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n:roubles on the lbouse :!Boat. ....... Twas a hot day in Hades. The mercury had just reached I 4100°, and even his satanic majesty had remarked upon the heat and had ordered up two schooners of molten lead with which to cool himself off. I was sitting in the officeof the" Hades Truth," a paper run in opposition to the N. Y. Journal, and having for its editors the shades of Ananias and Baron Muucbauscn, when I received a call to the editor's office. Proceeding there at once I found Ananias and the baron in a high state of excitement, the cause of which was a telegram which Ananias handed to me and asked me to react. It was as follows: I-I,\DES-O:-<-THE-STYX, 4, 25, 2986. "Have just received information that there is a great rev- olution on the House Boat. Send a reporter at cucc to investigate. "SHERLOCK HOL;\lES." "Are you ·willingto undertake the job?" asked Anauias. "Certainly," I responded. "I will proceed there at once." "Well, all right. I think your article, together with a few of the baron's recent experienceswith the automobile, will make up for that big' scoop' the Jau mal got on us in the last issue." Hastily bidding the editors goodbye, 1 got 111)' wardrobe of several asbestos suits together, proceeded to the Honse Boat, made the investigation, and this is the article that appeared in the" Truth " a few days later: -f.175 -1-