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Exploits of Sherlock Holmes The Mystery of the Yellow Face
It docs not turn out to be correct. ThI
wonin' drat husband 1 at that cottage."
"Why do you think io?" '
"How else can we explain her freniied
anxiety that her aecond one ihould not
enter It? The (arte, aa I read them, are
omethlne like' thli: Thta woman was
married tn America. Her huaband devel
oped aome hateful qualities; or shall we
say that he contracted some loathsome
disease, and became a leper or an Imbecile?
Bhe tiles from him at last, returns to Enc
lfMtd. chances her name, and starts ber
life, as she thinks, afresh. Bhe has been
married three yeais, and believes that her
position is quite secure, having shown her
husband the death certificate of some man
whose name she has assumed, when sud
denly her whereabouts Is discovered by Iter
first husband; or, we may suppose, by
some unscrupulous woman who has at
tached herself to the invalid. They write
to the wife, and threaten to come and ex
pose her. Bhe asks for 100, and en
deavors to buy them off. They come in
plte of It, and when the husband men
tions casually to the wife that there are
newcomers in the cottsge, she knows In
soma way that they are her pursuers. Bhe
waits until her husband la asleep, and
then she rushes down to endeavor to per
suade them to leave her tn peace. Havinir
no success, she goes again next morning,
and her husband meets her, as he has
told us, as she comes out. Bhe promises
him then not to go there agsln, but two
days afterwards the hope of getting rid of
those dreadful neighbors was too strong
for her, and she made another attempt,
taking down with ber the photograph which
had probably been demanded from her. In
the midst of this Interview the maid
rushed In to say that the master had come
home, on which the wife, knowing that
t.e would come straight down to the cot
tage, hurried the Inmates out at the back
door. Into the grove of fir trees, probably,
which was nientioned as atanding near.
In this-way he found the place deserted.
I shall be very much surprised, however.
If It Is still so when he reoonnolters hi
this evening. What do you think of my
theory I"
"It Is all surmise."
''But at least It covers all the facts.
Vben new facts come to our knowledge
wbkh cannot be covered by It, It will be
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time enough to reconsider It. We can do
nothing more until we have a message
from our friend at Norbury."
But we had not a very long time to wait
for that. It came Just as we hsd finished
our tea. "The cottage Is still tenanted,"
it said. "Have seen the face again at
the window. Will meet the T o'clock train,
and will take no steps until you arrive."
"He was waiting on the platform wben
we stepped out, and we could see In the
light of the station lamps that he was
very pale, and quivering with agitation.
"They are stilt there, Mr. Holmes," said
he, laying his hand hard upon my friend's
sleeve. "I saw lights In the cottage as
t came down. We shall settle it now once
and for all."
"What Is your plan, then?" asked
Holmes, as we walked down the dark Iroe
llned road.
"I am going to force my way in and see
for myself who Is In the house. I wish
you both to be there as witnesses."
"You are quite determined to do this. In
spite of your wife's warning that it Is bet
ter that you should not solve the mys
tery?" "Yes, I am determined."
"Well, I think that you are In the right.
Any truth la better than Indefinite doubt.
We had better go up at once. Of courso.
legally, we are putting ourselves hope
lessly In the wrong; but I think It Is
worth It."
It was a very dark night, and a thin
rain began to fall as we turned from the
high-road Into a narrow lane, deeply rut
ted, with hedges on either side. Mr. Giant
Munro pushed Impatiently forward, how
ever, and we stumbled after him as best
we could.
"There are the lights of nsy house," he
murmured, pointing to a glimmer among
the trees. "And here Is the cottsge which
I am going to enter."
We turned a corner tn the lane as he
spoke, and there was the building close
beside us. A yellow bar falling across the
blsrk foreground showed thst the door
was not quite clcaed, and one window In
the upper story was brightly Illuminated.
As we looked, we saw a dark blur moving
across the blind.
"There Is that creature!" cried Orant
Munro. "You can see for yourselves that
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some one Is there. Now follow me, and we
shall soon know all."
We approached the door; but suddenly a
woman appeared out of the shadow and
stood In the golden track of the lamp
light. I could not see her face In the dark
ness, but her arms were thrown out in
an attitude of entreaty.
"For Ood's sake, don't. Jack!" she cried.
"I had a presentiment that you would
come this evening. Think better of it, dear I
Trust me sgaln, and you will never have
cause to regret It."
"I have trusted you too long, KfTle," he
cried, sternly. "Leave go of me. I must
pass you. My friends and I ars going to
settle this matter once and forever!" He
pushed her to one side and we followed
closely after him. As he threw the door
open an old woman ran out In front of him
and tried to bar his passage, but he thrust
her back, and an Instant afterwards we
were all upon the stairs. Orant Munro
Tombstone Placed
HERE died the other day at
Evansvllle, Tenn., a hen that was
known to be S years old.
This unprecedentedly long-lived
hen belonged to George Bradley.
Betsy was one of a fine brood of chicks
hatched on the day that Bradley's eldest
son was born, nearly twenty-three years
ago. By the date of the young man's
birth the family established her age.
Betsy was occasionally permitted to in
dulge her motherly Instincts, upon which
auspicious occasions she Invariably brought
Into the world from a dosen to fifteen of
the , finest chicks that ever scratched
gravel.
When not engaged In motherly duties
Betsy sometimes worked overtime and laid
two eggs a day.
As year after year paased without any
appreciable difference in Betsy's strenuoa
ity she became the wonder of the country
and the barnyard Jewel of the Bradley
family.
For nineteen years Betsy kept up her good
work.
It is estimated that during that time
this Industrious hen laid t.M eggs and
batched 170 chickens "mostly girls," as
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rushed Into the lighted room at the top and
we entered at his heels.
It was a cosy, well furnished apartment,
with two candles burning upon the table
and two upon the mantelpiece. In the cor
ner, stooping over a desk, there sat what
appeared to be a little girl. Her face was
turned away as we entered, but we could
see that she was dressed In a red frock and
that she had long white gloves on. As she
whisked round to us, I gave a cry of sur
prise and horror. The face which she
turned toward us was of the strangest livid
tint and the features were absolutely de
void of any expression. An Instant later
the mystery was explained. Holmes, with
a laugh, passed his hand behind the child's
ear, a mask peeled off from her countenance
and there was a little coal-black negreas,
with all her white teeth flashing In amuse
ment at our amased faces. I burst out
laughing, out of sympathy with her merri
ment; but Orant Munro stood staring, with
Over Famous Hen
the musical comedy advertisements would
say.
At the age of t years Betsy suddenly
changed her habits and aeemed seised with
a distinct aversion for roosters. The finest
cocks of the walk In Farmer Bradley's
barnyard had no charms for Betsy. Bhe
spurned them all. During the last three
years of her life Betsy did not lay id egg
or hatch a chick.
Betsy was burled with honors befitting
her and over her grave Mr. Bradley will
erect a tombstone appropriately Inscribed
as follows:
HERE 1,1 E8 LAYING
: BKTSY. :
: Born In 1imJ: Died In lu6. :
:She did many a fowl deed for those:
: she loved. ;
: Peace to her bones let them lay. :
:May shs lay again some other day.:
If the 4.7oU Flu that Ratav' Vaiit'riurlfiv
her nineteen yeara of faithful service were
sold In the market at their present price
they would realise rxw.M. If her S70 chick
ens brought an average price of SO cents
they would represent a market value of
1171.
On this basis Betsy earned II.079.M for
her owner before she retired from active
duty and commenced to take life easy.
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hand clutching his throat.
"My God!" he cried. "What can be the
meaning of this?"
"I will tell you the meaning of It," cried
the woman, sweeping Into the room with a
proud, set face. "You have forced me,
against my own Judgment, to tell you, and
now we must both make the best of It. My
husband died at Atlanta. My child sur
vived." "Your child?"
She drew a large silver locket from her
bosom. "You have never seen this open."
"I understood that It did not open."
Bhe touched a spring, and the front
hinged back. There was a portrait within of
a man strikingly handsome and Intelligent
looking, but bearing unmistakable signs
upon his features of his African descent.
"That Is John Hebron of Atlanta." said
the lady, "and a nobler man never walked
the earth. I cut myself off from my race
In order to wed him, but never once while
he lived did I for an Instant regret It.
It was our misfortune that our only child
took after his people rather than mine.
It Is often so In such matches, and little
Lucy Is darker far than ever her father
was. But dark or fair, she is my own dear
little girlie, and her mother'a pet" The
little creature ran across at the words and
nestled up against the lady's dress. "When
I left her In America," she continued, "It
was only because her health was weak,
and the change might have done her harm.
Bhe was given to the care of a faithful
Scotch woman who had once been our ser
vant. Never for an Inatant did I dream
of disowning her as my child. But when
chance threw you In my way. Jack, I
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Though I knew the danger, I determined
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It waa a long- ten minutes before Grant
Munro broke the silence, and when his
answer came It was one of which I love
to think. He lifted the lltUe child, kissed
her, and then, still carrying her, he held
his other hand out to his wife and turned
towsrds the door.
"We csn tslk It over more comfortably
at home," said he. "I am not a very good
man, Ems, but I think that I am a better
one than you have given me credit for
being."
Holmes and I followed them down the
lane, and my friend plucked at my sleeve
as we came out.
"I think," aald he, "that we shall be of
more use in London than in Norbury."
Not another word did he say of the case
until late that night, when he was turn
ing away, with his lighted candle, for his
bedroom.
"Watson," r-d he, "If It should sver
strike you that I am getting a little over
confident In my powers, or giving lesa
pains to a ease than It deserves, kindly
whisper 'Norbury' In my ear, and I shall
be Infinitely obliged to you."
(THE END.)
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