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A PROBLEM FOR TRAITORS: HOW CONAN DOYLE INVENT-
ED "SHERLOCK HOLMES.” WHERE CAN RENEGADES HIDE
INSTRUCTORS CHARACTER GAVE
The war has brought into being a small group of renegades, and for these men the defeat of Germany is the end of all
things.
Roger Casement was a renegade, but There are, he was caught and excouted. bowever, others almost as well-known who still live. The most notorious of these is Houston Stewart Chamberlain, who is the most pro-Gorman Briton that ever sold his mother-country.
HIM THE IDEA.
"the
Edgar Allan Poe, whom Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has laurelled 13 world's supreme short-story writer,” and the inventor of the detective story," and Dr. Joseph Bell, distinguished physician of Edinburgh, have played vital parte in the creation of Sherlock Chamberlain Holmes and the shaping of his adven- The titled biographer of the ran several propaganda shoots, including tarea. the notorious "Continental Times" of greatest detective in fiction frankly, Berlin He is the author of several anti-generously, has owned this indebtedness English works, and has committed him to Pos, next to Macaulay, for the self right and left. When doubt arosa most pleasure and proât," and to the uns as to the probability of German victory, cannily koen-witted Scotch analyst for Chamberlain took out naturalisation the type of mind and of man that should be individualized into the fascinating papers as a German, but these are only Sherlock Holmes. Poet-romaneer and the of use to him so long as be remains in flesh and blood detective-physician have Gorman territory, and he dare never set been gathered to thoir fathers, but the author and the character influenced by foot on Allied soil again.
their thought are alive- robustly alive in flesh and blood, and unceasingly alive in the reading of the world.
The group of renegade British subjects is fortunately small, and there are, in addition to Chamberlain, only a few in- dividuals and a handful of Irish and All these people are Indian traitors. known, and, though a goocrai amnesty is often proclaimed with the signing of peace, renegados are usually specifically excluded from any enjoyment of its bene Ats.
VICTIMS, BUT FALSE,
Dr. Bell was one of young Doyle's in- structors at the University of Edinburgh in those days when, out of his meagre allowance, he purchased the precious books that gave him the enchanted view
Through the Magic Door.' And Dr. Bell's casual demonstration, in deduction took such tenacious hold on the imagi- nation of the newly-diplomaed doctor that even in the Langman feld servico in South Africa, whither he went, vivid and salient among unaccustomed on- In Belgium, the situation is rather difvironment, the lean, keen-eyed figure, ferent. There a party of Flemish with its aquiline nose and long, master- Activists supported the German Govern fut fingers was ever in his mind. Sir ment and advocated the permanent in-
Arthur admits that at first he had no corporation of Belgium ander German intention of writing detective stories; rule. These people wore to a certain ex- tent the victims of German propaganda, but the period in Africa was apparently one of assimilation. in which the in but they are none the less renegades
fluences of both his old instructor and false to their
country.
his familiar "Inventor of the detective story" were influencing him to what has proven the most popular achievement in literature.
The great majority of loyal Belgians have bad to suffer the Activists for the years of oppression, but, with the deliver ance of Belgium, popular opinion has dis- played its real views, and the houses of the renegades have been literally torn. down by the people. Soldiers who bare seen the place where an Activist's house stood untouched a week or so ango say, that shell fire could not have caused s much devastation as popular fury. Nel. ther floors nor staira nor partition walla remain. The renegades have fled with their German masters, but of what they left behind, nothing remains standing,
In Switzerland, also, there are one or two little colonies of doubtful characters, folk of enemy aympathy rather than open and avowed traitors. These people, too, must be feeling rather cold about too feet, must be wondering whether South America is not worth a visit, but land locked Switzerland is an evil place to get out of in these days.
are few countries open to the The few German ships that we may leave will not voyage without touching Allied ports H.B.C.P.
waters.-
THE "MISSING" LADY.
[BY CHARLES PROCIER.]
THE ORIGINAL BITERLOCK HOLMICH. "It was the character of Dr. Bell that gave me the idea to create a detective: with remarkable power of solving intri Cate and puzzling problems," enid Sir Arthur to a representative of the San Francisco Chronicle shortly after his arrival New York. He was a close student of the human systirn and a care- ful observer of the smallest details. His intuitive powers in dealing with patients were simply marvellous. To illustrate this, let us take a case out of the many that came to him for diagnosis.
"As the patient stood before Dr. Bell he would say:--
I see you are suffering from drink. You even carry a flask in the inside breast pocket of your cont.'
The doctor would say:--
"Another case would come forward.
*Cobbler I see l'
Then he would turn to the students and point out to them that the inside of the knee of the man's trousers was worn. That was where the man had rested the lapstone-a peculiarity only found in cobblers.
"All this impressed me very much. He was continually before me his sharp, piercing eyes, eagle nose and striking features.
She carries a gray-covered book, fre- quently well thumbed, and she is one of the scores of women officially engaged in endeavouring to obtain definite news regarding men reported missing." There he would sit in his chair with Regularly once a week she visits the wards fingers together he was very dexterous of the military hospital, and speaks to with his hands and just look at the man every man who is well enough to answer. The wounded soldiers know her astheer woman before him. "missing" lady," and most of them "He was most kind and painstaking cognise the importance of her work and with the students a real, good friend are eager to help.
and when I took my degree and went to Africa the remarkable individuality and discriminating tace of my old master made] a deep and lasting impression on me, though I had not the fantest idea that it would one day lead me to forsake me
*
She glances at the "diet sheet" which hangs at the head of each man's bed, and on which fall particulars of the patient's name, rank, number, regiment, and nature of his injuries are recorded: then refers disine for story telling." quickly to her book.
"I wonder if you knew any of these!
ΕΘΟΣ
What were the emotions of Dr. Bell in
in your battalion ebe inquires reading of the achievements of the charac indicating a printed list of names, which ter, of which he was the acknowledged the wounded soldier generally studies modal, tins not been definitely told, but carefully and with interest.
that Sherlock Holmes deeply interested
Time and again the man interrogated the Scottish scientist is amply establish fails to recognise any of the names on the fed. The analysis he made of the character list, or, if he does so, is unable to supply is most valuable from the fact that, thus any information regarding the chum coldly and colourlessly classified, there whose name he recognises; but occasion- minute and satisfying picture of the ally, the "missing" lady gets important detective's natural and acquired mental Dows Twice while I was hospital I heard the "missing" lady get news of a equipment. Here is how Dr. Bell epito- missing man.
wizod Sherlock Holmes after reading a suficient pumber of stories on which to base an authoritative unding:
*
*
"R-1 Tom R-?" said the man occupy ing the bed facing mine. “Why, poor old Tom B-was blown to bits by the same aholl that wounded ma There were three of ours killed Tom Rt-and two others- and five of us wounded. Yes, I knew
Knowledge of Literature-nik
e. Knowledge of Philosophyni. "3. Knowledge of Astronomy-nil.
4. Knowledge of Politics-Feeble.
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Tom, miss.. He was my pa.naked the Well up in belladonna opium, and
"Where did that happen?
dotails Knows nothing of Doyle had practised medicine,
missing" Indy, and proceeded to make poisons generally. careful note of the information supplied practical gardening.
few years that he decided to write together with details of her informaat, "B. Knowledge of Goology-Prac dotectivò stories. The work of Dr. Bell *Within a few days the relatives of Tom tical, but limited. Tell at a glanes dif- and R posted as missing," would be
convinced him that there was a big field officially informed that. Private Referent soils from each other. After walks and his own experience as a physician has shown me splashes upon his trousers for a stouth who would be capable of "now reported killed." Thoir suspensa would be at an end-ind their hopes and told me by their colour and consist following clues, aided by the science of would die.
ones in what part of London he had chemistry. He would crento a detective received them.
who could master the problems which to In another case a wounded man report Knowledge of Chemistry-Pro the ordinary sleuth seemed baffling and
+
in the missing list had been wounded. Knowledge of Anatomy-Accurate, abstruse: Dealing with this subject he
od that a confrnds whood name appear and left behind in a raid. He himself had but unsystematic.
said:
scop the Germans all around his wounded. Knowledge of Bonsational Litera The germs and bacteria to which man pal. That was all he knew but as a result ture-Immenen. He appears to know kind in hoir are rogues in a world of of the information he gave to the " miss-
lng" lady another ran would probably every detail of every horror perpetrated be transferred from the list of missing in the country.
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With these Rots in froud gotivoy of wounded means to be quick-sighted, ing live men, half gerous weapon. fresh hope of Information regarding miss attor, half virtude with plenty of spate mind, I decided to areate a detective who Ing mon, and overy item of Information mone su ond to the suspense of some wife time, a retentivemory, and, perhaps, should have qualition of the focal delso swootboart, sister or mother somewhere.
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