WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1933.

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"Yes," said I. "I remember his mer-, "But what purpose had you," I ask. sinuated his ease to the physician would have fallen into convulsions."

riment well I really thought heled. "in replacing the letter by a fae-

simile? Would it not have been bet as that of an imaginary individual. "The material world, continued ter at the first visit, to have ecized it)

***We will suppose," said the miser, analogies to the immaterial; and thus

with very Dupin, "bounds

strict openly, and departed?"

"D replied Dupin, "is a de. that his symptoms are such and saine colour of truth has been given to sperute man, and a man of nerve. Hi

the rhetorical dogma, that metaphor, hotel, too, in not without attendants such; now, doctor, what would you simile, muy be made to strengthen devoted to his interests. Had I made have directed him to take?'"*

argument as well as to embellish the wild attempt you suggest, "Take!" said Abernethy, 'why, take

⚫ description.

might never have left the ministerial ads, to be sure.""

"The more I reflected upon the dar- présence alive. The

good people af "But," said the Prefect, a little disgenuity of D: upon the fact that But

ing. dashing, and discriminating In Paris might have heard of me no more. composed, "1

had an object apart from these an perfectly willing the document must always have been considerations. You know my political take advice, and to pay for it would really give fifty thousand franer rood

at hand, if he intended to use it to prepossessions. In this matter, 1 ae, to anyone who would aid me in the evidence, obtained by the Prefect, that For eighteen months the minister has a partisan of the lady concerned, good purpose; and upon the decisivei matto"

it was not hidden within the limits of had her in his power. She has now "In that case," replied Dupin, open that dignitary's ordinary search the that the latter is not in his possession.

rawer, and producing a cheque more satisfied I became that, to co will proceed with his exac

being him in hers; since, ing" book, you may as well fill me up a

letter, the minister had cheque for

ceal this the amount mentioned. When you have signed it, I will hand sorted to the comprehensive and it was. Thus will

agacious expedient

politi of not attempting|commit himself, at once, to you the IM!er: 2

His s conceal it at all.

downfall, eaf destruction. was astounded. The Prefect ap-)

ton, "Fall of these ideas, I prepared my will not be more precipitate than awki absolutely ared

thunder-stricken.

self with a For O

pair of green spectacles, ward. confess that I should he minutes he remained speceband called one fine morning quite by very well to know the precise charac motionless, looking increde-accident, at the ministerial hotel,

Iter of his thoughts when, being deßted usly at my friend with open mouth found at honie, yawning, loung by her whom the Prefect terms 'a cer-

that seemed und eyes

starting from

Lin their

overing, and dawilling, as usual, and pre- Rockets:

personage, he is reduced to open- ing himself in some measures, he canus,

then, apparently recover tending to be in the last extremity of ing the letter which I left for him in

six-

He is, perhaps, the most really the card-rack." en pen, and after ses

several vocant stares, finally less and energetic human being now alive but "How? Did you put anything par

Alled up and that is only ahen nobody sees him. Migned a cheque for

ticular in it fifty thousand To be even with him, I complained)

altogether "Why-It did not scom francs, and handed

across the tabir The latter examined it Pupin.

my weak eyen, and lamented the right to leave the interior blank--that the spectacles, under would have been insulting. D, al carefully and deposited it in his necessity of

poc-

cover of which ket-look; then, unlocking an eseri.

I cautiously

turn, and Vienna once, did me an evil teire, tank thence a letter and gave

thoroughly surveyed the apartment, which I told him, quite good-humour- it the Prefect, This functionary conversation

while

Risingly intent only upon the edly, that I should remember, St, an I knew he would feel some curiosity in my host. grasped it in a perfect agony of joy, Egened it with n

"I paid special attention to a large regard to the identity of the person

And now the Dollar Steamship Lines announce their Hong Kong to with a trembling hand, cast

To the East rapid glance at its contents, and then writing-table near which he sat, and who had outwitted him, I thought it

with a visit to Havana scrambling and struggling to the door, upon which lay, confusedly, some misa nity not to give him a clue. He is Con York, all water scenic trip, at lower-than-ever costs.

First from the room and from the house.

cellaneous letters and other papers, well acquainted with my MS., and Coast of America, via the Panama Canal and unceremoniously

Class G$575, Toyrist Class G$320. with one or two musical instruments iuet confed into the middle of the

Never before has it been possible to travel on these modern luxury Here, however, į few books.

blank sheet the words When he had gone, my friend en fer a

liners at rates as low as those offered you to-day. Step aboard a friend- Un dessein si funesta. after a long and very deliberate sera- itered into some explanations.

ly President Liner at Hong Kong and take this opportunity to make your trip to New York conveniently and inexpensively." The Parisian police," he said. "are iny. I saw nothing to excite parti-S' n'att digne d' Atree, est

cular suspicion.

de Thyeste." jexceedingly able in their way, The

"At length my eyen, in going the They are. to be found in mensares adopted were not only, the

circuit of the

Alreg best of their kind, but carried out topery filigree card-rack of paste-board. fell upon a irum. room, Bombay, Marseilles & London.

Had the letrer Havre, Lon

London, Hamburg.bsolute perfection.

that hunst ben dygnited within the

ung dungling by a dirty blue The range

ribbon from a little brass knob Junt Theit

search, these fellows

ww would, br.

beneath the middle of the mantlepiece. Marseilles, Harvre, London, Hamburenda question have found it.

The measures, then," he continued In this rack, which had three or four "were gond in their kind, and well compartments, were five or six visti- executed; their defect lay in their be. ing inapplicable to the ease, and to the

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Marseilles & London.

rushed

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1.900

Jan.

16,000 130 15.000 27th Jan

Jong

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3rd Feb.

Marseilles,

Rotterdam.

30th Feb

Bom

Marreilles & London.

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Marseilles & London,

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(Continued from Page 3.)

The odds against this are long

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con-upon the one set of notions regarding

fert, in the long routine of his duty Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

has been accustomed ?

"Had the purloined letter been hid

Prefect's

stantinople, Pireau, Smyrna and other Levant Parts by steamers of the man ingenuity, Les wisie the Pre-weller than I concluded it to be that game for East in Hand No. 11, but i

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S.-J 10 9

KJ 10 6 5 4

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cards and a solitary letter. This last was much soiled and crumpled.

"It was torn nearly in two acroES "What, for example, in this case of the middle, as if a design, in the first enough, compared with the risk of

Lirely up instanes, to tear it D has been done to vary the prin

A partially clearing another suit for stay- ciple of action? What in all this bar worthless had been altered, or ed, in the second. It had П

the opponents, to Induce him to and

large 192, and probing, and sounding, Black

seal, bearing the D cipher forgo the finesse and lead a small scrutinising with the microscope, and dividing the surface of the building in very conspicuously, and was addressed. apade from dummy, for the ace and in a diminative female hand, to D- f registered square inches-what is r

It was thrus queen may be divided, or both, with all hit an exaggeration of the appli. the minister, himself.

of the one principle or set of curelessly, and even, as it seemed, con- East. In either case the heart suit urinciples of search.

upper tu no menace. which are based emptuously, into one

divisiona of the rack.

Similarly, there ia no-trump "No moner had I glanced at this

which I was in search. To be sure. he should not be allowed to play 1 was, to all

appearance, radically it den anywhere within the limits of the fferent from the one of which the North:

Prefect had read us so minute a de- examination - in ather words, had the principle of its cor and black, with the D cipher, there Here the seal was large scription. cealment been comprehended withi:. the principles of the Prefect-ils dis was small and red, with the ducal Jenvery would have been a matter uljsme of the 5 family. Here, the

gether beyond question. This func address, to the minister, was diminu tionary, however, has been thoroughly five and feminine; there the nyfied; and the remote source of his cription, to a certain royal personege. defeat lies in the supposition that time as markedly bold and decided the fool, because he has a size alone formed a point of corre minister is quired renown as

spondence. But, then, the radicalness| "But this really the poet?"

f these differences, which was exces- usked.

ive: the dirt; the solled and "There are two brothers,

torn East: sa inconsistent know and both have attained reputa condition of the paper, sa

withi The true methodical habile B.J. Apear Line steamers have excellent accommodation foron in letters. The minister be

tieve has written learnedly on the Dit of D- and so suggestive of a de- 1st and 2nd class passengers.

ferential Calculus. He is a mathem-sign to delude the beholder into an idea of the worthlessness of the docu- no poet." are mistaken;

Logether hinment; these things,

with the well; he is both. As poet and math hyperobtrusive situation of this docu- matician, he would reason well, ment, full in the view of overy vini- accordance mere mathematician, he could not have tur, and thus exactly in rensoned at all, and thus would har with the conclusions to which I had been at the mercy of the Prefect.” previously arrived these things, I

"You

surprise me. I said, "by the say, were strongly corroborative

suspicion, in one who came with the intention to suspect vielt as long a

"protracted my possible, and, while I maintained

1938.

- JAKADA SIRDHANA TALMA

7,000 24th Nov. 8,000 0th Dec. 10,000 23rd Doc.

4th Jun 10,000

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

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Do DO

TILAWA

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EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South,

TANDA

1933.

7,000

2nd Dec.

NANKIN NELLORE TANDA

NANKIN

7,000 7.000 7,000 Ard Mar.

7,000 Both Mar.

tic and no

Doel.

know

30th Dec Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & opinions, which have been entradict

Feb.

Melbourne.

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong t

and Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days.

Shanghai and Japan

et by the voice of the world.

Yuu

super-

of

а

th

do not mean to set at naught the well- digested ides of centuries. The mathe matical reason has long been regarded most animated discussion with as the reason par excellence." minister, on a topic which I know well

"I mean to say " said Dupin, "that had never failed to interest and excite

if the minister had been no more than him, I kept my attention really rivet cthematician, the Prefect would ed upon the letter. In this examina

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:--- The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis New have been under no necessity for giv tion, I committed to memory its ex- Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

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The P. & Branch Service of steamers to London via Suez.

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TANDA COMORIN BURDWAN CHITRAL

RANCHI

1912.

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7,000 3rd Dec. 10,000 15th Dec, 10,000 15th Doc. 6.600 28th Dec. 20th Doc 15.000

8,000 2934.

20th Der.

Jan.

7,000 6,500

7th Jan, 74% 17,000 12th Jan, 0,800 24th Jan. 17.000 28th Jan. 7,000 4 Feb. 15.0000th Feb, 6,000. 22nd Feb. 15.000 23rd Feb '17,000 9th Mar.

* Cargo only.

Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy B'ha Moji Kobe & Ozaka. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Amay, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Onaka. Shanghat, Kobe & Yokohama.

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Koba & Yokohama,

81in). Kobe & Yokohama

Bhanghal Kobe & Yokohama, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,

lever, as

In

ing me this cheque. I knew him, how-ter appearance and 'arrangement in as both mathematician and poet, the rack; and also felt, at length, upoh and my measures were adapted th A discovery which set at rest whatever hia capacity, with reference to the cir- trivial doubt I might have entertained. cumstances by which he was surround. In

paner, nd-In scrutinising the edges of the

дя в

ed. I know him as a courtier, too, and I observed them to be more chafed than the as a bold intrigant. Such a man, seemed necessary. They presented considered, could not fail to be aware bro

broken appearance which is

been ance

action. Finary policial modes

of the

anticipate

of when a stif paper, having older, is could not have failed to folded and pressed with

and events have proved refolded in a rever

direction, in the

that he did not fall to anticipate the same creases or edges which had form- waylayings to which he

This discovery was subjected. ed the original: fold,

ar to the was sufficient. It was clear Kecret investigations of Hie frequent absences from

glove, inside out, redirected, and re- night, which were hailed by the Pro-sealed. I bade the minister good morn. feet an certain sids to his success, ing, and took my departure at once, regarded only as ruses, to afford on leaving a gold snuff box upen

He must have foreseen, I rec.that the letter had been turned, 24, 1|

the

WAI

portunity for thorough search for afise next morning I called for the

thus sooner ta impress them with the conviction to which muff-box, when we resumed, quilo - in fact, did finally arrive the eagerly, the conversation of the pre conviction that the letter was not on coding day, While thus engaged,

as if of a however, a loud the premises.

beneath "I felt, also, that his whole train of tol, ward heard immediately thought, which I was at some pains in the windows of the hotel, and

series of fearful succeeded by a detailing to you just now, concern screams and the aboutings of moh. the invariable principle of policial rushed to a casement, threw it

the mean action in searches fo articles

Look conled I fell that this whole train open, and looked out.

pare time, I stepped to to pocket, and of thought would necessarily through the mind of the minister, is the lectura facsimile, (so far: ar

it in my would imperatively lead him despisa

all the ordinary nooks of concealment.

externals) which I bad car

lodging; iml.

He could not, I reflected; be so wreak fully prepared at my very readily.

cipher,

formed of bread The disturbance in the street had

as not to see that the most intricate tating the D and remote recess of his hotel would by means of a seal be as open an his commonast, closets

to the eyes, to the probes, to the gimbeen occasioned by the, frantlee-

it

lets, and to the microscopes of the Raviour of a man with a muskel. He

bad fired it among

crowd of

of women Profecta, in fine, that the Would All dates are approximate and subject to allemtion without notice,

a matter of course, 1 and children. It proved, however to All Cabine are fitted with Elbctric Fanu, or Punka Louvre System":t

not deliberately induce have been without ball, and the fallow Steamers on London and Austrailam Lines are fitted with Laundrim.

drunkard, When be

hadapha Parcels measuring not more than 6 ett. ft. will be received at the Comte It a matter of choice. You will ro was suffered to go his way as lunatic

member, perhans, how demperately the or a

the window, whither pany's Office up to Noon on the day previous emailing SONAT Prefect laughed when I suggested. D CRTILS

Intried lately upon Just possible this mystery troubled him curing

The no much on account of Its being so afterwards I bade him farawell.

pretended lustle was a man in my! sery self-evident."

own pay.

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