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A 8 A DAL IN BOHEMIA. ' : 7 ) ‘*Mv cabby drove fast. don’t think

f ever drove faster, but the others were before us. The cab and landau |

‘ their steaming horses were 15 | of the door when I arrived. I1| the man,and hurried into the

not a soul ther:

ivwch. There was he two whom I had followed and

su iced cle rgyman, who seemed te ie expestulating with them. They were al’ three standing in a knot in

front of the altar. I lounged up the

side isle like any other idler who has | dropped intoa church. Suddenly, to| my surprise, the three at the altar} faced round to me, and Godfrey Norton | came running as hard as he could to-

ward me.

“Thank God!’ he cried.

Come! Come!’

**What then? I asked.

‘Come, man, come; only minutes, or it won't be legal.’ fl was half dragged up to the altar, | and, before I knew where I was, |} found myself mumbling responses } which were whispered in my ear, and youching for things of which I knew} nothing, and generally assisting in the

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three

ing up of Irene Adler, |

spinster, to Godfrey Norton, bachelor.

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It was all done in an instant, and there | vas thelij@mtleman thanking me on | the one side and the lady on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It wasthe most preposterous . . . | position in which I ever found myself | in my life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just now. It | seems that there had been some inform: ality about their license; that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them without a witness of and that my lucky appearauce saved from having to sally

some sort,

she bridegroom vut into the streets in search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean to wear iton my watch- ehain in memory of the occasion.” ‘This is a very unexpected turn ol affairs,” said I; ‘‘and what then?” Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. lt looked as if the pair mighttake an immediate depart- re, and so necessitate very prompt and measures on my part. At the however, they separated.

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lriving back to the Temple, and |

1-2 own house. ‘I shall|

drive out in the park at five as | ui,” ol i she left him. I]

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no more. They drove away in nt direc and I went off tc make my own arrangements.”

“Which are ?”

“Some cold beef and a glass of beer,’ he answered, ringing the bell. ‘I have been too busy to think of food, and Lam likely to be By the way, doctor, I shal]

tions,

busier still this evening want your co-operation.”,

**T shall be delighted.”

“You don’t mind breaking the law ?

‘*Not in the least.”

“Nor running a chance of arrest ?”

‘Not in a good cause.”

‘Oh, the cause is excellent !”

‘Then [am your man.”

“IT was sure that I might rely or you.”

‘But what is it you wish

‘When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to you, Now,” he said, as he turned hungrily onthe simple fare that our landlady had provided, ‘I must discuss it while I eat, for I have not much time. It is nearly tive now. In two hours we must be on the scene of action. Irene, or Madame, rather, returns from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her.”

**And what then 2”

‘You must leave that tome. I have already arranged what is to occur There is one point must ingsist., You must not interfere, come what may. You understand ?”

‘‘T am to be neutral ?”

“To do nothing There will probably be some small unpleas- Do not join init. It will end in my being conveyed into the house, tive afterward the sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close to that

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whatever. antness.

Four or minutes

on window.”

“Vou.”

‘You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you.”

“And when I raise my hand—so— you will throw intothe room what 1

, and will, at the same You quite

THrOW the cry of fire.

rive vou to

time, raise follow me?’

Entirely.”

“It is nothing very formidable,” he said, taking a long cigar-shaped roll from. his pocket. a plumber’s smoke rocket, fitted with a either end, to make it self-licht- ing. Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, it will be taken up by quite a number ol people. You may then walk tothe end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten minutes. 1 hope that 1 have made myself clear ?”

is an ordinary

cap at

‘‘T am to remain neutral, to get near the window to watch you, and, at the signal, to throw in this object, then tc raise the cry of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street.”

‘*Precisely.”

“Then you may entirely rely on me.”

“That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I prepared for the new role I have to play.”

He disappeared into his bedroom, and returned in a few minutes in the char- acter of an amiable and simple-minded gonconformist clergyman. His broad. black hat, his baggy trousers, his white tie, his sympathetic smile and genera! look of peering and -benevolent curi- sity were such Mr. John Hare alone could have equaled. It was not merely that Holmes changed tume. His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime,

It was a quarter past six when we left Baker street, and it still wante ten minutes to the hour wnen we found

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ourselves in Serpentine avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, waiting for the coming of its oceupant, The house was just such as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes’ succinct de- scription, but the locality appeared to be less private than 1 expected. On the contrary, fora small strect in a quiet neighborbood, it was remarkably ani-

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From Dr. L.S.A.1.,

to take place in the quality comes impure, and we fall an and blood disorders of all kinds, the system cool and the blood

ITTETUWN, APRIL 29 (9

_W. H. Wright, L.R.C.P.I., L.M., M.R.C.S.E., Medical Officer of Health, London, England :

*‘ Our artificial mode of life constantly causes such changes of the blood, that it frequently be- easy prey to infectious diseases

I strongly advocate keeping

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(To be Continued.)

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