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THE SOBANTON TBIBTWESATURDAT MOItNING, JUNE 8, 1895.
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CHAPTER III.
He walked to -the street as the butch
er's young man wheeled In his cart and
flung away his pall of water.
"Will you Just 'hang about here,
Butt?" he asked, "while I hurry round
to the nearest Ironmonger's? I shan't
be gone long.' We're going to work a
little burglary. Take note If any
body comes to that stable at the fur
. ther end."
He hurried away and I waited. In
a few moments the butcher's young
nian Bhut his doors and went whistling
down the street and In a few moments
more Hewitt appeared. .
"Come," he said, "there's nobody
about now; we'll lose no time, ' I've
brought a pair of pliers and a few
nails."
We re-entered the yard at the door
of the court stable. Hewitt stooped
and examined the padlock. Taking a
nail In his pliers, he beat It carefully
against the brick wall. Then, using
tbe nail as a key, still held by the
"I Am Not Altogether a Bad Odrglar."
pliers, and, working the padlock gent
ly la his left hand, In an astonishingly
few seconds, he had released the hasp
and taken off the padlock. "I'm not
altogether a bad burglar," he re
marked. "Not so bad, really."
The padlock fastened a bar, which,
when removed, allowed the door to be
opened. Opening It, Hewitt imme
diately seized a candle stuck in a bot
tle which stood on a shelf, pulled me
In and closed the door behind us.
"We'll do this by candle light," he
said, as he struck a match. "If the
door were left open it would be seen
from the street. Keep your ears open
In case anybody comes down the yard."
The part of the shed that we stood in
was used a3 a coachhouse, and was
occupied by a rather shabby trades
man's cart, the shafts of which rested
on the ground. From the stall ad
Joining came the sound of the shuffling
and trampling of some impatient horse.
We turned to the cart. On the name
board at the side were painted In worn
letters the words, "Schuyler, Baker."
The address, which had been below,
was painted out.
Hewitt took out the pins and let
clown the tailboard. Within the cart
was a new bed mattress, which cov
ered the whole surface of the bottom.
I felt It, pressed it from the top, and
saw that It was an ordinary spring
mattress, perhaps rather unusually
soft in the springs. It seemed a curi
ous thing to keep In a baker's cart, I
Hewitt, who had set ithe candle on a i
convenient shelf, plunged his arms into
the furthermost recesses of the cart,
and brought forth a very long French
loaf, and then another. Diving again,
he produced certain loaves of the sort
known as the "plain cottage" two sets
of four each, each set baked together
to a row.
"Feel this bread," said Hewitt, and I
felt Jt. It was stale, almost as hard
as wood.
Hewitt produced a large pocketknlfe
and with what seemed to be super
fluous care and elaboration cut into the
top of one of the cottage loaves. Then
he Inserted his flners In the gap he
had made and firmly but slowly tore
the hard bread into two pieces. He
pulled away the crumbs from within,
till there was nothing left but a rather
thick outer shell.
"No," he said, rather to himself than
to me, 'there's nothing In that" He
lifted one of the very long French
loaves, and measured It against the In
terior of the cart. It had before been
propped diagonally and now it was
noticeable that it was Just a shade
longer than the Inside of the cart was
"That's Enough. I Think," Hewitt Said;
"Don't Touch Them, for Heaven's Soke
wide. Jammed In, . In fact, it held
firmly. Hewit produced his knife
again, and divided this long loaf In the
center. There was nothing but bread
in that. The horse In the stall fidgeted
more than ever. '.'"'," ',
"That horse has not been fed lately, I
fancy," Hewitt said, "We'll give the
poor chap a bit of this hay In the cor
ner." . j . . I. r i :
"But," I said, "what about this
bread? What did you expect to find
in it?, I can't see what you're driving
at." i ,.
"I'll, tell you," Hewitt replied. ' "I'm
driving - after something . ITexpect to
find, and close at hand here, too. How
are your nerves today? Pretty
steady? The thing may try thorn."
Itefore I could reply there was a
sound of footsteps In the yard outside,
approaching, Hewitt lifted his finger
instantly for silence, and Whispered
hurriedly. "There's only one. If he
comes here we grab him."
The steps came nearer and stopped
outside the door. There was a pause,
and then a slight drawing In of breath
as of a person suddenly surprised; at
the moment the door was slightly
shifted again, and one eye peeded in.
"Catch lilm!" said Hewitt aloud, as
we sprang to the door. "He mustn't
get away!"
I had been nearer the doorway, and
was first throught it. The stranger ran
down the yard at his best, but my
legs were the longer, and half way" to
the street I caught him by the shoul
der and swung him round. Like light
ning he wiped out -a knife, and I
flung In my left Instantly on the chance
of flooring him. It barely checked
him, however, and the knife swung
short of my chest by no more than
two Inches; but Hewitt had him by the
wrist and tripped him forward on his
face. He struggled like a vlld beast,
and Hewitt had to stand on his fore
arm and force up his wrist till the
bones were near breaking before he
dropped his knife. But throughout the
struggle the man never shouted, called
for help, nor, indeed, made the slight
est sound; and we on our part were
equally Bllent. It was quickly over, of
course, for he was on his face, and we
were two. We dragged our prisoner
into the stable and closed the door be
hind us. So far as we had seen, no
body had witnessed the capture from
the street, though, of course, we had
been too busy to be certain.
"There's a set of harness hanging
over at the back," said Hewitt. ' "I
think we'll tie him up with the traces
and reins nothing like leather. . We
don't need a gag; I know he won't
shout." - - )
While I. got the straps, Hewitt held
the prisoner by a peculiar neck-and-wrist
grip that forbade him to move
except ait the peril of a snapped arm.
He had probably never been a person
of pleasant aspect, being short, strong
ly and squatly built, large and ugly of
feature, and wild and dirty of hair and
beard; and now, his face flushed with
struggling, and smeared with mud
from the stable yard, his nose bleeding,
and his forehead exhibiting a growing
bump, he looked particularly repellent.
We strapped his elbows together be
hind, and as he sullenly Ignored a. de
mand for the contents of his pockets
Hewitt unceremoniously turned them
out. Helpless as he was the man
struggled to prevenit this, though, of
course, Ineffectually. There were pa
pers, tobacco, a bunch of keys and
various odds and ends, Hewitt was
glancing hastily at the papers, when,
suddenly dropping them, he caug-ht the
prisoner by the shoulder and pulled
him away from a partly consumed hay
truss, which stood In a corner, and
toward which he had quietly sidled.
"Keep him still," said Hewitt, "we
haven't examined this place yet." And
he commenced to pull away the hay
from the corner.
Presently a large piece of sackcloth
was revealed, and this being lifted left
visible below It another batch of loaves
of the same sort as we had seen in the
cart. There were a dozen of them in
one square batch, and the only thing
about them that differed from those In
the cart was their position. For the
batch lay bottom side up.
"That's enough, I think," Hewitt
said. "Don't touch them, for heaven's
sake." He picked up the papers, 'he
had dropped, "That has saved a. little
search," he continued. See, here.
Butt. I was In the act of telllnfr you
my suspicions when this little affair in
terrupted me; if you care to look at
one or two of these letters, you'll see
what I should have told you; it's An
archism and boms, of course. I'm
about as certain as I can - be that
there's a reversable dynamite bomb in
side each of those innocent loaves
though I assure you I don't mean med
dling with them now. But see here, will
you go and bring in a four-wheeler?
Bring It right down the yard. There's
more to do, and we mustn't attract at
tention." I hurried away and found the cab.
The meaning of the loaves, the cart
and the spring matress was now plain.
There was an Anarchist plot to carry
out a number of explosions, probably
simultaneously In different parts of the
city. I had, of course, heard much of
the terrible ("reversing" bombs those
bomb which, containing a tube of
acid plugged by: wadding, required no
fuse, and only needed to be inverted
to be-set going to explode in, a few
minutes. The loaves containing these
bombs wouldi form an effectual "blind,"
and Ithey were to .be distributed, prob
ably In . broad daylight, In the most
natural manner possible, in a baker's
cart. A man would be: waiting near,
the scene of each contemplated explo
sion; he would be given a loaf takon
from the Inverted batch; he would take
It, perhaps wrapped In paper, but still
inverted, and apparently the most in
nocent object possible, to the spot se
lected, deposit It right side up (which
would reverse the Inner tube, and set
up the action) in some quiet corner, be
hind a door or whatnot, and make his
own escape, while the explosion, tore
down walls and. If the experiment, were
lucky, scattered the flesh and bones of
unsuspecting people. The infernal
loaves were made and kept reversed to
begin with, In order to stand more
firmly, and (If observed) more nat
urally when turned over to explode.
Even if a child picked up the load and
carried It off, that child, at least, would
be blown to atoms, which at any rnte
would have been something . for the
conspirators to congratulate them
selves upon. The spring mattress, of
course, was to ease the Jolting' to the
bombs, and obviate any random Jerk
ing loose of theacld which might have
the deplorable result of sacrificing the
valuable life of. the. conspirator who
drove the cart. The other loaves, too,
with no explosive contents, had their
UBe. The two long ones which fitted
across the inside of the cart would be
Jammed across so as to hold the bombs
In the center, and the others would be
used to pack the batch on the other
BidoB, and prevent any dangerous slip
ping about. The thing seemed pretty
plain, except that as yet I had no Idea
of how Hewitt learned anything of the
business."'' I ' brought the four-wheeler
up to the door of the stable,, ami we
thrust the man into it, and Hewitt
locked the stablo door with Ms proper
key. 1 hen we drove off to Tottenham
Court road police station, and," by Hew?
itt's order, straight into the yard.
' In less than . ten minutes from our
departure from the stable our prisoner
was Anally secured, and Hewitt was
deep In consultation with police offi
cials. Messengers were sent and tele
grams dispatched, and presently Hew
itt came to me with information.
"The name of the helpless French
man the police found this morning,"
he said, "appears to be Gerard at
least, I am almost certain of - It.
Among the papers found on the pris
oner, whose full name doesn't appear,
but who seems to be spoken of as Lulgi
he Is Italian among the papers, I
say, Is a. sort of notice convening a
meeting for this evening to decide as
to the 'final punishment' to be awarded
the 'traitor Oerard, now In charge of
Comrade I'lngard.' The place of meet
ing Is not mentioned, but It seems
mora than probable that it will be at
the liakunln club, not five mlnutuV
walk from this place. The police have
all these places under quiet observa
tion, of course, and that is the club
at which apparently Important An
archist meetings have been held. It Is
the only club that has never been
raided os yet, and It would seem the
only one they would feel at all safe in
using for anything important. More
over, Lulgl simply declined to open
his mouth when usked where the meet
ing was to be, and said nothing when
the names of several other places were
suggested, but suddenly .found his
tongue at the mention of the Bakunln
Club and denied vehemently that the
Meting was to be there It was the
Mly thing he uttered. So that it
ems pretty safe to assume that it is
to be there. Now, of course, tho mat
tWu very serious. Men have been
dispatched to take charge of the
stable very quietly, and the club Is
to be taken possession of at once
also very quietly. It must be done
without a moment's delay, and as there
Is a chance that the only detective of
ficers within reach at the moment may
be known by sight, I have undertaken
to get In first. Perhaps you'll come?
We may have to take the door with
a rush."
Of course, I meant to miss nothing
if I conld help It, and said so.
"Very well," replied Hewitt, "we'll
get ourselves up a bit." 'He began
taking off his collar and tie. "It is get
ting dusk," he proceeded, "and we
shan't want old clothes to make our
selves look sufficiently shabby. We're
both wearing bowler hats, which Is
lucky. Make a dent In yours if you
can without permanently damag
ing It,"
CHAPTER IV.
We got rid of our collars and made
chokers of our ties. We turned our
coat collars up at one side only, and
then, with dented hats worn rafflshly
and our hands in our pockets, we
looked disreputable enough for all
practical purposes in twilight. A cor
don of plain clothed police had already
been forming round the club, we were
told, and so we sallied forth. We
turned into Windmill street, crossed
Whitfield street, and in a turning or
two we came to the Bakunln club. I
could see no sign of anything like a
ring of policemen, and said so. Hew
itt chuckled. "Of course not," he
said. "They don't go about a Job of
this sort, with drums beating anu nags
Each Man as Ho Came Was Admitted.
flying. But they are all there, and
some are watching us. There Is the
house I'll negotiate."
The house was one of the very
shabby, passe Bort that abound In that
quarter. The very narrow area was
railed ovei and almost choked with rub
bish. Visible above it were three
floors, the lowest indented by the door
and one window, and the other two by
two windows each mean and dirty nil.
A faint light appeared in the top floor,
and another from somewhere behind
the refuse-heaped area Everywhere
else was In darkness. Hewitt "looked
Intently Into the arsa,,',bufi It iwtos im-pi-SHiblo
to discern anything behind the
sole grimy patch of wlndow'thit was
visible. Then we stepped lightly up
the three or four steps to the door and
rang the bell.
We could hear slippered feet mount
ing a stair and approaching. A latch
was shifted, the door : opened six
Inche, an indistinct face appeared,
and a female voice aked, "Qui est la?"
"Deux camara les," Hewitt grunted
testily; "ouvrez, vlte."
I had noticed that the door was kept
from opening further by a short chain.
This chain the woman unhooked from
the door, but still kept the' latter
merely ajar, as though intending to
assure herself still further. But Hew
itt immediately pushed the door back,
planted his foot against It and en
tered, asking carelessly as he did so:
"Qui so trouve Lulgl?"
I followed his heels, and in the dark
could Just distinguish that Hewitt
pushed the woman instantly against
the wall and clapped his band to her
month. At the same moment a file of
quiet men were suddenly visible as
cending the steps at my heels. They
were the police.
The door was closed behind us al
most noiselessly, and . a match . was
struck. Two men stood at the bot
tom of the staLrs and the others
searched the house. Only two men
were found, both In a top room. They
were secuied and brought down, Tho
woman was now, ungagged, and she
used her tongue at a great rate. One
of the men was a small, meek looking
dip of a follow, and he appeared to
be tho woman's husband. v -'. .
' "Eh, messieurs le police," she ex
claimed vehemently, "it ees not of Mm,
mon pauvre Pierre, zat . you sail run
In. 'Im and me we are not of the
clob wo work only we housekeep."
Hewitt whispered to an officer, and
the, two men were taker below. Then
Hewitt spoke to the woman, whose
protests had not ceased. "You say you
are not of the club," he said; "but
what Is there to prove that? If you
are but housekeepers, as you say, you
have nothing to fear. But you can
only prove it by giving tho'pollce In
formnitloa For instance, now, about
Oerard. What have they done with
him?"
"Jean Plngard Mm you 'avel take
downstairs 'e 'ave lose Mm, Jean Pln
gard get lost night all a-boosa all
drunk like zls" she roljed her head
llowltt Immediately Pushed tho Door
Wick.
and shoulders to express Intoxication
"and he sleeps too much today when
Emile go out and Gerard he go too,
and nobody know. I will tell you
anyslng we are not of the club; we
houfcekeep; me and Pierre."
"Hut what did they do to Gerard
before he went away?"
The woman was ready and anxious
to tell anything. Gerard had been se
lected to do something what it was
exactly she dW not know but there
was a horse and cart and he was to
drive It. Where the horse and cart
were she also did not know. But Ger
ard had rrlven a cart before in his
work, for a baker, and he was to
drive one In connection with some
scheme among .the members of the
club. But le pauvre Gurard at the
lust minute disliked to drive the cart
he had fear. He did ngt say he had
fear, but he prepared a letter a letter
that was not signed. The letter was
to be sent to the police, and it told
them the whereabouts of the horse and
curt, so that the police might seize
these tilings, and then there -would be
nothing for Oerard, who had fear, to
do in . the way of driving. No, he
did not! betray the names of the com
rades, but he told the place of the
horse and the cart. Nevertheless the
letter was never sent. There was sus
picion, and the letter was found In a
pocket and read. Then there was a
meeting, and Gerard was confronted
with his leter. He could say nothing
but "Je la nie" found no explanation
but that. There was much noise, and
she had .observed from a staircase
from which one might see through a
ventilating hole. Gerard had much
fear very much fear. His face was
white and it moved; he prayed for
mercy, and they talked of killing him
It was discussed how he should be
killed, and the poor Gerard was more
terrified. He was made to take off his
collar, and a razor was drawn across
his throat, though without cutting him
till he fainted. Then water was flung
over him, and he was struck in the
face till he revived. He again repeated
"Je la nie, Je la nie!" and nothing more,
Then one struck him withi a bottle and
another with a stick. The point of a
knife was put against his throat and
held there, but this time he did not
faint, but cried softly, as a man who
is drunk, "Je la nie, Je la nie!" So
they tied a handkerchief about his
neck and twisted It till his face grew
purple and black, and his eyes were
round and terrible, and then they
struck his face, and he fainted again.
But they took away the handkerchiefs,
having fear that they could not easily
get rid of the body if he were killed,
for there was no preparation. So they
decided to meet again and discuss
when there would be preparation.
Wherefore they took him away to the
room of Jean' Plngard In Henry street.
Golden square. But Emlle Plngard
had gone out, and Jean was drunk and
slept and they lost him. Jean Plngard
was downstalrs-the taller of the two.
The other was but le' pauvre Pierre,
who, with herself, was not of the club.
They worked' only they were the keep
ers of the house. There was nothing
for which they should be arrested, and
she would give the police any informa
tion they might ask.
"As I thought, you see," Hewitt said
to me; "the man's nerve3 have broken
down under the terror and the strain,
and asphasla is the result. I think I
told you that the only articulate thing
he could say was 'Je la nie!' and now
we know how those words were im
pressed on him till he now pronounces
ithem mechanically with no idea of
their meaning. Come, we can do no
more here now. But wait a moment."
There were footsteps outside. The
light was removed, and a policeman
went to the door and opened It as soon
as the bell rung. Three men stepped
ln one after another, and the door was
Immediately shut behind them. They
were prisoners. . e jq y
We left qulietly, and although, wot O-f'
course, expected It, It was not till the
next morning that we learned absolute
ly that the largest arrest of Anarchists
ever made In this country was made
at the Bakunln club that night. ' Each
man as he came was admitted and
collared, ' ,
CHAPTER V.
We made our way to Imzattl's, and
It was over our dinner that Hewitt put
me in full possession of the earlier
facts of ithliLcase, Which I have set
Tho Loaves Wcro Examined by Official
Experts.
down as Impersonal narrative In their
proper place at the beginning.
"But," I soldi "what of that aim
less scribble you spoke of that Gerard
made in the police station? Can I
see It?" ' ' , " , 7 :
Hewitt turned to where his coat hung1
behind him and took a handful of pa
pers front his pocket. . "Most of these,"
Gr
he said, "mean nothing at all. That
is what he wrote at first,' 'and he
handed me the first of the two papers
which were represented in facsimile In
the earlier pant of this narrative. "You
see," he said, "he has begun mechani
cally from long use to write Monsieur'
the usual beginning of a letter. But
he scarcely makes three letters before
tailing oft Into sheer scribble. He tries
again and again, and although once
there is something very like 'que' and
once something like a word preceeded
by a' negative 'n,' the whole thing is
meaningless. This" he handed me the
other paper, which had been printed
In facsimile "does mean something,
though Gerard never Intended Jit. Can
you spot the meaning? Really, I think
It's pretty plain, especially now that
you know as much as I about the day's
adventures. The thing at the top left
hand corner, I may tell you, Oerard in
tended for a sketch of a clock on the
mantleplece In the police station."
I stared hard at the paper, but could
make nothing whatever of It. "I only
see the horseshoe clock," I said, "and
a sort of second unsuccessful attempt
to draw it again. Then there Is a
horseshoe dotted, but scribbled over,
and then a sort of kite or balloon on a
string, a Highlander, and well, I don't
underntund It, I confess. Tell me."
"I'll explain what I learned from
that," Hewitt said," and also what led
me to look for It. From what the In
spector told m I Jurtga the man to be
in a very curious Btate, and I Itook a
fancy to see him. Most I was curious
to know why he ehould have a terror
of bread at one moment and eat It
ravenoiiNly at another. When I saw
him I felt pretty sure that he was not
mad Ini the common sense of the term.
As far as I could Judge, It seemed to
be a case of aphasia. Then, when the
doctor came, I had a chat (as I have
already told you) with the policeman
who found the man. Te told me about
the Incident of the bread with rather
more detail than I had had from the
Inspector. Thus It was plain that the
man was terrified at the bread only
when it was In the form of a loaf, and
ate it eagerly when it was cut into
pieces. That was one thing to bear In
mind. He was not af raid of bread, but
only of a loaf.
"Very well. I asked the policeman to
find another uncut loaf and to put It
near the man when his attention was
diverted. Meantime the doctor re
ported that my suspicion as to aphasia
was right. The man grew more com
fortable and was assured that he was
among friends and had nothing to fear;
so that when at length he found the
loaf near his elbow he was not so vio
lently terrified only very uneasy. I
watched him and saw him turn It bot
tom up a very curious thing to do.
He Immediately became less uneasy
the turning of the loaf seemed to have
set his mind at rest in some way ! This
I Seized the Paper and Examined It
Closely.
was more curious still. I thought for
some little while before accepting the
bomb theory as the most probable.
"The doctor left, and I determined
to give the man another chance with
pen and paper. I felt pretty certain
that If he were allowed to scribble and
sketch as he pleased, sooner or later he
would do something that would give
me some sort of a hint. I left him
entirely alone and let him do as he
pleased. But I watched.
"After all the futile scribble which
you have seen he began to sketch.
First a man's ihead, then a chair Just
what he might happen to see in tho
room. Presently he took to the piece
of paper you have before you. He
observed that clock and began to
sketch It, Then went on to other
things, such as you see, scribbling Idly
over most of them when finished. When
he had made the last of the sketches.
he made a hasty scrawl of his pen over
It and broke down It had brought his
terror to his mind again somehow.
"I seized the paper and examined it
closely. Now, Just see. Ignore the
clock, which was merely a sketch of a
thing before him, and look at the three
things following. What are they? A
horseshoe, a captive balloon and a
Highlander. Now can't you think of
something those three things In that
order suggest?"
I could think of nothing" whatever,
and I confessed as much.
"Think, now. Tottenham Court
road."
I started. "Of course," I said, "that
never struck me. There's the Horse
shoe hotel, with the sign outside;
there's the large toy and fancy shop
halfway up, where they have a captive
balloon moored to the roof as an ad
vertisement; and there's the tobacco
and snulf shop on the left toward the
i . . . i . , , . , .
ketlier end, wnere mey nave a.
i . t i , ..i.i i.... an tin.
wooocn iiiBiiiauut.T - ww,. ....
common thing, Indeed, nowadays."
"You are right. The curious conjunc
tion struck me at once. There they
are. all three, and Just In the order In
which pne meets them going up from
Oxford street. Also, ns If to confirm
the conjecture, note the dotted horse-
Bhoe. Don't you remember that at
night the Horseshoe hotel is Illu
minated by two rows of gas lights?
Now, here was my clue at laBt. Plain
ly, this man In his mechanical sketch
ing was following a regular train of
thought and unconsciously illustrating
it as he went along. Many people In
perfect health and mental soundness
do the same thing If a pen and a piece
of paper be near. The man's train of
thought led him In memory, up Tot
tenham Court road and further, to
where some disagreeable recollection
upset him. It was my business to trace
this train of thought. Do you remem
ber the feat of Dupln In Pde's story,
"The Murders In the Rite 'Morgue"
how he walks by his friend's side In
silence for some distance and then sud
denly breaks out with a divination of
his thoughts, having silently traced
them from a fruiterer with a basket,
through paving stones, Epicurus, Dr.
Nichols, the constellation Orion and a
Latin poem by a cobbler lately turned
actor? Well, it was some such task
as this (but infinitely simpler, ns a mat
ter of faot) that was sot me. This man
begins by drawing the horsertioo clock.
Having done with that, and with the
horseshoe still In his mind, he starts
to draw a horseshoe simply. It Is r.
failure, arid he scribbles it out. His
mind at once turna to the Horseshop
hotel, which he knows from frequently
passing It, and Its sign of gas Jets. He
sketches that, making dots for the gas
lights. Once started In Tottenham
Court road, his mind naturally follows
his usual route along it. He remem
bers the advertising captive balloon
half way down, and that goeB on his
paper. In imagination he crosses the
road and keeps on till he comes to the
very noticeable Highlander outside the
tobacconist's. , That is sketched. Thus
It Is plain that a familiar ronte with
him was from New Oxford s'treet up
Tottenham Court road. At the police
station I ventured to guess from this
that he lived somewhere near Seven
Dials perhaps, before long we shall
know If this was right. But to return
to the sketches. After the Highlander
there is something at first not very dis
tlnct. A little examination, however
shows It to be Intended for a chimney!
pot partly covered with a basket. Now
an old basket Btuck sideways on a
chimney by way of cowl Is not an un
common thing in parts of the country
but it Is very unusual In London. Prob
ably, then, It will be In some by-street
or alley. Next, and last, there Is a
horse's head, and It was at this that
the man's trouble returned to him.
Now, when one goes to a place and
finds a horse there, that place Is not un
commonly a stable. And as a matter
of fact, the basket cowl would be much
more likely to be found In use In a
range of back stabling than anywhere
else. Suppose, then, after taking the
direction indicated In the sketches the
direction of Fltzroy Square, in fact
one were to find a rnge of stabling
with a basket cowl visible about it? I
know my London pretty well, as you
are aware, and I could remember but
two likely stable yards in that particu
lar part the two we looked at, In the
second of which you may possibly have
noticed Just such a basket cowl as I
have been speaking of. Well, what we
did you know, and that we found con
firmation of my conjecture about the
loaves you also know. It was the recol
lection of the horse and cart and what
they were to transport, and what the
end of It all had been, that upset Gerard
as he drew the horse's head. You will
notice that the sketches have not been
done In separate rows, left to right;
they have simply followed one another
all around the paper which means
preoccupation and unconsciousness on
the part of the man who made them."
"But," I asked, "supposing those
loaves to contain bombs, how were the
bombs put there? Baking the bread
round them would have been risky
wouldn't It?"
"Certainly. What they did was to
cut the loaves, each row down the
center. Then most of the crumb was
scooped out, the explosive inserted, and
the sides Joined up and glued. I
thought you had spotted the Joints
though they certainly were neat."
"No, I didn't examine closely. Lulgl,
of course, had been told oft for a dally
visit to feed the horse, and that is how
we caught him.
"One supposes so. They hadn't rear
ranged their plans to going on with
the outrages after Gerard's defection.
By the way, I noticed that he was ac
customed to driving when I first saw
him. There was an unmistakable
mark on his coat Just at the small of
the back that drivers get who lean
against a rail in a cart."
The loaves were examined by official
experts, and, as everybody now knows,
were found to contain, as Hewitt had
supposed, large charges of dynamite.
What became of some half dozen of
the men captured Is also well known
their sentences were exemplary.
(The End.)
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