of ot a lion tor for each aach pale pair of or Jaws kwa J w He should be easy to find And said Mid Mr Arr 1 Home B Jet Jett ting t down a memorandum m of ot the description an eq his hta cuff a habit of ot kin his of long loaf standing standi and tad I UT accept pt the commission Here Hen H re be he reached for his hla hat bat Well start out at t once ladies ladi he hp added ded And net with that the three passed out of the th inee nee that time Mr Homes has bas not Dot been seen aHn by bJ mortal Oft eyes y Immediately upon apes receiving the die eon con contained in the above statement sta nt from rota Joe life ola 0 boy boythe tile the reporter port of or the casette called aIled upon Mrs Sarah Ua Gamp Gawp at her h r residence on street III merta merb and ami later upon UP Hiss I Tt Trotwood T at per her little cottage at Inferno by the flea Bea BeaI ea eaI I never n vr heard beard of ot 0 Mr Yr Shylock Homes Rotas H said Id Mrs Gamp Game hla bb trade An Aa eminent detective who to Ir IQ and Dd was v ae last Jut seen in your company said nab the reporter Mrs Gamp Game rose In fn her might In ln my company rte ate roared indignantly Who 1 bo said Id that I 1 never nev r w a no gentleman una ef d f no such name nor no other of r gentleman cent neither a tie 1 acquainted with I Me lie In hi bin ilia r When I Last Lut Thursday afternoon said Kid 11 the tbs reporter Mr Irs I Gamp hotbed UCh 1 I can an prove O q alimony IH tor for she abe said acid td Come ome out out here ben he into lato by tn u ilea iaun J U dry she aile added leading the way and beckoning bee pi meto me ate to 0 tP UV I The reporter went oat as at he be was Nas bade de sad and before him ranged noted in fn snowy white te row N Nor were donor or more immaculately laundered sd shirts a r or M more of collars eolian and noel a tsar taw other atMar at rot y BraH aqua not necessary t b mention DIt It waa that Mr Gamp amp was u at t feast I east aa as ft lad peNea That Thata what I rat waa adNa deIR of At sk Thursday f After alter Afternoon noon said Id she aM triumphantly Then you know nothing of Atri Mrs n Harris BantI dag der r asked Q d the reporter Yrs Mrs X Harris Barr never nn bad W BO b dog trill Mt It Mrs Alfa for tor the tb very pod good rea ip t tt t than there t ne Mn Yr Hank H to have bare po no dog do Trotwood was a proposition but bat t what she said raid points to e s sI I never knew Jm w any as Y Mrs as Mr Airs t or for fay any dof doh nor any say Mr Homo Home Ive Jve never r bees beeD toJo town I just live Men here Menands and ands raise raMe rhubarb and and morning ice glories Where When were Weft you you last Thursday afternoon per persisted Hated ted the reporter Home in bed bM with a beada to rues read t the Confessions of Mary Mac she v And ADeS you yon never nev saw Mr Kr 1 Shylock ur asked tile the reporter re Who her he be Mia i Trotwood Never beard heard of him be cia do dor dorThe The TLe sincerity of both cons waa evident e t Ifo e cue could doubt after seeing repeat wet them daem that they t tF wart aM sat not t tut and ut not have been as up u in this al We reporter exporter ventured 4 You know the arse at ot Mr In tio Never fever ever heard of Yrs Mrs Harris or Of her bar dor either ft I II as I I have bave already told you she retorted If h there therea I a tics Mrs x Harris Halle and has tu she aka a dot dog There was wao no rep need to pursue larrUp the for question fur tat further ther and nd the reporter left J ft It was evident that Mr Kr I Homes callers caller were Yet the question Uon re unanswered what had bad I become of ot the treat great t detective de ve More o than ever was wu wasat leis at disappearance regretted for M Va a p which bt own Bait 0 genius eta w rr be taxed tee ad to ve n Where Mere wu was he lee b and who were weer the old Did ladles who r Mrs x Gamp tad and the Mica W Trot Trotwood f wood The mystery ery is I a still st U l abut ut it to 4 interesting in le a tItia connection to note emte the o 0 os bt newspapers wa Oe died cB suddenly this thie said said tJ ey eJ eyAm Am Ala autopsy a wUl will be held this Wa afternoon to ascertain a athe the causes a aThe The famous Estrous canine lU of the tb entrance entra to I Hades Hd after fter centuries of service hag had Indubitably I passed aed away awa and apparently from an acute attack atta k of or indigestion The latter latt r however was wu corrected later for the autopsy y which was aAa conducted I the following morning morn In by a cumber umbe of 0 the be most moat state astute te doctors d of the Stygian country revealed embedded in lo inthe lothe the huge hate creatures vermiform appendix no ao less leas an ace object than a pair of or solid told SOld link sleeve buttons upon which was engraved a monogram mo containing the two tellers Setters 8 S sad and nd H One Une stands aghast wita horror at the suggestion which inevitably IJ follows such arch archa I a discovery Mr Yr Homes disappears la in company cc with two tW old ladies subsequently shown to be imposters Im tera teraI t in la I search of ot the alleged lost dog dOC of a mythical person description de of ot which a animal is g precisely the description I tion 1100 of the ravenous beast who within twelve hours boars is a 1 found fo dead d ad with the cuts cuff e buttons button of the missing man map secreted accreted in his vermiform appendix The Theor of or the We th situation points unswervingly to the theory that Mr Homes tell fell unwittingly into late the hands of his bb enemies enell enemies who purposely laid a tr trap p by which he should bould meet a horrible end ea that a of being bet 1 nt devoured de red by a beast beut of ot more e than ena ordinary o ferocity The conclusion seems eee to be that he M fallowed wed wedI sack clue claw I as u the fictitious Mrs Gamp Game and ad Mias II Trotwood had then given ven him and sad with W tk b unerring accuracy developed deY them until they bro bt t him into Cato the presence o of Cerberus Cerbe himself by whom w n he be was WAIl instantly I ta stain and devoured That he be with him the instrument of vengeance upon the file dog dOl himself was w ts retribution of ofa a proper sort and aAd a swift enough reve lp to plash j Homes mends friends in la so 80 tar far as u it visited ed punishment t upon epos his immediate slayer myer but what of the tw trl tW s old I belles Who are they and ud how bow cap can all they t be pun pUB punished I isLed for tor their undoubted complicity in is the crime That is II the he t question q ratio n which ch Is I now n ow agitating atilt ti ni alt all Hades and it gives the Gazette tread great pleasure to announce that the firm Arm of or I Le Coq O q pave have taken it in la hand band These gentlemen have offered ofte to serve without pay pal which to Is very generous consider the tile rivalry to which they were subjected by Mr Ir IrK Homes K during his bra lifetime Meanwhile we must await the lame israe with patten Yana and Le Co aava discovered ed upon open tile the left toft bank of the River 7 S Wn tb discarded d ot or otIn Mrs II Il and aeN aI Trotwood etwood but have decided to withdraw any further pur pursuit suit ault of the die problem preble since liaN there are an no marks a upon the db ulea by which a their wearers may be Identified Hence it R to b probable pt ble that the mystery mn as aa to the identity Ideality of Sherlock Horner Homes murderers will never b bd br disclosed d and nd that the |