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TH N YORK
PU LIC LI RARY
814679A
ASTOR. L NO AND
T1LD6.N OUNDATIONS
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TH MAN HO KN TOO MUCH
Copyrght, 1922
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CONT NTS
TH MAN HO KN TOO MUCH:
CHAP.
I. TH AC IN TH TARG T
II. TH ANISHING PRINC 34
III. TH SOUL O TH SCHOOL OY 66
I . TH OTTOML SS LL 89
. TH AD O TH ISH RMAN 116
I. TH HOL IN TH ALL 147
II. TH T MPL O SIL NC 185
III. TH NG ANC O TH STATU 225
TH TR S O PRID :
I. TH TAL O TH P ACOCK TR S 261
II. TH AG R O S UIR AN 286
III. TH MYST RY O TH LL 312
I . TH CHAS A T R TH TRUTH 340
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TH MAN
HO KN TOO MUCH
TH AC IN TH TARG T
TTAROLD MARCH, the rsng revewer and
soca crtc, was wakng vgorousy across
a great tabeand of moors and commons, the
horzon of whch was frnged wth the far-off
woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park.
He was a good-ookng young man n tweeds,
wth very pae cury har and pae cear eyes.
akng n wnd and sun n the very andscape
of berty, he was st young enough to remember
hs potcs and not merey try to forget them.
or hs errand at Torwood Park was a potca
one; t was the pace of appontment named by
no ess a person than the Chanceor of the -
chequer, Sr Howard Home, then ntroducng hs
so-caed Socast udget, and prepared to e -
pound t n an ntervew wth so promsng a
penman. Harod March was the sort of man
who knows everythng about potcs, and nothng
about potcans. He aso knew a great dea
about art, etters, phosophy, and genera cu-
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The Man ho Knew Too Much
ture; about amost everythng, ndeed, e cept the
word he was vng n.
Abrupty, n the mdde of those sunny and
wndy fats, he came upon a sort of ceft amost
narrow enough to be caed a crack n the and.
It was ust arge enough to be the water-course
for a sma stream whch vanshed at ntervas
under green tunnes of undergrowth, as f n a
dwarfsh forest. : Indeed, he had an odd feeng
as f he were a gant ookng over the vaey of
the pygmes. hen he dropped nto the hoow,
however, the mpresson was ost; the rocky
banks, though hardy above the heght of a cot-
tage, hung over and had the profe of a precpce.
As he began to wander down the course of the
stream, n de but romantc curosty, and saw
the water shnng n short strps between the
great gray bouders and bushes as soft as great
green mosses, he fe nto qute an opposte ven
of fantasy. It was rather as f the earth had
opened and swaowed hm nto a sort of under-
word of dreams. And when he became con-
scous of a human fgure dark aganst the sver
stream, sttng on a arge bouder and ookng
rather ke a arge brd, t was perhaps wth
some of the premontons proper to a man who
meets the strangest frendshp of hs fe.
The man was apparenty fshng; or at east
was f ed n a fsherman s atttude wth more
than a fsherman s mmobty. March was abe
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The ace In the Target
to e amne the man amost as f he had been a
statue for some mnutes before the statue spoke.
He was a ta, far man, cadaverous, and a tte
ackadasca, wth heavy eyeds and a hgh-
brdged nose. hen hs face was shaded wth
hs wde whte hat, hs ght mustache and the
fgure gave hm a ook of youth. ut the
Panama ay on the moss besde hm; and the
spectator coud see that hs brow was prematurey
bad; and ths, combned wth a certan hoow-
ness about the eyes, had an ar of headwork and
even headache. ut the most curous thng about
hm, reazed after a short scrutny, was that,
though he ooked ke a fsherman, he was not
fshng.
He was hodng, nstead of a rod, somethng
that mght have been a andng-net whch some
fshermen use, but whch was much more ke
the ordnary toy net whch chdren carry, and
whch they generay use ndfferenty for shrmps
or butterfes. He was dppng ths nto the
water at ntervas, gravey regardng ts harvest
of weed or mud, and emptyng t out agan.
No, I haven t caught anythng, he remarked,
camy, as f answerng an unspoken query.
hen I do I have to throw t back agan; espe-
cay the bg fsh. ut some of the tte beasts
nterest me when I get em.
A scentfc nterest, I suppose observed
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Of a rather amateursh sort, I fear,
answered the strange fsherman. I have a
sort of hobby about what they ca phenomena
of phosphorescence. ut t woud be rather
awkward to go about n socety cryng stnkng
fsh.
I suppose t woud, sad March, wth a
sme.
Rather odd to enter a drawng-room carry-
ng a arge umnous cod, contnued the stran-
ger, n hs stess way. How quant t woud
be f one coud carry t about ke a antern, or
have tte sprats for candes. Some of the sea-
beasts woud reay be very pretty ke amp-
shades; the bue sea-sna that gtters a over
ke starght; and some of the red starfsh reay
shne ke red stars. ut, naturay, I m not ook-
ng for them here.
; March thought of askng hm what he was
ookng for; but, feeng unequa to a technca
dscusson at east as deep as the deep-sea fshes,
he returned to more ordnary topcs.
Deghtfu sort of hoe ths s, he sad.
Ths tte de and rver here. It s ke those
paces Stevenson taks about, where somethng
ought to happen.
I know, answered the other. I thnk t s
because the pace tsef, so to speak, seems to
happen and not merey to e st. Perhaps that s
what od Pcasso and some of the Cubsts are try-
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at that wa ke ow cffs that uts forward ust
at rght anges to the sope of turf sweepng up to
t. That s ke a sent coson. It s ke a
breaker and the back-wash of a wave.
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hangng the green sope and nodded. He was
nterested n a man who turned so easy from the
techncates of scence to those of art; and asked
hm f he admred the new anguar artsts.
As I fee t, the Cubsts are not Cubst
enough, reped the stranger. I mean they re
not thck enough. y makng thngs mathema-
tca they make them thn. Take the vng nes
out of that andscape, smpfy t to a rght
ange, and you fatten t out to a mere dagram
on paper. Dagrams have ther own beauty;
but t s of ust the other sort. They stand for
the unaterabe thngs; the cam, eterna, mathe-
matca sort of truths; what somebody cas the
whte radance of
He stopped, and before the ne t word came
somethng had happened amost too qucky and
competey to be reazed. rom behnd the
overhangng rock came a nose and rush ke
that of a raway tran; and a great motor car
appeared. It topped the crest of cff, back
aganst the sun, ke a batte-charot rushng to
destructon n some wd epc. March auto-
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as f to catch a fang tea-cup n a drawng-
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or the fracton of a fash t seemed to eave
the edge of rock ke a fyng shp; then the very
sky seemed to turn over ke a whee, and t ay
a run amd the ta grasses beow, a ne of gray
smoke gong up sowy from t nto the sent ar.
A tte ower the fgure of a man wth gray har
ay tumbed down the steep green sope, hs mbs
yng a at random, and hs face turned away.
The eccentrc fsherman dropped hs net and
waked swfty toward the spot, hs new acquant-
ance foowng hm. As they drew near there
seemed a sort of monstrous rony n the fact
that the dead machne was st throbbng and
thunderng as busy as a factory, whe the
man ay so st.
He was unquestonaby dead. The bood
fowed n the grass from a hopeessy fata frac-
ture at the back of the sku; but the face, whch
was turned to the sun, was unn ured and
strangey arrestng n tsef. It was one of those
cases of a strange face so unmstakabe as to
fee famar. e fee, somehow, that we
ought to recognze t, even though we do not.
It was of the broad, square sort wth great aws,
amost ke that of a hghy nteectua ape; the
wde mouth shut so tght as to be traced by a
mere ne; the nose short wth the sort of nos-
trs that seem to gape wth an appette for the
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one of the eyebrows was cocked up at a much
sharper ange than the other. March thought
he had never seen a face so naturay ave as
that dead one. And ts ugy energy seemed a
the stranger for ts hao of hoary har. Some
papers ay haf faen out of the pocket, and
from among them March e tracted a card-case.
He read the name on the card aoud.
Sr Humphrey Turnbu. I m sure I ve
heard that name somewhere.
Hs companon ony gave a sort of a tte
sgh and was sent for a moment, as f rum-
natng, then he merey sad, The poor feow s
qute gone, and added some scentfc terms n
whch hs audtor once more found hmsef out
of hs depth.
As thngs are, contnued the same curousy
we-nformed person, t w be more ega for
us to eave the body as t s unt the poce are
nformed. In fact, I thnk t w be we f
nobody e cept the poce s nformed. Don t
be surprsed f I seem to be keepng t dark from
some of our neghbors round here. Then, as
f prompted to reguarze hs rather abrupt con-
fdence, he sad: I ve come down to see my
cousn at Torwood; my name s Home sher.
Mght be a pun on my potterng about here,
mghtn t t
Is Sr Howard Home your cousn asked
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March. I m gong to Torwood Park to see
hm mysef; ony about hs pubc work, of
course, and the wonderfu stand he s makng
for hs prncpes. I thnk ths udget s the
greatest thng n ngsh hstory. If t fas, t
w be the most heroc faure n ngsh hstory.
Are you an admrer of your great knsman, Mr.
sher
Rather, sad Mr. sher. He s the best
shot I know.
Then, as f sncerey repentant of hs non-
chaance, he added, wth a sort of enthusasm:
No, but reay, he s a beautfu shot.
As f fred by hs own words, he took a sort
of eap at the edges of the rock above hm, and
scaed them wth a sudden agty n startng
contrast to hs genera asstude. He had stood
for some seconds on the headand above, wth
hs aqune profe under the Panama hat re-
eved aganst the sky and peerng over the
countrysde before hs companon had coected
hmsef suffcenty to scrambe up after hm.
The eve above was a stretch of common turf
on whch the tracks of the fated car were
powed pany enough; but the brnk of t was
broken as wth rocky teeth; broken bouders of
a shapes and szes ay near the edge; t was
amost ncredbe that any one coud have de-
beratey drven nto such a death trap, espe-
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I can t make head or ta of t, sad March.
as he bnd Or bnd drunk
Nether, by the ook of hm, reped the
other.
Then t was sucde.
It doesn t seem a cozy way of dong t,
remarked the man caed sher. esdes, I
don t fancy poor od Puggy woud commt su-
cde, somehow.
Poor od who nqured the wonderng
ournast. Dd you know ths unfortunate
man
Nobody knew hm e acty, reped sher,
wth some vagueness. ut one knew hm, of
course. He d been a terror n hs tme, n Par-
ament and the courts, and so on; especay n
that row about the aens who were deported
as undesrabes, when he wanted one of em
hanged for murder. He was so sck about t
that he retred from the bench. Snce then he
mosty motored about by hmsef; but he was
comng to Torwood, too, for the week-end; and
I don t see why he shoud deberatey break hs
neck amost at the very door. I beeve Hoggs
I mean my cousn Howard was comng down
specay to meet hm.
Torwood Park doesn t beong to your
cousn nqured March.
No; t used to beong to the nthrops, you
know, reped the other. Now a new man s
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got t; a man from Montrea named enkns.
Hoggs comes for the shootng; I tod you he
was a ovey shot.
Ths repeated euogy on the great soca
statesman affected Harod March as f some-
body had defned Napoeon as a dstngushed
payer of nap. ut he had another haf-formed
mpresson struggng n ths food of unfamar
thngs, and he brought t to the surface before
t coud vansh.
enkns, he repeated. Surey you don t
mean efferson enkns, the soca reformer I
mean the man who s fghtng for the new cot-
tage-estate scheme. It woud be as nterestng
to meet hm as any Cabnet Mnster n the
word, f you e cuse my sayng so.
Yes; Hoggs tod hm t woud have to be
cottages, sad sher. He sad the breed of
catte had mproved too often, and peope were
begnnng to augh. And, of course, you must
hang a peerage on to somethng; though the poor
chap hasn t got t yet. Huo, here s somebody
ese.
They had started wakng n the tracks of the
car, eavng t behnd them n the hoow, st
hummng horrby ke a huge nsect that had
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the same ne toward the dstant gates of the
park. It was cear that the car had been drven
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down the ong straght road, and then, nstead
of turnng wth the road to the eft, had gone
straght on over the turf to ts doom. ut t
was not ths dscovery that had rveted sher s
eye, but somethng even more sod. At the
ange of the whte road a dark and sotary fgure
was standng amost as st as a fnger post. It
was that of a bg man n rough shootng-cothes,
bareheaded, and wth toused cury har that
gave hm a rather wd ook. On a nearer
approach ths frst more fantastc mpresson
faded; n a fu ght the fgure took on more
conventona coors, as of an ordnary gente-
man who happened to have come out wthout a
hat and wthout very studousy brushng hs
har. ut the massve stature remaned, and
somethng deep and even cavernous about the
settng of the eyes redeemed hs anma good
ooks from the commonpace. ut March had
no tme to study the man more cosey, for,
much to hs astonshment, hs gude merey ob-
served, Huo, ack and waked past hm as
f he had ndeed been a sgnpost, and wthout
attemptng to nform hm of the catastrophe
beyond the rocks. It was reatvey a sma
thng, but t was ony the frst n a strng of
snguar antcs on whch hs new and eccentrc
frend was eadng hm.
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tnued sereney on hs way aong the straght
road that ran past the gates of the great
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That s ohn urke, the traveer, he con-
descended to e pan. I e pect you ve heard
of hm; shoots bg game and a that. Sorry I
coudn t stop to ntroduce you, but I dare say
you meet hm ater on.
I know hs book, of course, sad March,
wth renewed nterest. That s certany a fne
pece of descrpton, about ther beng ony con-
scous of the coseness of the eephant when the
coossa head bocked out the moon.
Yes, young Hakett wrtes oy we, I thnk.
hat Ddn t you know Hakett wrote
urke s book for hm urke can t use any-
thng e cept a gun; and you can t wrte wth
that. Oh, he s genune enough n hs way, you
know, as brave as a on, or a good dea braver
by a accounts.
You seem to know a about hm, observed
March, wth a rather bewdered augh, and
about a good many other peope.
sher s bad brow became abrupty corru-
gated, and a curous e presson came nto hs
eyes.
I know too much, he sad. That s what s
the matter wth me. That s what s the matter
wth a of us, and the whoe show; we know too
much. Too much about one another; too much
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about ourseves. That s why I m reay nter-
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know.
And that s nqured the other.
hy that poor feow s dead.
They had waked aong the straght road for
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fashon; and March had a snguar sense of the
whoe word beng turned nsde out. Mr.
Home sher dd not especay abuse hs
frends and reatves n fashonabe socety; of
some of them he spoke wth affecton. ut they
seemed to be an entrey new set of men and
women, who happened to have the same nerves
as the men and women mentoned most often n
the newspapers. Yet no fury of revot coud
have seemed to hm more uttery revoutonary
than ths cod famarty. It was ke dayght
on the other sde of stage scenery.
They reached the great odge gates of the
park, and, to March s surprse, passed them
and contnued aong the ntermnabe whte,
straght road. ut he was hmsef too eary
for hs appontment wth Sr Howard, and was
not dsncned to see the end of hs new frend s
e perment, whatever t mght be. They had
ong eft the moorand behnd them, and haf
the whte road was gray n the great shadow of
the Torwood pne forests, themseves ke gray
bars shuttered aganst the sunshne and wthn,
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amd that cear noon, manufacturng ther own
mdnght. Soon, however, rfts began to appear
n them ke geams of coored wndows; the
trees thnned and fe away as the road went
forward, showng the wd, rreguar copses n
whch, as sher sad, the house-party had been
bazng away a day. And about two hundred
yards farther on they came to the frst turn of
the road.
At the corner stood a sort of decayed nn wth
the dngy sgn of The Grapes. The sgnboard
was dark and ndecpherabe by now, and hung
back aganst the sky and the gray moorand
beyond, about as nvtng as a gaows. March
remarked that t ooked ke a tavern for vnegar
nstead of wne.
A good phrase, sad sher, and so t
woud be f you were sy enough to drnk wne
n t. ut the beer s very good, and so s the
brandy.
March foowed hm to the bar paror wth
some wonder, and hs dm sense of repugnance
was not dsmssed by the frst sght of the nn-
keeper, who was wdey dfferent from the gena
nnkeepers of romance, a bony man, very sent
behnd a back mustache, but wth back, restess
eyes. Tacturn as he was, the nvestgator suc-
ceeded at ast n e tractng a scrap of nforma-
ton from hm, by dnt of orderng beer and
takng to hm persstenty and mnutey on the
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sub ect of motor cars. He evdenty regarded
the nnkeeper as n some snguar way an author-
ty on motor cars; as beng deep n the secrets
of the mechansm, management, and msman-
agement of motor cars; hodng the man a the
tme wth a gtterng eye ke the Ancent Mar-
ner. Out of a ths rather mysterous conver-
saton there dd emerge at ast a sort of adms-
son that one partcuar motor car, of a gven
descrpton, had stopped before the nn about
an hour before, and that an edery man had
aghted, requrng some mechanca assstance.
Asked f the vstor requred any other assst-
ance, the nnkeeper sad shorty that the od
genteman had fed hs fask and taken a packet
of sandwches. And wth these words the some-
what nhosptabe host had waked hasty out of
the bar, and they heard hm bangng doors n the
dark nteror.
sher s weary eye wandered round the dusty
and dreary nn paror and rested dreamy on a
gass case contanng a stuffed brd, wth a gun
hung on hooks above t, whch seemed to be ts
ony ornament.
Puggy was a humorst, he observed, at
east n hs own rather grm stye. ut t seems
rather too grm a oke for a man to buy a
packet of sandwches when he s ust gong to
commt sucde.
If you come to that, answered March, t
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sn t very usua for a man to buy a packet of
sandwches when he s ust outsde the door of
a grand house he s gong to stop at.
No . . . no, repeated sher, amost me-
chancay; and then suddeny cocked hs eye at
hs nterocutor wth a much veer e presson.
y ove that s an dea. You re perfecty
rght. And that suggests a very queer dea,
doesn t t
There was a sence, and then March started
wth rratona nervousness as the door of the
nn was fung open and another man waked
rapdy to the counter. He had struck t wth a
con and caed out for brandy before he saw
the other two guests, who were sttng at a bare
wooden tabe under the wndow. hen he
turned about wth a rather wd stare, March had
yet another une pected emoton, for hs gude
haed the man as Hoggs and ntroduced hm as
Sr Howard Home.
He ooked rather oder than hs boysh por-
trats n the ustrated papers, as s the way of
potcans; hs fat, far har was touched wth
gray, but hs face was amost comcay round,
wth a Roman nose whch, when combned wth
hs quck, brght eyes, rased a vague remnscence
of a parrot. He had a cap rather at the back
of hs head and a gun under hs arm. Harod
March had magned many thngs about hs
meetng wth the great potca reformer, but
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he had never pctured hm wth a gun under hs
arm, drnkng brandy n a pubc house.
So you re stoppng at nk s, too, sad
sher. verybody seems to be at nk s.
Yes, reped the Chanceor of the cheq-
uer. oy good shootng. At east a of t
that sn t nk s shootng. I never knew a chap
wth such good shootng that was such a bad
shot. Mnd you, he s a oy good feow
and a that; I don t say a word aganst hm.
ut he never earned to hod a gun when he was
packng pork or whatever he dd. They say he
shot the cockade off hs own servant s hat; ust
ke hm to have cockades, of course. He shot
the weathercock off hs own rdcuous gded
summerhouse. It s the ony cock he ever
k, I shoud thnk. Are you comng up there
now
sher sad, rather vaguey, that he was fo-
owng soon, when he had f ed somethng up;
and the Chanceor of the chequer eft the
nn. March fanced he had been a tte upset
or mpatent when he caed for the brandy; but
he had taked hmsef back nto a satsfactory
state, f the tak had not been qute what hs
terary vstor had e pected. sher, a few
mnutes afterward, sowy ed the way out of the
tavern and stood n the mdde of the road, ook-
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traveed. Then he waked back about two
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I shoud thnk ths s about the pace, he
sad.
hat pace asked hs companon.
The pace where the poor feow was
ked, sad sher, sady.
hat do you mean demanded March.
He was smashed up on the rocks a me and a
haf from here.
No, he wasn t, reped sher. He ddn t
fa on the rocks at a. Ddn t you notce that
he ony fe on the sope of soft grass under-
neath ut I saw that he had a buet n hm
aready.
Then after a pause he added:
He was ave at the nn, but he was dead
ong before he came to the rocks. So he was
shot as he drove hs car down ths strp of
straght road, and I shoud thnk somewhere
about here. After that, of course, the car went
straght on wth nobody to stop or turn t. It s
reay a very cunnng dodge n ts way; for the
body woud be found far away, and most peope
woud say, as you do, that t was an accdent to
a motorst. The murderer must have been a
cever brute.
ut woudn t the shot be heard at the nn or
somewhere asked March.
It woud be heard. ut t woud not be
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notced. That, contnued the nvestgator,
s where he was cever agan. Shootng was
gong on a over the pace a day; very key
he tmed hs shot so as to drown t n a number
of others. Certany he was a frst-cass crm-
na. And he was somethng ese as we.
hat do you mean asked hs companon,
wth a creepy premonton of somethng comng,
he knew not why.
He was a frst-cass shot, sad sher.
He had turned hs back abrupty and was
wakng down a narrow, grassy ane, tte more
than a cart track, whch ay opposte the nn and
marked the end of the great estate and the
begnnng of the open moors. March podded
after hm wth the same de perseverance, and
found hm starng through a gap n gant weeds
and thorns at the fat face of a panted pa-
ng. rom behnd the pang rose the great
gray coumns of a row of popars, whch fed
the heavens above them wth dark-green shadow
and shook fanty n a wnd whch had sunk
sowy nto a breeze. The afternoon was a-
ready deepenng nto evenng, and the ttanc
shadows of the popars engthened over a thrd
of the andscape.
Are you a frst-cass crmna asked sher,
n a frendy tone. I m afrad I m not. ut
I thnk I can manage to be a sort of fourth-rate
burgar.
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And before hs companon coud repy he had
managed to swng hmsef up and over the fence;
March foowed wthout much body effort, but
wth consderabe menta dsturbance. The
popars grew so cose aganst the fence that they
had some dffcuty n sppng past them, and
beyond the popars they coud see ony a hgh
hedge of aure, green and ustrous n the eve
sun. Somethng n ths mtaton by a seres of
vng was made hm fee as f he were reay
enterng a shattered house nstead of an open
fed. It was as f he came n by a dsused
door or wndow and found the way bocked by
furnture. hen they had crcumvented the
aure hedge, they came out on a sort of terrace
of turf, whch fe by one green step to an ob-
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ke a gass cottage standng n ts own feds n
faryand. sher knew that oney ook of the
outyng parts of a great house we enough. He
reazed that t s more of a satre on arstocracy
than f t were choked wth weeds and ttered
wth runs. or t s not negected and yet t
s deserted; at any rate, t s dsused. It s
reguary swept and garnshed for a master who
never comes.
Lookng over the awn, however, he saw one
ob ect whch he had not apparenty e pected.
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It was a sort of trpod supportng a arge dsk
ke the round top of a tabe tpped sdeways,
and t was not unt they had dropped on to the
awn and waked across to ook at t that March
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fashon of archery. March had one of hs
vague vsons of ades n coudy crnones and
gentemen n outandsh hats and whskers re-
vstng that ost garden ke ghosts.
sher, who was peerng more cosey at the
target, started hm by an e camaton.
Huo he sad. Somebody has been
pepperng ths thng wth shot, after a, and
qute atey, too. hy, I beeve od nk s
been tryng to mprove hs bad shootng here.
Yes, and t ooks as f t st wanted m-
provng, answered March, aughng. Not
one of these shots s anywhere near the bu s-
eye ; they seem ust scattered about n the wdest
way.
In the wdest way, repeated sher, st
peerng ntenty at the target. He seemed
merey to assent, but March fanced hs eye was
shnng under ts seepy d and that he straght-
ened hs stoopng fgure wth a strange effort.
cuse me a moment, he sad, feeng n
hs pockets. I thnk I ve got some of my chem-
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cas; and after that we go up to the house.
And he stooped agan over the target, puttng
somethng wth hs fnger over each of the shot-
hoes, so far as March coud see merey a du-
gray smear. Then they went through the
gatherng twght up the ong green avenues to
the great house.
Here agan, however, the eccentrc nvest-
gator dd not enter by the front door. He
waked round the house unt he found a wndow
open, and, eapng nto t, ntroduced hs frend
to what appeared to be the gun-room. Rows of
the reguar nstruments for brngng down brds
stood aganst the was; but across a tabe n the
wndow ay one or two weapons of a heaver and
more formdabe pattern.
Huo these are urke s bg-game rfes,
sad sher. I never knew he kept them here.
He fted one of them, e amned t brefy, and
put t down agan, frownng heavy. Amost
as he dd so a strange young man came hurredy
nto the room. He was dark and sturdy, wth
a bumpy forehead and a budog aw, and he
spoke wth a curt apoogy.
I eft Ma or urke s guns here, he sad,
and he wants them packed up. He s gong
away to-nght.
And he carred off the two rfes wthout cast-
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wndow they coud see hs short, dark fgure
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wakng away across the gmmerng garden.
sher got out of the wndow agan and stood
ookng after hm.
That s Hakett, whom I tod you about, he
sad. I knew he was a sort of secretary and
had to do wth urke s papers; but I never knew
he had anythng to do wth hs guns. ut he s
ust the sort of sent, sensbe tte dev who
mght be very good at anythng; the sort of man
you know for years before you fnd he s a chess
champon.
He had begun to wak n the drecton of the
dsappearng secretary, and they soon came
wthn sght of the rest of the house-party takng
and aughng on the awn. They coud see the
ta fgure and oose mane of the on-hunter
domnatng the tte group.
y the way, observed sher, when we
were takng about urke and Hakett, I sad
that a man coudn t very we wrte wth a gun.
e, I m not so sure now. Dd you ever hear
of an artst so cever that he coud draw wth
a gun There s a wonderfu chap oose about
here.
Sr Howard haed sher and hs frend the
ournast wth amost bosterous amabty. The
atter was presented to Ma or urke and Mr.
Hakett and aso (by way of a parenthess) to
hs host, Mr. enkns, a commonpace tte man
n oud tweeds, whom everybody ese seemed
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to treat wth a sort of affecton, as f he were a
baby.
The rrepressbe Chanceor of the chequer
was st takng about the brds he had brought
down, the brds that urke and Hakett had
brought down, and the brds that enkns, ther
host, had faed to brng down. It seemed to
be a sort of socabe monomana.
You and your bg game, he e acuated,
aggressvey, to urke. hy, anybody coud
shoot bg game. You want to be a shot to shoot
sma game.
ute so, nterposed Home sher. Now
f ony a hppopotamus coud fy up n the ar out
of that bush, or you preserved fyng eephants
on the estate, why, then
hy even nk mght ht that sort of brd,
cred Sr Howard, harousy sappng hs host
on the back. ven he mght ht a haystack or
a hppopotamus.
Look here, you feows, sad sher. I
want you to come aong wth me for a mnute
and shoot at somethng ese. Not a hppopota-
mus. Another knd of queer anma I ve found
on the estate. It s an anma wth three egs and
one eye, and t s a the coors of the ranbow.
hat the deuce are you takng about
asked urke.
You come aong and see, reped sher,
cheerfuy.
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Such peope sedom re ect anythng nonsen-
sca, for they are aways seekng for somethng
new. They gravey rearmed themseves from
the gun-room and trooped aong at the ta of
ther gude, Sr Howard ony pausng, n a sort
of ecstasy, to pont out the ceebrated gt sum-
merhouse on whch the gt weathercock st
stood crooked. It was dusk turnng to dark by
the tme they reached the remote green by the
popars and accepted the new and amess game
of shootng at the od mark.
The ast ght seemed to fade from the awn,
and the popars aganst the sunset were ke
great pumes upon a purpe hearse, when the
fute processon fnay curved round and came
out n front of the target.
Sr Howard agan sapped hs host on the
shouder, shovng hm payfuy forward to take
the frst shot. The shouder and arm he touched
seemed unnaturay stff and anguar. Mr.
enkns was hodng hs gun n an atttude more
awkward than any that hs satrc frends had
seen or e pected.
At the same nstant a horrbe scream seemed
to come from nowhere. It was so unnatura
and so unsuted to the scene that t mght have
been made by some nhuman thng fyng on wngs
above them or eavesdroppng n the dark woods
beyond. ut sher knew that t had started
and stopped on the pae ps of efferson enkns,
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companed that t was commonpace.
The ne t moment a torrent of guttura but
good-humored oaths came from Ma or urke
as he and the two other men saw what was n
front of them. The target stood up n the dm
grass ke a dark gobn grnnng at them, and
t was teray grnnng. It had two eyes ke
stars, and n smar vd ponts of ght were
pcked out the two upturned and open nostrs
and the two ends of the wde and tght mouth.
A few whte dots above each eye ndcated
the hoary eyebrows; and one of them ran up-
ward amost erect. It was a brant carcature
done n brght botted nes and March knew of
whom. It shone n the shadowy grass, smeared
wth sea fre as f one of the submarne monsters
had crawed nto the twght garden; but t had
the head of a dead man.
It s ony umnous pant, sad urke. Od
sher s been havng a oke wth that phosphor-
escent stuff of hs.
Seems to be meant for od Puggy, observed
Sr Howard. Hts hm off very we.
th that they a aughed, e cept enkns.
hen they had a done, he made a nose ke
the frst effort of an anma to augh, and
Home sher suddeny strode across to hm
and sad:
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Mr. enkns, I must speak to you at once n
prvate.
It was by the tte watercourse n the moors,
on the sope under the hangng rock, that March
met hs new frend sher, by appontment,
shorty after the ugy and amost grotesque scene
that had broken up the group n the garden.
It was a monkey-trck of mne, observed
sher, goomy, puttng phosphorus on the
target; but the ony chance to make hm ump
was to gve hm the horrors suddeny. And
when he saw the face he d shot at shnng on the
target he practced on, a t up wth an nferna
ght, he dd ump. ute enough for my own
nteectua satsfacton.
I m afrad I don t qute understand even
now, sad March, e acty what he dd or why
he dd t.
You ought to, reped sher, wth hs
rather dreary sme, for you gave me the frst
suggeston yoursef. Oh yes, you dd; and t was
a very shrewd one. You sad a man woudn t
take sandwches wth hm to dne at a great
house. It was qute true; and the nference was
that, though he was gong there, he ddn t mean
to dne there. Or, at any rate, that he mght
not be dnng there. It occurred to me at once
that he probaby e pected the vst to be un-
peasant, or the recepton doubtfu, or somethng
that woud prevent hs acceptng hosptaty.
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Then t struck me that Turnbu was a terror to
certan shady characters n the past, and that
he had come down to dentfy and denounce one
of them. The chances at the start ponted to
the host that s, enkns. I m moray certan
now that enkns was the undesrabe aen Turn-
bu wanted to convct n another shootng-affar,
but you see the shootng genteman had another
shot n hs ocker.
ut you sad he woud have to be a very good
shot, protested March.
enkns s a very good shot, sad sher.
A very good shot who can pretend to be a very
bad shot. Sha I te you the second hnt I ht
on, after yours, to make me thnk t was
enkns It was my cousn s account of hs
bad shootng. He d shot a cockade off a hat
and a weathercock off a budng. Now, n
fact, a man must shoot very we ndeed to shoot
so bady as that. He must shoot very neaty to
ht the cockade and not the head, or even the hat.
If the shots had reay gone at random, the
chances are a thousand to one that they woud
not have ht such promnent and pcturesque
ob ects. They were chosen because they were
promnent and pcturesque ob ects. They make
a story to go the round of socety. He keeps the
crooked weathercock n the summerhouse to
perpetuate the story of a egend. And then he
ay n wat wth hs ev eye and wcked gun,
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safey ambushed behnd the egend of hs own
ncompetence.
ut there s more than that. There s the
summerhouse tsef. I mean there s the whoe
thng. There s a that enkns gets chaffed
about, the gdng and the gaudy coors and a
the vugarty that s supposed to stamp hm as an
upstart. Now, as a matter of fact, upstarts
generay don t do ths. God knows there s
enough of em n socety; and one knows em we
enough. And ths s the very ast thng they do.
They re generay ony too keen to know the
rght thng and do t; and they nstanty put
themseves body and sou nto the hands of art
decorators and art e perts, who do the whoe
thng for them. There s hardy another mon-
are ave who has the mora courage to have
a gt monogram on a char ke that one n
the gun-room. or that matter, there s the name
as we as the monogram. Names ke Tompkns
and enkns and nks are funny wthout beng
vugar; I mean they are vugar wthout beng
common. If you prefer t, they are common-
pace wthout beng common. They are ust the
names to be chosen to ook ordnary, but they re
reay rather e traordnary. Do you know many
peope caed Tompkns It s a good dea rarer
than Tabot. It s pretty much the same wth the
comc cothes of the parvenu. enkns dresses
ke a character n Punch. ut that s because he
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s a character n Punch. I mean he s a fcttous
character. He s a fabuous anma. He doesn t
e st.
Have you ever consdered what t must be
ke to be a man who doesn t e st I mean to
be a man wth a fcttous character that he has
to keep up at the e pense not merey of persona
taents: To be a new knd of hypocrte hdng
a taent n a new knd of napkn. Ths man has
chosen hs hypocrsy very ngenousy; t was
reay a new one. A subte van has dressed
up as a dashng genteman and a worthy busness
man and a phanthropst and a sant; but the
oud checks of a comca tte cad were reay
rather a new dsguse. ut the dsguse must be
very rksome to a man who can reay do thngs.
Ths s a de terous tte cosmopotan gutter-
snpe who can do scores of thngs, not ony shoot,
but draw and pant, and probaby pay the fdde.
Now a man ke that may fnd the hdng of hs
taents usefu; but he coud never hep wantng
to use them where they were useess. If he can
draw, he w draw absent-mndedy on bottng
paper. I suspect ths rasca has often drawn
poor od Puggy s face on bottng paper. Prob-
aby he began dong t n bots as he afterward
dd t n dots, or rather shots. It was the same
sort of thng; he found a dsused target n a de-
serted yard and coudn t resst ndugng n a
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thought the shots a scattered and rreguar, and
so they were; but not accdenta. No two ds-
tances were ake; but the dfferent ponts were
e acty where he wanted to put them. There s
nothng needs such mathematca precson as a
wd carcature. I ve dabbed a tte n drawng
mysef, and I assure you that to put one dot
where you want t s a marve wth a pen cose
to a pece of paper. It was a mrace to do t
across a garden wth a gun. ut a man who can
work those mraces w aways tch to work
them, f t s ony n the dark.
After a pause March observed, thoughtfuy,
ut he coudn t have brought hm down ke a
brd wth one of those tte guns.
No; that was why I went nto the gun-room,
reped sher. He dd t wth one of urke s
rfes, and urke thought he knew the sound of
t. That s why he rushed out wthout a hat,
ookng so wd. He saw nothng but a car pass-
ng qucky, whch he foowed for a tte way,
and then concuded he d made a mstake.
There was another sence, durng whch sher
sat on a great stone as motoness as on ther
frst meetng, and watched the gray and sver
rver eddyng past under the bushes. Then
March sad, abrupty, Of course he knows the
truth now.
Nobody knows the truth but you and I,
answered sher, wth a certan softenng n hs
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voce. And I don t thnk you and I w ever
quarre.
hat do you mean asked March, n an
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t
Home sher contnued to gaze steady at
the eddyng stream. At ast he sad, The poce
have proved t was a motor accdent.
ut you know t was not.
I tod you that I know too much, reped
sher, wth hs eye on the rver. I know that,
and I know a great many other thngs. I know
the atmosphere and the way the whoe thng
works. I know ths feow has succeeded n
makng hmsef somethng ncuraby common-
pace and comc. I know you can t get up a per-
secuton of od Tooe or Ltte Tch. If I were
to te Hoggs or Hakett that od nk was an
assassn, they woud amost de of aughter be-
fore my eyes. Oh, I don t say ther aughter s
qute nnocent, though t s genune n ts way.
They want od nk, and they coudn t do wth-
out hm. I don t say I m qute nnocent. I ke
Hoggs; I don t want hm to be down and out;
and he d be done for f nk can t pay for hs
coronet. They were devsh near the ne at
the ast eecton. ut the ony rea ob ecton to
t s that t s mpossbe. Nobody woud beeve
t; t s not n the pcture. The crooked weather-
cock woud aways turn t nto a oke.
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Don t you thnk ths s nfamous asked
March, quety.
I thnk a good many thngs, reped the
other. If you peope ever happen to bow the
whoe tange of socety to he wth dynamte,
I don t know that the human race w be much
the worse. ut don t be too hard on me merey
because I know what socety s. That s why I
moon away my tme over thngs ke stnkng
fsh.
There was a pause as he setted hmsef down
agan by the stream; and then he added:
I tod you before I had to throw back the
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TH ANISHING PRINC
f I SHIS tae begns among a tange of taes
round a name that s at once recent and
egendary. The name s that of Mchae O Ne,
popuary caed Prnce Mchae, party because
he camed descent from ancent enan prnces,
and party because he was credted wth a pan
to make hmsef prnce presdent of Ireand, as
the ast Napoeon dd of rance. He was un-
doubtedy a genteman of honorabe pedgree and
of many accompshments, but two of hs accom-
pshments emerged from a the rest. He had
a taent for appearng when he was not wanted
and a taent for dsappearng when he was
wanted, especay when he was wanted by the
poce. It may be added that hs dsappearances
were more dangerous than hs appearances. In
the atter he sedom went beyond the sensatona
pastng up sedtous pacards, tearng down
offca pacards, makng famboyant speeches, or
unfurng forbdden fags. ut n order to effect
the former he woud sometmes fght for hs free-
dom wth startng energy, from whch men were
sometmes ucky to escape wth a broken head
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nstead of a broken neck. Hs most famous feats
of escape, however, were due to de terty and
not to voence. On a coudess summer morn-
ng he had come down a country road whte wth
dust, and, pausng outsde a farmhouse, had
tod the farmer s daughter, wth eegant ndffer-.
ence, that the oca poce were n pursut of hm.
The gr s name was rdget Royce, a somber
and even suen type of beauty, and she ooked
at hm darky, as f n doubt, and sad, Do you
want me to hde you Upon whch he ony
aughed, eaped ghty over the stone wa, and
strode toward the farm, merey throwng over
hs shouder the remark, Thank you, I have
generay been qute capabe of hdng mysef.
In whch proceedng he acted wth a tragc
gnorance of the nature of women; and there
fe on hs path n that sunshne a shadow of
doom.
he he dsappeared through the farmhouse
the gr remaned for a few moments ookng up
the road, and two persprng pocemen came
powng up to the door where she stood. Though
st angry, she was st sent, and a quarter of
an hour ater the offcers had searched the house
and were aready nspectng the ktchen garden
and cornfed behnd t. In the ugy reacton of
her mood she mght have been tempted even to
pont out the fugtve, but for a sma dffcuty
that she had no more noton than the pocemen
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had of where he coud possby have gone. The
ktchen garden was ncosed by a very ow wa,
and the cornfed beyond ay asant ke a square
patch on a great green h on whch he coud st
have been seen even as a dot n the dstance.
verythng stood sod n ts famar pace; the
appe tree was too sma to support or hde a
cmber; the ony shed stood open and obvousy
empty; there was no sound save the dronng of
summer fes and the occasona futter of a brd
unfamar enough to be surprsed by the scare-
crow n the fed; there was scarcey a shadow
save a few bue nes that fe from the thn tree;
every deta was pcked out by the brant day-
ght as f n a mcroscope. The gr descrbed
the scene ater, wth a the passonate reasm of
her race, and, whether or no the pocemen had
a smar eye for the pcturesque, they had at
east an eye for the facts of the case, and were
compeed to gve up the chase and retre from
the scene. rdget Royce remaned as f n a
trance, starng at the sunt garden n whch a
man had ust vanshed ke a fary. She was st
n a snster mood, and the mrace took n her
mnd a character of unfrendness and fear, as
f the fary were decdedy a bad fary. The sun
upon the gtterng garden depressed her more
than the darkness, but she contnued to stare at
t. Then the word tsef went haf-wtted and
she screamed. The scarecrow moved n the sun-
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ght. It had stood wth ts back to her n a
battered od back hat and a tattered garment,
and wth a ts tatters fyng, t strode away
across the h.
She dd not anayze the audacous trck by
whch the man had turned to hs advantage the
subte effects of the e pected and the obvous;
she was st under the coud of more ndvdua
compe tes, and she notced most of a that
the vanshng scarecrow dd not even turn to ook
at the farm. And the fates that were runnng
so adverse to hs fantastc career of freedom
rued that hs ne t adventure, though t had the
same success n another quarter, shoud ncrease
the danger n ths quarter. Among the many
smar adventures reated of hm n ths manner
t s aso sad that some days afterward another
gr, named Mary Cregan, found hm conceaed
on the farm where she worked; and f the story
s true, she must aso have had the shock of an
uncanny e perence, for when she was busy at
some oney task n the yard she heard a voce
speakng out of the we, and found that the ec-
centrc had managed to drop hmsef nto the
bucket whch was some tte way beow, the we
ony party fu of water. In ths case, however,
he had to appea to the woman to wnd up the
rope. And men say t was when ths news was
tod to the other woman that her sou waked
over the border ne of treason.
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Such, at east, were the stores tod of hm n
the countrysde, and there were many more
as that he had stood nsoenty n a spendd green
dressng gown on the steps of a great hote, and
then ed the poce a chase through a ong sute
of grand apartments, and fnay through hs own
bedroom on to a bacony that overhung the rver.
The moment the pursuers stepped on to the ba-
cony t broke under them, and they dropped pe-
me nto the eddyng waters, whe Mchae, who
had thrown off hs gown and dved, was abe to
swm away. It was sad that he had carefuy
cut away the props so that they woud not sup-
port anythng so heavy as a poceman. ut
here agan he was mmedatey fortunate, yet
utmatey unfortunate, for t s sad that one of
the men was drowned, eavng a famy feud
whch made a tte rft n hs popuarty. These
stores can now be tod n some deta, not be-
cause they are the most marveous of hs many
adventures, but because these aone were not cov-
ered wth sence by the oyaty of the peasantry.
These aone found ther way nto offca reports,
and t s these whch three of the chef offcas of
the country were readng and dscussng when the
more remarkabe part of ths story begns.
Nght was far advanced and the ghts shone
n the cottage that served for a temporary poce
staton near the coast. On one sde of t were
the ast houses of the straggng vage, and on
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the other nothng but a waste moorand stretch-
ng away toward the sea, the ne of whch was
broken by no andmark e cept a sotary tower
of the prehstorc pattern st found n Ireand,
standng up as sender as a coumn, but ponted
ke a pyramd. At a wooden tabe n front of
the wndow, whch normay ooked out on ths
andscape, sat two men n pan cothes, but wth
somethng of a mtary bearng, for ndeed they
were the two chefs of the detectve servce of
that dstrct. The senor of the two, both n age
and rank, was a sturdy man wth a short whte
beard, and frosty eyebrows f ed n a frown
whch suggested rather worry than severty.
Hs name was Morton, and he was a Lver-
poo man ong pcked n the Irsh quarres, and
dong hs duty among them n a sour fashon not
atogether unsympathetc. He had spoken a
few sentences to hs companon, Noan, a ta,
dark man wth a cadaverous equne Irsh face,
when he seemed to remember somethng and
touched a be whch rang n another room The
subordnate he had summoned mmedatey ap-
peared wth a sheaf of papers n hs hand.
St down, son, he sad. Those are the
dspostons, I suppose.
Yes, reped the thrd offcer. I thnk I ve
got a there s to be got out of them, so I sent
the peope away.
Dd Mary Cregan gve evdence asked
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Morton, wth a frown that ooked a tte heaver
than usua.
No, but her master dd, answered the man
caed son, who had fat, red har and a pan,
pae face, not wthout sharpness. I thnk he s
hangng round the gr hmsef and s out aganst
a rva. There s aways some reason of that
sort when we are tod the truth about anythng.
And you bet the other gr tod rght enough.
e, et s hope they be some sort of use,
remarked Noan, n a somewhat hopeess man-
ner, gazng out nto the darkness.
Anythng s to the good, sad Morton, that
ets us know anythng about hm.
Do we know anythng about hm asked the
meanchoy Irshman.
e know one thng about hm, sad son,
and t s the one thng that nobody ever knew
before. e know where he s.
Are you sure nqured Morton, ookng at
hm sharpy.
ute sure, reped hs assstant. At ths
very mnute he s n that tower over there by
the shore. If you go near enough you see the
cande burnng n the wndow.
As he spoke the nose of a horn sounded on
the road outsde, and a moment after they heard
the throbbng of a motor car brought to a stand-
st before the door. Morton nstanty sprang
to hs feet.
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Thank the Lord that s the car from Dubn,
he sad. I can t do anythng wthout speca
authorty, not f he were sttng on the top of
the tower and puttng out hs tongue at us. ut
the chef can do what he thnks best.
He hurred out to the entrance and was soon
e changng greetngs wth a bg handsome man
n a fur coat, who brought nto the dngy tte
staton the ndescrbabe gow of the great ctes
and the u ures of the great word.
or ths was Sr ater Carey, an offca of
such emnence n Dubn Caste that nothng
short of the case of Prnce Mchae woud have
brought hm on such a ourney n the mdde of
the nght. ut the case of Prnce Mchae, as t
happened, was compcated by egasm as we
as awessness. On the ast occason he had
escaped by a forensc qubbe and not, as usua,
by a prvate escapade; and t was a queston
whether at the moment he was amenabe to the
aw or not. It mght be necessary to stretch a
pont, but a man ke Sr ater coud probaby
stretch t as far as he ked.
hether he ntended to do so was a queston
to be consdered. Despte the amost aggressve
touch of u ury n the fur coat, t soon became
apparent that Sr ater s arge eonne head
was for use as we as ornament, and he con-
sdered the matter sobery and saney enough.
ve chars were set round the pan dea tabe,
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for who shoud Sr ater brng wth hm but
hs young reatve and secretary, Home sher.
Sr ater stened wth grave attenton, and hs
secretary wth pote boredom, to the strng of
epsodes by whch the poce had traced the fy-
ng rebe from the steps of the hote to the so-
tary tower besde the sea. There at east he
was cornered betweeen the moors and the break-
ers; and the scout sent by son reported hm
as wrtng under a sotary cande, perhaps com-
posng another of hs tremendous procamatons.
Indeed, t woud have been typca of hm to
choose t as the pace n whch fnay to turn
to bay. He had some remote cam on t, as
on a famy caste; and those who knew hm
thought hm capabe of mtatng the prmtve
Irsh cheftans who fe fghtng aganst the sea.
I saw some queer-ookng peope eavng as
I came n, sad Sr ater Carey. I suppose
they were your wtnesses. ut why do they
turn up here at ths tme of nght
Morton smed grmy. They come here by
nght because they woud be dead men f they
came here by day. They are crmnas commt-
tng a crme that s more horrbe here than theft
or murder.
hat crme do you mean asked the other,
wth some curosty.
They are hepng the aw, sad Morton.
There was a sence, and Sr ater consdered
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the papers before hm wth an abstracted eye.
At ast he spoke.
ute so; but ook here, f the oca feeng
s as vey as that there are a good many ponts
to consder. I beeve the new Act w enabe
me to coar hm now f I thnk t best. ut s
t best A serous rsng woud do us no good
n Parament, and the government has enemes
n ngand as we as Ireand. It won t do f I
have done what ooks a tte ke sharp practce,
and then ony rased a revouton.
It s a the other way, sad the man caed
son, rather qucky. There won t be haf
so much of a revouton f you arrest hm as there
w f you eave hm oose for three days onger.
ut, anyhow, there can t be anythng nowadays
that the proper poce can t manage.
Mr. son s a Londoner, sad the Irsh
detectve, wth a sme.
Yes, I m a cockney, a rght, reped son,
and I thnk I m a the better for that. spe-
cay at ths ob, oddy enough.
Sr ater seemed sghty amused at the per-
tnacty of the thrd offcer, and perhaps even
more amused at the sght accent wth whch he
spoke, whch rendered rather needess hs boast
about hs orgn.
Do you mean to say, he asked, that you
know more about the busness here because you
have come from London
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Sounds funny, I know, but I do beeve t,
answered son. I beeve these affars want
fresh methods. ut most of a I beeve they
want a fresh eye.
The superor offcers aughed, and the red-
hared man went on wth a sght touch of
temper:
e, ook at the facts. See how the feow
got away every tme, and you understand what
I mean. hy was he abe to stand n the pace
of the scarecrow, hdden by nothng but an od
hat ecause t was a vage poceman who
knew the scarecrow was there, was e pectng t,
and therefore took no notce of t. Now I never
e pect a scarecrow. I ve never seen one n the
street, and I stare at one when I see t n the
fed. It s a new thng to me and worth notcng.
And t was ust the same when he hd n the
we. You are ready to fnd a we n a pace
ke that; you ook for a we, and so you don t
see t. I don t ook for t, and therefore I do
ook at t.
It s certany an dea, sad Sr ater, sm-
ng, but what about the bacony acones are
occasonay seen n London.
ut not rvers rght under them, as f t was
n ence, reped son.
It s certany a new dea, repeated Sr
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a the ove of the u urous casses for new deas.
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ut he aso had a crtca facuty, and was n-
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a true dea as we.
Growng dawn had aready turned the wndow
panes from back to gray when Sr ater got
abrupty to hs feet. The others rose aso, tak-
ng ths for a sgna that the arrest was to be
undertaken. ut ther eader stood for a mo-
ment n deep thought, as f conscous that he
had come to a partng of the ways.
Suddeny the sence was perced by a ong,
wang cry from the dark moors outsde. The
sence that foowed t seemed more startng
than the shrek tsef, and t asted unt Noan
sad, heavy:
Ts the banshee. Somebody s marked for
the grave.
Hs ong, arge-featured face was as pae as
a moon, and t was easy to remember that he
was the ony Irshman n the room.
e, I know that banshee, sad son,
cheerfuy, gnorant as you thnk I am of these
thngs. I taked to that banshee mysef an hour
ago, and I sent that banshee up to the tower
and tod her to sng out ke that f she coud get
a gmpse of our frend wrtng hs procama-
ton.
Do you mean that gr rdget Royce asked
Morton, drawng hs frosty brows together.
Has she turned kng s evdence to that e tent
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Yes, answered son. I know very tte
of these oca thngs, you te me, but I reckon an
angry woman s much the same n a countres.
Noan, however, seemed st moody and un-
ke hmsef. It s an ugy nose and an ugy
busness atogether, he sad. If t s reay the
end of Prnce Mchae t may we be the end of
other thngs as we. hen the sprt s on hm
he woud escape by a adder of dead men, and
wade through that sea f t were made of
bood.
Is that the rea reason of your pous aarms
asked son, wth a sght sneer.
The Irshman s pae face backened wth a
new passon.
I have faced as many murderers n County
Care as you ever fought wth n Capham unc-
ton, Mr. Cockney, he sad.
Hush, pease, sad Morton, sharpy. -
son, you have no knd of rght to mpy doubt of
your superor s conduct. I hope you w prove
yoursef as courageous and trustworthy as he has
aways been.
The pae face of the red hared man seemed
a shade paer, but he was sent and composed,
and Sr ater went up to Noan wth marked
/rourtesy, sayng, Sha we go outsde now, and
get ths busness done
Dawn had fted, eavng a wde chasm of
whte between a great gray coud and the great
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gray moorand, beyond whch the tower was out-
ned aganst the daybreak and the sea.
Somethng n ts pan and prmtve shape
vaguey suggested the dawn n the frst days of
the earth, n some prehstorc tme when even
the coors were hardy created, when there was
ony bank dayght between coud and cay.
These dead hues were reeved ony by one spot
of god the spark of the cande aght n the
wndow of the oney tower, and burnng on nto
the broadenng dayght. As the group of de-
tectves, foowed by a cordon of pocemen,
spread out nto a crescent to cut off a escape, the
ght n the tower fashed as f t were moved for
a moment, and then went out. They knew the
man nsde had reazed the dayght and bown
out hs cande.
There are other wndows, aren t there
asked Morton, and a door, of course, some-
where round the corner Ony a round tower
has no corners.
Another e ampe of my sma suggeston,
observed son, quety. That queer tower
was the frst thng I saw when I came to these
parts; and I can te you a tte more about t
or, at any rate, the outsde of t. There are
four wndows atogether, one a tte way from
ths one, but ust out of sght. Those are both
on the ground foor, and so s the thrd on the
other sde, makng a sort of trange. ut the
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fourth s ust above the thrd, and I suppose t
ooks on an upper foor.
It s ony a sort of oft, reached by a adder,
sad Noan. I ve payed n the pace when I
was a chd. It s no more than an empty she.
And hs sad face grew sadder, thnkng perhaps
of the tragedy of hs country and the part that
he payed n t.
The man must have got a tabe and char,
at any rate, sad son, but no doubt he
coud have got those from some cottage. If I
mght make a suggeston, sr, I thnk we ought
to approach a the fve entrances at once, so to
speak. One of us shoud go to the door and
one to each wndow; Macbrde here has a adder
for the upper wndow.
Mr. Home sher angudy turned to hs ds
tngushed reatve and spoke for the frst tme.
I am rather a convert to the cockney schoo
of psychoogy, he sad n an amost naudbe
voce.
The others seemed to fee the same nfuence
n dfferent ways, for the group began to break
up n the manner ndcated. Morton moved
toward the wndow mmedatey n front of
them, where the hdden outaw had ust snuffed
the cande; Noan, a tte farther westward to
the ne t wndow; whe son, foowed by
Macbrde wth the adder, went round to the two
wndows at the back. Sr ater Carey hmsef,
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The anshng Prnce
foowed by hs secretary, began to wak round
toward the ony door, to demand admttance
n a more reguar fashon.
He w be armed, of course, remarked Sr
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y a accounts, reped Home sher, he
can do more wth a candestck than most men
wth a psto. ut he s pretty sure to have the
psto, too.
ven as he spoke the queston was answered
wth a tongue of thunder. Morton had ust
paced hmsef n front of the nearest wndow,
hs broad shouders bockng the aperture. or
an nstant t was t from wthn as wth red fre,
foowed by a thunderng throng of echoes. The
square shouders seemed to ater n shape, and
the sturdy fgure coapsed among the ta, rank
grasses at the foot of the tower. A puff of
smoke foated from the wndow ke a tte coud.
The two men behnd rushed to the spot and
rased hm, but he was dead.
Sr ater straghtened hmsef and caed out
somethng that was ost n another nose of fr-
ng; t was possbe that the poce were aready
avengng ther comrade from the other sde.
sher had aready raced round to the ne t
wndow, and a new cry of astonshment from hm
brought hs patron to the same spot. Noan, the
Irsh poceman, had aso faen, sprawng a
hs great ength n the grass, and t was red wth
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ony abe to make a fna gesture teng them that
a was over; and, wth a broken word and a
heroc effort, motonng them on to where hs
other comrades were besegng the back of the
tower. Stunned by these rapd and repeated
shocks, the two men coud ony vaguey obey the
gesture, and, fndng ther way to the other
wndows at the back, they dscovered a scene
equay startng, f ess fna and tragc. The
other two offcers were not dead or mortay
wounded, but Macbrde ay wth a broken eg
and hs adder on top of hm, evdenty thrown
down from the top wndow of the tower; whe
son ay on hs face, qute st as f stunned,
wth hs red head among the gray and sver of
the sea hoy. In hm, however, the mpotence
was but momentary, for he began to move and
rse as the others came round the tower.
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ths unearthy energy, by whch one man had
been abe to dea death or destructon on three
sdes of the same sma trange at the same
nstant.
son had aready scrambed to hs feet and
wth spendd energy few agan at the wndow,
revover n hand. He fred twce nto the open-
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the thud of hs feet and the shock of a fang
char tod them that the ntrepd Londoner had
managed at ast to eap nto the room. Then
foowed a curous sence; and Sr ater, wak-
ng to the wndow through the thnnng smoke,
ooked nto the hoow she of the ancent tower.
cept for son, starng around hm, there
was nobody there.
The nsde of the tower was a snge empty
room, wth nothng but a pan wooden char and
a tabe on whch were pens, nk and paper, and
the candestck. Hafway up the hgh wa
there was a rude tmber patform under the
upper wndow, a sma oft whch was more ke
a arge shef. It was reached ony by a adder,
and t seemed to be as bare as the bare was.
son competed hs survey of the pace and
then went and stared at the thngs on the tabe.
Then he senty ponted wth hs ean forefnger
at the open page of the arge notebook. The
wrter had suddeny stopped wrtng, even n the
mdde of a word.
I sad t was ke an e poson, sad Sr
ater Carey at ast. And reay the man hm-
sef seems to have suddeny e poded. ut he
has bown hmsef up somehow wthout touchng
the tower. He s burst more ke a bubbe than
a bomb.
He has touched more vauabe thngs than
the tower, sad son, goomy.
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Thf te was a ong sence, and then Sr ater
sad, spousy: e, Mr. son, I am not
a detectve, and these unhappy happenngs have
eft you n charge of that branch of the busness.
e a ament the cause of ths, but I shoud ke
to say that I mysef have the strongest confdence
n your capacty for carryng on the work. hat
do you thnk we shoud do ne t
son seemed to rouse hmsef from hs de-
presson and acknowedged the speaker s words
wth a warmer cvty than he had htherto
shown to anybody. He caed n a few of the
poce to assst n routng out the nteror, eavng
the rest to spread themseves n a search party
outsde.
I thnk, he sad, the frst thng s to make
qute sure about the nsde of ths pace, as t
was hardy physcay possbe for hm to have
got outsde. I suppose poor Noan woud have
brought n hs banshee and sad t was super-
naturay possbe. ut I ve got no use for ds-
emboded sprts when I m deang wth facts.
And the facts before me are an empty tower
wth a adder, a char, and a tabe.
The sprtuasts, sad Sr ater, wth a
sme, woud say that sprts coud fnd a great
dea of use for a tabe.
I dare say they coud f the sprts were on
the tabe n a botte, reped son, wth a
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The anshng Prnce
when they re a sodden up wth Irsh whsky,
may beeve n such thngs. I thnk they want
a tte educaton n ths country.
Home sher s heavy eyeds futtered n a
fant attempt to rse, as f he were tempted to a
azy protest aganst the contemptuous tone of
the nvestgator.
The Irsh beeve far too much n sprts to
beeve n sprtuasm, he murmured. They
know too much about em. If you want a smpe
and chdke fath n any sprt that comes aong
you can get t n your favorte London.
I don t want to get t anywhere, sad -
son, shorty. I say I m deang wth much
smper thngs than your smpe fath, wth a
tabe and a char and a adder. Now what I
want to say about them at the start s ths. They
are a three made roughy enough of pan wood.
ut the tabe and the char are fary new and
comparatvey cean. The adder s covered wth
dust and there s a cobweb under the top rung
of t. That means that he borrowed the frst
two qute recenty from some cottage, as we
supposed, but the adder has been a ong tme
n ths rotten od dustbn. Probaby t was
part of the orgna furnture, an heroom n
ths magnfcent paace of the Irsh kngs.
Agan sher ooked at hm under hs eyeds,
but seemed too seepy to speak, and son went
on wth hs argument.
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Now t s qute cear that somethng very odd
has ust happened n ths pace. The chances
are ten to one, t seems to me, that t had some-
thng specay to do wth ths pace. Probaby
he came here because he coud do t ony here;
t doesn t seem very nvtng otherwse. ut
the man knew t of od; they say t beonged to
hs famy, so that atogether, I thnk, every-
thng ponts to somethng n the constructon of
the tower tsef.
Your reasonng seems to me e ceent, sad
Sr ater, who was stenng attentvey. ut
what coud t be
You see now what I mean about the adder,
went on the detectve; t s the ony od pece
of furnture here and the frst thng that caught
that cockney eye of mne. ut there s some-
thng ese. That oft up there s a sort of
umber room wthout any umber. So far as I
can see, t s as empty as everythng ese; and, as
thngs are, I don t see the use of the adder ead-
ng to t. It seems to me, as I can t fnd anythng
unusua down here, that t mght pay us to ook
up there.
He got brsky off the tabe on whch he was
sttng (for the ony char was aotted to Sr
ater) and ran rapdy up the adder to the
patform above. He was soon foowed by the
others, Mr. sher gong ast, however, wth
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The anshng Prnce
At ths stage, however, they were destned to
dsappontment; son nosed n every corner
ke a terrer and e amned the roof amost n the
posture of a fy, but haf an hour afterward they
had to confess that they were st wthout a cew.
Sr ater s prvate secretary seemed more and
more threatened wth napproprate sumber,
and, havng been the ast to cmb up the adder,
seemed now to ack the energy even to cmb
down agan.
Come aong, sher, caed out Sr ater
from beow, when the others had reganed the
foor. e must consder whether we pu
the whoe pace to peces to see what t s made
of.
I m comng n a mnute, sad the voce from
the edge above ther heads, a voce somewhat
suggestve of an artcuate yawn.
hat are you watng for asked Sr a-
ter, mpatenty. Can you see anythng there
e, yes, n a way, reped the voce,
vaguey. In fact, I see t qute pan now.
hat s t asked son, sharpy, from
the tabe on whch he sat kckng hs hees rest-
essy.
e, t s a man, sad Home sher.
son bounded off the tabe as f he had been
kcked off t. hat do you mean he cred.
How can you possby see a man
I can see hm through the wndow, reped
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the secretary, mdy. I see hm comng across
the moor. He s makng a bee ne across the
open country toward ths tower. He evdenty
means to pay us a vst. And, consderng who
t seems to be, perhaps t woud be more pote
f we were a at the door to receve hm. And
n a esurey manner the secretary came down
the adder.
ho t seems to be repeated Sr ater
n astonshment.
e, I thnk t s the man you ca Prnce
Mchae, observed Mr. sher, ary. In
fact, I m sure t s. I ve seen the poce portrats
of hm.
There was a dead sence, and Sr ater s
usuay steady bran seemed to go round ke a
wndm.
ut, hang t a he sad at ast, even sup-
posng hs own e poson coud have thrown hm
haf a me away, wthout passng through any
of the wndows, and eft hm ave enough for a
country wak even then, why the dev shoud
he wak n ths drecton The murderer does
not generay revst the scene of hs crme so
rapdy as a that.
He doesn t know yet that t s the scene of
hs crme, answered Home sher.
hat on earth do you mean You credt
hm wth rather snguar absence of mnd.
e, the truth s, t sn t the scene of hs
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crme, sad sher, and went and ooked out
of the wndow.
There was another sence, and then Sr ater
sad, quety: hat sort of noton have you
reay got n your head, sher Have you de-
veoped a new theory about how ths feow es-
caped out of the rng round hm
He never escaped at a, answered the man
at the wndow, wthout turnng round. He
never escaped out of the rng because he was
never nsde the rng. He was not n ths tower
at a, at east not when we were su roundng t.
He turned and eaned back aganst the wndow,
but, n spte of hs usua stess manner, they
amost fanced that the face n shadow was a
tte pae.
I began to guess somethng of the sort when
we were some way from the tower, he sad.
Dd you notce that sort of fash or fcker the
cande gave before t was e tngushed I was
amost certan t was ony the ast eap the fame
gves when a cande burns tsef out. And then
I came nto ths room and I saw that.
He ponted at the tabe and Sr ater caught
hs breath wth a sort of curse at hs own bnd-
ness. or the cande n the candestck had
obvousy burned tsef away to nothng and eft
hm, mentay, at east, very competey n the
dark.
Then there s a sort of mathematca ques-
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ton, went on sher, eanng back n hs mp
way and ookng up at the bare was, as f
tracng magnary dagrams there. It s not so
easy for a man n the thrd ange to face the
other two at the same moment, especay f they
are at the base of an soscees. I am sorry f t
sounds ke a ecture on geometry, but
I m afrad we have no tme for t, sad -
son, cody. If ths man s reay comng back,
I must gve my orders at once.
I thnk I go on wth t, though, observed
sher, starng at the roof wth nsoent serenty.
I must ask you, Mr. sher, to et me con-
duct my nqury on my own nes, sad son,
frmy. I am the offcer n charge now.
Yes, remarked Home sher, softy, but
wth an accent that somehow ched the hearer.
Yes. ut why
Sr ater was starng, for he had never seen
hs rather ackadasca young frend ook ke
that before. sher was ookng at son wth
fted ds, and the eyes under them seemed to
have shed or shfted a fm, as do the eyes of an
eage.
hy are you the offcer n charge now he
asked. hy can you conduct the nqury on
your own nes now How dd t come about,
I wonder, that the eder offcers are not here to
nterfere wth anythng you do
Nobody spoke, and nobody can say how soon
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anyone woud have coected hs wts to speak
when a nose came from wthout. It was the
heavy and hoow sound of a bow upon the door
of the tower, and to ther shaken sprts t
sounded strangey ke the hammer of doom.
The wooden door of the tower moved on ts
rusty hnges under the hand that struck t and
Prnce Mchae came nto the room. Nobody
had the smaest doubt about hs dentty. Hs
ght cothes, though frayed wth hs adventures,
were of fne and amost foppsh cut, and he wore
a ponted beard, or mpera, perhaps as a further
remnscence of Lous Napoeon; but he was a
much taer and more gracefu man that hs proto-
type. efore anyone coud speak he had s-
enced everyone for an nstant wth a sght but
spendd gesture of hosptaty.
Gentemen, he sad, ths s a poor pace
now, but you are hearty wecome.
son was the frst to recover, and he took a
strde toward the newcomer.
Mchae O Ne, I arrest you n the kng s
name for the murder of rancs Morton and
ames Noan. It s my duty to warn you
No, no, Mr. son, cred sher, sud-
deny. You sha not commt a thrd murder.
Sr ater Carey rose from hs char, whch
fe over wth a crash behnd hm. hat does
a ths mean he caed out n an authortatve
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It means, sad sher, that ths man,
Hooker son, as soon as he had put hs head
n at that wndow, ked hs two comrades who
had put ther heads n at the other wndows, by
frng across the empty room. That s what t
means. And f you want to know, count how
many tmes he s supposed to have fred and
then count the charges eft n hs revover.
son, who was st sttng on the tabe,
abrupty put a hand out for the weapon that ay
besde hm. ut the ne t movement was the
most une pected of a, for the prnce standng
n the doorway passed suddeny from the dg-
nty of a statue to the swftness of an acrobat
and rent the revover out of the detectve s hand.
You dog he cred. So you are the type
of ngsh truth, as I am of Irsh tragedy
you who come to k me, wadng through the
bood of your brethren. If they had faen n
a feud on the hsde, t woud be caed murder,
and yet your sn mght be forgven you. ut I,
who am nnocent, I was to be san wth cere-
mony. There woud be ong speeches and patent
udges stenng to my van pea of nnocence,
notng down my despar and dsregardng t. Yes,
that s what I ca assassnaton. ut kng may
be no murder; there s one shot eft n ths tte
gun, and I know where t shoud go.
son turned qucky on the tabe, and even
as he turned he twsted n agony, for Mchae
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The anshng Prnce
shot hm through the body where he sat, so that
he tumbed off the tabe ke umber.
The poce rushed to ft hm; Sr ater stood
speechess; and then, wth a strange and weary
gesture, Home sher spoke.
You are ndeed a type of the Irsh tragedy,
he sad. You were entrey n the rght, and
you have put yoursef n the wrong.
The prnce s face was ke marbe for a space;
then there dawned n hs eyes a ght not unke
that of despar. He aughed suddeny and fung
the smokng psto on the ground.
I am ndeed n the wrong, he sad. I have
commtted a crme that may usty brng a curse
on me and my chdren.
Home sher dd not seem entrey satsfed
wth ths very sudden repentance; he kept hs eyes
on the man and ony sad, n a ow voce, hat
crme do you mean
I have heped ngsh ustce, reped Prnce
Mchae. I have avenged your kng s offcers;
I have done the work of hs hangman. or that
truy I deserve to be hanged.
And he turned to the poce wth a gesture
that dd not so much surrender to them, but
rather command them to arrest hm.
Ths was the story that Home sher tod to
Harod March, the ournast, many years after,
n a tte, but u urous, restaurant near Pcca-
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dy. He had nvted March to dnner some
tme after the affar he caed The ace n the
Target, and the conversaton had naturay
turned on that mystery and afterward on earer
memores of sher s fe and the way n whch
he was ed to study such probems as those of
Prnce Mchae. Home sher was ffteen years
oder; hs thn har had faded to fronta bad-
ness, and hs ong, thn hands dropped ess wth
affectaton and more wth fatgue. And he tod
the story of the Irsh adventure of hs youth,
because t recorded the frst occason on whch
he had ever come n contact wth crme, or ds-
covered how darky and how terrby crme can
be entanged wth aw.
Hooker son was the frst crmna I ever
knew, and he was a poceman, e paned
sher, twrng hs wne gass. And a my
fe has been a m ed-up busness of the sort.
He was a man of very rea taent, and perhaps
genus, and we worth studyng, both as a de-
tectve and a crmna. Hs whte face and red
har were typca of hm, for he was one of those
who are cod and yet on fre for fame; and he
coud contro anger, but not ambton. He swa-
owed the snubs of hs superors n that frst
quarre, though he boed wth resentment; but
when he suddeny saw the two heads dark aganst
the dawn and framed n the two wndows, he
coud not mss the chance, not ony of revenge,
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The anshng Prnce
but of the remova of the two obstaces to hs
promoton. He was a dead shot and counted
on sencng both, though proof aganst hm
woud have been hard n any case. ut, as a
matter of fact, he had a narrow escape, n the
case of Noan, who ved ust ong enough to say,
son and pont. e thought he was sum-
monng hep for hs comrade, but he was reay
denouncng hs murderer. After that t was
easy to throw down the adder above hm (for
a man up a adder cannot see ceary what s
beow and behnd) and to throw hmsef on the
ground as another vctm of the catastrophe.
ut there was m ed up wth hs murderous
ambton a rea beef, not ony n hs own taents,
but n hs own theores. He dd beeve n what
he caed a fresh eye, and he dd want scope for
fresh methods. There was somethng n hs
vew, but t faed where such thngs commony
fa, because the fresh eye cannot see the unseen.
It s true about the adder and the scarecrow,
but not about the fe and the sou; and he made
a bad mstake about what a man ke Mchae
woud do when he heard a woman scream. A
Mchae s very vanty and vangory made hm
rush out at once; he woud have waked nto
Dubn Caste for a ady s gove. Ca t hs pose
or what you w, but he woud have done t.
hat happened when he met her s another story,
and one we may never know, but from taes I ve
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son was wrong there; but there was somethng,
for a that, n hs noton that the newcomer
sees most, and that the man on the spot may
know too much to know anythng. He was rght
about some thngs. He was rght about me.
About you asked Harod March n some
wonder.
I am the man who knows too much to know
anythng, or, at any rate, to do anythng, sad
Home sher. I don t mean especay about
Ireand. I mean about ngand. I mean about
the whoe way we are governed, and perhaps
the ony way we can be governed. You asked
me ust now what became of the survvors of
that tragedy. e, son recovered and we
managed to persuade hm to retre. ut we had
to penson that damnabe murderer more mag-
nfcenty than any hero who ever fought for
ngand. I managed to save Mchae from the
worst, but we had to send that perfecty nnocent
man to pena servtude for a crme we know he
never commtted, and t was ony afterward that
we coud connve n a sneaksh way at hs escape.
And Sr ater Carey s Prme Mnster of ths
country, whch he woud probaby never have
been f the truth had been tod of such a hor-
rbe scanda n hs department. It mght have
done for us atogether n Ireand; t woud cer-
tany have done for hm. And he s my father s
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od frend, and has aways smothered me wth
kndness. I am too tanged up wth the whoe
thng, you see, and I was certany never born
to set t rght. You ook dstressed, not to say
shocked, and I m not at a offended at t. Let
us change the sub ect by a means, f you ke.
hat do you thnk of ths urgundy It s
rather a dscovery of mne, ke the restaurant
tsef.
And he proceeded to tak earnedy and u ur-
anty on a the wnes of the word; on whch
sub ect, aso, some morasts woud consder that
he knew too much.
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I
TH SOUL O TH SCHOOL OY
A LARG map of London woud be needed
to dspay the wd and zgzag course of
one day s ourney undertaken by an unce and
hs nephew; or, to speak more truy, of a nephew
and hs unce. or the nephew, a schooboy on
a hoday, was n theory the god n the car, or n
the cab, tram, tube, and so on, whe hs unce
was at most a prest dancng before hm and
offerng sacrfces. To put t more sobery, the
schooboy had somethng of the stod ar of a
young duke dong the grand tour, whe hs
edery reatve was reduced to the poston of a
courer, who nevertheess had to pay for every-
thng ke a patron. The schooboy was offcay
known as Summers Mnor, and n a more soca
manner as Stnks, the ony pubc trbute to hs
career as an amateur photographer and eec-
trcan. The unce was the Rev. Thomas Twy-
ford, a ean and vey od genteman wth a red,
eager face and whte har. He was n the ord-
nary way a country cergyman, but he was one of
those who acheve the parado of beng famous
n an obscure way, because they are famous n
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The Sou of the Schooboy
an obscure word. In a sma crce of eccesas-
tca archaeoogsts, who were the ony peope
who coud even understand one another s ds-
coveres, he occuped a recognzed and respect-
abe pace. And a crtc mght have found even
n that day s ourney at east as much of the
unce s hobby as of the nephew s hoday.
Hs orgna purpose had been whoy pater-
na and festve. ut, ke many other ntegent
peope, he was not above the weakness of pay-
ng wth a toy to amuse hmsef, on the theory
that t woud amuse a chd. Hs toys were
crowns and mters and crozers and swords of
state; and he had ngered over them, teng hm-
sef that the boy ought to see a the sghts of
London. And at the end of the day, after a
tremendous tea, he rather gave the game away
by wndng up wth a vst n whch hardy any
human boy coud be conceved as takng an
nterest an underground chamber supposed to
have been a chape, recenty e cavated on the
north bank of the Thames, and contanng ter-
ay nothng whatever but one od sver con.
ut the con, to those who knew, was more so-
tary and spendd than the Koh--noor. It was
Roman, and was sad to bear the head of St.
Pau; and round t raged the most vta contro-
verses about the ancent rtsh Church. It coud
hardy be dened, however, that the controver-
ses eft Summers Mnor comparatvey cod.
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Indeed, the thngs that nterested Summers
Mnor, and the thngs that dd not nterest hm,
had mystfed and amused hs unce for severa
hours. He e hbted the ngsh schooboy s
startng gnorance and startng knowedge
knowedge of some speca cassfcaton n whch
he can generay correct and confound hs eders.
He consdered hmsef entted, at Hampton
Court on a hoday, to forget the very names of
Cardna osey or am of Orange; but
he coud hardy be dragged from some detas
about the arrangement of the eectrc bes n
the neghborng hote. He was sody dazed by
estmnster Abbey, whch s not so unnatura
snce that church became the umber room of
the arger and ess successfu statuary of the
eghteenth century. ut he had a magc and
mnute knowedge of the estmnster omnbuses,
and ndeed of the whoe omnbus system of
London, the coors and numbers of whch he
knew as a herad knows heradry. He woud
cry out aganst a momentary confuson between
a ght-green Paddngton and a dark-green ays-
water vehce, as hs unce woud at the dentf-
caton of a Greek kon and a Roman mage.
Do you coect omnbuses ke stamps
asked hs unce. They must need a rather arge
abum. Or do you keep them n your ocker
I keep them n my head, reped the nephew,
wth egtmate frmness.
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It does you credt, I admt, reped the
cergyman. I suppose t were van to ask for
what purpose you have earned that out of a
thousand thngs. There hardy seems to be a
career n t, uness you coud be permanenty on
the pavement to prevent od ades gettng nto
the wrong bus. e, we must get out of ths
one, for ths s our pace. I want to show you
what they ca St. Pau s Penny.
Is t ke St. Pau s Cathedra asked the
youth wth resgnaton, as they aghted.
At the entrance ther eyes were arrested by a
snguar fgure evdenty hoverng there wth a
smar an ety to enter. It was that of a dark,
thn man n a ong back robe rather ke a cas-
sock; but the back cap on hs head was of too
strange a shape to be a bretta. It suggested,
rather, some archac headdress of Persa or
abyon. He had a curous back beard appear-
ng ony at the corners of hs chn, and hs arge
eyes were oddy set n hs face ke the fat decora-
tve eyes panted n od gyptan profes. e-
fore they had gathered more than a genera
mpresson of hm, he had dved nto the door-
way that was ther own destnaton.
Nothng coud be seen above ground of the
sunken sanctuary e cept a strong wooden hut,
of the sort recenty run up for many mtary
and offca purposes, the wooden foor of whch
was ndeed a mere patform over the e cavated
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cavty beow. A soder stood as a sentry out-
sde, and a superor soder, an Ango-Indan
offcer of dstncton, sat wrtng at the desk n-
sde. Indeed, the sghtseers soon found that ths
partcuar sght was surrounded wth the most
e traordnary precautons. I have compared the
sver con to the Koh--noor, and n one sense t
was even conventonay comparabe, snce by a
hstorca accdent t was at one tme amost
counted among the Crown ewes, or at east
the Crown recs, unt one of the roya prnces
pubcy restored t to the shrne to whch t was
supposed to beong. Other causes combned to
concentrate offca vgance upon t; there had
been a scare about spes carryng e posves n
sma ob ects, and one of those e permenta
orders whch pass ke waves over bureaucracy
had decreed frst that a vstors shoud change
ther cothes for a sort of offca sackcoth, and
then (when ths method caused some murmurs)
that they shoud at east turn out ther pockets.
Coone Morrs, the offcer n charge, was a
short, actve man wth a grm and eathery face,
but a vey and humorous eye a contradcton
borne out by hs conduct, for he at once derded
the safeguards and yet nssted on them.
I don t care a button mysef for Pau s Penny,
or such thngs, he admtted n answer to some
antquaran openngs from the cergyman who
was sghty acquanted wth hm, but I wear
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the Kng s coat, you know, and t s a serous
thng when the Kng s unce eaves a thng here
wth hs own hands under my charge. ut as
for sants and recs and thngs, I fear I m a bt
of a otaran; what you woud ca a skeptc.
I m not sure t s even skeptca to beeve n
the roya famy and not n the Hoy amy,
reped Mr. Twyford. ut, of course, I can
easy empty my pockets, to show I don t carry
a bomb.
The tte heap of the parson s possessons
whch he eft on the tabe conssted chefy of
papers, over and above a ppe and a tobacco
pouch and some Roman and Sa on cons. The
rest were cataogues of od books, and pam-
phets, ke one entted The Use of Sarum,
one gance at whch was suffcent both for the
coone and the schooboy. They coud not see
the use of Sarum at a. The contents of the
boy s pockets naturay made a arger heap, and
ncuded marbes, a ba of strng, an eectrc
torch, a magnet, a sma cataput, and, of course,
a arge pocketknfe, amost to be descrbed as
a sma too bo , a compe apparatus on whch
he seemed dsposed to nger, pontng out that
t ncuded a par of nppers, a too for punch-
ng hoes n wood, and, above a, an nstrument
for takng stones out of a horse s hoof. The
comparatve absence of any horse he appeared
to regard as rreevant, as f t were a mere ap-
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pendage easy supped. ut when the turn
came of the genteman n the back gown, he dd
not turn out hs pockets, but merey spread out
hs hands.
I have no possessons, he sad.
I m afrad I must ask you to empty your
pockets and make sure, observed the coone,
gruffy.
I have no pockets, sad the stranger.
Mr. Twyford was ookng at the ong back
gown wth a earned eye.
Are you a monk he asked, n a puzzed
fashon.
I am a magus, reped the stranger. You
have heard of the mag, perhaps I am a
magcan.
Oh, I say e camed Summers Mnor, wth
promnent eyes.
ut I was once a monk, went on the other.
I am what you woud ca an escaped monk.
Yes, I have escaped nto eternty. ut the monks
hed one truth at east, that the hghest fe
shoud be wthout possessons. I have no pocket
money and no pockets, and a the stars are my
trnkets.
They are out of reach, anyhow, observed
Coone Morrs, n a tone whch suggested that
t was we for them. I ve known a good many
magcans mysef n Inda mango pant and a.
ut the Indan ones are a frauds, I swear.
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In fact, I had a good dea of fun showng them
up. More fun than I have over ths dreary ob,
anyhow. ut here comes Mr. Symon, who w
show you over the od cear downstars.
Mr. Symon, the offca guardan and gude,
was a young man, prematurey gray, wth a
grave mouth whch contrasted curousy wth a
very sma, dark mustache wth wa ed ponts,
that seemed somehow, separate from t, as f a
back fy had setted on hs face. He spoke wth
the accent of O ford and the permanent offca,
but n as dead a fashon as the most ndfferent
hred gude. They descended a dark stone star-
case, at the foor of whch Symon pressed a but-
ton and a door opened on a dark room, or, rather,
a room whch had an nstant before been dark.
or amost as the heavy ron door swung open
an amost bndng baze of eectrc ghts fed
the whoe nteror. The ftfu enthusasm of
Stnks at once caught fre, and he eagery asked
f the ghts and the door worked together.
Yes, t s a one system, reped Symon. It
was a ftted up for the day Hs Roya Hghness
deposted the thng here. You see, t s ocked
up behnd a gass case e acty as he eft t.
A gance showed that the arrangements for
guardng the treasure were ndeed as strong as
they were smpe. A snge pane of gass cut off
one corner of the room, n an ron framework
et nto the rock was and the wooden roof
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above; there was now no possbty of reopen-
ng the case wthout eaborate abor, e cept by
breakng the gass, whch woud probaby arouse
the nght watchman who was aways wthn a
few feet of t, even f he had faen aseep. A
cose e amnaton woud have showed many more
ngenous safeguards; but the eye of the Rev.
Thomas Twyford, at east, was aready rveted
on what nterested hm much more the du
sver dsk whch shone n the whte ght aganst
a pan background of back vevet.
St. Pau s Penny, sad to commemorate the
vst of St. Pau to rtan, was probaby pre-
served n ths chape unt the eghth century,
Symon was sayng n hs cear but cooress voce.
In the nnth century t s supposed to have been
carred away by the barbarans, and t reappears,
after the converson of the northern Goths, n
the possesson of the roya famy of Gothand.
Hs Roya Hghness, the Duke of Gothand, re-
taned t aways n hs own prvate custody, and
when he decded to e hbt t to the pubc, paced
t here wth hs own hand. It was mmedatey
seaed up n such a manner
Unucky at ths pont Summers Mnor, whose
attenton had somewhat strayed from the re-
gous wars of the nnth century, caught sght of a
short ength of wre appearng n a broken patch
n the wa. He precptated hmsef at t, ca-
ng out, I say, does that connect
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It was evdent that t dd connect, for no
sooner had the boy gven t a twtch than the
whoe room went back, as f they had a been
struck bnd, and an nstant afterward they heard
the du crash of the cosng door.
e, you ve done t now, sad Symon, n
hs tranqu fashon. Then after a pause he
added, I suppose they mss us sooner or ater,
and no doubt they can get t open; but t may
take some tte tme.
There was a sence, and then the unconquer-
abe Stnks observed:
Rotten that I had to eave my eectrc torch.
I thnk, sad hs unce, wth restrant, that
we arc suffcenty convnced of your nterest n
eectrcty.
Then after a pause he remarked, more am-
aby: I suppose f I regretted any of my own
mpedmenta, t woud be the ppe. Though, as
a matter of fact, t s not much fun smokng n
the dark. verythng seems dfferent n the
dark.
verythng s dfferent n the dark, sad a
thrd voce, that of the man who caed hmsef
a magcan. It was a very musca voce, and
rather n contrast wth hs snster and swarthy
vsage, whch was now nvsbe. Perhaps you
don t know how terrbe a truth that s. A you
see are pctures made by the sun, faces and fur-
nture and fowers and trees. The thngs them-
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seves may be qute strange to you. Somethng
ese may be standng now where you saw a
tabe or a char. The face of your frend may
be qute dfferent n the dark.
A short, ndescrbabe nose broke the stness.
Twyford started for a second, and then sad,
sharpy:
Reay, I don t thnk t s a sutabe occason
for tryng to frghten a chd.
ho s a chd cred the ndgnant Sum-
mers, wth a voce that had a crow, but aso
somethng of a crack n t. And who s a funk,
ether Not me.
I w be sent, then, sad the other voce
out of the darkness. ut sence aso makes
and unmakes.
The requred sence remaned unbroken for
a ong tme unt at ast the cergyman sad to
Symon n a ow voce:
I suppose t s a rght about ar
Oh, yes, reped the other aoud; there s
a frepace and a chmney n the offce ust by the
door.
A bound and the nose of a fang char tod
them that the rrepressbe rsng generaton had
once more thrown tsef across the room. They
heard the e acuaton: A chmney hy, I
be and the rest was ost n muffed, but
e utant, cres.
The unce caed repeatedy and vany, groped
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hs way at ast to the openng, and, peerng up
t, caught a gmpse of a dsk of dayght, whch
seemed to suggest that the fugtve had vanshed
n safety. Makng hs way back to the group
by the gass case, he fe ever the faen char
and took a moment to coect hmsef agan. He
had opened hs mouth to speak to Symon, when
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the door was standng open.
So they ve got at us at ast, he observed
to Symon.
The man n the back robe was eanng aganst
the wa some yards away, wth a sme carved
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nothng ese to ook at. St. Pau s Penny was
gone.
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new vstors; presumaby two new sghtseers de-
ayed by the accdent. The foremost was a ta,
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brow and a hgh-brdged nose; hs companon
was a younger man wth ght, cury har and
frank, and even nnocent, eyes. Symon scarcey
seemed to hear the newcomers; t seemed amost
as f he had not reazed that the return of the
ght reveaed hs broodng atttude. Then he
started n a guty fashon, and when he saw the
eder of the two strangers, hs pae face seemed
to turn a shade paer.
hy t s Home sher and then after a
pause he sad n a ow voce, I m n the dev
of a hoe, sher.
There does seem a bt of a mystery to be
ceared up, observed the genteman so ad-
dressed.
It w never be ceared up, sad the pae
Symon. If anybody coud cear t up, you coud.
ut nobody coud.
I rather thnk I coud, sad another voce
from outsde the group, and they turned n sur-
prse to reaze that the man n the back robe
had spoken agan.
You sad the coone, sharpy. And how
do you propose to pay the detectve
I do not propose to pay the detectve, an-
swered the other, n a cear voce ke a be. I
propose to pay the magcan. One of the ma-
gcans you show up n Inda, Coone.
No one spoke for a moment, and then Home
sher surprsed everybody by sayng, e,
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et s go upstars, and ths genteman can have
a try.
He stopped Symon, who had an automatc
fnger on the button, sayng: No, eave a the
ghts on. It s a sort of safeguard.
The thng can t be taken away now, sad
Symon, bttery.
It can be put back, reped sher.
Twyford had aready run upstars for news
of hs vanshng nephew, and he receved news
of hm n a way that at once puzzed and re-
assured hm. On the foor above ay one of
those arge paper darts whch boys throw at
each other when the schoomaster s out of the
room. It had evdenty been thrown n at the
wndow, and on beng unfoded dspayed a
scraw of bad handwrtng whch ran: Dear
Unce; I am a rght. Meet you at the hote
ater on, and then the sgnature.
Insensby comforted by ths, the cergyman
found hs thoughts revertng vountary to hs
favorte rec, whch came a good second n hs
sympathes to hs favorte nephew, and before
he knew where he was he found hmsef encrced
by the group dscussng ts oss, and more or ess
carred away on the current of ther e ctement.
ut an undercurrent of query contnued to run
n hs mnd, as to what had reay happened to
the boy, and what was the boy s e act defnton
of beng a rght.
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Meanwhe Home sher had consderaby
puzzed everybody wth hs new tone and att-
tude. He had taked to the coone about the
mtary and mechanca arrangements, and ds-
payed a remarkabe knowedge both of the de-
tas of dscpne and the techncates of eec-
trcty. He had taked to the cergyman, and
shown an equay surprsng knowedge of the
regous and hstorca nterests nvoved n the
rec. He had taked to the man who caed hm-
sef a magcan, and not ony surprsed but scan-
dazed the company by an equay sympathetc
famarty wth the most fantastc forms of Or-
enta occutsm and psychc e perment. And
n ths ast and east respectabe ne of nqury
he was evdenty prepared to go farthest; he
openy encouraged the magcan, and was pany
prepared to foow the wdest ways of nvestga-
ton n whch that magus mght ead hm.
How woud you begn now he nqured,
wth an an ous poteness that reduced the
coone to a congeston of rage.
It s a a queston of a force; of estabsh-
ng communcatons for a force, reped that
adept, affaby, gnorng some mtary mutter-
ngs about the poce force. It s what you n
the est used to ca anma magnetsm, but t
s much more than that. I had better not say
how much more. As to settng about t, the
usua method s to throw some susceptbe per-
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son nto a trance, whch serves as a sort of brdge
or cord of communcaton, by whch the force
beyond can gve hm, as t were, an eectrc
shock, and awaken hs hgher senses. It opens
the seepng eye of the mnd.
I m suspectbe, sad sher, ether wth sm-
pcty or wth a baffng rony. hy not open
my mnd s eye for me My frend Harod
March here w te you I sometmes see thngs,
even n the dark.
Nobody sees anythng e cept n the dark,
sad the magcan.
Heavy couds of sunset were cosng round the
wooden hut, enormous couds, of whch ony the
corners coud be seen n the tte wndow, ke
purpe horns and tas, amost as f some huge
monsters were prowng round the pace. ut
the purpe was aready deepenng to dark gray;
t woud soon be nght.
Do not ght the amp, sad the magus wth
quet authorty, arrestng a movement n that
drecton. I tod you before that thngs happen
ony n the dark.
How such a topsy-turvy scene ever came to be
toerated n the coone s offce, of a paces, was
afterward a puzze n the memory of many, n-
cudng the coone. They recaed t ke a sort
of nghtmare, ke somethng they coud not con-
tro. Perhaps there was reay a magnetsm
about the mesmerst; perhaps there was even
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more magnetsm about the man mesmerzed.
Anyhow, the man was beng mesmerzed, for
Home sher had coapsed nto a char wth
hs ong mbs oose and sprawng and hs eyes
starng at vacancy; and the other man was mes-
merzng hm, makng sweepng movements wth
hs darky draped arms as f wth back wngs.
The coone had passed the pont of e poson,
and he dmy reazed that eccentrc arstocrats
are aowed ther fng. He comforted hmsef
wth the knowedge that he had aready sent for
the poce, who woud break up any such mas-
querade, and wth ghtng a cgar, the red end
of whch, n the gatherng darkness, gowed wth
protest.
Yes, I see pockets, the man n the trance
was sayng. I see many pockets, but they are
a empty. No; I see one pocket that s not
empty.
There was a fant str n the stness, and the
magcan sad, Can you see what s n the
pocket
Yes, answered the other; there are two
brght thngs. I thnk they are two bts of stee.
One of the peces of stee s bent or crooked.
Have they been used n the remova of the
rec from downstars
Yes.
There was another pause and the nqurer
added, Do you see anythng of the rec tsef
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I see somethng shnng on the foor, ke the
shadow or the ghost of t. It s over there n
the corner beyond the desk.
There was a movement of men turnng and
then a sudden stness, as of ther stffenng, for
over n the corner on the wooden foor there was
reay a round spot of pae ght. It was the
ony spot of ght n the room. The cgar had
gone out.
It ponts the way, came the voce of the
orace. The sprts are pontng the way to
pentence, and urgng the thef to resttuton. I
can see nothng more. Hs voce traed off nto
a sence that asted sody for many mnutes,
ke the ong sence beow when the theft had
been commtted. Then t was broken by the
rng of meta on the foor, and the sound of some-
thng spnnng and fang ke a tossed haf-
penny.
Lght the amp cred sher n a oud and
even ova voce, eapng to hs feet wth far ess
anguor than usua. I must be gong now, but
I shoud ke to see t before I go. hy, I came
on purpose to see t.
The amp was t, and he dd see t, for St.
Pau s Penny was yng on the foor at hs feet.
Oh, as for that, e paned sher, when he
was entertanng March and Twyford at unch
about a month ater, I merey wanted to pay
wth the magcan at hs own game.
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I thought you meant to catch hm n hs own
trap, sad Twyford. I can t make head or ta
of anythng yet, but to my mnd he was aways
the suspect. I don t thnk he was necessary a
thef n the vugar sense. The poce aways seem
to thnk that sver s stoen for the sake of sver,
but a thng ke that mght we be stoen out of
some regous mana. A runaway monk turned
mystc mght we want t for some mystca
purpose.
No, reped sher, the runaway monk s
not a thef. At any rate he s not the thef. And
he s not atogether a ar, ether. He sad one
true thng at east that nght.
And what was that nqured March.
He sad t was a magnetsm. As a matter
of fact, t was done by means of a magnet.
Then, seeng they st ooked puzzed, he added,
It was that toy magnet beongng to your
nephew, Mr. Twyford.
ut I don t understand, ob ected March.
If t was done wth the schooboy s magnet, I
suppose t was done by the schooboy.
e, reped sher, refectvey, t rather
depends whch schooboy.
hat on earth do you mean
The sou of a schooboy s a curous thng,
sher contnued, n a medtatve manner. It
can survve a great many thngs besdes cmb-
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great campagns, and st have the sou of a
schooboy. A man can return wth a great repu-
taton from Inda and be put n charge of a great
pubc treasure, and st have the sou of a
schooboy, watng to be awakened by an acc-
dent. And t s ten tmes more so when to the
schooboy you add the skeptc, who s generay
a sort of stunted schooboy. You sad ust now
that thngs mght be done by regous mana.
Have you ever heard of rregous mana I
assure you t e sts very voenty, especay n
men who ke showng up magcans n Inda.
ut here the skeptc had the temptaton of show-
ng up a much more tremendous sham nearer
home.
A ght came nto Harod March s eyes as he
suddeny saw, as f afar off, the wder mpca-
ton of the suggeston. ut Twyford was st
wrestng wth one probem at a tme.
Do you reay mean, he sad, that Coone
Morrs took the rec
He was the ony person who coud use the
magnet, reped sher. In fact, your obg-
ng nephew eft hm a number of thngs he coud
use. He had a ba of strng, and an nstrument
for makng a hoe n the wooden foor I made
a tte pay wth that hoe n the foor n my
trance, by the way; wth the ghts eft on beow,
t shone ke a new shng.
Twyford suddeny bounded on hs char. ut
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n that case, he cred, n a new and atered voce,
why then of course You sad a pece of
stee
I sad there were two peces of stee, sad
sher. The bent pece of stee was the boy s
magnet. The other was the rec n the gass
case.
ut that s sver, answered the archaeoo-
gst, n a voce now amost unrecognzabe.
Oh, reped sher, soothngy, I dare say
t was panted wth sver a tte.
There was a heavy sence, and at ast Harod
March sad, 14 ut where s the rea rec
here t has been for fve years, reped
Home sher, n the possesson of a mad m-
onare named andam, n Nebraska. There
was a payfu tte photograph about hm n a
socety paper the other day, mentonng hs de-
uson, and sayng he was aways beng taken n
about recs.
Harod March frowned at the tabecoth;
then, after an nterva, he sad: I thnk I under-
stand your noton of how the thng was actuay
done; accordng to that, Morrs ust made a
hoe and fshed t up wth a magnet at the end
of a strng. Such a monkey trck ooks ke
mere madness, but I suppose he was mad, party
wth the boredom of watchng over what he fet
was a fraud, though he coudn t prove t. Then
came a chance to prove t, to hmsef at east,
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and he had what he caed fun wth t. Yes, I
thnk I see a ot of detas now. ut t s ust the
whoe thng that knocks me. How dd t a
come to be ke that
sher was ookng at hm wth eve ds and
an mmovabe manner.
very precauton was taken, he sad. The
Duke carred the rec on hs own person, and
ocked t up n the case wth hs own hands.
March was sent; but Twyford stammered.
I don t understand you. You gve me the
creeps. hy don t you speak paner
If I spoke paner you woud understand me
ess, sad Home sher.
A the same I shoud try, sad March, st
wthout ftng hs head.
Oh, very we, reped sher, wth a sgh;
the pan truth s, of course, that t s a bad bus-
ness. verybody knows t s a bad busness who
knows anythng about t. ut t s aways hap-
penng, and n one way one can hardy bame
them. They get stuck on to a foregn prncess
that s as stff as a Dutch do, and they have ther
fng. In ths case t was a pretty bg fng.
The face of the Rev. Thomas Twyford cer-
tany suggested that he was a tte out of hs
depth n the seas of truth, but as the other went
on speakng vaguey the od genteman s features
sharpened and set.
If t were some decent morganatc affar I
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woudn t say; but he must have been a foo to
throw away thousands on a woman ke that.
At the end t was sheer backma; but t s some-
thng that the od ass ddn t get t out of the
ta payers. He coud ony get t out of the Yank,
and there you are.
The Rev. Thomas Twyford had rsen to
hs feet.
e, I m gad my nephew had nothng to do
wth t, he sad. And f that s what the word
s ke, I hope he w never have anythng to
do wth t.
I hope not, answered Home sher. No
one knows so we as I do that one can have far
too much to do wth t.
or Summers Mnor had ndeed nothng to do
wth t; and t s part of hs hgher sgnfcance
that he has reay nothng to do wth the story,
or wth any such stores. The boy went ke a
buet through the tange of ths tae of crooked
potcs and crazy mockery and came out on the
other sde, pursung hs own unspoed purposes.
rom the top of the chmney he cmbed he had
caught sght of a new omnbus, whose coor and
name he had never known, as a naturast mght
see a new brd or a botanst a new fower. And
he had been suffcenty enraptured n rushng
after t, and rdng away upon that fary shp.
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I
TH OTTOML SS LL
TN an oass, or green sand, n the red and
yeow seas of sand that stretch beyond
urope toward the sunrse, there can be found
a rather fantastc contrast, whch s none the ess
typca of such a pace, snce nternatona treates
have made t an outpost of the rtsh occupa-
ton. The ste s famous among archaeoogsts
for somethng that s hardy a monument, but
merey a hoe n the ground. ut t s a round
shaft, ke that of a we, and probaby a part of
some great rrgaton works of remote and ds-
puted date, perhaps more ancent than anythng
n that ancent and. There s a green frnge of
pam and prcky pear round the back mouth of
the we; but nothng of the upper masonry re-
mans e cept two buky and battered stones stand-
ng ke the pars of a gateway of nowhere, n
whch some of the more transcendenta archae-
oogsts, n certan moods at moonrse or sunset,
thnk they can trace the fant nes of fgures or
features of more than abyonan monstrosty;
whe the more ratonastc archaeoogsts, n the
more ratona hours of dayght, see nothng but
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two shapeess rocks. It may have been notced,
however, that a ngshmen are not archaeoo-
gsts. Many of those assembed n such a pace
for offca and mtary purposes have hobbes
other than archaeoogy. And t s a soemn fact
that the ngsh n ths astern e e have con-
trved to make a sma gof nks out of the green
scrub and sand; wth a comfortabe cubhouse
at one end of t and ths prmeva monument at
the other. They dd not actuay use ths archac
abyss as a bunker, because t was by tradton
unfathomabe, and even for practca purposes
unfathomed. Any sportng pro ecte sent nto
t mght be counted most teray as a ost ba.
ut they often sauntered round t n ther nter-
udes of takng and smokng cgarettes, and one
of them had ust come down from the cubhouse
to fnd another gazng somewhat moody nto
the we.
oth the ngshmen wore ght cothes and
whte pth hemets and puggrees, but there, for
the most part, ther resembance ended. And
they both amost smutaneousy sad the same
word, but they sad t on two totay dfferent
notes of the voce.
Have you heard the news asked the man
from the cub. Spendd.
Spendd, reped the man by the we. ut
the frst man pronounced the word as a young
man mght say t about a woman, and the second
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The ottomess e
as an od man mght say t about the weather,
not wthout sncerty, but certany wthout
fervor.
And n ths the tone of the two men was suff-
centy typca of them. The frst, who was a
certan Captan oye, was of a bod and boysh
type, dark, and wth a sort of natve heat n hs
face that dd not beong to the atmosphere of
the ast, but rather to the ardors and ambtons
of the est. The other was an oder man and
certany an oder resdent, a cvan offca
Home sher; and hs droopng eyeds and
droopng ght mustache e pressed a the para-
do of the ngshman n the ast. He was
much too hot to be anythng but coo.
Nether of them thought t necessary to men-
ton what t was that was spendd. That woud
ndeed have been superfuous conversaton about
somethng that everybody knew. The strkng
vctory over a menacng combnaton of Turks
and Arabs n the north, won by troops under the
command of Lord Hastngs, the veteran of so
many strkng vctores, was aready spread by
the newspapers a over the mpre, et aone
to ths sma garrson so near to the battefed.
Now, no other naton n the word coud
have done a thng ke that, cred Captan oye,
emphatcay.
Home sher was st ookng senty nto
the we; a moment ater he answered: e cer-
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tany have the art of unmakng mstakes. That s
where the poor od Prussans went wrong. They
coud ony make mstakes and stck to them.
There s reay a certan taent n unmakng a
mstake.
hat do you mean, asked oye, what.
mstakes
e, everybody knows t ooked ke btng
off more than he coud chew, reped Home
sher. It was a pecuarty of Mr. sher that
he aways sad that everybody knew thngs whch
about one person n two mon was ever aowed
to hear of. And t was certany oy ucky
that Travers turned up so we n the nck of
tme. Odd how often the rght thng s been done
for us by the second n command, even when a
great man was frst n command. Lke Coborne
at ateroo.
It ought to add a whoe provnce to the
mpre, observed the other.
e, I suppose the mmernes woud have
nssted on t as far as the cana, observed
sher, thoughtfuy, though everybody knows
addng provnces doesn t aways pay much nowa-
days.
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fashon. eng coudy conscous of never hav-
ng heard of the mmernes n hs fe, he coud
ony remark, stody:
e, one can t be a Ltte ngander.
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The ottomess e
Home sher smed, and he had a peasant
sme.
very man out here s a Ltte ngander,
he sad. He wshes he were back n Ltte
ngand.
I don t know what you re takng about, I m
afrad, sad the younger man, rather susp-
cousy. One woud thnk you ddn t reay ad-
mre Hastngs or or anythng.
I admre hm no end, reped sher. He s
by far the best man for ths post; he understands
the Mosems and can do anythng wth them.
That s why I m a aganst pushng Travers
aganst hm, merey because of ths ast
affar.
I reay don t understand what you re drv-
ng at, sad the other, franky.
Perhaps t sn t worth understandng, an-
swered sher, ghty, and, anyhow, we needn t
tak potcs. Do you know the Arab egend
about that we
I m afrad I don t know much about Arab
egends, sad oye, rather stffy.
That s rather a mstake, reped sher,
especay from your pont of vew. Lord
Hastngs hmsef s an Arab egend. That s
perhaps the very greatest thng he reay s. If
hs reputaton went t woud weaken us a over
Asa and Afrca. e, the story about that hoe
n the ground, that goes down nobody knows
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where, has aways fascnated me, rather. It s
Mohammedan n form now, but I shoudn t
wonder f the tae s a ong way oder than
Mohammed. It s a about somebody they ca
the Sutan Aaddn, not our frend of the amp,
of course, but rather ke hm n havng to do wth
gen or gants or somethng of that sort. They
say he commanded the gants to bud hm a sort
of pagoda, rsng hgher and hgher above a
the stars. The Utmost for the Hghest, as the
peope sad when they but the Tower of abe.
ut the buders of the Tower of abe were
qute modest and domestc peope, ke mce,
compared wth od Aaddn. They ony wanted
a tower that woud reach heaven a mere trfe.
He wanted a tower that woud pass heaven and
rse above t, and go on rsng for ever and ever.
And Aah cast hm down to earth wth a thunder-
bot, whch sank nto the earth, borng a hoe
deeper and deeper, t t made a we that was
wthout a bottom as the tower was to have been
wthout a top. And down that nverted tower
of darkness the sou of the proud Sutan s fa-
ng forever and ever.
hat a queer chap you are, sad oye.
You tak as f a feow coud beeve those
fabes.
Perhaps I beeve the mora and not the
fabe, answered sher. ut here comes Lady
Hastngs. You know her, I thnk.
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The ottomess e
The cubhouse on the gof nks was used, of
course, for many other purposes besdes that of
gof. It was the ony soca center of the gar-
rson besde the strcty mtary headquarters;
t had a bard room and a bar, and even an
e ceent reference brary for those offcers who
were so perverse as to take ther professon ser-
ousy. Among these was the great genera hm-
sef, whose head of sver and face of bronze,
ke that of a brazen eage, were often to be
found bent over the charts and foos of the
brary. The great Lord Hastngs beeved n
scence and study, as n other severe deas of
fe, and had gven much paterna advce on the
pont to young oye, whose appearances n that
pace of research were rather more ntermttent.
It was from one of these snatches of study that
the young man had ust come out through the
gass doors of the brary on to the gof nks.
ut, above a, the cub was so apponted as to
serve the soca convenences of ades at east
as much as gentemen, and Lady Hastngs was
abe to pay the queen n such a socety amost
as much as n her own baroom. She was
emnenty cacuated and, as some sad, emnenty
ncned to pay such a part. She was much
younger than her husband, an attractve and
sometmes dangerousy attractve ady; and Mr.
Home sher ooked after her a tte sardon-
cay as she swept away wth the young soder.
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Then hs rather dreary eye strayed to the green
and prcky growths round the we, growths of
that curous cactus formaton n whch one thck
eaf grows drecty out of the other wthout stak
or twg. It gave hs fancfu mnd a snster fee-
ng of a bnd growth wthout shape or purpose.
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som whch s ts crown, and s content. ut ths
was as f hands coud grow out of hands or egs
grow out of egs n a nghtmare. Aways add-
ng a provnce to the mpre, he sad, wth a
sme, and then added, more sady, but I doubt
f I was rght, after a
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medtatons and he ooked up and smed, see-
ng the face of an od frend. The voce was,
ndeed, rather more gena than the face, whch
was at the frst gance decdedy grm. It was a
typcay ega face, wth anguar aws and heavy,
grzzed eyebrows; and t beonged to an em-
nenty ega character, though he was now at-
tached n a semmtary capacty to the poce
of that wd dstrct. Cuthbert Grayne was per-
haps more of a crmnoogst than ether a aw-
yer or a poceman, but n hs more barbarous
surroundngs he had proved successfu n turn-
ng hmsef nto a practca combnaton of a
three. The dscovery of a whoe seres of
strange Orenta crmes stood to hs credt. ut
as few peope were acquanted wth, or attracted
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The ottomess e
to, such a hobby or branch of knowedge, hs
nteectua fe was somewhat sotary. Among
the few e ceptons was Home sher, who had a
curous capacty for takng to amost anybody
about amost anythng.
Studyng botany, or s t archaeoogy n-
qured Grayne. I sha never come to the end
of your nterests, sher. I shoud say that what
you don t know sn t worth knowng.
You are wrong, reped sher, wth a very
unusua abruptness and even btterness. It s
what I do know that sn t worth knowng. A
the seamy sde of thngs, a the secret reasons
and rotten motves and brbery and backma
they ca potcs. I needn t be so proud of hav-
ng been down a these sewers that I shoud
brag about t to the tte boys n the street.
hat do you mean hat s the matter
wth you asked hs frend. I never knew
you taken ke ths before.
I m ashamed of mysef, reped sher.
I ve ust been throwng cod water on the en-
thusasms of a boy.
ven that e panaton s hardy e haustve,
observed the crmna e pert.
Damned newspaper nonsense the enthus-
asms, were, of course, contnued sher, but I
ought to know that at that age usons can be
deas. And they re better than the reaty, any-
how. ut there s one very ugy responsbty
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about otng a young man out of the rut of the
most rotten dea.
And what may that be nqured hs frend.
It s very apt to set hm off wth the same
energy n a much worse drecton, answered
sher; a pretty endess sort of drecton, a
bottomess pt as deep as the bottomess we.
sher dd not see hs frend unt a fortnght
ater, when he found hmsef n the garden at
the back of the cubhouse on the opposte sde
from the nks, a garden heavy coored and
scented wth sweet semtropca pants n the
gow of a desert sunset. Two other men were
wth hm, the thrd beng the now ceebrated
second n command, famar to everybody as
Tom Travers, a ean, dark man, who ooked
oder than hs years, wth a furrow n hs brow
and somethng morose about the very shape of
hs back mustache. They had ust been served
wth back coffee by the Arab now offcatng as
the temporary servant of the cub, though he
was a fgure aready famar, and even famous,
as the od servant of the genera. He went by
the name of Sad, and was notabe among other
Semtes for that unnatura ength of hs yeow
face and heght of hs narrow forehead whch
s sometmes seen among them, and gave an r-
ratona mpresson of somethng snster, n spte
of hs agreeabe sme.
I never fee as f I coud qute trust that
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feow, sad Grayne, when the man had gone
away. It s very un ust, I take t, for he was
certany devoted to Hastngs, and saved hs fe,
they say. ut Arabs are often ke that, oya to
one man. I can t hep feeng he mght cut any-
body ese s throat, and even do t treacherousy.
e, sad Travers, wth a rather sour sme,
so ong as he eaves Hastngs aone the word
won t mnd much.
There was a rather embarrassng sence, fu
of memores of the great batte, and then Home
sher sad, quety:
The newspapers aren t the word, Tom.
Don t you worry about them. verybody n
your word knows the truth we enough.
I thnk we d better not tak about the gen-
era ust now, remarked Grayne, for he s ust
comng out of the cub.
He s not comng here, sad sher. He s
ony seeng hs wfe to the car.
As he spoke, ndeed, the ady came out on the
steps of the cub, foowed by her husband, who
then went swfty n front of her to open the
garden gate. As he dd so she turned back and
spoke for a moment to a sotary man st sttng
n a cane char n the shadow of the doorway,
the ony man eft n the deserted cub save for
the three that ngered n the garden. sher
peered for a moment nto the shadow, and saw
that t was Captan oye.
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The ne t moment, rather to ther surprse, the
genera reappeared and, remountng the steps,
spoke a word or two to oye n hs turn. Then
he sgnaed to Sad, who hurred up wth two
cups of coffee, and the two men re-entered the
cub, each carryng hs cup n hs hand. The
ne t moment a geam of whte ght n the grow-
ng darkness showed that the eectrc amps had
been turned on n the brary beyond.
Coffee and scentfc researches, sad
Travers, grmy. A the u ures of earnng
and theoretca research. e, I must be gong,
for I have my work to do as we. And he got
up rather stffy, sauted hs companons, and
strode away nto the dusk.
I ony hope oye s stckng to scentfc
researches, sad Home sher. I m not very
comfortabe about hm mysef. ut et s tak
about somethng ese.
They taked about somethng ese onger
than they probaby magned, unt the tropca
nght had come and a spendd moon panted
the whoe scene wth sver; but before t was
brght enough to see by sher had aready
noted that the ghts n the brary had been
abrupty e tngushed. He wated for the two
men to come out by the garden entrance, but
nobody came.
They must have gone for a stro on the
nks, he sad.
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to be a beautfu nght.
A moment or two after he had spoken they
heard a voce hang them out of the shadow
of the cubhouse, and were astonshed to per-
ceve Travers hurryng toward them, cang out
as he came:
I sha want your hep, you feows, he cred.
There s somethng pretty bad out on the nks.
They found themseves pungng through the
cub smokng room and the brary beyond, n
compete darkness, menta as we as matera.
ut Home sher, n spte of hs affectaton of
ndfference, was a person of a curous and a-
most transcendenta sensbty to atmospheres,
and he aready fet the presence of somethng
more than an accdent. He coded wth a pece
of furnture n the brary, and amost shuddered
wth the shock, for the thng moved as he coud
never have fanced a pece of furnture movng.
It seemed to move ke a vng thng, yedng
and yet strkng back. The ne t moment Grayne
had turned on the ghts, and he saw he had ony
stumbed aganst one of the revovng bookstands
that had swung round and struck hm; but hs n-
vountary reco had reveaed to hm hs own
subconscous sense of somethng mysterous and
monstrous. There were severa of these revov-
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brary; on one of them stood the two cups of
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coffee, and on another a arge open book. It
was udge s book on gyptan herogyphcs,
wth coored pates of strange brds and gods,
and even as he rushed past, he was conscous of
somethng odd about the fact that ths, and not
any work of mtary scence, shoud be open n
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scous of the gap n the we-ned bookshef
from whch t had been taken, and t seemed
amost to gape at hm n an ugy fashon, ke a
gap n the teeth of some snster face.
A run brought them n a few mnutes to the
other sde of the ground n front of the bottom-
ess we, and a few yards from t, n a moon-
ght amost as broad as dayght, they saw what
they had come to see.
The great Lord Hastngs ay prone on hs
face, n a posture n whch there was a touch of
somethng strange and stff, wth one ebow erect
above hs body, the arm beng doubed, and hs
bg, bony hand cutchng the rank and ragged
grass. A few feet away was oye, amost as
motoness, but supported on hs hands and knees,
and starng at the body. It mght have been no
more than shock and accdent; but there was
somethng ungany and unnatura about the
quadrupeda posture and the gapng face. It
was as f hs reason had fed from hm. ehnd,
there was nothng but the cear bue southern
sky, and the begnnng of the desert, e cept for
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the two great broken stones n front of the we.
And t was n such a ght and atmosphere that
men coud fancy they traced n them enormous
and ev faces, ookng down.
Home sher stooped and touched the strong
hand that was st cutchng the grass, and t
was as cod as a stone. He knet by the body
and was busy for a moment appyng other tests;
then he rose agan, and sad, wth a sort of con-
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Lord Hastngs s dead.
There was a stony sence, and then Travers
remarked, gruffy: Ths s your department,
Grayne; I w eave you to queston Captan
oye. I can make no sense of what he
says.
oye had pued hmsef together and rsen
to hs feet, but hs face st wore an awfu e -
presson, makng t ke a new mask or the face
of another man.
I was ookng at the we, he sad, and
when I turned he had faen down.
Grayne s face was very dark. As you say,
ths s my affar, he sad. I must frst ask you
to hep me carry hm to the brary and et me
e amne thngs thoroughy.
hen they had deposted the body n the
brary, Grayne turned to sher and sad, n
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fdence, I am gong to ock mysef n and make
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a thorough e amnaton frst. I ook to you to
keep n touch wth the others and make a pre-
mnary e amnaton of oye. I w tak to
hm ater. And ust teephone to headquarters
for a poceman, and et hm come here at once
and stand by t I want hm.
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tgator went nto the ghted brary, shuttng the
door behnd hm, and sher, wthout repyng,
turned and began to tak quety to Travers.
It s curous, he sad, that the thng shoud
happen ust n front of that pace.
It woud certany be very curous, reped
Travers, f the pace payed any part n t.
I thnk, reped sher, that the part t
ddn t pay s more curous st.
And wth these apparenty meanngess words
he turned to the shaken oye and, takng hs
arm, began to wak hm up and down n the moon-
ght, takng n ow tones.
Dawn had begun to break abrupt and whte
when Cuthbert Grayne turned out the ghts n
the brary and came out on to the nks. sher
was oungng about aone, n hs stess fashon;
but the poce messenger for whom he had sent
was standng at attenton n the background.
I sent oye off wth Travers, observed
sher, careessy; he ook after hm, and he d
better have some seep, anyhow.
Dd you get anythng out of hm asked
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Grayne. Dd he te you what he and Hastngs
were dong
Yes, answered sher, he gave me a pretty
cear account, after a. He sad that after Lady
Hastngs went off n the car the genera asked
hm to take coffee wth hm n the brary and
ook up a pont about oca antqutes. He hm-
sef was begnnng to ook for udge s book n
one of the revovng bookstands when the gen-
era found t n one of the booksheves on the
wa. After ookng at some of the pates they
went out, t woud seem, rather abrupty, on to
the nks, and waked toward the od we; and
whe oye was ookng nto t he heard a thud
behnd hm, and turned round to fnd the genera
yng as we found hm. He hmsef dropped on
hs knees to e amne the body, and then was
parayzed wth a sort of terror and coud not
come nearer to t or touch t. ut I thnk very
tte of that; peope caught n a rea shock of
surprse are sometmes found n the queerest
postures.
Grayne wore a grm sme of attenton, and
sad, after a short sence:
e, he hasn t tod you many es. It s
reay a credtaby cear and consstent account
of what happened, wth everythng of mpor-
tance eft out.
Have you dscovered anythng n there
asked sher.
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I have dscovered everythng, answered
Grayne.
sher mantaned a somewhat goomy sence,
as the other resumed hs e panaton n quet
and assured tones.
You were qute rght, sher, when you sad
that young feow was n danger of gong down
dark ways toward the pt. hether or no, as
you fanced, the ot you gave to hs vew of the
genera had anythng to do wth t, he has not
been treatng the genera we for some tme.
It s an unpeasant busness, and I don t want to
dwe on t; but t s pretty pan that hs wfe
was not treatng hm we, ether. I don t know
how far t went, but t went as far as concea-
ment, anyhow; for when Lady Hastngs spoke to
oye t was to te hm she had hdden a note
n the udge book n the brary. The genera
overheard, or came somehow to know, and he
went straght to the book and found t. He
confronted oye wth t, and they had a scene,
of course. And oye was confronted wth some-
thng ese; he was confronted wth an awfu
aternatve, n whch the fe of one od man
meant run and hs death meant trumph and
even happness.
e, observed sher, at ast, I don t bame
hm for not teng you the woman s part of the
story. ut how do you know about the etter
I found t on the genera s body, answered
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Grayne, but I found worse thngs than that.
The body had stffened n the way rather pecuar
to posons of a certan Asatc sort. Then I
e amned the coffee cups, and I knew enough
chemstry to fnd poson n the dregs of one of
them. Now, the Genera went straght to the
bookcase, eavng hs cup of coffee on the book-
stand n the mdde of the room. he hs
back was turned, and oye was pretendng to
e amne the bookstand, he was eft aone wth
the coffee cup. The poson takes about ten
mnutes to act, and ten mnutes wak woud
brng them to the bottomess we.
Yes, remarked sher, and what about the
bottomess we
hat has the bottomess we got to do wth
t asked hs frend.
It has nothng to do wth t, reped sher.
That s what I fnd uttery confoundng and
ncredbe.
And why shoud that partcuar hoe n the
ground have anythng to do wth t
It s a partcuar hoe n your case, sad
sher. ut I won t nsst on that ust now.
y the way, there s another thng I ought to
te you. I sad I sent oye away n charge of
Travers. It woud be ust as true to say I sent
Travers n charge of oye.
You don t mean to say you suspect Tom
Travers cred the other.
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He was a dea btterer aganst the genera
than oye ever was, observed Home sher,
wth a curous ndfference.
Man, you re not sayng what you mean,
cred Grayne. I te you I found the poson n
one of the coffee cups.
There was aways Sad, of course, added
sher, ether for hatred or hre. e agreed
he was capabe of amost anythng.
And we agreed he was ncapabe of hurtng
hs master, retorted Grayne.
e, we, sad sher, amaby, I dare
say you are rght; but I shoud ust ke to have
a ook at the brary and the coffee cups.
He passed nsde, whe Grayne turned to the
poceman n attendance and handed hm a scrb-
bed note, to be teegraphed from headquarters.
The man sauted and hurred off; and Grayne,
foowng hs frend nto the brary, found hm
besde the bookstand n the mdde of the room,
on whch were the empty cups.
Ths s where oye ooked for udge, or
pretended to ook for hm, accordng to your
account, he sad.
As sher spoke he bent down n a haf-crouch-
ng atttude, to ook at the voumes n the ow,
revovng shef, for the whoe bookstand was not
much hgher than an ordnary tabe. The ne t
moment he sprang up as f he had been stung.
Oh, my God he cred.
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ery few peope, f any, had ever seen Mr.
Home sher behave as he behaved ust then.
He fashed a gance at the door, saw that the
open wndow was nearer, went out of t wth a
fyng eap, as f over a hurde, and went racng
across the turf, n the track of the dsappearng
poceman. Grayne, who stood starng after hm,
soon saw hs ta, oose fgure, returnng, restored
to a ts norma mpness and ar of esure. He
was fannng hmsef sowy wth a pece of paper,
the teegram he had so voenty ntercepted.
Lucky I stopped that, he observed. e
must keep ths affar as quet as death. Hastngs
must de of apope y or heart dsease.
hat on earth s the troube demanded
the other nvestgator.
The troube s, sad sher, that n a few
days we shoud have had a very agreeabe ater-
natve of hangng an nnocent man or knockng
the rtsh mpre to he.
Do you mean to say, asked Grayne, that
ths nferna crme s not to be punshed
sher ooked at hm steady.
It s aready punshed, he sad.
After a moment s pause he went on. You
reconstructed the crme wth admrabe sk, od
chap, and neary a you sad was true. Two men
wth two coffee cups dd go nto the brary and
dd put ther cups on the bookstand and dd go
together to the we, and one of them was a
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murderer and had put poson n the other s cup.
ut t was not done whe oye was ookng at
the revovng bookcase. He dd ook at t,
though, searchng for the udge book wth the
note n t, but I fancy that Hastngs had aready
moved t to the sheves on the wa. It was part
of that grm game that he shoud fnd t frst.
Now, how does a man search a revovng
bookcase He does not generay hop a round
t n a squattng atttude, ke a frog. He smpy
gves t a touch and makes t revove.
He was frownng at the foor as he spoke,
and there was a ght under hs heavy ds that
was not often seen there. The mystcsm that
was bured deep under a the cyncsm of hs
e perence was awake and movng n the depths.
Hs voce took une pected turns and nfectons,
amost as f two men were speakng.
That was what oye dd; he barey touched
the thng, and t went round as easy as the
word goes round. Yes, very much as the word
goes round, for the hand that turned t was not
hs. God, who turns the whee of a the stars,
touched that whee and brought t fu crce,
that Hs dreadfu ustce mght return.
I am begnnng, sad Grayne, sowy, to
have some hazy and horrbe dea of what you
mean.
It s very smpe, sad sher, when oye
straghtened hmsef from hs stoopng posture,
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The ottomess e
somethng had happened whch he had not
notced, whch hs enemy had not notced, whch
nobody had notced. The two coffee cups had
e acty changed paces.
The rocky face of Grayne seemed to have
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pectedy weakened.
I see what you mean, he sad, and, as you
say, the ess sad about t the better. It was
not the over who tred to get rd of the hus-
band, but the other thng. And a tae ke that
about a man ke that woud run us here. Had
you any guess of ths at the start
The bottomess we, as I tod you, an-
swered sher, quety; that was what stumped
me from the start. Not because t had anythng
to do wth t, because t had nothng to do wth
t.
He paused a moment, as f choosng an ap-
proach, and then went on: hen a man knows
hs enemy w be dead n ten mnutes, and takes
hm to the edge of an unfathomabe pt, he means
to throw hs body nto t. hat ese shoud he
do A born foo woud have the sense to do t,
and oye s not a born foo. e, why dd
not oye do t The more I thought of t the
more I suspected there was some mstake n the
murder, so to speak. Somebody had taken some-
body there to throw hm n, and yet he was not
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thrown n. I had aready an ugy, unformed dea
of some substtuton or reversa of parts; then I
stooped to turn the bookstand mysef, by acc-
dent, and I nstanty knew everythng, for I saw
the two cups revove once more, ke moons n
the sky.
After a pause, Cuthbert Grayne sad, And
what are we to say to the newspapers
My frend, Harod March, s comng aong
from Caro to-day, sad sher. He s a very
brant and successfu ournast. ut for a
that he s a thoroughy honorabe man, so you
must not te hm the truth.
Haf an hour ater sher was agan wakng
to and fro n front of the cubhouse, wth Cap-
tan oye, the atter by ths tme wth a very
buffeted and bewdered ar; perhaps a sadder and
a wser man.
hat about me, then he was sayng. Am
I ceared Am I not gong to be ceared
I beeve and hope, answered sher, that
you are not gong to be suspected. ut you are
certany not gong to be ceared. There must
be no suspcon aganst hm, and therefore no sus-
pcon aganst you. Any suspcon aganst hm,
et aone such a story aganst hm, woud knock
us endways from Mata to Mandaay. He was
a hero as we as a hoy terror among the Mos-
ems. Indeed, you mght amost ca hm a Mos-
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The ottomess e
got on wth them party because of hs own tte
dose of astern bood; he got t from hs mother,
the dancer from Damascus; everybody knows
that.
Oh, repeated oye, mechancay, starng
at hm wth round eyes, everybody knows that.
I dare say there was a touch of t n hs ea-
ousy and ferocous vengeance, went on sher.
ut, for a that, the crme woud run us among
the Arabs, a the more because t was some-
thng ke a crme aganst hosptaty. It s been
hatefu for you and t s pretty horrd for me.
ut there are some thngs that damned we can t
be done, and whe I m ave that s one of them.
hat do you mean asked oye, gancng
at hm curousy. hy shoud you, of a
peope, be so passonate about t
Home sher ooked at the young man wth a
baffng e presson.
I suppose, he sad, t s because I m a Ltte
ngander.
I can never make out what you mean by
that sort of thng, answered oye, doubtfuy.
Do you thnk ngand s so tte as a that
sad sher, wth a warmth n hs cod voce,
that t can t hod a man across a few thousand
mes. You ectured me wth a ot of dea pa-
trotsm, my young frend; but t s practca
patrotsm now for you and me, and wth no
es to hep t. You taked as f everythng a-
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ways went rght wth us a over the word, n a
trumphant crescendo cumnatng n Hastngs.
I te you everythng has gone wrong wth us
here, e cept Hastngs. He was the one name
we had eft to con ure wth, and that mustn t go
as we, no, by God It s bad enough that a
gang of nferna ews shoud pant us here, where
there s no earthy ngsh nterest to serve, and
a he beatng up aganst us, smpy because
Nosey mmern has ent money to haf the
Cabnet. It s bad enough that an od pawn-
broker from agdad shoud make us fght hs
battes; we can t fght wth our rght hand cut
off. Our one score was Hastngs and hs vc-
tory, whch was reay somebody ese s vctory.
Tom Travers has to suffer, and so have you.
Then, after a moment s sence, he ponted
toward the bottomess we and sad, n a queter
tone:
I tod you that I ddn t beeve n the phos-
ophy of the Tower of Aaddn. I don t beeve
n the mpre growng unt t reaches the sky;
I don t beeve n the Unon ack gong up and
up eternay ke the Tower. ut f you thnk
I am gong to et the Unon ack go down and
down eternay, ke the bottomess we, down
nto the backness of the bottomess pt, down
n defeat and derson, amd the eers of the very
ews who have sucked us dry no I won t, and
that s fat; not f the Chanceor were back-
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The ottomess e
maed by twenty monares wth ther gutter
rags, not f the Prme Mnster marred twenty
Yankee ewesses, not f oodve and Carstars
had shares n twenty swndng mnes. If the
thng s reay totterng, God hep t, t mustn t
be we who tp t over.
oye was regardng hm wth a bewderment
that was amost fear, and had even a touch of
dstaste.
Somehow, he sad, there seems to be some-
thng rather horrd about the thngs you know.
There s, reped Home sher. I am not
at a peased wth my sma stock of knowedge
and refecton. ut as t s party responsbe
for your not beng hanged, I don t know that you
need compan of t.
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he turned and stroed away toward the bottom-
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TH AD O TH ISH RMAN
A THING can sometmes be too e traor-
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no causes and no consequences, subsequent events
do not reca t, and t remans ony a subcon-
scous thng, to be strred by some accdent ong
after. It drfts apart ke a forgotten dream;
and t was n the hour of many dreams, at day-
break and very soon after the end of dark, that
such a strange sght was gven to a man scung
a boat down a rver n the est country. The
man was awake; ndeed, he consdered hmsef
rather wde awake, beng the potca ournast,
Harod March, on hs way to ntervew varous
potca ceebrtes n ther country seats. ut
the thng he saw was so nconsequent that t
mght have been magnary. It smpy spped
past hs mnd and was ost n ater and uttery
dfferent events; nor dd he even recover the
memory t he had ong afterward dscovered
the meanng.
Pae msts of mornng ay on the feds and
the rushes aong one margn of the rver; aong
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The ad of the sherman
the other sde ran a wa of tawny brck amost
overhangng the water. He had shpped hs
oars and was drftng for a moment wth the
stream, when he turned hs head and saw that
the monotony of the ong brck wa was broken
by a brdge; rather an eegant eghteenth-century
sort of brdge wth tte coumns of whte stone
turnng gray. There had been foods and the
rver st stood very hgh, wth dwarfsh trees
wast deep n t, and rather a narrow arc of
whte dawn geamed under the curve of the
brdge.
As hs own boat went under the dark arch-
way he saw another boat comng toward hm,
rowed by a man as sotary as hmsef. Hs
posture prevented much beng seen of hm, but as
he neared the brdge he stood up n the boat and
turned round. He was aready so cose to the
dark entry, however, that hs whoe fgure was
back aganst the mornng ght, and March coud
see nothng of hs face e cept the end of two
ong whskers or mustaches that gave somethng
snster to the shouette, ke horns n the wrong
pace. ven these detas March woud never
have notced but for what happened n the same
nstant. As the man came under the ow brdge
he made a eap at t and hung, wth hs egs
dangng, ettng the boat foat away from under
hm. March had a momentary vson of two
back kckng egs; then of one back kckng eg;
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and then of nothng e cept the eddyng stream
and the ong perspectve of the wa. ut when-
ever he thought of t agan, ong afterward, when
he understood the story n whch t fgured, t
was aways f ed n that one fantastc shape
as f those wd egs were a grotesque graven
ornament of the brdge tsef, n the manner of a
gargoye. At the moment he merey passed, star-
ng, down the stream. He coud see no fyng
fgure on the brdge, so t must have aready fed;
but he was haf conscous of some fant sgnf-
cance n the fact that among the trees round the
brdgehead opposte the wa he saw a amp-post;
and, besde the amp-post, the broad bue back of
an unconscous poceman.
ven before reachng the shrne of hs potca
pgrmage he had many other thngs to thnk of
besdes the odd ncdent of the brdge; for the
management of a boat by a sotary man was not
aways easy even on such a sotary stream. And
ndeed t was ony by an unforeseen accdent that
he was sotary. The boat had been purchased
and the whoe e pedton panned n con uncton
wth a frend, who had at the ast moment been
forced to ater a hs arrangements. Harod
March was to have traveed wth hs frend
Home sher on that nand voyage to -
owood Pace, where the Prme Mnster was a
guest at the moment. More and more peope
were hearng of Harod March, for hs strkng
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potca artces were openng to hm the doors
of arger and arger saons; but he had never
met the Prme Mnster yet. Scarcey anybody
among the genera pubc had ever heard of
Home sher; but he had known the Prme
Mnster a hs fe. or these reasons, had
the two taken the pro ected ourney together,
March mght have been sghty dsposed to
hasten t and sher vaguey content to engthen
t out. or sher was one of those peope who
are born knowng the Prme Mnster. The
knowedge seemed to have no very e harant
effect, and n hs case bore some resembance to
beng born tred. ut he was dstncty annoyed
to receve, ust as he was dong a tte ght pack-
ng of fshng tacke and cgars for the ourney,
a teegram from owood askng hm to come
down at once by tran, as the Prme Mnster
had to eave that nght. sher knew that hs
frend the ournast coud not possby start t
the ne t day, and he ked hs frend the ourna-
st, and had ooked forward to a few days on
the rver. He dd not partcuary ke or ds-
ke the Prme Mnster, but he ntensey ds-
ked the aternatve of a few hours n the tran.
Nevertheess, he accepted Prme Mnsters as he
accepted raway trans as part of a system
whch he, at east, was not the revoutonst sent
on earth to destroy. So he teephoned to March,
askng hm, wth many apoogetc curses and
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fant damns, to take the boat down the rver as
arranged, that they mght meet at owood by
the tme setted; then he went outsde and haed
a ta cab to take hm to the raway staton.
There he paused at the booksta to add to hs
ght uggage a number of cheap murder stores,
whch he read wth great peasure, and wthout
any premonton that he was about to wak nto
as strange a story n rea fe.
A tte before sunset he arrved, wth hs ght
sutcase n hand, before the gate of the ong
rversde gardens of owood Pace, one of
the smaer seats of Sr Isaac Hook, the master
of much shppng and many newspapers. He
entered by the gate gvng on the road, at the
opposte sde to the rver, but there was a m ed
quaty n a that watery andscape whch per-
petuay remnded a traveer that the rver was
near. hte geams of water woud shne sud-
deny ke swords or spears n the green thckets.
And even n the garden tsef, dvded nto courts
and curtaned wth hedges and hgh garden trees,
there hung everywhere n the ar the musc of
water. The frst of the green courts whch he
entered appeared to be a somewhat negected
croquet awn, n whch was a sotary young man
payng croquet aganst hmsef. Yet he was not
an enthusast for the game, or even for the
garden; and hs saow but we-featured face
ooked rather suen than otherwse. He was
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ony one of those young men who cannot sup-
port the burden of conscousness uness they are
dong somethng, and whose conceptons of dong
somethng are mted to a game of some knd.
He was dark and we dressed n a ght hoday
fashon, and sher recognzed hm at once as a
young man named ames uen, caed, for some
unknown reason, unker. He was the nephew
of Sr Isaac; but, what was much more mpor-
tant at the moment, he was aso the prvate sec-
retary of the Prme Mnster.
Huo, unker observed Home sher.
You re the sort of man I wanted to see. Has
your chef come down yet
He s ony stayng for dnner, reped u-
en, wth hs eye on the yeow ba. He s got a
great speech to-morrow at rmngham and he s
gong straght through to-nght. He s motorng
hmsef there; drvng the car, I mean. It s the
one thng he s reay proud of.
You mean you re stayng here wth your
unce, ke a good boy reped sher. ut
what w the Chef do at rmngham wthout
the epgrams whspered to hm by hs brant
secretary
Don t you start raggng me, sad the young
man caed unker. I m ony too gad not to go
trang after hm. He doesn t know a thng
about maps or money or hotes or anythng, and
I have to dance about ke a courer. As for my
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unce, as I m supposed to come nto the estate,
t s ony decent to be here sometmes.
ery proper, reped the other. e, I
sha see you ater on, and, crossng the awn,
he passed out through a gap n the hedge.
He was wakng across the awn toward the
andng stage on the rver, and st fet a around
hm, under the dome of goden evenng, an Od
ord savor and reverberaton n that rver-
haunted garden. The ne t square of turf whch
he crossed seemed at frst sght qute deserted,
t he saw n the twght of trees n one corner
of t a hammock and n the hammock a man,
readng a newspaper and swngng one eg over
the edge of the net.
Hm aso he haed by name, and the man
spped to the ground and stroed forward. It
seemed fated that he shoud fee somethng of
the past n the accdents of that pace, for the
fgure mght we have been an eary- ctoran
ghost revstng the ghosts of the croquet hoops
and maets. It was the fgure of an edery man
wth ong whskers that ooked amost fantastc,
and a quant and carefu cut of coar and cravat.
Havng been a fashonabe dandy forty years
ago, he had managed to preserve the dandysm
whe gnorng the fashons. A whte top-hat
ay besde the Mornng Post n the hammock
behnd hm. Ths was the Duke of estmore-
and, the rec of a famy reay some centures
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od; and the antquty was not heradry but hs-
tory. Nobody knew better than sher how
rare such nobemen are n fact, and how numer-
ous n fcton. ut whether the duke owed the
genera respect he en oyed to the genuneness of
hs pedgree or to the fact that he owned a vast
amount of very vauabe property was a pont
about whch Mr. sher s opnon mght have
been more nterestng to dscover.
You were ookng so comfortabe, sad
sher, that I thought you must be one of the
servants. I m ookng for somebody to take ths
bag of mne; I haven t brought a man down, as
I came away n a hurry.
Nor have I, for that matter, reped the
duke, wth some prde. I never do. If there s
one anma ave I oathe t s a vaet. I earned
to dress mysef at an eary age and was sup-
posed to do t decenty. I may be n my second
chdhood, but I ve not go so far as beng dressed
ke a chd.
The Prme Mnster hasn t brought a vaet;
he s brought a secretary nstead, observed
sher. Devsh nferor ob. Ddn t I hear
that Harker was down here
He s over there on the andng stage, re-
ped the duke, ndfferenty, and resumed the
study of the Mornng Post.
sher made hs way beyond the ast green
wa of the garden on to a sort of towng path
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ookng on the rver and a woodef sand oppo-
ste. There, ndeed, he saw a ean, dark fgure
wth a stoop amost ke that of a vuture, a
posture we known n the aw courts as that of
Sr ohn Harker, the Attorney-Genera. Hs
face was ned wth headwork, for aone among
the three ders n the garden he was a man
who had made hs own way; and round hs bad
brow and hoow tempes cung du red har,
qute fat, ke pates of copper.
I haven t seen my host yet, sad Home
sher, n a sghty more serous tone than he
had used to the others, but I suppose I sha
meet hm at dnner.
You can see hm now; but you can t meet
hm, answered Harker.
He nodded hs head toward one end of the
sand opposte, and, ookng steady n the same
drecton, the other guest coud see the dome of
a bad head and the top of a fshng rod, both
equay motoness, rsng out of the ta under-
growth aganst the background of the stream
beyond. The fsherman seemed to be seated
aganst the stump of a tree and facng toward
the other bank, so that hs face coud not be
seen, but the shape of hs head was unmstakabe.
He doesn t ke to be dsturbed when he s
fshng, contnued Harker. It s a sort of fad
of hs to eat nothng but fsh, and he s very
proud of catchng hs own. Of course he s a
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for smpcty, ke so many of these monares.
He kes to come n sayng he s worked for hs
day bread ke a aborer.
Does he e pan how he bows a the gass
and stuffs a the uphostery, asked sher, and
makes a the sver forks, and grows a the
grapes and peaches, and desgns a the patterns
on the carpets I ve aways heard he was a busy
man.
I don t thnk he mentoned t, answered the
awyer. hat s the meanng of ths soca
satre
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the Smpe Lfe and the Strenuous Lfe as ved
by our tte set. e re a reay dependent n
neary everythng, and we a make a fuss about
beng ndependent n somethng. The Prme
Mnster prdes hmsef on dong wthout a
chauffeur, but he can t do wthout a factotum
and ack-of-a-trades; and poor od unker has
to pay the part of a unversa genus, whch God
knows he was never meant for. The duke prdes
hmsef on dong wthout a vaet, but, for a that,
he must gve a ot of peope an nferna ot of
troube to coect such e traordnary od cothes
as he wears. He must have them ooked up n
the rtsh Museum or e cavated out of the
tombs. That whte hat aone must requre a
sort of e pedton ftted out to fnd t, ke the
North Poe. And here we have od Hook pre-
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tendng to produce hs own fsh when he coudn t
produce hs own fsh knves or fsh forks to eat
t wth. He may be smpe about smpe thngs
ke food, but you bet he s u urous about u ur-
ous thngs, especay tte thngs. I don t ncude
you; you ve worked too hard to en oy payng
at work.
I sometmes thnk, sad Harker, that you
concea a horrd secret of beng usefu sometmes.
Haven t you come down here to see Number
One before he goes on to rmngham
Home sher answered, n a ower voce:
Yes; and I hope to be ucky enough to catch
hm before dnner. He s got to see Sr Isaac
about somethng ust afterward. .
Huo e cameo a& .: Sr Isaac s
fnshed hs fshng. I know he prdes hmsef
on gettng up at sunrse and gong n at sunset.
The od man on the sand had ndeed rsen
to hs feet, facng round and showng a bush
of gray beard wth rather sma, sunken features,
but ferce eyebrows and keen, choerc eyes. Care-
fuy carryng hs fshng tacke, he was aready
makng hs way back to the manand across a
brdge of fat steppng-stones a tte way down
the shaow stream; then he veered round, com-
ng toward hs guests and cvy sautng them.
There were severa fsh n hs basket and he was
n a good temper.
Yes, he sad, acknowedgng sher s pote
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e presson of surprse, I get up before anybody
ese n the house, I thnk. The eary brd catches
the worm.
Unfortunatey, sad Harker, t s the eary
fsh that catches the worm.
ut the eary man catches the fsh, reped
the od man, gruffy.
ut from what I hear, Sr Isaac, you are
the ate man, too, nterposed sher. You
must do wth very tte seep.
I never had much tme for seepng, an-
swered Hook, and I sha have to be the ate
man to-nght, anyhow. The Prme Mnster
wants to have a tak, he tes me, and, a thngs
consdered, I thnk we d better be dressng for
dnner.
Dnner passed off that evenng wthout a word
of potcs and tte enough but ceremona trfes.
The Prme Mnster, Lord Mervae, who was a
ong, sm man wth cury gray har, was gravey
compmentary to hs host about hs success as a
fsherman and the sk and patence he dspayed;
the conversaton fowed ke the shaow stream
through the steppng-stones.
It wants patence to wat for them, no doubt,
sad Sr Isaac, and sk to pay them, but I m
generay pretty ucky at t.
Does a bg fsh ever break the ne and get
away nqured the potcan, wth respectfu
nterest.
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Not the sort of ne I use, answered Hook,
wth satsfacton. I rather specaze n tacke,
as a matter of fact. If he were strong enough
to do that, he d be strong enough to pu me nto
the rver.
A great oss to the communty, sad the
Prme Mnster, bowng.
sher had stened to a these futtes wth
nward mpatence, watng for hs own oppor-
tunty, and when the host rose he sprang to hs
feet wth an aertness he rarey showed. He
managed to catch Lord Mervae before Sr
Isaac bore hm off for the fna ntervew. He
had ony a few words to say, but he wanted to
get them sad.
He sad, n a ow voce as he opened the door
for the Premer, I have seen Montmra; he
says that uness we protest mmedatey on be-
haf of Denmark, Sweden w certany seze the
ports.
Lord Mervae nodded. I m ust gong to
hear what Hook has to say about t, he
sad.
I magne, sad sher, wth a fant sme,
that there s very tte doubt what he w say
about t.
Mervae dd not answer, but ounged grace-
fuy toward the brary, whther hs host had
aready preceded hm. The rest drfted toward
the bard room, sher merey remarkng to
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the awyer: They won t be ong. e know
they re practcay n agreement.
Hook entrey supports the Prme Mnster,
assented Harker.
Or the Prme Mnster entrey supports
Hook, sad Home sher, and began dy to
knock the bas about on the bard tabe.
Home sher came down ne t mornng n a
ate and esurey fashon, as was hs reprehen-
sbe habt; he had evdenty no appette for
catchng worms. ut the other guests seemed to
have fet a smar ndfference, and they heped
themseves to breakfast from the sdeboard at
ntervas durng the hours vergng upon unch.
So that t was not many hours ater when the
frst sensaton of that strange day came upon
them. It came n the form of a young man wth
ght har and a candd e presson, who came
scung down the rver and dsembarked at the
andng stage. It was, n fact, no other than
Mr. Harod March, whose ourney had begun
far away up the rver n the earest hours of
that day. He arrved ate n the afternoon, hav-
ng stopped for tea n a arge rversde town,
and he had a pnk evenng paper stckng out of
hs pocket. He fe on the rversde garden ke
a quet and we-behaved thunderbot, but he was
a thunderbot wthout knowng t.
The frst e change of sautatons and ntroduc-
tons was commonpace enough, and conssted,
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ndeed, of the nevtabe repetton of e cuses for
the eccentrc secuson of the host. He had gone
fshng agan, of course, and must not be ds-
turbed t the apponted hour, though he sat
wthn a stone s throw of where they stood.
You see t s hs ony hobby, observed
Harker, apoogetcay, and, after a, t s hs
own house; and he s very hosptabe n other
ways.
I m rather afrad, sad sher, n a ower
voce, that t s becomng more of a mana than
a hobby. I know how t s when a man of that
age begns to coect thngs, f t s ony coectng
those rotten tte rver fsh. You remember
Tabot s unce wth hs toothpcks, and poor od
uzzy and the waste of cgar ashes. Hook has
done a ot of bg thngs n hs tme the great
dea n the Swedsh tmber trade and the Peace
Conference at Chcago but I doubt whether he
cares now for any of those bg thngs as he cares
for those tte fsh.
Oh, come, come, protested the Attorney-
Genera. You make Mr. March thnk he has
come to ca on a unatc. eeve me, Hook
ony does t for fun, ke any other sport, ony
he s of the knd that takes hs fun sady. ut
I bet f there were bg news about tmber or shp-
png, he woud drop hs fun and hs fsh a rght.
e, I wonder, sad Home sher, ook-
ng seepy at the sand n the rver.
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y the way, s there any news of anythng
asked Harker of Harod March. I see you ve
got an evenng paper; one of those enterprsng
evenng papers that come out n the mornng.
The begnnng of Lord Mervae s rmng-
ham speech, reped March, handng hm the
paper. It s ony a paragraph, but t seems to
me rather good.
Harker took the paper, fapped and refoded
t, and ooked at the Stop Press news. It was,
as March had sad, ony a paragraph. ut t
was a paragraph that had a pecuar effect on
Sr ohn Harker. Hs owerng brows fted
wth a fcker and hs eyes bnked, and for a
moment hs eathery aw was oosened. He
ooked n some odd fashon ke a very od man.
Then, hardenng hs voce and handng the paper
to sher wthout a tremor, he smpy sad:
e, here s a chance for the bet. You ve
got your bg news to dsturb the od man s fsh-
ng.
Home sher was ookng at the paper, and
over hs more angud and ess e pressve fea-
tures a change aso seemed to pass. ven that
tte paragraph had two or three arge headnes,
and hs eye encountered, Sensatona arnng
to Sweden, and, e Sha Protest.
hat the dev he sad, and hs words
softened frst to a whsper and then a whste.
e must te od Hook at once, or he never
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forgve us, sad Harker. He probaby want
to see Number One nstanty, though t may be
too ate now. I m gong across to hm at once. I
bet I make hm forget hs fsh, anyhow. And,
turnng hs back, he made hs way hurredy aong
the rversde to the causeway of fat stones.
March was starng at sher, n amazement
at the effect hs pnk paper had produced.
hat does t a mean he cred. I a-
ways supposed we shoud protest n defense
of the Dansh ports, for ther sakes and our
own. hat s a ths botheraton about Sr
Isaac and the rest of you Do you thnk t
bad news
ad news repeated sher, wth a sort of
soft emphass beyond e presson.
Is t as bad as a that asked hs frend,
at ast.
As bad as a that repeated sher. hy
of course t s as good as t can be. It s great
news. It s gorous news That s where the
dev of t comes n, to knock us a sy. It s
admrabe. It s nestmabe. It s aso qute
ncredbe.
He gazed agan at the gray and green coors
of the sand and the rver, and hs rather dreary
eye traveed sowy round to the hedges and the
awns.
I fet ths garden was a sort of dream, he
sad, and I suppose I must be dreamng. ut
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there s grass growng and water movng; and
somethng mpossbe has happened.
ven as he spoke the dark fgure wth a stoop
ke a vuture appeared n the gap of the hedge
ust above hm.
You have won your bet, sad Harker, n a
harsh and amost croakng voce. The od foo
cares for nothng but fshng. He cursed me
and tod me he woud tak no potcs.
I thought t mght be so, sad sher, mod-
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I sha use the od dot s teephone, any-
how, reped the awyer. I must fnd out e -
acty what has happened. I ve got to speak for
the Government mysef to-morrow. And he
hurred away toward the house.
In the sence that foowed, a very bewder-
ng sence so far as March was concerned, they
saw the quant fgure of the Duke of estmore-
and, wth hs whte hat and whskers, approach-
ng them across the garden. sher nstanty
stepped toward hm wth the pnk paper n hs
hand, and, wth a few words, ponted out the
apocayptc paragraph. The duke, who had been
wakng sowy, stood qute st, and for some
seconds he ooked ke a taor s dummy standng
and starng outsde some antquated shop. Then
March heard hs voce, and t was hgh and a-
most hysterca:
ut he must see t; he must be made to under-
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stand. It cannot have been put to hm propery.
Then, wth a certan recovery of funess and
even pomposty n the voce, I sha go and te
hm mysef.
Among the queer ncdents of that afternoon,
March aways remembered somethng amost
comca about the cear pcture of the od gente-
man n hs wonderfu whte hat carefuy step-
png from stone to stone across the rver, ke
a fgure crossng the traffc n Pccady. Then
he dsappeared behnd the trees of the sand, and
March and sher turned to meet the Attorney-
Genera, who was comng out of the house wth
a vsage of grm assurance.
verybody s sayng, he sad, that the
Prme Mnster has made the greatest speech of
hs fe. Peroraton and oud and proonged
cheers. Corrupt fnancers and heroc peasants.
e wH not desert Denmark agan.
sher nodded and turned away toward the
towng path, where he saw the duke returnng
wth a rather dazed e presson. In answer to
queston, he sad, n a husky and confdenta
voce:
I reay thnk our poor frend cannot be hm-
sef. He refused to sten; he ah suggested
that I mght frghten the fsh.
A keen ear mght have detected a murmur
from Mr. sher on the sub ect of a whte hat,
but Sr ohn Harker struck t more decsvey:
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sher was qute rght. I ddn t beeve t
mysef, but t s qute cear that the od feow s
f ed on ths fshng noton by now. If the house
caught fre behnd hm he woud hardy move
t sunset.
sher had contnued hs stro toward the
hgher embanked ground of the towng path,
and he now swept a ong and searchng gaze,
not toward the sand, but toward the dstant
wooded heghts that were the was of the vaey.
An evenng sky as cear as that of the prevous
day was settng down a over the dm andscape,
but toward the west t was now red rather than
god; there was scarcey any sound but the mo-
notonous musc of the rver. Then came the
sound of a haf-stfed e camaton from Home
sher, and Harod March ooked up at hm n
wonder.
You spoke of bad news, sad sher. e,
there s reay bad news now. I am afrad ths s
a bad busness.
hat bad news do you mean asked hs
frend, conscous of somethng strange and sns-
ter n hs voce.
The sun has set, answered sher.
He went on wth the ar of one conscous of
havng sad somethng fata. e must get some-
body to go across whom he w reay sten to.
He may be mad, but there s method n hs mad-
ness. There neary aways s method n madness.
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The Man ho Knew Too Much .
It s what drves men mad, beng methodca.
And he never goes on sttng there after sunset,
wth the whoe pace gettng dark. here s
hs nephew I beeve he s reay fond of hs
nephew.
Look cred March, abrupty. hy, he s
been across aready. There he s comng back.
And, ookng up the rver once more, they
saw, dark aganst the sunset refectons, the fg-
ure of ames uen steppng hasty and rather
cumsy from stone to stone. Once he spped
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oned the group on the bank hs ove face was
unnaturay pae.
The other four men had aready gathered on
the same spot and amost smutaneousy were
cang out to hm, hat does he say now
Nothng. He says nothng.
sher ooked at the young man steady for
a moment; then he started from hs mmobty
and, makng a moton to March to foow hm,
hmsef strode down to the rver crossng. In
a few moments they were on the tte beaten
track that ran round the wooded sand, to the
other sde of t where the fsherman sat. Then
they stood and ooked at hm, wthout a word.
Sr Isaac Hook was st sttng propped up
aganst the stump of the tree, and that for the
best of reasons. A ength of hs own nfabe
fshng ne was twsted and tghtened twce round
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hs throat and then twce round the wooden prop
behnd hm. The eadng nvestgator ran for-
ward and touched the fsherman s hand, and t
was as cod as a fsh.
The sun has set, sad Home sher, n the
same terrbe tones, and he w never see t
rse agan.
Ten mnutes afterward the fve men, shaken
by such a shock, were agan together n the
garden, ookng at one another wth whte but
watchfu faces. The awyer seemed the most
aert of the group; he was artcuate f some-
what abrupt.
e must eave the body as t s and teephone
for the poce, he sad. I thnk my own au-
thorty w stretch to e amnng the servants and
the poor feow s papers, to see f there s any-
thng that concerns them. Of course, none of
you gentemen must eave ths pace.
Perhaps there was somethng n hs rapd and
rgorous egaty that suggested the cosng of a
net or trap. Anyhow, young uen suddeny
broke down, or perhaps bew up, for hs voce
was ke an e poson n the sent garden.
I never touched hm, he cred. I swear I
had nothng to do wth t
ho sad you had demanded Harker, wth
a hard eye. hy do you cry out before you re
hurt
ecause you a ook at me ke that, cred
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the young man, angry. Do you thnk I don t
know you re aways takng about my damned
debts and e pectatons
Rather to March s surprse, sher had drawn
away from ths frst coson, eadng the duke
wth hm to another part of the garden. hen
he was out of earshot of the others he sad, wth
a curous smpcty of manner:
estmoreand, I am gong straght to the
pont.
e sad the other, starng at hm stody.
You have a motve for kng hm, sad
sher.
The duke contnued to stare, but he seemed
unabe to speak.
I hope you had a motve for kng hm,
contnued sher, mdy. You see, t s rather
a curous stuaton. If you have a motve for
murderng, you probaby ddn t murder. ut
f you had.n t any motve, why, then perhaps,
you dd.
hat on earth are you takng about de-
manded the duke, voenty.
It s qute smpe, sad sher. hen you
went across he was ether ave or dead. If he
was ave, t mght be you who ked hm, or
why shoud you have hed your tongue about hs
death ut f he was dead, and you had a rea-
son for kng hm, you mght have hed your
tongue for fear of beng accused. Then after
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a sence he added, abstractedy: Cyprus s a
beautfu pace, I beeye. Romantc scenery and
romantc peope. ery nto catng for a young
man.
The duke suddeny cenched hs hands and
sad, thcky, e, I had a motve.
Then you re a rght, sad sher, hodng
out hs hand wth an ar of huge reef. I was
pretty sure you woudn t reay do t; you had a
frght when you saw t done, as was ony natura.
Lke a bad dream come true, wasn t t
he ths curous conversaton was passng,
Harker had gone nto the house, dsregardng the
demonstratons of the suky nephew, and came
back presenty wth a new ar of anmaton and
a sheaf of papers n hs hand.
I ve teephoned for the poce, he sad, stop-
png to speak to sher, but I thnk I ve done
most of ther work for them. I beeve I ve
found out the truth. There s a paper here
He stopped, for sher was ookng at hm wth
a snguar e presson; and t was sher who
spoke ne t:
Are there any papers that are not there, I
wonder I mean that are not there now
After a pause he added: Let us have the cards
on the tabe. hen you went through hs papers
n such a hurry, Harker, weren t you ookng for
somethng to to make sure t shoudn t be
found
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Harker dd not turn a red har on hs hard
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And I suppose, went on sher, smoothy,
that s why you, too, tod us es about havng
found Hook ave. You knew there was some-
thng to show that you mght have ked hm,
and you ddn t dare te us he was ked. ut,
beeve me, t s much better to be honest
now.
Marker s haggard face suddeny t up as f
wth nferna fames.
Honest, he cred, t s not so damned fne
of you feows to be honest. You re a born
wth sver spoons n your mouths, and then you
swagger about wth everastng vrtue because
you haven t got other peope s spoons n your
pockets. ut I was born n a Pmco odgng
house and I had to make my spoon, and there d
be penty to say I ony spoed a horn or an honest
man. And f a struggng man staggers a bt
over the ne n hs youth, n the ower parts of
the aw whch are pretty dngy, anyhow, there s
aways some od vampre to hang on to hm a
hs fe for t.
Guatemaan Gocondas, wasn t t sad
sher, sympathetcay.
Harker suddeny shuddered. Then he sad,
I beeve you must know everythng, ke God
Amghty.
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I know too much, sad Home sher, and
a the wrong thngs.
The other three men were drawng nearer to
them, but before they came too near, Harker
sad, n a voce that had recovered a ts frmness:
Yes, I dd destroy a paper, but I reay dd
fnd a paper, too; and I beeve that t cears us
a.
ery we, sad sher, n a ouder and
more cheerfu tone; et us a have the beneft
of t.
On the very top of Sr Isaac s papers, e -
paned Harker, there was a threatenng etter
from a man named Hugo. It threatens to k
our unfortunate frend very much n the way
that he was actuay ked. It s a wd etter,
fu of taunts; you can see t for yourseves; but
t makes a partcuar pont of poor Hook s habt
of fshng from the sand. Above a, the man
professes to be wrtng from a boat. And, snce
we aone went across to hm, and he smed n
a rather ugy fashon, the crme must have been
commtted by a man passng n a boat.
hy, dear me cred the duke, wth some-
thng amost amountng to anmaton. hy, I
remember the man caed Hugo qute we He
was a sort of body servant and bodyguard of Sr
Isaac. You see, Sr Isaac was n some fear of
assaut. He was he was not very popuar wth
severa peope. Hugo was dscharged after
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some row or other; but I remember hm we.
He was a great bg Hungaran feow wth great
mustaches that stood out on each sde of hs
face.
A door opened n the darkness of Harod
March s memory, or, rather, obvon, and
showed a shnng andscape, ke that of a ost
dream. It was rather a waterscape than a and-
scape, a thng of fooded meadows and ow trees
and the dark archway of a brdge. And for one
nstant he saw agan the man wth mustaches
ke dark horns eap up on to the brdge and
dsappear.
Good heavens he cred. hy, I met the
murderer ths mornng
Home sher and Harod March had ther
day on the rver, after a, for the tte group
broke up when the poce arrved. They de-
cared that the concdence of March s evdence
had ceared the whoe company, and cnched the
case aganst the fyng Hugo. hether that
Hungaran fugtve woud ever be caught ap-
peared to Home sher to be hghy doubtfu;
nor can t be pretended that he dspayed any
very demonac detectve energy n the matter as
he eaned back n the boat cushons, smokng,
and watchng the swayng reeds sde past.
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tte; he hasn t been seen to and on ether bank,
and he s waked off the brdge wthout wakng
on to t, so to speak. He s got twenty-four
hours start; hs mustaches w dsappear, and
then he w dsappear. I thnk there s every
hope of hs escape.
Hope repeated March, and stopped scu-
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Yes, hope, repeated the other. To begn
wth, I m not gong to be e acty consumed wth
Corscan revenge because somebody has ked
Hook. Perhaps you may guess by ths tme what
Hook was. A damned bood-suckng backmaer
was that smpe, strenuous, sef-made captan of
ndustry. He had secrets aganst neary every-
body ; one aganst poor od estmoreand about
an eary marrage n Cyprus that mght have put
the duchess n a queer poston; and one aganst
Harker about some futter wth hs cent s money
when he was a young soctor. That s why they
went to peces when they found hm murdered,
of course. They fet as f they d done t n a
dream. ut I admt I have another reason for
not wantng our Hungaran frend actuay
hanged for the murder.
And what s that asked hs frend.
Ony that he ddn t commt the murder,
answered sher.
Harod March ad down the oars and et the
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Do you know, I was haf e pectng some-
thng ke that, he sad. It was qute rra-
tona, but t was hangng about n the atmos-
phere, ke thunder n the ar.
On the contrary, t s fndng Hugo guty
that s rratona, reped sher. Don t you
see that they re condemnng hm for the very
reason for whch they acqut everybody ese
Harker and estmoreand were sent because
they found hm murdered, and knew there were
papers that made them ook ke the murderers.
e, so dd Hugo fnd hm murdered, and so
dd Hugo know there was a paper that woud
make hm ook ke the murderer. He had
wrtten t hmsef the day before.
ut n that case, sad March, frownng, at
what sort of unearthy hour n the mornng was
the murder reay commtted It was barey
dayght when I met hm at the brdge, and that s
some way above the sand.
The answer s very smpe, reped sher.
The crme was not commtted n the morn-
ng. The crme was not commtted on the
sand.
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repyng, but sher resumed ke one who had
been asked a queston:
very ntegent murder nvoves takng ad-
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of od Hook for beng the frst man up every
mornng, hs f ed routne as an anger, and hs
annoyance at beng dsturbed. The murderer
stranged hm n hs own house after dnner on
the nght before, carred hs corpse, wth a hs
fshng tacke, across the stream n the dead of
nght, ted hm to the tree, and eft hm there
under the stars. It was a dead man who sat
fshng there a day. Then the murderer went
back to the house, or, rather, to the garage, and
went off n hs motor car. The murderer drove
hs own motor car.
sher ganced at hs frend s face and went
on. You ook horrfed, and the thng s hor-
rbe. ut other thngs are horrbe, too. If
some obscure man had been hag-rdden by a
backmaer and had hs famy fe runed, you
woudn t thnk the murder of hs persecutor the
most ne cusabe of murders. Is t any worse
when a whoe great naton s set free as we as
a famy y ths warnng to Sweden we sha
probaby prevent war and not precptate t, and
save many thousand ves rather more vauabe
than the fe of that vper. Oh, I m not takng
sophstry or serousy ustfyng the thng, but
the savery that hed hm and hs country was a
thousand tmes ess ustfabe. If I d reay been
sharp I shoud have guessed t from hs smooth,
deady smng at dnner that nght. Do you
remember that sy tak about how od Isaac
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coud aways pay hs fsh In a pretty hesh
sense he was a fsher of men.
Harod March took the oars and began to
row agan.
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bg fsh mght break the ne and get away.
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I
TH HOL IN TH ALL
men, the one an archtect and the other
an archaeoogst, met on the steps of the
great house at Pror s Park; and ther host, Lord
umer, n hs breezy way, thought t natura to
ntroduce them. It must be confessed that he
was hazy as we as breezy, and had no very
cear connecton n hs mnd, beyond the sense
that an archtect and an archaeoogst begn wth
the same seres of etters. The word must re-
man n a reverent doubt as to whether he woud,
on the same prncpes, have presented a dpo-
matst to a dpsomanac or a ratocnator to a
rat catcher. He was a bg, far, bu-necked
young man, aboundng n outward gestures, un-
conscousy fappng hs goves and fourshng
hs stck.
You two ought to have somethng to tak
about, he sad, cheerfuy. Od budngs and
a that sort of thng; ths s rather an od bud-
ng, by the way, though I say t who shoudn t.
I must ask you to e cuse me a moment; I ve got
to go and see about the cards for ths Chrst-
mas romp my sster s arrangng. e hope to
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see you a there, of course. uet wants
t to be a fancy-dress affar abbots and cru-
saders and a that. My ancestors, I suppose,
after a.
I trust the abbot was not an ancestor, sad
the archaeoogca genteman, wth a sme.
Ony a sort of great-unce, I magne, an-
swered the other, aughng; then hs rather
rambng eye roed round the ordered andscape
n front of the house; an artfca sheet of water
ornamented wth an antquated nymph n the
center and surrounded by a park of ta trees
now gray and back and frosty, for t was n
the depth of a severe wnter.
It s gettng oy cod, hs ordshp con-
tnued. My sster hopes we sha have some
skatng as we as dancng.
If the crusaders come n fu armor, sad
the other, you must be carefu not to drown
your ancestors.
Oh, there s no fear of that, answered u-
mer; ths precous ake of ours s not two feet
deep anywhere. And wth one of hs foursh-
ng gestures he stuck hs stck nto the water to
demonstrate ts shaowness. They coud see the
short end bent n the water, so that he seemed
for a moment to ean hs arge weght on a break-
ng staff.
The worst you can e pect s to see an abbot
st down rather suddeny, he added, turnng
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away. e, au revor; I et you know about
t ater.
The archaeoogst and the archtect were eft
on the great stone steps smng at each other;
but whatever ther common nterests, they pre-
sented a consderabe persona contrast, and the
fancfu mght even have found some contradc-
ton n each consdered ndvduay. The for-
mer, a Mr. ames Haddow, came from a drowsy
den n the Inns of Court, fu of eather and
parchment, for the aw was hs professon and
hstory ony hs hobby; he was ndeed, among
other thngs, the soctor and agent of the
Pror s Park estate. ut he hmsef was far
from drowsy and seemed remarkaby wde
awake, wth shrewd and promnent bue eyes,
and red har brushed as neaty as hs very neat
costume. The atter, whose name was Leonard
Crane, came straght from a crude and amost
cockney offce of buders and house agents n
the neghborng suburb, sunnng tsef at the end
of a new row of erry-but houses wth pans
n very brght coors and notces n very arge
etters. ut a serous observer, at a second
gance, mght have seen n hs eyes somethng of
that shnng seep that s caed vson; and hs
yeow har, whe not affectedy ong, was un-
affectedy untdy. It was a manfest f mean-
choy truth that the archtect was an artst. ut
the artstc temperament was far from e pan-
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ng hm; there was somethng ese about hm
that was not defnabe, but whch some even fet
to be dangerous. Despte hs dreamness, he
woud sometmes surprse hs frends wth arts
and even sports apart from hs ordnary fe,
ke memores of some prevous e stence. On
ths occason, nevertheess, he hastened to ds-
cam any authorty on the other man s hobby.
I mustn t appear on fase pretences, he sad,
wth a sme. I hardy even know what an
archaeoogst s, e cept that a rather rusty rem-
nant of Greek suggests that he s a man who
studes od thngs.
Yes, reped Haddow, grmy. An archs-
oogst s a man who studes od thngs and fnds
they are new.
Crane ooked at hm steady for a moment
and then smed agan.
Dare one suggest, he sad, that some of
the thngs we have been takng about are among
the od thngs that turn out not to be od
Hs companon aso was sent for a moment,
and the sme on hs rugged face was fanter as
he reped, quety:
The wa round the park s reay od. The
one gate n t s Gothc, and I cannot fnd any
trace of destructon or restoraton. ut the
house and the estate generay we the ro-
mantc deas read nto these thngs are often
rather recent romances, thngs amost ke
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fashonabe noves. or nstance, the very name
of ths pace, Pror s Park, makes everybody
thnk of t as a moont medaeva abbey; I dare
say the sprtuasts by ths tme have dscovered
the ghost of a monk there. ut, accordng to
the ony authortatve study of the matter I can
fnd, the pace was smpy caed Pror s as any
rura pace s caed Podger s. It was the house
of a Mr. Pror, a farmhouse, probaby, that
stood here at some tme or other and was a oca
andmark. Oh, there are a great many e -
ampes of the same thng, here and everywhere
ese. Ths suburb of ours used to be a vage,
and because some of the peope surred the name
and pronounced t Howe, many a mnor poet
nduged n fances about a Hoy e, wth
spes and fares and a the rest of t, fng
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ght. hereas anyone acquanted wth the
facts knows that Honwa smpy means the
hoe n the wa, and probaby referred to some
qute trva accdent. That s what I mean when
I say that we don t so much fnd od thngs as
we fnd new ones.
Crane seemed to have grown somewhat nat-
tentve to the tte ecture on antqutes and
novetes, and the cause of hs restessness was
soon apparent, and ndeed approachng. Lord
umer s sster, uet ray, was comng sowy
across the awn, accompaned by one genteman
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and foowed by two others. The young arch-
tect was n the ogca condton of mnd n
whch he preferred three to one.
The man wakng wth the ady was no other
than the emnent Prnce orodno, who was at
east as famous as a dstngushed dpomatst
ought to be, n the nterests of what s caed
secret dpomacy. He had been payng a round
of vsts at varous ngsh country houses, and
e acty what he was dong for dpomacy at
Pror s Park was as much a secret as any dpo-
matst coud desre. The obvous thng to say
of hs appearance was that he woud have been
e tremey handsome f he had not been entrey
bad. ut, ndeed, that woud tsef be a rather
bad way of puttng t. antastc as t sounds,
t woud ft the case better to say that peope
woud have been surprsed to see har growng
on hm; as surprsed as f they had found har
growng on the bust of a Roman emperor. Hs
ta fgure was buttoned up n a tght-wasted
fashon that rather accentuated hs potenta
buk, and he wore a red fower n hs buttonhoe.
Of the two men wakng behnd one was aso
bad, but n a more parta and aso a more pre-
mature fashon, for hs droopng mustache was
st yeow, and f hs eyes were somewhat heavy
t was wth anguor and not wth age. It was
Home sher, and he was takng as easy and
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companon was a more strkng, and even more
snster, fgure, and he had the added mportance
of beng Lord umer s odest and most ntmate
frend. He was generay known wth a severe
smpcty as Mr. ran; but t was understood
that he had been a udge and poce offca n
Inda, and that he had enemes, who had repre-
sented hs measures aganst crme as themseves
amost crmna. He was a brown skeeton of a
man wth dark, deep, sunken eyes and a back
mustache that hd the meanng of hs mouth.
Though he had the ook of one wasted by some
tropca dsease, hs movements were much more
aert than those of hs oungng companon.
It s a setted, announced the ady, wth
great anmaton, when they came wthn hang
dstance. You ve a got to put on masquerade
thngs and very key skates as we, though
the prnce says they don t go wth t; but we
don t care about that. It s freezng aready, and
we don t often get such a chance n ngand.
ven n Inda we don t e acty skate a the
year round, observed Mr. ran.
And even Itay s not prmary assocated
wth ce, sad the Itaan.
Itay s prmary assocated wth ces, re-
marked Mr. Home sher. I mean wth ce
cream men. Most peope n ths country magne
that Itay s entrey popuated wth ce cream
men and organ grnders. There certany are
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a ot of them; perhaps they re an nvadng army
n dsguse.
How do you know they are not the secret
emssares of our dpomacy asked the prnce,
wth a sghty scornfu sme. An army of
organ grnders mght pck up hnts, and ther
monkeys mght pck up a sort of thngs.
The organs are organzed n fact, sad the
fppant Mr. sher. e, I ve known t pretty
cod before now n Itay and even n Inda, up
on the Hmaayan sopes. The ce on our own
tte round pond w be qute cozy by com-
parson.
uet ray was an attractve ady wth dark
har and eyebrows and dancng eyes, and there
was a genaty and even generosty n her rather
mperous ways. In most matters she coud
command her brother, though that nobeman,
ke many other men of vague deas, was not
wthout a touch of the buy when he was at bay.
She coud certany command her guests, even
to the e tent of deckng out the most respectabe
and reuctant of them wth her medaeva mas-
querade. And t reay seemed as f she coud
command the eements aso, ke a wtch. or
the weather steady hardened and sharpened;
that nght the ce of the ake, gmmerng n
the moonght, was ke a marbe foor, and they
had begun to dance and skate on t before t
was dark.
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The Hoe In the a
Pror s Park, or, more propery, the surround-
ng dstrct of Honwa, was a country seat that
had become a suburb; havng once had ony a
dependent vage at ts doors, t now found
outsde a ts doors the sgnas of the e panson
of London. Mr. Haddow, who was engaged n
hstorca researches both n the brary and the
ocaty, coud fnd tte assstance n the atter.
He had aready reazed, from the documents,
that Pror s Park had orgnay been somethng
ke Pror s arm, named after some oca fgure,
but the new soca condtons were a aganst
hs tracng the story by ts tradtons. Had any
of the rea rustcs remaned, he woud probaby
have found some ngerng egend of Mr. Pror,
however remote he mght be. ut the new
nomadc popuaton of cerks and artsans, con-
stanty shftng ther homes from one suburb to
another, or ther chdren from one schoo to
another, coud have no corporate contnuty.
They had a that forgetfuness of hstory that
goes everywhere wth the e tenson of educaton.
Nevertheess, when he came out of the brary
ne t mornng and saw the wntry trees standng
round the frozen pond ke a back forest, he
fet he mght we have been far n the depths
of the country. The od wa runnng round the
park kept that ncosure tsef st entrey rura
and romantc, and one coud easy magne that
the depths of that dark forest faded away n-
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defntey nto dstant vaes and hs. The gray
and back and sver of the wntry wood were
a the more severe or somber as a contrast to
the coored carnva groups that aready stood
on and around the frozen poo. or the house
party had aready fung themseves mpatenty
nto fancy dress, and the awyer, wth hs neat
back sut and red har, was the ony modern
fgure among them.
Aren t you gong to dress up asked uet,
ndgnanty shakng at hm a horned and tower-
ng bue headdress of the fourteenth century
whch framed her face very becomngy, fan-
tastc as t was. verybody here has to be n
the Mdde Ages. ven Mr. ran has put on
a sort of brown dressng gown and says he s a
monk; and Mr. sher got hod of some od
potato sacks n the ktchen and sewed them to-
gether; he s supposed to be a monk, too. As
to the prnce, he s perfecty gorous, n great
crmson robes as a cardna. He ooks as f he
coud poson everybody. You smpy must be
somethng.
I w be somethng ater n the day, he re-
ped. At present I am nothng but an ant-
quary and an attorney. I have to see your
brother presenty, about some ega busness and
aso some oca nvestgatons he asked me to
make. I must ook a tte ke a steward when
I gve an account of my stewardshp.
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Oh, but my brother has dressed up cred
the gr. ery much so. No end, f I may say
so. hy he s bearng down on you now n a
hs gory.
The nobe ord was ndeed marchng toward
them n a magnfcent s teenth-century costume
of purpe and god, wth a god-hted sword
and a pumed cap, and manners to match. In-
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e pansveness of body acton n hs appearance
at that moment. It amost seemed, so to speak,
that the pumes on hs hat had gone to hs head.
He fapped hs great, god-ned coak ke the
wngs of a fary kng n a pantomme; he even
drew hs sword wth a foursh and waved t
about as he dd hs wakng stck. In the ght
of after events there seemed to be somethng
monstrous and omnous about that e uberance,
somethng of the sprt that s caed fey. At
the tme t merey crossed a few peope s mnds
that he mght possby be drunk.
As he strode toward hs sster the frst fgure
he passed was that of Leonard Crane, cad n
Lncon green, wth the horn and badrck and
sword approprate to Robn Hood; for he was
standng nearest to the ady, where, ndeed, he
mght have been found durng a dsproportonate
part of the tme. He had dspayed one of hs
bured taents n the matter of skatng, and now
that the skatng was over seemed dsposed to
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proong the partnershp. The bosterous u-
mer payfuy made a pass at hm wth hs drawn
sword, gong forward wth the unge n the
proper fencng fashon, and makng a somewhat
too famar Shakespearean quotaton about a
rodent and a enetan con.
Probaby n Crane aso there was a subdued
e ctement ust then; anyhow, n one fash he
had drawn hs own sword and parred; and
then suddeny, to the surprse of everyone,
umer s weapon seemed to sprng out of hs
hand nto the ar and roed away on the rng-
ng ce.
e, I never sad the ady, as f wth us-
tfabe ndgnaton. You never tod me you
coud fence, too.
umer put up hs sword wth an ar rather
bewdered than annoyed, whch ncreased the
mpresson of somethng rresponsbe n hs mood
at the moment; then he turned rather abrupty
to hs awyer, sayng:
e can sette up about the estate after
dnner; I ve mssed neary a the skatng as t
s, and I doubt f the ce w hod t to-morrow
nght. I thnk I sha get up eary and have a
spn by mysef.
You won t be dsturbed wth my company,
sad Home sher, n hs weary fashon. If I
have to begn the day wth ce, n the Amercan
fashon, I prefer t n smaer quanttes. ut no
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The Hoe In the a
eary hours for me n December. The eary
brd catches the cod.
Oh, I sha n t de of catchng a cod, an-
swered umer, and aughed.
A consderabe group of the skatng party had
conssted of the guests stayng at the house, and
the rest had taed off n twos and threes some
tme before most of the guests began to retre
for the nght. Neghbors, aways nvted to
Pror s Park on such occasons, went back to
ther own houses n motors or on foot; the ega
and archasoogca genteman had returned to the
Inns of Court by a ate tran, to get a paper caed
for durng hs consutaton wth hs cent; and
most of the other guests were drftng and nger-
ng at varous stages on ther way up to bed.
Home sher, as f to deprve hmsef of any
e cuse for hs refusa of eary rsng, had been
the frst to retre to hs room; but, seepy as he
ooked, he coud not seep. He had pcked up
from a tabe the book of antquaran topography,
n whch Haddow had found hs frst hnts about
the orgn of the oca name, and, beng a man
wth a quet and quant capacty for beng n-
terested n anythng, he began to read t steady,
makng notes now and then of detas on whch
hs prevous readng eft hm wth a certan doubt
about hs present concusons. Hs room was the
one nearest to the ake n the center of the woods,
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and was therefore the quetest, and none of the
ast echoes of the evenng s festvty coud reach
hm He had foowed carefuy the argument
whch estabshed the dervaton from Mr.
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posed of any fashonabe fancy about monks
and magc wes, when he began to be conscous
of a nose audbe n the frozen sence of the
nght. It was not a partcuary oud nose, but
t seemed to consst of a seres of thuds or heavy
bows, such as mght be struck on a wooden door
by a man seekng to enters They were foowed
by somethng ke a fant creak or crack, as f
the obstace had ether been opened or had gven
way. He opened hs own bedroom door and
stened, but as he heard tak and aughter a
over the ower foors, he had no reason to fear
that a summons woud be negected or the house
eft wthout protecton. He went to hs open
wndow, ookng out over the frozen pond and
the moont statue n the mdde of ther crce
of darkng woods, and stened agan. ut s-
ence had returned to that sent pace, and, after
stranng hs ears for a consderabe tme, he
coud hear nothng but the sotary hoot of a
dstant departng tran. Then he remnded hm-
sef how many nameess noses can be heard
by the wakefu durng the most ordnary nght,
and shruggng hs shouders, went weary to
bed.
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He awoke suddeny and sat up n bed wth
hs ears fed, as wth thunder, wth the throb-
bng echoes of a rendng cry. He remaned rgd
for a moment, and then sprang out of bed, throw-
ng on the oose gown of sackng he had worn
a day. He went frst to the wndow, whch
was open, but covered wth a thck curtan, so
that hs room was st competey dark; but when
he tossed the curtan asde and put hs head out,
he saw that a gray and sver daybreak had a-
ready appeared behnd the back woods that sur-
rounded the tte ake, and that was a that he
dd see. Though the sound had certany come
n through the open wndow from ths drecton,
the whoe scene was st and empty under the
mornng ght as under the moonght. Then the
ong, rather ackadasca hand he had ad on a
wndow s grpped t tghter, as f to master a
tremor, and hs peerng bue eyes grew beak
wth fear. It may seem that hs emoton was
e aggerated and needess, consderng the effort
of common sense by whch he had conquered hs
nervousness about the nose on the prevous nght.
ut that had been a very dfferent sort of nose.
It mght have been made by haf a hundred
thngs, from the choppng of wood to the
breakng of bottes. There was ony one
thng n nature from whch coud come the
sound that echoed through the dark house
at daybreak. It was the awfu artcuate voce
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of man; and t was somethng worse, for he
knew what man.
He knew aso that t had been a shout for
hep. It seemed to hm that he had heard the
very word; but the word, short as t was, had
been swaowed up, as f the man had been stfed
or snatched away even as he spoke. Ony the
mockng reverberatons of t remaned even n
hs memory, but he had no doubt of the orgna
voce. He had no doubt that the great bu s
voce of rancs ray, aron umer, had been
heard for the ast tme between the darkness
and the ftng dawn.
How ong he stood there he never knew, but
he was started nto fe by the frst vng thng
that he saw strrng n that haf-frozen and-
scape. Aong the path besde the ake, and mme-
datey under hs wndow, a fgure was wakng
sowy and softy, but wth great composure a
statey fgure n robes of a spendd scaret; t was
the Itaan prnce, st n hs cardna s costume.
Most of the company had ndeed ved n ther
costumes for the ast day or two, and sher hm-
sef had assumed hs frock of sackng as a con-
venent dressng gown; but there seemed, never-
theess, somethng unusuay fnshed and forma,
n the way of an eary brd, about ths magnfcent
red cockatoo. It was as f the eary brd had
been up a nght.
hat s the matter he caed, sharpy, ean-
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ng out of the wndow, and the Itaan turned up
hs great yeow face ke a mask of brass.
e had better dscuss t downstars, sad
Prnce orodno.
sher ran downstars, and encountered the
great, red-robed fgure enterng the doorway and
bockng the entrance wth hs buk.
Dd you hear that cry demanded sher.
I heard a nose and I came out, answered
the dpomatst, and hs face was too dark n
the shadow for ts e presson to be read.
It was umer s voce, nssted sher. I
swear t was umer s voce.
Dd you know hm we asked the other.
The queston seemed rreevant, though t was
not ogca, and sher coud ony answer n a
random fashon that he knew Lord uhner ony
sghty.
Nobody seems to have known hm we,
contnued the Itaan, n eve tones. Nobody
e cept that man ran. ran s rather oder
than umer, but I fancy they shared a good
many secrets.
sher moved abrupty, as f wakng from a
momentary trance, and sad, n a new and more
vgorous voce, ut ook here, hadn t we better
get outsde and see f anythng has happened.
The ce seems to be thawng, sad the other,
amost wth ndfference.
hen they emerged from the house, dark
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stans and stars n the gray fed of ce dd ndeed
ndcate that the frost was breakng up, as ther
host had prophesed the day before, and the very
memory of yesterday brought back the mystery
of to-day.
He knew there woud be a thaw, observed
the prnce. He went out skatng qute eary on
purpose. Dd he ca out because he anded n
the water, do you thnk
sher ooked puzzed. umer was the ast
man to beow ke that because he got hs boots
wet. And that s a he coud do here; the water
woud hardy come up to the caf of a man of
hs sze. You can see the fat weeds on the foor
of the ake, as f t were through a thn pane of
gass. No, f umer had ony broken the ce he
woudn t have sad much at the moment, though
possby a good dea afterward. e shoud have
found hm stampng and damnng up and down
ths path, and cang for cean boots.
Let us hope we sha fnd hm as happy em-
poyed, remarked the dpomatst. In that
case the voce must have come out of the
wood.
I swear t ddn t come out of the house,
sad sher; and the two dsappeared together
nto the twght of wntry trees.
The pantaton stood dark aganst the fery
coors of sunrse, a back frnge havng that
feathery appearance whch makes trees when
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they are bare the very reverse of rugged. Hours
and hours afterward, when the same dense, but
decate, margn was dark aganst the greensh
coors opposte the sunset, the search thus be-
gun at sunrse had not come to an end. y suc-
cessve stages, and to sowy gatherng groups
of the company, t became apparent that the most
e traordnary of a gaps had appeared n the
party; the guests coud fnd no trace of ther
host anywhere. The servants reported that hs
bed had been sept n and hs skates and hs fancy
costume were gone, as f he had rsen eary for
the purpose he had hmsef avowed. ut from
the top of the house to the bottom, from the
was round the park to the pond n the center,
there was no trace of Lord umer, dead or ave.
Home sher reazed that a chng premo-
nton had aready prevented hm from e pectng
to fnd the man ave. ut hs bad brow was
wrnked over an entrey new and unnatura
probem, n not fndng the.man at a.
He consdered the possbty of umer hav-
ng gone off of hs own accord, for some reason;
but after fuy weghng t he fnay dsmssed t.
It was nconsstent wth the unmstakabe voce
heard at daybreak, and wth many other prac-
tca obstaces. There was ony one gateway n
the ancent and ofty wa round the sma park;
the odge keeper kept t ocked t ate n the
mornng, and the odge keeper had seen no one
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pass. sher was fary sure that he had before
hm a mathematca probem n an ncosed space.
Hs nstnct had been from the frst so attuned to
the tragedy that t woud have been amost a
reef to hm to fnd the corpse. He woud have
been greved, but not horrfed, to come on the
nobeman s body dangng from one of hs own
trees as from a gbbet, or foatng n hs own poo
ke a pad weed. hat horrfed hm was to
fnd nothng.
He soon become conscous that he was not
aone even n hs most ndvdua and soated
e perments. He often found a fgure foowng
hm ke hs shadow, n sent and amost secret
cearngs n the pantaton or outyng nooks and
corners of the od wa. The dark-mustached
mouth was as mute as the deep eyes were mobe,
dartng ncessanty hther and thther, but t was
cear that ran of the Indan poce had taken
up the tra ke an od hunter after a tger. See-
ng that he was the ony persona frend of the
vanshed man, ths seemed natura enough, and
sher resoved to dea franky wth hm.
Ths sence s rather a soca stran, he
sad. May I break the ce by takng about the
weather whch, by the way, has aready
broken the ce. I know that breakng the ce
mght be a rather meanchoy metaphor n ths
case.
I don t thnk so, reped ran, shorty. I
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don t fancy the ce had much to do wth t. I
don t see how t coud.
hat woud you propose dong asked
sher.
e, we ve sent for the authortes, of
course, but I hope to fnd somethng out before
they come, reped the Ango-Indan. I can t
say I have much hope from poce methods n ths
country. Too much red tape, habeas corpus and
that sort of thng. hat we want s to see that
nobody bots; the nearest we coud get to t
woud be to coect the company and count them,
so to speak. Nobody s eft atey, e cept that
awyer who was pokng about for antqutes.
Oh, he s out of t; he eft ast nght, an-
swered the other. ght hours after umer s
chauffeur saw hs awyer off by the tran I heard
umer s own voce as pan as I hear yours now.
I suppose you don t beeve n sprts sad
the man from Inda. After a pause he added:
There s somebody ese I shoud ke to fnd,
before we go after a feow wth an ab n the
Inner Tempe. hat s become of that feow
n green the archtect dressed up as a forester
I haven t seem hm about.
Mr. ran managed to secure hs assemby
of a the dstracted company before the arrva
of the poce. ut when he frst began to com-
ment once more on the young archtect s deay
n puttng n an appearance, he found hmsef n
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the presence of a mnor mystery, and a psycho-
ogca deveopment of an entrey une pected
knd.
uet ray had confronted the catastrophe of
her brother s dsappearance wth a somber
stocsm n whch there was, perhaps, more
parayss than pan; but when the other queston
came to the surface she was both agtated and
angry.
e don t want to ump to any concusons
about anybody, ran was sayng n hs staccato
stye. ut we shoud ke to know a tte more
about Mr. Crane. Nobody seems to know much
about hm, or where he comes from. And t
seems a sort of concdence that yesterday he
actuay crossed swords wth poor umer, and
coud have stuck hm, too, snce he showed hm-
sef the better swordsman. Of course, that may
be an accdent and coudn t possby be caed a
case aganst anybody; but then we haven t the
means to make a rea case aganst anybody. T
the poce come we are ony a pack of very
amateur seuthhounds.
And I thnk you re a pack of snobs, sad
uet. ecause Mr. Crane s a genus who s
made hs own way, you try to suggest he s a
murderer wthout darng to say so. ecause he
wore a toy sword and happened to know how
to use t, you want us to beeve he used t ke
a boodthrsty manac for no reason n the word.
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And because he coud have ht my brother and
ddn t, you deduce that he dd. That s the sort
of way you argue. And as for hs havng ds-
appeared, you re wrong n that as you are n
everythng ese, for here he comes.
And, ndeed, the green fgure of the fcttous
Robn Hood sowy detached tsef from the gray
background of the trees, and came toward them
as she spoke.
He approached the group sowy, but wth
composure; but he was decdedy pae, and the
eyes of ran and sher had aready taken n
one deta of the green-cad fgure more ceary
than a the rest. The horn st swung from
hs badrck, but the sword was gone.
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dd not foow up the queston thus suggested;
but, whe retanng an ar of eadng the
nqury, had aso an appearance of changng the
sub ect.
Now we re a assembed, he observed,
quety, there s a queston I want to ask to
begn wth. Dd anybody here actuay see Lord
umer ths mornng
Leonard Crane turned hs pae face round the
crce of faces t he came to uet s; then he
compressed hs ps a tte and sad:
Yes, I saw hm.
as he ave and we asked ran, qucky.
How was he dressed
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He appeared e ceedngy we, reped
Crane, wth a curous ntonaton. He was
dressed as he was yesterday, n that purpe cos-
tume coped from the portrat of hs ancestor n
the s teenth century. He had hs skates n hs
hand.
And hs sword at hs sde, I suppose, added
the questoner. here s your own sword, Mr.
Crane
I threw t away.
In the snguar sence that ensued, the tran
of thought n many mnds became nvountary
a seres of coored pctures.
They had grown used to ther fancfu gar-
ments ookng more gay and gorgeous aganst the
dark gray and streaky sver of the forest, so
that the movng fgures gowed ke staned-gass
sants wakng. The effect had been more fttng
because so many of them had dy paroded
pontfca or monastc dress. ut the most ar-
restng atttude that remaned n ther memores
had been anythng but merey monastc; that of
the moment when the fgure n brght green and
the other n vvd voet had for a moment made
a sver cross of ther crossng swords. ven
when t was a est t had been somethng of a
drama; and t was a strange and snster thought
that n the gray daybreak the same fgures n the
same posture mght have been repeated as a
tragedy.
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The Hoe In the a
Dd you quarre wth hm asked ran,
suddeny.
Yes, reped the mmovabe man n green.
Or he quarreed wth me.
hy dd he quarre wth you asked the
nvestgator; and Leonard Crane made no repy.
Home sher, curousy enough, had ony
gven haf hs attenton to ths cruca cross-e -
amnaton. Hs heavy-dded eyes had angudy
foowed the fgure of Prnce orodno, who at
ths stage had stroed away toward the frnge
of the wood; and, after a pause, as of med-
taton, had dsappeared nto the darkness of the
trees.
He was recaed from hs rreevance by the
voce of uet ray, whch rang out wth an
atogether new note of decson:
If that s the dffcuty, t had best be ceared
up. I am engaged to Mr. Crane, and when we
tod my brother he dd not approve of t; that
s a.
Nether ran nor sher e hbted any sur-
prse, but the former added, quety:
cept, I suppose, that he and your brother
went off nto the wood to dscuss t, where Mr.
Crane msad hs sword, not to menton hs com-
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And may I ask, nqured Crane, wth a cer-
tan fcker of mockery passng over hs pad
features, what I am supposed to have done wth
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ether of them Let us adopt the cheerfu thess
that I am a murderer; t has yet to be shown
that I am a magcan. If I ran your unfortunate
frend through the body, what dd I do wth the
body Dd I have t carred away by seven fy-
ng dragons, or was t merey a trfng matter
of turnng t nto a mk-whte hnd
It s no occason for sneerng, sad the
Ango-Indan udge, wth abrupt authorty. It
doesn t make t ook better for you that you can
oke about the oss.
sher s dreamy, and even dreary, eye was
st on the edge of the wood behnd, and he be-
came conscous of masses of dark red, ke a
stormy sunset coud, gowng through the gray
network of the thn trees, and the prnce n hs
cardna s robes re-emerged on to the pathway.
ran had had haf a noton that the prnce mght
have gone to ook for the ost raper. ut when
he reappeared he was carryng n hs hand, not
a sword, but an a .
The ncongruty between the masquerade and
the mystery had created a curous psychoogca
atmosphere. At frst they had a fet horrby
ashamed at beng caught n the foosh dsguses
of a festva, by an event that had ony too much
the character of a funera. Many of them woud
have aready gone back and dressed n cothes
that were more funerea or at east more forma.
ut somehow at the moment ths seemed ke a
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second masquerade, more artfca and frvoous
than the frst. And as they reconced themseves
to ther rdcuous trappngs, a curous sensaton
had come over some of them, notaby over the
more senstve, ke Crane and sher and uet,
but n some degree over everybody e cept the
practca Mr. ran. It was amost as f they
were the ghosts of ther own ancestors hauntng
that dark wood and dsma ake, and payng
some od part that they ony haf remembered.
The movements of those coored fgures seemed
to mean somethng that had been setted ong
before, ke a sent heradry. Acts, atttudes, e -
terna ob ects, were accepted as an aegory even
wthout the key; and they knew when a crss
had come, when they dd not know what t was.
And somehow they knew subconscousy that the
whoe tae had taken a new and terrbe turn,
when they saw the prnce stand n the gap of the
gaunt trees, n hs robes of angry crmson and
wth hs owerng face of bronze, bearng n hs
hand a new shape of death. They coud not have
named a reason, but the two swords seemed n-
deed to have become toy swords and the whoe
tae of them broken and tossed away ke a
toy. orodno ooked ke the Od ord heads-
man, cad n terrbe red, and carryng the a
for the e ecuton of the crmna. And the
crmna was not Crane.
Mr. ran of the Indan poce was garng
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at the new ob ect, and t was a moment or two
before he spoke, harshy and amost hoarsey.
hat are you dong wth that he asked.
Seems to be a woodman s chopper.
A natura assocaton of deas, observed
Home sher. If you meet a cat n a wood you
thnk t s a wdcat, though ft may have ust
stroed from the drawng-room sofa. As a mat-
ter of fact, I happen to know that s not the
woodman s chopper. It s the ktchen chopper,
or meat a , or somethng ke that, that some-
body has thrown away n the wood. I saw t n
the ktchen mysef when I was gettng the potato
sacks wth whch I reconstructed a medaeva
hermt.
A the same, t s not wthout nterest, re-
marked the prnce, hodng out the nstrument
to sher, who took t and e amned t carefuy.
A butcher s ceaver that has done butcher s
work.
It was certany the nstrument of the crme,
assented sher, n a ow voce.
ran was starng at the du bue geam of
the a head wth ferce and fascnated eyes. I
don t understand you, he sad. There s no
there are no marks on t.
It has shed no bood, answered sher, but
for a that t has commtted a crme. Ths s
as near as the crmna came to the crme when
he commtted t.
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The Hoe In the a
hat do you mean
He was not there when he dd t, e paned
sher. It s a poor sort of murderer who can t
murder peope when he sn t there.
You seem to be takng merey for the sake
of mystfcaton, sad ran. If you have any
practca advce to gve you mght as we make
t ntegbe.
The ony practca advce I can suggest, sad
sher, thoughtfuy, s a tte research nto
oca topography and nomencature. They say
there used to be a Mr. Pror, who had a farm
n ths neghborhood. I thnk some detas about
the domestc fe of the ate Mr. Pror woud
throw a ght on ths terrbe busness.
And you have nothng more mmedate than
your topography to offer, sad ran, wth a
sneer, to hep me avenge my frend
e, sad sher, I shoud fnd out the
truth about the Hoe n the a.
That nght, at the cose of a stormy twght
and under a strong west wnd that foowed the
breakng of the frost, Leonard Crane was wend-
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round the hgh, contnuous wa that ncosed
the tte wood. He was drven by a desperate
dea of sovng for hmsef the rdde that had
couded hs reputaton and aready even threat-
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charge of the nqury, had not arrested hm, but
he knew we enough that f he tred to move far
afed he woud be nstanty arrested. Home
sher s fragmentary hnts, though he had re-
fused to e pand them as yet, had strred the
artstc temperament of the archtect to a sort of
wd anayss, and he was resoved to read the
herogyph upsde down and every way unt t
made sense. If t was somethng connected wth
a hoe n the wa he woud fnd the hoe n the
wa; but, as a matter of fact, he was unabe to
fnd the fantest crack n the wa. Hs profes-
sona knowedge tod hm that the masonry was
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ght on the mystery, he found nothng suggest-
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akng a narrow path between the wndng
wa and the wd eastward bend and sweep of
the gray and feathery trees, seeng shftng
geams of a ost sunset wnkng amost ke
ghtnng as the couds of tempest scudded
across the sky and mngng wth the frst fant
bue ght from a sowy strengthened moon be-
hnd hm, he began to fee hs head gong round
as hs hees were gong round and round the
bnd recurrent barrer. He had thoughts on the
border of thought; fances about a fourth d-
menson whch was tsef a hoe to hde anythng,
of seeng everythng from a new ange out of a
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The Hoe In the a
new wndow n the senses; or of some mystca
ght and transparency, ke the new rays of
chemstry, n whch he coud see umer s body,
horrbe and garng, foatng n a urd hao over
the woods and the wa. He was haunted aso
wth the hnt, whch somehow seemed to be
equay horrfyng, that t a had somethng to
do wth Mr. Pror. There seemed even to be
somethng creepy n the fact that he was aways
respectfuy referred to as Mr. Pror, and that
t was n the domestc fe of the dead farmer
that he had been bdden to seek the seed of these
dreadfu thngs. As a matter of fact, he had
found that no oca nqures had reveaed any-
thng at a about the Pror famy.
The moonght had broadened and brghtened,
the wnd had drven off the couds and tsef ded
ftfuy away, when he came round agan to the
artfca ake n front of the house. or some
reason t ooked a very artfca ake; ndeed,
the whoe scene was ke a cassca andscape
wth a touch of atteau; the Paadan facade of
the house pae n the moon, and the same sver
touchng the very pagan and naked marbe nymph
n the mdde of the pond. Rather to hs sur-
prse, he found another fgure there besde the
statue, sttng amost equay motoness; and the
same sver penc traced the wrnked brow and
patent face of Home sher, st dressed as a
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the sotude of a hermt. Nevertheess, he
ooked up at Leonard Crane and smed, amost
as f he had e pected hm.
Look here, sad Crane, pantng hmsef n
front of hm, can you te me anythng about
ths busness
I sha soon have to te everybody everythng
about t, reped sher, but I ve no ob ecton
to teng you somethng frst. ut, to begn
wth, w you te me somethng hat reay
happened when you met umer ths mornng
You dd throw away your sword, but you ddn t
k hm.
I ddn t k hm because I threw away
my sword, sad the other. I dd t on
purpose or I m not sure what mght have
happened.
After a pause he went on, quety: The ate
Lord umer was a very breezy genteman, e -
tremey breezy. He was very gena wth hs
nferors, and woud have hs awyer and hs
archtect stayng n hs house for a sorts of
hodays and amusements. ut there was an-
other sde to hm, whch they found out when
they tred to be hs equas. hen I tod hm
that hs sster and I were engaged, somethng
happened whch I smpy can t and won t de-
scrbe. It seemed to me ke some monstrous
upheava of madness. ut I suppose the truth
s panfuy smpe. There s such a thng as the
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The Hoe In the a
coarseness of a genteman. And t s the most
horrbe thng n humanty.
I know, sad sher. The Renassance
nobes of the Tudor tme were ke that.
It s odd that you shoud say that, Crane
went on. or whe we were takng there
came on me a curous feeng that we were re-
peatng some scene of the past, and that I was
reay some outaw, found n the woods ke Robn
Hood, and that he had reay stepped n a hs
pumes and purpe out of the pcture frame of
the ancestra portrat. Anyhow, he was the man
n possesson, and he nether feared God nor
regarded man. I defed hm, of course, and
waked away. I mght reay have ked hm f
I had not waked away.
Yes, sad sher, noddng, hs ancestor
was n possesson and he was n possesson, and
ths s the end of the story. It a fts n.
ts n wth what cred hs companon, wth
sudden mpatence. I can t make head or ta
of t. You te me to ook for the secret n the
hoe n the wa, but I can t fnd any hoe n the
wa.
There sn t any, sad sher. That s the
secret. After refectng a moment, he added:
Uness you ca t a hoe n the wa of the word.
Look here; I te you f you ke, but I m afrad
t nvoves an ntroducton. You ve got to under-
stand one of the trcks of the modern mnd, a
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tendency that most peope obey wthout notcng
t. In the vage or suburb outsde there s an nn
wth the sgn of St. George and the Dragon.
Now suppose I went about teng everybody
that ths was ony a corrupton of Kng George
and the Dragoon. Scores of peope woud be-
eve t, wthout any nqury, from a vague fee-
ng that t s probabe because t s prosac. It
turns somethng romantc and egendary nto
somethng recent and ordnary. And that some-
how makes t sound ratona, though t s unsup-
ported by reason. Of course some peope woud
have the sense to remember havng seen St.
George n od Itaan pctures and rench ro-
mances, but a good many woudn t thnk about
t at a. They woud ust swaow the skeptcsm
because t was skeptcsm. Modern ntegence
won t accept anythng on authorty. ut t w
accept anythng wthout authorty. That s e -
acty what has happened here.
hen some crtc or other chose to say that
Pror s Park was not a prory, but was named
after some qute modern man named Pror, no-
body reay tested the theory at a. It never
occurred to anybody repeatng the story to ask
f there was any Mr. Pror, f anybody had ever
seen hm or heard of hm. As a matter of fact,
t was a prory, and shared the fate of most
prores that s, the Tudor genteman wth the
pumes smpy stoe t by brute force and turned
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t nto hs own prvate house; he dd worse thngs,
as you sha hear. ut the pont here s that
ths s how the trck works, and the trck works
n the same way n the other part of the tae.
The name of ths dstrct s prnted Honwa
n a the best maps produced by the schoars;
and they aude ghty, not wthout a sme, to
the fact that t was pronounced Howe by the
most gnorant and od-fashoned of the poor.
ut t s speed wrong and pronounced rght.
Do you mean to say, asked Crane, qucky,
that there reay was a we
There s a we, sad sher, and the truth
es at the bottom of t.
As he spoke he stretched out hs hand and
ponted toward the sheet of water n front of
hm.
The we s under that water somewhere,
he sad, and ths s not the frst tragedy con-
nected wth t. The founder of ths house dd
somethng whch hs feow ruffans very sedom
dd; somethng that had to be hushed up even
n the anarchy of the page of the monasteres.
The we was connected wth the mraces of
some sant, and the ast pror that guarded t
was somethng ke a sant hmsef; certany he
as somethng very ke a martyr. He defed
the new owner and dared hm to poute the pace,
t the nobe, n a fury, stabbed hm and fung
hs body nto the we, whther, after four hun-
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dred years, t has been foowed by an her of the
usurper, cad n the same purpe and wakng the
word wth the same prde.
ut how dd t happen, demanded Crane,
that for the frst tme urner fe n at that
partcuar spot
ecause the ce was ony oosened at that
partcuar spot, by the ony man who knew t,
answered Home sher. It was cracked de-
beratey, wth the ktchen chopper, at that
speca pace; and I mysef heard the hammerng
and dd not understand t. The pace had been
covered wth an artfca ake, f ony because
the whoe truth had to be covered wth an art-
fca egend. ut don t you see that t s e -
acty what those pagan nobes woud have done,
to desecrate t wth a sort of heathen goddess,
as the Roman mperor but a tempe to enus
on the Hoy Sepuchre. ut the truth coud st
be traced out, by any schoary man determned
to trace t. And ths man was determned to
trace t.
hat man asked the other, wth a shadow
of the answer n hs mnd.
The ony man who has an ab, reped
sher. ames Haddow, the antquaran aw-
yer, eft the nght before the fataty, but he
eft that back star of death on the ce. He eft
abrupty, havng prevousy proposed to stay;
probaby, I thnk, after an ugy scene wth u-
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The Hoe In the a
mer, at ther ega ntervew. As you know your-
sef, umer coud make a man fee pretty mur-
derous, and I rather fancy the awyer had hm-
sef rreguartes to confess, and was n danger
of e posure by hs cent. ut t s my readng
of human nature that a man w cheat n hs
trade, but not n hs hobby. Haddow may have
been a dshonest awyer, but he coudn t hep be-
ng an honest antquary. hen he got on the
track of the truth about the Hoy e he had
to foow t up; he was not to be bamboozed
wth newspaper anecdotes about Mr. Pror and
a hoe n the wa; he found out everythng, even
to the e act ocaton of the we, and he was re-
warded, f beng a successfu assassn can be re-
garded as a reward.
And how dd you get on the track of a ths
hdden hstory asked the young archtect.
A coud came across the brow of Home
sher. I knew ony too much about t a-
ready, he sad, and, after a, t s shamefu
for me to be speakng ghty of poor uhner,
who has pad hs penaty; but the rest of us
haven t. I dare say every cgar I smoke and every
queur I drnk comes drecty or ndrecty from
the harryng of the hoy paces and the persecu-
ton of the poor. After a, t needs very tte
pokng about n the past to fnd that hoe n the
wa, that great breach n the defenses of ng-
sh hstory. It es ust under the surface of a
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thn sheet of sham nformaton and nstructon,
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under that foor of shaow water and fat weeds.
Oh, the ce s thn, but t bears; t s strong
enough to support us when we dress up as monks
and dance on t, n mockery of the dear, quant
od Mdde Ages. They tod me I must put on
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not entrey ost the feengs of one.
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Sackcoth, he sad; rand I woud wear the
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TH T MPL O SIL NC
TTAROLD MARCH and the few who cut-
vated the frendshp of Home sher, espe-
cay f they saw somethng of hm n hs own
soca settng, were conscous of a certan sotude
n hs very socabty. They seemed to be a-
ways meetng hs reatons and never meetng hs
famy. Perhaps t woud be truer to say that
they saw much of hs famy and nothng of hs
home. Hs cousns and connectons ramfed ke
a abyrnth a over the governng cass of Great
rtan, and he seemed to be on good, or at east
on good-humored, terms wth most of them.
or Home sher was remarkabe for a curous
mpersona nformaton and nterest touchng a
sorts of topcs, so that one coud sometmes fancy
that hs cuture, ke hs cooress, far mustache
and pae, droopng features, had the neutra
nature of a chameeon. Anyhow, he coud a-
ways get on wth vceroys and Cabnet Mnsters
and a the great men responsbe for great de-
partments, and tak to each of them on hs own
sub ect, on the branch of study wth whch he was
most serousy concerned. Thus he coud con-
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verse wth the Mnster for ar about sk-
worms, wth the Mnster of ducaton about
detectve stores, wth the Mnster of Labor
about Lmoges ename, and wth the Mnster of
Mssons and Mora Progress (f that be hs
correct tte) about the pantomme boys of the
ast four decades. And as the frst was hs frst
cousn, the second hs second cousn, the thrd
hs brother-n-aw, and the fourth hs unce by
marrage, ths conversatona versatty certany
served n one sense to create a happy famy. ut
March never seemed to get a gmpse of that
domestc nteror to whch men of the mdde
casses are accustomed n ther frendshps, and
whch s ndeed the foundaton of frendshp and
ove and everythng ese n any sane and stabe
socety. He wondered whether Home sher
was both an orphan and an ony chd.
It was, therefore, wth somethng ke a start
that he found that sher had a brother, much
more prosperous and powerfu than hmsef,
though hardy, March thought, so entertanng.
Sr Henry Harand sher, wth haf the apha-
bet after hs name, was somethng at the oregn
Offce far more tremendous than the oregn Sec-
retary. Apparenty, t ran n the famy, after
a; for t seemed there was another brother,
Ashton sher, n Inda, rather more tremendous
than the ceroy. Sr Henry sher was a
heaver, but handsomer edton of hs brother,
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The Tempe of Sence
wth a brow equay bad, but much more smooth.
He was very courteous, but a shade patronzng,
not ony to March, but even, as March fanced,
to Home sher as we. The atter genteman,
who had many ntutons about the haf-formed
thoughts of others, ganced at the topc hmsef
as they came away from the great house n
erkeey Square.
hy, don t you know, he observed quety,
that I am the foo of the famy
It must be a cever famy, sad Harod
March, wth a sme.
ery gracefuy e pressed, reped sher;
that s the best of havng a terary tranng.
e, perhaps t s an e aggeraton to say I am
the foo of the famy. It s enough to say I am
the faure of the famy.
It seems queer to me that you shoud fa
especay, remarked the ournast. As they
say n the e amnatons, what dd you fa n
Potcs, reped hs frend. I stood for
Parament when I was qute a young man and
got n by an enormous ma orty, wth oud cheers
and charng round the town. Snce then, of
course, I ve been rather under a coud.
I m afrad I don t qute understand the of
course, answered March, aughng.
That part of t sn t worth understandng,
sad sher. ut as a matter of fact, od chap,
the other part of t was rather odd and nterest-
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ng. ute a detectve story n ts way, as we
as the frst esson I had n what modern potcs
are made of. If you ke, I te you a about
t. And the foowng, recast n a ess ausve
and conversatona manner, s the story that he
tod.
Nobody prveged of ate years to meet Sr
Henry Harand sher woud beeve that he had
ever been caed Harry. ut, ndeed, he had
been boysh enough when a boy, and that serenty
whch shone on hm through fe, and whch now
took the form of gravty, had once taken the
form of gayety. Hs frends woud have sad
that he was a the more rpe n hs maturty for
havng been young n hs youth. Hs enemes
woud have sad that he was st ght mnded,
but no onger ght hearted. ut n any case,
the whoe of the story Home sher had to te
arose out of fe accdent whch had made young
Harry sher prvate secretary to Lord Satoun.
Hence hs ater connecton wth the oregn
Offce, whch had, ndeed, come to hm as a sort
of egacy from hs ordshp when that great
man was the power behnd the throne. Ths s
not the pace to say much about Satoun, tte
as was known of hm and much as there was
worth knowng. ngand has had at east three
or four such secret statesmen. An arstocratc
poty produces every now and then an arstocrat
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who s aso an accdent, a man of nteectua n-
dependence and nsght, a Napoeon born n the
purpe. Hs vast work was mosty nvsbe,
and very tte coud be got out of hm n
prvate fe e cept a crusty and rather cynca
sense of humor. ut t was certany the accdent
of hs presence at a famy dnner of the shers,
and the une pected opnon he e pressed, whch
turned what mght have been a dnner-tabe oke
nto a sort of sma sensatona nove.
Save for Lord Satoun, t was a famy party
of shers, for the ony other dstngushed
stranger had ust departed after dnner, eav-
ng the rest to ther coffee and cgars. Ths Lad
been a fgure of some nterest a young Cam-
brdge man named rc Hughes who was the
rsng hope of the party of Reform., to whch the
sher famy, aong wth ther frend Satoun,
had ong been at east formay attached. The
personaty of Hughes was substantay summed
up n the fact that he taked eoquenty and ear-
nesty through the whoe dnner, but eft mme-
datey after to be n tme for an appontment.
A hs actons had somethng at once ambtous
and conscentous; he drank no wne, but was
sghty nto cated wth words. And hs face and
phrases were on the front page of a the news-
papers ust then, because he was contestng the
safe seat of Sr rancs erner n the great by-
eecton n the west. verybody was takng
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about the powerfu speech aganst squrarchy
whch he had ust devered; even n the sher
crce everybody taked about t e cept Home
sher hmsef who sat n a corner, owerng
over the fre.
e oy we have to thank hm for puttng
some new fe nto the od party, Ashton sher
was sayng. Ths campagn aganst the od
squres ust hts the degree of democracy there
s n ths county. Ths act for e tendng county
counc contro s practcay hs b; so you may
say he s n the government even before he s n
the House.
One s easer than the other, sad Harry,
careessy. I bet the squre s a bgger pot than
the county counc n that county. erner s
pretty we rooted; a these rura paces are
what you ca reactonary. Damnng arstocrats
won t ater t.
He damns them rather we, observed Ash-
ton. e never had a better meetng than the
one n arkngton, whch generay goes Con-
sttutona. And when he sad, Sr rancs may
boast of bue bood; et us show we have red
bood, and went on to tak about manhood and
berty, the room smpy rose at hm.
Speaks very we, sad Lord Satoun, gruffy,
makng hs ony contrbuton to the conversaton
so far.
Then the amost equay sent Home sher
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suddeny spoke, wthout takng hs broodng eyes
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hat I can t understand, he sad, s why
nobody s ever sanged for the rea reason.
Huo remarked Harry, humorousy, you
begnnng to take notce
e, take erner, contnued Home sher.
If we want to attack erner, why not attack
hm hy compment hm on beng a romantc
reactonary arstocrat ho s erner here
does he come from Hs name sounds od, but
I never heard of t before, as the man sad of
the Crucf on. hy tak about hs bue bood
Hs bood may be gamboge yeow wth green
spots, for a anybody knows. A we know s
that the od squre, Hawker, somehow ran
through hs money (and hs second wfe s, I
suppose, for she was rch enough), and sod the
estate to a man named erner. hat dd he
make hs money n O Army contracts
I don t know, sad Satoun, ookng at hm
thoughtfuy.
rst thng I ever knew you ddn t know,
cred the e uberant Harry.
And there s more, besdes, went on Home
sher, who seemed to have suddeny found hs
tongue. If we want country peope to vote for
us, why don t we get somebody wth some noton
about the country e don t tak to peope n
Threadneede Street about nothng but turnps
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and pgstes. hy do we tak to peope n
Somerset about nothng but sums and socasm
hy don t we gve the squre s and to the
squre s tenants, nstead of draggng n the
county counc
Three acres and a cow, cred Harry, emt-
tng what the Paramentary reports ca an ron-
ca cheer.
Yes, reped hs brother, stubborny. Don t
you thnk agrcutura aborers woud rather have
three acres and a cow than three acres of prnted
forms and a commttee hy doesn t somebody
start a yeoman party n potcs, appeang to the
od tradtons of the sma andowner And
why don t they attack men ke erner for what
they are, whch s somethng about as od and
tradtona as an Amercan o trust
You d better ead the yeoman party your-
sef, aughed Harry. Don t you thnk t
woud be a oke, Lord Satoun, to see my
brother and hs merry men, wth ther bows and
bs, marchng down to Somerset a n Lncon
green nstead of Lncon and ennet hats
No, answered Od Satoun, I don t thnk
t woud be a oke. I thnk t woud be an e ceed-
ngy serous and sensbe dea.
e, I m ggered cred Harry sher,
starng at hm. I sad ust now t was the frst
fact you ddn t know, and I shoud say ths s
the frst oke you ddn t see.
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The Tempe of Sence
I ve seen a good many thngs n my tme,
sad the od man, n hs rather sour fashon.
I ve tod a good many es n my tme, too, and
perhaps I ve got rather sck of them. ut there
are es and es, for a that. Gentemen used
to e ust as schooboys e, because they hung
together and party to hep one another out.
ut I m damned f I can see why we shoud e
for these cosmopotan cads who ony hep them-
seves. They re not backng us up any more;
they re smpy crowdng us out. If a man ke
your brother kes to go nto Parament as a
yeoman or a genteman or a acobte or an
Ancent rton, I shoud say t woud be a oy
good thng.
In the rather started sence that foowed
Home sher sprang to hs feet and a hs
dreary manner dropped off hm.
I m ready to do t to-morrow, he cred. I
suppose none of you feows woud back me up.
Then Harry sher showed the fner sde of
hs mpetuosty. He made a sudden movement
as f to shake hands.
You re a sport, he sad, and I back you
up, f nobody ese w. ut we can a back
you up, can t we I see what Lord Satoun
means, and, of course, he s rght. He s aways
rght.
So I w go down to Somerset, sad Home
sher.
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Yes, t s on the way to estmnster, sad
Lord Satoun, wth a sme.
And so t happened that Home sher arrved
some days ater at the tte staton of a rather
remote market town n the west, accompaned
by a ght sutcase and a vey brother. It must
not be supposed, however, that the brother s
cheerfu tone conssted entrey of chaff. He
supported the new canddate wth hope as we
as harty; and at the back of hs bosterous
partnershp there was an ncreasng sympathy
and encouragement. Harry sher had aways
had an affecton for hs more quet and eccentrc
brother, and was now comng more and more to
have a respect for hm. As the campagn pro-
ceeded the respect ncreased to ardent admra-
ton. or Harry was st young, and coud fee
the sort of enthusasm for hs captan n eec-
toneerng that a schooboy can fee for hs cap-
tan n crcket.
Nor was the admraton undeserved. As the
new three-cornered contest deveoped t became
apparent to others besdes hs devoted knsman
that there was more n Home sher than had
ever met the eye. It was cear that hs out-
break by the famy fresde had been but the
cumnaton of a ong course of broodng and
studyng on the queston. The taent he re-
taned through fe for studyng hs sub ect, and
even somebody s ese s sub ect, had ong been
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The Tempe of Sence
concentrated on ths dea of champonng a new
peasantry aganst a new putocracy. He spoke
to a crowd wth eoquence and reped to an
ndvdua wth humor, two potca arts that
seemed to come to hm naturay. He certany
knew much more about rura probems than
ether Hughes, the Reform canddate, or erner,
the Consttutona canddate. And he probed
those probems wth a human curosty, and went
beow the surface n a way that nether of them
dreamed of dong. He soon became the voce
of popuar feengs that are never found n the
popuar press. New anges of crtcsm, argu-
ments that had never before been uttered by an
educated voce, tests and comparsons that had
been made ony n daect by men drnkng n
the tte oca pubc houses, crafts haf for-
gotten that had come down by sgn of hand
and tongue from remote ages when ther fathers
were free a ths created a curous and doube
e ctement. It started the we nformed by
beng a new and fantastc dea they had never
encountered. It started the gnorant by beng
an od and famar dea they never thought to
have seen revved. Men saw thngs n a new
ght, and knew not even whether t was the
sunset or the dawn.
Practca grevances were there to make the
movement formdabe. As sher went to and
fro among the cottages and country nns, t was
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borne n on hm wthout dffcuty that Sr ran-
cs erner was a very bad andord. Nor was
the story of hs acquston of the and any more
ancent and dgnfed than he had supposed; the
story was we known n the county and n most
respects was obvous enough. Hawker, the od
squre, had been a oose, unsatsfactory sort of
person, had been on bad terms wth hs frst
wfe (who ded, as some sad, of negect), and
had then marred a fashy South Amercan
ewess wth a fortune. ut he must have
worked hs way through ths fortune aso wth
marveous rapdty, for he had been compeed
to se the estate to erner and had gone to ve
n South Amerca, possby on hs wfe s estates.
ut sher notced that the a ty of the od
squre was far ess hated than the effcency of
the new squre. erner s hstory seemed to be
fu of smart bargans and fnanca futters that
eft other peope short of money and temper.
ut though he heard a great dea about erner,
there was one thng that contnuay euded hm;
somethng that nobody knew, that even Satoun
had not known. He coud not fnd out how
erner had orgnay made hs money.
He must have kept t specay dark, sad
Home sher to hmsef. It must be some-
thng he s reay ashamed of. Hang t a what
s a man ashamed of nowadays
And as he pondered on the possbtes they
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The Tempe of Sence
grew darker and more dstorted n hs mnd; he
thought vaguey of thngs remote and repusve,
strange forms of savery or sorcery, and then of
ugy thngs yet more unnatura but nearer home.
The fgure of erner seemed to be backened
and transfgured n hs magnaton, and to stand
aganst vared backgrounds and strange skes.
As he strode up a vage street, broodng
thus, hs eyes encountered a compete contrast
n the face of hs other rva, the Reform cand-
date. rc Hughes, wth hs bown bond har
and eager undergraduate face, was ust gettng
nto hs motor car and sayng a few fna words
to hs agent, a sturdy, grzzed man named
Gryce. rc Hughes waved hs hand n a
frendy fashon; but Gryce eyed hm wth some
hostty. rc Hughes was a young man wth
genune potca enthusasms, but he knew that
potca opponents are peope wth whom one
may have to dne any day. ut Mr. Gryce was
a grm tte oca Radca, a champon of the
chape, and one of those happy peope whose
work s aso ther hobby. He turned hs back
as the motor car drove away, and waked brsky
up the sunt hgh street of the tte town,
whstng, wth potca papers stckng out of
hs pocket.
sher ooked pensvey after the resoute fg-
ure for a moment, and then, as f by an mpuse,
began to foow t. Through the busy market
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pace, amd the baskets and barrows of market
day, under the panted wooden sgn of the Green
Dragon, up a dark sde entry, under an arch,
and through a tange of crooked cobbed streets
the two threaded ther way, the square, struttng
fgure n front and the ean, oungng fgure be-
hnd hm, ke hs shadow n the sunshne. At
ength they came to a brown brck house wth a
brass pate, on whch was Mr. Gryce s name, and
that ndvdua turned and behed hs pursuer
wth a stare.
Coud I have a word wth you, sr asked
Home sher, potey. The agent stared st
more, but assented cvy, and ed the other nto
an offce ttered wth eafets and hung a round
wth hghy coored posters whch nked the
name of Hughes wth a the hgher nterests of
humanty.
Mr. Home sher, I beeve, sad Mr.
Gryce. Much honored by the ca, of course.
Can t pretend to congratuate you on enterng
the contest, I m afrad; you won t e pect that.
Here we ve been keepng the od fag fyng for
freedom and reform, and you come n and break
the batte ne.
or Mr. ah Gryce abounded n mtary
metaphors and n denuncatons of mtarsm.
He was a square- awed, bunt-featured man wth
a pugnacous cock of the eyebrow. He had been
pcked n the potcs of that countrysde from
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boyhood, he knew everybody s secrets, and eec-
toneerng was the romance of hs fe.
I suppose you thnk I m devoured wth am-
bton, sad Home sher, n hs rather stess
voce, amng at a dctatorshp and a that.
e, I thnk I can cear mysef of the charge
of mere sefsh ambton. I ony want certan
thngs done. I don t want to do them. I very
sedom want to do anythng. And I ve come
here to say that I m qute wng to retre from
the contest f you can convnce me that we reay
want to do the same thng.
The agent of the Reform party ooked at
hm wth an odd and sghty puzzed e presson,
and before he coud repy, sher went on n the
same eve tones:
You d hardy beeve t, but I keep a con-
scence conceaed about me; and I am n doubt
about severa thngs. or nstance, we both
want to turn erner out of Parament, but what
weapon are we to use I ve heard a ot of gossp
aganst hm, but s t rght to act on mere gossp
ust as I want to be far to you, so I want to be
far to hm. If some of the thngs I ve heard are
true he ought to be turned out of Parament and
every other cub n London. ut I don t want to
turn hm out of Parament f they aren t true.
At ths pont the ght of batte sprang nto
Mr. Gryce s eyes and he became voube, not to
say voent. He, at any rate, had no doubt that
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the stores were true; he coud testfy, to hs own
knowedge, that they were true. erner was
not ony a hard andord, but a mean andord,
a robber as we as a rackrenter; any genteman
woud be ustfed n houndng hm out. He had
cheated od kns out of hs freehod by a
trck ft for a pckpocket; he had drven od
Mother Ddde to the workhouse; he had
stretched the aw aganst Long Adam, the
poacher, t a the magstrates were ashamed
of hm.
So f you serve under the od banner, con-
cuded Mr. Gryce, more genay, and turn out
a swndng tyrant ke that, I m sure you never
regret t.
And f that s the truth, sad Home sher,
are you gong to te t
hat do you mean Te the truth de-
manded Gryce.
I mean you are gong to te the truth as you
have ust tod t, reped sher. You are
gong to pacard ths town wth the wckedness
done to od kns. You are gong to f the
newspapers wth the nfamous story of Mrs.
Ddde. You are gong to denounce erner from
.a pubc patform, namng hm for w at he dd
and namng the poacher he dd t to. And you re
gong to fnd out by what trade ths man made
the money wth whch he bought the estate; and
when you know the truth, as I sad before, of
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course you are gong to te t. Upon those terms
I come under the od fag, as you ca t, and hau
down my tte pennon.
The agent was eyng hm wth a curous e -
presson, sury but not entrey unsympathetc.
e, he sad, sowy, you have to do these
thngs n a reguar way, you know, or peope
don t understand. I ve had a ot of e perence,
and I m afrad what you say woudn t do.
Peope understand sangng squres n a genera
way, but those personates aren t consdered
far pay. Looks ke httng beow the bet.
Od kns hasn t got a bet, I suppose,
reped Home sher. erner can ht hm any-
how, and nobody must say a word. It s ev-
denty very mportant to have a bet. ut ap-
parenty you have to be rather hgh up n socety
to have one. Possby, he added, thoughtfuy
possby the e panaton of the phrase a beted
ear, the meanng of whch has aways escaped
me.
I mean those personates won t do, re-
turned Gryce, frownng at the tabe.
And Mother dde and Long Adam, the
poacher, are not personates, sad sher, and
I suppose we mustn t ask how erner made a
the money that enabed hm to become a per-
sonaty.
Gryce was st ookng at hm under owerng
brows, but the snguar ght n hs eyes had
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brghtened. At ast he sad, n another and
much queter voce:
Look here, sr. I ke you, f you don t mnd
my sayng so. I thnk you are reay on the sde
of the peope and I m sure you re a brave man.
A ot braver than you know, perhaps. e
daren t touch what you propose wth a barge
poe; and so far from wantng you n the od
party, we d rather you ran your own rsk by
yoursef. ut because I ke you and respect
your puck, I do you a good turn before we
part. I don t want you to waste tme barkng
up the wrong tree. You tak about how the new
squre got the money to buy, and the run of the
od squre, and a the rest of t. e, I gve
you a hnt about that, a hnt about somethng
precous few peope know.
I am very gratefu, sad sher, gravey.
hat s t
It s n two words, sad the other. The
new squre was qute poor when he bought. The
od squre was qute rch when he sod.
Home sher ooked at hm thoughtfuy as
he turned away abrupty and bused hmsef wth
the papers on hs desk. Then sher uttered a
short phrase of thanks and farewe, and went
out nto the street, st very thoughtfu.
Hs refecton seemed to end n resouton,
and, fang nto a more rapd strde, he passed
out of the tte town aong a road eadng to-
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ward the gate of the great park, the country seat
of Sr rancs erner. A gtter of sunght
made the eary1 wnter more ke a ate autumn,
and the dark woods were touched here and there
w th red and goden eaves, ke the ast rays of
a ost sunset. rom a hgher part of the road
he had seen the ong, cassca fagade of the great
house wth ts many wndows, amost mme-
datey beneath hm, but when the road ran down
under the wa of the estate, topped wth tower-
ng trees behnd, he reazed that t was haf a
me round to the odge gates, After wakng
for a few mnutes aong the ane, however, he
came to a pace where the wa had cracked and
was n process of repar. As t was, there was a
great gap n the gray masonry that ooked at
frst as back as a cavern and ony showed at a
second gance the twght of the twnkng trees.
There was somethng fascnatng about that un-
e pected gate, ke the openng of a fary tae.
Home sher had n hm somethng of the
arstocrat, whch s very near to the anarchst.
It was characterstc of hm that he turned nto
ths dark and rreguar entry as casuay as nto
hs own front door, merey thnkng that t woud
be a short cut to the house. He made hs way
through the dm wood for some dstance and
wth some dffcuty, unt there began to shne
through the trees a eve ght, n nes of sver,
whch he dd not at frst understand. The ne t
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moment he had come out nto the dayght at
the top of a steep bank, at the bottom of whch
a path ran round the rm of a arge ornamenta
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shmmerng through the trees was of consder-
abe e tent, but was waed n on every sde wth
woods whch were not ony dark, but decdedy
dsma. At one end of the path was a cassca
statue of some nameess nymph, and at the other
end t was fanked by two cassca urns; but the
marbe was weather-staned and streaked wth
green and gray. A hundred other sgns, smaer
but more sgnfcant, tod hm that he had come
on some outyng corner of the grounds negected
and sedom vsted. In the mdde of the ake
was what appeared to be an sand, and on the
sand what appeared to be meant for a cassca
tempe, not open ke a tempe of the wnds, but
wth a bank wa between ts Dorc pars. e
may say t ony seemed ke an sand, because a
second gance reveaed a ow causeway of fat
stones runnng up to t from the shore and turn-
ng t nto a pennsua. And certany t ony
seemed ke a tempe, for nobody knew better
than Home sher that no god had ever dwet
n that shrne.
That s what makes a ths cassca and-
scape gardenng so desoate, he sad to hmsef.
More desoate than Stonehenge or the Pyra-
mds. e don t beeve n gyptan mythoogy,
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but the gyptans dd; and I suppose even the
Druds beeved n Drudsm. ut the eght-
eenth-century genteman who but these tempes
ddn t beeve n enus or Mercury any more
than we do; that s why the refecton of those
pae pars n the ake s truy ony the shadow
of a shade. They were men of the age of Rea-
son; they, who fed ther gardens wth these
stone nymphs, had ess hope than any men n a
hstory of reay meetng a nymph n the forest.
Hs monoogue stopped abrupty wth a sharp
nose ke a thundercrack that roed n dreary
echoes round the dsma mere. He knew at
once what t was somebody had fred off a gun.
ut as to the meanng of t he was momentary
staggered, and strange thoughts thronged nto
hs mnd. The ne t moment he aughed; for he
saw yng a tte way aong the path beow hm
the dead brd that the shot had brought down.
At the same moment, however, he saw some-
thng ese, whch nterested hm more. A rng
of dense trees ran round the back of the sand
tempe, framng the fagade of t n dark foage,
and he coud have sworn he saw a str as of
somethng movng among the eaves. The ne t
moment hs suspcon was confrmed, for a rather
ragged fgure came from under the shadow of
the tempe and began to move aong the cause-
way that ed to the bank. ven at that dstance
the fgure was conspcuous by ts great heght
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and sher coud see that the man carred a gun
under hs arm. There came back nto hs mem-
ory at once the name Long Adam, the poacher.
th a rapd sense of strategy he sometmes
showed, sher sprang from the bank and raced
round the ake to the head of the tte per of
stones. If once a man reached the manand he
coud easy vansh nto the woods. ut when
sher began to advance aong the stones toward
the sand, the man was cornered n a bnd aey
and coud ony back toward the tempe. Puttng
hs broad shouders aganst t, he stood as f at
bay; he was a comparatvey young man, wth
fne nes n hs ean face and fgure and a mop
of ragged red har. The ook n hs eyes mght
we have been dsquetng to anyone eft aone
wth hm on an sand n the mdde of a ake.
Good mornng, sad Home sher, peas-
anty. I thought at frst you were a murderer.
ut t seems unkey, somehow, that the par-
trdge rushed between us and ded for ove of
me, ke the herones n the romances; so I sup-
pose you are a poacher.
I suppose you woud ca me a poacher, an-
swered the man; and hs voce was somethng of
a surprse comng from such a scarecrow; t had
that hard fastdousness to be found n those
who have made a fght for ther own refnement
among rough surroundngs. I consder I have
a perfect rght to shoot game n ths pace. ut
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I am we aware that peope of your sort take
me for a thef, and I suppose you w try to
and me n a.
There are premnary dffcutes, reped
sher. To begn wth, the mstake s fatter-
ng, but I am not a gamekeeper. St ess am
I three gamekeepers, who woud be, I magne,
about your fghtng weght. ut I confess I
have another reason for not wantng to a you.
And what s that asked the other.
Ony that I qute agree wth you, answered
sher. I don t e acty say you have a rght
to poach, but I never coud see that t was as
wrong as beng a thef. It seems to me aganst
the whoe norma noton of property that a
man shoud own somethng because t fes across
hs garden. He mght as we own the wnd, or
thnk he coud wrte hs name on a mornng
coud. esdes, f we want poor peope to re-
spect property we must gve them some property
to respect. You ought to have and of your
own; and I m gong to gve you some f I can.
Gong to gve me some and repeated Long
Adam.
I apoogze for addressng you as f you
were a pubc meetng, sad sher, but I am
an entrey new knd of pubc man who says the
same thng n pubc and n prvate. I ve sad
ths to a hundred huge meetngs throughout the
country, and I say t to you on ths queer tte
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sand n ths dsma pond. I woud cut up a bg
estate ke ths nto sma estates for everybody,
even for poachers. I woud do n ngand as
they dd n Ireand buy the bg men out, f
possbe; get them out, anyhow. A man ke you
ought to have a tte pace of hs own. I don t
say you coud keep pheasants, but you mght keep
chckens.
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once to banch and fame at the promse as f t
were a threat.
Chckens he repeated, wth a passon of
contempt.
hy do you ob ect asked the pacd can-
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amusement for a poacher hat about poach-
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ecause I am not a poacher, cred Adam,
n a rendng voce that rang round the hoow
shrnes and urns ke the echoes of hs gun. e-
cause the partrdge yng dead over there s my
partrdge. ecause the and you are standng
on s my and. ecause my own and was ony
taken from me by a crme, and a worse crme
than poachng. Ths has been a snge estate
for hundreds and hundreds of years, and f you
or any meddesome mountebank comes here and
taks of cuttng t up ke a cake, f I ever hear
a word more of you and your eveng es
You seem to be a rather turbuent pubc
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The Tempe of Sence
meetng, observed Home sher, but do go on.
hat w happen f I try to dvde ths estate
decenty among decent peope
The poacher had recovered a grm composure
as he reped. There w be no partrdge to
rush n between.
th that he turned hs back, evdenty re-
soved to say no more, and waked past the
tempe to the e treme end of the set, where he
stood starng nto the water. sher foowed
hm, but, when hs repeated questons evoked
no answer, turned back toward the shore. In
dong so he took a second and coser ook at the
artfca tempe, and noted some curous thngs
about t. Most of these theatrca thngs were
as thn as theatrca scenery, and he e pected the
cassc shrne to be a shaow thng, a mere she
or mask. ut there was some substanta buk
of t behnd, bured n the trees, whch had a
gray, abyrnthan ook, ke serpents of stone,
and fted a oad of eafy towers to the sky.
ut what arrested sher s eye was that n ths
buk of gray-whte stone behnd there was a
snge door wth great, rusty bots outsde; the
bots, however, were not shot across so as to
secure t. Then he waked round the sma
budng, and found no other openng e cept one
sma gratng ke a ventator, hgh up n the
wa. He retraced hs steps thoughtfuy aong
the causeway to the banks of the ake, and sat
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down on the stone steps between the two scup-
tured funera urns. Then he t a cgarette and
smoked t n rumnant manner; eventuay he
took out a notebook and wrote down varous
phrases, numberng and renumberng them t
they stood n the foowng order: (I) Squre
Hawker dsked hs frst wfe. (2) He mar-
red hs second wfe for her money. (3) Long
Adam says the estate s reay hs. (4) Long
Adam hangs round the sand tempe, whch
ooks ke a prson. (5) Squre Hawker was
not poor when he gave up the estate. (6)
erner was poor when he got the estate.
He gazed at these notes wth a gravty whch
graduay turned to a hard sme, threw away
hs cgarette, and resumed hs search for a short
cut to the great house. He soon pcked up the
path whch, wndng among cpped hedges and
fower beds, brought hm n front of ts ong
Paadan fagade. It had the usua appearance
of beng, not a prvate house, but a sort of pubc
budng sent nto e e n the provnces.
He frst found hmsef n the presence of the
buter, who reay ooked much oder than the
budng, for the archtecture was dated as
Georgan; but the man s face, under a hghy
unnatura brown wg, was wrnked wth what
mght have been centures. Ony hs promnent
eyes were ave and aert, as f wth protest.
sher ganced at hm, and then stopped and sad:
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The Tempe of Sence
cuse me. eren t you wth the ate
squre, Mr. Hawker
Yes, sr, sad the man, gravey. Usher s
my name. hat can I do for you
Ony take me nto Sr rancs erner, re-
ped the vstor.
Sr rancs erner was sttng n an easy char
besde a sma tabe n a arge room hung wth
tapestres. On the tabe were a sma fask and
gass, wth the green gmmer of a queur and a
cup of back coffee. He was cad n a quet gray
sut wth a moderatey harmonous purpe te;
but sher saw somethng about the turn of hs
far mustache and the e of hs fat har t
suddeny reveaed that hs name was ranz
erner.
You are Mr. Home sher, he sad.
on t you st down
No, thank you, reped sher. I fear ths
s not a frendy occason, and I sha reman
standng. Possby you know that I am aready
standng standng for Parament, n fact.
I am aware we are potca opponents, re-
ped erner, rasng hs eyebrows. ut I thnk
t woud be better f we fought n a sportng
sprt; n a sprt of ngsh far pay.
Much better, assented sher. It woud
be much better f you were ngsh and very
much better f you had ever payed far. ut
what I ve come to say can be sad very shorty.
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I don t qute know how we stand wth the aw
about that od Hawker story, but my chef ob-
ect s to prevent ngand beng entrey rued
by peope ke you. So whatever the aw woud
say, I w say no more f you w retre from
the eecton at once.
You are evdenty a unatc, sad erner.
My psychoogy may be a tte abnorma,
reped Home sher, n a rather hazy manner.
I am sub ect to dreams, especay day-dreams.
Sometmes what s happenng to me grows vvd
n a curous doube way, as f t had happened
before. Have you ever had that mystca fee-
ng that thngs have happened before
I hope you are a harmess unatc, sad
erner.
ut sher was st starng n an absent
fashon at the goden ggantc fgures and trac-
eres of brown and red n the tapestres on the
was; then he ooked agan at erner and re-
sumed: I have a feeng that ths ntervew has
happened before, here n ths tapestred room,
and we are two ghosts revstng a haunted cham-
ber. ut t was Squre Hawker who sat where
you st and t was you who stood where I stand.
He paused a moment and then added, wth sm-
pcty, I suppose I am a backmaer, too.
If you are, sad Sr rancs, I promse you
you sha go to a. ut hs face had a shade
on t that ooked ke the refecton of the green
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The Tempe of Sence
wne geamng on the tabe. Home sher re-
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enough:
ackmaers do not aways go to a. Some-
tmes they go to Parament. ut, though
Parament s rotten enough aready, you sha
not go there f I can hep t. I am not so crmna
as you were n barganng wth crme. You made
a squre gve up hs country seat. I ony ask
you to gve up your Paramentary seat.
Sr rancs erner sprang to hs feet and
ooked about for one of the be ropes of the
od-fashoned, curtaned room.
here s Usher he cred, wth a vd face.
And who s Usher sad sher, softy. I
wonder how much Usher knows of the truth.
erner s hand fe from the be rope and,
after standng for a moment wth rong eyes,
he strode abrupty from the room. sher went
out by the other door, by whch he had entered,
and, seeng no sgn of Usher, et hmsef out and
betook hmsef agan toward the town.
That nght he put an eectrc torch n hs
pocket and set out aone n the darkness to add
the ast nks to hs argument. There was much
that he dd not know yet; but he thought he
knew where he coud fnd the knowedge. The
nght cosed dark and stormy and the back gap
n the wa ooked backer than ever; the wood
seemed to have grown thcker and darker n a
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day. If the deserted ake wth ts back woods
and gray urns and mages ooked desoate even
by dayght, under the nght and the growng
storm t seemed st more .ke the poo of
Acheron n the and of ost sous. As he stepped
carefuy aong the etty stones he seemed to be
traveng farther and farther nto the abyss of
nght, and to have eft behnd hm the ast ponts
from whch t woud be possbe to sgna to the
and of the vng. The ake seemed to have
grown arger than a sea, but a sea of back and
smy waters that sept wth abomnabe serenty,
as f they had washed out the word. There was
so much of ths nghtmare sense of e tenson and
e panson that he was strangey surprsed to
come to hs desert sand so soon. ut he knew
t for a pace of nhuman sence and sotude;
and he fet as f he had been wakng for
years.
Nervng hmsef to a more norma mood, he
paused under one of the dark dragon trees that
branched out above hm, and, takng out h
torch, turned n the drecton of the door at the
back of the tempe. It was unboted as before,
and the thought strred fanty n hm that t
was sghty open, though ony by a crack. The
more he thought of t, however, the more cer-
tan he grew that ths was but one of the common
usons of ght comng from a dfferent ange.
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The Tempe of Sence
of the door, wth ts rusty bots and hnges, when
he became conscous of somethng very near
hm ndeed, neary above hs head. Somethng
was dangng from the tree that was not a broken
branch. or some seconds he stood as st as
a stone, and as cod. hat he saw above hm
were the egs of a man hangng, presumaby a
dead man hanged. ut the ne t moment he
knew better. The man was teray ave and
kckng; and an nstant after he had dropped to
the ground and turned on the ntruder. Smu-
taneousy three or four other trees seemed to
come to fe n the same fashon. ve or s
other fgures had faen on ther feet from these
unnatura nests. It was as f the pace were an
sand of monkeys. ut a moment after they
had made a stampede toward hm, and when
they ad ther hands on hm he knew that they
were men.
th tKe eectrc torch n hs hand he struck
the foremost of them so furousy n the face
that the man stumbed and roed over on the
smy grass; but the torch was broken and e -
tngushed, eavng everythng n a denser ob-
scurty. He fung another man fat aganst the
tempe wa, so that he sd to the ground; but
a thrd and fourth carred sher off hs feet
and began to bear hm, struggng, toward the
doorway. ven n the bewderment of the
batte he was conscous that the door was stand-
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ng open. Somebody was summonng the roughs
from nsde.
The moment they were wthn they hured
hm upon a sort of bench or bed wth voence,
but no damage; for the settee, or whatever t
was, seemed to be comfortaby cushoned for
hs recepton. Ther voence had n t a great
eement of haste, and before he coud rse they
had a rushed for the door to escape. hat-
ever bandts they were that nfested ths desert
sand, they were obvousy uneasy about ther
ob and very an ous to be qut of t. He had
the fyng fancy that reguar crmnas woud
hardy be n such a panc. The ne t moment the
great door crashed to and he coud hear the
bots shrek as they shot nto ther pace, and the
feet of the retreatng men scamperng and stum-
bng aong the causeway. ut rapdy as t hap-
pened, t dd not happen before sher had done
somethng that he wanted to do. Unabe to
rse from hs sprawng atttude n that fash of
tme, he had shot out one of hs ong egs and
hooked t round the anke of the ast man ds-
appearng through the door. The man swayed
and topped over nsde the prson chamber, and
the door cosed between hm and hs feeng com-
panons. Ceary they were n too much haste
to reaze that they had eft one of ther company
behnd.
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mered and kcked furousy at the door. sher s
sense of humor began to recover from the strug-
ge and he sat up on hs sofa wth somethng of
hs natve nonchaance. ut as he stened to
the captve captor beatng on the door of the
prson, a new and curous refecton came to hm.
The natura course for a man thus wshng
to attract hs frends attenton woud be to ca
out, to shout as we as kck. Ths man was
makng as much nose as he coud wth hs feet
and hands, but not a sound came from hs throat.
hy coudn t he speak At frst he thought the
man mght be gagged, whch was manfesty
absurd. Then hs fancy fe back on the ugy
dea that the man was dumb. He hardy knew
why t was so ugy an dea, but t affected hs
magnaton n a dark and dsproportonate
fashon. There seemed to be somethng creepy
about the dea of beng eft n a dark room wth
a deaf mute. It was amost as f such a defect
were a deformty. It was amost as f t went
wth other and worse deformtes. It was as f
the shape he coud not trace n the darkness were
some shape that shoud not see the sun.
Then he had a fash of santy and aso of
nsght. The e panaton was very smpe, but
rather nterestng. Obvousy the man dd not
use hs voce because he dd not wsh hs voce
to be recognzed. He hoped to escape from
that dark pace before sher found out who he
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The Man ho Knew Too Mu.ch
was. And who was he One thng at east was
cear. He was one or other of the four or fve
men wth whom sher had aready taked n
these parts, and n the deveopment of that
strange story.
Now I wonder who you are, he sad, aoud,
wth a hs od azy urbanty. I suppose t s
no use tryng to throtte you n order to fnd out;
t woud be dspeasng to pass the nght wth a
corpse. esdes I mght be the corpse. I ve
got no matches and I ve smashed my torch, so
I can ony specuate. ho coud you be, now
Let us thnk.
The man thus genay addressed had dessted
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eny nto a corner as sher contnued to address
hm n a fowng monoogue.
Probaby you are the poacher who says he
sn t a poacher. He says he s a anded pro-
pretor; but he w permt me to nform hm
that, whatever he s, he s a foo. hat hope
can there ever be of a free peasantry n ngand
f the peasants themseves are such snobs as to
want to be gentemen How can we make a
democracy wth no democrats As t s, you
want to be a andord and so you consent to be
a crmna. And n that, you know, you are
rather ke somebody ese. And, now I thnk
of t, perhaps you are somebody ese.
There was a sence broken by breathng from
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the corner and the murmur of the rsng storm,
that came n through the sma gratng above the
man s head. Home sher contnued:
Are you ony a servant, perhaps, that rather
snster od servant who was buter to Hawker
and erner If so, you are certany the ony
nk between the two perods. ut f so, why do
you degrade yoursef to serve ths drty for-
egner, when you at east saw the ast of a gen-
une natona gentry Peope ke you are gen-
eray at east patrotc. Doesn t ngand mean
anythng to you, Mr. Usher A of whch
eoquence s possby wasted, as perhaps you are
not Mr. Usher.
More key you are erner hmsef; and t s
no good wastng eoquence to make you ashamed
of yoursef. Nor s t any good to curse you
for corruptng ngand; nor are you the rght
person to curse. It s the ngsh who deserve
to be cursed, and are cursed, because they a-
owed such vermn to craw nto the hgh paces
of ther heroes and ther kngs. I won t dwe
on the dea that you re erner, or the throttng
mght begn, after a. Is there anyone ese you
coud be Surey you re not some servant of
the other rva organzaton. I can t beeve
you re Gryce, the agent; and yet Gryce had a
spark of the fanatc n hs eye, too; and men w
do e traordnary thngs n these patry feuds
of potcs. Or f not the servant, s t the . . .
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No, I can t beeve t ... not the red bood of
manhood and berty . . . not the democratc
dea . . .
He sprang up n e ctement, and at the same
moment a grow of thunder came through the
gratng beyond. The storm had broken, and
wth t a new ght broke on hs mnd. There
was somethng ese that mght happen n a
moment.
Do you know what that means he cred.
It means that God hmsef may hod a cande
to show me your nferna face.
Then ne t moment came a crash of thunder;
but before the thunder a whte ght had fed
the whoe room for a snge spt second.
sher had seen two thngs n front of hm.
One was the back-and-whte pattern of the ron
gratng aganst the sky; the other was the face
n the corner. It was the face of hs brother.
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cept a Chrstan name, whch was foowed by a
sence more dreadfu than the dark. At ast
the other fgure strred and sprang up, and the
voce of Harry sher was heard for the frst
tme n that horrbe room.
You ve seen me, I suppose, he sad, and
we may as we have a ght now. You coud
have turned t on at any tme, f you d found the
swtch.
He pressed a button n the wa and a the
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detas of that room sprang nto somethng
stronger than dayght. Indeed, the detas were
so une pected that for a moment they turned the
captve s rockng mnd from the ast persona
reveaton. The room, so far from beng a
dungeon ce, was more ke a drawng-room,
even a ady s drawng-room, e cept for some
bo es of cgars and bottes of wne that were
stacked wth books and magaznes on a sde
tabe. A second gance showed hm that the
more mascune fttngs were qute recent, and
that the more femnne background was qute
od. Hs eye caught a strp of faded tapestry,
whch started hm nto speech, to the momentary
obvon of bgger matters.
Ths pace was furnshed from the great
house, he sad.
Yes, reped the other, and I thnk you
know why.
I thnk I do, sad Home sher, and be-
fore I go on to more e traordnary thngs I w
say what I thnk. Squre Hawker payed both
the bgamst and the bandt. Hs frst wfe was
not dead when he marred the ewess; she was
mprsoned on ths sand. She bore hm a chd
here, who now haunts hs brthpace under the
name of Long Adam. A bankruptcy company
promoter named erner dscovered the secret
and backmaed the squre nto surrenderng the
estate. That s a qute cear and very easy.
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And now et me go on to somethng more
dffcut. And that s for you to e pan
what the dev you are dong kdnapng your
born brother.
After a pause Henry sher answered:
I suppose you ddn t e pect to see me, he
sad. ut, after a, what coud you e pect
I m afrad I don t foow, sad Home
sher.
I mean what ese coud you e pect, after
makng such a muck of t sad hs brother,
suky. e a thought you were so cever.
How coud we know you were gong to be we,
reay, such a rotten faure
Ths s rather curous, sad the canddate,
frownng. thout vanty, I was not under
the mpresson that my canddature was a fa-
ure. A the bg meetngs were successfu and
crowds of peope have promsed me votes.
I shoud oy we thnk they had, sad
Henry, grmy. You ve made a andsde wth
your confounded acres and a cow, and erner
can hardy get a vote anywhere. Oh, t s too
rotten for anythng
hat on earth do you mean
hy, you unatc, cred Henry, n tones of
rngng sncerty, you don t suppose you were
meant to wn the seat, dd you Oh, t s too
chdsh I te you erner s got to get n. Of
course he s got to get n. He s to have the
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chequer ne t sesson, and there s the gyptan
oan and Lord knows what ese. e ony
wanted you to spt the Reform vote because
accdents mght happen after Hughes had made
a score at arkngton.
I see, sad sher, and you, I thnk, are
a par and ornament of the Reform party. As
you ssfy, I am not cever.
The appea to party oyaty fe on deaf ears;
for the par of Reform was broodng on other
thngs. At ast he sad, n a more troubed
voce:
I ddn t want you to catch me; I knew t
woud be a shock. ut I te you what, you
never woud have caught me f I hadn t come
here mysef, to see they ddn t treat you and
to make sure everythng was as comfortabe as
t coud be. There was even a sort of break
n hs voce as he added, I got those cgars
because I knew you ked them.
motons are queer thngs, and the docy of
ths concesson suddeny softened Home sher
ke an unfathomabe pathos.
Never mnd, od chap, he sad; we say
no more about t. I admt that you re reay
as knd-hearted and affectonate a scoundre and
hypocrte as ever sod hmsef to run hs country.
There, I can t say handsomer than that. Thank
you for the cgars, od man. I have one f
you don t mnd.
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teng of ths story to Harod March they had
come out nto one of the pubc parks and taken
a seat on a rse of ground overookng wde green
spaces under a bue and empty sky; and there
was somethng ncongruous n the words wth
whch the narraton ended.
I have been n that room ever snce, sad
Home sher. I am n t now. I won the
eecton, but I never went to the House. My
fe has been a fe n that tte room on that
oney sand. Penty of books and cgars and
u ures, penty of knowedge and nterest and
nformaton, but never a voce out of that tomb
to reach the word outsde. I sha probaby de
there. And he smed as he ooked across the
vast green park to the gray horzon.
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TH NG ANC O TH STATU
TT was on the .sunny veranda of a seasde hote,
overookng a pattern of fower beds and a
strp of bue sea, that Home sher and Harod
March had ther fna e panaton, whch mght
be caed an e poson.
Harod March had come to the tte tabe and
sat down at t wth a subdued e ctement smoder-
ng n hs somewhat coudy and dreamy bue
eyes. In the newspapers whch he tossed from
hm on to the tabe there was enough to e -
pan some f not a of hs emoton. Pubc
affars n every department had reached a crss.
The government whch had stood so ong that
men were used to t, as they are used to a
heredtary despotsm, had begun to be accused
of bunders and even of fnanca abuses. Some
sad that the e perment of attemptng to estab-
sh a peasantry n the west of ngand, on
the nes of an eary fancy of Home sher s,
had resuted n nothng but dangerous quarres
wth more ndustra neghbors. There had been
partcuar compants of the treatment of
harmess foregners, chefy Asatcs, who hap-
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pened to be empoyed n the new scentfc works
constructed on the coast. Indeed, the new Power
whch had arsen n Sbera, backed by apan
and other powerfu aes, was ncned to take
the matter up n the nterests of ts e ed sub-
ects; and there had been wd tak about ambas-
sadors and utmatums. ut somethng much
more serous, n ts persona nterest for March
hmsef, seemed to f hs meetng wth hs frend
wth a m ture of embarrassment and ndg-
naton.
Perhaps t ncreased hs annoyance that there
was a certan unusua veness about the usuay
angud fgure of sher. The ordnary mage
of hm n March s mnd was that of a pad and
bad-browed genteman, who seemed to be pre-
maturey od as we as prematurey bad. He
was remembered as a man who e pressed the
opnons of a pessmst n the anguage of a
ounger. ven now March coud not be certan
whether the change was merey a sort of mas-
querade of sunshne, or that effect of cear coors
and cean-cut outnes that s aways vsbe on the
parade of a marne resort, reeved aganst the
bue dado of the sea. ut sher had a fower
n hs buttonhoe, and hs frend coud have
sworn he carred hs cane wth somethng amost
ke the swagger of a fghter. th such couds
gatherng over ngand, the pessmst seemed
to be the ony man who carred hs own sunshne.
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The engeance of the Statue
Look here, sad Harod March, abrupty,
you ve been no end of a frend to me, and I
never was so proud of a frendshp before; but
there s somethng I must get off my chest. The
more I found out, the ess I understood how you
coud stand t. And I te you I m gong to
stand t no onger.
Home sher gazed across at hm gravey
and attentvey, but rather as f he were a ong
way off.
You know I aways ked you, sad sher,
quety, but I aso respect you, whch s not
aways the same thng. You may possby guess
that I ke a good many peope I don t respect.
Perhaps t s my tragedy, perhaps t s my faut.
ut you are very dfferent, and I promse you
ths: that I w never try to keep you as some-
body to be ked, at the prce of your not beng
respected.
I know you are magnanmous, sad March
after a sence, and yet you toerate and per-
petuate everythng that s mean. Then after
another sence he added: Do you remember
when we frst met, when you were fshng n
that brook n the affar of the target And do
you remember you sad that, after a, t mght
do no harm f I coud bow the whoe tange of
ths socety to he wth dynamte
Yes, and what of that asked sher.
Ony that I m gong to bow t to he wth
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dynamte, sad Harod March, and I thnk t
rght to gve you far warnng. or a ong tme
I ddn t beeve thngs were as bad as you sad
they were. ut I never fet as f I coud have
botted up what you knew, supposng you reay
knew t. e, the ong and the short of t s
that I ve got a conscence; and now, at ast, I ve
aso got a chance. I ve been put n charge of
a bg ndependent paper, wth a free hand,
and we re gong to open a cannonade on
corrupton.
That w be Attwood, I suppose, sad
sher, refectvey. Tmber merchant. Knows
a ot about Chna.
He knows a ot about ngand, sad March,
doggedy, and now I know t, too, we re not
gong to hush t up any onger. The peope of
ths country have a rght to know how they re
rued or, rather, runed. The Chanceor s
n the pocket of the money enders and has to
do as he s tod; otherwse he s bankrupt, and
a bad sort of bankruptcy, too, wth nothng but
cards and actresses behnd t. The Prme Mns-
ter was n the petro-contract busness; and deep
n t, too. The oregn Mnster s a wreck of
drnk and drugs. hen you say that pany
about a man who may send thousands of ngsh-
men to de for nothng, you re caed persona.
If a poor engne drver gets drunk and sends
thrty or forty peope to death, nobody com-
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pans of the e posure beng persona. The
engne drver s not a person.
I qute agree wth you, sad sher, camy.
You are perfecty rght.
If you agree wth us, why the dev don t
you act wth us demanded hs frend. If
you thnk t s rght, why don t you do what s
rght It s awfu to thnk of a man of your
abtes smpy bockng the road to reform.
e have often taked about that, reped
sher, wth the same composure. The Prme
Mnster s my father s frend. The oregn
Mnster marred my sster. The Chanceor of
the chequer s my frst cousn. I menton the
geneaogy n some deta ust now for a par-
tcuar reason. The truth s I have a curous
knd of cheerfuness at the moment. It sn t
atogether the sun and the sea, sr. I am en-
oyng an emoton that s entrey new to me;
a happy sensaton I never remember havng had
before.
hat the dev do you mean
I am feeng proud of my famy, sad
Home sher.
Harod March stared at hm wth round bue
eyes, and seemed too much mystfed even to ask
a queston. sher eaned back n hs char n
hs azy fashon, and smed as he contnued.
Look here, my dear feow. Let me ask a
queston n turn. You mpy that I have aways
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known these thngs about my unfortunate kns-
men. So I have. Do you suppose that Attwood
hasn t aways known them Do you suppose he
hasn t aways known you as an honest man who
woud say these thngs when he got a chance
hy does Attwood unmuzze you ke a dog at
ths moment, after a these years I know why
he does; I know a good many thngs, far too
many thngs. And therefore, as I have the
honor to remark, I am proud of my famy at
ast.
ut why repeated March, rather feeby.
I am proud of the Chanceor because he
gambed and the oregn Mnster because he
drank and the Prme Mnster because he took
a commsson on a contract, sad sher, frmy.
I am proud of them because they dd these
thngs, and can be denounced for them, and know
they can be denounced for them, and are stand-
ng frm for a that. I take off my hat to them
because they are defyng backma, and refusng
to smash ther country to save themseves. I
saute them as f they were gong to de on the
battefed.
After a pause he contnued: And t w be
a battefed, too, and not a metaphorca one.
e have yeded to foregn fnancers so ong
that now t s war or run. ven the peope,
even the country peope, are begnnng to sus-
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meanng of the regrettabe ncdents n the
newspapers.
The meanng of the outrages on Orentas
asked March.
The meanng of the outrages on Orentas,
reped sher, s that the fnancers have n-
troduced Chnese abor nto ths country wth
the deberate ntenton of reducng workmen
and peasants to starvaton. Our unhappy po-
tcans have made concesson after concesson;
and now they are askng concessons whch
amount to our orderng a massacre of our own
poor. If we do not fght now we sha never
fght agan. They w have put ngand n an
economc poston of starvng n a week. ut we
are gong to fght now; I shoudn t wonder f
there were an utmatum n a week and an n-
vason n a fortnght. A the past corrupton
and cowardce s hamperng us, of course; the
est country s pretty stormy and doubtfu even
n a mtary sense; and the Irsh regments there,
that are supposed to support us by the new
treaty, are pretty we n mutny; for, of course,
ths nferna cooe captasm s beng pushed
n Ireand, too. ut t s to stop now; and f the
government message of reassurance gets through
to them n tme, they may turn up after a by
the tme the enemy ands. or my poor od
gang s gong to stand to ts guns at ast. Of
course t s ony natura that when they have been
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whtewashed for haf a century as paragons,
ther sns shoud come back on them at the very
moment when they are behavng ke men for
the frst tme n ther ves. e, I te you,
March, I know them nsde out; and I know they
are behavng ke heroes. very man of them
ought to have a statue, and on the pedesta words
ke those of the nobest ruffan of the Revou-
ton: ue mon nom sot fetr; que a rance
sot bre.
Good God cred March, sha we never
get to the bottom of your mnes and counter-
mnes
After a sence sher answered n a ower
voce, ookng hs frend n the eyes.
Dd you thnk there was nothng but ev
at the bottom of them he asked, genty. Dd
you thnk I had found nothng but fth n the
deep seas nto whch fate has thrown me e-
eve me, you never know the best about men t
you know the worst about them. It does not
dspose of ther strange human sous to know
that they were e hbted to the word as mpos-
sby mpeccabe wa works, who never ooked
after a woman or knew the meanng of a brbe.
ven n a paace, fe can be ved we; and
even n a Parament, fe can be ved wth
occasona efforts to ve t we. I te you t s
as true of these rch foos and rascas as t s
true of erery poor footpad and pckpocket; that
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ony God knows how good they have tred to be.
God aone knows what the conscence can sur-
vve, or how a man who has ost hs honor w
st try to save hs sou.
There was another sence, and March sat
starng at the tabe and sher at the sea. Then
sher suddeny sprang to hs feet and caught
up hs hat and stck wth a hs new aertness
and even pugnacty.
Look here, od feow, he cred, et us
make a bargan. efore you open your cam-
pagn for Attwood come down and stay wth us
for one week, to hear what we re reay dong.
I mean wth the athfu ew, formery known
as the Od Gang, occasonay to be descrbed as
the Low Lot. There are reay ony fve of us
that are qute f ed, and organzng the natona
defense; and we re vng ke a garrson n a
sort of broken-down hote n Kent. Come and
see what we re reay dong and what there s to
be done, and do us ustce. And after that, wth
unaterabe ove and affecton for you, pubsh
and be damned.
Thus t came about that n the ast week
before war, when events moved most rapdy,
Harod March found hmsef one of a sort of
sma house party of the peope he was pro-
posng to denounce. They were vng smpy
enough, for peope wth ther tastes, n an od
brown-brck nn faced wth vy and surrounded
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by rather dsma gardens. At the back of the
budng the garden ran up very steepy to a
road aong the rdge above; and a zgzag path
scaed the sope n sharp anges, turnng to and
fro amd evergreens so somber that they mght
rather be caed everback. Here and there up
the sope were statues havng a the cod mon-
strosty of such mnor ornaments of the eght-
eenth century; and a whoe row of them ran as
on a terrace aong the ast bank at the bottom,
opposte the back door. Ths deta f ed tsef
frst n March s mnd merey because t fgured
n the frst conversaton he had wth one of the
cabnet mnsters.
The cabnet mnsters were rather oder than
he had e pected to fnd them. The Prme Mns-
ter no onger ooked ke a boy, though he st
ooked a tte ke a baby. ut t was one of
those od and venerabe babes, and the baby
had soft gray har. verythng about hm was
soft, to hs speech and hs way of wakng; but
over and above that hs chef functon seemed
to be seep. Peope eft aone wth hm got so
used to hs eyes beng cosed that they were
amost started when they reazed n the st-
ness that the eyes were wde open, and even
watchng. One thng at east woud aways make
the od genteman open hs eyes. The one thng
he reay cared for n ths word was hs hobby
of armored weapons, especay astern weapons,
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and he woud tak for hours about Damascus
bades and Arab swordmanshp. Lord ames
Herres, the Chanceor of the chequer, was a
short, dark, sturdy man wth a very saow face
and a very suen manner, whch contrasted wth
the gorgeous fower n hs buttonhoe and hs
festve trck of beng aways sghty overdressed.
It was somethng of a euphemsm to ca hm
a we-known man about town. There was per-
haps more mystery n the queston of how a man
who ved for peasure seemed to get so tte
peasure out of t. Sr Davd Archer, the
oregn Secretary, was the ony one of them
who was a sef-made man, and the ony one of
them who ooked ke an arstocrat. He was
ta and thn and very handsome, wth a grzzed
beard; hs gray har was very cury, and even rose
n front n two rebeous rngets that seemed
to the fancfu to trembe ke the antennas of
some gant nsect, or to str sympathetcay wth
the restess tufted eyebrows over hs rather hag-
gard eyes. or the oregn Secretary made no
secret of hs somewhat nervous condton, what-
ever mght be the cause of t.
Do you know that mood when one coud
scream because a mat s crooked he sad to
March, as they waked up and down n the back
garden beow the ne of dngy statues. omen
get nto t when they ve worked too hard; and
I ve been workng pretty hard atey, of course.
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It drves me mad when Merres w wear hs hat
a tte crooked habt of ookng ke a gay dog.
Sometme I swear I knock t off. That statue
of rtanna over there sn t qute straght; t
stcks forward a bt as f the ady were gong to
toppe over. The damned thng s that t doesn t
toppe over and be done wth . t. See, t s
camped wth an ron prop. Don t be surprsed
f I get up n the mdde of the nght to hke t
down.
They paced the path for a few moments n
sence and then he contnued. It s odd those
tte thngs seem specay bg when there are
bgger thngs to worry about. e d better go
n and do some work.
Home sher evdenty aowed for a the
neurotc possbtes of Archer and the dsspated
habts of Herres; and whatever hs fath n ther
present frmness, dd not unduy ta ther tme
and attenton, even n the case of the Prme
Mnster. He had got the consent of the atter
fnay to the commttng of the mportant docu-
ments, wth the orders to the estern armes,
to the care of a ess conspcuous and more sod
person an unce of hs named Home Hewtt, a
rather cooress country squre who had been a
good soder, and was the mtary advser of the
commttee. He was charged wth e pedtng
the government pedge, aong wth the concerted
mtary pans, to the haf-mutnous command n
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the west; and the st more urgent task of see-
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enemy, who mght appear at any moment from
the east. Over and above ths mtary offca,
the ony other person present was a poce offca,
a certan Doctor Prnce, orgnay a poce
surgeon and now a dstngushed detectve, sent
to be a bodyguard to the group. He was a
square-faced man wth bg spectaces and a gr-
mace that e pressed the ntenton of keepng hs
mouth shut. Nobody ese shared ther cap-
tvty e cept the hote propretor, a crusty Kent-
sh man wth a crab-appe face, one or two of hs
servants, and another servant prvatey attached
to Lord ames Herres. He was a young
Scotchman named Campbe, who ooked much
more dstngushed than hs bous-ookng mas-
ter, havng chestnut har and a ong saturnne
face wth arge but fne features. He was prob-
aby the one reay effcent person n the house.
After about four days of the nforma coun-
c, March had come to fee a sort of grotesque
submty about these dubous fgures, defant n
the twght of danger, as f they were hunch-
backs and crppes eft aone to defend a town.
A were workng hard; and he hmsef ooked
up from wrtng a page of memoranda n a pr-
vate room to see Home sher standng n the
doorway, accoutered as f for trave. He fan-
ced that sher ooked a tte pae; and after
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a moment that genteman shut the door behnd
hm and sad, quety:
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the worst.
The enemy has anded, cred March, and
sprang erect out of hs char.
Oh, I knew the enemy woud and, sad
sher, wth composure. Yes, he s anded;
but that s not the worst that coud happen. The
worst s that there s a eak of some sort, even
from ths fortress of ours. It s been a bt of a
shock to me, I can te you; though I suppose t s
ogca. After a, I was fu of admraton at
fndng three honest men n potcs. I ought not
to be fu of astonshment f I fnd ony two.
He rumnated a moment and then sad, n
such a fashon that March coud hardy te f
he were changng the sub ect or no:
It s hard at frst to beeve that a feow ke
Herres, who had pcked hmsef n vce ke
vnegar, can have any scrupe eft. ut about
that I ve notced a curous thng. Patrotsm s
not the frst vrtue. Patrotsm rots nto Prus-
sansm when you pretend t s the frst vrtue.
ut patrotsm s sometmes the ast vrtue. A
man w swnde or seduce who w not se hs
country. ut who knows
ut what s to be done cred March, n-
dgnanty.
My unce has the papers safe enough, re-
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ped sher, and s sendng them west to-nght;
but somebody s tryng to get at them from out-
sde, I fear wth the assstance of somebody n-
sde. A I can do at present s to try to head
off the man outsde; and I must get away now
and do t. I sha be back n about twenty-four
hours. he I m away I want you to keep an
eye on these peope and fnd out what you can.
Au revor. He vanshed down the stars; and
from the wndow March coud see hm mount
a motor cyce and tra away toward the negh-
borng town.
On the foowng mornng, March was sttng
n the wndow seat of the od nn paror, whch
was oak-paneed and ordnary rather dark; but
on that occason t was fu of the whte ght
of a curousy cear mornng the moon had
shone branty for the ast two or three nghts.
He was hmsef somewhat n shadow n the cor-
ner of the wndow seat; and Lord ames Herres,
comng n hasty from the garden behnd, dd
not see hm. Lord ames cutched the back of
a char, as f to steady hmsef, and, sttng down
abrupty at the tabe, ttered wth the ast mea,
poured hmsef out a tumber of brandy and
drank t. He sat wth hs back to March, but
hs yeow face appeared n a round mrror be-
yond and the tnge of t was ke that of some
horrbe maady. As March moved he started
voenty and faced round.
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My God he cred, have you seen what s
outsde
Outsde repeated the other, gancng over
hs shouder at the garden.
Oh, go and ook for yoursef, cred Her-
res n a sort of fury. Hewtt s murdered and
hs papers stoen, that s a.
He turned hs back agan and sat down wth
a thud; hs square shouders were shakng.
Harod March darted out of the doorway nto
the back garden wth ts steep sope of statues.
The frst thng he saw was Doctor Prnce, the
detectve, peerng through hs spectaces at some-
thng on the ground; the second was the thng
he was peerng at. ven after the sensatona
news he had heard nsde, the sght was some-
thng of a sensaton.
The monstrous stone mage of rtanna was
yng prone and face downward on the garden
path; and there stuck out at random from under-
neath t, ke the egs of a smashed fy, an arm
cad n a whte shrt seeve and a eg cad n a
khak trouser, and har of the unmstakabe
sandy gray that beonged to Home sher s un-
fortunate unce. There were poos of bood and
the mbs were qute stff n death.
Coudn t ths have been an accdent sad
March, fndng words at ast.
Look for yoursef, I say, repeated the harsh
voce of Herres, who had foowed hm wth
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restess movements out of the door. The
papers are gone, I te you. The feow tore
the coat off the corpse and cut the papers out of
the nner pocket. There s the coat over there
on the bank, wth the great sash n t.
ut wat a mnute, sad the detectve,
Prnce, quety. In that case there seems to be
somethng of a mystery. A murderer mght
somehow have managed to throw the statue
down on hm, as he seems to have done. ut
I bet he coudn t easy have fted t up agan.
I ve tred; and I m sure t woud want three men
at east. Yet we must suppose, on that theory,
that the murderer frst knocked hm down as he
waked past, usng the statue as a stone cub,
then fted t up agan, took hm out and de-
prved hm of hs coat, then put hm back agan
n the posture of death and neaty repaced the
statue. I te you t s physcay mpossbe.
And how ese coud he have uncothed a man
covered wth that stone monument It s worse
than the con urer s trck, when a man shuffes a
coat off wth hs wrsts ted.
Coud he have thrown down the statue after
he d strpped the corpse asked March.
And why asked Prnce, sharpy. If he d
ked hs man and got hs papers, he d be away
ke the wnd. He woudn t potter about n a
garden e cavatng the pedestas of statues. e-
sdes Huo, who s that up there
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Hgh on the rdge above them, drawn n dark
thn nes aganst the sky, was a fgure ookng
so ong and ean as to be amost spdery. The
dark shouette of the head showed two sma
tufts ke horns; and they coud amost have
sworn that the horns moved.
Archer shouted Herres, wth sudden pas-
son, and caed to hm wth curses to come down.
The fgure drew back at the frst cry, wth an
agtated movement so abrupt as amost to be
caed an antc. The ne t moment the man
seemed to reconsder and coect hmsef, and
began to come down the zgzag garden path,
but wth obvous reuctance, hs feet fang n
sower and sower rhythm. Through March s
mnd were throbbng the phrases that ths man
hmsef had used, about gong mad n the mdde
of the nght and wreckng the stone fgure. ust
so, he coud fancy, the manac who had done
such a thng mght cmb the crest of the h,
n that feversh dancng fashon, and ook down
on the wreck he had made. ut the wreck he
had made here was not ony a wreck of stone.
hen the man emerged at ast on to the
garden path, wth the fu ght on hs face and
fgure, he was wakng sowy ndeed, but easy,
and wth no appearance of fear.
Ths s a terrbe thng, he sad. I saw
t from above; I was takng a stro aong the
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Do you mean that you saw the murder
demanded March, or the accdent I mean
dd you see the statue fa
No, sad Archer, I mean I saw the statue
faen.
Prnce seemed to be payng but tte atten-
ton; hs eye was rveted on an ob ect yng on
the path a yard or two from the corpse. It
seemed to be a rusty ron bar bent crooked at
one end.
One thng I don t understand, he sad, s
a ths bood. The poor feow s sku sn t
smashed; most key hs neck s broken; but
bood seems to have spouted as f a hs arteres
were severed. I was wonderng f some other
nstrument . . . that ron thng, for nstance;
but I don t see that even that s sharp enough.
I suppose nobody knows what t s.
rt know what t s, sad Archer n hs deep
but somewhat shaky voce. I ve seen t n my
nghtmares. It was the ron camp or prop on
the pedesta, stuck on to keep the wretched
mage uprght when t began to wabbe, I sup-
pose. Anyhow, t was aways stuck n the stone-
work there; and I suppose t came out when the
thng coapsed.
Doctor Prnce nodded, but he contnued to
ook down at the poos of bood and the bar of
ron.
I m certan there s somethng more under-
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neath a ths, he sad at ast. Perhaps some-
thng more underneath the statue. I have a
huge sort of hunch that there s. e are four
men now and between us we can ft that great
tombstone there.
They a bent ther strength to the busness;
there was a sence save for heavy breathng;
and then, after an nstant of the totterng and
staggerng of eght egs, the great carven coumn
of rock was roed away, and the body yng n
ts shrt and trousers was fuy reveaed. The
spectaces of Doctor Prnce seemed amost to en-
arge wth a restraned radance ke great eyes;
for other thngs were reveaed aso. One was
that the unfortunate Hewtt had a deep gash
across the uguar, whch the trumphant doctor
nstanty dentfed as havng been made wth a
sharp stee edge ke a razor. The other was
that mmedatey under the bank ay ttered
three shnng scraps of stee, each neary a foot
ong, one ponted and another ftted nto a gorge-
ousy eweed ht or hande. It was evdenty a
sort of ong Orenta knfe, ong enough to be
caed a sword, but wth a curous wavy edge;
and there was a touch or two of bood on the
pont.
I shoud have e pected more bood, hardy
on the pont, observed Doctor Prnce, thought-
fuy, but ths s certany the nstrument. The
sash was certany made wth a weapon shaped
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ke ths, and probaby the sashng of the pocket
as we. I suppose the brute threw n the statue,
by way of gvng hm a pubc funera.
March dd not answer; he was mesmerzed by
the strange stones that gttered on the strange
sword ht; and ther possbe sgnfcance was
broadenng upon hm ke a dreadfu dawn. It
was a curous Asatc weapon. He knew what
name was connected n hs memory wth curous
Asatc weapons. Lord ames spoke hs secret
thought for hm, and yet t started hm ke an
rreevance.
here s the Prme Mnster Herres had
cred, suddeny, and somehow ke the bark of a
dog at some dscovery.
Doctor Prnce turned on hm hs gogges and
hs grm face; and t was grmmer than ever.
I cannot fnd hm anywhere, he sad. I
ooked for hm at once, as soon as I found the
papers were gone. That servant of yours, Camp-
be, made a most effcent search, but there are
no traces.
There was a ong sence, at the end of whch
Herres uttered another cry, but upon an en-
trey new note.
e, you needn t ook for hm any onger,
he sad, for here he comes, aong wth your
frend sher. They ook as f they d been for
a tte wakng tour.
The two fgures approachng up the path were
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ndeed those of sher, spashed wth the mre
of trave and carryng a scratch ke that of a
brambe across one sde of hs bad forehead,
and of the great and gray-hared statesman who
ooked ke a baby and was nterested n astern
swords and swordmanshp. ut beyond ths
body recognton, March coud make nether
head nor ta of ther presence or demeanor;
whch seemed to gve a fna touch of nonsense
to the whoe nghtmare. The more cosey he
watched them, as they stood stenng to the
reveatons of the detectve, the more puzzed
he was by ther atttude sher seemed greved
by the death of hs unce, but hardy shocked at
t; the oder man seemed amost openy thnk-
ng about somethng ese, and nether had any-
thng to suggest about a further pursut of the
fugtve spy and murderer, n spte of the pro-
dgous mportance of the documents he had
stoen. hen the detectve had gone off to busy
hmsef wth that department of the busness,
to teephone and wrte hs report, when Herres
had gone back, probaby to the brandy botte,
and the Prme Mnster had bandy sauntered
away toward a comfortabe armchar n another
part of the garden, Home sher spoke drecty
to Harod March.
My frend, he sad, I want you to come
wth me at once; there s no one ese I can trust
so much as that. The ourney w take us most
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of the day, and the chef busness cannot be done
t nghtfa. So we can tak thngs over thor-
oughy on the way. ut I want you to be wth
me; for I rather thnk t s my hour.
March and sher both had motor bcyces;
and the frst haf of ther day s ourney conssted
n coastng eastward amd the unconversatona
nose of those uncomfortabe engnes. ut when
they came out beyond Canterbury nto the fats
of eastern Kent, sher stopped at a peasant
tte pubc house besde a seepy stream; and
they sat down to eat and to drnk and to speak
amost for the frst tme. It was a brant
afternoon, brds were sngng n the wood be-
hnd, and the sun shone fu on ther ae bench
and tabe; but the face of sher n the strong
sunght had a gravty never seen on t before.
efore we go any farther, he sad, there
s somethng you ought to know. You and I
have seen some mysterous thngs and got to the
bottom of them before now; and t s ony rght
that you shoud get to the bottom of ths one.
ut n deang wth the death of my unce I must
begn at the other end from where our od de-
tectve yarns began. I w gve you the steps
of deducton presenty, f you want to sten to
them; but I dd not reach the truth of ths by
steps of deducton. I w frst of a te you the
truth tsef, because I knew the truth from the
frst. The other cases I approached from the
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outsde, but n ths case I was nsde. I mysef
was the very core and center of everythng.
Somethng n the speaker s pendent eyeds
and grave gray eyes suddeny shook March to
hs foundatons; and he cred, dstractedy, I
don t understand as men do when they fear
that they do understand. There was no sound
for a space but the happy chatter of the brds,
and then Home sher sad, camy:
It was I who ked my unce. If you par-
tcuary want more, t was I who stoe the state
papers from hm.
sher cred hs frend n a stranged
voce.
Let me te you the whoe thng before we
part, contnued the other, and et me put t,
for the sake of cearness, as we used to put our
od probems. Now there are two thngs that
are puzzng peope about that probem, aren t
there The frst s how the murderer managed
to sp off the dead man s coat, when he was
aready pnned to the ground wth that stone
ncubus. The other, whch s much smaer and
ess puzzng, s the fact of the sword that cut
hs throat beng sghty staned at the pont,
nstead of a good dea more staned at the edge.
e, I can dspose of the frst queston easy.
Home Hewtt took off hs own coat before he
was ked. I mght say he took off hs coat to
be ked.
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Do you ca that an e panaton e camed
March. The words seem more meanngess
than the facts.
e, et us go on to the other facts, con-
tnued sher, equaby. The reason that par-
tcuar sword s not staned at the edge wth
Hewtt s bood s that t was not used to k
Hewtt.
ut the doctor, protested March, decared
dstncty that the wound was made by that par-
tcuar sword.
I beg your pardon, reped sher. He
dd not decare that t was made by that par-
tcuar sword. He decared t was made by a
sword of that partcuar pattern.
ut t was qute a queer and e ceptona pat-
tern, argued March; surey t s far too fan-
tastc a concdence to magne
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Home sher. It s e traordnary what co-
ncdences do sometmes occur. y the oddest
chance n the word, by one chance n a mon,
t so happened that another sword of e acty
the same shape was n the same garden at the
same tme. It may be party e paned by the
fact that I brought them both nto the garden
mysef . . . come, my dear feow; surey you
can see now what t means. Put those two
thngs together; there were two dupcate
swords and he took off hs coat for hmsef. It
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may assst your specuatons to reca the fact
that I am not e acty an assassn.
A due e camed March, recoverng hm-
sef. Of course I ought to have thought of
that. ut who was the spy who stoe the
papers
My unce was the spy who stoe the papers,
reped sher, or who tred to stea the papers
when I stopped hm n the ony way I coud.
The papers, that shoud have gone west to re-
assure our frends and gve them the pans for
repeng the nvason, woud n a few hours
have been n the hands of the nvader. hat
coud I do To have denounced one of our
frends at ths moment woud have been to pay
nto the hands of your frend Attwood, and a
the party of panc and savery. esdes, t may
be that a man over forty has a subconscous
desre to de as he has ved, and that I wanted,
n a sense, to carry my secrets to the grave. Per-
haps a hobby hardens wth age; and my hobby
has been sence. Perhaps I fee that I have
ked my mother s brother, but I have saved my
mother s name. Anyhow, I chose a tme when
I knew you were a aseep, and he was wakng
aone n the garden. I saw a the stone statues
standng n the moonght; and I mysef was ke
one of those stone statues wakng. In a voce
that was not my own, I tod hm of hs treason
and demanded the papers; and when he refused,
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I forced hm to take one of the two swords.
The swords were among some specmens sent
down here for the Prme Mnster s nspecton;
he s a coector, you know; they were the ony
equa weapons I coud fnd. To cut an ugy tae
short, we fought there on the path n front of
the rtanna statue; he was a man of great
strength, but I had somewhat the advantage n
sk. Hs sword grazed my forehead amost
at the moment when mne sank nto the ont n
hs neck. He fe aganst the statue, ke Caesar
aganst Pompey s, hangng on to the ron ra;
hs sword was aready broken. hen I saw the
bood from that deady wound, everythng ese
went from me; I dropped my sword and ran
as f to ft hm up. As I bent toward hm some-
thng happened too quck for me to foow. I
do not know whether the ron bar was rotted
wth rust and came away n hs hand, or whether
he rent t out of the rock wth hs apeke
strength; but the thng was n hs hand, and
wth hs dyng energes he swung t over my
head, as I knet there unarmed besde hm. I
ooked up wdy to avod the bow, and saw
above us the great buk of rtanna eanng out-
ward ke the fgurehead of a shp. The ne t
nstant I saw t was eanng an nch or two more
than usua, and a the skes wth ther outstand-
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the fourth I was standng n the quet garden,
ookng down on that fat run of stone and bone
at whch you were ookng to-day. He had
pucked out the ast prop that hed up the rtsh
goddess, and she had faen and crushed the
trator n her fa. I turned and darted for the
coat whch I knew to contan the package, rpped
t up wth my sword, and raced away up the
garden path to where my motor bke was wat-
ng on the road above. I had every reason
for haste; but I fed wthout ookng back
at the statue and the body; and I thnk the
thng I fed from was the sght of that appa-
ng aegory.
Then I dd the rest of what I had to do. A
through the nght and nto the daybreak and the
dayght I went hummng through the vages
and markets of South ngand ke a traveng
buet, t I came to the headquarters n the est
where the troube was. I was ust n tme. I
was abe to pacard the pace, so to speak, wth
the news that the government had not betrayed
them, and that they woud fnd supports f they
woud push eastward aganst the enemy. There s
no tme to te you a that happened; but I te
you t was the day of my fe. A trumph ke a
torchght processon, wth torchghts that mght
have been frebrands. The mutnes smmered
down; the men of Somerset and the western
countes came pourng nto the market paces; the
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men who ded wth Arthur and stood frm wth
Afred. The Irsh regments raed to them,
after a scene ke a rot, and marched eastward
out of the town sngng enan songs. There
was a that s not understood, about the dark
aughter of that peope, n the deght wth
whch, even when marchng wth the ngsh to
the defense of ngand, they shouted at the top
of ther voces, Hgh upon the gaows tree
stood the nobe-hearted three . . . th ng-
and s crue cord about them cast. However,
the chorus was God save Ireand, and we coud
a have sung that ust then, n one sense or an-
other.
ut there was another sde to my msson.
I carred the pans of the defense; and to a great
e tent, ucky, the pans of the nvason aso.
I won t worry you wth strategcs; but we knew
where the enemy had pushed forward the great
battery that covered a hs movements; and
though our frends from the est coud hardy
arrve n tme to ntercept the man movement,
they mght get wthn ong artery range of the
battery and she t, f they ony knew e acty
where t was. They coud hardy te that un-
ess somebody round about here sent up some
sort of sgna. ut, somehow, I rather fancy
that somebody w.
th that he got up from the tabe, and they
remounted ther machnes and went eastward
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nto the advancng twght of evenng. The
eves of the andscape were repeated n fat
strps of foatng coud and the ast coors of
day cung to the crce of the horzon. Reced-
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semcrce of the ast hs; and t was qute sud-
deny that they saw afar off the dm ne of the
sea. It was not a strp of brght bue as they
had seen t from the sunny veranda, but of a
snster and smoky voet, a tnt that seemed
omnous and dark. Here Home sher ds-
mounted once more.
e must wak the rest of the way, he sad,
and the ast bt of a I must wak aone.
He bent down and began to unstrap some-
thng from hs bcyce. It was somethng that
had puzzed hs companon a the way n spte
of what hed hm to more nterestng rddes;
t appeared to be severa engths of poe strapped
together and wrapped up n paper. sher took
t under hs arm and began to pck hs way across
the turf. The ground was growng more tum-
bed and rreguar and he was wakng toward a
mass of thckets and sma woods; nght grew
darker every moment. e must not tak any
more, sad sher. I sha whsper to you
when you are to hat. Don t try to foow me
then, for t w ony spo the show; one man
can barey craw safey to the spot, and two
woud certany be caught.
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I woud foow you anywhere, reped
March, but I woud hat, too, f that s better.
I know you woud, sad hs frend n a ow
voce. Perhaps you re the ony man I ever
qute trusted n ths word.
A few paces farther on they came to the end
of a great rdge or mound ookng monstrous
aganst the dm sky; and sher stopped wth a
gesture. He caught hs companon s hand and
wrung t wth a voent tenderness, and then
darted forward nto the darkness. March coud
fanty see hs fgure crawng aong under the
shadow of the rdge, then he ost sght of t,
and then he saw t agan standng on another
mound two hundred yards away. esde hm
stood a snguar erecton made apparenty of
two rods. He bent over t and there was the
fare of a ght; a March s schooboy memores
woke n hm, and he knew what t was. It was
the stand of a rocket. The confused, ncongru-
ous memores st possessed hm up to the very
moment of a ferce but famar sound; and an
nstant after the rocket eft ts perch and went
up nto endess space ke a starry arrow amed
at the stars. March thought suddeny of the
sgns of the ast days and knew he was ookng
at the apocayptc meteor of somethng ke a
Day of udgment.
ar up n the nfnte heavens the rocket
drooped and sprang nto scaret stars. or a
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moment the whoe andscape out to the sea
and back to the crescent of the wooded hs was
ke a ake of ruby ght, of a red strangey rch
and gorous, as f the word were steeped n
wne rather than bood, or the earth were an
earthy paradse, over whch paused forever the
sangune moment of mornng.
God save ngand cred sher, wth a
tongue ke the pea of a trumpet. And now
t s for God to save.
As darkness sank agan over and and sea
there came another sound; far away n the passes
of the hs behnd them the guns spoke ke the
bayng of great hounds. Somethng that was not
a rocket, that came not hssng but screamng,
went over Harod March s head and e panded
beyond the mound nto ght and deafenng dn,
staggerng the bran wth unbearabe brutates
of nose. Another came, and then another, and
the word was fu of uproar and vocanc vapor
and chaotc ght. The artery of the est
country and the Irsh had ocated the great
enemy battery, and were poundng t to peces.
In the mad e ctement of that moment March
peered through the storm, ookng agan for
the ong ean fgure that stood besde the stand
of the rocket. Then another fash t up the
whoe rdge. The fgure was not there.
efore the fres of the rocket had faded from
the sky, ong before the frst gun had sounded
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TH TR S O PRID
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O UIR AN was an edery schooboy of
- ngsh educaton and Irsh e tracton. Hs
ngsh educaton, at one of the great pubc
schoos, had preserved hs nteect perfecty and
permanenty at the stage of boyhood. ut hs
Irsh e tracton subconscousy upset n hm the
proper soemnty of an od boy, and sometmes
gave hm back the brghter outook of a naughty
boy. He had a body mpatence whch payed
trcks upon hm amost aganst hs w, and had
aready rendered hm rather too radant a faure
n cv and dpomatc servce. Thus t s true
that compromse s the key of rtsh pocy,
especay as effectng an mpartaty among the
regons of Inda; but ane s attempt to meet
the Mosem hafway by kckng off one boot at
the gates of the mosque, was fet not so much to
ndcate true mpartaty as somethng that coud
ony be caed an aggressve ndfference. Agan,
t s true that an ngsh arstocrat can hardy
enter fuy nto the feengs of ether party n a
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quarre between a Russan ew and an Orthodo
processon carryng recs; but ane s dea that
the processon mght carry the ew as we, hm-
sef a venerabe and hstorc rec, was msunder-
stood on both sdes. In short, he was a man who
partcuary prded hmsef on havng no non-
sense about hm; wth the resut that he was
aways dong nonsensca thngs. He seemed to
be standng on hs head merey to prove that he
was hard-headed.
He had ust fnshed a hearty breakfast, n the
socety of hs daughter, at a tabe under a tree
n hs garden by the Cornsh coast. or, havng
a gorous crcuaton, he nssted on as many out-
door meas as possbe, though sprng had barey
touched the woods and warmed the seas round
that southern e tremty of ngand. Hs daugh-
ter arbara, a good-ookng gr wth heavy
red har and a face as grave as one of the garden
statues, st sat amost motoness as a statue
when her father rose. A fne ta fgure n ght
cothes, wth hs whte har and mustache fy-
ng backwards rather fercey from a face that
was good-humored enough, for he carred hs
very wde Panama hat n hs hand, he strode
across the terraced garden, down some stone
steps fanked wth od ornamenta urns to a more
woodand path frnged wth tte trees, and so
down a zgzag road whch descended the craggy
cff to the shore, where he was to meet a guest
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The Tae of the Peacock Trees
arrvng by boat. A yacht was aready n the bue
bay, and he coud see a boat pung toward the
tte paved per. 1
And yet n that short wak between the green
turf and the yeow sands he was destned to fnd
hs hard-headedness provoked nto a not unfa-
mar phase whch the word was ncned to ca
hot-headedness. The fact was that the Cornsh
peasantry, who composed hs tenantry and do-
mestc estabshment, were far from beng peope
wth no nonsense about them. There was, aas
a great dea of nonsense about them; wth ghosts,
wtches, and tradtons as od as Mern, they
seemed to surround hm wth a fary rng of non-
sense. ut the magc crce had one center: there
was one pont n whch the curvng conversaton
of the rustcs aways returned. It was a pont
that aways prcked the Squre to e asperaton,
and even n ths short wak he seemed to strke
t everywhere. He paused before descendng the
steps from the awn to speak to the gardener
about pottng some foregn shrubs, and the
gardener seemed to be goomy gratfed, n
every ne of hs eathery brown vsage, at the
chance of ndcatng that he had formed a ow
opnon of foregn shrubs.
e wsh you d get rd of what you ve got
here, sr, he observed, dggng doggedy.
Nothng grow rght wth them here.
Shrubs sad the Squre, aughng. You
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don t ca the peacock trees shrubs, do you
ne ta trees you ought to be proud of
them.
I weeds grow apace, observed the gar-
dener. eeds can grow as houses when some-
body pants them. Then he added: Hm that
sowed tares n the be, Squre.
Oh, bast your began the Squre, and
then repaced the more apt and ateratve word
be by the genera word superstton.
He was hmsef a robust ratonast, but he went
to church to set hs tenants an e ampe. Of
what, t woud have puzzed hm to say.
A tte way aong the ower path by the trees
he encountered a woodcutter, one Martn, who
was more e pct, havng more of a grevance.
Hs daughter was at that tme serousy wth
a fever recenty common on that coast, and the
Squre, who was a knd-hearted genteman,
woud normay have made aowances for ow
sprts and oss of temper. ut he came near to
osng hs own agan when the peasant perssted
n connectng hs tragedy wth the tradtona
monomana about the foregn trees.
If she were we enough I d move her, sad
the woodcutter, as we can t move them, I sup-
pose. I d ust ke to get my chopper nto them
and fee em come crashng down.
One woud thnk they were dragons, sad
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And that s about what they ook ke, re-
ped Martn. Look at em
The woodman was naturay a rougher and
even wder fgure than the gardener. Hs face
aso was brown, and ooked ke an antque
parchment, and t was framed n an outandsh
arrangement of raven beard and whskers, whch
was reay a fashon ffty years ago, but mght
have been fve thousand years od or oder.
Phoencans, one fet, tradng on those strange
shores n the mornng of the word, mght have
combed or cured or braded ther bue-back har
nto some such quant patterns. or ths patch
of popuaton was as much a corner of Cornwa
as Cornwa s a corner of ngand; a tragc
and unque race, sma and nterreated ke a
Cetc can. The can was oder than the ane
famy, though that was od as county fames
go. or n many such parts of ngand t s the
arstocrats who are the atest arrvas. It was
the sort of raca type that s supposed to be
passng, and perhaps has aready passed.
The obno ous ob ects stood some hundred
yards away from the speaker, who waved toward
them wth hs a ; and there was somethng sug-
gestve n the comparson. That coast, to begn
wth, stretchng toward the sunset, was tsef
amost as fantastc as a sunset coud. It was cut
out aganst the emerad or ndgo of the sea n
graven horns and crescents that mght be the cast
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or mod of some such crested serpents; and, be-
neath, was perced and fretted by caves and
crevces, as f by the borng of some such ttanc
yrorms. Over and above ths draconan archtec-
ture of the earth a ve of gray woods hung
thnner ke a vapor; woods whch the wtch-
craft of the sea had, as usua, both bghted and
bown out of shape. To the rght the trees traed
aong the sea front n a snge ne, each drawn
out n thn wd nes ke a carcature. At the
other end of ther e tent they mutped nto a
hudde of hunchbacked trees, a wood spreadng
toward a pro ectng part of the hgh coast. It
was here that the sght appeared to whch so
many eyes and mnds seemed to be amost auto-
matcay turnng.
Out of the mdde of ths ow, and more or ess
eve wood, rose three separate stems that shot
up and soared nto the sky ke a ghthouse out
of the waves or a church spre out of the vage
roofs. They formed a cump of three coumns
cose together, whch mght we be the mere
bfurcaton, or rather trfurcaton, of one tree,
the ower part beng ost or sunken n the thck
wood around. verythng about them suggested
somethng stranger and more southern than any-
thng even n that ast pennsua of rtan whch
pushes out farthest toward Span and Afrca and
the southern stars. Ther eathery eafage had
.sprouted n advance of the fant mst of yeow-
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green around them, and t was of another and
ess natura green, tnged wth bue, ke the
coors of a kngfsher. ut one mght fancy t
the scaes of some three-headed dragon towerng
over a herd of hudded and feeng catte.
I am e ceedngy sorry your gr s so unwe,
sad ane shorty. ut reay and he
strode down the steep road wth pungng strdes.
The boat was aready secured to the tte stone
etty, and the boatman, a younger shadow of
the woodcutter and, ndeed, a nephew of that
usefu macontent sauted hs terrtora ord
wth the suen formaty of the famy. The
Squre acknowedged t casuay and had soon
forgotten a such thngs n shakng hands wth
the vstor who had ust come ashore. The vstor
was a ong, oose man, very ean to be so young,
whose ong, fne features seemed whoy ftted
together of bone and nerve, and seemed some-
how to contrast wth hs har, that showed n
vvd yeow patches upon hs hoow tempes
under the brm of hs whte hoday hat. He was
carefuy dressed n e quste taste, though he had
come straght from a consderabe sea voyage;
and he carred somethng n hs hand whch n
hs ong uropean traves, and even onger uro-
pean vsts, he had amost forgotten to ca a
grpsack.
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ved n Itay. There was a good dea more
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to be sad about hm, for he was a very acute and
cutvated genteman; but those two facts woud,
perhaps, cover most of the others. Storng hs
mnd ke a museum wth the wonder of the Od
ord, but a t up as by a wndow wth the
wonder of the New, he had faen her to some-
thng of the unque crtca poston of Ruskn or
Pater, and was further famous as a dscoverer of
mnor poets. He was a udcous dscoverer, and
he dd not turn a hs mnor poets nto ma or
prophets. If hs geese were swans, they were
not a Swans of Avon. He had even ncurred
the deady suspcon of casscsm by dfferng
from hs young frends, the Punctust Poets, when
they produced versfcaton consstng e cusvey
of commas and coons. He had a more humane
sympathy wth the modern fame knded from
the embers of Cetc mythoogy, and t was n
reaty the recent appearance of a Cornsh poet,
a sort of parae to the new Irsh poets, whch
had brought hm on ths occason to Cornwa.
He was, ndeed, far too we-mannered to aow
a host to guess that any peasure was beng sought
outsde hs own hosptaty. He had a ong-
standng nvtaton from ane, whom he had met
n Cyprus n the atter s days of undpomatc
dpomacy; and ane was not aware that rea-
tons had ony been thus renewed after the crtc
had read Mern and Other ferses, by a new
wrter named ohn Treherne. Nor dd the
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Squre even begn to reaze the much more dpo-
matc dpomacy by whch he had been nduced
to nvte the oca bard to unch on the very day
of the Amercan crtc s arrva.
Mr. Paynter was st standng wth hs grp-
sack, gazng n a trance of true admraton at the
hoowed crags, topped by the gray, grotesque
wood, and crested fnay by the three fantastc
trees.
It s ke beng shpwrecked on the coast of
faryand, he sad.
I hope you haven t been shpwrecked much,
reped hs host, smng. I fancy ake here
can ook after you very we.
Mr. Paynter ooked across at the boatman
and smed aso. I am afrad, he sad, our
frend s not qute so enthusastc for ths and-
scape as I am. .
Oh, the trees, I suppose sad the Squre
weary.
The boatman was by norma trade a fsher-
man ; but as hs house, but of back tarred tm-
ber, stood rght on the foreshore a few yards
from the per, he was empoyed n such cases as
a sort of ferryman. He was a bg, back-browed
youth, generay sent, but somethng seemed
now to stng hm nto speech.
e, sr, he sad, everybody knows t s
not natura. verybody knows the sea bghts
trees and beats them under, when they re
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ony ust trees. These thngs thrve ke
some unhoy great seaweed that don t beong
to the and at a. It s ke the the bessed
sea serpent got on shore, Squre, and eatng every-
thng up.
There s some stupd egend, sad Squre
ane gruffy. ut come up nto the garden; I
want to ntroduce you to my daughter.
hen, however, they reached the tte tabe
under the tree, the apparenty mmovabe young
ady had moved away after a, and t was some
tme before they came upon the track of her.
She had rsen, though angudy, and wandered
sowy aong the upper path of the terraced
garden ookng down on the ower path where t
ran coser to the man buk of the tte wood by
the sea.
Her anguor was not a feebeness but rather
2C funess of fe, ke that of a chd haf awake;
she seemed to stretch hersef and en oy every-
thng wthout notcng anythng. She passed the
wood, nto the gray hudde of whch a snge
whte path vanshed through a back hoe. Aong
ths part of the terrace ran somethng ke a ow
rampart or baustrade, embowered wth fowers
at ntervas; and she eaned over t, ookng down
at another gmpse of the gowng sea behnd the
cump of trees, and on another rreguar path
tumbng down to the per and the boatman s
cottage on the beach.
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As she gazed, seepy enough, she saw that a
strange fgure was very actvey cmbng the path,
apparenty comng from the fsherman s cottage;
so actvey that a moment afterwards t came out
between the trees and stood upon the path ust
beow her. It was not ony a fgure strange to
her, but one somewhat strange n tsef. It was
that of a man st young, and seemng somehow
younger than hs own cothes, whch were not
ony shabby but antquated; cothes common
enough n te ture, yet carred n an uncommon
fashon. He wore what was presumaby a ght
waterproof, perhaps through havng come off
the sea; but t was hed at the throat by one
button, and hung, seeves and a, more ke a
coak than a coat. He rested one bony hand on
a back stck; under the shadow of hs broad hat
hs back har hung down n a tuft or two. Hs
face, whch was swarthy, but rather handsome n
tsef, wore somethng that may have been a
sghty embarrassed sme, but had too much
the appearance of a sneer.
hether ths apparton was a tramp or a
trespasser, or a frend of some of the fshers or
woodcutters, arbara ane was qute unabe to
guess. He removed hs hat, st wth hs un-
atered and rather snster sme, and sad cvy:
cuse me. The Squre asked me to ca.
Here he caught sght of Martn, the woodman,
who was shftng aong the path, thnnng the
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thn trees; and the stranger made a famar
saute wth one fnger.
The gr dd not know what to say. Have
you have you come about cuttng the wood
she asked at ast.
I woud I were so honest a man,1 reped the
stranger. Martn s, I fancy, a dstant cousn
of mne; we Cornsh fok ust round here are
neary a reated, you know; but I do not cut
wood. I do not cut anythng, e cept, perhaps,
capers. I am, so to speak, a ongeur.
A what asked arbara.
A mnstre, sha we say answered the new-
comer, and ooked up at her more steady. Dur-
ng a rather odd sence ther eyes rested on each
other. hat she saw has been aready noted,
though by her, at any rate, not n the east under-
stood. hat he saw was a decdedy beautfu
woman wth a statuesque face and har that shone
n the sun ke a hemet of copper.
Do you know, he went on, that n ths od
pace, hundreds of years ago, a ongeur may
reay have stood where I stand, and a ady may
reay have ooked over that wa and thrown
hm money
Do y u want money she asked, a at sea.
e, drawed the stranger, n the sense
of ackng t, perhaps, but I fear there s no pace
now for a mnstre, e cept ngger mnstre. I
must apoogze for not backng my face.
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She aughed a tte n her bewderment, and
sad: e, I hardy thnk you need do that.
You thnk the natves here are dark enough
aready, perhaps, he observed camy. After
a, we are aborgnes, and are treated as such.
She threw out some desperate remark about
the weather or the scenery, and wondered what
woud happen ne t.
The prospect s certany beautfu, he as-
sented, n the same engmatc manner. There
s ony one thng n t I am doubtfu about.
he she stood n sence he sowy fted hs
back stck ke a ong back fnger and ponted t
at the peacock trees above the wood. And a queer
feeng of dsquet fe on the gr, as f he were,
by that mere gesture, dong a destructve act and
coud send a bght upon the garden.
The straned and amost panfu sence was
broken by the voce of Squre ane, oud even
whe t was st dstant.
e coudn t make out where you d got to,
arbara, he sad. Ths s my frend, Mr.
Cypran Paynter. The ne t moment he saw
the stranger and stopped, a tte puzzed.
It was ony Mr. Cypran Paynter hmsef who
was equa to the stuaton. He had seen months
ago a portrat of the new Cornsh poet n some
Amercan terary magazne, and he found hm-
sef, to hs surprse, the ntroducer nstead of
the ntroduced.
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hy, Squre, he sad n consderabe aston-
shment, don t you know Mr. Treherne I
supposed, of course, he was a neghbor.
Deghted to see you, Mr. Treherne, sad
the Squre, recoverng hs manners wth a certan
gena confuson. So peased you were abe to
come. Ths1 s Mr. Paynter my daughter,
and, turnng wth a certan bosterous embarrass-
ment, he ed the way to the tabe under the tree.
Cypran Paynter foowed, nwardy revovng
a puzze whch had taken even hs e perence by
surprse. The Amercan, f nteectuay an ars-
tocrat, was st socay and subconscousy a
democrat. It had never crossed hs mnd that the
poet shoud be counted ucky to know the squre
and not the squre to know the poet. The honest
patronage n ane s hosptaty was somethng
whch made Paynter fee he was, after a, an
e e n ngand.
The Squre, antcpatng the tra of uncheon
wth a strange terary man, had deat wth the
case tactfuy from hs own standpont. County
socety mght have made the guest fee ke a
fsh out of water; and, e cept for the Amercan
crtc and the oca awyer and doctor, worthy
mdde-cass peope who ftted nto the pcture, he
had kept t as a famy party. He was a wdower,
and when the mea had been ad out on the
garden tabe, t was arbara who presded as
hostess. She had the new poet on her rght hand
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and t made her very uncomfortabe. She had
practcay offered that faacous ongeur money,
and t dd not make t easer to offer hm unch.
The whoe countrysde s gone mad, an-
nounced the Squre, by way of the atest oca
news. It s about ths nferna, egend of ours.
I coect egends, sad Paynter, smng.
You must remember I haven t yet had a chance
to coect yours. And ths, he added, ookng
round at the romantc coast, s a fne theater for
anythng dramatc.
Oh, t s dramatc n ts way, admtted ane,
not wthout a fant satsfacton. It s a about
those thngs over there we ca the peacock trees
I suppose, because of the queer coor of the
eaf, you know, though I have heard they make
a shr nose n a hgh wnd that s supposed to
be ke the shrek of a peacock; somethng ke
a bamboo n the botanca structure, perhaps.
e, those trees are supposed to have been
brought over from arbary by my ancestor Sr
ater ane, one of the zabethan patrots or
prates, or whatever you ca them. They say
that at the end of hs ast voyage the vagers
gathered on the beach down there and saw the
boat standng n from the sea, and the new trees
stood up n the boat ke a mast, a gay wth
eaves out of season, ke green buntng. And
as they watched they thought at frst that the
boat was steerng oddy, and then that t wasn t
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steerng at a; and when t drfted to the shore
at ast every man n that boat was dead, and Sr
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up aganst the tree trunk, as stff as the tree.
Now ths s rather curous, remarked
Paynter thoughtfuy. I tod you I coected
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of the story of whch that s the end, though t
comes hundreds of mes across the sea.
He tapped medtatvey on the tabe wth hs
thn, taper fngers, ke a man tryng to reca a
tune. He had, ndeed, made a hobby of such
fabes, and he was not wthout vanty about hs
artstc touch n teng them.
Oh, do te us your part of t cred arbara
ane, whose ar of sunny seepness seemed n
some vague degree to have faen from her.
The Amercan bowed across the tabe wth
a serous poteness, and then began payng
dy wth a quant rng on hs ong fnger as he
taked.
If you go down to the arbary Coast, where
the ast wedge of the forest narrows down be-
tween the desert and the great tdeess sea, you
w fnd the natves st teng a strange story
about a sant of the Dark Ages. There, on the
twght border of the Dark Contnent, you fee
the Dark Ages. I have ony vsted the pace
once, though t es, so to speak, opposte to the
Itaan cty where I ved for years, and yet you
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woud hardy beeve how the topsy-turvydom
and transmgraton of ths myth somehow seemed
ess mad than they reay are, wth the wood oud
wth ons at nght and that dark red sotude
beyond. They say that the hermt St. Securs,
vng there among trees, grew to ove them ke
companons; snce, though great gants wth many
arms ke rareus, they were the mdest and
most bameess of the creatures; they dd not de-
vour ke the ons, but rather opened ther arms
to a the tte brds. And he prayed that they
mght be oosened from tme to tme to wak ke
other thngs. And the trees were moved upon
the prayers of Securs, as they were at the songs
of Orpheus. The men of the desert were strcken
from afar wth fear, seeng the sant wakng
wth a wakng grove, ke a schoomaster wth
hs boys. or the trees were thus freed under
strct condtons of dscpne. They were to
return at the sound of the hermt s be, and,
above a, to copy the wd beasts n wakng ony
to destroy and devour nothng. e, t s sad
that one of the trees heard, a voce that was not
the sant s; that n the warm green twght of
one summer evenng t became conscous of some-
thng sttng and speakng n ts branches n the
guse of a great brd, and t was that whch once
spoke from a tree n the guse of a great serpent.
As the voce grew ouder among ts murmurng
eaves the tree was torn wth a great desre to
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stretch out and snatch at the brds that few
harmessy about ther nests, and puck them to
peces. nay, the tempter fed the tree-top
wth hs own brds of prde, the starry pageant
of the peacocks. And the sprt of the brute
overcame the sprt of the tree, and t rent and
consumed the bue-green brds t not a pume
was eft, and returned to the quet trbe of trees.
ut they say that when sprng came a the other
trees put forth eaves, but ths put forth feathers
of a strange hue and pattern. And by that mon-
strous assmaton the sant knew of the sn, and
he rooted that one tree to the earth wth a udg-
ment, so that ev shoud fa on any who re-
moved t agan. That, Squre, s the begnnng
n the deserts of the tae that ended here, amost
n ths garden.
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nng, I shoud say, sad ane. Yours s a nce
pan tae for a sma tea-party; a quet tte bt
of st-fe, that s.
hat a queer, horrbe story, e camed
arbara. It makes one fee ke a cannba.
Afrca, sad the awyer, smng. It
comes from a cannba country. I thnk t s the
touch of the tar-brush, that nghtmare feeng
that you don t know whether the hero s a pant
or a man or a dev. Don t you fee t sometmes
n Unce Remus
True, sad Paynter. Perfecty true. And
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he ooked at the awyer wth a new nterest. The
awyer, who had been ntroduced as Mr. Ashe,
was one of those peope who are more worth
ookng at than most peope reaze when they
ook. If Napoeon had been red-hared, and had
bent a hs powers wth a curous contentment
upon the petty awsuts of a provnce, he mght
have ooked much the same; the head wth the
red har was heavy and powerfu; the fgure n ts
dark, quet cothes was comparatvey nsgnf-
cant, as was Napoeon s. He seemed more at
ease n the Squre s socety than the doctor, who,
though a genteman, was a shy one, and a mere
shadow of hs professona brother.
As you truy say, remarked Paynter, the
story seems touched wth qute barbarous ee-
ments, probaby Negro. Orgnay, though, I
thnk there was reay a hagoogca story about
some hermt, though some of the hgher crtcs
say St. Securs never e sted, but was ony an
aegory of arborcuture, snce hs name s the
Latn for an a .
Oh, f you come to that, remarked the poet
Treherne, you mght as we say Squre ane
doesn t e st, and that he s ony an aegory for
a weathercock. Somethng a shade too coo
about ths say drew the awyer s red brows to-
gether. He ooked across the tabe and met the
poet s somewhat equvoca sme.
Do I understand, Mr. Treherne, asked
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Ashe, that you support the mracuous cams of
St. Securs n ths case. Do you, by any chance,
beeve n the wakng trees
I see men as trees wakng, answered the
poet, ke the man cured of bndness n the
Gospe. y the way, do I understand that you
support the mracuous cams of that thau-
maturgst
Paynter ntervened swfty and suavey. Now
that sounds a fascnatng pece of psychoogy.
You see men as trees
As I can t magne why men shoud wak, I
can t magne why trees shoudn t, answered
Treherne.
Obvousy, t s the nature of the organsm,
nterposed the medca guest, Dr. urton rown;
t s necessary n the very type of vegetabe
structure.
In other words, a tree stcks n the mud from
year s end to year s end, answered Treherne.
So do you stop n your consutng room from
ten to eeven every day. And don t you fancy a
fary, ookng n at your wndow for a fash after
havng ust umped over the moon and payed
muberry bush wth the Peades, woud thnk you
were a vegetabe structure, and that sttng st
was the nature of the organsm
I don t happen to beeve n fares, sad the
doctor rather stffy, for the argumentum ad
homnem was becomng too common. A suphur-
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ous subconscous anger seemed to radate from
the dark poet.
e, I shoud hope not, Doctor, began the
Squre, n hs oud and frendy stye, and then
stopped, seeng the other s attenton arrested.
The sent buter watng on the guests had ap-
peared behnd the doctor s char, and was sayng
somethng n the ow, eve tones of the we-
traned servant. He was so smooth a specmen
of the type that others never notced, at frst,
that he aso repeated the dark portrat, however
varnshed, so common n ths partcuar famy
of Cornsh Cets. Hs face was saow and even
yeow, and hs har ndgo back. He went by
the name of Mes. Some fet oppressed by the
trba type n ths tny corner of ngand. They
fet somehow as f a these dark faces were the
masks of a secret socety.
The doctor rose wth a haf apoogy. I must
ask pardon for dsturbng ths peasant party; I
am caed away on duty. Pease don t et any-
body move. e have to be ready for these
thngs, you know. Perhaps Mr. Treherne w
admt that my habts are not so very vegetabe,
after a. th ths Parthan shaft, at whch
there was some aughter, he strode away very
rapdy across the sunny awn to where t e road
dpped down toward the vage.
He s very good among the poor, sad the
gr wth an honorabe serousness.
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A capta feow, agreed the Squre. here
s Mes You w have a cgar, Mr. Treherne
And he got up from the tabe; the rest foowed,
and the group broke up on the awn.
Remarkabe man, Treherne, sad the Amer-
can to the awyer conversatonay.
Remarkabe s the word, assented Ashe
rather grmy. ut I don t thnk I make any
remark about hm.
The Squre, too mpatent to wat for the ye-
ow-faced Mes, had betaken hmsef ndoors
for the cgars, and arbara found hersef once
more pared off wth the poet, as she foated
aong the terrace garden; but ths tme, sym-
bocay enough, upon the same eve of awn.
Mr. Treherne ooked ess eccentrc after havng
shed hs curous coak, and seemed a queter and
more casua fgure.
I ddn t mean to be rude to you ust now,
she sad abrupty.
And that s the worst of t, reped the man
of etters, for I m horrby afrad I dd mean
to be rude to you. hen I ooked up and saw
you up there somethng surged up n me that was
n a the revoutons of hstory. Oh, there was
admraton n t too Perhaps there was doatry
n a the conocasts.
He seemed to have a power of reachng rather
ntmate conversaton n one sent and cat-ke
bound, as he had scaed the steep road, and t
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made her fee hm to be dangerous, and perhaps
unscrupuous. She changed the sub ect sharpy,
not wthout a movement toward gratfyng her
own curosty.
hat dd you mean by a that about wakng
trees she asked. Don t te me you reay
beeve n a magc tree that eats brds
I shoud probaby surprse you, sad Tre-
herne gravey, more by what I don t beeve
than by what I do.
Then, after a pause, Ke made a genera ges-
ture toward the house and garden. I m afrad
I don t beeve n a ths; for nstance, n za-
bethan houses and zabethan fames and the
way estates have been mproved, and the rest of
t. Look at our frend the woodcutter .now.
And he ponted to the man wth the quant back
beard, who was st pyng hs a upon the tm-
ber beow.
That man s famy goes back for ages, and
t was far rcher and freer n what you ca the
Dark Ages than t s now. at t the Cornsh
peasant wrtes a hstory of Cornwa.
ut what n the word, she demanded, has
ths to do wth whether you beeve n a tree
eatng brds
hy shoud I confess what I beeve n he
sad, a muffed drum of mutny n hs voce. The
gentry came here and took our and and took
our abor and took our customs. And now, after
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e potaton, a ver thng, educaton They
must take our dreams
e, ths dream was rather a nghtmare,
wasn t t asked arbara, smng; and the ne t
moment grew qute grave, sayng amost an -
ousy: ut here s Doctor rown back agan.
hy, he ooks qute upset.
The doctor, a back fgure on the green awn,
was, ndeed, comng toward them at a very vgor-
ous wak. Hs body and gat very much younger
than hs face, whch seemed prematurey ned
as wth worry; hs brow was bad, and pro ected
from the straght, dark har behnd t. He was
vsby paer than when he eft the unch tabe.
I am sorry to say, Mss ane, he sad, that
I am the bearer of bad news to poor Martn, the
woodman here. Hs daughter ded haf an hour
ago.
Oh, cred arbara warmy, I am so sorry
So am I, sad the doctor, and passed on
rather abrupty; he ran down the stone steps
between the stone urns; and they saw hm n tak
wth the woodcutter. They coud not see the
woodcutter s face. He stood wth hs back to
them, but they saw somethng that seemed more
movng than any change of countenance. The
man s hand hodng the a rose hgh above hs
head, and for a fash t seemed as f he woud
have cut down the doctor. ut n fact he was
not ookng at the doctor. Hs face was set
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toward the cff, where, sheer out of the dwarf
forest, rose, ggantc and gded by the sun, the
trees of prde.
The strong brown hand made a movement and
was empty. The a went crcng swfty through
the ar, ts head showng ke a sver crescent
aganst the gray twght of the trees. It dd not
reach ts ta ob ectve, but fe among the under-
growth, shakng up a fyng tter of brds. ut
n the poet s memory, fu of prma thngs, some-
thng seemed to say that he had seen the brds
of some pagan augury, the a of some pagan
sacrfce.
A moment after the man made a heavy move-
ment forward, as f to recover hs too; but the
doctor put a hand on hs arm.
Never mnd that now, they heard hm say
sady and kndy. The Squre w e cuse you
any more work, I know.
Somethng made the gr ook at Treherne.
He stood gazng, hs head a tte bent, and one
of hs back ef-ocks had faen forward over
hs forehead. And agan she had the sense of
a shadow over the grass; she amost fet as f
the grass were a host of fares, and that the
fares were not her frends.
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II
TH AG R O S UIR AN
TT was more than a month before the egend
of the peacock trees was agan dscussed n
the Squre s crce. It fe out one evenng, when
hs eccentrc taste for meas n the garden that
gathered the company round the same tabe, now
t wth a amp and ad out for dnner n a gow-
ng sprng twght. It was even the same com-
pany, for n the few weeks ntervenng they had
nsensby grown more and more nto each other s
ves, formng a tte group ke a cub. The
Amercan aesthete was of course the most actve
agent, hs resouton to puck out the heart of
the Cornsh poet s mystery eadng hm agan
and agan to nfuence hs fghty host for such
reunons. ven Mr. Ashe, the awyer, seemed
to have swaowed hs haf-humorous pre udces;
and the doctor, though a rather sad and sent,
was a companonabe and consderate man.
Paynter had even read Treherne s poetry aoud,
and he read admraby; he had aso read other
thngs, not aoud, grubbng up everythng n the
neghborhood, from gudebooks to eptaphs, that
coud throw a ght on oca antqutes. And t
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The ager of Squre ane
was that evenng when the ampght and the ast
dayght had knded the coors of the wne and
sver on the tabe under the tree, that he an-
nounced a new dscovery.
Say, Squre, he remarked, wth one of hs
rare Amercansms, about those bogey trees of
yours; I don t beeve you know haf the taes
tod round here about them. It seems they have
a way of eatng thngs. Not that I have any
ethca ob ecton to eatng thngs, he contnued,
hepng hmsef eeganty to green cheese. ut
I have more or ess, broady speakng, an ob ec-
ton to eatng peope.
atng peope repeated arbara ane.
I know a gobe-trotter mustn t be fastdous,
reped Mr. Paynter. ut I repeat frmy, an
ob ecton to eatng peope. The peacock trees
seem to have progressed snce the happy days of
nnocence when they ony ate peacocks. If you
ask the peope here the fsherman who ves on
that beach, or the man that mows ths very awn
n front of us they te you taes taer than
any tropca one I brought you from the arbary
Coast. If you ask them what happened to the
fsherman Peters, who got drunk on A Haows
ve, they te you he ost hs way n that
tte wood, tumbed down aseep under the
wcked trees, and then evaporated, vanshed,
was cked up ke dew by the sun. If you ask
them where Harry Hawke s, the wdow s tte
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son, they ust te you he s swaowed; that he
was dared to cmb the trees and st there a
nght, and dd t. hat the trees dd God knows;
the habts of a vegetabe ogre eave one a tte
vague. ut they even add the agreeabe deta
that a new branch appears on the tree when some-
body has petered out n ths stye.
hat new nonsense s ths cred ane. I
know there s some crazy yarn about the trees
spreadng fever, though every educated man
knows why these epdemcs return occasonay.
And I know they say you can te the nose of
them among other trees n a gae, and I dare say
you can. ut even Cornwa sn t a unatc
asyum, and a tree that dnes on a passng
tourst
e, the two taes are reconcabe enough,
put n the poet quety. If there were a magc
that ked men when they came cose, t s key
to strke them wth sckness when they stand far
off. In the od romance the dragon, that devours
peope, often basts others wth a sort of poson-
ous breath.
Ashe ooked across at the speaker steady, not
to say stony.
Do I understand, he nqured, that you
swaow the swaowng trees too
Treherne s dark sme was st on the defen-
sve ; hs fencng aways annoyed the other, and
he seemed not wthout mace n the matter.
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Swaowng s a metaphor, he sad, about
me, f not about the trees. And metaphors take
us at once nto dreamand no bad pace, ether.
Ths garden, I thnk, gets more and more ke a
dream at ths corner of the day and nght, that
mght ead us anywhere.
The yeow horn of the moon had appeared
senty and as f suddeny over the back horns
of the seaweed, seemng to announce as nght
somethng whch t then had been evenng. A
nght breeze came n between the trees and raced
steathy across the turf, and as they ceased
speakng they heard, not ony the seethng grass,
but the sea tsef move and sound n a the cracks
and caves round them and beow them and on
every sde. They a fet the note that had been
struck the Amercan as an art crtc and the
poet as a poet; and the Squre, who beeved hm-
sef bong wth an mpatence purey ratona,
dd not reay understand hs own mpatence.
In hm, more perhaps than the others more
certany than he knew hmsef the sea wnd
went to the head ke wne.
Creduty s a curous thng, went on Tre-
herne n a ow voce. It s more negatve than
postve, and yet t s nfnte. Hundreds of men
w avod wakng under a adder; they don t
know where the door of the adder w ead.
They don t reay thnk God woud throw a
thunderbot at them for such a thng. They don t
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know what woud happen, that s ust the pont;
but yet they step asde as from a precpce. So
the poor peope here may or may not beeve
anythng; they don t go nto those trees at nght.
I wak under a adder whenever I can, cred
ane, n qute unnecessary e ctement.
You beong to a Thrteen Cub, sad the
poet. You wak under a adder on rday to
dne thrteen at a tabe, everybody spng the
sat. ut even you don t go nto those trees
at nght.
Squre ane stood up, hs sver har famng
n the wnd.
I stop a nght n your tomfoo wood and
up your tomfoo trees, he sad. I do t for
twopence or two thousand pounds, f anyone w
take the bet.
thout watng for repy, he snatched up hs
wde whte hat and setted t on wth a ferce
gesture, and had gone off n great eonne strdes
across the awn before anyone at the tabe coud
move.
The stness was broken by Mes, the buter,
who dropped and broke one of the pates he
carred. He stood ookng after hs master wth
hs ong, anguar chn thrust out, ookng ye-
ower where t caught the yeow ght of the
amp beow. Hs face was thus sharpy n
shadow, but Paynter fanced for a moment t
was convused by some passon passng surprse.
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ut the face was qute as usua when t turned,
and Paynter reazed that a nght of fances had
begun, ke the cross purposes of the Md-
summer Nght s Dream.
The wood of the strange trees, toward whch
the Squre was wakng, ay so far forward on
the headand, whch utmatey amost overhung
the sea, that t coud be approached by ony one
path, whch shone ceary ke a sver rbbon
n the twght. The rbbon ran aong the edge
of the cff, where the snge row of deformed
trees ran besde t a the way, and eventuay
punged nto the coser mass of trees by one
natura gateway, a mere gap n the wood, ook-
ng dark, ke a on s mouth. hat became of
the path nsde coud not be seen, but It doubt-
ess ed round the hdden roots of the great
centra trees. The Squre was aready wthn a
yard or two of ths dark entry when hs daughter
rose from the tabe and took a step or two after
hm as f to ca hm back.
Treherne had aso rsen, and stood as f dazed
at the effect of hs de defance. hen arbara
moved he seemed to recover hmsef, and step-
png after her, sad somethng whch Paynter
dd not hear. He sad t casuay and even ds-
tanty enough, but t ceary suggested somethng
to her mnd; for, after a moment s thought, she
nodded and waked back, not toward the tabe,
but apparenty toward the house. Paynter ooked
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after her wth a momentary curosty, and when
he turned agan the Squre had vanshed nto the
hoe n the wood.
He s gone, sad Treherne, wth a cang of
fnaty n hs tones, ke the sammng of a door.
e, suppose he has cred the awyer,
roused at the voce. The Squre can go nto hs
own wood, I suppose hat the dev s a the
fuss about, Mr. Paynter Don t te me you
thnk there s any harm n that pantaton of
stcks.
No, I don t, sad Paynter, throwng one eg
over another and ghtng a cgar. ut I sha
stop here t he comes out.
ery we, sad Ashe shorty, I stop wth
you, f ony to see the end of ths farce.
The doctor sad nothng, but he aso kept hs
seat and accepted one of the Amercan s cgars.
If Treherne had been attendng to the matter
he mght have noted, wth hs sardonc superst-
ton, a curous fact that, whe a three men
were tacty condemnng themseves to stay out
a nght f necessary, a, by one bank omsson
or obvon, assumed that t was mpossbe to
foow ther host nto the wood ust n front of
them. ut Treherne, though st n the garden,
had wandered away from the garden tabe, and
was pacng aong the snge ne of trees aganst
the dark sea. They had n ther reguar nter-
stces, showng the sea as through a seres of
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wndows, somethng of the ook of the ghost or
skeeton of a coster, and he, havng thrown hs
coat once more over hs neck, ke a cape, passed
to and fro ke the ghost of some not very sane
monk.
A these men, whether skeptcs or mystcs,
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nght as on somethng unnatura. They sat st
or started up abrupty, and paced the great
garden n ong detours, so that t seemed that no
three of them were together at a tme, and none
knew who woud be hs companon; yet ther
rambng remaned wthn the same dm and mazy
space. They fe nto snatches of uneasy sum-
ber; these were very bref, and yet they fet as
f the whoe sttng, strong, or occasona speak-
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Paynter woke once, and found Ashe sttng
opposte hm at a tabe otherwse empty; hs face
dark n shadow and hs cgar-end ke the red eye
of a Cycops. Unt the awyer spoke, n hs
steady voce, Paynter was postvey afrad of
hm. He answered at random and nodded agan;
when he agan woke the awyer was gone, and
what was opposte hm was the bad, pae brow
of the doctor; there seemed suddeny somethng
omnous n the famar fact that he wore spec-
taces. And yet the vanshng Ashe had ony
vanshed a few yards away, for he turned at that
nstant and stroed back to the tabe. th a
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erk Paynter reazed that hs nghtmare was but
a trck of seep or seepessness, and spoke n hs
natura voce, but rather oud.
So you ve oned us agan; where s Tre-
herne
Oh, st revovng, I suppose, ke a poar
bear under those trees on the cff, reped Ashe,
motonng wth hs cgar, ookng at what an
oder (and you w forgve me for thnkng a
somewhat better) poet caed the wne-dark sea.
It reay has a sort of purpe shade; ook at t.
Paynter ooked; he saw the wne-dark sea and
the fantastc trees that frnged t, but he dd not
see the poet; the coster was aready empty of
ts restess monk.
Gone somewhere ese, he sad, wth futty
far from characterstc. He be back here
presenty. Ths s an nterestng vg, but a vg
oses some of ts ntensty when you can t keep
awake. Ah Here s Treherne; so we re a
mustered, as the potcan sad when Mr. Coman
came ate for dnner. No, the doctor s off agan;
how restess we a are The poet had drawn
near, hs feet were fang soft on the grass, and
was gazng at them wth a snguar attentveness.
It w soon be over, he sad.
hat snapped Ashe very abrupty.
The nght, of course, reped Treherne n a
motoness manner. The darkest hour has
passed.
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qured Paynter fppanty, that the darkest hour
before the dawn My God, what was that
It was ke a scream.
It was a scream, reped the poet. The
scream of a peacock.
Ashe stood up, hs strong pae face aganst
hs red har, and sad furousy: hat the dev
do you mean
Oh, perfecty natura causes, as Dr. rown
woud say, reped Treherne. Ddn t the Squre
te us the trees had a shr note of ther own
when the wnd bew The wnd s beatng up
agan from the sea; I shoudn t wonder f there
was .a storm before dawn.
Dawn ndeed came graduay wth a growng
nose of wnd, and the purpe sea began to bo
about the dark vocanc cffs. The frst change
n the sky showed tsef ony n the shapes of the
wood and the snge stems growng darker but
cearer; and above the gray cump, aganst a
gmpse of growng ght, they saw aoft the ev
trnty of the trees. In ther ong nes there
seemed to Paynter somethng fanty serpentne
and even spra. He cpud amost fancy he saw
them sowy revovng a n some cycc dance, but
ths, agan, was but a ast deuson of dreamand,
for a few seconds ater he was agan aseep. In
dreams he toed through a tange of nconcusve
taes, each fed wth the same stress and nose
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of sea and sea wnd; and above and outsde a
other voces, the wang of the Trees of Prde.
hen he woke t was broad day, and a boom
of eary ght ay on wood and garden and on
feds and farms for mes away. The compara-
tve common sense that dayght brngs even to
the seepess drew hm aerty to hs feet, and
showed hm a hs companons standng about
the awn n smar atttudes of e pectancy. There
was no need to ask what they were e pectng.
They were watng to hear the nocturna e per-
ences, comc or commonpace or whatever they
mght prove to be, of that eccentrc frend, whose
e perment (whether from some subconscous
fear or some fancy of honor) they had not ven-
tured to nterrupt. Hour foowed hour, and
st nothng strred n the wood save an occa-
sona brd. The Squre, ke most men of hs
type, was an eary rser, and t was not key that
he woud n ths case seep ate; t was much
more key, n the e ctement n whch he had
eft them, that he woud not seep at a. Yet
t was cear that he must be seepng, perhaps
by some reacton from a stran. y the tme
the sun was hgh n heaven Ashe the awyer,
turnng to the others, spoke abrupty and to the
pont.
Sha we go nto the wood now asked
Paynter, and amost seemed to hestate.
I w go n, sad Treherne smpy. Then,
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The ager of Squre ane .
drawng up hs dark head n answer to ther
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No, do not troube yourseves. It s never
the beever who s afrad.
or the second tme they saw a man mount the
whte curng path and dsappear nto the gray
tanged wood, but ths tme they dd not have to
wat ong to see hm agan.
A few mnutes ater he reappeared n the
woodand gateway, and came sowy toward them
across the grass. He stopped before the doctor,
who stood nearest, and sad somethng. It was
repeated to the others, and went round the rng
wth ow cres of ncreduty. The others punged
nto the wood and returned wdy, and were seen
speakng to others agan who gathered from the
house; the wd wreess teegraphy whch s the
educaton of countrysde communtes spread t
farther and farther before the fact tsef was
fuy reazed; and before nghtfa a quarter of
the county knew that Squre ane had vanshed
ke a burst bubbe.
dey as the wd story was repeated, and
patenty as t was pondered, t was ong before
there was even the begnnng of a seque to t.
In the nterva Paynter had potey removed
hmsef from the house of mournng, or rather
of questonng, but ony so far as the vage nn;
for arbara ane was gad of the traveer s
e perence and sympathy, n addton to that
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afforded her by the awyer and doctor as od
frends of the famy. ven Treherne was not
dscouraged from hs occasona vsts wth a
vew to hepng the hunt for the ost man. The
fve hed many counses round the od garden
tabe, at whch the unhappy master of the house
had dned for the ast tme; and arbara wore
her od mask of stone, f t was now a more
tragc mask. She had shown no passon after the
frst mornng of dscovery, when she had broken
forth once, speakng strangey enough n the vew
of some of her hearers.
She had come sowy out of the house, to whch
her own or some one ese s wsdom had reegated
her durng the nght of the wager; and t was
cear from her face that somebody had tod her
the truth; Mes, the buter, stood on the steps
behnd her; and t was probaby he.
Do not be much dstressed, Mss ane, sad
Doctor rown, n a ow and rather uncertan
voce. The search n the wood has hardy be-
gun. I am convnced we sha fnd somethng
qute smpe.
The doctor s rght, sad Ashe, n hs frm
tones; I mysef
The doctor s not rght, sad the gr, turn-
ng a whte face on the speaker, I know better.
The poet s rght. The poet s aways rght.
Oh, he has been here from the begnnng of the
word, and seen wonders and terrors that are a
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round our path, and ony hdng behnd a bush
or a stone. You and your doctorng and your
scence why, you have ony been here for a few
fumbng generatons; and you can t conquer even
your own enemes of the fesh. Oh, forgve me,
Doctor, I know you do spenddy; but the fever
comes n the vage, and the peope de and de
for a that. And now t s my poor father. God
hep us a The ony thng eft s to beeve n
God; for we can t hep beevng n devs. And
she eft them, st wakng qute sowy, but n
such a fashon that no one coud go after her.
The sprng had aready begun to rpen nto
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over the garden tabe, when the Amercan vstor,
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e, he sad, I suppose whatever we may
thnk t wse to say, we have a begun to thnk
of a possbe concuson. It can t be put very
decatey anyhow; but, after a, there s a very
necessary busness sde to t. hat are we gong
to do about poor ane s affars, apart from hm-
sef I suppose you know, he added, n a ow
voce to the awyer, whether he made a w
He eft everythng to hs daughter uncon-
dtonay, reped Ashe. ut nothng can be
done wth t. There s no proof whatever that
he s dead.
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No ega proof remarked Paynter dryy.
A wrnke of rrtaton had appeared n the
bg bad brow of Doctor rown; and he made an
mpatent movement.
Of course he s dead, he sad. hat s the
sense of a ths ega fuss e were watchng
ths sde of the wood, weren t we A man
coudn t have fown off those hgh cffs over the
sea; he coud ony have faen off. hat ese
can he be but dead
I speak as a awyer, returned Ashe, rasng
hs eyebrows. e can t presume hs death, or
have an nquest or anythng t we fnd the poor
feow s body, or some remans that may reason-
aby be presumed to be hs body.
I see, observed Paynter quety. You speak
as a awyer; but I don t thnk t s very hard to
guess what you thnk as a man.
I own I d rather be a man than a awyer,
sad the doctor, rather roughy. I d no noton
the aw was such an ass. hat s the good of
keepng the poor gr out of her property, and
the estate a gong to peces e, I must be
off, or my patents w be gong to peces too.
And wth a curt sautaton he pursued hs path
down to the vage.
That man does hs duty, f anybody does,
remarked Paynter. e must pardon hs sha
I say manners or manner
Oh, I bear hm no mace, reped Ashe
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good-humoredy, ut I m gad he s gone, be-
cause we, because I don t want hm to know
how oy rght he s. And he eaned back n hs
char and stared up at the roof of green eaves.
You are sure, sad Paynter, ookng at the
tabe, that Squre ane s dead
More than that, sad Ashe, st starng at
the eaves. I m sure of how he ded.
Ah sad the Amercan, wth an ntake of
breath, and they remaned for a moment, one
gazng at the tree and the other at the tabe.
Sure s perhaps too strong a word, con-
tnued Ashe. ut my convcton w want
some shakng. I don t envy the counse for the
defense.
The counse for the defense, repeated Payn-
ter, and ooked up qucky at hs companon. He
was struck agan by the man s Napoeonc chn
and aw, as he had been when they frst taked
of the egend of St. Securs.
Then, he began, you don t thnk the
trees
The trees be damned snorted the awyer.
The tree had two egs on that evenng. hat
our frend the poet, he added, wth a sneer,
woud ca a wakng tree. Apropos of our
frend the poet, you seemed surprsed that nght
to fnd he was not wakng poetcay by the sea
a the tme, and I fear I affected to share your
gnorance. I was not so sure then as I am now.
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Sure of what demanded the other.
To begn wth, sad Ashe, I m sure our
frend the poet foowed ane nto the wood that
nght , for I saw hm comng out agan.
Paynter eaned forward, suddeny pae wth
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t ratted.
Mr. Ashe, you re wrong, he cred. You re
a wonderfu man and you re wrong. You ve
probaby got tons of true convncng evdence,
and you re wrong. I know ths poet; I know hm
as a poet; and that s ust what you don t. I
know you thnk he gave you crooked answers,
and seemed to be a smes and back ooks at
once; but you don t understand the type. I know
now why you don t understand the Irsh. Some-
tmes you thnk t s soft, and sometmes sy, and
sometmes murderous, and sometmes uncv-
zed; and a the tme t s ony cvzed; quver-
ng wth the senstve rony of understandng a
that you don t understand.
e, sad Ashe shorty, we see who s
rght.
e w, cred Cypran, and rose suddeny
from the tabe. A the droopng of the assthete
had dropped from hm; hs Yankee accent rose
hgh, ke a horn of defance, and there was noth-
ng about hm but the New ord.
I guess I w ook nto ths mysef, he sad,
stretchng hs ong mbs ke an athete. I
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search that tte wood of yours to-morrow. It s
a bt ate, or I d do t now.
The wood has been searched, sad the
awyer, rsng aso.
Yes, drawed the Amercan. It s been
searched by servants, pocemen, oca poceman,
and qute a ot of peope; and do you know I have
a noton that nobody round here s key to have
searched t at a.
And what are you gong to do wth t
asked Ashe.
hat I bet they haven t done, reped
Cypran. I m gong to cmb a tree.
And wth a quant ar of renewed cheerfuness
he took hmsef away at a rapd wak to
hs nn.
He appeared at daybreak ne t mornng out-
sde the ane Arms wth a the ar of one settng
out on hs traves n dstant ands. He had a
fed gass sung over hs shouder, and a very
arge sheath knfe bucked by a bet round hs
wast, and carred wth the coo bravado of the
bowe knfe of a cowboy. ut n spte of ths
backwoodsman s smpcty, or perhaps rather be-
cause of t, he eyed wth rsng resh the pc-
turesque pan and sky ne of the antquated v-
age, and especay the wooden square of the
od nn sgn that hung over hs head; a shed, of
whch the charges seemed to hm a mere medey
of bue dophns, god crosses, and scaret brds.
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The coors and cubc corners of that panted
board peased hm ke a pay or a puppet show.
He stood starng and straddng for some mo-
ments on the cobbes of the tte market pace;
then he gave a short augh and began to mount
the steep streets toward the hgh park and garden
beyond. rom the hgh awn, above the tree
and tabe, he coud see on one sde the and
stretch away past the house nto a great rong
pan, whch under the cear edges of the dawn
seemed dotted wth pcturesque detas. The
woods here and there on the pan ooked ke
green hedgehogs, as grotesque as the ncongru-
ous beasts found unaccountaby wakng n the
bank spaces of medaeva maps. The and, cut
up nto coored feds, recaed the heradry of
the sgnboard; ths aso was at once ancent and
gay. On the other sde the ground to seaward
swept down and then up agan to the famous or
nfamous wood; the square of strange trees ay
senty tted on the sope, aso suggestng, f
not a map, or east a brd s-eye vew. Ony the
trpe centerpece of the peacock trees rose cear
of the sky ne; and these stood up n tranqu
sunght as thngs amost cassca, a tranguar
tempe of the wnds. They seemed pagan n a
newer and more pacd sense; and he fet a newer
and more boysh curosty and courage for the
consutng of the orace. In a hs wanderngs
he had never waked so ghty, for the con-
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nosseur of sensatons had found somethng to
do at ast; he was fghtng for a frend.
He was brought to a standst once, however,
and that at the very gateway of the garden of
the trees of knowedge. ust outsde the back
entry of the wood, now curtaned wth greener
and arger eafage, he came on a sotary fgure.
It was Martn, the woodcutter, wadng n the
bracken and ookng about hm n rather a ost
fashon. The man seemed to be takng to hmsef.
I dropped t here, he was sayng. ut I
never work wth t agan I reckon. Doctor
woudn t et me pck t up, when I wanted to pck
t up; and now they ve got t, ke they ve got
the Squre. ood and ron, wood and ron, but
eatng t s nothng to them.
Come sad Paynter kndy, rememberng
the man s domestc troube. Mss ane w
see you have anythng you want, I know. And
ook here, don t brood on a those stores
about the Squre. Is there the sghtest trace of
the trees havng anythng to do wth t Is
there even ths e tra branch the dots taked
about
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pcon that the man before hm was not perfecty
sane; yet he was much more started by the
sudden and cod santy that ooked for an nstant
out of the woodman s eyes, as he answered n
hs ordnary manner.
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before
Then he seemed to reapse; and Paynter eft
hm wanderng and waverng n the undergrowth;
and entered the wood ke one across whose
sunny path a shadow has faen for an nstant.
Dvng under the wood, he was soon threadng
a eafy path whch, even under that summer sun,
shone ony wth an emerad twght, as f t
were on the foor of the sea. It wound about
more shaky than he had supposed, as f re-
soved to approach the centra trees as f they
were the heart of the maze at Hampton Court.
They were the heart of the maze for hm, any-
how; he sought them as straght as a crooked
road woud carry hm; and, turnng a fna cor-
ner, he behed, for the frst tme, the foundatons
of those towers of vegetaton he had as yet ony
seen from above, as they stood wast-hgh n the
woodand. He found the suspcon correct whch
supposed the tree branched from one great root,
ke a candeabrum; the fork, though staned and
smy wth green fungods, was qute near the
ground, and offered a frst foothod. He put hs
foot n t, and wthout a fash of hestaton went
aoft, ke ack cmbng the ean stak.
Above hm the green roof of eaves and boughs
seemed seaed ke a frmament of foage; but,
by bendng and breakng the branches to rght
and eft he sowy forced a passage upward;
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and had at ast, and suddeny, the sensaton of
comng out on the top of the word. He fet as
f he had never been n the open ar before.
Sea and and ay n a crce beow and about hm,
as he sat astrde a branch of the ta tree; he was
amost surprsed to see the sun st comparatvey
ow n the sky; as f he were ookng over a and
of eterna sunrse.
Sent upon a peak n Daren, he remarked,
n a needessy oud and cheerfu voce; and
though the cam, thus e pressed, was ogca,
t was not napproprate. He dd fee as f he
were a prmtve adventurer ust come to the New
ord, nstead of a modern traveer ust come
from t.
I wonder, he proceeded, whether I am
reay the frst that ever burst nto ths sent
tree. It ooks ke t. Those
He stopped and sat on hs branch qute moton-
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beow t, and they were brant wth a vgance,
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hat he was ookng at mght, at frst sght,
have been a arge whte fungus spreadng on
the smooth and monstrous trunk; but t was not.
Leanng down dangerousy from hs perch, he
detached t from the twg on whch t had caught,
and then sat hodng t n hs hand and gazng
at t. It was Squre ane s whte Panama hat,
but there was no Squre ane under t. Paynter
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fet a nameess reef n the very fact that there
was not.
There n the cear sunght and sea ar, for an
nstant, a the tropca terrors of hs own de
tae surrounded and suffocated hm. It seemed
ndeed some demon tree of the swamps; a vege-
tabe serpent that fed on men. ven the hdeous
farce n the fancy of dgestng a whoe man wth
the e cepton of hs hat, seemed ony to smpfy
the nghtmare. And he found hmsef gazng
duy at one eaf of the tree, whch happened
to be turned toward hm, so that the odd mark-
ngs, whch had party made the egend, reay
ooked a tte ke the eye n a peacock s feather.
It was as f the seepng tree had opened one eye
upon hm.
th a sharp effort he steaded hmsef n
mnd and posture on the bough; hs reason re-
turned, and he began to descend wth the hat n
hs teeth. hen he was back n the under-
word of the wood, he studed the hat agan and
wth coser attenton. In one pace n the crown
there was a hoe or rent, whch certany had
not been there when t had ast an on the tabe
under the garden tree. He sat down, t a
cgarette, and refected for a ong tme.
A wood, even a sma wood, s not an easy
thng to search mnutey; but he provded hm-
sef wth some practca tests n the matter. In
one sense the very densty of the thcket was a
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strayed from the path, by broken and tramped
growths of every knd. After many hours n-
dustry, he had made a sort of new map of the
pace; and had decded beyond doubt that some
person or persons had so strayed, for some pur-
pose, n severa defned drectons. There was
a way burst through the bushes, makng a short
cut across a oop of the wanderng path; there
was another forkng out from t as an aterna-
tve way nto the centra space. ut there was
one especay whch was unque, and whch
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to some essenta of the mystery.
One of these beaten and broken tracks went
from the space under the peacock trees out-
ward nto the wood for about twenty yards and
then stopped. eyond that pont not a twg was
broken nor a eaf dsturbed. It had no e t,
but he coud not beeve that t had no goa. After
some further refecton, he knet down and began
to cut away grass and cay wth hs knfe, and
was surprsed at the ease wth whch they de-
tached themseves. In a few moments a whoe
secton of the so fted ke a d; t was a round
d and presented a quant appearance, ke a
fat cap wth green feathers. or though the
dsc tsef was made of wood, there was a ayer
of earth on t wth the ve grass st growng
there. And the remova of the round d re-
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bottomess. Paynter understood t nstanty. It
was rather near the sea for a we to be sunk,
but the traveer had known wes sunk even
nearer. He rose to hs feet wth the great knfe
n hs hand, a frown on hs face, and hs doubts
resoved. He no onger shrank from namng
what he knew. Ths was not the frst corpse
that had been thrown down a we; here, wthout
stone or eptaph, was the grave of Squre ane.
In a fash a the mythoogca foes about sants
and peacocks were forgotten; he was knocked on
the head, as wth a stone cub, by the human
common sense of crme.
Cypran Paynter stood ong by the we n
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amned ts rm and the rng of grass about t,
searched the surroundng so thoroughy, came
back and stood besde the we once more. Hs
researches and refectons had been so ong that
he had not reazed that the day had passed and
that the wood and the word round t were
begnnng aready to be steeped n the enrch-
ment of evenng. The day had been radanty
cam; the sea seemed to be as st as the we,
and the we was as st as a mrror. And then,
qute wthout warnng, the mrror moved of tsef
ke a vng thng.
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gurged, wth a grotesque nose ke somethng
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sound. Cypran coud not see nto the we
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was an epse, a mere st, and haf masked by
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e pected to see rse out of the we the
corpse of the murdered man or merey the sprt
of the fountan. Anyhow, nether of them rose
out of t, and he recognzed after an nstant
that ths was, after a, perhaps the more natura
course of thngs. Once more he pued hmsef
together, waked to the edge of the we and
ooked down. He saw, as before, a dm gmmer
of water, at that depth no brghter than nk;
he fanced he st heard a fant convuson and
murmur, but t graduay subsded to an utter
stness. Short of sucday dvng n, there was
nothng to be done. He reazed that, wth a
hs equpment, he had not even brought anythng
ke a rope or basket, and at ength decded to
return for them. As he retraced hs steps to the
entrance, he recurred to, and took stock of, hs
more sod dscoveres. Somebody had gone nto
the wood, ked the Squre and thrown hm down
the we, but he dd not admt for a moment that
t was hs frend the poet; but f the atter had
actuay been seen comng out of the wood the
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matter was serous. As he waked the rapdy
darkenng twght was coven wth red geams,
that made hm amost fancy for a moment that
some fantastc crmna had set tre to the tny
forest as he fed. A second gance showed hm
nothng but one of those red sunsets n whch
such serene days sometmes cose.
As he came out of the goomy gate of trees
nto the fu gow he saw a dark fgure standng
qute st n the dm bracken, on the spot where
he had eft the woodcutter. It was not the
woodcutter.
It was topped by a ta back hat of a funera
type, and the whoe fgure stood so back aganst
the fed of crmson fre that edged the sky ne
that he coud not for an nstant understand or
reca t. hen he dd, t was wth an odd
change n the whoe channe of hs thoughts.
Doctor rown he cred. hy, what are
you dong up here
I have been takng to poor Martn, an-
swered the doctor, and made a rather awkward
movement wth hs hand toward the road down
to the vage. oowng the gesture, Paynter
dmy saw another dark fgure wakng down n
the bood-red dstance. He aso saw that the
hand motonng was reay back, and not merey
n shadow; and, comng nearer, found the
doctor s dress was reay funerea, down to the
deta of the dark goves. It gave the Amercan
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a sma but queer shock, as f ths were actuay
an undertaker come up to bury the corpse that
coud not be found.
Poor Martn s been ookng for hs chopper,
observed Doctor rown, but I tod hm I d
pcked t up and kept t for hm. etween our-
seves, I hardy thnk he s ft to be trusted wth
t. Then, seeng the gance at hs back garb, he
added: I ve ust been to a funera. Dd you
know there s been another oss Poor ake
the fsherman s wfe, down n the cottage on
the shore, you know. Ths nferna fever, of
course.
As they both turned, facng the red evenng
ght, Paynter nstnctvey made a coser study,
not merey of the doctor s cothes, but of the
doctor. Dr. urton rown was a ta, aert
man, neaty dressed, who woud otherwse have
had an amost mtary ar but for hs spectaces
and an amost panfu nteectuasm n hs ean
brown face and bad brow. The contrast was
cnched by the fact that, whe hs face was of
the ascetc type generay conceved as cean-
shaven, he had a strp of dark mustache cut too
short for hm to bte, and yet a mouth that
often moved as f tryng to bte t. He mght
have been a very ntegent army surgeon, but
he had more the ook of an engneer or one of
those servces that combne a mtary sence wth
a more than mtary scence. Paynter had a-
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ways respected somethng ruggedy reabe about
the man, and after a tte hestaton he tod hm
a the dscoveres.
The doctor took the hat of the dead Squre
n hs hand, and e amned t wth frownng care.
He put one fnger through the hoe n the crown
and moved t medtatvey. And Paynter reazed
how fancfu hs own fatgue must have made
hm; for so sy a thng as the back fnger wag-
gng through the rent n that frayed whte rec
unreasonaby dspeased hm. The doctor soon
made the same dscovery wth professona acute-
ness, and apped t much further. or when
Paynter began to te hm of the movng water
n the we he ooked at hm a moment through
hs spectaces, and then sad:
Dd you have any unch
Paynter for the frst tme reazed that he
had, as a fact, worked and thought furousy a
day wthout food.
Pease don t fancy I mean you had too much
unch, sad the medca man, wth mournfu
humor. On the contrary, I mean you had too
tte. I thnk you are a bt knocked out, and
your nerves e aggerate thngs. Anyhow, et me
advse you not to do any more to-nght. There s
nothng to be done wthout ropes or some sort
of fshng tacke, f wth that; but I thnk I can
get you some of the sort of grappng rons the
fshermen use for draggng. Poor ake s got
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some, I know; I brng them round to you to-
morrow mornng. The fact s, I m stayng there
for a bt as he s rather n a state, and I thnk t s
better for me to ask for the thngs and not a
stranger. I am sure you understand.
Paynter understood suffcenty to assent, and
hardy knew why he stood vacanty watchng the
doctor make hs way down the steep road to the
shore and the fsher s cottage. Then he threw
off thoughts he had not e amned, or even con-
scousy entertaned, and waked sowy and
rather heavy back to the ane Arms.
The doctor, st funerea n manner, though no
onger so n costume, appeared punctuay under
the wooden sgn ne t mornng, aden wth what
he had promsed; an apparatus of hooks and a
hangng net for hostng up anythng sunk to a
reasonabe depth. He was about to proceed on
hs professona round, and sad nothng further
to deter the Amercan from proceedng on hs
own very unprofessona e perment as a detec-
tve. That buoyant amateur had ndeed re-
covered most, f not a, of yesterday s buoyancy,
was now we ftted to pass any medca e amna-
ton, and returned wth a hs own energy to the
scene of yesterday s abors.
It may we have brghtened and made breezer
hs second day s to that he had not ony the
sunght and the brd s sngng n the tte wood,
to say nothng of a more scentfc apparatus to
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work wth, but aso human companonshp, and
that of the most ntegent type. After eavng
the doctor and before eavng the vage he had
bethought hmsef of seekng the tte court or
square where stood the quet brown house of
Andrew Ashe, soctor, and the operatons of
draggng were worked n doube harness. Two
heads were peerng over the we n the wood:
one yeow-hared, ean and eager; the other red-
hared, heavy and ponderng; and f t be true
that two heads are better than one, t s truer
that four hands are better than two. In any
case, ther unted and repeated efforts bore frut
at ast, f anythng so hard and meager and for-
orn can be caed a frut. It weghed oosey n
the net as t was fted, and roed out on the
grassy edge of the we; t was a bone.
Ashe pcked t up and stood wth t n hs hand,
frownng.
e want Doctor rown here, he sad.
Ths may be the bone of some anma. Any
dog or sheep mght fa nto a hdden we.
Then he broke off, for hs companon was aready
detachng a second bone from the net.
After another haf hour s effort Paynter had
occason to remark, It must have been rather a
arge dog. There were aready a heap of such
whte fragments at hs feet.
I have seen nothng yet, sad Ashe, speakng
more pany. That s certany a human bone.
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I fancy ths must be a human bone, sad
the Amercan.
And he turned away a tte as he handed the
other a sku.
There was no doubt of what sort of sku;
there was the one unque curve that hods the
mystery of reason, and underneath t the two
back hoes that had hed human eyes. ut
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smaer back hoe, whch was not an eye.
Then the awyer sad, wth somethng ke an
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mttng t s any partcuar man. There may be
somethng, after a, n that yarn about the
drunkard; he may have tumbed nto the we.
Under certan condtons, after certan natura
processes, I fancy, the bones mght be strpped
n ths way, even wthout the sk of any assassn.
e want the doctor agan.
Then he added suddeny, and the very sound
of hs voce suggested that he hardy beeved hs
own words.
Haven t you got poor ane s hat there
He took t from the sent Amercan s hand,
and wth a sort of hurry ftted t on the bony
head.
Don t sad the other nvountary.
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I have the better rght to shrnk, he sad
steady, but n a vbrant voce. I thnk I am the
oder frend.
Paynter nodded wthout speech, acceptng the
fna dentfcaton. The ast doubt, or hope, had
departed, and he turned to the draggng appa-
ratus, and dd not speak t he had made hs
ast fnd.
The sngng of the brds seemed to grow ouder
about them, and the dance of the green summer
eaves was repeated beyond n the dance of the
green summer sea. Ony the great roots of the
mysterous trees coud be seen, the rest beng far
aoft, and a round t was a wood of tte, vey
and happy thngs. They mght have been two
nnocent naturasts, or even two chdren fsh-
ng for ees or tttebats on that summer hoday
when Paynter pued up somethng that weghed
n the net more heavy than any bone. It neary
broke the meshes, and fe aganst a mossy stone
wth a cang.
Truth es at the bottom of a we, cred
the Amercan, wth ft n hs voce. The wood-
man s a .
It ay, ndeed, fat and geamng n the grasses
by the we n the wood, ust as t had an n the
thcket where the woodman threw t n the begn-
nng of a these thngs. ut on one corner of
the brght bade was a du brown stan.
I see, sad Ashe, the woodman s a , and
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The Man ffho Knew Too Much
therefore the woodman. Your deductons are
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My deductons are reasonabe, sad Paynter.
Look here, Mr. Ashe; I know what you re
thnkng. I know you dstrust Treherne; but
I m sure you w be ust for a that. To begn
wth, surey the frst assumpton s that the wood-
man s a s used by the woodman. hat have
you to say to t
I say No to t, reped the awyer. The
ast weapon a woodman woud use woud be a
woodman s a ; that s f he s a sane man.
He sn t, sad Paynter quety; you sad
you wanted the doctor s opnon ust now. The
doctor s opnon on ths pont s the same as my
own. e both found hm meanderng about out-
sde there; t s obvous ths busness has gone to
hs head, at any rate. If the murderer were a
man of busness ke yoursef, what you say mght
be sound. ut ths murderer s a mystc. He
was drven by some fanatca fad about the trees.
It s qute key he thought there was somethng
soemn and sacrfca about the a , and woud
have ked to cut off ane s head before a crowd,
ke Chares I s. He s ookng for the a st,
and probaby thnks t a hoy rec.
or whch reason, sad Ashe, smng, he
nstanty chucked t down a we.
Paynter aughed.
You have me there certany, he sad. ut
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I thnk you have somethng ese n your mnd.
You say, I suppose, that we were a watchng
the wood; but were we ranky, I coud amost
fancy the peacock trees dd strke me wth a sort
of sckness a seepng sckness.
e, admtted Ashe, you have me there
too. I m afrad I coudn t swear I was awake
a the tme; but I don t put t down to magc
trees ony to a prvate hobby of gong to bed
at nght. ut ook here, Mr. Paynter; there s
another and better argument aganst any out-
sder from the vage or countrysde havng com-
mtted the crme. Granted he mght have spped
past us somehow, and gone for the Squre. ut
why shoud he go for hm n the wood How
dd he know he was n the wood You remember
how suddeny the poor od boy boted nto t,
on what a momentary mpuse. It s the ast
pace where one woud normay ook for such a
man n the mdde of the nght. No, t s an ugy
thng to say, but we, the group round that garden
tabe, were the ony peope who knew. hch
brngs me back to the one pont n your remarks
whch I happen to thnk perfecty true.
hat was that nqured the other.
That the murderer was a mystc, sad Ashe.
ut a ceverer mystc than poor od Martn.
Paynter made a murmur of protest, and then
fe sent.
Let us tak pany, resumed the awyer.
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Treherne had a those mad motves you your-
sef admt aganst the woodcutter. He had the
knowedge of ane s whereabouts, whch nobody
can possby attrbute to the woodcutter. ut
he had much more. ho taunted and goaded
the Squre to go nto the wood at a Treherne.
ho practcay prophesed, ke an nferna
quack astrooger, that somethng woud happen
to hm f he dd go nto the wood Treherne.
ho was, for some reason, no matter what,
obvousy burnng wth rage and restessness a
that nght, kckng hs egs mpatenty to and fro
on the cff, and breakng out wth wd words
about t beng a over soon Treherne. And
on top of a ths, when I waked coser to the
wood, whom dd I see sp out of t swfty and
senty ke a shadow, but turnng hs face once
to the moon On my oath and on my honor
Treherne.
It s awfu, sad Paynter, ke a man stunned.
hat you say s smpy awfu.
Yes, sad Ashe serousy, very awfu, but
very smpe. Treherne knew where the a was
orgnay thrown. I saw hm, on that day he
unched here frst, watchng t ke a wof, whe
Mss ane was takng to hm. On that dread-
fu nght he coud easy have pcked t up as he
went nto the wood. He knew about the we,
no doubt; who was so key to know any od
tradtons about the peacock trees He hd the
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hat n the trees, where perhaps he hoped (though
the pont s unmportant) that nobody woud
dare to ook. Anyhow, he hd t, smpy because
t was the one thng that woud not snk n the
we. Mr. Paynter, do you thnk I woud say
ths of any man n mere mean dske Coud
any man say t of any man uness the case was
compete, as ths s compete
It s compete, sad Paynter, very pae. I
have nothng eft aganst t but a fant, rratona
feeng; a feeng that, somehow or other, f poor
ane coud stand ave before us at ths moment
he mght te some other and even more ncred-
be tae.
Ashe made a mournfu gesture.
Can these dry bones ve he sad.
Lord Thou knowest, answered the other
mechancay. ven these dry bones
And he stopped suddeny wth hs mouth open,
a bndng ght of wonder n hs pae eyes.
See here, he sad hoarsey and hasty. You
have sad the word. hat does t mean hat
can t mean Dry hy are these bones dry
The awyer started and stared down at the
heap.
Your case compete cred Paynter, n
mountng e ctement. here s the water n
the we The water I saw eap ke a fame
hy dd t eap here s t gone to Com-
pete e are bured under rddes.
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Ashe stooped, pcked up a bone and ooked
at t.
You are rght, he sad, n a ow and shaken
voce: ths bone s as dry as a bone.
Yes, I am rght, reped Cypran. And
your mystc s st as mysterous as a mystc.
There was a ong sence. Ashe ad down the
bone, pcked up the a and studed t more cosey.
eyond the du stan at the corner of the stee
there was nothng unusua about t save a broad
whte rag wrapped round the hande, perhaps to
gve a better grp. The awyer thought t worth
notng, however, that the rag was certany
newer and ceaner than the chopper. ut both
were qute dry.
Mr. Paynter, he sad at ast, I admt you
have scored, n the sprt f not n the etter. In
strct ogc, ths greater puzze s not a repy to
my case. If ths a has not been dpped n water,
t has been dpped n bood; and the water ump-
ng out of the we s not an e panaton of the
poet umpng out of the wood. ut I admt that
moray and practcay t does make a vta dffer-
ence. e are not faced wth a coossa contra-
dcton, and we don t know how far t e tends.
The body mght have been broken up or boed
down to ts bones by the murderer, though t may
be hard to connect t wth the condtons of the
murder. It mght concevaby have been so re-
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for decomposton vares vasty wth these thngs.
I shoud not dsmss my strong prma face case
aganst the key person because of these dff-
cutes. ut here we have somethng entrey
dfferent. That the bones themseves shoud re-
man dry n a we fu of water, or a we that
yesterday was fu of water that brngs us to
the edge of somethng beyond whch we can make
no guess. There s a new factor, enormous and
qute unknown. he we can t ft together such
prodgous facts, we can t ft together a case
aganst Treherne or aganst anybody. No; there
s ony one thng to be done now. Snce we can t
accuse Treherne, we must appea to hm. e
must put the case aganst hm franky before
hm, and trust he has an e panaton and w
gve t. I suggest we go back and do t now.
Paynter, begnnng to foow, hestated a mo-
ment, and then sad: orgve me for a knd of
berty; as you say, you are an oder frend of
the famy. I entrey agree wth your sugges-
ton, but before you act on your present sus-
pcons, do you know, I thnk Mss ane ought to
be warned a tte I rather fear a ths w
be a new shock to her.
ery we, sad Ashe, after ookng at hm
steady for an nstant. Let us go across to
her frst.
rom the openng of the wood they coud see
arbara ane wrtng at the garden tabe, whch
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was ttered wth correspondence, and the buter
wth hs yeow face watng behnd her char.
As the engths of grass essened between them,
and the tte group at the tabe grew arger and
cearer n the sunght, Paynter had a panfu
sense of beng part of an embassy of doom. It
sharpened when the gr ooked up from the
tabe and smed on seeng them.
I shoud ke to speak to you rather par-
tcuary f I may, sad the awyer, wth a touch
of authorty n hs respect; and when the buter
was dsmssed he ad open the whoe matter
before her, speakng sympathetcay, but eavng
out nothng, from the strange escape of the poet
from the wood to the ast deta of the dry bones
out of the we. No faut coud be found wth
any one of hs tones or phrases, and yet Cypran,
tngng n every nerve wth the fne decacy of
hs naton about the other se , fet as f she were
faced wth an ncfustor. He stood about un-
easy, watched the few coored couds n the
cear sky and the brght brds dartng about the
wood, and he hearty wshed hmsef up the
tree agan.
Soon, however, the way the gr took t began
to move hm to perpe ty rather than pty. It
was ke nothng he had e pected, and yet he
coud not name the shade of dfference. The
fna dentfcaton of her father s sku, by the
hoe n the hat, turned her a tte pae, but eft
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her composed; ths was, perhaps, e pcabe, snce
she had from the frst taken the pessmstc vew.
ut durng the rest of the tae there rested on
her broad brows under her copper cos of har,
a broodng sprt that was tsef a mystery. He
coud ony te hmsef that she was ess merey
receptve, ether frmy or weaky, than he woud
have e pected. It was as f she revoved, not
ther probem, but her own. She was sent a
ong tme, and sad at ast:
Thank you, Mr. Ashe, I am reay very grate-
fu for ths. After a, t brngs thngs to the
pont where they must have come sooner or
ater. She ooked dreamy at the wood and
sea, and went on: I ve not ony had mysef to
consder, you see; but f you re reay thnkng
that, t s tme I spoke out, wthout askng any-
body. You say, as f t were somethng very
dreadfu, Mr. Treherne was n the wood that
nght. e, t s not qute so dreadfu to me,
you see, because I know he was. In fact, we
were there together.
Together repeated the awyer.
e were together, she sad quety, because
we had a rght to be together.
Do you mean, stammered Ashe, surprsed
out of hmsef, that you were engaged
No, no, she sad. e were marred.
Then, amd a started sence, she added, as a
knd of afterthought:
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In fact, we are st.
Strong as was hs composure, the awyer sat
back n hs char wth a sort of sod stupefacton
at whch Paynter coud not hep smng.
You w ask me, of course, went on arbara
n the same measured manner, why we shoud
be marred secrety, so that even my poor father
dd not know. e, I answer you qute franky
to begn wth; because, f he had known, he woud
certany have cut me off wth a shng. He dd
not ke my husband, and I rather fancy you
do not ke hm ether. And when I te you ths,
I know perfecty we what you w say the
usua adventurer gettng hod of the usua heress.
It s qute reasonabe, and, as t happens, t s
qute wrong. If I had deceved my father for
the sake of the money, or even for the sake of a
man, I shoud be a tte ashamed to tak to you
about t. And I thnk you can see that I am
not ashamed.
Yes, sad the Amercan, wth a grave ncna-
ton, yes, I can see that.
She ooked at hm thoughtfuy for a moment,
as f seekng words for an obscure matter, and
then sad:
Do you remember, Mr. Paynter, that day
you frst unched here and tod us about the
Afrcan trees e, t was my brthday; I
mean my frst brthday. I was born then, or
woke up or somethng. I had waked n ths
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garden ke a somnambust n the sun. I thnk
there are many such somnambusts n our set and
our socety; stunned wth heath, drugged wth
good manners, fttng ther surroundngs too we
to be ave. e, I came ave somehow; and
you know how deep n us are the thngs we frst
reaze when we were babes and began to take
notce. I began to take notce. One of the frst
thngs I notced was your own story, Mr.. Payn-
ter. I fee as f I heard of St. Securs as ch-
dren hear of Santa Caus, and as f that bg
tree were a bogey I st beeved n. or I do
st beeve n such thngs, or rather I beeve n
them more and more; I fee certan my poor
father drove on the rocks by dsbeevng, and
you are a racng to run after hm. That s
why I do honesty want the estate, and that s
why I am not ashamed of wantng t. I am
perfecty certan, Mr. Paynter, that nobody can
save ths pershng and and ths pershng peope
but those who understand. I mean who under-
stand a thousand tte sgns and gudes n the
very so and e of the and, and traces that are
amost tramped out. My husband understands,
and I have begun to understand; my father woud
never have understood. There are powers, there
s the sprt of a pace, there are presences that
are not to be put by. Oh, don t fancy I am sent-
menta and hanker after the good od days. The
od days were not a good; that s ust the pont,
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and we must understand enough to know the
good from the ev. e must understand enough
to save the traces of a sant or a sacred tradton,
or, where a wcked god has been worshped, to
destroy hs atar and to cut down hs grove.
Hs grove, sad Paynter automatcay, and
ooked toward the tte wood, where the sun-
brght brds were fyng.
Mrs. Treherne, sad Ashe, wth a formd-
abe quetness, I am not so unsympathetc wth
a ths as you may perhaps suppose. I w not
even say t s a moonshne, for t s somethng
better. It s, f I may say so, honeymoonshne.
I w never deny the sayng that t makes the
word go round, f t makes peope s heads go
round too. ut there are other sentments,
madam, and other dutes. I need not te you
your father was a good man, and that what has
befaen hm woud be ptabe, even as the fate
of the wcked. Ths s a horrbe thng, and t s
chefy among horrors that we must keep our
common sense. There are reasons for every-
thng, and when my od frend es butchered do
not come to me wth even the most beautfu
fary taes about a sant and hs enchanted grove.
e, and you she cred, and rose radanty
and swfty. th what knd of fary taes do
you come to me In what enchanted groves are
you wakng You come and te me that Mr.
Paynter found a we where the water danced
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and then dsappeared; but of course mraces
are a moonshne You te me you yoursef
fshed bones from under the same water, and
every bone was as dry as a bscut; but for
Heaven s sake et us say nothng that makes
anybody s head go round Reay, Mr. Ashe,
you must try to preserve your common sense
She was smng, but wth bazng eyes; and
Ashe got to hs feet wth an nvountary augh
of surrender.
e, we must be gong, he sad. May I
say that a trbute s reay due to your new trans-
cendenta tranng If I may say so, I aways
knew you had brans; and you ve been earnng
to use them.
The two amateur detectves went back to the
wood for the moment, that Ashe mght consder
the remova of the unhappy Squre s remans.
As he ponted out, t was now egay possbe
to have an nquest, and, even at that eary stage
of nvestgatons, he was n favor of havng t
at once. I
I sha be the coroner, he sad, and I thnk
t w be a case of some person or persons un-
known. Don t be surprsed; t s often done to
gve the guty a fase securty. Ths s not the
frst tme the poce have found t convenent to
have the nquest frst and the nqury afterward.
ut Paynter had pad tte attenton to the
pont; for hs great gft of enthusasm, ong
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wasted on arts and affectatons, was fted to
nspraton by the romance of rea fe nto whch
he had ust waked. He was reay a great crtc;
he had a genus for admraton, and hs admra-
ton vared fttngy wth everythng he admred.
A spendd gr and a spendd story, he
cred. I fee as f I were n ove agan mysef,
not so much wth her as wth ve or Heen of
Troy, or some such tower of beauty n the morn-
ng of the word. Don t you ove a heroc
thngs, that gravty and great candor, and the
way she took one step from a sort of throne to
stand n a wderness wth a vagabond Oh,
beeve me, t s she who s the poet; she has the
hgher reason, and honor and vaor are at rest
n her sou.
In short, she s uncommony pretty, reped
Ashe, wth some cyncsm. I knew a murderess
rather we who was very much ke hv, and had
ust that coored har.
You tak as f a murderer coud be caught red-
hared nstead of red-handed, retorted Paynter.
hy, at ths very mnute, you coud be caught
red-hared yoursef. Are you a murderer, by
any chance
Ashe ooked up qucky, and then smed.
I m afrad I m a connosseur n murderers,
as you are n poets, he answered, and I assure
you they are of a coors n har as we as tem-
perament. I suppose t s nhumane, but mne s
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a monstrousy nterestng trade, even n a tte
pace ke ths. As for that gr, of course I ve
known her a her fe, and ut but that s ust
the queston. Have I known her a her fe
Have I known her at a as she even there
to be known You admre her for teng the
truth; and so she dd, by God, when she sad
that some peope wake up ate, who have never
ved before. Do we know what they mght do
we, who have ony seen them aseep
Great heavens cred Paynter. You don t
dare suggest that she
No, I don t, sad the awyer, wth compo-
sure, but there are other reasons. ... I don t
suggest anythng fuy, t we ve had our nter-
vew wth ths poet of yours. I thnk I know
where to fnd hm.
They found hm, n fact, before they e pected
hm, sttng on the bench outsde the ane Arms,
drnkng a mug of cder and watng for the
return of hs Amercan frend; so t was not
dffcut to open conversaton wth hm. Nor dd
he n any way avod the sub ect of the tragedy;
and the awyer, seatng hmsef aso on the ong
bench that fronted the tte market pace, was
soon puttng the ast deveopments as ucdy as
he had put them to arbara.
e, sad Treherne at ast, eanng back
and frownng at the sgnboard, wth the coored
brds and dophns, ust about hs head; sup-
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pose somebody dd k the Squre. He d ked
a good many peope wth hs hygene and hs
enghtened andordsm.
Paynter was consderaby uneasy at ths aarm-
ng openng; but the poet went on qute cooy,
wth hs hands n hs pockets and hs feet thrust
out nto the street.
hen a man has the power of a Sutan n
Turkey, and uses t wth the deas of a spnster
n Tootng, I often wonder that nobody puts a
knfe n hm. I wsh there were more sympathy
for murderers, somehow. I m very sorry the
poor od feow s gone mysef; but you gente-
men aways seem to forget there are any other
peope n the word. He s a rght; he was a
good feow, and hs sou, I fancy, has gone to
the happest paradse of a.
The an ous Amercan coud read nothng of
the effect of ths n the dark Napoeonc face
of the awyer, who merey sad: hat do you
mean
The foo s paradse, sad Treherne, and
draned hs pot of cder.
The awyer rose. He dd not ook at Tre-
herne, or speak to Rm; but ooked and spoke
straght across hm to the Amercan, who found
the utterance not a tte une pected.
Mr. Paynter, sad Ashe, you thought t
rather morbd of me to coect murderers; but
t s fortunate for your own vew of the case that
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I do. It may surprse you to know that Mr. Tre-
herne has now, n my eyes, entrey ceared hm-
sef of suspcon. I have been ntmate wth
severa assassns, as I remarked; but there s one
thng none of them ever dd. I never knew a
murderer to tak about the murder, and then at
once deny t and defend t. No, f a man s con-
ceang hs crme, why shoud he go out of hs
way to apoogze for t
e, sad Paynter, wth hs ready appreca-
ton, I aways sad you were a remarkabe man;
and that s certany a remarkabe dea.
Do I understand, asked the poet, kckng
hs hees on the cobbes, that both you gente-
men have been kndy drectng me toward the
gaows
No, sad Paynter thoughtfuy. I never
thought you guty; and even supposng I had, f
you understand me, I shoud never have thought
t qute so guty to be guty. It woud not have
been for money or any mean thng, but for some-
thng a tte wder and worther of a man of
genus. After a, I suppose, the poet has pas-
sons ke great unearthy appettes; and the
word has aways udged more genty of hs sns.
ut now that Mr. Ashe admts your nnocence,
I can honesty say I have aways affrmed t.
The poet rose aso. e, I am nnocent,
oddy enough, he sad. I thnk I can make a
guess about your vanshng we, but of the death
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and dry bones I know no more than the dead
f so much. And, by the way, my dear Paynter
and he turned two brght eyes on the art crtc
I w e cuse you from e cusng me for a the
thngs I haven t done; and you, I hope, w
e cuse me f I dffer from you atogether about
the moraty of poets. As you suggest, t s a
fashonabe vew, but I thnk t s a faacy. No
man has ess rght to be awess than a man of
magnaton. or he has sprtua adventures,
and can take hs hodays when he kes. I coud
pcture the poor Squre carred off to efand
whenever I wanted hm carred off, and that
wood needed no crme to make t wcked for me.
That red sunset the other nght was a that a
murder woud have been to many men. No, Mr.
Ashe; show, when ne t you st n udgment, a
tte mercy to some wretched man who drnks
and robs because he must drnk beer to taste t,
and take t to drnk t. Have compasson on the
ne t batch of poor theves, who have to hod
thngs n order to have them. ut f ever you
fnd me steang one sma farthng, when I can
shut my eyes and see the cty of Dorado, then
and he fted hs head ke a facon show me
no mercy, for I sha deserve none.
e, remarked Ashe, after a pause, I
must go and f thngs up for the nquest. Mr.
Treherne, your atttude s snguary nterestng;
I reay amost wsh I coud add you to my coec-
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ton of murderers. They are a vared and e -
traordnary set.
Has t ever occurred to you, asked Paynter,
that perhaps the men who have never com-
mtted murder are a vared and very e traor-
dnary set Perhaps every pan man s fe hods
the rea mystery, the secret of sns avoded.
Possby, reped Ashe. It woud be a ong
busness to stop the ne t man n the street and
ask hm what crmes he never commtted and
why not. And I happen to be busy, so you
e cuse me.
hat, asked the Amercan, when he and
the poet were aone, s ths guess of yours about
the vanshng water
e, I m not sure I te you yet, an-
swered Treherne, somethng of the od mschef
comng back nto hs dark eyes. ut I te
you somethng ese, whch may be connected wth
t; somethng I coudn t te unt my wfe had
tod you about our meetng n the wood. Hs
face had grown grave agan, and he resumed
after a pause:
hen my wfe started to foow her father
I advsed her to go back frst to the house, to
eave t by another door and to meet me n the
wood n haf an hour. e often made these
assgnatons, of course, and generay thought
them great fun, but ths tme the queston was
serous, and I ddn t want the wrong thng done
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n a hurry. It was a queston whether anythng
coud be done to undo an e perment we both
vaguey fet to be dangerous, and she especay
thought, after refecton, that nterference woud
make thngs worse. She thought the od sports-
man, havng been dared to do somethng, woud
certany not be dssuaded by the very man who
had dared hm or by a woman whom he regarded
as a chd. She eft me at ast n a sort of
despar, but I ngered wth a ast hope of dong
somethng, and drew doubtfuy near to the heart
of the wood; and there, nstead of the sence I
e pected, I heard a voce. It seemed as f the
Squre must be takng to hmsef, and I had the
unpeasant fancy that he had aready ost hs
reason n that wood of wtchcraft. ut I soon
found that f he was takng he was takng wth
two voces. Other fances attacked me, as that
the other was the voce of the tree or the voces
of the three trees takng together, and wth no
man near. ut t was not the voce of the tree.
The ne t moment I knew the voce, for I had
heard t twenty tmes across the tabe. It was
the voce of that doctor of yours; I heard t as
certany as you hear my voce now.
After a moment s sence, he resumed: I eft
the wood, I hardy knew why, and wth wd and
bewdered feengs; and as I came out nto the
fant moonshne I saw that od awyer standng
quety, but starng at me ke an ow. At east,
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the ght touched hs red har wth fre, but hs
square od face was n shadow. ut I knew, f
I coud have read t, that t was the face of a
hangng udge.
He threw hmsef on the bench agan, smed
a tte, and added: Ony, ke a good many
hangng udges, I fancy, he was watng patenty
to hang the wrong man.
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chancay. Treherne shrugged hs shouders,
sprawng on the ae bench, and payed wth hs
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I
TH CHAS A T R TH TRUTH
COM tme after the nquest, whch had ended
n the nconcusve verdct whch Mr. An-
drew Ashe had hmsef predcted and acheved,
Paynter was agan sttng on the bench outsde
the vage nn, havng on the tte tabe n front
of t a ta gass of ght ae, whch he en oyed
much more as oca coor than as quor. He
had but one companon on the bench, and that a
new one, for the tte market pace was empty
at that hour, and he had atey, for the rest,
been much aone. He was not unhappy, for he
resembed hs great countryman, at htman,
n carryng a knd of unverse wth hm ke an
open umbrea; but he was not ony aone, but
oney. or Ashe had gone abrupty up to Lon-
don, and snce hs return had been occuped
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on the murder. And Treherne had ong snce
taken up hs poston openy, at the great house,
as the husband of the great ady, and he and
she were occuped wth sweepng reforms on the
estate. The ady especay, beng of the sort
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The Chase After the Truth
andscape gardenng as wth the gestures of a
gantess. It was natura, therefore, that so
socabe a sprt as Paynter shoud fa nto
speech wth the one other stranger who happened
to be stayng at the nn, evdenty a brd of pas-
sage ke hmsef. Ths man, who was smokng
a ppe on the bench besde hm, wth hs knap-
sack before hm on the tabe, was an artst come
to sketch on that romantc coast; a ta man n a
vevet acket, wth a shock of tow-coored har, a
ong far beard, but eyes of dark brown, the
effect of whch contrast remnded Paynter
vaguey, he hardy knew why, of a Russan. The
stranger carred hs knapsack nto many pc-
turesque corners; he obtaned permsson to set
up hs ease n that hgh garden where the ate
Squre had hed hs a fresco banquets. ut
Paynter had never had an opportunty of udg-
ng of the artst s work, nor dd he fnd t easy to
get the artst even to tak of hs art. Cypran
hmsef was aways ready to tak of any art, and
he taked of t e ceenty, but wth tte response.
He gave hs own reasons for preferrng the
Cubsts to the cut of Pcasso, but hs new frend
seemed to have but a fant nterest n ether. He
nsnuated that perhaps the Neo-Prmtves were
after a ony thnnng ther ne, whe the true
Prmtves were rather tghtenng t; but the
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Paynter had even gone back as far nto the past
a4 the Post-Impressonsts to fnd a common
ground, and not found t, other memores began
to creep back nto hs mnd. He was ust re-
fectng, rather darky, that after a the tae
of the peacock trees needed a mysterous stranger
to round t off, and ths man had much the ar of
beng one, when the mysterous stranger hmsef
sad suddeny:
e, I thnk I d better show you the work
I m dong down here.
He had hs knapsack before hm on the tabe,
and he smed rather grmy as he began to un-
strap t. Paynter ooked on wth pote e pres-
sons of nterest, but was consderaby surprsed
when the artst unpacked and paced on the tabe,
not any recognzabe works of art, even of the
most Cubst descrpton, but (frst) a qure of
fooscap cosey wrtten wth notes n back and
red nk, and (second), to the Amercan s e treme
amazement, the od woodman s a wth the nen
wrapper, whch he had hmsef found n the we
ong ago.
Sorry to gve you a start, sr, sad the Rus-
san artst, wth a marked London accent. ut
I d better e pan straght off that I m a poce-
man.
You don t ook t, sad Paynter.
I m not supposed to, reped the other.
Mr. Ashe brought me down here from the
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Yard to nvestgate; but he tod me to report to
you when I d got anythng to go on. oud
you ke to go nto the matter now
hen I took ths matter up, e paned the
detectve, I dd t at Mr. Ashe s request, and
argey, of course, on Mr. Ashe s nes. Mr.
Ashe s a great crmna awyer; wth a beautfu
bran, sr, as fu as the Newgate Caendar. I
took, as a workng noton, hs vew that ony you
fve gentemen round the tabe n the Squre s
garden were acquanted wth the Squre s move-
ments. ut you gentemen, f I may say so, have
a way of forgettng certan other thngs and
other peope whch we are rather taught to ook
for frst. And as I foowed Mr. Ashe s n-
qures through the stages you know aready,
through certan suspcons I needn t dscuss be-
cause they ve been dropped, I found the thng
shapng after a toward somethng, n the end,
whch I thnk we shoud have consdered at the
begnnng. Now, to begn wth, t s not true
that there were fve men round the tabe. There
were s .
The creepy condtons of that garden vg
vaguey returned upon Paynter; and he thought
of a ghost, or somethng more nameess than a
ghost. ut the deberate speech of the detec-
tve soon enghtened hm.
There were s men and fve gentemen, f
you ke to put t so, he proceeded. That man
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Mes, the buter, saw the Squre vansh as pany
as you dd; and I soon found that Mes was a
man worthy of a good dea of attenton.
A ght of understandng dawned on Paynter s
face. So that was t, was t he muttered.
Does a our mythoogca mystery end wth a
poceman coarng a buter e, I agree wth
you he s far from an ordnary buter, even to
ook at; and the faut n magnaton s mne.
Lke many fauts n magnaton, t was smpy
snobbshness.
e don t go qute so fast as that, observed
the offcer, n an mpassve manner. I ony sad
I found the nqury pontng to Mes; and that
he was we worthy of attenton. He was much
more n the od Squre s confdence than many
peope supposed; and when I cross-e amned hm
he tod me a good dea that was worth knowng.
I ve got t a down n these notes here; but at the
moment I ony troube you wth one deta of
t. One nght ths buter was ust outsde the
Squre s dnng-room door, when he heard the
nose of a voent quarre. The Squre was a
voent genteman, from tme to tme; but the
curous thng about ths scene was that the other
genteman was the more voent of the two.
Mes heard hm say repeatedy that the Squre
was a pubc nusance, and that hs death woud
be a good rddance for everybody. I ony stop
now to te you that the other genteman was
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Dr. urton rown, the medca man of ths
vage.
The ne t e amnaton I made was that of
Martn, the woodcutter. Upon one pont at east
hs evdence s qute cear, and s, as you w
see, argey confrmed by other wtnesses. He
says frst that the doctor prevented hm from
recoverng hs a , and ths s corroborated by
Mr. a nd Mrs. Treherne. ut he says further
that the doctor admtted havng the thng hm-
sef; and ths agan fnds support n other ev-
dence by the gardener, who saw the doctor, some
tme afterward, come by hmsef and pck up
the chopper. Martn says that Doctor rown
repeatedy refused to gve t up, aegng some
fancfu e cuse every tme. And, fnay, Mr.
Paynter, we w hear the evdence of the a
tsef.
He ad the woodman s too on the tabe n
front of hm, and began to rp up and unwrap.
the curous nen coverng round the hande.
You w admt ths s an odd bandage, he
sad. And that s ust the odd thng about t,
that t reay s a bandage. Ths whte stuff s
the sort of nt they use n hosptas, cut nto
strps ke ths. ut most doctors keep some;
and I have the evdence of ake the fsherman,
wth whom Doctor rown ved for some tme,
that the doctor had ths usefu habt. And, ast,
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the tabe, sn t t odd that t shoud be marked
T. . .
The Amercan gazed at the rudey nked
ntas, but hardy saw them. hat he saw, as
n a mrror n hs darkened memory, was the
back fgure wth the back goves aganst the
bood-red sunset, as he had seen t when he came
out of the wood, and whch had aways haunted
hm, he knew not why.
Of course, I see what you mean, he sad,
and t s very panfu for me, for I knew and
respected the man. ut surey, aso, t s very
far from e panng everythng. If he s a mur-
derer, s he a magcan hy dd the we water
a evaporate n a nght, and eave the dead man s
bones dry as dust That s not a common opera-
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ton, sad the detectve. I ddn t tumbe to t
at frst mysef, beng a Cockney; but a tte tak
wth ake and the other fsherman about the od
smuggng days put me straght about that. ut
I admt the dred remans st stump us a. A
the same
A shadow fe across the tabe, and hs tak
was sharpy cut short. Ashe was standng under
the panted sgn, buttoned up grmy n back,
and wth the face of the hangng udge, of whch
the poet had spoken, pan ths tme n the broad
sunght. ehnd hm stood two bg men n
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pan cothes, very st; but Paynter knew n-
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e must move at once, sad the awyer.
Dr. urton rown s eavng the vage.
The ta detectve sprang to hs feet, and
Paynter nstnctvey mtated hm.
He has gone up to the Trehernes possby
to say good-by, went on Ashe rapdy. I m
sorry, but we must arrest hm n the garden there,
f necessary. I ve kept the ady out of the way,
I thnk. ut you addressng the facttous
andscape panter must go up at once and rg
up that ease of yours near the tabe and be ready.
e w foow quety, and come up behnd the
tree. e must be carefu, for t s cear he s got
wnd of us, or he woudn t be dong a bot.
I don t ke ths ob, remarked Paynter, as
they mounted toward the park and garden, the
detectve dartng on ahead.
Do you suppose I do asked Ashe; and,
ndeed, hs strong, heavy face ooked so ned and
od that the red har seemed unnatura, ke a
red wg. I ve known hm onger than you,
though perhaps I ve suspected hm onger as
we.
hen they topped the sope of the garden
the detectve had aready erected hs ease,
though a strong breeze bowng toward the sea
ratted and fapped hs apparatus and bew about
hs far (and fase) beard n the wnd. Ltte
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couds cured ke feathers, were scuddng sea-
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the Amercan art crtc had once surveyed on a
happer mornng; but t s doubtfu f the and-
scape panter pad much attenton to t. Tre-
herne was dmy dscernbe n the doorway of
what was now hs house; he woud come no
nearer, for he hated such a pubc duty more
bttery than the rest. The others posted them-
seves a tte way behnd the tree. etween the
nes of these masked batteres the back fgure
of the doctor coud be seen comng across the
green awn, traveng straght, as a buet, as he
had done when he brought the bad news to the
woodcutter. To-day he was smng, under the
dark mustache that was cut short of the upper
p, though they fanced hm a tte pae, and
he seemed to pause a moment and peer through
hs spectaces at the artst.
The artst turned from hs ease wth a natura
movement, and then n a fash had captured the
doctor by the coat coar.
I arrest you he began; but Doctor
rown pucked hmsef free wth startng promp-
ttude, took a fyng eap at the other, tore off hs
sham beard, tossng t nto the ar ke one of the
wd wsps of the coud; then, wth one wd kck,
sent the ease fyng topsy-turvy, and fed ke a
hare for the shore.
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ths wd recepton was a novety and amost an
antcma ; but he had no tme for anayss when
he and the whoe pack had to foow n the hunt;
even Treherne brngng up the rear wth a re-
newed curosty and energy.
The fugtve coded wth one of the poce-
men who ran to head hm off, sendng hm spraw-
ng down the sope; ndeed, the fugtve seemed
nspred wth the strength of a wd ape. He
ceared at a bound the rampart of fowers, over
whch arbara had once eaned to ook at her
future over, and tumbed wth bndng speed
down the steep path up whch that troubadour had
cmbed. Racng wth the rushng wnd they a
streamed across the garden after hm, down the
path, and fnay on to the seashore by the fsher s
cot, and the perced crags and caverns the Amer-
can had admred when he frst anded. The
runaway dd not, however, make for the house
he had ong nhabted, but rather for the per,
as f wth a mnd to seze the boat or to swm.
Ony when he reached the other end of the sma
stone etty dd he turn, and show them the pae
face wth the spectaces; and they saw that t was
st smng.
I m rather gad of ths, sad Treherne, wth
a great sgh. The man s mad.
Nevertheess, the naturaness of the doctor s
voce, when he spoke, started them as much as a
shrek.
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Genteman, he sad, I won t protract your
panfu dutes by askng you what you want; but
I w ask at once for a sma favor, whch w
not pre udce those dutes n any way. I came
down here rather n a hurry perhaps; but the
truth s I thought I was ate for an appontment.
He ooked dspassonatey at hs watch. I fnd
there s st some ffteen mnutes. you wat
wth me here for that short tme; after whch I
am qute at your servce.
There was a bewdered sence, and then
Paynter sad: or my part, I fee as f t woud
reay be better to humor hm.
Ashe, sad the doctor, wth a new note of
serousness, for od frendshp, grant me ths
ast tte ndugence. It w make no dfference;
I have no arms or means of escape; you can
search me f you ke. I know you thnk you are
dong rght, and I aso know you w do t as
fary as you can. e, after a, you get frends
to hep you; ook at our frend wth the beard,
or the remans of the beard. hy shoudn t I
have a frend to hep me A man w be here
n a few mnutes n whom I put some confdence;
a great authorty on these thngs. hy not, f
ony out of curosty, wat and hear hs vew of
the case
Ths seems a moonshne, sad Ashe, but
on the chance of any ght on thngs we, from
the moon I don t mnd watng a quarter of an
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teur detectve, I suppose.
I thank you, sad the doctor, wth some
dgnty. I thnk you w trust hm when you
have taked to hm a tte. And now, he added
wth an ar of amaby rea ng nto ghter mat-
ters, et us tak about the murder.
Ths case, he sad n a detached manner,
w be found, I suspect, to be rather unque.
There s a very cear and concusve combnaton
of evdence aganst Thomas urton rown,
otherwse mysef. ut there s one pecuarty
about that evdence, whch you may perhaps have
notced. It a comes utmatey from one source,
and that a rather unusua one. Thus, the wood-
cutter says I had hs a , but what makes hm
thnk so He says / tod hm I had hs a ; that
I tod hm so agan and agan. Once more, Mr.
Paynter here pued up the a out of the we;
but how I thnk Mr. Paynter w testfy that
/ brought hm the tacke for fshng t up, tacke
he mght never have got n any other way. Cur-
ous, s t not Agan, the a s found to be
wrapped n nt that was n my possesson, accord-
ng to the fsherman. ut who showed the nt
to the fsherman I dd. ho marked t wth
arge etters as mne I dd. ho wrapped t
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panfu codness were begnnng to hod more and
more of ther attenton.
Then there s the we tsef, proceeded the
doctor, wth the same ar of nsane cam. I
suppose some of you by ths tme know at east
the secret of that. The secret of the we s
smpy that t s not a we. It s purposey
shaped at the top so as to ook ke one, but t
s reay a sort of chmney openng from the roof
of one of those caves over there; a cave that
runs nand ust under the wood, and ndeed s
connected by tunnes and secret passages wth
other openngs mes and mes away. It s a sort
of abyrnth used by smuggers and such peope
for ages past. Ths doubtess e pans many of
those dsappearances we have heard of. ut to
return to the we that s not a we, n case some
of you st don t know about t. hen the sea
rses very hgh at certan seasons t fs the ow
cave, and even rses a tte way n the funne
above, makng t ook more ke a we than ever.
The nose Mr. Paynter heard was the natura
eddy of a breaker from outsde, and the whoe
e perence depended on somethng so eementary
as the tde.
The Amercan was started nto ordnary
speech.
The tde he sad. And I never even
thought of t I guess that comes of vng by
the Medterranean.
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tnued the speaker, to a ogca mnd ke that
of Mr. Ashe, for nstance. If t be asked why,
even so, the tde dd not wash away the Squre s
remans that had an there snce hs dsappear-
ance, there s ony one possbe answer. The
remans had not an there snce hs dsappear-
ance. The remans had been deberatey put
there n the cavern under the wood, and put there
after Mr. Paynter had made hs frst nvestga-
ton. They were put there, n short, after the
sea had retreated and the cave was agan dry.
That s why they were dry; of course, much drer
than the cave. ho put them there, I wonder
He was gazng gravey through hs spectaces
over ther heads nto vacancy, and suddeny he
smed.
Ah, he cred, umpng up from the rock
wth aacrty, here s the amateur detectve at
ast
Ashe turned hs head over hs shouder, and
for a few seconds dd not move t agan, but
stood as f wth a stff neck. In the cff ust
behnd hm was one of the cefts or cracks nto
whch t was everywhere coven. Advancng
from ths nto the sunshne, as f from a narrow
door, was Squre ane, wth a broad sme on
hs face.
The wnd was tearng from the top of the
hgh cff out to sea, passng over ther heads, and
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they had the sensaton that everythng was pass-
ng over ther heads and out of ther contro.
Paynter fet as f hs head had been bown off
ke a hat. ut none of ths gae of unreason
seemed to str a har on the whte head of the
Squre, whose bearng, though sef-mportant and
borderng on a swagger, seemed f anythng more
comfortabe than n the od days. Hs red face
was, however, burnt ke a saor s, and hs ght
cothes had a foregn ook.
e, gentemen, he sad genay, so ths
s the end of the egend of the peacock trees.
Sorry to spo that deghtfu traveer s tae, Mr.
Paynter, but the oke coudn t be kept up forever.
Sorry to put a stop to your best poem, Mr. Tre-
herne, but I thought a ths poetry had been
gong a tte too far. So Doctor rown and I
f ed up a tte surprse for you. And I must
say, wthout vanty, that you ook a tte
surprsed.
hat on earth, asked Ashe at ast, s the
meanng of a ths
The Squre aughed peasanty, and even a
tte apoogetcay.
I m afrad I m fond of practca okes, he
sad, and ths I suppose s my ast grand prac-
tca oke. ut I want you to understand that
the oke s reay practca. I fatter mysef t
w be of very practca use to the cause of
progress and common sense, and the kng of
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such supersttons everywhere. The best part
of t, I admt, was the doctor s dea and not
mne. A I meant to do was to pass a nght n
the trees, and then turn up as fresh as pant to
te you what foos you were. ut Doctor
rown here foowed me nto the wood, and we
had a tte tak whch rather changed my pans.
He tod me that a dsappearance for a few hours
ke that woud never knock the nonsense on
the head; most peope woud never even hear
of t, and those who dd woud say that one nght
proved nothng. He showed me a much better
way, whch had been tred n severa cases where
bogus mraces had been shown up. The thng
to do was to get the thng reay beeved every-
where as a mrace, and then shown up every-
where as a sham mrace. I can t put a the
arguments as we as he dd, but that was the
noton, I thnk.
The doctor nodded, gazng senty at the
sand; and the Squre resumed wth undmnshed
resh.
e agreed that I shoud drop through the
hoe nto the cave, and make my way through the
tunnes, where I often used to pay as a boy,
to the raway staton a few mes from here, and
there take a tran for London. It was necessary
for the oke, of course, that I shoud dsappear
wthout beng traced; so I made my way to a
port, and put n a very peasant month or two
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round my od haunts n Cyprus and the Medter-
ranean. There s no more to say of that part of
the busness, e cept that I arranged to be back
by a partcuar tme; and here I am. ut I ve
heard enough of what s gone on round here to
be satsfed that I ve done the trck. very-
body n Cornwa and most peope n South ng-
and have heard of the anshng Squre; and
thousands of noodes have been noddng ther
heads over crystas and tarot cards at ths mar-
veous proof of an unseen word. I reckon the
Reappearng Squre w scatter ther cards and
smash ther crystas, so that such rubbsh won t
appear agan n the twenteth century. I make
the peacock trees the aughng stock of a urope
and Amerca.
e, sad the awyer, who was the frst to
rearrange hs wts, I m sure we re a ony too
deghted to see you agan, Squre; and I qute
understand your e panaton and your own very
natura motves n the matter. ut I m afrad
I haven t got the hang of everythng yet.
Granted that you wanted to vansh, was t neces-
sary to put bogus bones n the cave, so as neary
to put a hater round the neck of Doctor rown
And who put t there The statement woud
appear perfecty manaca; but so far as I can
make head or ta out of anythng, Doctor rown
seems to have put t there hmsef.
The doctor fted hs head for the frst tme.
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Yes; I put the bones there, he sad. I
beeve I am the frst son of Adam who ever
manufactured a the evdence of a murder charge
aganst hmsef.
It was the Squre s turn to ook astonshed.
The od genteman ooked rather wdy from
one to the other.
ones Murder charge he e acuated.
hat the dev s a ths hose bones
Your bones, n a manner of speakng, de-
catey conceded the doctor. I had to make sure
you had reay ded, and not dsappeared by
magc.
The Squre n hs turn seemed more hopeessy
puzzed than the whoe crowd of hs frends had
been over hs own escapade. hy not he
demanded. I thought t was the whoe pont
to make t ook ke magc. hy dd you want
me to de so much
Doctor rown had fted hs head; and he now
very sowy fted hs hand. He ponted wth
outstretched arm at the headand overhangng
the foreshore, ust above the entrance to the
cave. It was the e act part of the beach where
Paynter had frst anded, on that sprng mornng
when he had ooked up n hs frst fresh wonder
at the peacock trees. ut the trees were gone.
The fact tsef was no surprse to them; the
cearance had naturay been one of the frst of
the sweepng changes of the Treherne regme.
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ut though they knew t we, they had whoy
forgotten t; and tsf sgnfcance returned on
them suddeny ke a sgn n heaven.
That s the reason, sad the doctor. I
have worked for that for fourteen years.
They no onger ooked at the bare promontory
on whch the feathery trees had once been so
famar a sght; for they had somethng ese to
ook at. Anyone seeng the Squre now woud
have shfted hs opnon about where to fnd the
unatc n that crowd. It was pan n a fash that
the change had faen on hm ke a thunderbot;
that he, at east, had never had the wdest noton
that the tae of the anshng Squre had been
but a preude to that of the vanshng trees. The
ne t haf hour was fu of hs ravngs and e -
postuatons, whch graduay ded away nto de-
mands for e panaton and ncoherent questons
repeated agan and agan. He had practcay
to be overrued at ast, n spte of the respect n
whch he was hed, before anythng ke a space
and sence were made n whch the doctor coud
te hs own story. It was perhaps a snguar
story, of whch he aone had ever had the know-
edge ; and though ts narraton was not unnter-
rupted, t may be set forth consecutvey n hs
own words.
rst, I wsH t ceary understood that I be-
eve n nothng. I do not even gve the nothng
I beeve a name; or I shoud be an athest. I
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have never had nsde my head so much as a hnt
of heaven and he. I thnk t most key we
are worms n the mud; but I happen to be sorry
for the other worms under the whee. And I
happen mysef to be a sort of worm that turns
when he can. If I care nothng for pety, I care
ess for poetry. I m not ke Ashe here, who s
crammed wth crmnoogy, but has a sorts of
other cuture as we. I know nothng about cu-
ture, e cept bactera cuture. I sometmes fancy
Mr. Ashe s as much an art crtc as Mr. Paynter;
ony he ooks for hs heroes, or vans, n rea
fe. ut I am a very practca man; and my
steppng stones have been smpy scentfc facts.
In ths vage I found a fact a fever. I coud
not cassfy t; t seemed pecuar to ths corner
of the coast; t had snguar reactons of derum
and menta breakdown. I studed t e acty as
I shoud a queer case n the hospta, and corre-
sponded and compared notes wth other men of
scence. ut nobody had even a workng hy-
pothess about t, e cept of course the gnorant
peasantry, who sad the peacock trees were n
some wd way posonous.
e, the peacock trees were posonous. The
peacock trees dd produce the fever. I verfed
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parng a the degrees and detas of a vast num-
ber of cases; and there were a shockng number
to compare. At the end of t T had dscovered
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the thng as Harvey dscovered the crcuaton
of the bood. verybody was the worse for be-
ng near the thngs; those who came off best
were e acty the e ceptons that proved the rue,
abnormay heathy and energetc peope ke the
Squre and hs daughter. In other words, the
peasants were rght. ut f I put t that way,
somebody w cry: ut do you beeve t was
supernatura then In fact, that s what you
a say; and that s e acty what I compan of.
I fancy hundreds of men have been eft dead and
dseases eft undscovered, by ths suspcon of
superstton, ths stupd fear of fear. Uness
you see dayght through the forest of facts from
the frst, you won t venture nto the wood at a.
Uness we can promse you beforehand that there
sha be what you ca a natura e panaton, to
save your precous dgnty from mraces, you
won t even hear the begnnng of the pan tae.
Suppose there sn t a natura e panaton Sup-
pose there s, and we never fnd t Suppose I
haven t a noton whether there s or not hat
the dev has that to do wth you, or wth me n
deang wth the facts I do know My own n-
stnct s to thnk there s; that f my researches
coud be foowed far enough t woud be found
that some horrbe parody of hay fever, some
effect anaogous to that of poen, woud e pan
a the facts. I have never found the e pana-
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The Chase. After the Truth
the fact s that those trees on the top there deat
death rght and eft, as certany as f they had
been gants, standng on a h and knockng men
down n crowds wth a cub. It w be sad that
now I had ony to produce my proofs and have
the nusance removed. Perhaps I mght have
convnced the scentfc word fnay, when more
and more processons of dead men had passed
through the vage to the cemetery. ut I had
not got to convnce the scentfc word, but the
Lord of the Manor. The Squre w pardon my
sayng that t was a very dfferent thng. I tred
t once; I ost my temper, and sad thngs I do
not defend; and I eft the Squre s pre udces
rooted anew, ke the trees. I was confronted
wth one coossa concdence that was an obstace
to a my ams. One thng made a my scence
sound ke nonsense. It was the popuar egend.
Squre, f there were a egend of hay fever,
you woud not beeve n hay fever. If there
were a popuar story about poen, you woud say
that poen was ony a popuar story. I had
somethng aganst me heaver and more hopeess
than the hostty of the earned; I had the sup-
port of the gnorant. My truth was hopeessy
tanged up wth a tae that the educated were
resoved to regard as entrey a e. I never tred
to e pan agan; on the contrary, I apoogzed,
affected a converson to the common-sense vew,
and watched events. And a the tme the nes
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of a arger, f more crooked pan, began to get
cearer n my mnd. I knew that Mss ane,
whether or no she were marred to Mr. Treherne,
as I afterward found she was, was so much under
hs nfuence that the frst day of her nhertance
woud be the ast day of the posonous trees.
ut she coud not nhert, or even nterfere, t
the Squre ded. It became smpy sef-evdent,
to a ratona mnd, that the Squre must de. ut
wshng to be humane as we as ratona, I de-
sred hs death to be temporary.
Doubtess my scheme was competed by a
chapter of accdents, but I was watchng for such
accdents. Thus I had a foreshadowng of how
the a woud fgure n the tae when t was frst
fung at the trees; t woud have surprsed the
woodman to know how near our mnds were,
and how I was but ayng a more eaborate sege
to the towers of pestence. ut when the Squre
spontaneousy rushed on what haf the country-
sde woud ca certan death, I umped at my
chance. I foowed hm, and tod hm a that he
has tod you. I don t suppose he ever forgve
me now, but that shan t prevent me sayng that
I admre hm hugey for beng what peope woud
ca a unatc and what s reay a sportsman. It
takes rather a grand od man to make a oke n
the grand stye. He came down so quck from
the tree he had cmbed that he had no tme to
pu hs hat off the bough t had caught n.
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At frst I found I had made a mscacuaton.
I thought hs dsappearance woud be taken as
hs death, at east after a tte tme; but Ashe
tod me there coud be no formates wthout a
corpse. I fear I was a tte annoyed, but I soon
set mysef to the duty of manufacturng a corpse.
It s not hard for a doctor to get a skeeton;
ndeed, I had one, but Mr. Paynter s energy was
a day too eary for me, and I ony got the bones
nto the we when he had aready found t. Hs
story gave me another chance, however; I noted
where the hoe was n the hat, and made a pre-
csey correspondng hoe n the sku. The reason
for creatng the other cews may not be so ob-
vous. It may not yet be atogether apparent to
you that I am not a fend n human form. I
coud not substantate a murder wthout at east
suggestng a murderer, and I was resoved that
f the crme happened to be traced to anybody,
t shoud be to me. So I m not surprsed you
were puzzed about the purpose of the rag round
the a , because t had no purpose, e cept to n-
crmnate the man who put t there. The chase
had to end wth me, and when t was cosng n
at ast the oke of t was too much for me, and
I fear I took bertes wth the genteman s ease
and beard. I was the ony person who coud
rsk t, beng the ony person who coud at the
ast moment produce the Squre and prove there
had been no crme at a. That, gentemen, s
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the true story of the peacock trees; and that bare
crag up there, where the wnd s whstng as t
woud over a wderness, s a waste pace I have
abored to make, as many men have abored to
make a cathedra.
I don t thnk there s any more to say, and
yet somethng moves n my bood and I w try
to say t. Coud you not have trusted a tte
these peasants whom you aready trust so much
These men are men, and they meant somethng;
even ther fathers were not whoy foos. If
your gardener tod you of the trees you caed
hm a madman, but he dd not pan and pant your
garden ke a madman. You woud not trust
your woodman about these trees, yet you trusted
hm wth a the others. Have you ever thought
what a the work of the word woud be ke f
the poor were so senseess as you thnk them
ut no, you stuck to your ratona prncpe. And
your ratona prncpe was that a thng must be
fase because thousands of men had found t true;
that because many human eyes had seen some-
thng t coud not be there.
He ooked across at Ashe wth a sort of cha-
enge, but though the sea wnd ruffed the od
awyer s red mane, hs Napoeonc mask was un-
ruffed; t even had a sort of beauty from ts
new bengnty.
I am too happy ust now n thnkng how
wrong I have been, he answered, to quarre
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wth you, doctor, about our theores. And yet,
n ustce to the Squre as we as mysef, I shoud
demur to your sweepng nference. I respect
these peasants, I respect your regard for them;
but ther stores are a dfferent matter. I thnk
I woud do anythng for them but beeve them.
Truth and fancy, after a, are m ed n them,
when n the more nstructed they are separate;
and I doubt f you have consdered what woud
be nvoved n takng ther word for anythng.
Haf the ghosts of those who ded of fever may
be wakng by now; and knd as these peope are,
I beeve they mght st burn a wtch. No,
doctor, I admt these peope have been bady
used, I admt they are n many ways our betters,
but I st coud not accept anythng n ther
evdence.
The doctor bowed gravey and respectfuy
enough, and then, for the ast tme that day, they
saw hs rather snster sme.
ute so, he sad. ut you woud have
hanged me on ther evdence.
And, turnng hs back on them, as f auto-
matcay, he set hs face toward the vage,
where for so many years he had gone hs round.
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