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THE CHINA : MAIL,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1954,
Concluding The Black Baronet, a new SHERLOCK HOLMES Adventure
WHAT HAS HAPPENED
SO FAR.....
Colonel Jocelyn Daley has been stabbed to death in the banquoting-hall at Laving- ton Court. The host, Sir Reginald Lavington, was sus- pocted because of jealousy over his wife. Holmas spands a day searching for old
'No!
Shouted
Holmes
'Not Another Inch!"
documents relating to the I pick up the cup like this, and Lavingtons. Then he and Dr with both hands I lift it to my mouth. Sol Gregson, we will Watson set off for Lavington suppose that you are the mur- Court.
derer. Stab me in the throat!"
What
do the devil
you mean?"
"Grasp an imaginary danger in your right hand. That's it! Don't hesitate, man; stab mo bi the throat!"
I
PART THREE
T was a wild, blustering evening. As we walked through the dusk to the old manor-house, the air was filled with the
as
☆
though hall-
hand raised, and
Gregson, creaking of tree-branches hypnotised, took a step forward and I felt the cold touch with his
stopped. of a blown leaf against my Court Lavington cheek. was as shadowy as the hol- low in which i lay; but, as Gillings opened the door to us, a gleam of light showed of the in the direction banqueting-hall,
"Inspector Gregaen has been asking for you, sir." said the butler, helping us off with our
wraps.
We hurried towards the light, of deep n look Greason, with agitation, was pacing up and
beelde the table, down
I
He
"But it can't be done, Mr Homes Not like this, anyway!”
wWhy not?" "The direction of the Colonel's wound
straight upwards wir
the threat. through
Nobody strike could
from upwarda underneath across the of the table.
been
"No, man. no!" shouted Holmes suddenly. "Not another inch, if you value your life!"
By ADRIAN CONAN DOYLE
and JOHN DICKSON CARR
"If you hadn't warned me, the blade would have been through my throat," said Gregson in a shaking voice.
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Our incestors had a neat way of eliminating their enemies," observed Holmes, lifting the und once more heavy exrmning it closely. "With such a toy in the house, it is a dan- gerous thing for a guest to drink in his host's absence."
only "Then this was
1 accident!"
ex- appalling, cloned. "Daley was the innocent vletim of a trap fashioned four centuries ago!"
"It was an accident, right enought" be stated, "Your re- ference to a mischance, Sir Reginald, has proved to be a lucky shot in the dark. I sus- pected it all the time. But one moment. Why didn't we see the blade when we first saw the cup?"
"Let us suppose, Gregson,"
replied Holmes, "that there is some form of recoil-spring."
"But surely, Holmes," I cried, "there could be no such
"As you were about to say,
Wos Watson, there
such 110 description of the cup as I had hoped to find in the Maidstone County Registry.
However, it did yield me the interesting
**But
"The scraches on the table. Watson. And the wine spilled on both table and flcor."
Pray be good enough to explain."
"Colonel Daley's finger-nails,” replied Holmes, "had clawed at table-lop in his death-throes the and all the wine had beeri spilled. You remarked that? Good
Taking
working hypothesis the theory that he was killed by a blude in the cup, what must follow? The blade would strike. Then-7"
and
10
document I read you.
"Well, well, Mr Holmes, you can give me the historic detalls later," said Gregson, turning to the baronet. "In regard to this My friend. who had
Reginald, you affair, Sir
can think yourself lucky that there standing with his head back and
are some sharp men hereabouts, the heavy cup lifted to his lips
Your possession of this dan by both handles, now straighten-
Observe the cunning of this
gerous relic might have caused ed up and offered it to the Scot-
mechanism, very much as
a perlous miscarriage of justice, land Yard man.
"Good!" pak
he, "Now, suspected yesterday afternoons"
Either
must have
the you "Mr Holmes,' burst out the
mechanism removed, or entrusted in Gregson. imagine that you are
baronet. "I have
never asked
it to Scotland Yard,” glanced at the now-empty chair Colonel Dulcy. I am the mur-
dierer. Take my place, and lift favour of any man in my life"
Sir Reginald Lavington, who beyond the great cup.
Luck of
had been biting his lip of Lavington. Thank God you've come, Mr the
Very well, What next?" "Sir burst out. Holmes be
"Perhaps it would be as well, though to suppress some over- "Do
what I did. But exactly
emotion, koked the mastering Reginald was telling the truth.
Holmes your lips. Sir Reginald, if you left don't nut the cup to
from
to didn't believe it, last het That's it.
It explanation to me," Interrupted dazedly Gregson; that's dug up Barsett hes nocent.
"Right willingly," he said at two farmers who met him walk- Mark well what I say: don't put Halmes quietly, his long thin Gregson.
Angers moving over the chased
Luck the
of river at 10.30 it to your lips." .: fream the
the cup. The de length. The light flashed back from surface of
Lavington has be
been in our yesterday morning. Why couldn't
the great drinking-vessel as it cannot strike unless the up
family for over four hundred he have and he met them?"
tilted.
lifted fully to the Lips When the
years. If it passes beyond this ef both hands is full pressure exerted on the handles. Then the
door, then I feel it should go to Mr Sherlock Holmes," handles themselves act as trig-
Holmes's eyes met those of gers for the spring-mechanism.
which to
the old blade the barone!. You will perceive Even as he spoke, there come
is attached.
ck
the minute slot just below the and a metalle slither. ~32 500
Alm. sharp blade shot from
circlet of jewels and cleverly disguised by the carving." the lower edge of the cup with 1 Bid not know of the wit-
awe in Gregson's the speed
There was of a striking snake. DOSSI No.
I hoped that Had Gregson 1314
been drinking face as he gazed down at the you we'd had a winesa, sinco
ancient vessel. from the Luck of Lavington, the blade would have pierced up- for other reasons I was con-
"Then you mean," he stated vireed of his hanocence,"
wards through his throat. He nombrely, that the person who "Then we're back where we sprang back with an oath, while drinks from the Luck of Laving- *tarted
the vessel, falling from his ton is a dead man?"
crashed you hands,
and Jangled across the floor.
"My God!" I criext. "My God!"
echoed which struck across my Halmes moved to the end of Sir Reginn'd Lavington, his dark the table. which still bore the features now livid, was standing marks of the recent tragedy, behind us with one hand partly Suppose that I men raised as though to ward off a "Let us Colonel Daleyn tall man, blow. Then with a
uding here at the head of the buried his face in his hands. We table. I um about to drink with stared at each other In horror- someone, who means to stab me. struck silence,
There was a singur light in Homes's eyes as he looked at
he men,"
know is all the
Gre are such
satch
time
"Hardly
that, Hadi
thought, Gregson, of recon-
rurine this crime after
French fashion?”
"How do you mear?"
the
*
a
voce
own,
I
19 a
He sprang back with an oath while the vessel, fell from his hands,
dangerous man,
03
1 re
set
WHAT MAKES AN ATOM BOMB :
KES AN ATOM
BEHIND CLOAK OF SECRECY
Part Four Of An Important Report by
GORDON DEAN
Chairman, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1950-53
I
our
valleys away from
T is hard to imagine which lio in three widely
uranium, one of the separated heaviest metala in the the average visitor.
the town, are out of bounds to
world, in the form of
It is out
into one of these
the
It'
You
have never
But if
Your
Yet it must be made valleys, past the sign that reads: a gas.
that your into a gas if it is to be "Prohibited Area,"
uranium now must go, there to separated. The only gas that can be used in the in its long, tortuous journey through gaseous-diffusion gaseous-diffusion process is plant. uranium hexafluoride, which is composed of one part of scous-difusion plant, there are urantum to each six parts of no words that will prepare you
for such an experience, old corrosive friend, Arst impression, as you view it fluorine. To mako "hex," from afar, is one of sheer size, as uranium hexafluoride-has Solid Maze come to be known through-
the impression you out the atomic energy pro receive from fm is one of
the Impression gramme, the chemist turns her se, to the green salt we left at close-up view gives you is one Fenald when we decided to of
of sheer complexity. If you were
one of the
many follow the plutonium route doors of the main building-d to a bomb.
doors inrge enough for a heavy truck
drive through you this product.
his would find around you almost "hex" the chemist has not only soild maze of pipes, wires and succeeded in producing material that can be used in It is impossible, to describe gaseous-diffusion process; the intricacy of this equipment, to convey a he has also produced a material but it is possible Iceling for its that is nearly as corrosive and
bulk. For for the two most as dangerous to handla ar either instance, just pure fluorine or hydrofluoric recent additions to the plant, acid.
not including the main originai building, the copper tubing and
Let us look for a moment at
In making
the
3
to walk into
to
Instruments.
required
rom
to Hartford, electrical
All-out Effort
pipe material
extend in a line would Whereas green.
salt
Washington, D.C., this relatively docile compound,
Connecticut; <nough is certainly not true of "hex" Corne 11
to stretch a will, like pure flourine, wiring was used
cablo from Jock- severely corrode and sometimes telephone
Florida to Boston; and many metals and all the building alding needed would
or- Ignite
touches If It
Querolase of
noorly
200
six-room
Then the cup would fall, spilling the wine." I grant that." "Bat It reasonable that the cup, in falling, should land table as we upright on the
It? found
This
over- was
Further whelmingly unlikely.
1 evidence made it impossible. lifted the cup, if you recall, when I first examined it. a
Underneath it, covered by it, marked you BOW-?", "Scratches."
interrupted. "A dangerous man, yes," "Scratches, and spilled wine." agreed Holmes, "But you have He might die seen his character. "Precisely, Daley would on, but not instantly. If the kill. But he would not dill and
conceal." cup fell from his hands, are we to assume that it hung suspend-
"Conceal what?" the air, and afterwards
"Reflect
Watson. again, The descendext
scratches over
som Though we know that he was Watson. No. the wine?
not drinking with Daley in the There was, as you pointed out.
recoil
With banqueting-hall, he might have mechanism. Daley dead, some living hand returned from the river just in picked up the
cup from the time to find Daley dead, That
the
and cup. Hoor. Some ilving hand puthed was when he thrust the blade hack the blade into the cup and back into
But guilt? No. upright again. set it upright on the table."
His behaviour, his willingness to be arrested, can be understood been shielding
materials only if he had
genic them in the presence A gust of rain blew out of the someone else."
I followed my friend's gaze. And yet this
the material houses. dreary sky, but my companion
from which had never moved
that must be fed into the When your pound of uranium, remained motionless.
direction of Lavington gaseous-diffusion planis at Oak in the form of "hex," arrives at "Holmes," said 1, "according the "I will accept it as a memento
Court.
Ridge, Paducah and Portsmouth, Oak Ridge, it is into this re- said he.
to the butler-"
"Holmes," I cried, "then who Moreover, the "hex" must be markable
system that it 19 of a very gallant man,
"According As Halmes and i'made our
set that diabolical mechanism?" { used in the form of a gus, and plaasd. £ goes into one of the Yes?"
"Think, Watson! Who was yet at room way up the steep lane in the
+ it is many compartments as temperature
hot "Sir Reginald Lavintgon was
a solid. person who uttered actually
To make it gas, and from there it is cycled wind-swept darkness, we turned
and drinking with the Colonel.
At the only
into a gas, therefore, its tem- and recycled through thousands at the brow of the hill
us suppose a woman has erred perature must be raised. This of other compartments and past looked down on the old manor- least, Daley is reported to have that one word Jealousy"?
its lights
dimly said Bo."
means that while it is in the thousands of barriers until part house with
"And, as
he said so," com- before her marriage, but never reflected in the moat.
plant it must of it can be drawn off as "gas ofter it. Let us suppose, more gascous-diffusion mented Holmes, "gove 50 over, that she believes her hus-be kept relatively hot, a con- containing virtually pure curious a laugh that Gillings band, a man of the old school, dition which adds to its cor- uranium-236. could not
forget it.
Had the would not understand. She Is rosiveness.
Bit By Bit meaning, ulterior
of that most The way in which the But I had better way at the mercy
it thus presented were society problems
This is the way works: all parasites, a vicious of all lest I make you un
of the When your "hex" has been an present solved comprises She is blackmaller. after the fact like
most interesting stories in the serted into the plant, and after when the blackmaller drinks a
own choice from entire atomle energy programme, about half of it has passed his own toast-by the Luck of Lavington. But,
it consisted of an all through the first barrier into the since she is obliged to slip away
research effort to find, or to next ward compartment, the develop if need be, a group of remaining half slightly de at the entrance of the butler,
and plastics oils and waxes
cit that pleted in "235" is drawn the blackmaller Inughed
Watson would be immune to the intense and sent backward to a Hed.
com- Say no more, Let the past sleep."
corrosiveness of uranium hexa- partment at a lower stage in the fluoride. Now, if there is any chain. This must be done by thing in the world that is halves, because it all. or too
fluorine, it is quite much of the gas in immune to obylously fluorine itself. my not surprising, therefore, at compartment were permitted to pass forward to the next stage, this research effort led to the the proportion of "233" in the development of a whole series suceceding stage would not tr
crease. The whole purpose of of brand-new materials in which ce
main is one of the fluorine
the
to ill- plant, of course, constitucrits.
case that proportion bit by
"What error, Watson?"
"In
an
to
the butler?
said
"By no means. I would draw
"I do feel, Holmes," said I, laugh your attention to the small silver
Watson? "that you owl-gures on the crest of the somewhat nettled,
look closely,
owe me an explanation. When no more, handles. If
If you you will see that the right-hand I tried to polut to you an error accessory one tums on a pivot. I belleve in your case, you indicated myself"
"You do me less than justice, plainly that you wished me to this to act in the same way as a
Holmes, should I become acces safety-catch on u rifte. Unfor- speak no further."
fact in a good tunately, these old mechanisms
sory after the to groan, he are apt
You explanation of how the cause." become unreliable of the ceni-
my Judgment," with the passage
cup worked. By the release of turies."
a powerful spring from a trigger Sherlock Holmes, "one of the Gregson whistled.
the handles, it best of causes,” controlled by
Then you may rely on my would have been quite easy to make the blade strike.
But to silence." push it back again, unless this
"Be it
it so, Watson! Now con- behaviour of Sir done by hand so that the sider the
For blade could be caught again in Reginald Lavington,
acted very the mechanism-that, my dear innocent man
Sir that mean
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living
a man
Let
As you wish. I am silent," "It is a cardinal error. dear fellow, to theorise without s data. And yet, when we first entered Lavington Court yester- day evening, I had a glimpse of the
truth." "But what did you see"
Why of
As we turned away towards
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Saw
the
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Are Sherlock Holmes combinations of fluorine and thousands of stages in the plant, the Arst, anid he, "that no preferred to be arrested.
of such nodded over his shoulder.
carbon are colourless, odourless, with each molecule of the #225 murderer
have should Daley, could
Д palo, beautiful harmless, and chemically stable, gas inching its way gradually stabbed Daley, and that some different character from
one
of the most appealing forward through the plant thing Whe
with wrong
the host, pay frequent visits to this woman descend a staircase, as
ot once I had seen
that
they ally appearance of the crime as we house? What was Daley doing stage. Have you forgotten an-gs about them' is.
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way sow it
there? Interpret the meaning of
also resistant to practi- but are "You deduced this from the Lavington's statement, I know
hostess named Lady Macbeth?"cally everything else, including ment is so slight that it takes direction of the wounds?”
his character now! We saw the
fire, water, Hoạt That, yes
most acids even the "speediest" molecule But there were
answers to these questions
the culprit In the many months to pasa, through other facto equally
and oxygen, played out in deadly pantomime,
atmosphere that causes the the entire plant, and the volume tive."
To me it suggested the blackest
fairly rapid deterioration of so of gas at, the lowest stage is "Your behaviour suggested as of all crimes, blackmail."
many similar subsances.
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I exclaimed,
Here is case,
then, where than it is at the uppermost, see what facts,"
"was guilty after all. He was
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A NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES STORY STARTS ON SATURDAY
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His lyric
a neweries of materials that will Critical Mass
inevitably find many important
applications in the manufacture
of such things as tough, long-
the is now highly
to the Indispensable
Who removes
Once out of the plant, "hex"
that
wearing plastics, oils, and enriched by uranium-235 goes
paints. I know this
For Mottan, but it is
based on
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the knowledge that at least one fluorine, leaving, anally, pure. now, valuable uso for fluorocar- uranium-238 motal. This metal exactly like normal bons has already been found-in looks the production of plastics for natural uranium, and, as a costly metal products matter of duct, it is exactly like protecting from corrosion and for Insulat normal natural uranium, except ing electronic equipment. › for two interesting differences. ... it is ever so slightly lighter, and Oak Ridge
it will it brought together into Now thas your uranium, in the a "critical mass" explode, like form of "hex" is ready for its an atomic bomb. Journey through one of the As with
plutonium, Energy Commission's amount of uranium-285 that has gaseous-diffusion plants, emerg It is placed in a metal container, of oro is but a fraction of di emerged from your original toli constructed for safety our
vitha Oak Ridge, where the first plutonium, this product goes from Oak Ridge deep behind gaseus-diffusion plant ever built the clock of scenery to the
still in operation.
Today it bids' fair for Inclu- 69 and sent, let us say, ce. And also: ***
is interested, one The the writer heaves his effort into slon in the hit parade.
по
io
And there's little romaneo in NO the Ordnance Survey the Alloy for the ordinary "hack"
who markets his wares there. man, it is just plain-
writer called it If a song looks a likely win- Denmark Street. But this ner, the publisher pays him a "Until," But there were so shabby lane behind London's "consideration" fee of about many songs called "Until" that Charing Cross Road is the £15, then tries to plug it to the public all but ignored it.
The American publisher 20 capital of "Moon, Joon, Toon
and crooners. top-line bands
Should the number "click" the exported it to Tin Pan Alley's Land." It is Tin Pan Alley,
publisher
concludes contract Maurice Publications, where an clearing house for half the with the writer, ensuring that Oxford-educated lysie writer Atomic
"To Be Or Not To three both get their dues from its dubbed it world's “popular” music.
Bo," Here, the cale signboards are publication and performance, garganfum musical notes.
But if no air. Jangles with searching plano chords as tomorrow's hit parade the wastebasket and starts again.
HYMN L'AMOUR The ja born.
his £15 publisher kisses And to this unkempt hundred t
Now and again u genuine
operated the songs published in
for the Commission by places where it is machined and
stored in stomic bombs. finally publishers, band Come
are Brlush, Big bust- heart-cry the Alley
hits the juke box the Union Carbide and Carbon fenders and song writers to pay mess is done by the "importers" public via the Alley,
You will recall that plutonium Buch a Company Komage
deteriorates so slowly that only Oak Ridge is a busy town of date of it b at the court of King who buy up the British rights story started in France's big-
Font £24,000 Juke Box,
about 35,000 people, mestlad in--a - iN J But the "frontier" is closely reached the US. hit parade.
of numbers that have already time boxing rings,**
When Marcel Cerdan, bril- long, narrow valley, stretching years. In this respect, uranium--
only half guarded.; No "welcotno" lan
will be gone In These arrive fully edited and liant French middleweight, died, between two moderately arts, 230 is even botter, for | hangs out for amateurs."
arranged and go straight to the in a plane crash, a heart wooded ridges in the hills of of
eastern Tennessee," "
about
out 20 million. years. Like plutonium, public.
broken girlfriend put her wet of Knowles was then, it is so far as we a Continental and Latin Ameri- grief to music.
by the concerned, a slable, permanent, can imports stay in the Alley And Hynin L'amour" was built during the
Army Corps of Engineers and material of immense value, for - Usually publishers Interview Just long enough to have Eng» - bor
retains many
my of the out.
'can be used, not only as an only professional song writers in Lyrics dubbed in Pubila It reached Tin Pan Alley and still
yards
OFFICE TO OFFICE
It.
Some of those like medieval ers say this is harder than com was presented to the English ward features of a framb -if it: nood never be used.
speaking world as "If You Love me.”
here and there a weapontas fuel for
Plante
troubadours move from office to posing an entirely new number office: Trying to sell, their mam- The newestat din lyrics are
dormilory,cap power D tablished stick to one puguisher, the originaeually because of has 1 Lake 11s chance in the It Leh oben city's Visitors camping in noarby cafea or in rhyming mags, Sometimes the Allay's hurty burly survival of may drive into it hos In lu Fromp); funt, around: the comer story of the song is changed the allest Soon it will join a stoves VIII
Visit ita Homes, and 24 Baldom is a) sóng bought out- and the title altered. Find thousand other numbers into a browse Chicht and Borkhan on Ey from ror Insumos Rome and the public int PR SENTA Puble
ber-Olbers the better) ošt seldom a straight translation of Bust évon a genuina heart-a and know. Armycxplosiva in weapons, but" aleb
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