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ouesses until we tgave 1t up’oas Sherlock Holmes.

I thought of all this as [ was on my way tcooa pretuly-built and modest - looking red-brick resi- dence 1n the nceiechbourhood of South Norwood. “cl'c ]i\‘cs Conan Doyle. 1 found him totally different from the man | expected to sce; but that 1s alwayvs the case. There was no- thing Tynx-cyed, nothing *detee- tive about him

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of our modern solver of mysteries. [le s just o happy, genial, homely man . tall.

broad-shouldered, with a hand that erips vou heartily, and, in its sincerity of welcone. hurts, He is brown and bronzed, for he cnters biberally into all outdoor sports— foothall, tennisy bowls, and cricket His averaoe with the bat this scason 1s twenty. 1le isa capital amatcur photographer, too. But m exer- c1sc e most leans towards tricy cling. Tcisnever happier than when on his tan- dem with his wate, and starting on a thirty-mile spin ; never merrier than when he perches his hittle three - year - old Mary on the whecls, and runs her round the green lawn of his cgarden.

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L accormpdanied by hisawite, a most charm e woman, went through the rooms as a prelimmary. The study 15 a guict corncet, and has on its walls many remarkable pie- tures by Dr. Dovices father, Dy, Dovle comes of o dfamily of artists, llis orandfather, John Doyle, was the celebrated 1L B whore jice- torial political skits came cut for a peried of over thirty vears without the scarct of his identity leaking out A few of these, which the Govern- ment purchased for £71,0c0, are 1 the DBritish Muscum. A bust of the artist 13 1 the cntrance halll John Dovie's sons were all artists, Dicky Doyle,” as he was known (o his famihars, designed the cover ot 2. Flis srenature @ DL with o hittle bird on top, 1= 1n the corner On the mantelpicce of the study, near to an autograph portrait of J. M. Barrie, 1s a remarkably mteresting sketeh, reproduced 1 these pages. 10 wis done by John Doyle, and represented the

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