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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1954.
The exploits of SHERLOCK HOLMES: a NEW story starts today
by Adrian Conan Doyle
and John Dickson Carr
·R HOLMES, it was death by the visitation of
God
We have heard many singular statements in our rooms at Baker Street, but few more startling than this pronouncement of the Rev. Mr James Appley.
I need no reference to my notebook to recall that it was a summor day in the year 1887. A telegram had arrived at the breakfast table. Mr Sherlock Holmes, with an exclama tion of impatience, threw it nerous to me. Tho telegram stated merely that the Rev. James Appley requested the favour of waiting upon him that morning, to consult him in a matter of Church affairs,
"Really, Watson," Holmes had commented with some asperity, as he lighted his after-breakfast pipe, "matters have indeed come to a pretty pass when clergymen seek my advice us to the length of their sermons or the conduct of the Har- vest Festival.
I am flattered but out of my
depth. What
The Adventure of the
does Crockford say of this strange client?"
GOLD
about,
・・・ m tall, thin man in clerical drone.”
Appley who would like to know how you deduced it!"
The dust, Walgont The dust!" ***What dust?”
"Am I to understand,” izstörs posed. Holmes that the, young lady's future welfare depends on the Inheritance, of this money?" "Far from 1. Her fance, My "adly obearve the Index finger of Mr Appley's right hand. Ainsworth is A rising young You will note, on its very solleitor who is already making up, the smudges of that dark- his way in the world. Trelawney Katy dust which
accumulates himself was among his clients.“ "Isoomed to detect a certain you » your nephew," said
the top of books, The smudges, somewhat faded, were
inade no later than this morn apprehension when ing. Since Mr Appley is a tall toned
Dr Grittin Hum with long arms, surely it Holmos "Since
he. 4 obvious that ho plucked inherita this fortune,
presumably on friendly down books from a high shelf with Trolawney
accumulation of
terms,
When to this dust we add an unbrished top- The Vicar shifted uncomfort- hat, it requires email abrowd!- ably in his chair. "On the Des to delarmine that he has friendilest possible terms,"
no wife, but an appalling ho?= keeper."
""Reinarkable?' said 1.
"Meretricious," said he. "And I apologise to our guest for interrupting his narrative."
replied with 80230 haste.
indeed, on
one Occasion bo the squire's life. At the same time, must confess that he has always been a wild, hot- headed man. His intemperate
"This death was Incompre- behaviour has gone a long way
tho towards creating
strong all measure| hensible beyond But you have not yet heard the local prejudice which has now worst," continued our visitor," risen against him. It the police could show how Trelawney died, my nephow might bo under arrest at this moment,"
HUNTER
In"
Endeavouring to anticl- pate my friend's methods, I bad already taken down the clerical directory. I couki
Trelawaey nd only that the gentle-
detective, and am a consulting
"Mr John Trelawney---Squire most living authority on medical must tell you that
relative: # WILS
the therefore my man in question
I may tell you has one surviving privacy is of no Trelawney we called him-was jurisprudence.
Her aged twenty-one. vicar of a small parish in more consequence than that of the richest landowner for mites here and now that poor Tre nlece,
Four nights ago,
die a natural namo is Miss Dolores Dale, the when lawney did not Somerset, and had written doctor."
only three months short of his death. Not only the police but daughter of the late Mrs Copley a monograph on Byzantinu
The clergymen had hardly seventieth birthday, he died in Scotland Yard have been called Dale, of Glastonbury. medicine.
seated himself when he blurted his bed."
"For several years the young lady has kept house for Trelaw- "Ah!" out
words the extraordinary
litar That Is not SD
white-washed with which I have begun this
ney in his great uncommon."
Rest. narrative.
lione, called Goodman's "No,
But hear met"
it has always been understood that Dolores, who is engaged to be married to a fine young mun named Jeffrey Ainsworth, would inherit her uncle's fortune.
"When I tell sweeter or kinder spirit never existed, that her hair is darker than Homer.e
wine-dark and that upon occasion she can be all Bash and fire suggestive of Southern blood-"
"An unusual pursuit for clergyman,' country
Holnes But here, untess 1 remarked. am much mistaken, is the man himself.
words,
Mr.
"On the other hand," con- tinued Mr Appley agitatedly, "Trelawney was not murdered, "Death by the visitation of orted the Viene, raising a long God" repeated Sherlock Holmes, forefinger curiously smudged on and he could not possibly have The greatest been murdered. As he spoke, there had arisen Though his voice was subdued the very tip. "John Trelawney
modicul skill has been used to u hale and yet it seemed to me that there was
hearty man),
he could not below an excited pealing from
pronounce that from no roll and thrill in the suffering
organic
have died from
nny of the door-bell, and before Mrs Wis
"Then, surely, my dear disease, and good for at least whatsoever." Hudson could anounce him our
For A
moment there was visitor had burnt into the room, sir, the matter les rather within dozen more years in this mun-
dane sphere. within
Dr Paul Grifin,
silenco in out sitting-room, He was
our focal medical
practitioner
nephew, where the blinds had been half and incidentally лу flatly refused
to issue a death drawn against the summer sun. certificate. There was a moxt dreadful business called a post- mortem.
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1.
shouldered
Lall, thin, high- your man in rustic clerical mine?"
province
dress with face face
my Invaakon
that it s
than
you
that
sca
Jeft
un
The Vieur paused and looked
had rout. There
come nuthoritative rap at the door. An instant later, as it was flung opon, we had a glimpse of Mrs Hudson's face over the shoulder of a short, thin, rat-faced man, clad in a check suit, and bowler hai. As his hard blue eyes fell he Appley the Rev. Mr on paused on the threshold with a growl of surprise.
"You
certain gift, op- Lestrade, of timing your pearances with a pleasant touch of the dramatic," abserved Holmes languidly.
have
Д
A "And very awkward for sone folk," remarked the detective, the depositing his hat beside gasogene, "Well, from the pre- sence of this reverend gentle- up man I take it that you aro to date with this Cody little murder in Somerset. The facts are pretty obvious and all point ono way as clear as signposts, eh, Mr Holmes?"
Unfortunately, signposts are so easily turned in the opposite direction," said Holmes, truism of which I have given you one or two small demon- etrations in the past, Lestrade." Yard man Scotland fused angrily.
Mr Holmes, that's as may be. But there is
The
Well
**
a benevolent scholarly antiquated framed in
✩ alde-whiskers of the sort once
"I ask your pardon," said the
"Yes, yes," said Holmes, clos- known as Dundreary weepers.
"My dicar
sald ing his eyes. "But you stated deur Sirs,"
Watson," be tried, Vicar hastily. "My words were My
Holmes. who had not yet from perhaps over-emphatic and even peering at us myopically
True.
Here are the facts. behind oval
But you will under- duffed his mouse-coloured dress- Holmes cordially, will you be that I had not heard the worst." spectacles, "pray irreverent.
had been tearing good enough to fetch me a clay
death, Tre- rack over the Shortly before his accept my assurance
stand that this horrible event, ng gown,
soda? only the pressure of events that this his voice sank almost back languidly in his am-chair. pipe from the
Thank you. I And, Mr lawney changed his will. Dis of your to a whisper as he leaned for- Now he half-opened his eyes. prompts
post-mortem!" said he. Appley, that a clay is most con- inheriting his plece whom the
ducive to ward in his chair. "Mr Holmes,
meditation. Come, stern-minded old men consider privacy.
"Performed by nephew?"
your
he cold-bloodeci, Is villalny: "Come, come," said Sherlock it
Mr Appley hesitated. "No. where is the coni-scuttle? May ed to be too frivolous,
his entire fortune to my nephew, venture to offer you a Holmes good humouredly, deliberato villainy!"
It was performed
Herablus Dr Paul Geldin. Sir, it was ali Mr Holmes. "Bellove
"Cros waving him to the busitat-chair
me, sir, I am
ingens by Sir Leopold Elarper, our fore-
acquer," sald the Vicar, ruu- the scandal of the countryside! before the empty fireplace. "I attention."
Two
weeks bis ning
later, Trelawney was mottled curiousty
inta dend in his bed and my Angers over his side-whiskers.
under no doubt this time. There are "At the moment, thank you, no. happy nephew is
both the motive and the oppor I cannot smoke.
dare not suspicion of murder." smoke It would choke me. I "Pray, be particular in your tuity. Wo know the man, and only remains to find the Holmes. am aware that must tell you details," said
"In the Arst place," continued ma the facts in precise detall. But
tell you that my tunate nephew broke in the clergyman distractedly.
"I have named no names." "But you have made it ob- vious from the moment you Trelawney a doctori heard he was Admittedly ho mands to benefit under that deplorable will"
"You have forgotten to men
HOW BAD
IS YOUR
WRITING?
T Eton College Mr Wilfred Blunt, senior drawing master, has launched his annual drive 10 make 1,100 Etonians handwriting conscious.
For the rest of the Lent Half he will be busy trying them from the to wean copperplate or looped round- hand they probably learned in their earlier schooling the and win them over to pure, graceful and legible way of writing that he, with Shakespeare, calls "the sweet Roman hand."
With broad-nibbed pens
for lances. 0 tervent army is fighting to bring the past into the future
by
HUGH CLELAND
tells
now
-מנו
It is difficult. You may have the Vicar, "I should describe the remarked that I am considered lute, Squire, Trelawney as a man absent-minded?" of stern and implacable habit. I secin always to see him, tall and "Yes, sir. In youth, before big-boned, with his great head grizzled-silver beard. my call to the Church, 1 once and his desired to study medicine. But against the brown of a ploughed my late father forbade it, due field or a line of heavy green to this absent-mindedness.
Were I to become doctor, said
I should instantly my father, chloroform the patient and re- when he gallstones move his had nierely come to Inquire about a slight cough."
Bat
DOT
did
The abjec
"Well, well."
the
with
"Bul
Once a 12-year-old wrote like this
This is the handwrtiing of a 12-year-old prepschool buy before he learned the Italian style.
Opponents of the Italian style make these points in brackets I against it. give Mr Blunt's answers to of the critica.
Up and down Britain, with broad-nibbed pens for lances, a fervent teachers and laymen doing battle
cause.
in
army
form. Gradually, hand, slow fast as the transform
the
a touch of you were
sald
Holmes impatience. disturbed in
ho
your mind this morning,"
trees.
it
unior-
Bald Lestrade
"Each evening, in his bedroom tien his personal reputation,
he would Mr read a chap grimly.
continued, regarding our client down at that Italian with his keen glance. "That, no would retire
"It's very useful as an outlet | works." for creative talent, too," said Mr Blunt. "You and boys in-
waya dis- competent in other covering they can do this better than other people, and that has a good effect on all their work."
for
hour.
Appley,"
yes, romantle, hot-
Bible. After hended it you like! But a cold-
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tor of the
"Wild,
wards he blooded
murderer-nevor! known him from
we shall see.
Mr
he with you.”
would wind have
cradle," up his watch. which bach "Well, almost
Ther
run Holines, I would value a word
to bed at ten
at
be-
ND
at first, comes as doubt, was why you consulted o'clock precisely, and rise other. A boy can several books In your study live each morning." his writing in six before catching the
"Ope train to
moment!" interposed During this interchange Holmes.
"Did these habits of tween our unhappy ellent and London this morning?" months, an adult in twelve.
Lestrade, Holmes had been star- "Yes, sir. They were medical his over vory?"
"Well! Should ho become ing at the celling with that for absorbed in the Bible, he might away dreamy look upon his face read until very late. But this which I had noted only on those happened so seldom, Mr Holmes, occasions when his mind whis "Do you not find it incon- that I think you may disregard pered that some subile thread of venient to have the book-shelves
16"*
evidence was already there
to "Thonk you; that is quite hand, but burled as yet in the in your study built so high?”
clear."
maze of obvious facts and "Dear me, no. Can any room
tess obvious suspicions. He rose. be too high or too large
"In the second place, I am abruptly and turned to tho one's books?"
sorry to say that he was never Vienr. Abruptly the Vlear paused. on the best of tegins with his I take it that you return to His long face, framed in the niece. He was stern to a point Somerset this afternoon?" Dundreary weepers, grew even of brutality,
"By the 2.30 from Padding- longer as his mouth fall open. "On one occasion, two years ton,"
There "Now I am positive, I am ago, he thrashed poor Dolores colour in his face, as he leapt to quite positive," said he, "that I with a razor-strap, und con- mentioned
neither my books. fined her to her room on bread his feet, "Am I then to under-
stand,
my dear Mr Holmes 7. nor the height of the shelves and water, because she had Doctor Watson and I will in my study! How could you gone to Bristol to witness a accompany, you. If you will have, of performance have known these things?"
Gilbert
and the kindness to ask Mrs Hudson "Tut, a trifle! How do
comic know, Sullivan's
opera, to whistlo a cab, Mr Appley?"
her, for instance, that you are either Patience. I can still sce a bachelor or a widower, and with the tears running down WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED that you have a most slovenly her warm-blooded checks. You housekeeper?"
must forgive the intemperance The Gold Hunter will crled "Really, Holmos," "there is another besides Mr the sobbed, Old devil
Ιπ Eton's drawing schools, they use ribs slightly broader is They complain because it is than relief, in an assortment of the same. Italian ALL OUT writing is wooden holders. But fountain Roman in origin, tolly not go pens and ball-point
pens can back to the purcat form?") be used when you have learned. to write well. "For it is the it is affected. ("Anything new shape of the letters that mat is open to this charge. Once tters!" says Mr Blunt, and you becomes the established pattern, can write the shapes properly de charge cannot be made.")
with a stick in the sands."
1,300 queries
The form of writing Mr Blunt recommends is that of the Italian Renaissance. It
It does not show character.
A great deal of what passes
reached Britain in the mid- for character in handwriting is sixteenth century (Queen distortion, anyway.”)
formal matters,
In 30 years ・・・
"
was a tinge of
I. of her language. 'Old devil, be continued on Monday
Somewhat on the eccentric side
DORIS
os in Lucky Me, Cinemascope place like Pack, bura a
Eton, Harrow and Winchester Elizabeth 1 used it), when It is slow. ("Obulously, when now compete, cach March, for a people used two forms of you Arst learn it.")
handwriting prize presented by Italian for
teaches Lord Cholmondeley, who is on At Eton, Mr Blunt writing-the
the Italian style during expert in the Italian hand (the a scrawl- boys
their 45-minute weekly drawing village school at Cholmondeley, ing "secretary-hand" for lesson. Not all senior boys take in Cheshire, is, like Eton, more casual purposes. From drawing. But Mr Blunt finds stronghold of the cause). of
four the seventeenth century, that interest spreads
among the
competitions held, declined handwriting
outside in boys
the
ving Eton have won three. A Slam- drawing schools. It even spreada
prince won the other for quality.
parents and to members of the Harrow. A few purists tried to staff.
The Italian hand has its sup- improve matters from the Ho recommends boys, when
ORIS Day is the sort of tailor-made song-and-dance role Than wa decided there was no 1890's onwards, but it is they are learning, to use two porters in schools of every kind,
"hands," as the
Arst Elza though men and boys appear
musical comedy, Between sponon, kot beyond Palm Springs.": within the last two years bethans did, to change one bad more interested women to go on a vacation and
she and her husband, · Martyr that the business, as Mr letter in their
It's just that she likes her normal style, and girls, and many girls schools
travel poro Oyor; folders, mostly from Sun Valley, home le so much, Doris sald, wants to go home. Blunt said, "has gone with each weeks, for the purer Italian are loyal to "stir-the-Christmas-the minute she gets there Melcher,
pudding roundband," A society When he gave
where they are thinking of adding A rush."
formed in London to encoUERZO.
"It's the same thing at work,” going when the picture: 15 three talks on handwriting,
the style has several hundred
"I can hardly finished. membēru. 2 There is Interest she admitted. in TV's Woman's Hour 1,800
in Southwait for Bunday to come so that abroad particularly viewers wrote wanting to
Africa and Holland. -
I can sleep late and load all day, know more,
but, by noon, I'm walking, for the "Of course the whole move-day to end, so that I go mont is in its infancy," my Me back to work. Billy, isn't it? Brunt
Admitting that such, be. "You will have to wait 20, or haviour, in somewhat, on, the, 30 years to see real resuits, Butcocentio side, "Dorie, said it onl
SIX MONTHS
LATER. --
Snug in, and, by the door, the slaying fire
plò glass over the im
a large card
than
I fell the boys here that even it proves that sina la (« In leg, ls, they, have two or Ƒgirl, and. (6)... a. proda three wearslarieng they will stil
At prem
"And I keep thinking whit I'm missing when I'm not there.... So I want to go home."
"But I know what will hap- pen," Marty "sighed. "We'll get'".
In other riopects, too, Doris la there on Monday and by Tues about geling back is our home. in her usual, surroundings, 1 day night, Doris will be creting e zith who is most comfortable
It always happens.""
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