Show I II Remarkable Remarks Great Britain today toda is experiencing the most serious challenge to to established established order the world has known in j Whiting ean ear Whiting Williams s. s Most Moat highwaymen have hae the mind of an old 8 boy and kill on the slightest pretext Harry L L. L Olson Chicago municipal judge Morals are higher r today than In the theda da days fI of our mothers and grandmothers ers ers Re He Dan y K Bradley Cle eland Cleveland eland Congregational clergyman man manI I II I have absolute in forma ton that the I I. I V. V W W. bas lias arsenals arsenal at central points and is ready at any time to Initiate Initiate Ini ml a revolution by the use of armed force Frank force Frank Chicago attorney JI 5 for having refused to speak ic more f freely free free- eely ee- ee I ly and you on your side will not I am ams s sure re think the worse of me because I desire desIre even against his will to share my husbands husband's a anxieties Once more I beg that you wIll vill say nothing of my visit She looked back at us from the door and I had a last Impression of ot that beautiful beautiful beau beau- haunt haunted d face the startled eyes and the drawn mouth Then she was gone Now Watson Watso the fair fall sex is your department said Holmes with a smile I when the dwindling frou-frou frou of skirts had ended In the slam of the front door What was the fair la ladys lady's ys y's game What I did she really want Surely Surel her own statement Is clear and her anxiety very natural natura Hum Think of her appearance Watson Wat Vat son son her her manner her suppressed excitement excitement excitement excite excite- ment her restlessness her tenacity in asking questions question Remember that thag she she- comes of a caste who do not lightly show emotion She was certainly much moved Remember alao als the curious earnestness earnestness earnestness earnest earnest- ness with which she assured us that it was best for he her her husband that she should know all Vl What at did she mean by that And you must have hate observed VaLson Watson Watson Wat VaL son how she maneuvered to have the light at her back She Sho did not wish us to read her expression Yes she chose the one chair in the room And yet the motives of women are s so sQ inscrutable You iTou remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the th same reason No powder on her nose nose nose- that proved to be the correct solution How can you jou OU build on such a a. quicksand Their most trivial action may mean vOlumes vol vOl- voi- voi umes or their most extraordinary conduct conduct con con- duct may depend upon a hairpin pin or r a curling tongs Good morning Watson Vatson You are off off Yes I will while away the morning at street with our friends of tho the regular establishment With Eduardo Lucas lies the solution of ot our problem though I must admit that I have not an Inklin inkling as to what form it may take It Is a capital mistake to theorize in adVance advance ad ad- vance of ot the facts Do you stay on guard my good Watson and receive any fresh visitors Ill I'll join you at lunch If It I am abl able 2 All All that day and the next and the next Holmes W s In jn a mood which his friends would call taci turn others morose He tf ran a anti i lg smoked 1 Incessantly Inces- Inces d snatches n on his violin n sank sk into u reveries u devoured sandwIches s at Irregular irregular ir Ir- Ir regular hours and hardly answered the Casual questions which I put to him It was evident to me that things things- wera wern not going well going would well say cay nothing with him l of f or the tho his case quest e and d 1 He It 1 was from t the re ret paper that I learned e the particulars r I a s of t the inquest u 1 and the arrest rr I with the subsequent release of ot John Mitton Mit- Mit ton tho val valt t of the Ute deceased The corners corner's cor- cor nc ners ner's jur ht In 15 the obvious obvious' Wil- Wil but the parties remained remained-as I unknown as ever No o motive W s JuS sug f The room was eJ full of articles o of value but none o had been heeti taken k The dead J man mans man's s papers s had not l been i tampered W with They were carefully e examined l and hd showed that he was a keen student 0 of International politic an nn gossip a remarkable linguist and art an anun- anun untiring un- un tiring letter writer He had been on IrP s n- n terms with the leading politicians of several countries But Hut nothing senI sen sea I a h wa was discovered M among the documents docu docu- ments which filled his drawers As to his relations with women they appeared to have been promiscuous but superficial He ite had many acquaintances among them but few tew friends and no one whom he loved loved His HI habits were regular his conduct conduct con con- duct Inoffensive His death was was' an absolute ab ab- ab solute mystery and likely to remain sov so As uS to the e arrest of John Mitton on the tho v valet i It was a council counell of despair as an alternative to absolute Inaction But nS no case caso could be sustained against him He had night visited The n alibi friends in ln Hammersmith th that was complete It is true trueh that h 11 he d started home nome at ar hour nour which should have brought him to Westminster before the time when hen the crime rIme was discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered but his own explanation that he had walked part of oC the theay way ay ay s seemed emea probable prou- prou able enough In view of ot the fineness of ot the night He had actually arrived at 12 1 o clock o'clock and appeared to b Do an- over over- by the unexpected tragedy He had Bad always alwa's been on good terms w with th his master Several of the dead man mans man's pos pos- sessions notably Sessions notably a small case of oC razors razors- had been found in the valets valet boxes but he ie explained that the they they- had been presents presen from the deceased and the was able to corroborate the story Mitton l had been in Lucas Lucas' employment for three year years ear It was noticeable that Lucas did not take Mitton on the continent with wit him Sometimes he visited Paris Iaria for three months on end but Mitton was left in charge of the street house As to tn the e housekeeper she had heard noth noth- log ing on n the e en n night of the crime If her ste sten ea fl Ch master had a visitor 0 he had himself ad ad- mitte him hiD ond T. T Tomorrow The Stain Sl Adventure d of ot tb the Second Sec See continued |