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BEGIN

TODAY

THE NEW EXPLOITS OF

SHERLOCK

I

to

HOLMES

FIND recorded in my notebook that it was on the afternoon

of Wednesday, the 16th of November, 1887, when the attention

of my friend, Mr Sherlock Holmes, was first drawn to the singular affair of the man who hated clocks.

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plain ever since the affair the notorious Blessington.”

of

I have written elsewhere "My dear Watson," said he, thart. 1 had heard only

"I begin to fear that life has become one fat and monotonous vague account of this mat ter, since it occurred shortly after my marriage. In- deed, I have gone so far as first state

that post-nuptial call on Holmes was in March of the follow ing year. But the case in question was a matter such extreme delicacy that trust my readers will forgive itx

by one suppression whose pen has ever been guided by delicacy rather than by sensationalism.

"And yet," remonstrated "surely this has been a year of memorable capes? You are over- stimulated, my dour fellow."

**Pon my word, Watson, you are scarcely the man to preach on that

subject. Last night, of after I had ventured to

offer you a bottle of Beaune at di- ner, you held forth 130 inter- minably on the joys of wedlock that I feared you would never have done."

fiy

A few weeks following marriage, then, my wife Whi obliged to leave London un t maller which concerned Thad- deus Sholto and vitally affected mur furture fortunes, Our tadw home

Flag insupportable

* IN

without her presence, for right lar fashion.

day's

|_ THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 1054

He rained blow after blow unit the

clock foll Ja tinkling ruins.

"Where Where Is

L

The

ADVENTURE of the SEVEN

CLOCKS.....

are

THIS IS THE THIRD STORY in the series of NEW mysterios of Sherlock Holmes. These stories

based on COROS referred to in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original works, but nover before recounted, The Adventure of the Soven Clocks is now told by Adrian Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur's son and literary executor, and John Dickson Carr, the mystery writer and a leading authority, on Holmes,

I received a good education and caught sight of Charles's man- such referentes ào I could servant,, who was standing in satis the background amid luggage obtain were fortunately factory, Lady Mayo, I must Ho le a small, spare man with acknowledge, is of somewhat mutton-chop whiskers; and fort:idding appearance. She is upon his face there was an of the old school, stately and expression only of embarrass- af austere. Yot to me

has ment and, though it hurts mo

the

HOTL

she

golten,

OF CORONETS AND HALF-CROWNS

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By WINIFRED GASKIN

ACH year for the past And it in doubtful wheher

two centuries a heavy welcome to the sons of some of hereditary pectago wiit be

cleric or A 'school › outsize family bible how teacher might prefer not to be. been compiled by a small addressed as "My Lord." London publishing house. It But some of the ancient linos is Debrett's-catalogue of are also near bankruptcy, De- Britain's pedigrees.

mands made by two successive" Debrett is not concerned war in addition to heavy death duties, have affected them more with the common man. It than any other section of the lists and details the family community. trees of about 950 "peers passed when the daring do of Indeed, the days have long

and life was spent in baronial halls.

Bought Command

and barons of the realm." tho nolles "made ibo walkin

that It records

England's premier Duke and Earl, Bernardin." Marmaduko Fitzalan Howard, otherwise the Catholle Duke of Norfolk, traces his ancestry to 1483. It notes that for neorly five hundred years have been constrained to believe

his family

that "Virtue alone is unconquer able" the motto on their ducal crest.

is crime, Watson? held a travelling-case with bizarre, where letters C.F. over some L10 that touch of the outre without Inbel, Her other hand was been kindness itself. In fnet, to breathe the word, of deep which a problem in itself is as pressed to her heart.

it was she who suggested that shame. sand and dry grass? Have we "Oh, please, please forgive we take the holklay in Switzer- "No word was spoken at the this intrusion she pleaded, in land, fearing that the isolation time, and the incident was for- lost them for ever?"

bui breathicus

low and of Groxto: Low Hall might de- "Hark" said. "Surely that a

For two days Chotics melodious voice. "Which

On because of press my spirits. In the train was his usual serene self. was the bell?"

is Mr Sherlock between Paris and Grindelwald the beg.

third "And someone in

morning when wo hurry, you, I Watson, if we may judge from

Holmes?"

we net-net Charles, 1 should met him in the dining-room for inclined My companion its clainour."

breakfast 11 happened again. say

Mr Charles Hendon," head

The

wide windows of Holmes had relapsed into the

the am Mr Holmes, This is my armchair.

tholr his anger dining-room had putting

heavy shui Dr Wat-tips together as was his wont curtains

partly drawn when he Was in a judicial gainst the dazzle of sua on the

Iirst "Thank heaven I have found mood,

dining-room you at home! My errand..........”

was fairly well filled with other Only BUT OUR you had met the gentleman guests taking breakfast.

then did I romark that Charles. visitor could he asked.

"Oh, yes!"

who had just returned from a fur- go no ther

"I bec,

how did the morning walk, still carried the than

muineen stick in his hand. "My errand." acquaintanceship come about?"

Breathe this air, madame!' A She

triding

mutter, Mr stan Holmes, We three were alone in mered, 72

will find

•You deep blush a first-class carriage. Charles's

invigorating Ga nny spread up

murmur

Just

of

run."

With one record we stepped to the window and looked down "MY DEAR fellow!

into Baker Street. The fog had friend and colleague. You

partly fted. At the kerb be- imply that i

fore our door stood a handsome was over closed stimulate coachman in very

carriage. A top-natted

Wax with wine? My friend closing the carriage door, whose regarded are panel bore the letter M. From

ne below came the In his singu volces followed by light, quick footsteps on the stairs, and the "Not with wice,

perhaps,"

door of our sitting-room WI8 suld be. "However!" And he

nung open. Indiented the newspapers. "Have Yet

you

glanced over the bulder- Auxt dash with which the Press have November. seen it to regale us?"

"I fear not.

Titis

His copy of British Medical Journal-

"Well, well!" said he "Here we find column opớn columits devoted to next year's racing season. scem perpetually to

IN

Ietumed to the old anetar Fluker

Sherlock Street. Holmes made me welcome with

the

out question or comment

I must confess that

lay. the

af

16th of began inauspiciously.

It was bitter, frosty weather. All morning the yellow-brown

WI, 3-

the foi pressed against alowe Latips and gas-jels were burning, as well as a good tire, und their light whone

seth 1

For

some reason

He

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over her face, and she lowered US were her yes. Gently Sherlock surprised. Holmes took the travelling-case unlik, to per from her hand, and pushed m

that armchair towards the fire.

"Pray be seated, madum, and compose yourself," said he, lay- ng aside his cherrywood pipe. "I thank you, Mr Holmes,

giving

our caller was a young Indy; a girl rather, since

"Then this was the first thng

And

By ADRIAN CONAN DOYLE! and JOHN

snow.

The

he was saying gally to Muya.

drinkl

Lady it food

as

or

thla "At

andl he paused,

the glanced

towards one of windows. Plunging past us, he struck heavily at the curtain and then tore it aside to dis- close the ruins of a large clock shaped like a smiling sun-face. I think I should have fainted if

[

| brett records all their efforts.

Lord

Lucan, for instance, bought the

The grundfather of

command of the 17th and jurned it Into the world's

most

Lancers,

clegant company of soldiers. The regimental mounts were thoroughbreds, and Che men's uniforms were fitted by a fashionable tailor all puld for бзда

himself.

A it

It shows that William Marma duite, 26th Baron Mowbray, in England's premier baron, with a family line going back to 1383, And that William

Marmaduke lives at Allerton Castle which,

All that individual splendour he Is a

JS a baron,

a

Kone, residence and not

SCBL

Last year Lady Marye Houa, Then there is a long Rst of the daughter of the Lord Lieutenant aristocracy's younger members of Suffolk, took 1 job Though some count their vintage waitress

Mayfair cafe. in centuries, the paint on the

Baron Mowbray delivers Prender escutcheons of others is hardly the morning alik on his 6,000- dry.

-acre farm, and works as handy- Ench bear a motioed crest, man to savo Jabour. Lord and composers of these crypto- Brougham and Vaux works grams muat surely have been the land, too. A lew months liard pressed to find new devices ago Lord Grantley, who th- over the half millennium. De heriled five "ordly mansions,

sold a diamond brooch from his collection of the Hanover Crown jewels--and

and jocularly explained "we all have to eat." There is the

When he had tes with bla "Pleasure in feats of arms" pf mother, Lord Grantley, ав The Barons Wharton, adopted in four-year-old chlid, was passed

ལས་ 1344 when feats of arms could through Innumerable halls from still be pleasant. There is the nurso to footnrst-in-waiting. footman, buller, and 400-year-old legend, "I hope for senior better things" of Buron Tor- steward before he was finally

Tor- announced | phlchen (pronounciation:

at

mother's akken), who in 1950 married boudoir as "Ma Norton." Mrs Isobel Fernandez (Phillips) But Lord Grantley has had to sell a house because he could In contrast is the plous "What not afford the servants to keep God will, I will," with which it going. the Baronetcy of Dormer Iden

£12 Hfled itself

1615. And epigrammatic, are the "Live that thou mayest live" and "What was lost is safe" of the Scottish house Falcons

Bloodthirsty

bloodthirsty

breakfast-tuble unclenred at The British public hat one much as eighteen, he be me lug into the chat lady s DICKSON CARK army Mave had not grasped my In contrast is the pious "What

Just mid-day.

horse can run faster than

-

Seldom in a girl's face have him a grateful look. "They say. other. Suurlock Holmes was moody

Again, for the dozenth I seen such beauty and refine sir, that you can read the human Curled up in time, we hove the Nihilists ment as well ng and distraught,

sensitiveness, heart." his armelady in the old mouse- hatching some dark plot against Her large blue eyes regarded

"Hum! For

poetry, I fear, Grand coloured

Duke Alexei

Her gown at the

al us with agitated appenl. dressing

you must address yoursel One entire with a cherrywood pipe in his Odessa.

leading abundant

bair suburn

Was Watson," mouth, he scanned the moring article is devoted to the doubt conflued in a rather small hat:

"That

read newspapers. now

Again and

tess trenchant question, Should uttering some derisive comment, Shop Assistants Marry?"

"You And Hitle of interest?" I asked,

I forbore to interrupt him, lest his bitterness increase,

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Miss Forsythe opened wide

eyes. when they have her large blue not à single word?* <

"I believe

it was

the window," 9" "They

said she. "Charles (I may tell overestimate powers."

my be answered, smiling, you that he has remarkable eyes "Beyond the obvious facts that and a heavy brown moustache) you are a lady's companion, bowed and requested Lady that you seldom travel yet have Maye's permission to lower recently returned from a journey the window. She assented and to Switzerland, and that your in a few moments they were errand here concerns a man chatting together like old who has engaged your affec- frienda."

I can deduce nothing."

The young lady gave a violent

start and I myself was

back.

taken

"Holmes," cried I, "this is too much. How could you possibly know this?"

"How, indeed?" echoed the

"Hum!

I aco."

Mayo,

sented

me

to

The journey

Grindel-

re

the

Mies Forsythe, who had moved her gloves, now pressed her hands against her cheeks.

Charles "But not only does smash clocks,' she went on. "He burles them in the now. and even hides them in cupboard of his own room."

Sherlock Holmes had -beca with leaning back in his chair

and his head his sunk into a half opened his lids.

cres ghlon, but he now

"In the cupboard?” exclaim- ed he, frowning. "This is even more singular! How did you

become aware of the circum- stance?"

"To my shame, Mr Holmes, i was reduced to questioning his servant."

"To your sha:ne?”

"You

In

Misa

of

Keith

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More And More

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More and more of the stately mansions

thas are passing to National Trust for preservation as historic monuments. In others, Imagination was probably at the family occupy only a section low ebb at the time of the while the rest decays around

"The day or them Sackville-Wests'

life,

and American-born

Occasionally a utie gues Sir Aubrey Brisco's Take

begging. The Goold family, a grateful hand," ns

well, as hereditary barons' of Ireland, Viscount Whnbourne's "By irou, have refused for years to assume not by sword." But there was their privileged position. In a revival in 1941 around the England tradition makes this time of Baron Leathers "While impossible.

my

I breathe I serve."

with

But the Conservative Govern-

Luckily, modern times allow ment has discussed the

DOESL- for scope in choice of mottoes, bility of changing the system. "I had no right to do so, In the days of chivalry, a knight For brilliant sons in the House LADY

in my ht mble position, Charles was supposed to live by the of Commons have often regret- would never-that is, I could motto he chose. Imagine the ted the need to exchange an turt pre- mean nothing to him! I had

confusion of thought and action Betive career for the twilight of today, if that were enforced the House of Lords us they 10 Charles, no right!"

had every right.

comers to mus! Amongst the late

titled mus do when their Forsythe," answered Holmes Debrett'a nro

And if the Conser poers created fathers die. ate 109 wald passed kindly. "Then you questioned by Mr Clement Altier during valves find a way, there will be

Labour quickly and the servant whom you describe the

Government of many acterred tiles atsu, with spare man

1945-51. Mr Altice ser no sooner as a small,

suggestion springs whiskers. His record,

honoured from For Lime nor had we entered the foyer of the mutton-chop

They Labour's ranks, battered by travel. Yet I need Hotel, Splendide, than there name?" not insult your intelligence by occurred the first of the horrible

decrees that peerages favour the creation of ycers for principle calling attention to the paper shocks which have since made

should be charlly bestowed. But life only. label of the Hotel Splendide, at Grindelwald

young lady.

5

"I see it, I observe it. The

travelling-case, though far from happily, And new, is helther

worn

in Switzerland, which has been affixed with

gum to the side of the case,”?

"But the

other points?"

insisted.

I

"The lady's attire, though in impeccable taste, is neither new nor costly, Yet she has stayed

yet,

my life wretched.

"Despite its name, the

hutel proved to be rather small and charming. Even then, I

know

Mr Hendon for a man of some Importance, though he had described himself modestly as a

name

115

Trepley,

beliovo.

More

up

Allother

Mr Attico's bestowals were in- So sult more change is coming, Ruenced by political considera- to the "privileged" classes. But tions.

the end of Debrett's is not in cant sight, For, like the monarchy, coronets and ermins claim for a seat only a suburban Britain's cottage purchased on mortgage. are woven into its daily life.

Many of

Altlee's peers than

once I have

Charles

Ad-

eur d

dressed him

Mr

single gentleman travelling with 114 "Trep. And I yow. at the best hotel in Grindel only one manservant. The Holmes, he is the faithfullest wald, and she arrives in a manager of the hotel, M. Bran- creature alive. Even the sight of earrlago of the well-to-do. Since ger,

approached and bowed his dogged English face was a her own initials, C.F., do not deeply both to Lady Mayo and comfort to me. He know, he. match the M. on the carriage to, Mr Handon. With M. Bran- felt, he sensed my-my interest, panel, we may assume her to ger he exchanged some words and he told me these things, occupy a position of equality in a low voice, and the manager Though he refused to say mo, I some well-to-do family, Her bowed deeply again. Where

could tell he shared my four. youth precludes the position of upon Charles turned round, Yet Charles is not mad! He la governess, and we are left with smiling, and then quite sud- not! You yourself must admit a lady's companion. As for the only his whole demeanour that, because of the Anal in- man who has engaged her altered. affections, her blushes lowered eyelids proclaim

and

Sk

cident."

Newell Rogers _Reporting_America

CENSOR SAVES FILM MEN

HOL

New York.

.

now

hundreds

to the ice to waltz and tango.

a friendly mutual understanding TOLLYWOOD has just between doctor and patient, 14. missed starting a big DANCING ON SKATES is "I can still see him standing ***Xcs?";

U.S.-Canadian row.

the new rage in Cincinnati, Ohio. there, in his long coat and top- "The final incident took place

The trouble is over a new. much. Absurd, is it not?"

promotors Ice hockey hat. with a heavy malacca only four days ago. You must Alm, "Dieppe Raid," about, hire the best orchestras to play "But it is true, Mr Holmes!" waiking stick under his arm. know that Lady Mayo's sulte cried our visitor, clasping her His back was turned hands together in even deeper an ornamental half-circle

towards included a small drawing-room the 1942 raid by 7,000 Com- alter matches. Then Forsytho, name is Celin ferns and evergreens surround. confring a slano, I ans pas mandos, mostly Canadians, of young spectators crowd on

devoted to music, and with some British and and for over a year I ing a fireplace with a

low have been companion to Lady mantel-shelf on which stood Lady Mayo and charierter French, and a few Ameri- ONE of the great injustices

Charles

under. U.S. Income tax Mayo, of Groxton Low Hall, in Swiss clock of exquisite design.

an tea.

On this ocassion I had cans. Surrey, Charlest

Jawa is being righted. A Con- "Up to this time I had, not. scarcely bogun to "Charles?

Canadian casualties ware 3,309 gressional committee votes to play when a That is the name even observed the clock. But. hotel servant entered with ni dead, wounded, and missing. exempt the first 1,200, dollars: of of the gentleman in question?" Charles, uttering a stifled cry, letter for Charles."

But the now fim shows the annual retirement income Miss Forsythe noddod head without looking up.

har rushed towards the fireplace, "One moment. · Did you ob- Americane everywhere. This is of old people from incorne

wrong, a Canadian censorship taxta "It I hesitate

Lifting the heavy walking stick, serve the postmark?"- to speak of ho brought it crashing down on

"Yes; it was foreign," him," she continued, "It is bo- the hood of the

Miss adviser pointed out. clock, and Forsythe spoke in some

had to pay as They have ha sur- Hollywood bosses remember much cause I fear you may laugh at rained

active wago

me.

blow after blow until priso. "But murely. It was of no the indignation in Britain over carners out of their tiny say- I fear you may think the clock fell in tinkling ruine importance, since you....?", me mad; or, worse still, that on the hearth.

another,

picture, "Objective: Ings. "Sinco I--what?” boor Charles himself is mud."

Burma," which showed Errol you may have been surprised A curious 2011 "And why should I think so, walked slowly back. Without a Then he turned round, and

of bewildermyn as a U.S. paratrooper ment was manifest in our Miss. Forythe?”

winning the Burma war. almost to read that actor Marion word of explanation he took client's expression Abd sho singlehanded..

Brando opened the door of his "Mr Holmes, he cannot endure but a pocket book, gave to M. touched the fine auburn hair So they are hastly remaking secret retreat. eagerly when a

Brangor 'n

which under the brim of her bat. A "Dieppe Raid" at a cost of thou- U.S.. marshal arrived to serve would ten times over have paid, though to drive away perplexity

him with a summons. "In the past fortnight, sir, for the clock, and began lightly she spoke rapidly,

sands of dollars, and for no explicable reason, to speak of other matters.ya

No Americans this time. he has destroyed seven clocks.

hoing scolded Association for telling patients;

the sight of a clock!"

"Of a clock?”

Two of them he smashed ~in public, and before

eyonin

my Own

Sherlock Holmes rubbed his

thin angers together,

Comve," said he, this is most

ontinebont curious,

While your parrative."

PI: despan of doing

Pray com

so, Me

banknote

"Charles tore open the letter, "YOU MAY Fond it and funded deathly

palo, T With an incoherent

DOCTORS are

by the American Medical

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concentrate or getting, ceive a 2,000,000-dollar sum- an-hour léter it was ötly to die.

for The AMA

mana frombie studio well"

say they contract-breaking?, cover that her and Treplay had are shirking responsibilities. So departed hurriedly with all his they will all doctors littló The marshal, uggage.” He lets

plaque, to be put up in their "Enright,

knocked on the

Impression Heront no word. I have not once sayings like

Holmes. Yet will try For Lady Mayo, for all her dignitywowe COPYRIGHT RESERVED,

the past your I have been vory Whi

happy in the employ

charling had not besta frighteninICITY

Myo. Infume tell you

| butis, my phearts are dead,

SATO ANT MY PATIENTS:

I invite you to discuss frankly about

with me any questions rega