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THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, APRIL 8, 1897

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JOHN HUXPORD'S HIA‘Us,

BY A. CONAN DOYLE.

Among the shrewd West-country neigh- bors there had long, however, to be any mystery in the matter, arrived safely in Canada—so proved by his letter. Had his end in any sudden way Quebee

ceased

much was he met with

during the journey between and Montreal there must have been some official in- quiry, and his luggage would have sufficed to establish his identity. Yet the Canadian police had been communicated with, and had returned a positive an- swer that no inquest had heen held, or any body found which could by any pos- sibility be that of the young Englishman. The only alternative appeared to be that he had taken the first oppertunity to break all the old ties, and had slipped away to the backwoods or to the States to commence life anew under an_ altered

name. Why he should Co this no one pro- fessed to know, but that he had cone it appeared only too probable from the

facts. Hence many a deep growl of right- eous anger rose from the brawny smacks men when Mary with her pale face and sorrow sunken head passed along the quays on her way to her daily mapket- ing; and it is more than likely that if the missing man had turned up in Bris- port he might have met with some rough or rougher usege, unless he could give some very govud reason for his strange conduct. This popular view of the case never, however, occurred to the ‘imple, trusting heart of the lonely girl, and as the years rolled by her grief and

words

her suspense were never for an instant tinged with a doubt as to the good taith of the missing man. From youth

she crew into middle age, from that into the autumn of her life, patient, long- suffering and faithful, doing good :8 far as lay in her power, and waiting humbly until fate should restore, either in this world or the next, that which it had so mysteriously deprived her of.

In the meantime neither the opinion held by the minerity that John Huxford was Geud, nor the imajority, which pro nounced him to be faithless, represented the true state of the case. Stillalive, and of stainless honor, he had yet been sing- led out by fortune as her victim in one of those strange freaks which are of such rare occurrence, and sc beyond the gen-

ral experience, that they might be put by as incredible, had we not the most

trustworthy evidence of their occasional possibility.

Landing at Quebec, with his heart full of hope and courage, John selected a dingy room in a back street, where the terms were less exorbitant than elsewhere, and conveyed thither the two _ boxes which contained his worldly goods. After

taking up his quarters there he had half a mind to change again, for the

landlady and the fellow-lodgers were by no means to his taste; but the Montreal coach started within a day or two, and he consoled himself by the thought that the discomfort would only last for that short time. Having written home to Mary to announce his safe arrival, he employed himself in seeing as much of the town as was po.:sible, walking about all day, and only returning to his room at night.

It happened, however, that the house on which the unfortunate youth had pitched was one which was notorious for the character of its inmates. He had been directed to it by a pimp, who found regular employment in hanging about the docks and decoying new-comers to this den. The fellow’s specious manner and proffered civility had led the simple- hearted west-countryman into the toils, and though his instinct told him that he was in unsafe company, he refrained, unfortunately, from at once making his escape. He contented himself with staying out all day, and associating as little as possible with the other inmates. From the few words which he did let drop, however, the landlady gathered that he was a stranger without a single friend in the country to inquire after him should misfortune overtake him.

The house had an evil reputation for the hocussing of sailors, which was done not only for the purpose of plundering them, but also to supwly outgoing ships with crews, the men being carried on board insensible, and not coming to un- til the ship was well down the St. Law- rence. This trade causerl the wretches who followed it to be experts in the use of stupefying drugs, and they determined to practice their arts upon their friendless lodger, so as to have an opportunity of ransacking his effects, and of seeing what it might be worth their while to purloin. During the day he invariably locked his door and carried off the key in his poc- ket, but if they could render him insen- sible for the night they could examine his boxes at their leisure, and deny after- ward that he had ever brought with him the articles which he missed. It happen- ed, therefore, upon the eve of Huxford’s departure from Quebec, that he found, upon returning to his lodgings, that his landlady and her two ill-favored sons, who assisted her in her trade, were waiting up for him over a bow! of punch, which they cordially invited him to share. It was a bitterly cold night, and the fra- grant steam overpowered any suspicions which the young Englishman may have entertained, so he drained off a bumper, and then, retiring to his bedroom, threw himself upon his bed without undressing, and fell straight into a dreamless s!uim- ker, in which he still lay when the three

conspirators crept into his chamber, and, having opened his boxes, began to inves- tigate his effects.

it may have been that speedy action of the drug caused its effect to be evanes- cent, or, perhaps, that the strong consti- tution of the victim threw it off with unusual rapidity. Whatever the cause, it is certain that John Huxford suddenly came to himself, and found the foul trio squatted round thefr booty, which they were dividing into the two categories of what was of value and should be taken, and what was valueless and might there- fore be left. With a bound he sprang out et bed, and seizing the fellow nearest him y the collar, he stung him through the

sven doorway. His brother rushed at

Huxford :

him, but the young Devonshire man met him with such a facer that he dropped in a heap upon the ground. Unfottun- ately, the violence of the blow caused him

to overbalance himself, and, tripping over his prostrate antagonist, he ceme dcavn heavily upon his face. Before he

ceculd rise, the old hag sprang upon his back and clung to him, shrieking to her son to bring the poker. John managed to shake himself clear of them both, but be- fore he could stand on his guard he was felled from behind by a crashing blow from an iron bar, which stretched him

| senseless upon the floor.

‘*You’ve hit too hard, Joe,’’ said the old woman, looking down at the prostrate figure. ‘‘I heard the. bone go.”’

“If I hadn’t fetched him he'd ha’ been too many for us,’’ said the young villain sulkily. ;

‘Still, you might ha’ done it killing him, clumsy,’’ said his She had had a large experience scenes, and knew the difference a stunning blow and a fatal one.

‘‘He’s still breathing,’’ the other said, examining him; ‘‘the back o’ his head’s like a bag o’ dice though. The skull’s all splintered. He can’t last. What are we to do?”’

‘*He’ll never come to the other brother remarked. right. Look at my face! mother; who’s in the house?’’

‘“‘Only four drunk sailors.’’

‘*They wouldn’t turn out for any noise. It’s all quiet in the street. Let’s carry him down a bit, Joe, and leave him there. He can die there, and no one think the worse of us.”’

‘*Take all the papers out of his pocket,

without mother. of such between

himself again,’’ **Sarve him Let’s see,

then,’’ the mother suggested; ‘‘they might help the police to trace him. His watch, too, and his money—#£3 odd;

Now carry him

,

better than nothing. softly and don’t slip.’

Kicking off their shoes, the two broth- ers carried the dying man downstairs and along the deserted street for a couple of hundred yards. There they laid him among the snow, where he was found by the night patrol, who carried him ona shutter to the hospital. He was duly ex- amined by the resident surgeon, who bound up the wounded head, but gave it as his opinion that the man could not possibly live for more than twelve hours.

Twelve hours passed, however, and yet another twelve, but John Huxford still struggled hard for his life. When at the end of three days he was found still breathing, the interest of the doctors be- came aroused at his extraord/nary vital- ity, and they bled him, as_ the fashion was in those days, and surrounded his shattered head with ice-bags. It may have been on account of these measures, or it may have been in spite of them, but at the end of a week’s deep trance the nurse in charge was astonished to hear a gabbling noise, and to find the stranger sitting up upon the couch and staring about him with wistful, wondering eyes. The surgeons were summoned to behold the phenomenon, and warmly. congratu- lated each other upon the success of their treatment.

‘‘You have been on the brink of the grave, my man,’’ said one of them, press- ing the bandaged head back on to the pillow; ‘‘you must not excite yourself. What is your name?’

No answer, save a wild stare.

‘‘Where do you come from?’’

Again no answer.

‘‘He is mad,’’ one suggested. ‘‘Ora foreigner,’’ said another. ‘‘There were no papers on him when he came in, His linen is marked ‘J. H.’ Let us try him in French and German.’’ .

They tested him with as many tongues as they could muster among them, but were compelled at last to give the mat- ter over and to leave their silent patient, still staring up wild-eyed at the white- washed hospital ceiling.

For many weeks John lay in the hos- pital, and for many weeks efforts were made to gain some clew as to his ante- cedents, but in vain. He showed, as the time rolled by, not only by his demeanor, but also by the intelligence with which he began to pick up fragments of sent- ences, like a clever child learning to talk, that his mind was strong enough in the present, though it was a complete blank as to the past. The man’s memory of his whole life before the fatal blow was en- tirely and absolutely erased. He neither knew his name, his language, his home, his business, nor anything else. The doc- tors held learned consultations upon him, and discoursed upon the center of mem- ory and depressed tables, deranged nerve- cells and cerebral congestions, but all their polysyllables began and ended at

-the fact that the man’s memory was

gone, and that it was beyond the power of science to restore it. During the weary months of his convalescence he picked up reading and writing, but with the return of his strength came no return of his former life. England, Devonshire, Bris- port, Mary, Granny—the words brought no recollection to his mind. All was absolute darkness. At last he was dis- charged, a friendless, tradeless, penniless man, without a past, and with very little to look to in the future. His very name was altered, for it had been neces- sary to invent one. John Huxford ‘had passed away, and John Hardy took his place among markind. Here was a strange outcome of a Spanish gentle- man’s tobacco-inspired meditations. John’s case had aroused some discus- sion and curiosity in Quebec, so that he was not suffered to drift into utter help-- lessness upon emerging from the hospitai. A Scotch manufacturer named M’Kinlay

| found him a post as porter in his estab-

lishment, and for a long time he worked at seven dollars a week at the loading and unloading of vans. In the course of

Hoe ON*Y Truc Biood Purifier prominently in the public eye to- day is Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Therefore

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however, Mab bis memory, hewever defective as to the past, was extremely relixble ana accurate when concerned with anything which had oec- curred since his accident. From the fac- tory he was promoted into the counting- house, and the year 1835 found him a junior clerk at a salary of £120 a year. steadily and surely John Hardy fought his way upward from post to post, with hie whole heart and mind devoted to the business. In 1840 he was third clerk, in 1845 he was second, and in 1852 he be- came manager of the whole vast establisb-

J eeekh ab) Veeam FAG sea,

ment, and second only to Mr. himself.

‘Lhere were few who grudged John this rapid advancement, for it was obviously due to neither chance nor fevoritism, but entirely to his marvelous powers of appli- cation and industry. From early morning until late in the night he labored hard in the service of his employer, checking, overlooking, superintending, setting an example to all of cheerful devotion to duty. As he rose from one post to an- other his salary increased, but it caused no alteration in his mode of living, save that it enabled him to be more open- handed to the poor. He signalized his promotion to the managership by a dona- tion of £1,000 to the hospital in which I had been treated a quarter of a cen- tury before. The remainder of his earn- ings he allowed to accumulate in the business, drawing a small sum quarterly for his sustenance, and _ still residing in the humble dwelling which he had occu- pied when he was a warehouse porter. In spite of his succes; he was a sad, silent, morose man, solitary in his habits, and possessed always of a vague undefined yearning, « dull feeling of dissatisfaction and of craving which never abandoned him. Often he would strive with his poor crippled brain to pierce the curtain which

ivided him from the past, and to solve the enignia of his youthful existence, but though he sat many a time by the fire until his head throbbed with his efforts, John Hardy could never recall the least glimpse of John Huxford’s history.

On one occasion he had, in the inter- ests of the firm, to journey to Quebec, and to visit the very cork factory which had tempted him to leave England. Strolling through the workroom with the foreman, John automatically, and without knowing what he was doing. picked up a square piece of the bark, and fashioned it with two or three deft cuts of his penknife into a smooth, tapering cork. His companion picked it out of his hand and examined it with the eye of an expert. ‘‘This is not the first cork which you have cut by many a hundred, Mr. Hardy,’’ he remarked. ‘‘Indeed you are wrong,’’ John answered, smiling; ‘I never cut one before in my life.’’ ‘‘Im- possible!’ cried the foreman. ‘‘Here’s another bit of cork. Try again.’’ John did his best to repeat the performance, but the brains of the manager interfered with the trained muscles of the cork- cutter. The latter had not forgotten their cunning, but they needed to be left to themselves, and not directed by a mind which knew nothing of the matter. In- stead of the smooth, graceful shape. he could produce nothing. but rough-hewn, clumsy cylinders. ‘‘It must have been chance,’’ said the foreman, ‘‘but I could have sworn that it was the work of an old hand!”’

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