Show TODAY'S INSTALMENT These few inquiries proved preyed to be a more lengthy length proceeding than Holmes had Imagined Imagined imagined Im Im- im- im for lor he did not return to the inn until nearly 9 o'clock He lIe was pale and dejected stained with dust and exhausted ex- ex exhausted ex ex- hausted with hunger and fatigue A cold supper was ready upon the table and wh when his needs were satisfied and his pipe aUght alight he was ready to take that halt half comic and wholly philosophic view which was natural to him when his affairs were going awry T The a sound of carriage wheels caused him him to rise and glance out of the window A brougham and pair of grays gras under the glare of a u gas lamp stood before beCore the doctors doctor's door It Its s been out three hours sal said 1 Holmes started at past half-past 6 and here hereit it is back again agam That gives a radius of often often often ten or twelve miles and lee Ife lYe does it once or sometimes twice a day No al thing for a doctor in pr practice But Armstrong is not really a doctor doctorin in practice lid Ifs is a lecturer and a consultant con con- but he d does s not care for general practice which distracts him from his literary Why Vh then docs does he make malc these long journeys which must be exceedingly ex exceedingly exceedingly ex- ex irksome to him and who is It visits visits' that he ho Ills His coachman coachman coachman- My dea- dea W Watson can you jou ou doubt that it I it t was c to him th that I I fl first st applied I do donot donot not know whether It came from his own innate depravIty ity or from the of his master but he was vas rude rudo enough to set a II dog at me Neither dog nor man liked the look of m mj my stick slick however and the matter fell through Relations were strained after that and further inquiries out of the question AH AU that I have havel l learned amed I got from fro a friendly native inthe in inthe the yard jard ard of our own Inn It was he who told me of the doctors doctor's habits and of his I dally daisy journey At that instant to give point to his words the carriage came I round to the door follow It It Could you jou OU not Excellent Va Watson lIon You are scintillating l lating this evening The idea did cross crossI my mind There is as you iou may have I observed a bicycle shop next to our inn Into this I rushed engaged a bicycle and was able to get started before the carriage was quite out of oC sight I rapidly overtook overtook overtook over over- took it and then keeping at a discreet distance of a hundred yards or so I followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed its lights until we were clear of the town We had got well out on the I country road when a n. somewhat mortifying mortifyIng mortifying mortify mortify- ing Incident occurred The carriage stopped the doctor dector alighted walked swiftly back to where I had also halted and anti told me In an excellent sardonic fashion Cashion that he feared the road was narrow narrow nar- nar row row and that he hoped his carriage did not Impede the passage of my bicycle Nothing could have been more admirable than his way of putting it I at once once- rode past the carriage and keeping to the the- main road I went on for a n. n few fW miles and then halted in a convenient place to see if It the carriage passed There wano walt wa- no sign of It however and anel so it became evident that It had turned down one of several side roads which I had observed ed I I rode back but again saw nothing of the carriage and now as you perceive It has returned after me Of course I had hall |