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| THE CHINA MAH, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1054.

STARTING TODAY: Another new story featuring the famous detective-told for the first time by the son and literary executor of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

AM afraid, Wat- as he argues" with the Petty son, that the Nordic Omver

П on long leave from temperament offers naval shore station. It is the little scope for the difference between the subtle and the positive, French sauce student of crime. It tends and English gravy. How could towards an altogether do- two such mon approach crime plorable banality," romarked Holmes, as we turned from Oxford Street into the less crowded pavements of Baker Street.

It

Was

clear, crlop

morning in May of 1901 and

uniforms of the Ioan

The SIL

NZW exploits

HOLSTERS

THE ADVENTURE OF THE

DARK ANGELS

bronzed mon who were from the same angle?"

on

flocking in the streets leave from the South Afri- can war struck a hote welcome galety against

dresses of Bombre women who were still mourning for the death the late Queen.

stances cases

in

of

cleaned and burnished to that high degroo of polish that is characteristic of good lobel."

"Do you not think Holmes,

d--that wo should Interrupted Isten without further ado to Miss Ferrory's story. Speaking

medical man, it is high ↑ time that her troubles were

25

lifted frora hor shoulłowa,”

Our fair visitor thanked mo

pretty with a glance from her

eyes. "As you should know by now, Watson,

have my methods," sald Holmes with some asperity. "However, Mins Ferrers, we are all atten

"You have no objection to my tion. Pray continue." "Be that as it they," I replied, By ADRIAN pipe, 1 trust, Miss Ferrers," said should explain," she went

"I fail to see how you can tell

of

CONAN

· DOYLE

"Thank you, Mrs Hudson, You did very well.

he, stretching out an arm towards on, "that the carller part of my

cho

"I observed something nailed to an oak tree.”

and occupies enjoys my father's confidenCO

his position Abbotstanding in recognition of the earlier years spent in bla

mantelpiece, "Now, my father's life WRE spont in young lady, we have all to meet Stelly, where he had inherited a Dark Angel eventually, but large interests in vineyards and that is hardly an adequate reason olive grover. Following my for consulting two middle-aged mother's death, he seemed to Baker Street, You tire of the country and, having gentlemen would dp far better to tell me amassed a considerable fortune wou your story from the beginning."

How foolish you must think ather sold his interests and

cried Miss

setvice in Sicily." Fowers, the "For more than me," pallor of her cheeks giving place

"Ah, quite so. to a faint but becoming blush, moved from county to county in "And yol, when you have heard search of a house that should terves the house and on the few

retired to England.

a year, wt

my fathor'a samowhat

at length

"My father himself

+

at

seldom

that the man in the check coat of is a Petty Officer on long leave." the Tut, Watson, when a man the wearing Д

Crimca ribbon on his waistcoat, and therefore too old for active service, is sbod ม comparatively new Naval boots, it is surely obvious that "I

he has been recalled from re cun remind you,

My friend glanced at me and tirement. Holmes, of a dozen

in- "His air of authority is above snuled but there was a gleam in among your own that

the ordinary sailor and his deep-set tys. stid quietly that disprove your yet his complexion is no more afoot, Watson," he said quietly.

when he does be assertion," I replied, noting that of the bus driver. The man room, our visitor

bronzed or wind roughened than Upon our entering the sitting my story, when you have heard sult

peculiar requirements before occasiong rose to meet the very facts that are driving deciding

on Abbot never goes beyond the confines with some satisfaction that

a Naval Petty Officer attached us. Sho

Whore WDS for-haired me slowly mad with, fear, you standing, near Beaullou, in the of his own park walls. our morning walk had to a shore station or training young lady, still in her early may only laugh at me."

New Forest."

there is love and understanding that I "Rest assured and

dainty

shall brought

twenties, slim a touch of colour camp,"

"One moment, Miss Ferrers, and mutual interest, such a "And the long leave?"

But, with a delicate complexion and not."

alas, to

friend's sallow

Prey enumerate these peculiar might be tolerable. "He

Our is in civilian clothes and large blue eyes that contained a

visitor paused for A

such is not the case ga Abbot- requirements,” cheeks.

yet hus not been discharged, for hint of violet in their depth. moment as though marshalling

standing. My father's charac her thoughts, and then plunged you will observe that he is fill-

TX father is ter, though God-fearing, is not "M She was plainly but neatly forthwith into her strange ing his pipe from a plug of re-

which is dressed inz fawn coloured narrative.

a Kulation Naval twist

larly tobacconista. travelling costume with a hat of unobtainable

the same

colour relieved by a But here we are ai 2213 and in une, 1 trust, to catch the visitor sinull nauye feather.

called during has

Our who' absence."

proves some

my

am

дл

at

1 surveyed the blank door vi the house, Really, Homes!" 1 protested. "You go a little too far."

**

An

A

detalls Almost

"You must know, then, that i am the daughter. and

only child of Josua Ferrera, of Abbotstand- In Hampshire," she began. father's cousin is Sir Roburi sparsely"

i

I NOTED these "Murton, of Shoscombe Old and

unconsciously for Place, with whom you were ue. He

B medical

station, almost

Devora

of a singu of a type to encourage affection retiring and, as time went on, his dia- and always disposition, Mr position, Holmes.

deepened into periode Above retiring, all else, ho in of gloomy savago brooding would lock himself when ho sisted

into his study for days on end. populated locality,

"As should somo

estate p

that

on

miles' dis-

you can imagine, Mr Holmes, there was little of

ten- quainted some years ago, and it tance from the nearest railway terost and less of happiness

was on his recommendation that 1 have rushed to you at the climax of my troubles."

*

ruinous

Birs having been

Kome

"For instance?", he asked, "Well, Dr Crimesby Roylott

The of infamous memory. of a tame snake for the purpose of murder cannot be lightly dis. missed as a banality."

"My dear fellow, your example contention. From my

we recall Dr DJ casca, Roylott, Holy Peters and one or two others merely for the

man, my reason that they employed

in Abbotstanding, an a young woman isolated from tion was arrest- Imaginative approach to crime

castellated friends of her own age, deprived ed at once by which was startlingly at vari-

mansion of great antiquity and of all social contacta and fore- the dork shadows lurking ance with the normal practice.

"Very seldom, Watson. The beneath her eyes

once the hunting lodge of the doomed to spend the best years and the

★ "Indeed,

Abbots I

Sometimes

wheels of most public carriages quiver of her lips that betrayed

of Beaulieu, he found of her life in the desolate mag-

of nificence

half-ruinous tempted to think that, just as

are repainted at this time of the

Holines, who had been leaning what ho

and, certain un intensity of nervous tension

been mediaeval hunting-lodge. Cuvier could reconstruct the

perilously nour the Ireaking. back in his chair with his eyes necessary

closed, took his pipe from his effected, we settled finally into

"Our existence was one of complete animal from one bone, year and if you will bother to so the logical reasoner could tell glance at the kerb you will per- point.

our home. mouth

That, Mr Holmes, absolute monotony and then, ceive a long green mark, where from a nation's cooking the pre-

With a wheel has scraped the edge

five months ago, occur= "Why, then, did you not conie was five years ago, his apology for

and from of that and which was not there when absence, Holmen ushered her in-

last night when

that day to this we have lived red valling characteristics

you

nn incident which in town Ration's criminals."

inutand of under the shadow of a nameless

enough significant we departed an hour ago. Tho to a chair before the Areplace, arrived

formed the first of that singular CAN observe chor chat writing for sure and then, sinking into his own, waiting until this morning?" he shapeices dread."

"If nameless and

of events time, for the driver has twice surveyed her searchingly trum interposed.

shapeless, chain

which have no parallel,"

knocked out the dotle from his beneath his heavy lids.

Miss Ferrers started viably.

then how were you aware of its brought me to lay my problems I laughed.

before you, "I perceive that you are deep- Think it over, pipe. We can but hope that the

"It was only when I dined existence?" he said kindly, with Sir Robert last night that governing our lives. My father early morning walk in the par

"I was returning from fare decided to await our return ly troubled," Watson. There after dismissing the vehicle." Rest assured that Doctor Watson he advised me to see you. But Incidentally"

I are

do not understand, As we mounted the stairs, Mrs and

Mr would permit no social contact and on entering the avenue he continued, Kesturing with his stick towards Hudson appeared from the fower

our household needs were the house I observed that thats chocolate-coloured omnibus regions.

the nearest was something nailed to "There's been which, with a grinding of brakes

a visitor hero supplied our visitor, Then, Jean-

but by carriers van from bole of an oak tree. and a merry Jingle from the nigh on an hour, Mr Holmes," ing forward suddenly in her

bear Lyndhurst. The staff consists of stared aho "She is waiting in chair,

Into elbow horses' hamess, had drawn up she stated. on the opposite side, "you have your sitting-room, and that fired folmes's face with a singular in- slight but unmistakable traces the butler, McKinney, & surly my father a good example. It is one of the she looked, the poor pretty tentness, "Would you say that of sooty dust inseparable from moroso man whom

seat in 2 railway hired in Glasgow, and his wife French omnibuses. Look at the creature, that I took the liberty, the heralds of death are dark a window,

carriage. and of bringing her a nice strong cup" angels?" she whispered,

Your shoes, on the and her sister who share the.. driver. Watson, all fire

Holmes shot me a swift glance, other kand, aro perfectly domestic work between them."" nerves and concentrated emotion of tea.”

"There are none. The grounds

[1

sleep

to mo

Through

the circumstances

in

in-

itself,

an

Holmes, how you could with our fow neighbours and leading from the lodro gatos to Miss... here to serve you, I

"My name is Daphne Ferrers," Kut young lady, it is almpla

up

YES, YOU

• IN A MILLION homes today the same question will be asked: How did you sleep last night?

SLEEP, quite simply, is something no one can do without. For the thousands who feel they are not getting enough sleep in these days of tension, Science Reporter Chapman Pincher has written this informative, helpful article!

W

they HAT is the best years of their lives than

their annual bolidny. sleeping position? do on

no more tenseless On the right side7

On the back? Or on the

There is

economy.

Hard mattresses, spring

stomach, as some physical mattresses, and feather beds all culture experts maintain?

bave

their

devotees.

Aller

I plump for the side-lying uying every type of bed from posture put forward recent- Army straw palliasse to a ducal four-poster I am com- ly as the most satisfactory pletely sold on a four-fach, latex by Dr James McDonnell, a foam mattress lying on top of London physician:---

a box-spring.

The process of going to, akcep The body should be sup begins considerable time ported by the overlaying before you actually drop off. I knee and the top elbow you He culetly in bod with resting on the mattress, as your eyes open you begin to of your awareness shown in Diagram I on the lose much right.

The pillow should be Junt high enough to support the nock without bending it wards.

of the surroundings although

you are still awake.

Simple Reason

this, Man is

nature a daytime creature his brain is kept informed mainly by signals sent in by

a large part

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oven

The right cuff and villed not from

your

Jacket

CAN GET MORE -if you need it

WHEN YOU GO TO BED TONIGHT

TWO 'WRONGS' SIGNPOST THE ONLY RIGHT WAY

Pillow not

too high,

1

Shoulder forward.

Knee and elbow on mattress —Right

No anchorage

Shoulder

falls back

Wrong

Neck twisted

Upm Onco you close Whether you sleep on sleep steals over you much the right or the left side does more rapidly. There not matter.

reason for Millions of people suffer from neuralgia, backache, and nervous nesa because they sleep other ways, Dr McDonnell belloves, the coo. So as soon of als

It you sleep on your side a shut

ISKTOP without the knee and elbow brain is put out of business. anchorago, like the girl in the This immediate effect of clos second diagram, thes some of ing the eyes on the brain protection the pegments of your spine are explains why

blind people often dangers. strained, De McDonnell main- also a very long time. taina.

A noles, particularly if it is is to keep the brain aware of it off to

Aliep they have no unfamiliar, is much more body what the movable parts of the means of

brain activity.

floci they are in. That is why

A

Worst Position

to drop

--Wrong

against nocturnal possible. Ib in called the kin- nesthetic sense, and its function

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down their dente shutting to disturb you than a light. So lody are doing and what posi-|

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an' uncomfortable bed, koops us

It also explains why it is it tendways words while to gat This can affect

up to turn off a dripping tap or you

suid- usually dificult to go to shut a rattling window, Hawake. ently to make you irritable aloop in a brightly lit room. during the day, on it may be

matter how snug you may be. Enough light filters through

The sense of smell some to brain alert.

the cause of the pains you the cloped ayelids of a would-be diappear entirely during alsegy think are indigestion.

the

sleeper keep the

to

Sense Organs

For the same reason a kard According to Dr McDonnell, You Chri prove this for yourself which explains why so many chair helps to keep the brain by osonging alert if we have work to do, giri shown in Diagram 3 is by passing your band to

and people are killed

coal-gas wille, viesping.

The comfortable armchair in is the one which is front of the warm are is the affected by sleep an enemy of work. Poets, artists,

In the worst position of all fro, in front of the tym of: a

one adopted

that

and

by more wong person who is pretending, to be men. Lying

100

the sleep. It is almost imposibleng

(when, the shadow 2erving "min" and "imizialane haya done tools.

stomach badly strains the neck, for anyone to

the

twist

on the spine moving reaches right down into the Kickering

chest.

Tendernaus between the ribs

The

refrain from guard," "

the eyes, Bay but

houring,

as

of the most prodigious work in the

FREE PONTON, priporta e App deep, cold-alivoinfort of o'garrat.

Groms

the

15 plow It is probably w lightest "complainta whics touch by moving and in the son of gin which m our body is equipped with Cleoping Even that morko

usually waken them in move our positions dury

THU Ts bothang Ptheir powan

may be due to sleeping this follows sight into slumber

as well be shoulder aches, je mord: slowly, and not to Most people spend lose money on extent it remain

at

on in the bed in which thay bird on guard while w wo new known but without which 25*

and Is, put chief natural

"And the outalde staff?"

were permitted to become wilderness and the place already overrun with vermin all descriptions."

ed

the

"ON closer

xamination discovered the object to be en ordinary colour

print of the Ilustrating Christmas carols of type used Log cheap books on religious art. But the theme of the picture of was unusual, oven arresting.

"It consisted of a night sky broken by a barren hilltop on the brow of which in two separate groups of six and threa stood nine winged angola. I stared at the picture, I was

15

in

"I see nothing alarming thego circumstances. Mine Ferrers," remarked Holmes. "Indeed, if 1 lived in the coun- try

I should probably create puzzled to explain the note of around me & very similar con- incongruity that jarred through dillon

to discourage unprofit my senses until, in an instant, able intercourse

perceived the neighbours. The household

"It was the first Ume that I canalsts, then, of yourself, your had beheld

portrayed

with

my

reason.

abgela father and the three sovants?" net in radianco but in robe of

"The household, yes.

But funereal darkness. Across the there is a coltago on the estato

tato lower part of the print were occupied by Mr James Toaston scrawled the figures 67-9," who for many years managed As our visitor paused, I glanced our Sicilian vineyards

at before acros

Sherlock Holmes accompanying my father on his fis brows were drawn down return to England, Ho acts as and his eyes closed, but I could tell from the quick spirals of pipe that Holmes raised his eyebrows, smoke rising from his "Indeed," sald he. "An estate is interest had been deeply, that is allowed to grow into a stirred. wilderness, no tenants and a bailler.

4 Surely curious anomaly?"

**It is a nominal appointment only, Mr Holmes. Mr

ballin

somewhat

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