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CORNER in ANCESTORS Visitors. Saturday Evenjng, THEWINNE^VPOLIS JOURNAL mmmtmtm m >«rti«»»»m •••••!•. •>•••••• !•<•• I3N><K •••••••» p «*• • » • •* •• • • i «*S"*« IM iguram The Original Stones of the 0reat Detective Whiph; Made Thei| Author, A.Cqoan poyje, Fmnm,^,- ; i *5 V i "St'- " * V w ^ *_ • m m m m m p m m m m m m m i • • II mm < i n ••!•••• ••••!•>•!• • p • • • I,I ii • ,• — • wij M • mm • a,,,, « SJ*»SJSJ • i *' listened. Let me have the date of the "It is really two days since you ha£ be deduced from it. In the first place, see that he was deeply moved. board, and, tearing it to pieces, he ADVENTURE V. reception by your uncle of the letter, tho letter. We shoul* have acted be­ we may start with a strong presumption "My eye caught the name of Open­ squeezed out the pips upon the table. and the date of his supposed suicide." fore this. You have-no further evi­ that Colonel Openshaw had some very shaw, ana'the heading, ' Tragedy 'n«ear Of these he took five, and thrust, them 1 "The latter arrived on March 10, dence, I suppose, tha'n that which you strong reason for1' leaving America. Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: into an envelope. On the inBide of the THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS 1883. His death was seven weeks later, have placed before* us—^no suggestive Men at his time of life do not change 'Between nine and ten last night Police- flap he wrote ''S. H. for J. O." Then v 4 upo4 n the night of May 2d." detail which might help us?" „ all their habits, and exchange willingly constable Cook, of the H division, on he sealed it and addressed it to "Oap- When I glanced over my notes and enlarged at the time of the invention ' Thank you. Pray proceed.'' "There is one th\h£," said John the charming climate of Florida for the duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry tain James Calhoun, Bark Lone Star, records of the Sherlock Holmes cases of bicycling. He was the patentee of "When my father took over the Hor­ Openshaw. He rummaged in hjs coat lonely life" of an English provincial for help and a splash in* the water. ' The Savannah, Georgia." between the years '82 and '90, I am the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his sham property, he. at my request, made pocket, and drawing out a piece of dis­ town. His 'extreme love of solitude night, however, was extremely dark and "That wil await him when he en­ a careful examination of the attic,which colored, blue-tinted paper, he laid it out in England suggests the idea that he stormy, so- that, in spite of th* help of ters port," said he, ehuckling. "It* faced by so many which present strange business met with such success that he had been always locked tip. We found was in fear of some one or something, and interesting features that it is too was able to sell it, and retire upon a upon the table. "I have some remem­ several passersby, it was quite impossi­ may give him a sleepless night. He the brass bpx there, altho its contents brance," said he, ?'that on the day So we may assume as a working hy­ ble to effect a rescue. The alarm, how­ will find it as sure a precursor of his I easy matter to know which to choose handsome- competence. had been destroyed. On the inside of pothesis that it was fear of some one or ana which to leave. Some, however, ' • My uncle Elias emigrated to Amer­ when my unfile bunied the papers I ob­ ever, was given, and, by the aid of the fate as Openshaw did before him." the cover was a piper label, with the served that the small unburned mar- something which drove him from Ameri­ water police, the body was eventually "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" ] have already gained publicity thru the ica when he was a young man, and be­ initials of K. K, !£. repeated upon it, ca. As to what it was he feared, we^ came a planter in Florida, where he was S'ns which lay amid the ashes were of recovered. It proved to be that of a "The leader of the gang. I shall papers, and others have not offered a and 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and ean only deduce that by considering young gentleman whose name, as it apt- have the others, but he first." field for those peculiar qualities which reported to have done very well. At a register' written beneath. These, we is particular color. I'found this single the formidable letters which were re­ my friend possessed in so high a de­ the time of the war he fought in Jack­ sheet upon the floor of his room, and I pears from an envelope which was "How did you trace it, then?" presume, indicated the nature of the am inclined to think that it may be one ceived by himself and his successors. found in his pocket, was John Open' He took a large sheet or' paper from gree, and which it is the object of these son''s army, and afterwards under Hood, papers which had been destroyed by Did you remark the post-marks of those his pocket, all covered with dates and Eapers to illustrate. Some, too, have where he rose to be a •colonel. When of tho papers which £af, perhaps, flut­ letters?«r * shaw, and whose residence is Wear*Hor- affled his analytical skill,, and would Lee laid down his arms my uncle re­ lonel Openshaw. For the rest, there tered out from amoll£ th$ others, and_in' sham. It is conjectured that he may names. « was nothing of much importance in the that way have escarp tfestructiou. Be V The first was from Pondioherry, the have been hurrying down to catch the "I have spent the whole day// said be, as "narratives, beginnings without an turned to his plantation, where he re­ second from Dundee, and the third from ending, while others have been but mained for three or four years! About attic, save a great many scattered pa­ yond the mention- ot ips. I da not see last train from Waterloo station, and he, "oyer Lloyd's registers and the pers and notebooks bearing-upon nfy that it helps us muc think myself London," that in his haste and the extreme dark­ files of the* old papers, following the partially cleared up, and have their ex­ 1869 or 1870 he came back to Europe, uncle's life in America. Some of them "F?on\ East London. What do you planations founded rather upon conjec­ and took a small estate in Sussex, near tjiat it is a page/' ;ojfc sojne private ness he missed his path anti walked future career of every vessel which were of the war time, and showed that diary. The writing undoubtedly my deduce from that?" over the edge of one of the small land­ touched at Pondioherry in January and ture and surmise than on that absolute Horsham. He had made* a very con­ he had done hid duty well, and had logical proof which was so clear to him. siderable fortune in* the states, and his uncle's." "Tbey are all seaports.' That the ing places for river steamboats. The February ii ^83. There were thirty- borne the repute of a brave soldier. Holmes moved the4anvp, and we both Writer was on board oi a ship." body exhibited no traces of violence, six ships of ^f air tonage which were re­ There is, however, one of these last reason for leaving them was his Others were of a date during the re­ which was so remarkable in its details aversion to the negroes, and1 his dislike bent over the sheet oi paper, which ' "Exe/ellent. We have already a and there can be no doubt that the de­ported there during those months. Of construction ofthe southern states, and showed by its ragged edge that it had clue. There can be no doubt that the ceased had been the victim of an unfor­ these, one, the Lone Star, instantly at­ and so startling in its results that I am of the republican policy in extending were mostly concerned with -politcs, probability—the strong probability—is tracted my attention, since, altho it tempted to give some account of it, the franchise to them, He was a indeed bee'tf torn from a Book. It was tunate accident, which should have the for he had evidently taken a strong headed, "March, 1869 " and beneath fbat the writer was on board of a ship. effect of calling the attention of the au­ was reported as having cleared from in spite of the fact that there are points singular man, fierce and quick-temp­ part in opposing the carpetbag poli­ And now let us conside another point. London, the name is that which is in* connection with it which never have ered, very foul-mouthed When he was were the following enigmatical notices: thorities to the condition of the river­ ticians who had been sent down from "4th. Hudson oame. Same old plat­ In the case of Pondioherry, seven weeks side landing stages.' " given to one of the states of the been, and probably never will be, entire­ angry, and of a most retiring disposi­ the north. elapsed between the threat and its ful- Union." i v- ^ rjB* ly cleared up. tion. During all the^years that he lived form. ^ ^r We sat in silence for some minutes, at Horsham I doubt if ever he set foot "Well, it waa the beginning" of '84 7th.
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