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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY

1954.

THE NEW EXPLOITS OF

SHERLOCK HOLMES

HOUGH

Taccustomed te a nice des

of

were you that I never guess?. It is a to re- shocking habit, destructive

"And yet, were I to adopt

grams at our rooms in Baker Street, there was one which served to intro- duce an affair unique event in the annals of Mr Sher- lock Holmes.

own somewhat didactic your manner, I should say that nothing affords less opportunity to the reasoner than a jelegram, because it la brief and im- personed."*

Then I fear wrong,"

you would be

"Confound 1, Holmes"

"Stop!" "orled 'Mrs. Cabpleasure se

By Adrian

Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr

his chair.

Sherlock Holmes rose from That is suggestivo. That is most: suggestivo!" My friend am afraid, Mra Cab looked thoughtful, "But of pleasure," said he, smiling, what? We-ves, yos, Watson? that much small talents as I What is 17 You appear to have

Impatient

possess might be unavailing to bowhough it was not often that

assist you in your problem, and

I regret exceedingly that you I ventured to vouchsafe my own have been troubled by this call, suggestion before Holmes had Good-day, madam. Watson, aaked for one, upon this occa will you kindly escort our guest son I could not stirely this

Cab-olmes," cried I, '

•

Mrs

downstairs?"

criod "Stop!" pleasure, biting hard at handsome Up.

Holmes shrugged his shoulders and sank back again into the eusy-chair.

You drive

a hard bargain, Mr Holmes. But it would be worth ten shillings or even guinea to know why on earth to look at me, cherishes, wor- my husband

is not too difficult? It har is an umbrella; it has a curved handle, which is probably thick. In a hollow handle, or perhaps some other part of the umbrella, it would be easy to hido dia- monds or other valuable, ob- 'jects,"

The ADVENTURE of the

Q

Our guest did not even deign "Do you imagine that I would have stooped to visit

Mr

you!

Holmes, if the answer were as simple as all that?"

"You ar

are sure it is not the true explanation?" Holmes nsk- ed quickly.

I had met Holmes for a stroll in Regent's Park one dark, drizzling, but not too cold, afternoon in Decem- ber, during which we dis- cussed certain. personal affairs of mine with which I need not burden the read- er. When we returned to the snug sitting-room al four o'clock, Mrs Hudson brought up the telegram along with 13 substantial ten-tray. It was addressed writes me a letter of a dozen respect, at least, you are cor- beg your pardon. I had no idea shabby umbrella, and will never over the Madame Dubarry Balon

to Holmes, and run thus:

"Can you imagine man wor- Husbands shipping umbrella? are irrational. Suspect chicanery with diamonds. Will call upon Gloria tea-time. Mrs

you

Cabpleasure,"

this?"

I rejoiced to see a gleam of flash in Sherlock Interesi Holmes's deep-sel eyes.

"What's this, what's suid be, as with unusual appetite he attacked the hot buttered scones and jam. "Highgate post- mark, hurdly a fashionable area, und despatched at three seven- teen. Study It, Walson."

be more

time-40 precise, it was late December

HIGHGATE

"Yot, consider. When a man

pages, ho may conceal his truo cloud of words, nature in When he is obliged to be terse, however, I know him at once. You may have remarked similar thing in pubile speakers."

"But this is a woman,"

band chanced to be. But in one

rect. There is something odd

even

disturbing-about that word 'Mrs. She insists upon it

ན་ too much."

was

his

Scr

MIRACLE

ships,

20

is on the point of

"My dear Watson, I do really you would take the matter

"For shamrici In popular esteem, at least, only the vulgar "My dear fellow!"

live at Hampstead and High- Abruptly Holmes rose to gate, which are usually pro- feet and wandere towards his

nounced without the aspirate. lt, Our gas wba "Yes, Watson, no doubt the armchair.

You may be making sport of fact makes a difference. But let and there

A cheery fro some wretched, ill-educated me have your views, Cornel

the dark, bleak female who against Apply to a study of this tele- drizzle which wo could

hear starving." gram your own natural shrewd dripping outside the window. "Hardly Watson. Though an But he did not sit down, Deep ill-educated woman might at- ness."

THUS chal- to concentration, bis

tempt brows

such words as irrational lenged

and knitted, he slowly stretched out and chicanery? she would be flattering my his hand towards the right side unlikely to spell them correct- self that In angle of the chimney-plece. A

ly. Similarly, since Mrs Cab- the The

tells I past had not been through of emotion shot plonsure

my being as he picked suspects false dealing in a mat- altogether un- up his violin, the old and be ter of diamonds, we may assume

loved Stradivarius which, in helpful

she does not scavenge her bread his moodiness and black humour, him, I did as

from dust-bins." he told me he had not touched "Mrs Cab- for weeks.

At this

of the year 1890-1

was

not

living in Baker Street,

but

I

hot cone for a few VINIL

clays

to

old haunts.

I was requested.

"Well,"

sald I.

to

since she makes an appointment without confirming It, and seems to thinit your time is her own."

"It is possible," continued pleasure is surely very incon Holmes, snatching back the tele-siderate,

to read it again, "that Krum

two in London be there may

and women with the singular

of Gloria even striking name Cabpleasure. But I doubt it."

"You are acquainted with the lady, then?

"No, no, I have never even seen her. Still, I fancy she must be a certain beauty-specialist who in any event, what do you make of this?"

"Well, it presents that feature

of the bizarre which is so dear

to you. Can you imagine man But it worshipping umbrella?

is a little difficult,"

A women, "True. Watson. however extravagant sho may large matters, is usually be in economien in small. Mira Cat pleasure has been so thrifty of her 'ans' and 'thes that I am not at all sure of her meaning."

"Nor 1,"

You

the years.

im- What

"Capital, Watson. prove with Clse?"

Inspiration rushed upon me. "Holmes, the word 'Mrs 30 compressed

message

I think I

A

totally unnecessary!

sec it "

D

woman

a certain ones, watson,

*

The light ran along saliny wood as he tucked the violin under his chin, and whisked up the less, my the bow. None friend hesitated. Ho lowered

violin and bow with some both thing

like a marl.

I have not yet enough said he, "and it is a

dala

cardinal error to theorise with- out dato."

"Then at least," said I, "it is a pleasure to think that I have deduced from the telegram as much you have

deduced yourselt.

"Oh, the telegram?” sald Holmes, as though he had never heard of it.

tig

that

idolises that pestilent

allow it away from his presence even at night!"

Whatever Holmes might have

felt, it was gone in his sense of

starvation for a fresh problem.

"Ah! Then your husband worships the umbrella in literal sense?"

"Did I not say Do?" "No doubt the umbrella has some great financial or senti- mental value?"

"Stuff and nonsensel I was with him when he bought it two and a half years ago. He paid seven and sixpence for it at a shop

in the Tottenham Court Road."

"Yet perhaps some

Idiosyn- ставу

.is

that

to

"Quite sure, I am sharp, Mr Holmes," said the lady, whose handsome profile did in' truth appear to have a knife edge. am very sharp. Let me illust

For years

rate.

after. my marriage I consented to preside de Beaute in Bond Street. Why do you think that a McRae of McRae would condescend to use such

cognomen 19 Cob pleasure, open as it is to com- meat from a primitive sense of humour?"

Д

"Well, madam?" "Cilents or prospective clients might stare at such a name. But they would remember it."

"Yes, yes, I confess to having seen the name upon the window. But you spoke of the umbrella?"

"One night some eight months ago, while my husband lay in slumber, I went privily into his sleeping-chamber from my own, removed the umbrella from be- sidh his bed, and took it down- stairs to an artisan"

"An artisan?"

"A rough person,

employed

in the manufacture of

Lumi-

Mrs Gloria Cabpicasure look- ed shrewdly calestinting,

"No, Mr Holmes. My husband selfish, Inhuman, and soulless. brellas, whom I had summoned It la true, since my maternal to Happiness Vilia, The Arbour,

The Highgate was

that purpose. This great-grandfather McRea of McRea, in Aberdeen person took the umbrella

and reale shire, I take good care to keep pieces

restored the man in his place. But Mr ingeniously that my husband Cabpleasure, aside from his was never aware it had beca examined. Nothing was con- cealed inside; anything

"She has been married for

And unhappily?" some years?

"We live in an age of pro- priety, Watson; and I confess I prefer it so."

What on earth has do with the matter?"

"Only a woman who has been married for years, and hence past h

her first youth, Will 50 candidly write in a telegram- under the eye of a post-office vicious nature, has never done all hus reason.” clerk-hor belief that bands are irrational. You must perceive some sign of unhappi- ness, logether with a domineer ing nature? Secondary inter- ence: since the charge of chicanery appears to relate her husband this marriage must be even more unhappy than are most."

"But her origin?"

to

without very

good

nothing is

to

10

-4103

cealed inside; nothing could bo concealed inside. It is a shabby HOLMES umbrella and no more." looked grave.

''Inhuman?'

Vicious

na

"None the less, madam, ho may set

set great store by the um- brella only as some men cherish ture?' These a good-luck charm." are very "On the contrary, Mr Holmes, serious' trems he hates it. 'Mrs Cabpleasure,' indeed. Does he has said to me on more than you one occasion, *that umbrella will be the death of me; yet I must not relinquish it."

he cruelly, then?”

Our visitor raised haughtier eyebrows.

or in an

course by

UBC

even

than a

"H'm! He made no further

"Better still, my dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes, throwing down his napkin and clapping his hands

without together polse. "I shall be happy to hear your analysis,"

"Mrs Gloria Cabpleasure, Holmes, is a

bride. Being

"Yes. Is there any point young still in the proud flush of her

which

ich I have overlooked?" newly wedded name, she is so

"Well, Watson, I fear you insistent upon it that she uses were wrong in almost every par-

"Pray reperuse the last sen-

"No, but I have no doubt be explanation?" it even

tence of the telegram. Only a In this message. What icular. The

woman who des-

"None. Arc

And even suppose he be more could

natural? patched that telegram has been Scot or an American says, "Will would wish to do so. James is

abnormally strong brute, keeps the umbrella as a good- Especially when we think of a

married for some years, and is call upon you when he,

he is only of middle luck charm, which he does not! happy, perhaps beautiful young no longer in her first youth. She this case she, means the 'shall' of though

is of either Scottish or Ameri- simple futurity, which would be height and has no more of what When in a moment of abstrac

by is

It called figure

hop- lion ho leaves behind for only But yes,

be good

well-educated and used as a matter of educated or pole. Fah, the vanity of meni a fow seconds, in houry or office can origin -to omit the well-to-do, but unhappily any Englishwomnx

uneducated. Are you answered?" His features are qulto non- why does he utter a cry of

You descript, but he is inordinately and hasten back for 117. If you very are not stupid, Mr Holmes, you proud of a very heavy,

But curves round his mouth like a I see the matter is beyond you.” horseshoe. He has worn it for years; and, indeed, next to that

Holmes was grey with anger umbrella

"Umbrelins!" muttered and mortification.

"Umbrellas! Forgive Holmes. the interruption, madam, but I should desire more details of your husband's nuture."

"It makes him look only liko a police-constable,"

"I beg your pardon?"

and come married and of a dominand, stay a moment!

disposition. On the other

not

"Does it mean that man worships a certain um- deacriptive passages brella? Ог Ls man in the to the point"

Englishmen perhaps, abstract,

"By Jove, I am sure of it" it is probable that she is que fact, that she must be hand- Klossy brown moustache, which must have some notion to bow desired

down to the sald I. It supports my first handsome. Though theseY Bro umbrella as his tribal deity and modest deduction too. The poor only trifling and obvious de shield against the climate? giri is inconsiderate, let us say, ductiunis, perhaps they may do."

what

deduce merely because she is pampered We Car

by an affectionate

young bus- From the tele- band."

least

from it?"

"Deduce? gram?"

"Of course,"

At

I was glad to laugh, since for that same brief time I had been feeling rheumatic and less than young.

"Holmes, we cannot possibly deduce. We can only guess,”

Th

how often must I tell

But my friend shook his head.

"I think not, Watson. If she were in the first strong pride of so-called wedded" bilss, she would have signed herself Henry Cabpleasure, or 'Mrs 'Mrs George Cabpleasure,' or whatever the name of her hus-

A few moments ago I had hoped to see Sherlock Holmes In such a mood, vigorous and alert, with the old mocking light in his eyes. Yet the bright patterned china rattled upon the snowy napery as I smote the table a blow with my fat.

"Holmes, this time you have carried a.jest too far!"

CHARGE ROOM

ROOM SCENE

HURE, and

I'll By TOM EYTON

“S tako on any two

of ye", the Irish

"Bo

on the lookout for

brown Chince boy, ugg five, hair....

"Come in In fact, there may not be any sailor roared.

nolac at all; perhapa the from.. here, you pale faced b", Inspector-on-Duty has slipped he challenged.

quietly into the corridor for a Inspector smoke.

The

Police

coloured slightly but re- Yet at times it can be the mained calm. The drunken most dramatie of places, full of sailor continued to pour out ife and activity. In these rooms abuse from the cell. Five people of all kinds come and go hawkers were ushered in; people who want help..... an elderly couple fidgeted people who have done wrong.... people who will stay behind to uncomfortably in the back receive Just punishment ground.

their crimes.

The room was nolsy and the

"A buffalo has wandered "An armed robbery has taken place, watch-all roads......

And so all night the machine tapa out its messages, keeping Polleo stations all over the Colony in constant touch for 24 a day. Descriptions can hours be circulated with complete ac- euracy in a matter of seconds.

IRON CAGE

as fancy but

some!"

"Ah, I can say only that It is And the hypothesis probable. comes not from the telegrain."

"Then from where?" "Come, did I not tell you I belleve her to have been

11

beauty specialist? Such ladies are seldom actually hideous looking, cise they are no strong

"It is a very pretty little problem," aald he. At the same time, 1 fall to see what action I

can take. So far I have heard no facts to fhilcate that your hus- band is a criminal or even in the least vicious.”.

darthen it was not a crime, I daresay, wh

when: yesterday he stole of diamonds a large number from a safe belonging jointly to to his business- partner, Mr Mortimer Brown?" Holmes raised his eyebrows. "H'm. This becomes very interesting."

advertisement- for their own wares. But this, if

I mistake

The moustache, I mean." not, is our client now."

"But does

your busband While he had been speaking

drink? Interest himself in other we heard a loud and decisivo ring

women? Gamble? Keep you of the bell

from

below. There was some delay,

short of money? What, none of himself and during which the caller presumably

these things?" expected our landlady to escort "I presume, sir," retorted Mrs her formally to our sitting- Cabpleasure loftily, "that you room. Sherlock Holmes, putting are desirous of hearing merely

yes," aald our fair away the violin and Its bow, the relevant facts? It is for you visitor, coolly. Yesterday, be- walted expectantly until Mrs to provide an explanation.

fore returning home, my hus-, Gloria Cabpleasure entered the wish to hear this elucidation I band paid a visit to his office. will tell you whether it satisfies Subsequently there arrived at She was certainly handsome- me. Would it not demonstrate our home a telegram sent to him tall, stately of almost quemnly better breeding on your part by Mr Mortimer Brown It bearing. though perhaps too were you to permit me to state read as fellows; Did you TE- rather brassy fair hair, and cold haughty, with an abundance of the facist"

safe 20 diu- thlo

to the Cowles Holmes's you clot in cables over a tightly. costly gown of dark blue velvet, she wore a belge hat ornamented with a large white bird.

room,

..

More

form

Derningham

closed mond ham.

Pray do so husband is the senior "Hum! Your husband showed partner of the firm of Cab you the telegram, then?"?· pleasure and Brown, the well- "No. 1 merely exercised a known diamond-brokers of Hat- perfect right to open it." ton Garden. Throughout the 15 "But you questioned him as to years of our wedlock-ugh!-wa. Its contents?" have seldom been separate for

A with more than fortnight's ・ timo

on the latest and sinister occasion."

savo

The latest occasfont" "Ya,

most

"Naturally not, since I pre- ferred to bide my time. Late last night, Chough little he sus sir. Only yesterday pects I followed him, my hus afternoon James returned home bond crept downstairs in his from a protracted six months night-r-crept downstairs and business journey to Amsterdam held a whispered conversation in and Parts, as idolatrous of that the mist with some unseen umbrella as ever. Never has no con just outside: a ground-Hour been more idolatrous, through window. I could overhour only qut the full year during which two sentences. Be outside the ate before eight-thirty on ho has worshipped it

Thursday morning sal my husband, 'Don't fall me!!!

"And what did you

R

Disdaining my offer to remove ...Ono corner of the Change her outer coat, while Holmes for Room is taken up by the iron performed introductions

bage in which prisoners are do-day courtesy, Mrs Cabpleasure Behind the huge desk, which talned. They are not necessarily cart round one glance which, Inspector was worried because is the main durniture of the

hawkers, Little boys our humble room, with its worn he would soon be off duty and office, sits the 1.0D, wually'à uma men and are, in fact, serined to sum up unfavourably who may be ship during the he had to deal with these cases, Sub-Inspector,

tegether for

heartbrug and acid. compirom PORTERIN

stained chemieni table. Yet she A Chinese was led demurely in Chinese or European, young or p

night Magistrate in

scated in consented to be

in my by a Corporal and a Constable. old, ambitioun or contented, they face the They saluted smartly and ad-friendly or offelous.....but all Court next day. And probably as arthchair, clasping her white dressed the Inspector in Can-

with one thing in common- little faster next time the Police One moment,

they sleep they resolve to run a gloved hands in her lap.

Mr Holmes toncse, The man, sight of bulia,

see them solling oranges on the said she, politely, but in a hard, stood quietly at the side of thee of responsibility.

In front of the 1.0.D, rests a a main road, or not to pay too brist, voice. "Botore I commit desk, and only about alx inches away from where I was standing, report-book, into which he must much attention to the shoos they myself to anything, I must ask meticulously write the concles were, khining but better to keep you to state the fee for your RESPECTABLE

details of every case he deals any cr

Police,

There was with. His facts must be accurate;

The bolophona is

phone is not just a before my friend answered. The sallor continued to rave, then carefully entered into the

"boom sitting with Kly, Anger "Outside the gate of our

of coursef piece of machinery it is an "My Yees never vary, unavo tips pressed together. Vandle his The Inspector looked from him book.

husband ent which can spell life when I remit them altogether long legs stretched out gave a always leaves for bionice to the little man who was just (9)

puncitially at 8.30. And Thure- Every time it ripp "Come Mr Holmes, I four you, calight mort. A beingy charged. Then he emiled A typewriter, a map, a for the first time that night and phone, the "No Smoking the TO.D., has no idea what I think to take advantage of the full madame day, Mr Holmes, that in tom

poor womint But in this co

demanded be, Ret said: "Thank heaven het quiet, they ate all partiated parcel may means to the the care I will not do prey ago youremas mok but then he le suspectable he's off the fascinating room that Perhaps it ta

Dionining «Had bought only a suspected murderer, comer halfway between the tot krow. If Harry 21 We "Indeed; madam w

catching of criminals and the Canteen, or perhaps a band "No, dr. Before I employ" brul two usa

what you will forgive me for driver. His having trouble with courts in which they are tried, fara Or then again may be teaming a professional spy and his worship dates

Ars to understal

Aweird anchine epits and the text call will be ray the big risk being overcharged,

"BIG" TEL:LOREh, that isʻllable: to burst

A Police Station Chargo Room is not always so exciting. Usually

it is fult of hawkers; or, perhaps libere; may only be a CRITTURINNE MCKe 7 doméstic

onthefeet-footed | professional services paund Sherlock Holmes, who had the meaning of ten take to bas

again panch you to fate your lab. You may [exheti

morning. Whatever

scheme, the rotéh bas

will" regch" frulHon

But you must