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"SILVER BLAZE”

'(Continued from page 7.)

"I must say that I am rather dis- appointed in our London consul- | tant,” said Colonel Russ, bluntly,

as my friend left the room. "I do! not see that we are any further than } when he came.”

"At least you have his assurance] that your horse will run," I said.

"Yes, I have his assurance," said the Colonel, with a shrug of his shouldera. "I should profer to have the horse."

I was about to make some reply in defence of my friend, when he entered the room again.

"Now, gentlemen," said he, "I am quite ready for Tavistock."

As we stepped into the carriage one of the stable lads held the door

A sudden Idea seem- open for us. ed to occur to Halmes, for he leaned forward and touched the lad upon the elecve.

"You have a few sheep in the paddock," he said. "Who attends to them?"

"I do gir." "Have you

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cur sur- "Five to four against Silver voyora, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas, noticed anything Blaze!" roared the ring. "Five to In the case of dutiable cargo, Con-

amiss with them of late?"

"Well, sir, not of much account; but three of them have gone lame, sir."

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four against Silver Bluze! to five against Desborough. to four on the field!”

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"There are the numbers, up," Bill of Lading will be countersign- I could see that Holmes was

erled. "They are all six there." Jextremely pleased, for he chuckled "All six there! Then my horse

DODWELL & CO, LTD. and rubbed his hands together. is running, cried the colonel, in

Agents. "A long shot, Watson-a very great agitation. "But I don't see

Hong Kong, 9th January, 1933. long shot!" said he, pinching my him.

My colours have not passed." "Gregory, let me

"In my company at the present) recom- "Only five have passed, This moment." mend to your attention this singu- must be he. As I spoke a power- lar epidemic among the sheepful bay horse swept out from the quite recognise that I am

The Colonel flushed angrily. "1 under Drive on, coachman !"

weighing enclosure and cantered obligations to you, Mr. Holmes," Colonel Ross still wore an expres past us, bearing on its back the said he, "but I must regard what ston which showed the poor opinion well-known black and red of the you have just said as either a very which he had formed of my com colonel.

bad joke or an inault." panion's ability, but I saw by the

"That's not my horse," cried the inspector's face that his attention

owner. "That beast has not had been keenly aroused.

white hair upon its body. "You consider, that to be import-this that ant?" he asked.

"Exceedingly so."

"Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention 7"

Sherlock Holmes laughed. "I assure you that I have not associat- What is led you with the crime, Colonel," you have done, Mr. azid be; "the real murderer 18 Holmes?"

standing immediately behing you!" "Well, well, let us see how hel

He stepped past and laid his hand bably. For gets on," said my friend, impertur- upon the glossy neck of the

a few minutes he thoroughbred. To the curious incident of the "Capital! An excellent start!" he Colonel and myself.

gazed through my field-glass. "The horse!” cried both the

dog in the night-time."

crled suddenly. "There, they are, "The dog did nothing in the coming round the curve!"

"Yes, the horse. And it may lesson his guilt if I say that it was night-time."

From our drag we had a superb done in self-defence, and that John "That was the curious incident,"view as they came up the straight. Straker was a man who was entire- remarked Sherlock Holmes.

*

*

*

Four days later Holmes and 1 were again in the train bound for

The six horses were so close to ly unworthy of your confidence. gether that a carpet could have But there goes the bell; and as I covered them, but half way up the stand to win a little on this next yellow of the Capleton stable show-race I shall defer a more lengthy ex- Winchester, to see the race for the Wessex Cap, Colonel Ross met used us, however, Desborough's bolt

ed to the front. Before they reach-planation until a more fitting time." We had the corner of a Pullman by appointment, outside the station, and we drove in his drag to the was shot, and the Colonel's horse, ear to ourselves that evening as we His face coming away with a rush, passed whirled back to London, and I fancy course beyond the town. was grave and his manner was cold the post a good six lengths before that the journey was a short one its rival, the Duke of Balmoral'd in the extreine.

to Colonel Ross as well as to myself, Iris making a bad third.

"I have seen nothing of my horse," said he.

"I suppose that you would know him when you Holmea,

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as we listened to our companion's "It's my race anyhow," gasped narrative of the events which had the Colonel, passing his hand over occurred at the Dartmoor training saw him?" asked his eyes. "I confess that I can stables upon that Monday night, make neither head nor tail of it. and the means by which he had The Colonel was very angry. "Don't you think that you have kept unravelled them.

"I confess" said he, "that any 20th Jan. have been on the turf for twenty up your mystery long enough, Mr.

years and never was asked auch a Holmes?"

theories which I had formed from question as that before," said, he. "Certainly, Colonel, ... you shall the newspaper reports were entirely A child would know Silver Blaze know everything. Let us all go erroneous. And yet there were in- with his white forchead and his round and have a look at the horse dications there, had they not been mottled off foreleg."

together. Here he is," he

con-overlaid by other details which con- "How is the 'betting?"

tinued, as we made our way into cented their true import. I went to "Well, that is the curious part of the weighing enclosure where only Devonshire with the conviction that it. You could have got 16 to 1 owners and their friends find ad Fitzroy Simpson was the true cul- yesterday, but the price has become mittarico. "You have only to wash prit, although, of course, I saw that 12th Jan. shorter and shorter, until you can his face and his leg in spirits of the evidence against him was by no

hardly get 3 to 1 now."

wine and you will and that he is means complete. "Hum!"

sald Holmes. "Some- the same old Silver Blaze as ever." "It was while I was in the car- body knows something, that

"You take my breath away!" riage, just as we reached the clear !"?

"I found him in the hands of a trainer's house, that the immense As the drag drew up in the en-faker, and took the liberty of run- significance of the curried mutton close near the grand stand I placed ning him just se he was sent over." occurred to me. You may remem at the card to see the entries. . It “My dear Sir, you have done won-ber that I was distrait, and remain-

ders. The horse looks very fit and ed sitting after you had all alight well. It never went better in itsjed. I was marvelling in my own life. I owe you a thousand apologies mind how I could possibly have for having doubted your ability, overlooked so obvious a clue." You have done me a great service by' ' “'I confess," said the Colonel recovering my horse. You could that even now I cannot see how do me a greater still if you could lay it helps us.”. your hands on the murderer of John Straker"

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The Colonel and I stared at him with any ordinary dish, the cater

[in amazement, “You have got would undoubtedly detect it, and

him Where is he, then?""

would probably eat no more. A curry who exactly the medium (Continued on Page 11.)

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