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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1954.

The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle

Concluding The

WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR

Sherlock Holmes is investigating the mystery of the man who worships an umbrella he will never allow out of his sight. This man, a diamond-broker called Cabpleasure, is also suspected by his wife of having stolen diamonds from his partner. But when Holmes and 'Dr Watson'arrive at

The NEW Exploits of

his house in the morning to intercept a secret meeting, they SHERLOCK

find that Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard is also inves- Lestrade intercepts a milkman on tigating the mystery.

Then Mr Cabpleasure makes an appearance at his front door, but he has evidently forgotten his umbrella,

his rounds.

He goes back into the house-and disappears.

PART THREE

пева

1

LOWLY the sky strengthened to such wintry bright- two that the gaslit windows, which have mentioned as glowing from an upper, floor, were paled by the sun. Censeless- ly the search went on, with far more police constables than seemed necessary.

At the end of a full hour, during which Holmes had not moved, Lestrade rushed out of the house. His face wore a look of horror which I know was reflected in my own.

true, Mr

Holmes! "It's His hat, his greatcout, and his umbrella are lying just inside the front door. But "

"Yes?"

that the " take my oath villain's not hidden in the house, and yet they all swear he never

left it eithe

"Who in the house now?"

1

Last night, "Only his wife. after I spoke with him, it seems he guve the servants a night off. drove 'em out of the Almust house, his wife says, without a word of warning. They didn't much like 1. soine of 'em won- they would go dering where but they had no choice."

Holmes whistled.

Holmes

HOLMES

pleasure. My telegraphed in- "Afterwards," said Holmes, "l quiry as to the 30 diamonds in was not difficult to trace you the Cowdel-Derningham purchase through the Purity Milk Com- was caused by caution pany, or to send you the Judl- making certain he had brought clously worded telegram which these diamonds safely home. It has brought you here. A photo-

he took the diamonds, he had graph of James Cabpleasure

them with moustache

a perfect right to take Harold Mortimer Brown."

a

eliminated,

shown to your employer,

Then James Cabpleasure was closed the fact that he was the not a thier But, if he had not same man as one Alfred Peters, meant to fly the law, I was who six months ago applied for at Ioss to account for his be a post with the milk company, haviour. It was seven o'clock and obtained two days" leave of

for Tuesday

and that night, and I heard Holmes's absence

on the stairs, Wednesday. familiar tread

"Yesterday, in this room, your when inspiration came to me.

"Pray enter," cried I as the wife informed us that on Tues-

'returned' from you knob turned, "for I have found day

Seemed To Rise

Like A Lean Avenger

lust night she

think it was that?"

"Because it could have been nothing else."

The "Well, it's gospel truth, tady is accustomed to drink cup of hot meat-juice an hour before going to bed. That meat- juice last night was so doused with powdered oplum that there are still traces in the cup." Les- trade's face darkened. "But the less I see of that lady, by George, the better shall like 11."

I can do here."

"You can't leave now!" "Not leave?"

"Very well," said he, "Thero are reusons why I should prefer to be silent for the time being. But perhaps I may give you a hint, Had you thought of dis- Ruise?"

FOR

*If Mr Cabpleasure had in

he had disguised "Because himself as a police-constable."

only

you, 11 I already suggested a hoax or imposture designed to deceive your wife."

**By Adrian - Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr

"I must congratulate you on VOST Impersonation," raid Holmes.

leave her. But why could you openly, with a not leave her legal separation, and not this

disappearance mummery of a into nowhere?"

Our guest's fair-complexioned face went red.

been

"So I should have," he burst out, Glo: la had not

married already married me."

ان

when she

GORDON DEAN'S REPORT ON ATOMIC PROGRESS: CONCLUDING INSTALMENT-

Guarding Our Secrets

ECURITY and onetime physicist in the secrecy are not Canadian project in Toronto during the war, and from 1040 aynonymouя. The

until recently one of the top first is an ultimate theoretical physicists at the objective of the country, Harwoll Laboratory in England. be recalled that may one. pontecorvo, on a sudden flight

the latter simply method used, and sometimes

ZE

abused, in achieving it. But from Home to

with his security in the narrower wife and two children, probably Stockholm, disapporosinki, via sense the protection of our behind the Iron Curtain. He secrets from theft and our was presumably motivated by 'a to assist the Russian property from harm-le-desire

atomic energy project. servea a chapter in this

Bruno Pontecorvo was an serles because it is one im- entirely different Lypo of portant means by which we personality from Klous Fuchs, try to achieve

trailer total master

and worthne member of the United Kingdom security, and

because one scientifle team and certified as out of every four employees having the highest clearance of in the Atomic Energy Com- that country. But he was a mission, one out of every 25 type that would perhaps be even more dimcult to detect in any

of

He

Undesirables

our contractors' em- investigative procedure. ployees, and probably as much as one out of every twenty dollars spent OTI

was a man with a com- operation of the

atomic encregy programme are de- plete absence of fanaticism and moral gloom. Unlike the mousy, voted in one way or another retiring Fuchs, Pontecorvo was to maintaining it.

In addition, last year it free, gregarious, handsome, and

men

required about 925 years of investigatory work on the part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation..

Three Parts

1

in general,

That she found herself growing "That is a modern house, Wat- last!"

was drugged? "I quite agree," said Holmes, the only possible explanation at unheard-of six months' absence in Amsterdam and Paris. That Irresistibly drowsy, and hos Ron, or at least one bullt within Flinging open the door, Holmes was suggestive. Taken together only recently rewakened?"

the last 20-odd years. Present- glanced quickly round, and his with your curious conduct as Lestrade fell back a step, as day builders, unlike their ances face fell.

regards the umbrella-which you from the eye of A

fors, seldom include □ secret "What Is there no visitor? did not prize when you purchased though

had when

you cannot see, Yet, perhaps But 1 sorcerer.

AMC Holmes, why do you Lestrade, that there is any more yes, premature. My dear Watson, decided on your plan--and your that the Incredible statement I

What were you apologise.

umbrella would be the death of saying?" "No! You may be a theorist feet vanished," sald 1, as he and not practical, but I can't scanned the telegram. "It would

"Sir, let me tell you~-~!" deny you've given me a bit of have been the miracle Lestrade

"One moment. Shaving off help once or twice in the past. called it. But miracles do not

nineteenth cen- your moustache, for six months If you can guess how a man happen in the

Halmes, our diamond- you drove that milk-round; and vanished by a miracle. It's your tury. duty as a citizen to tell me." broker only seemed to vanish. I have no doubt you enjoyed it.

"I beg your pardon?" 'returned' as Holmes hesitated.

He was there all the time, but On Tuesday you

*Mr find that

made Cabpleasure James Cabpleasure. I we did not observe him."

Clarefather, the wig- grimace, Messrs.

with asdelen vivid "How so?"

with flash

which personality, makers, supplied you real-hair duplicate of your last showed what he might have

In moustache.

dark winter accomplished as a comic actor, weather or by gaslight it would

"Oh, you can prove easily deceive your wife, since the lady time

takes small Interest in you and enough! Since she longs to go Lestrade grip-

know you

occupy separate back to her rent husband--never we

mind who he is: It's an august hal Holmes, who was in the act ped his

rooms. cape and both of hanging

up his With

"Quite deliberately you seled name I'm narald Gloria wants Ab- cloth

cap on the book behind

to be rid of me, preferably by fna violently suspicious manner. he the door, turned round with his On Tuesday

I can Tuptly

night you staged sering me in gaol. Bu turned round dark brows drawn together.

that sinister scene with a

earn money, whereas the august "Continur" Raid he,

to try. und looked up

'Tellow-conspiratori personage is too lazy "In this very at the window

room, Holmes, existent

sald that her drive

outside a window, hoping to and Gloria's prudence hos

into

come notorious," Those wile your plated

with

made him u husband's moustache

which you vigorous measures

you "By Jove, Watson!" muttered We know which it resemble a constable.

believed she was certain to take, Holmes. "This is not too thing," haughty superiority

seemed nothing could shake.

น him to be a fine mimic, with

Wednesday On

the rising. It supplies the George, whispered reprehensible sense of humour.

a fancy dress police- visit of inspector Lestrade, who lins. Did I not say the Lestrade, "When I was here las. To procure would have been perhaps not

e insisted too much on her night I never saw Mr and Mrs man's

” ના ના Cabpleasure together. That may easy.

am tired of her and disappearance

I am tired of her superiority: back again, in the holl. house and walked

safe to go ahead.

and now at 40-dd, I wish only was in that he then put on the uniform. In that it was

the

and servants

to sit in peace and read. How- the half-light, and one

with so many Dismissing

drugging your wife, you left the

acknowledge ever, sir, let me went, house. about. he there. That constables

unul he could unobserved

halless and that it was a cad's trick if you "This morning, without Now it was flolmes's turn to Excellent,

Watson! IL

a greatcoat you had the insist." effrontery-don't smile, sir!-lo only when I have been with Very good indeed."

"At least she has made a good recovery, for I perceive her now at the window.

"Never Lestrade.

#3ld how

hunds.

up

mind ber." "Just tell me that thieving diamond-broker vanished slap under our eyes."

"Holmes,' said 1. "Kurely "By the there is only "The wifer" sak be,

one explanation. Cabpleasure departed by where Mrs Cabpleasure contem- Mrs Cabpleasure way, how is it that through all Mr

neither some secret way or passage." we have this tumult

"There's

such Mo seen nor heard Mes Gloria Cab-

that shouted Lestrade, possible 12 11 pleasure?

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"By

nothingness

After

the misdirection

men, told

projected

non-

be-

"

to

extrovert. He was care.

And at the same time.

able,

athletic. he was an

respected, and

imaginative scientist."

A thorough investigation of

Fontecorvo's background would have

revealed something that he never particularly tried to hide, namely.

thot his brother in

at

may

And

and

what the Com- Italy was a Communist. mission is trying to do with its yet, from his demeanour security programree is to protect from anything he ever said or that information, developed in wrote, one would suspect Bruno of all the the laboratories and processing Pontecorvo least facilities, which would strength- sclontists gathered Harwell.

Different ns they

be in in the atomle might of an un-

In World War personality. both Fuchs friendly power.

and and Il we sought

category keep this in Pontecorvo fall into a formation from a Germany that of undesirables which is most Irad launched upon an atomic difficult to detect. Such people ency programme of her own, we drawn by an ideology to find Today we stok, in the final that spot from which they can analysis, to keep such informa- most

commit effectively tion from the Soviet Union-and traitorous act. They are smart! with very good reason,

blessed with they

education; No self-controlled. Roughly, atomic security falls they

three main parts. First, party cards for them, no foolish personnel security-the protee acts, and no rules and regula- tion of the programme against tions other than the rules and untrustworthy people; scoond, regulations and loyalties of their physical

own creed. And yet they will security-the protection own

and laboratories appear superficially to abide by sabotage. theft,

the rules and regulations of the against

In vandalism; and third, document society

which they ilve; there of our

Is no evidence of the security-the protection

revolutionary in their day-to- secret papers against theft and unfriendly eyes.

day acts. Personnel security

you

night the most subtle you

sur- Fast lasty

into

that

prcount for the false moustache with which he walked from the would have witnesses for your married name of Cubpleusure" of our plants

I found hidden Only one house this is person tucans"

person

morning,

11

be taken aback.

Ja

"Lestrade, what has got into Lestrade that I learn to volue drive the milk-wagon straight

your head at this late date?"

you.

up to your house, where in that "I have found the solution?" pitch-dark entry you played the

it B

is not, I fear, quite good part of two men.

recall,

"They can't deceive me. It Mr Cabpleasure is the SIERU person as Mrs Cabpleasure, if he or she simply walked out of

said, if

enough. Mrs Cabpleasure atsu

If you

that her

the house in mon's clothes and husband was of medium height then walked back in again--I and had no more figure than

hop-pate, by which she meant he

thin WDK

or lanky. That this was a fact I proved today by

see it all now!"

"Lestrade! Stop Wait!"*

lated the height or the beef of moustache. It

"Come!" sald Holmes.

"I am not the ometal police, Mr Cab- pleasure"

"My name is not even Cab-

how

even

and

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poses the These are the people, of most difcult problem of all course, who can do us the most

to keep

a single harm. They are also the people rotten apple from entering the whom we are Jenst likely to AEC barrel. So for the Com- suspect. Being smart, composed, mission has been fortunate, and plausible, they will quietly Commissloh seek their place and abide their Since the civilina Gasumed its duties in January time, 1947, no person in the pro- gramme has been charged with arrested, or convicted.

you pleasure. That was forced upon trdi. much less

"DESCEND - ING from the wagon, disappeared into the entry me by my uncle, who founded the business. My real name is the milk Phillimore,

Phillimore. James man. Inside, Well! I have put all my posses- niready pared, lay Mr hat, and

as

PT

Blons into Gloria's name, except 28 costly and negotiable

dia-

Indy Villa. He could not have simu- Cabpleasure's grequired only monds. I had hoped to found "Holmes,” cried I. "ean this a Metropolitan policeman." eight seconds to put on hat and a new life as James Phillimore,

end

The

and

Out

rushed back in

You strategist, 60

name.

aware,

Assume

"We have female searchers in was these days," said Lestrade, dash- many photographs of him in the ing towards the house. "They'll drawing-room ot Happiness soon prove whether it's o or a gentleman.

monstrous theory

free of a blasted ally "But mine is the last possible coat, and hastily to possibly be

tuffixx Irue?"

'explanation!"

moustache which on that occa-

have been defeated by a But I

do whal "Nonsense, Watson."

"I think not. There is only sion need be seen only briefly master "Then you must restrain ono person who meets our from a distance and in half- you lik

"No, no," said Holmes, bland. Lestrade. My dear fellow," I requirements of height

Already you have

made ly. expostulated presently, as Mrs figure, and that person

you walked As the Cabpleasure disappeared from There was a loud clamour and elegant diamond-broker, seemed one bad blunder, though I was the window

piercing fangle of the bell from below.. a

to remember your missing deplorably late in seeing it.

When female shrick indicated

"Hark!" said Holmes. "It Is umbrella, and that

a milk-wagon is driven to Lestrade had imparted

the the visitor, the step upon the again. It took but a moment to to the front door instead of

tradesmen's entrance, the intelligence of what he proposed stair, the touch of drama which throw the trappings Inside the the

foundations of our social world to do, "this is unworthy of you. I cannot reslati Who will open front door, together with an

to help Whatever we may think of the that door, Watson? Who will umbrella already left there, and are rocked. If I am lady's manners, especially

slam the front door from the you in forming this new life- in open the door?" commanding you to be here in a

door opened. Clad in outside. Again you reappeared

"If you are to help me?" condition, you must spåre

clothes, with cope and as the milkman, completing the erled our visitor. ceremony of an su forced countable bil, our visitor stood illusion that two Inen had "Then you must not be be- visit to the police station!" upon the threshold. I found passed each other.

trayed by a real name of which myself looking incredulously at "Though Inspector Lestrade someone is sure to be a long, clean-shaven,

familiar honestly believes

he saw two From diplomatic necessity, until foce.

men, we all observed that the the day you die, Watson shall "Good evening, Mr Al

dis- your. was far too dark for this call the problem of entry Peters," sald Holmes. "Or to have been possible.

But we appearance unsolved, "Yet I am not at all sure." should I say-Mr James Cab- must

choose. not too much

what other name you blame sald He, thoughtfully, "that the

pleasure?"

Lestrade. When he stopped the But Mr James Phillimore must lady would be greatly harmed Realisation smote

more bo me like a milk-wagon and swore he had never

seen in this by such on enforced visit.

seen you before, it was no mere world!" Indeed, it may serve to teach blow, and I all but staggered.

"I must congratulate you," bullying. He really had seen her salutary lesson. Don't continued Holmes, with stem- you once

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"I have said had no Holmes

you I recall a done. "I must pursue

- conspirator; certain lines admirably

strictly case at Riga in 1876, allow this

Yet is true. of inquiry which may take all and it

It is faintly reminiscent Meanwhile,

since day.

surely you must have shared the my of

nominal your address is readily accessible to Winersonation by our secret James I feel anyone,

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Instead of assuming a prehension rendered him useless, Lestrade's mood

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at the tache in the hall. Still, the a guinda it, he took me there in eyes which crinkled-

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Sherlock story starts on Saturday.

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

to prevent this?

Investigations

access

The Fanatics

of

or

turn now to another

Most of the other categories In spite of every precaution of dangerous people are easier the Commission may take, how to guard against-for example, ever, the law of averages sug- the mentally deranged, the gests very strongly that some- overt fanatic, the sanssiri. where in its vast programme a These can either be detected by traitor may appear. What n clever diagnosticlurs,

is being done guarded against by the erection precisely, then,

of steel fences and the employ- ment of guards who know" how to frustrate their unreasoning plots. These are the "blunt" First of all, the law requires fanatics, and their very bluntness that

gives them away. of the every employee Commission, and every employee

Let's of the Commission's contractors phaso security what we who has

to know ng "physical security." restricted data

(information This has do with guards and relating to the production of fences

and locks How tight fissionable material and the should this kind of security be? making of weapons), shall be A sensible answer can only be Investigated by the Federal found by constant examination Bureau of Investigation, or by and

the the new Investigatory office of question: "What's Inside the the Civil Service Commission, fences, and whom do we want as to his character, his associa- to keep cut?" tions, and his loyalty,

To illustrate the kind of Each of these Investigations question with which the Com takes from 58 to 100 days, de- misalon ia dally faced, it was at pending upon the background one time proposed that the of the prospective employee, and entire Nevada proving ground each costs an average of about area, where atomic weapons are $200. In fiscal year 1952 there tested, be fenced in. This were nearly. 00,000 such would have called for: some 115 investigations, and when the files miles of fence at a cost of about

examined were

by the AEC

$200,000. scourity people about one per

cent of the persons involved in these cases were denied employ- ment because of

J0-

In

derogatory

energy

re-examination

Temptation

of

"But why?" we asked, "tig it. formation that was turned up to keep out Soviet agents?" The Commission early set up. There are bettor ways to do its own criteria for the selection this.

Certainly

We did

not of people for employment In

ment in want to fall into the trap of the atomic

are pearance of security, designed to exclude people who at times there

although Is a temptation are consklerce

d to be bad scourity to do exactly that, In the end, risits for any of the following we did not put up the fence, reasons: disloyally, bad or irres We put up small fences around ponsible character, bad ..or certain areas, but we determined dangerous associations,

eneral, these criteria ar fencing almply to give the "

Blackmail Risk

that the cost of fencing the whole area was not justified. Physical security of our p and laboratorios le primną:// The Commission was the first mal

maintained. to event sabotage

prevent agency to set forth in its security where sabotage would be criteria that no one could be.

materiala and documents of

employed who was a homose he costly, and to prevent theft of A few managed to slide by In valud

value-much the same reasoni the selection process, but they why a jeweller bara have been · fired as soon as windows. - Borbe in storage and discovered. From one of these our stores of plutonium

and

I learned how wise was our uranium-135 naturally require rulez At the highest m

..

and the tightest

r," he said,

aid, "permit a security, for they not only have

20l In the programme, great value intrinsically, but

The opportunities for blackman once, solzed, could be filmed are too great. I have never against us in the form been approached by a black weapons,

(mellor, but I have feared what

would do if I had been Don't through let them in. Mr. Chairman.

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