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October 29, 190K.
Exploits of Sherlock Holmes The Mystery of the Gloria Scott
Being an Account of a Case in Which the Famous Detective Uses His Deductive Powers to Ferret Out the Author of a Letter Which Caused the Death of an English Judge
Thrilling Chapters from the Life Story of the
World's Greatest Detective Character
Is Just as you say. But we won't talk of it. Of all
ghosts the ghosts of our old lovers are the worst
Come la to the billiard room and have a quiet
what you don't know. lie did not
mean to show it, I am sure, but
it peeped out at every action. At
last I became so convinced that
I was .causing him uneasiness
that I drew my visit to a
close. On the very day,
however, before I left,
an Incident occurred
which proved in the
sequel to be of im
portance. "We were sit
ting out upon
the lawn
1HAVE some papers here," said my friend Sherlock Holmes, us
we sat one winter's night on either side of the fire, "which I
really think, Watson, that it would be worth your while to
glance over. These are the documents in the extraordinary
rme of the Gloria Bcott, aid this is the message which struck Jus
tice of the Peace Trevor dead with horror when he read It."
He had picked from ft drawer. a little tarnished cylinder and.
undoing the tape, he handed me a short note scrawled upon a half
sheet of slate-gray paper. .
"The supply of game for London Is going steadily up," It ran.
"Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all ciEar
orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen-pheasant's "From that day, amid all his cordiality,
life." , . there was always a touch of suspicion in Mr.
As I glanced up from reading this enigmatical message, I saw Trevor's manner toward me. Even his son
Holmes chuckling at the expression upon my face. remarked it. 'You've given the governor
"You look a little bewildered," said be. such a turn,' said he, 'that he'll never
"I cannot see bow such a message as this could inspire horror. De gure agftin 0f what you know and
It seems to me to be. rather grotesque than otherwise
"Very likely. Yet the fact remains that the reader who was
a' fine, robust old man, was knocked clean down by it as if it had
been the butt end of a pistol."
"You arouse my curiosity," said I. "But why did you say Just
now that there were very particular reasons why I should study
this case?"
"Because it was the first In which I was ever engaged."
I had often endeavored to elicit from my companion what had
first turned his mind in the direction of criminal research, but had
never caught him Before in a communicative humor. Now he sat
frfrward in his arnlchair and spread out the documents upon his
knees. Then he 1ft his pipe and sat for some time smoking and
tnrnlng them over.
"You never heard me talk of Victor Trevor?" he asked. "He
was the only frlen I made during the two years I was at college.
I was never a very sociable fellow, Watson, always rather fond of
moping In my roms and working out my own little methods of
thought, so tiat I never mixed much with the men of my' Jear. Bar
fencing and boxing. I had few athletic tastes, and then my line of
study was quite distinct from that of the other fellows, so that we
kad no points of contact at all. Trevor was the only man I knew,
and that only through the accident of his bull terrier freezing on to
y ancle one morning nd I went dowm to chapel.
"It was a prosaic wuy of forming a friendship, but It was effec
tive. I was laid by the heels for ten days, and Trevor used to come
In to inquire after me. At first It was only a minute's chat, but soon
his visits lengthened, and before the end of the term we were close
friends. He was a hearty, full-blooded fellow, full of spirits and .
energy, the very opposite to me in most respects, but we had some
subjects In common, and It was a bond of union when I found that
he wr.s ns friendless as I. Finally, he Invited me down to his
father's place at Donnithorpe, In Norfolk, and I accepted his hos
pitality for a month of the long vacation.
"Old Trevor was evidently a man of some wealth and consid
eration, a J. P., and a landed proprietor. Donnithorpe is a little
hamlet Just to the north of Langmere, In the country of the Broads.
The house was an old-fashioned, .wide-spread, oak-beamed brick
building, with a fine llme-llned avenye leading up to It. There was
excellent wild duck shooting In the fens, remarkably good fishing,
a small but select library, taken over, as I understood, from a former
occupant, and a tolerable cook, so that he would be a fastidious
man who could not put in a pleasant month there.
"Trevor senior was a widower, and my friend his only son.
"There had been a daughter, I heard, but she had died of
diphtheria while on a visit to Birmingham. The father interested
me extremely. He was a man of little culture, but with a consid
erable amount of rude strength, both physically and mentally. He
knew hardly any books, but he had traveled far, had seen much of
the world and had remembered all that he had learned. In person
he was a thick-set, burly man with a shock of grizzled hair, a brown,
weather-beaten face and blue eyes which were keen to the verge
of fierceness. Yet he had a reputation for kindness and charity on
the country-side, and was noted. for the leniency of his sentences
from the bench.
"One evening, shortly after my arrival, we were sitting over a
glass of port after dinner, when young Trevor began to talk about
those habits of observation and Inference which I had already formed
Into a system, although I had not yet appreciated the part which
they were to play In my life. The old man evidently thought that
his son was exaggerating in his description of one or two trivial
' feats which I had performed.
" 'Come, now, Mr. Holmes,' said he, laughing good-humoredly,
'I'm an excellent subject, if you can deduce anything from me.'
" 'I fear there is not very much,' I answered; 'I might suggest
that you have gone about in fear of some personal attack within the
last twelve-month.'
"The laugh faded from his lips, and he stared at me in great
surprise.
, " 'Well, that's true enough,' said he. 'You know, Victor,' turn
ing to his son, 'when we broke up that poaching gang they swore
to knife us, and Sir Edward Holly has actually been attacked. I've
always been on my guard since, then, though I have no idea how
you know It.'
" 'You have a very handsome stick,' I answered. 'By the in
scription I observed that you had not had It more than a year. But
you have taken some pains to bore the head of It and pour melted
lead Into the hole so as to make It a formidable weapon. I argued
that you would not take such precautions unless you had some dan
ger to fear.'
" 'Anything else?' he asked, smiling.
" 'You have boxed a good deal In your youth.'
" 'Right again. How did you know it? Is my nose knocked
a little out of the straight?'
" 'No,' said I. 'It is your ears. They have the peculiar flat
tening and thickening which marks the boxing man.'
" 'Anything else?'
" You have done a good deal of digging by your callousltles.'
" 'Made all my money at the gold fields.'
" 'You have been in New Zealand.'
" 'Right again.'
" 'You have visited Japan.'
1 " 'Quite true.'
'And you have been most Intimately associated with someone
hour since not one. The governor has never held up his head
from that evening, and now the life has been crushed out of him
and his heart broken, all through this accursed Hudson.
" 'What power had he, then?'
kindly, charitable, good old governor how could he have
fallen into the clutahes of such a ruffian! But I am so glad
that you have come, Holmes. I trust very much to your
Judgment and discretion, and I know that you will advlso
me for the best.'
"We were dashing along the smooth, white country
road, with the long stretch of the Broads In front of
ns glimmering In the red light of the setting sun.
From a throve upon our left I could already see the
high chimneys and the flag-staff which marked the
squire's dwelling.
My father made the fellow gardener,' said
my companion, 'and then, as that did not satisfy
him, he was promoted to be butler. The
house seemed to be at his mercy, and he
wandered about and did what he chose in
It. The maids complained of his drunken
habits and his vile language. The dad
raised their wages all round to recom
pense them for the annoyance. The
lei low would take the boat and my
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a short note scribbled, as you see, upon a single sheet of gray paper.
'The supply of game for London Is going steadily up,' It ran.
'Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all
orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen-pheasant's life.'
"I dure say my face looked as bewildered ns yours did Just now
when first I read this message. Then I reread It very carefully. It
was evidently as I had thought, and some secret moan
ing must lie burled In this strange combination of words.
Or could It be that there Mas a prearranged significance to such
phrases ns 'fly-paper' and 'hen-pheasant?' Such a meaning would bo
nrMrtarv and could not be deduced In any way. And yet I was lonth
" 'Ah, that Is what I would give so much to know. The to believe that this was the case, and the presence of the word Hudson
seemed to nhow that the suljoct of the message was as I hnd guessed,
and that It was from Beddoos rather than the snllor. I tried it back
ward, but the combination 'life -pheasant's hen' was not encouraging.
Then I tried alternate words, but neither 'tho of for' nor 'supply game
Ixmdon' promised to throw any light upon It.
"And then in an instant the key of the riddle was lu my hands,
and I saw that every third word, beginning with the first, would give
a message which might well drive old Trevor to despair.
'It was short and terse, the warning, as I now read it to my com
panion: " 'The game Is up. Hudson has told all. Fly for your life.'
"Victor Trevor sank his face Into his shaking hands. 'It must bo
that, I suppose,' said he. 'This is worse than death, for it moans dis
grace as well. But what Is the meaning of these "head keepers" and
"hen pheasants?" '
" 'It means nothing to the message, but It might mean a good deal
to ns If we had no other means of discovering the sender. Yon see
that he has begun by writing "Tho game Is," and
so on. Afterwards he had, to fulfill the prearranged cirher, to fill
In any two words In each simoe. He would naturally use the first
father's best gun and treat himself words which came to his mind, and if there were so many which re
ferred to sport among them, you may be tolerably sure that he Is either
nn ardent shot or interested In brooding. Do you know anything of
this Beddoes?'
" 'Why, now that you mention it,' said he, 'I remember that my
poor father used to have nn invitation from him to shoot over his pre
serves every autumn.' x
" 'Then it is undoubtedly from him that the note conies,' said I.
'It only remains for us to find out what tills secret was which the
sailor Hudson seems to huve held over the head of these two wealthy
and respected men.'
" 'Alas, Holmes, I fear that It is one of sin and shame!' cried my
friend. 'But from you I shall have no secrets. Here Is the statement
which was drawn up by my father when he knew that the danger from
Hudson had become Imminent. I found it in the Japanese cabinet,
as he told the doctor. Take it ond read it to me, for l have neither
the strength nor the courage to do it myself.'
"These nre the very papers, Watson, which he handed to me, and
I will read them to you, as I read them in the-old study that night to
hi in. They are endorsed outside, as you see, 'Some particulars of the
voyage of the bark Gloria Scott, from Its leaving Falmouth on the 8th
of October, 1S55, to its destruction in N. Lat 15 degrees 20 minutes.
W. Long. 25 degrees 14 minutes, on November 6.' It Is in the form of
a letter, nnd runs In this way:
" 'My dear, dear son, now that approaching disgrace begins to
darken the closing years of my life, I can write with all truth and
honesty that it Is not the terror of the law, it is not the loss of my
position in the county, nor is it my fall in the eyes of all who have
to little shooting trips. And all
this with such a sneering, leering,
insolent face that I would have
knocked him down twenty times
over if he had been a man of
my own age. I tell you,
Holmes, I have had to
kcop a tight bold upon
myself all this time; and
now I am asking myself
whether; if I had let my
self go a little more, I
might not have been a
wiser man.
'"Well, matters went
from bad to worse with
us, and this animal Hud
son became more and more
Intrusive, until at last, on
his making some Insolent
reply to my father lu my
presence one day, I took
him by the shoulders and
turned him out of the
room. He slunk away
with a livid face and two
venomous eyes which ut
tered more threats than his
THE GLORIA SCOTT.'
garden chairs, the three of us, basking in the sun and admiring the
view across the Broads, when a maid came out to say that there
was a man at the door who wanted to see Mr. Trevor.
" 'What is his name?' asked my host.
' 'He would not give any.' i
" 'What does he want, then?'
" 'He says that you know him, and that he only wants a mo
ment's conversation.'
" 'Show him round here.' An instant afterward there ap
peared a little wizened fellow with a cringing manner and a sham
bling style of walking. He wore an open Jacket, with a splotch of
tar on the sleeve, a red-and-black check shirt, dungaree trousers,
and heavy boots badly worn. His face was thin and brown and
crafty, with a perpetual smile upon it, which showed an irregular
line of yellow teeth, and his crinkled hands were half closed in a
way that is distinctive of sailors. As he came slouching across the
lawn I heard Mr. Trevor make a sort of hiccoughing noise in his
throat, and, Jumping out of his chair, he ran into the house. He
was back in a moment, and I smelt a strong reek of brandy as he
passed me.
" 'Well, my man,' said he, 'what can I do for you?'
"The sailor stood looking at him with puckered eyes, and with
the same loose-lipped smile upon bis face.
" 'You don't know me?' he asked.
" 'Why, dear me, it is surely Hudson,' said Mr. Trevor in a tone
of surprise.
" 'Hudson it Is, sir,' said the seaman. 'Why, It's thirty years
and more since I saw you last. Here you are in your house, and
me still picking my salt meat out of the harness cask.'
" 'Tut, you will find that I have not forgotten old times,' cried
Mr. Trevor, and, walking toward the sailor, he said something in a
low voice. 'Go into the kitchen,' he continued out loud, 'and you
will get food and drink. I have no doubt that! I shall find you a
. situation.'
" 'Thank you, sir,' said the teaman,, touching iis forelock.
'I'm Just off a two-yearer In an eight-knot tramp, short-banded at
that, and I wants a rest. I thought I'd get it either with Mr. Bed
does or with you.'
"'Ah!' cried Mr. Trevor. 'You know where Mr. Beddoes is?'
" 'Bless you, sir, I know where all my old friends are,' said the
fellow with a sinister smile, and be slouched off after the maid to
the kitchen. Mr. Trevor mumbled something to us about having
tnnortie could do. I don't
know what passed be- known me which cuts me to the heart; but it is the thought that you
tween poor dad and Bnouli come to blush for me you who love me and who have seldom,
bitn after that, but dad hope, had reason to do other than respect me. But if the blow falls
came to me next day and which is forever hanging over me, then I should wish yon to read this,
asked me whether I would that you may know straight from me how far I have been to blame,
mind apologizing to Hud- On the other hand, if all should go well (which may kind God Al-
son. I refused, as you mighty grant!), then, if by any chance this paper should L'e still uu-
may imagine, and asked destroyed and should fall into your hands, I conjure you, by all you
my father how he could hold sacred, by the memory of your dear mother, and by the love
which has been between us, to hurl It into the fire and to never give
one thought to it again. (
" 'If then your eye goes on to read this line, I know that I shall
already have been exposed and dragged from my home, or, as is more
likely, for you know that my heart is weak, be lying' with my tongue
sealed forever In death. In either case the time for suppression is
past, and every word which I tell you is the naked truth, and this I
swear as I hope for mercy.
" 'My name, dear lad, is not Trevor. I was James Armitage in
my younger days, and you can understand now the shock that it was
to me a few weeks ago when your college friend addressed me In
words which seemed to imply that he had surprised my secret As
Armitage it was that I entered a London banking house, and ns
Armitage I was convicted of breaking my country's laws, nnd was
sentenced to transportation. Do not think very harshly of me, laddie.
It was a debt of honor, so called, which I bad to pay, and I used money
which was not my own to do it, in the certainty that I could replace
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allow Buch a wretch to take such liberties who nimseii uu u.
household.
" ' "Ah, my boy," said he, "it is all very well to talk, but you
don't know how I am placed. But you shall know, Victor. I'll
see that you shall know, come what may; You wouldn't believe
harm of your poor old father, would you, lad?" He was very much
moved, and shut himself up in the study all day, where I could see
through the window that he was writing busily.
"'That evening there came what seemed to, me to be a grand
release, for Hudson told us that he was going to leave us. He
walked into the dining room as we sat after dinner, and announced
bis intention in the thick voice of a half-drunken man.
" "I've had enough of Norfolk," he said. "I'll run down to
Mr. Beddoes in Hampshire. He'll be glad to see me as you were, I
dare say."
You're not going away in an unkind spirit, Hudson, I
hone." said my father, with a tameness which made my blood boll.
I've not had my 'pology,'" said he sulkily, glancing in my Jt before there coul(J be any pos8lhmtT of ,tg bplng ml8Sed nut Uw
direction. most dreadful ill luck pursuedme. The money which I had reckoned
Victor, you will acknowledge that you have used this neyer cnme to a preniature examlunUon of aecountH
worthy fellow rather roughly." said the dad. turning to me. exposed my deficit. The case might have been dealt leniently with.
ub ine contrary, idiuk iuui wo nunc mm
whose Initials were J. A., and whom you afterward were eager to been shipmate with the man when he was going back to the diggings.
entirely forget.'
"Mr. Trevor stood slowly up, fixed Ws large blue eyes upon me
with a strange, wild stare and then pitched forward, with his face
among the nutshells which strewed the cloth. In a dead faint.
"You can Imagine, Watson, how shocked both his son and I
were. His attack did not last long, however, for when we undid
his collar and sprinkled the water from one of the finger glasses over
his face he gave a gasp or, two and sat up.
" 'Ah, boys,' said he, forcing a smile, 'I hope I haven't fright
ened you. Strong as I look, there Is a weak place in my heart, and
It does not take much to knock me over. I don't know how you
manage this, Mr. Holmes, but it seems to me that all the detectives
of fact and of fancy would be children in your bands. That's your
Use of life, sir. and you may take the word of a man who has seen
something of the world.'
"And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of
my ability with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me,
Watson, the very first thing which ever made me feel that a profes
sion might be made out of what had up to that time been the merest
hobby. At the moment, however, I was too much concerned at the
sudden illness of my host to think of anything else.
" 'I hope that I have said nothing to pain you?' said I.
" 'Well, you certainly touched upon rather a tender point.
Might I ask how you know, and bow much you know?' He spoke
now la a half-Jesting fashion, but a look of terror still lurked at the
and then, leaving us on the lawn, he went indoors. An hour later,
when we entered the house, we found him stretched dead drunk
upon the dining room sofa. The whole incident left a most ugly
impression upon my mind, and I was not sorry next day to leave
.Donnithorpe behind me, for I felt that my presence must be a source
of embarrassment to my friend.
"All this occurred during the first month of the long vacation.
I went up to my London rooms, where I spent seven weeks working
out a few experiments In organic chemistry. One day, however,
when the autumn was far advanced and the vacation drawing to a
close, I received a telegram from my friend imploring me to return
to Donnithorpe, and saying that he was in great need of my advice
and assistance. Of course I dropped everything and set out for
the north once more.
"He met me with the dog-cart at the station, and I saw at a
glance that the two last months had been very trying ones for him.
He had grown thin and careworn, and had lost the loud, cheery
manner for which he had been remarkable.
" 'The governor is dying,' were the first words he said.
"'Impossible!' I cried. 'What is the matter?'
" 'Apoplexy. Nervous shock. He's been on the verge all day.
I doubt if we shall find him alive.'
"I was, as you may think, Watson, horrified at this unexpected
news.
" 'What has caused it?' I asked. ,
" 'Ah, that is the point. Jump in and we can talk it over while
we drive. You remember that fellow who came upon the evening
back of his eyes.
" 'It Is simplicity Itself.' said I, 'when you bared your arm to before you left us?'
draw that fish Into the boat I saw that J. A. had been tattooed in " 'Perfectly.'
the bend of the elbow. The letters were still legible, but it was per- " 'Do you know who it was that we let into the house that
fectly clear from their blurred appearance and from the staining of day?'
the skin around them, that efforts had been made to obliterate them. " 'I have no Idea.'
It was obvious, then, that those initials had once been very familiar " 'It was the devil, Holmes.' he cried.
to you, and that you had afterward wished to forget them.' "I started at him la astonishment.
"What an eye you have!' he cried, with a sigh of relief. 'It "'Yes. It was the devil himself. We have not bad a peaceful
dlnary patience toward htm," I answered.
" ' "Oh, you do, do you?" he snarled. "Very good, mate. We'll
see about that!"
" 'He slouched out of the room, and half an hour afterward
left the house, leaving my father in a state of pitiable nervousness.
Night after night I heard hitvupacing his room, and it was just as
he was recovering his confidence that the blow did at last fall.'
" 'And how?" I asked eagerly.
" 'In a most extraordinary fashion, A letter arrived for my
father yesterday evening, bearing the Fordlngbrldge postmark. My
father read It, clapped both his hands to his head and began run
ning round the room in little circles like a man who has been driven
out of his senses. When I at lust drew him down onto the sofa his
mouth and eyelids were all puckered on one side, and I saw that he
had a stroke. Dr. Fordham came over at once. We put him to
bed; but the paralysis has spread, he has shown no sign of returning
consciousness, and I think that we shall hardly find him alive.'
"'You horrify me, Trevor!' I cried. 'What then could have
been in this letter to cause so dreadful a result?'
" 'Nothing. There lies the inexplicable part of it. The mes
sage was absurd and trivial. Ah, my God, it is as I feared!'
"As he spoke we came round the curve of the avenue, and saw
in the fading light that every blind In the house had been drawn
down. Ab we dashed up to the door my friend's face convulsed
with grief, a gentleman in black emerged from it.
" 'When did It happen, doctor?' asked Trevor.
" 'Almost Immediately after you left.'
" 'Did he recover consciousness?'
" 'For an Instant before the end.'
" 'Any message for me?'
" 'Only that the papers were In the back drawer of the Japanese
cabinet.
" 'My friend ascended with the doctor to the chamber of death,
while I remained in the study, turning the whole matter over and
over in my head, and feeling as somber as ever Ivhad done in my
life. What was the past of this Trevor, pugilist, traveler and gold
digger, and how bad he placed himself in the power of this acid
faced seaman? Why. too, should be faint at an allusion to the half
effaced Initials upon his arm. and die of fright when he bad a letter
from Fordlngham? Then I remembered that Fordlngham was in
Hampshire, and that this Mr. Beddoes, whom the seaman had gone
to visit and presumably to blackmail, had also been mentioned as
living in Hampshire. The letter, then, might either come from
Hudson, the seaman, saying that he had betrayed the guilty secret
which appeared to exist, or it might come from Beddoes, warning
an old confederate that such a betrayal was imminent'. So far it
seemed clear enough. But then how could this letter be trivial and
grotesque, as described by the son? He must have misread it. If
so, it must have been one of those ingenious secret codes which
mean one thing while they seem to mean another. I must see this
letter. If there were a hidden meaning in it, I was confident that
I could pluck it forth. For an hour I sat pondering over it in the
gloom, until at last a weeping maid brought in a lamp, and close at
her heels came my friend Trevor, pale but composed, with these very
papers which lie upon my knee held in his grasp. He sat down op
posite to me, drew the lamp to the edge of the table and handed me
but the laws were more harshly administered thirty years ago than
now, aDd on my twenty-third birthday I found myself chained as a
felon with thirty-seven other convicts in the 'tween decks of tho bark
Gloria Scott, bound for Australia. ,
" 'It was the year '55, when the Crimean war was at Its height,
and tho old convict ships bad been largely used as transports In the
Black sea. The government was compelled, therefore, to use smaller
and less suitable vessels for sending out their prisoners. The Gloria
Scott had been In the Chinese tea trade, but it was an old-fashioned,
heavy-ltowed, broad-beained craft, and the new clippers had cut it out.
It was a 500-ton boat; and besides its thirty-eight Jailbirds, It carried
twenty-six of a crew, eighteen soldiers, a captain, three mates, a duc
tor, a chaplain, and four warders. Nearly a hundred souls were in
It, u 11 told, when we set sail from Falmouth.
" 'The partitions between tho cells of the convicts, instead of
being of thick oak, as is usual I n convict ships, were quite thin and
fniil. The niun next to me, upon the aft side, was one whom I had
particularly noticed when we were led down the quay. Ho was u
young man with a clear, hairless face, a long, thin uose, and rather
nrt-crucker jaws. Ho carried his head very Jauntily in the air, had a
swaggering style of walking, and was, above all else, remarkable for
his extraordinary height. I don't think any of our heads would have
come up to his shoulder, and I am sure that he could not have meas
ured less than six and a half feet. It was strango among so many
sad and weary faces to see one which was full of energy und resolu
tion. The sight of it was to me like a fire lu a snowstorm. I
was glad, then, to find that he was my neighbor, and gladder still
when, in the dead of the night, I heard a whisper close to my ear,
and found that he had mauaged to cut an opening in the board
which separated ns.
Hullo, chummy!" said he, "what's you name, and what are
you here for?"
" 'I answered him, and asked in turn who I was talking with.
"'"I'm Jack Prendergast," said he, "and by God! you'll learn
to bless my name before you've done with me."
" 'I remembered hearing of bis cuse, for it was one which
bad made an immense sensation throughout the country some time
before my own arrest. He was a man of good family and of great
ability, but of incurably vicious habits, who bad by an inzeulous
system of fraud obtained huge sums of money from the leading
London merchants.
lis, ha! You remember my case!" said he, proudly.
" ' "Very well. Indeed."
"'"Then maybe you remeinlH;r soniethim; queer alwiut it?"
What was that, then?"
"'"I'd bad nearly a quarter of a million, hadn't I?"
So it was said."
But none was recovered, eh?"
No."
" ' "Well, where d'ye suppose the balance is?" he asked.
I hare no Idea," said I.
"'"Right between my finger and thumb," he cried. "By God!
I've got more pounds to my name than you've hairs on your head.
And if you've money, my son, and know how to handle it and spread
It out, you can do anything. Now, you don't think It likely that a
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