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hall which can be slipped on In a mo disappeared with the same lack ol ment. May I fetch it for you?” ostentation Then we entered out "You merely waste time. Mr. cab. which had waited, and trotteC Peace,” I told him. "I will have noth westward, the very air growing clear Ing to do with an affair tn which I un er. as it teemed to me. wheu the uu nowise concerned ” derworld of poverty fell away behind "This sculptor may be an scqualn- us It was some time before 1 spoke er ! tance of your own.” he said gravely; and then It was to ask for a solution "and while we are arguiug bls mur to certain puzalee that had been form derers may escape.” lug In my bralu •'Murderers?” "You said he had been robbed?" 1 "Yea. sir; murderers! The man has began. been strangled and robbed.” "Yes, Mr. Phillips They had gon< The position was most embarrass through his pockets with every attcu ing He asked me to go tnto a part tlon to detail." of London that I had always carefully "Then how did you know he was a avoided It was sufficient to know sculptor?" that filth, immorality, and crime exist "He bad been called away tn a bur without personally Inspecting the ry. There was modelling clay tn his muckbeap. Yet there he stood, his finger nails, and a splash of plaster on head on one side, staring at my toes bls right trouser leg It was quite aim like an inquisitive terrier, and my ar . pie. as you see “ guments faded before his stolidity. His reply was ingenious, and I liked Why had Hendry ever let him In? I the inspector the better for it The By B. Fletcher Robinson should certainly speak to the old ras man had something more la him than cal about his----- a civil tongue and a pleasing manner "Well. Mr. Phillips.” "Tell me—what else did you learn?" "If I agree to go. will you see to It Co-Auttir with A. Cooan Doyll ci "That he was murdered tn a place that I am not again troubled in this with a sanded floor, probably at no “The Hound ofthe Baekwvillew“etc. matter?" 1 answered sulkily enough great distance from Uman street "For I will not be a witness or a jury seeing that they carried him there on <t\ v r - I. .. W <-. < wi.pruan) man or anything like that, you under a coster's barrow.” stand?” “I am not a reporter." I said. “I do "Certainly I will see that you are not want guess-work ” not further molested " "I shall probably be able to prove “Then. In the name of common my words tn twenty-four hours." sense, let us get It over as quickly as "And why not now?” possible." I said, kicking off my slip “There are good reasons.” pers and ringing the bell for my boots. "Oh. very well." I said sulkily: and Big Ben was striking eleven as our we drove on through the night in at- “You may think yourself an artist,” hansom trotted down the long Em lence. wrote my uncle, "but 1 call you a silly bankment with its lights winking on He left me at my door amid polite young fool " the rushing tide below. Past the great I remembered the sentence and the restaurants of pleasure, glowing with assurances that I should not again be reading of it well enough, though time shaded lamps from the windows of all troubled in the matter. I told him has not stood Idle since that Septem their balconies; into the silent city quite frankly that 1 was very glad to ber evening of the year 1892 From where the tall offices of the day lay hear It I did not sleep more than eight the point of view of Bradford, my like deserted palaces under the moon; uncle might be right; but what did over macadam, over clattering as hours that night, and was quite un I be know. I argued, of the higher ideal phalt. over greasy wood pavement; so fitted for work In the morning which 1 had chosen preferring the de we journeyed till of a sudden we roamed about my studio with nerves velopment of my artistic sense to the dropped from wealth to destitution, on edge. I cursed Peace and all his mere accumulation of money that I from solitude to babble, from the West doings. Even the papers gave me no could not spend? Where was his Joy to the East. Costers bawling their further information of this exasperat of life—he who spent his days in the wares under spouting flares, fringed ing business, being loaded with the whirr of wheels and the fog of many the sidewalks along which jostled the preparations for the Czar's reception chimneys? How could it compare with chattering masses of the poor. The In Paris, which was due in two days. mine in the ancient peace of the section was largely foreign. The In the end I sank so far as to send eighteenth century house that lay un patches of color in some Italian shawl, old Jacob up to the Inspector's rooms der the towers that crowned the an the long coats and peaked headgear for the latest news; but he had been out since daybreak. cient abbey at Westminster? I look of some moujik. the clatter of the About twelve I wandered off to the ed around me at the delicate tapes tries that 1 had brought from Florence dialects seemed all the stranger from club. The sight of Talman was a very to my London rooms; at the glowing the sullen London background of present joy to me He was engaged Fragonards—souvenirs of my year of mean shops, dingy lodgings, and low in denouncing the police to a select artistic study tn Paris; at the Dres beer houses. For, in the shadows of circle, choosing as his text that the den groups redolent of old Saxony that underworld of the great metro Englishman's house in his castle. I Was I the fool or my uncle George? polis. sodden faces, guttural oaths, offered my sincere sympathy when he dingy rags, the blow that precedes told me that he had been invaded at There seemed to me no doubt about It. the word, are the manifestations of one In the morning by inquiring detec It was plainly Uncle George. the native born. tives I suggested that he should Yet the letter had unsettled me. 1 In a side street the cab drew to a opened the swing doors that led to my standstill. It was the mortuary, the | write to the Times about It. He said studio, switched on the light, and inspector told me. A young police he had already done so Incidentally stepped from easel to easel, examin man at the door touched his hat. and he mentioned that Amaroff's address had been No. 21 Harden place Ing my half-finished work with a grow led the way down a passage to a bare I lunched at the little table by the tag dissatisfaction. Were they Indeed stone chamber. On a slab tn the cen window; but it was In the smoking- merely the daubs of a wealthy ama ter the body lay with an elderly man teur? I loitered back to my sitting- i in ill-fitting clothes bending over it. room afterwards that the Idea oc curred to me. I fought against it for room in a sulky depression, and bad picked up an art paper, when there He looked up as we entered, and some time, but the temptation In nodded to the inspector. creased upon consideration. Finally I came a tapping at the door, and the “You were quite right. Peace,” he yielded, and told the waiter to call a grizzled head of old Jacob Hendry came peering in A perfect servant said cheerfully; “chloroform first.« cab. I would myself have a look at the dead man's studio. was old Hendry, once sergeant of in strangling afterwards " "They took no risks. Dr. Chapple ” I dismissed the hansom at the turn fantry. and now a combination of cook, "They made a clean job of it." said ing off King's road, and walked down valet, and housemaid, who kept my rooms in spotless order, grilled a the elderly man. looking down at the Harden place on foot. It was an eddy steak to a turn, was a fair hand with slab with his thumbs in his waistcoat in the rush of London Improvement— a needle, and spent his spare time in pockets. "Never saw neater work a pool of silence In its roaring traffic. producing the most Inartistic wood since—well, since I was invalided There were trees in the little gardens. home from India.” The golds and browns of the wither carving I have ever seen “Thugs?” ing leaves peeped and rustled over the “Well, and what is it?" I asked him; "Yes; they did ft nigh as well as a old brick walls. Several studios I no for he seemed in some hesitation. ticed—it was evidently an artists' “I beg your pardon. Mr. Phillips, Thug in regular practice." The callous brutality of the conver quarter—before I stopped in front of sir.” he said, "but there's a young man would like to see you. A most sation filled me with disgust. I turn No. 21. respectable young man. sir. as lodges ed away, leaning against the wall with The studio—a fair-sized barn of above us on the third floor, but----- ” a feeling of nausea. modern brick—fronted on the street. "And now. if I may trouble you, Mr. The double doors through which a “Go on. Jacob, go on ” “The fact is. str. he’s from the ! Phillips, will you look at this poor sculptor’s larger work may pass were fellow, and see if you can recognize flanked by a little side door painted a Yard.” him?” said Peace. ■'■The Yard' What Yard?” staring and most objectionable green I knew him well enough The black On the right the roof of a red-tiled ■“Scotland Yard. sir. where the de beard, the thin, hawk nose, the high tectives come from.” shed crept up to long windows under And where I wish to Heaven they > and noble forehead were not easily the eaves. The side door stood ajar— forgotten. Talman had introduced a most urgent Invitation to my curios would remain, thought I. This Intrusion was simply insuffer me to him at the Art Club's Recep ity. After all, I argued, a studio re able. I bad a mind to refuse the man tion in July, whispering that be was mains a place where the strict rules a Pole and a neighbor of his—a of etiquette may be avoided, even admittance. “ 'Is boots is quite clean,” said Ja deuced queer fish, though a clever though Its owner be dead. And so. cob. entirely mistaking my hesitation one He had exhibited a bust of Nero without troubling further In the mat “ 'E 'as wiped ’em on the mat. I saw at the Academy, which attracted much ter. I pushed the door gently open, attention •im.” and walked Into a short passage, the “And hiB name?” asked the inspec further end of which was barred with “Oh, show him in.” tor. “The person, sir, of the name of In heavy curtains of faded plush. Be "Amaroff. I believe him to be from yond them I could hear a whisper of spector Peace.” said Hendry, swing Poland; that is about all I know of voices. I drew back the edge of a ing open the door He was a tiny slip of a fellow, of him.” curtain and peeped within. "How did you come to meet him?” about five and thirty years of age In the center of the big room was a I told him of my Introduction. Would A stubble of brown hair, a hard, clean tall pedestal upon which was set the shaven mouth, and a confident chin— I. he asked, give him Talman’s ad bust of Nero, which had won no small such was my impression. He took one dress? Most certainly—No. 4 Harden measure of fame for poor Amaroff in quick look at me. and then waited, place, off the King's road, Chelsea. I that year’s Academy. Under the with his eyes on the carpet and his bad no objection whatever to Talman proud and merciless features of the bead a trifle tilted over the right being roused at one in the morning. Roman Emperor stood Inspector Peace By all means let the old rascal be —smoking a cigarette and talking to shoulder. “I fear that I have taken a great turned out of bed and cross-examined a big fellow with a thick black bea^l His language would ba a revelation to A couple of men kneeling at their liberty, Mr. Phillips,” he said, in a the police—it would, really. feet were replacing a mass of loose very smooth and civil manner. “But The inspector left me on the door papers in the drawers of a roller-top I had an idea that you would help step for a few minutes, while he whis desk that had been pulled some dis me, and time was of Importance.” pered to two shabbily dressed men tance from the wall. “Well, and what is it?" who lounged out of the darkness, and (CHRONICLES TO BE CONTINUED.) “You have many friends amongst the foreign artists here in London. You attend their concerts and some times even their little dances. We are near neighbors, you see,” he con cluded, with a slight bow. was breathing heavily when the hack “I am flattered by the Interest you BUSINESS HAD TO GO ON turned a familiar corner, and hie wife have taken in my movements.” Sam Thought He Had Combination, was standing In the door. With his “Two hours ago.” he continued last ounce of energy he stuck hie but Relief for MandyWas cheerfully, “a body was found in a head out of the window and yelled: Not In Sight passage off Leman street. Stepney—a "Mandy, spare dem tubs!” body which we cannot identify. The A lazy darky who let his wife take 8he Expressed It man was of good position, a sculptor, In washing without demur had a "I never saw such outrageous serv and, I believe, a Pole. A cab Is wait dream one night, and a policy dream ing at the door. It Is late, 1 know, at that He borrowed money from her ice In all my life.” said the woman Mr. Phillips; it cannot fail to be a to play the combination, and before at the express office window. 'Tve great personal Inconvenience; but will he left home be stated his conviction. been waiting here fuly half an hour you drive down with me and take a "Mandy," be said, “Ah's goin' up town and not a sign of an employee have look at him?” to play dis combine, what am sho’ to I seen. The heads of this company “Certainly not.” come out When you see me cornin’ ought to be notified of this extreme He saw that I considered his pro home in a hack yo’ break up yo' negligence It's simply outrageous.” "What would you like to express, The “combine” didn't posal an impertinence, for he hesi washtubs." tated a moment, regarding me with an come out, and Sam, in great dejection, madam?” said a clerk who arrived at acquired a lot of gin. Then he was last. air of depression “Td like to express my sympathy," “It has stopped raining,” be said, messed up a bit by a dray, and some “and the cab has most comfortable other darkles hired a hack to take replied the woman tartly, and depart- cnaMons. I noticed a fur coat in the him h<Ae. Sam was nearly out, and SERIAL STORY CAREFUL DRIVER OF HORSES TARTlN Some Man Can Gat More Out of An|. mala In Ona Round With Plow Than Another Will In Two. Chronicles Addington Peace THE STORY OF AMAROFF THE POLE ONE OF WORST WEED PESTS llow many acres of tillable farm land will on« horse work.* This, ot the difference it makes course, depends on the kind of farm ing done, on tin- kind of machinery in your general health used and on the efficiency of th« man anti happiness when the who works the horses It would not Stomach is right. Liver be difficult to find 100 acres of till able land worked In one case with active anti Bowels regu two good horses and front this on lar? If you have any up to alx work horses Probably more trouble with these organs depends on the ublllty ot the driver to handle Ills horses than any other one thing Some drivers will take more out of their horses at one round with the plow than another wilt In two rounds. In one ease the plow ing Is done In a haphazard sort of will overcome it quickly. way, the horses are tangled nt the ends, are backed and turned un | Try a bottle today. It is necessarily, ar« Jerked viciously when for Sour Stomach, Heart out of line, and |tos»lbly the harnesses do not fit properly. In the other burn, Indigestion, Cos case the horses are given a steady, tiveness, Colds, Grippe, true gait which Is kept up, the turns Malaria, Fever and Ague. are smooth and without yelling and jerking and the driver watches the working of hla plow and tit of hla harnesses all day long No team Small Boy Again. should b« worked over an hour at “Bobby, do you a«« that bright star hard pulling before the harnesses are looked over to see that all parts net warhead, at the top of th« big cross?” properly. To some this carefulness •Tea” 'Well, that's Deneb It la comes naturally; to others It never ■early three quadrillions of miles will cotne. Efficiency In the driver ■way." "Hub! Then how do you know means efficiency In the team, and It Ha unit la Deneb?" la a pleasure to see horses worked well. HOSTETTER’S STOMACH BITTERS Horse Nettle Ranks with Csnada Thistle and Quack Qraes—Ono Method for Eradication. We are again In receipt of our old friend, the horse nettle. Thia time it is a central Iowa correspondent who sends us the prickly leafed, potato- blossomed weed, says Wallace's Far- nier He says that in the locality there la only one patch, and it is but sixty feet square He wishes to know how to get rid of the weed As all of our older readers know, horse nettle ranka with Canada thistle and quack grass as one of the worst of the weed pests. It Is degenerate relative of the potato and tomato, which spreads not only by abundant seeds, but by strong underground rootstocks. The only way to deal “Isn’t it funny” ' ' 1 ' HOW TO MAKE A CHEAP WELL Wall Can Be Laid Five or Six Feet High, Arching It at Top With Large Stone for Covering. Horae Nettle. with such a pest is continually to pte vent the leaves from spreading them selves out In the sunshine. Everything considered, probably the best method for our correspondent would be to j take a sharp hoe and go over the patch every ten days, cutting off ev ery horse nettle plant just below the surface of the ground. This treat ment is troublesome, but with such a small patch It probably la the safest and best. It is Impossible to drive a pipe for a well tn some localities, and atones i are scarce to lay a wall In a dug well, writes J. II. Andre of Wisconsin In the Farm and Home In such cases the wall can be laid ■’> or 6 feet high, arching It at the top with large stones to 15 or 18 Inches In diameter, and cover It with a largo flat stone, a. with a hole In the center to admit a Furniture New to Mary. 6-inch pipe. Place a stone, b. in the A lady out shopping ordered an um bottom of the well 18 Inches In diam brella stand sept home for her vesti eter and 4 Inches thick Concrete la bule. and only reached home late tn best. Mako a concrete cone, c, 3 feet the evening »her» she had left h«r long. 16 Inches In diameter, at the sew maid In charge "Well, Mary," bottom. 3 Inches thick and of a size the said, "did any pnekngea come'” to fit the bell end of an 8-lnch sewer "Yea. mum." waa the reply. "Thn pipe at the top. The largo end of the wagon cum wld th' cuspldore for lb' cone will need openings In the aide to smbrellaa " allow the water to enter freely when pumping Place the lurgo end of the Making Bomb-Thrower Out of Host. cone on the atone. An English wit of reputation, who The first length, d. of sewer pipe , has been visiting New York for the can be 8 Inches. When the pipe, e. last two weeks, remarked at the con reaches above where the well Is clusion of a little» dinner given him stoned It can be reduced to 6 Inches a "It’s been excellent. I never heard few lengths und then f to 4 Inches older stortee nor drank newer wine tn my life.” CAUTIONS FOR CEMENT USERS Among Other Things Do Not Allow Material to Freeze Before It Is Properly Hardened. Never expose freshly made concrete to the hot summer sun. Avoid too rapid drying out. says the American Cultivator. Do not allow it to freeze before it Is properly hardened. Do not use soft sand stone or brick except for filler In large work, and even thin with discretion. Do not apply fresh cement to old and hardened surfaces without first thoroughly soaking with water and hacking a rough surface on it. Cleanse thoroughly and then apply a very thin, neat cement wash. Do not attempt to retemper and use concrete that has stood too long In the mixing board and attained its set. Use a uhiform Portland cement and ! give attention to uniform methods of working and the results will be uni form. Use a finely ground cement. The finer the cement the greater covering properties it possesses and the more sand it can carry. An excess of ce ment is unnecessary, as a thin, even coating Is all that Is required. Be sure to mix thoroughly. Many faulty jobs are due to poor mixing. Do not be afraid of overdoing it, as longer mixing permits of using less cement, REMOVING A HEAVY HAY RACK Excellent Method Is Described and Il lustrated for Performing Job Without Much Hard Work. In order to remove a heavy hay rack from the wagon and to reload again without any lifting, take two 2x6 pieces, eighteen feet long, two , short and two longer posts. Set the posts about four feet apart and spike on long pieces as shown In the illus tration. The lower ends of the pieces should be just high enough to come Lifting Hay Rack. under the crosspieces of the hay rack, says the Iowa Homestead. To unload I the rack drive between these two I pieces and the rack will slip along on top of the planks as shown In the il I lustration. The rack can be loaded by reversing the operation Making Cheap Well. Four feet of the pipe at the top ot the well should be Iron to avoid breaking when handling the pump. Nearly all of the dirt can be placed back In the well which saves the ex pense of drawing it away. When plac ing the dirt buck In the well keep a round stick in the pipe as large as the pipe will admit. This will keep the sewer pipe straight and It need not be put in place faster than the well 1 b filled up. C arden F arm N otes Plain, Like the Squire. "I hear you have got a new baby, Wiggins," said the squire to his gar- tenor. "What are you going to call him? Not soma high-flown name that will make him ridiculous In after Ufa. I hope?” "Oh, no, air." replied Wig gins. "If it’s not a liberty, air, we thought of calling him plain James- after you, sir.” Red Crnan Kall Itlue rives double value for your noney, «. mmi twice «a far as any olhar. Ask your true er. Old-TIms Letter Writing. Buy your clover seed early. For the purposes of lettor-wrltlng Sorghum makes very good silage. Soy beans are a coming crop in the he leaves of soma trees were early | ised, while the Inner bark of ths lln- middle west. The output of broom corn is about Isu tree waa In such common demand | lor thia purpose that It has given the SI,270,000 annually. After all, It Isn't such a big job to word for a book to two languages, tut one of the most convenient mate- save your seed corn early. Alfalfa fields and silos are land dais for letter-writing were tablets »▼"red with a thin coating of wax. marks of a progressive community. Celery grown In four-foot rows may ipon which it was easy to writs with be earthed up with the celery plow. t pointed needle called a stylus. Soli for soy beans should receive TO CURB A COLO IN ONI5 DAY as thorough preparation as land for Tsks I.AXATIVK IIROMO Quinine Tablafa. corn. Zruxirlata rafund money If It fall« to cure. E. W. At present prices for seed, the soy MOVE'S «Imatur« is un each box. 26c. bean is one of the most valuable farm crops. To Help In Hanging Pictures. As a money crop broom corn la one Cut a groove In the end of a cun- of the most satisfactory that can be ain pole, place the end of the pie- grown. are wire In It, and hoist It up to the Rye makes a fair grade ot silage tall or hook from which It la to hang. and should be cut when the seeds are This saves climbing up and down, tad also allows one to see more In the milk. Few crops respond more promptly ileerly bow the picture Is going to to a thorough preparation of the soil ook. than winter grain and especially Town’s Dissipated Son. wheat. Rube—“Did you hear that Zachary With the mow full of hay and a silo full of com, the farmer can sleep on and his wife had an awful row at ths cold winter nights with a heart full ot supper table the other night?” Poet- master—"Did they? What did Zach content. Storage cabbage should be tossed ary do about It?” Rubo—"Ha got from one man to another, and not right up from the table and went out thrown Into wagons or handled and stayed out until ten tnlnutee aft er nine If he doesn't reform he’ll roughly tlve this town a bad nam^