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THE OMAITA ILLUSTRATED REE. 8pttnbtr 17, 1005. The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes might nut fall upon tl.e pKiv lie twined in to nnil aluiifl to him. I rHd for about ton nilnut'-x, ti BlnnltiK In the heart of a chiifr. and thi'n miildf-nly. In the mhldle of a iwnieiir, he ordered me to ceae and to ( hunge my drrs. "You can easily Imagine, Mr. Tlolmes. how curloui 1 became a to what the mean ing of thin extraordinary performance could jiooelhly he. They were nlwaye very canful, I observed, to turn my face away from the window, o that I became con sumed with the d-slre to see what was going on behind my back. At first It eemed to be Impossible, hut I "on de viled ft meann. My hand mirror had been broken, so a happy thought aelied me, and I concealed piece of tho frlasa In my handkerchief. On the next occasion, In the midst of my laujrhter, I put the handker chief tip to my eyes and was able with ft littl management to see all that there was behind me. I confess that I was disap pointed; there was nothing; at least that was my first Impression. At the second irlance, however. I perceived that there was a man standing In the Bouthampton road, a small, bearded man. In a gray suit, who semed to be looking In my direction. The road Is an Important highway and then are usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle, to find her eyes flsed upon me with ft most searching gnie. She said nothing, hut I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror !n my hand and hod seen what was be hind me. fihe rose at once. " 'Jephro, snld she, 'there Is an Imperti nent fellow upon the road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' " 'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?" he asked. ' " 'No; I know no one In these parts.' " 'Dear met How very Impertinent. Kindly turn round and motion to him to go away.' " 'Surely, It would be better to take no notice.' . " 'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn round and wave him away, like that.' "I did as I was told, and at the same In stant Mrs. Rueastle drew down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have not sat again In the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor seen the man In the road." "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Tour narrative promises to bo a most Interesting one." "Von will find It rather disconnected, I fear, and there may prove to be little, rela tlon between the different Incidents of which I sneak. On the very first day that I was Rt the Copper neeehes Mr. Rueastle took me to a small outhouse which stands near the kitchen door. As we approached It I heard the sharp rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving about. " 'Look In here,' said Mr. Rueastle, show ing me a slit between two planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a vague figure huddled up In the darkness. " 'Don't bo frlghtenc ,' said my employer, laughing at tho start which I had given, 'It's only "Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, but really old Toller, my groom. Is the only man who can do anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, so that he Is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose every night, and Ood help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs upon. For goodness' sake, don't you ever on any pretext set your foot over the threshold at night, for It is aa much aa your life Is worth.' "The warning was no Idle one, for two nights later I happened to look out of my bedroom window about 2 o'clock In the .morning. It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn In front of the house Vas silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was standing, wrapt In the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper beeches. As it emerged Into the moonshine I saw what It was. It was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny-tlnted, wing hanging Jowl, black muzzle and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly across the lawn and vanished Into, the shadow Upon the other side. That dreadful silent sentinel sent, a chill to my heart which I do not think that any burglar could have done. "And now I have a very strange experi ence to tell you. I had, as you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed It in a great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the child was In bed. I began to amuse myself by examin ing the furniture of my room and by rear ranging my own little things. There was an old cheat of drawers In the room, the two upper ones empty and open, the lower , one locked. I had filled the first two with my linen, and, as I had still much to pack way, I was naturally annoyed at not hav ing the uscy of the third drawer. It struck me that It might have been fastened by a mere oversight so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open It. The very first key flitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There was only one thing In it, hut I am sure that you would never guess what It was. It was my coll of hair. "I took It up and examined It. It was of the same peculiar tint, and the same thickness. .But then the Impossibility of the thing obtruded Itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two tresses together, and I assure you that they were Identical. Was it not extraordinary? TuMle as I would. I could make nothing st all of what It meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, and I said nothing of the matter to the nueastles, ss I felt that I had put myself In the wrong by opening a drawer which they had locked. "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house In my head. There was one wing, how ever, which appeared not to be Inhabited, at all. A door which faced that which led Into the quarters of the Tollers opened Into this suite, but It was Invariable locked. One day, however, as 1 ascended the st.lr. I met Mr. Rueastle coming out through this door, his keys in hi hand, and a look on his face which made him a very dif ferent person to the round. Jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks wero red, his brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his temples with passion. He locked the door and hur ried past me without a word or a look. "This aroused my rurlosity; so when I went out for a walk In the grounds with my charge I strolled round to the side from which I could see the windows of this part nf the house. Tnere were four of them in ft row, three of which were simply dirty, while the fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I strolled up and down, glancing at them occasion ally, Mr. Rueastle enme out to me, looking as merry and Jovial as ever. " 'Ah;' said he, 'you must not think me rude If I passed you without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with business matters.' "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, 'you seem to have rjuito a suite of spare rooms up there, and one of them has the shutters up.' "He looked surprised, and, as it seemed to me. a little startled at my remark. " 'Photography Is one of my hobbles,' said he. 'I have made my dark room up thre. But, dear me? what an observant young lady we have come upon. Who would have believed It? Who would ever have believed it?' He spoke in a Jesting tone, but there was no Jest in his eyes as ho looked at me. I read suspicion there and annoyance, but no Jest. "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, I waa all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, though I have my share of that. It was more ft feeling of duty a feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this place. They talk of woman's instinct, perhaps it was woman's Instinct which gave me that feel ing. At any rate, It was there, and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the forbidden door. "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, besides Mr. Rueastle, both Toller and his wife find something to do In these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large black linen bag with him through the door. Re cently he has been drinking hard, and yes terday evening he was very drunk; and, when I came upstairs, there was the key In the door. I have no doubt at all that he had left It there. Mr. and Mrs. Rueastle were both downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an admirable op portunity. I turned the key gently In the lock, opened the door and slipped through. "There was a little passage In front of me, unpapered and unearpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. Round this corner were three doors In a line, the first and third of which were open. They each led Into an empty room, dusty and cheerless, with two windows In the one and one In the other, so thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through them. The center door waa closed and across the outside of It had been fastened one of the broad bars of an Iron bed, padlocked at one end to a ring In the wall and fastened at the other with stout cord. The door Itself was locked as w ell an the key was not there. This barri caded door corresponded clearly with the shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from beneath It that the room was not In darkness. Evidently there was a skylight which let In light from above. As I stood in the passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering, what secret It might veil I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little silt of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad. unreasoning terror rose up In me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My overstrung nerves failed me suddenly and I turned and ran ran as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door and straight Into the arms of Mr. Rueastle, who was waiting outside. " 'Bo,' said he. smiling. 'It was you, then. I thought that it must be when I saw the door open.' " 'Oh. I am so frightened," I panted. " "My dear young ladyl My dear young lady!' you cannot think how caressing and soothing his manner was 'and what has frightened you, my dear young lady?" "But his voice was Just a little too coax ing. He overdid It. I was keenly on my guard against him. ' " 'I was foolish enough to go Into the empty wing," I answered. 'But It is so lonely and eerie In this dim light that I was frightened and ran out again. Oh, It Is so dreadfully still In there!" " 'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. " "Why, what did you think?' I asked. " 'Why do you think that I lock this door?' " 'I am sure that I do not know.' " 'It Is to keep out people who have no Hi lis I MM II III : - - F have Just completed installing a copper pipe line direct from the groat vats In our storage cellars to tbe Bottllug Department. Tills la a new Innovation, our brewery being the only cue In Omaha or the west equipped lu this manner. With this modern arrangement we 1111 bottles with beer drawn direct from the hermetically scaled vats In our storage cellars (lustead of drawing beer into barrels and from "the barrel agalu Into bottles, as under the .old system). We therefore preserve all the life and delicate flaror of the beer, and guarantee you that a glass of Store Blue IUbbon bottle beer possesses all the vim and sparkle of that drawn from a freshly tapped barrel. TKij" is merely one more tesjon vty you. rfhovxlJ. order Jlort Blue, Riiloi( vie aexicxouj beer. -At vour cat.' JTORZ. DKEWINGCO. OMAHA 7HI 1 business there. Do you see?" He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. " I am sure If I had known' " 'Well, then, you know now And if you ever put your foot over that thres hold again' here In an Instant the smile hardened Into a grin of rage and he glared down at me with the face of a demon 'I'll throw you to the mastiff." "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose thnt I must have rushed past him Into my room. I remem ber nothing until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I thought of you Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without some advice. I was fright ened of the house, of the man. of the woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of course, I might have fled from tho house, but my curiosity was almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the office, which Is about half a mile from the house, and then returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came Into my mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I remembered that Toller had trunk himself Into ft state of Insensibility that evening, and I knew that Toller had drunk himself Into a state hold who had any influence with the savage creature or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in In safety, and lay awake half the night in my Joy at the thought of seeing you. I had no difficulty In getting leave to come Into Winchester this morn ing, but I must be back before 3 o'clock, for Mr. and Mrs. Rueastle are going on a visit and will be away all evening, so that I must look after the child. Now Ihave told you all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad If you could tell me what It all means, and, above all, what I should do." Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. My friend rose now and paced tip and down the room, his hands In his pockets and an expression of the most profound gravity upon his face. "Is Toller still drunk?'" he asked. "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Ru eastle that she could do nothing with him." "That is well. And the Rucastles go out tonight?" "Yes." "Is titers -a cellar with a good strong lock?" "Yes, the wine cellar." "You seem to have acted nil through this matter like a very brave and sensible girl. Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could perform one more feat? I should not ask It of you If I did not think you a quite ex ceptional woman." "I will try. What Is It?" "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by 7 o'clock, my friend and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, we hope, be Incapable. There only re mains Mrs. Toller, who might give the alarm. If you could send her Into the cellar on some errand and then turn the key upon her you would facilitate matters Im mensely." "I will do it." "Kxcellent! We shall then look thor oughly Into the affair. Of course, there Is only one feasible explanation. You have been brought there to personate some one, and the real person Is Imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this prisoner Is I have no doubt that It is the daughter, Miss Alice Rueastle, If I remem ber right, who was said to have gone to America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her In height, figure and the color of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very possibly In some Illness through which she had passed, and so, of course, yours had to be i sacrificed also. By a curious chance you came upon her tresses. The man in the road was, undoubtedly, some friend of, hers possibly her fiance and no doubt, as you wore the girl's dress and was so like her, he was convinced from your laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterward from your gesture, that Miss Ru eastle was perfectly happy and that she no longer desired his attentions. The dog Is let loose at night to prevent him from en deavoring to communicate with her. So much la fairly clear. The most serious point in the case Is the disposition of the child." "What on earth has that to do with It?" I ejaculated. "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining light as to the ten dencies of a child by the study of the par ents. Don't you see that the converse la equally valid? I have frequently gained my first real insight Into the character of parents by studying their children. This child's disposition Is abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or from the mother, It bodes evil for the poor girl who Is In their power." "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you hit It. Oh, let us lose not an Instant in bringing help to this poor creature." "We must be circumspect, for we are deal ing with a very cunning man. We can do nothing until 7 o'clock. At that hour we shall be with you. and it will not be long before we solve the mystery." We were as good as our word, for It was Just 7 o'clock when we reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a way side publlo house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining Ilk burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been standing smiling on the doorstep. 'Have you managed It?" asked Holmes. A loud thudding noise came from some where downstairs. "That Is Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring on the kitchen rug. Here are the keys, which are the duplicates of Mr. Rucastles." "You have done well. Indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now lead the way and we shall soon see the end of this black business." We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a passage and found ourselves In front of the barricade which Miss Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence HolmesV face clouded over. "I trust that we are not too late." said he. "I think. Miss Hunter, that w had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put your shoulder to It, and we shall see whether we cannot make our way In." It was an old rickety door, and gave at once before our united strength. Together we rushed Into the room. It was empty. There was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table and a basketful of llnon. The skylight above was open and the pris oner gone. "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty has guessed Miss Hunter's Intention, and has carried his victim off." "But how?" "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed It." He swung him self up onto the roof. "Ah. yea," he cried; "here's the end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That Is how he did It." "But it is Impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not thers when th Ru castles went away." "He has come back and done It. I tell you that h is a clever and dangerous wan- I should not be very much surprised If this were he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think. Watson, that It would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy stick In his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and confronted him. "You villlan!" said he, "Where's your daughter?" The fat mnn cast his eyes round, and then up at the open skylight. "It Is fo me to ask you that." he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies and thieves! I have caught you, have caught you, have I? You are In my power. I'll serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he could go. "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. "I have my revolver," said I. "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we heard the baying of a hound and then a scream of agony, with a horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An elderly man with ft red face and shaking limbs came staggering out at a side door. "My aod!" he cried. "Some one has loosed the dog. It's not been fed for two days. Quick, quick, or It'll be too late!" Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, Its black muzzel burled In Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and screftmed upon the ground. Running up, I blew Its brains out. and It fell over with Its keen white teeth still meeting in the great creases of his neck. With much labor we separated them, and carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to relieve his pain. We were all as sembled round him when the door opened and a. tall, gaunt woman entered the room, "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. "Yes, miss, Mr. Rueastle let me out when he came back before he went up to you. Ah, miss, it Is a pity yau didn't let me know what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains were wasted." "Ha!"' said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. Toller knows more about this matter than any one else." "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "Then, pray sit down and let us hear It, for there are several points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's police court business over this, you'll re member that I was the one that stood your friend and that I was Miss Alice's friend, too. "She was never happy at home. Miss Alice wasn't, fron. the time that her father married again. She was slighted like, and had no say in anything, but It never really became bad for her until after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house, As well as I could learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them, but Just left everything In Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then her father thought it time to put a stop on It. He wanted her to sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use her money. When she wouldn't do It he kept on worrying her until she got brain fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her beau tiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her young man and he stuck to her as true as man could be." "Ah," said Holmes. "I think that what you have been good enough to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce all that remains. Mr. Rueastle then, I presume, took to this system of Imprisonment?" "Yes. sir." "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of the disagree able persistence of Mr. Fowler." "That was it, sir." "But Mr. Fowler, being a persevering man, as a good seaman should be, block aded the house, and, having met you, suc ceeded by certain arguments, metallic or otherwise, In convincing you that your In terests were the same as his." "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said Mrs. Toller, serenely. "And In this way he managed that your good man should have no want of drink, and thai a ladder should be ready at the moment when your master had gone out." "You have It, sir, Just aa It happened." "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for you have cer tainly cleared up everything which puisled us. And here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rueastle, so I think, Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, as It seems to me that our locus standi now Is rathsr a question able one. ' , And thus was seolved the mystery of the sinister house with the copper beeches In front of the door. Mr. Rueastle survived, but was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the car of his devoted wife. They still live with their old serv ants, who probably know so much of Ru castle's past life that he finds it difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rueastle were married by special license In Southampton the day after their flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in the Island of Mauritius. Aa to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend Holmes, rather to my dlsapointment, mani fested no further Inter.est in her when once she had ceased to be the center of one of his problems, and she It now the head of a private school at Walsall, where I believe that she has met with consider able success. (The lind. Copyright by Harper & Bro.) h Dr. Lyon'i PERFECT Tooth Powder Cleanses and beautifies the teeth and purines tho breath. Used by people of refinement for over a quarter of a century. Very convenient for tourists. 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