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to
The
NEW exploits BLOCK HOLMES
This is the seventh story in the series of NEW mysteries of Sherlock Holmes, told now by the son and literary executor of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
on his way.
tion,
Z THE CHINA MATE ATURDAY MARCH
The the
Adventure of HERR BULLY-BOY Two Women
In 1834,"
and Holmes grimly, "and five years later, took to
tho
Lady Constance Ellington, at present Duchess of Carringford.'
nod, ho slouched by ADRIAN wife
nrid hia mption
SEE from my note "tell Mr Holmes to watch out book that it was late in for Footman Boyce." Thán September 1880, short with a surly ly before my departure Sir Dartmoor with Henry Bakerville, that my attention was first drawn to that curious affuir, since termed "The Blackmailing Case," which threatened to Involve one of the most revered names in England.
Even at this into date, Sherlock Holmes has urged me to spare
no pains to conceal the real identity of the
concerned personage and, in my recital of the events, I shall certainly do my best
observe his wishes in this matter.
to
indeed. I am as sensitive as
he is to the fact that, owing to
I was not displeased to be the bearer of this cryptic mes- Bago to my friend, for it had been apparent to me for some days past from his alternating
and absorp moods of energy
deplorable ou
of tobatco that Was engaged upon CASC. Contrary to his usini practice, however, he had not invited me to share his confi- donces, and I must confess that predpitation into my sudden the BRAT
irrespective Holmes's wishes, caused me no
mall satisfaction.
grey
-
ON
our
room, him
of
entering sitting
I found lounging
in
CONAN DOYLE
for a moment, then, springing to his feet, he strode over to the window.
"I am faced with one of the most dangerous cases of black mall in all my experience," he cried. "I take it that you are familiar with the name of the Duke of Carringford?" So for Foreign Affair?"
"Precisely."
mean the late Under-
Then he was a
widower."
To my surprise, Holmes drove his fist violently into the palm of his hand. There is the diabolical cruelty ‘of "it,' Watson,” he cried.
"WO do not knöwi Indeed, the Duchess is now told for the Best time of this secret marriage made in her husband's youth when he was staying on the Continent. She is informed that his first wife is alive and ready if necessary to come for- ward, that her own marriage is bigamous, her position spurious,
the status of and
her child illegitimate."
What, after thirty-eight
years! This 13 he died some three years Holmes!" 1 observed,
that
monstrous,
And to that,
Watson, that It will surprise ignorance is not innocence in in his arm- you to learn, Watson, that I am the eyes of society or the law. chair before the aware of
fact," replied As to the lapse of time, it is Areplace, still Holmes testily. "But ta con- claimed that the French wife, clad
his
tinue, A few the many cases in which we
day's past I dressing
after her husband's sudden dia- gown, his
received a note from the Duchess, have been concerned over the purple
did not associate appearance, heavy
lidded eyes his widow, couchéd have been
In such Mr Henry Gladsdale with the OL years,
thoughtfully staring
that I was cons- Duke of Carringford. the urgent terms depositaries of confidences and celing through a haze of to- trained to comply with her re- theless,
unlikely one long, quest to call upon her at her would engage in an affair of this should they bacco smoke, while
thin
arm, dangling a letter be to the world,
house in Portland Place.
nature were it not for the in scandal and tween its finger-ups, hung down
troduction of a side of his chair. the
Aa
element." envelope, embossed, I noticed, with a coronet, lay on the floor.
necessity
We
the
many strange
accruts which, become known could only arouse amazément.
216
"Al Watson," he said petu-
"You are back earlier
Our honour therefore deep- ly involved, and I shall muke very sure that no inadvertent word of mine shall
potat the witly. finger or accusation at any one than expected." of those men and women, in high life or in low, who havo poured out their troubles to us Baker Street
in our modest chambers.
I recall that it was on a late
September moming when I was first introduced to the adventure which forms the subject of this narrative.
It was a grey depressing day with a hint of carly log in the air and, having been summoned to a patient in Seaton Place,
was walking back to our lodg ings when I became aware of a small
street urchin sinking along at my heels. As he drew
level I recognised the lad as one
"Pertages It s s well for you, Holmes," I replied, a trille nettted at his tone, and pro- ceeded to give the message with which I had been entrusted. Holines mised his eyebrows.
T ts most curious," said
lie. "What Can Foulman Boyce have to do with the matter?"
** found her a woman of more than ordinary intelligence and what you would term beauty, but overwhelmed by the tearsome blow which, striking
overnight, now Her with the complete social and financial destruction of herself and her daughter. And the irony of the situation is the more terrible because her des- truction comes from no fault of her own."
Never-
I that
more sinister
*Got
a match, puv'nora“ demanded the archin
for the profession of her choice, then that woman is Edith von
Larmornin.""
"Tui, she is as much above a
that 1
You mean that who is a spy spy as I am above the ordinary police detective, I would put it I have long suspected her of moving in the highest circles of political intrigue,
This, then, is the woman as clever as she is ambitious and mercies, who, armed with the papers of this
secret marriage, now threatens to ruin the Duchess of Carring ford and her dauzlitar unless she consents
GETS A HALO
W
"HY is it that almost of the Gestapo, Hore his record every French trial can be summed up ag.114,000 of wartime collabora (mainly Jews), 1,300 executions, Arrests, 00,000 deportations tore or war criminals do. generates into a humiliating
Nine years of ⋅ imprisonment. farce from which only the have changed Oberg tule.At 58 he looks healthy, and alert accused emerge with any and despite his stubby, sports jacket and grey flannel trousera. trace of dignity?
ho has an unmistakable military bearing.
It has been so from the earliest postwar trials of Petain, and Laval to present day.
the
MOONS OVER NOVELS
Ho
wło
looks startlinglý Take the recent case of Himmler, almost a cartoonist's SS General Karl Oberg, version of the Nazi sadist, with his pasty, spectacled face, tiny wartime head of the Ges- tapo in France. After nine eyes and thin, cruel mouth. years in gaol Oberg was Hé professes not to speak or understand French, and when act of finally brought to trial, treason, the results of which
asked his profession in court only to find that contrary replied sneeringly: may be incalculable in Dicir
"I am, oily both to the Geneva conven- what you French call a good damage to
Holmes England"
out his pipe tion and to French law the bourgeols." paused to knock into the nearest tea-cup, "And prosecution had failed to
Watson, 1 remain here useless, useless and helpless to shield an provide him with a transla
in her ton of the charges in his Agony his turned to me for own language.
protection," he
Innocent
whiman who
In prison he moons over an
ample supply of trashy German, novels.
and the works at the more crackpot German philoso- "classica" phera Strictly Nazi Nevertheless, the judge for which he has asked aro
denied him. the decided to disregard
He complains bitterly that his law and continue with the dearest wish, apart from being reunited with his family, is "to hear
£ good
symphony. On the second day he 'orchestra."
This is the man to whom thó. made such an outrageously unjudicial reference to the incompetence of French justice
cheap halo
case.
a
guidance and ended savagdiy.
"It is indeed a most infiimous business," I
"But, Bald. Dilly's message refers to it, then there is a footman involved."
"Well,
I confess that I am "The duchess has seen them deeply puzzled by that message," Holmes replied, staring down and they appear to be perfectly thoughtally at the stream of genuine, nor can she doubt her hansoms and carriages husband's signaturo."
beneath our window, pa prisoner, that at the re- has given "It might be
queat of the prosecution martyrdom, forgery." A
the gentleman known as ally, but I have already Footman Boyed is not a lackey, the proceedings were de LAST COURSE ascertained from Valénce that my detr Watson, though heclared void and the trial there was a woman of that name takes his nickname, 1- bolidve, Indefinitely postponed. "WE a ro
MISSED the dinner, but I living there in 1848, that she from the aircumstance that he moving
married un Engilaliman and commenced his career as a man- It was a resounding Ger- gastronomic feast at Monte Carlo 'bavo a report on the annual deeper waters,
later moved
other servant, Watson. No locality."
man triumph a triumph which goca by the name of the is de-
THE Is, in underlined by the request Golf Dinner. The
fact, the leader of the West German Chan- of the second
"I noticed that in speaking of the first wife coming forward you used the term 'If necessary. So it is blackmail at doubtless for a large sum of money."
Zamied.
of certain
to some
Holmes, a pro-
"What
But surely, viner French woman, it driven price of allchce to blokmall by the desertion fies
the in "One moment,"
of her husband, would demand I Interposed,
D u c h e s s'e money," I protested. picking up
from delivery a nowapaper
copica of possible, use could she have for the couch.
"There Ja ú re- State papers now lying in a copies of State papers?" ference to the Duchess in today's goalet box in Telograph, announcing the engagement of her question."
daughter, Street," Lady Mary Gladstale, to Gir "Preposterous, Holmes!"
Fortesque, the Cabinet
"Not
preposterous, Re- member that the "late" Dukę wus There is the Under-Secretary
for Foreign point in Affairs and that it is not uh-
it,
I
"As I know nothing about 1 am hardly in a position to answer remarked.
your
James Minister."
"Quite an, beautifully tempered
across to me.
Watson?"
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the strong-room "Ah! There you put your Lloyds Bank In Oxford Anger on it, Watson, and hence
otts
1
at
QUIZ
Only 200 guesta are invited- cellor, Dr Adenauer, that apparently because it is dificult the case should not be pro- allocated to each guest
to find room for the 28 glasses
Before the evening
cixma to
most
danger-
ΟΙ gang
alushers
and ceeded with.
racing touts in
London.
т
me much
to
ins
doubt that he good "will, it Was largely owing
efforts that
ho
my presence in the case. Have bears you ever heard of Edith von for Lammerain?”
"I cannot recall the name,"
a
топ
the that she was
might keep
eep fied her home and established
HE LOOKS HEALTHY
tend
to
cerning Oberg and his
career,
1148
i
"Perhaps it would be as well,
an end more than 800 bottles or the choicest wines had been rmptied. Then, to prove that the festive board, does not
thinking, eleär Impede
the All this will
guests engaged in a question "Upon my soul, a distinct
two years on that obscure the relevant facts and answer contest. touch, Watson!" he replied, with
Hockmorton horso-doping
The star performer was play airy chuckle. "L have not
But blackmall is out of his
Wright-actor Sacha Guitry, who taken you already into my con.. this sword of Damocles.", Holmes known for great servants of the
"She is a remarkable woman," and I cannot seo-
won the silver, fountain pen first dence, my dear fellow, it was drow two sheets of paper, pinned Crown to preserve coples of he contined; misingly. Her broke off sharply and craning This is a pity, for his prize. not for any lack of faith in you. together frond the pocket of his pape
memoranda when father was some sort of petty his neck pero down into the story is a classic of how to- of the Baker Street Irregulars. The affair is, however,
of a most dressing-gown and tossed them papers and
the originals themselves are officer' in the Russian Black street. "By Jove, it is the man
Sample question and answer: as Holmes termed the group of delicate nature and i
"And day's good German bets it possible to dine without "What do you safely lodged in the custody of Sea Fleet and her mother kept a himself!" he ejaculated. preferred boys whom he grubby to
to feel my way a little before make of those,
the State. There are many invern in Odessa. By the time coming here, unless I am much comes tomorrow's bully a lovely dinner companión?. occasions to inviting your invaluable assht-
said. employed on odd
reasons why
the that in ""One is a copy of a marriage Duke's position
twenty she had mistaken,
boy.
Guitry'a, reply: "No, becaure uct as his eyes and wirs amid once."
you eat too much.” certificate between the puricus of the .London
Henry com of certain
coplea
documents herself in Budapest, where, over-
Oberg was a modest Hamburg street..
"There is no need for you to Corwyn Glasdale bachelor and which, innocent enough at the night, she gained notoriety as watson the bedroom dou
the Nazi PRINCESS RECOVERS tobacconist before explain further," I
Pelletin, began Fra
time, may become under the the cause of sabro duct in self behind the bedroom door,
Party" profided an outlet for his dated June 12, 1848, and
chuckle as, talents. He comes from a solid ere he added with a were nt Valence, in France," charging circumstances of later which
to the fireplace, he middle-class family, served in NIN Tut. Watson, I have reached observed, glanding through the
crossing the years matters of utmost gravity slain.
NINETEEN-year-old Princess through the r
if viewed by foreign, and
into his chair. "Later, she married an elderly threw himself
Alexandra of Kent has he a complete impasse. Possibly it documents
who, having "Mr Footman Boyco
almost
completely recovered may prove one of those instances appear to be the entry of the perhaps unfriendly, Government. Prussian Junker
This unhappy
whose conversA- lady is faced barne
from a mild attack of mumps. where an nctive mind
away his bride to his among those may same marriage in the Valence with the choice of an act of country estate, upped and died tional cloquence is encouraged Before Hitler came to power. She was confined to her bed for. while overreach,
A merely church registry. Who was this
treason to her country as a most conveniently within
threa
arce by the presence of a witness." reflective
nyen ong, functioning Henry Gladsdalo?"
certist
There can a jangle from the he served the Nazis in the lowly three days but is now allowed months from eating a surfeit of price for this marriago Не on the obvious"
grounds largely
capacity "He became Duke of Caring-
an informer-re outside in the bell below and as I allpped into ficate or a public
with exposure turtle doves stuffed
chest- silence ford upon the death of his uncle
porting on his lapsed into a brooding
customers Count of Paris's homes ment followed by the ruination of nuts, They must have been the bedroom I caught the creak o
of heavy steps upon the stairs political views to the local party Paris where the id staying. one of the most revered names interesting, those chestnuts!
Then followed a period She is expected to resume her knock and in England and the destruction "You will tako my word for, followed by
in Himmler's police, with rapid normal life of chaperoned out- promotion Immediately. war ings
to art galleries, Paris broke out.
banuty spots pack
"Hullo, Billy," 1 sald.
The lud returned no sign of recognition.
"Got a match, guv'nor?" demanded, exhibiting a frayed cigarette end. 1 gave him a box und, on handing It back to me, he rulsed his eyes for an Instant to my face. "For God's sake, doctor," he whispered swiftly,
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1914
of three children.
war, and is a
of two innocent women, one of it," he went on, "that for the Holmes's summons to enter.
tho eve of past year or so the most brillant her marriage. And the devil functions of the Season, be it
them
on
of it is, Watson, that I am London, Paris or Berlin, would, powerless to help them."
be considered incomplete with "Have you seen the originals out her presence, If ever a of these Valence documenta?" woman was made by Nature
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The Adventure of the Two Women will be continued on Monday.
boss.
of
father
the
First he was put in charge of restaurants soon. behind the lines exterminations: Two of the Count of Paris's and deportations in Poland and daughters had mumps at the finally was sent to Paris as head- same time. They were the Princess Holone, aged 17%, nád the Princess Diano,"aged" 181⁄2, All three girls ·wam in one bedroom, which was turned into a ward.
BRAINS WILL LEAD BRAWN
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IN NEW-LOOK
HELSINKI
workers
USSIA'S
and peasants are on
That, at least, was proved in the recent elections to the Supreme Soviet in Malen- kov's new Russia.
Chambers.
RUSSIA
Hewins From Ralph
The remainder of the Count of Paris's large family, which Fincludes nine "other children,
were not affected.
A PRINCE'S CHOICE
In future the applause may be no well-drilled, but it will certainly not be designed to ULM STAR Gisele Pascal har their way out; her to the Supreme Soviet's two a place to the Workers Paradise enshrine one man apparently written her own
Crucial problem four actresses, nine poets and
the new alm script around her old intellectuals and managers
two acropland designers are in- Parliament will consider is ag- established romance, with Prince Sixty percent of the eluded among the other dele cultural production... Jon their way in.
which Rainier of Monaco.. are new to the.
gator.
erials comparable Hes it is in the form of. Her has reached a delegates
with that of two decades ago, own statement, announcing her job.
Many of the
vanished faces Then Stalin, forced collectivis broak with Rainler: Three hundred are women were followers of Boria, who, tion on the reluctant peasants Cur love has been a wonder-
the biggest
threat to at the point of the bayonet and ful thing. The newspapers told -perhaps representing the whe
Malankov's position na lender. at the cost of faming, Election procedure, of wishes of Malenkov's energe- Somo of their places have Today,
grain production has many Des about us but I want Alled
Malenkov's, risen by only
the by
world to know the truth (wa 10,000,000 tone, course, ran true to Coma- tic, 88-year-old, ex-actress, hoog-but not all, is per but population
has
Increased or be years I have lived a munist form. Russians voted wife Helena, believed to be
beautiful dream. The Prince not be as by 40,000,000 to 310,000,000. Was like other men but "un for a single party-nominated behind the current drive for sonal majority will
smarter clothes, and more large as that which confirmed To keep pace, the State wants. candidate in each district.
him in office Inst August.
for reasons of State. The prince d If they disapproved, they household goods.
The trend is now away from an additional 50,000,000 tons by bellovably churning. We broke had to choose between me and the could either cross out the
Principle of
onla
people, I have no time to Drive Needed
governmenphase is on
the on
Tough Chlef think about love. Sometimes I name
pattern,
on collec
wonder what would have hap And the Supreme Soviet bas pened to me if I had not been More than 460 represent ve party responsibility. roturn a blank ballot paper. the professions and mana- Applause during future pro to approve desperater:mphgures
an notrest Coodings in the new Parliament introduced by tough men and would probably be mir To do either needed gerial classes, indicating will inevitably be as tactfully Niidid Krusedovy First: Gerrak zieds have had. courage in a secret police that Malenkov needs fresh expressed as during Stalin's die Secretary of the Communist to happy state. Ninety-nine percent imagination, ability and intorship, wh
Paese include the dispatch: "What are you waiting for
"All I can say between my sobi voted for the party- drive to lift Soviet economy Well-drilled of tens of thostestide of young Hollywood?”,
"voluntadra" to the Aktatie
det land Worbes' to cirry out
aoclamation) sché
and substituto Janother. Or they could
candidates-ac- out sponsored cording to official Soviet doldrums.. Agures. P
he Stalinist
According to the prenticety Nearly seventy delegates protocol of the Suprama, Soviet represent the Red Army curious grade animation to the appróvál : is", regulated" in eight
The Backbone
o They include Marshals hall applause prolonged But the names of the Timoshenko, Zhukov, Soko applause, va storage applaus elected bluntly show. the lovšky, Konfer, Malinovsky
stormy horny-handed sons of toll and Méretzkov. In Stalin's plause, laughter, sto that it is brain, rather than days, the Army, spokesmen prolonged
in the
were solely such old tí appla
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