BY A. CONAN DOYLE.
£ murderer,
ax much an
I hold that I am Just
car of Justice ns you
So thrilling hud the man'a narra
tive been, and h it manner was ao tm-
prassive. that ww had ant allant and
absorbed.
Eras the professional detect I rae.
blase as they warn In every detail of
crime, appeared to be keenly Inter
ested in the man’a story.
When he had Snlahed we sat tor
some minutes la a stillness which was
only broken by the sc ra tc h in g )! Lea-
trade's pencil ns ha gave tS^nnlsh
lag touches to hie shorthand account
"There is only one point on which
I should like n little mors Informa
tion." Sherlock Holmes* said at last
"Who was your accomplice who eamo
tor the ring which I advertised?"
TI m prisoner wlahed at my friend
Jocosely.
“ I can tell m y own secrets.” he
said, "but I don’t get other people la
te trouble. 1 saw your advertisement,
and I thought It might be a plant, or
k might be the ring I wanted. My
friend volunteered to go and sen. I
think you’ll own he did it smartly."
"N ot a doubt o f that.” said Holmes,
heartily.
"Now. gentlemen.'* the Inspector re
marked. gravely, "th e forma o f the
law mast be compiled with. On
Thursday the prisoner will be bronght
before the magistrates, nad your at
tendance w ill be required. Until then
I w ill be responsible for him."
He rang the bell ns he spoke, and
Jefferson Hope was led off by n couple
o f warders, while my M end and I
made our way out of the station and
took n cab hack to Baker street.
“Shall I aver forget the look which
came ever his face when the first
warning pangs told him that the pois
on eras la his system? I laughed as
I saw i t and held Lucy's marriage
ring In front of hla eyes,
“ It was but for a moment tor the
action o f tha alkaloid la rapid.
A
spasm o f pain contorted hla features;
he threw hla hands out In front of
him. staggered and then, with
n
hoarse cry, fell heavily upon the
agitation upon lh*tr features.
"H aving inliTo.1 the dead m »n 'i Up*.
I detected a »ltshtly »our »men. and
| came to the conclusion that he had
had potaoa forced upon him. Again
I argued that It had been forced upon
him. from the hatred and tear ex
pressed upon his face.
" B j the method of exclusion I ar
rived at this result, ter no other hy
potheela mould meet the facts. Do
not Imagine that it was a very un
heard-of Idea. The forcible adminis
tration o f poison Is by no means a
new thing; In criminal annala.
The
cases
Dolsky. In Odessa, and of
Leturler, to Montpelier, will occur at
once to any toxicologist
"And now came the great question
as to the reason why. Robbery had
oot been the object of the murder, for
(. «thing waa taken. Was It politics,
then, or waa it a woman T
"T h at waa the question which con
fronted me. I whs Inclined from the
drat to the latter supposition. Politi
cal aaaaaalna are only too glad to do
their work and to By.
" I t mast hare been n private wrong,
and not a political one. which called
for such a methodical revenge. When
the Inscription was discovered upon
the wall | was more Inclined than
ever to m y opinion.
"T h e thing was too evidently n
blind. W ie n the ring was found,
however, ft settled the
question.
Clearly the murderer has used It ;o
remind his victim o f some dead or ab-
to do what Gragaon had neglected. 1
telegraphed to the bend of the police
C H APTER VII.
W e had nil been warned to appear at Cleveland, limiting my inquiry to
the circumstances connected with ths
before tha magistrates upon the
Thursday; but when the Thursday marriage or Bnoch Drebber. The an
swer was conclusive.
came there was no occasion for our
‘I t told me that Drebber had ap
testimony.
plied for the protection of the law
A higher fudge had taken the mat
ter in hand, and Jefferson Hope had against an old rival in love, named
been summoned before *a tribunal Jeffefbon Hope, and that this same
I
where strict Justice would "be meted Hope was at present in Europe.
knew now that I held the clew to the
out to him.
mystery in my hand, and all that re
On the very night after his capture
the aneurism burst, and he was found mained was to secure the murderer.
"1 had already determined In my
in the morning stretched upon the
own mind that the man who had
floor o f the eell. with a placid smile
upon his face, ss though he had been walked into the house with Drebber
was none other than the man who had
able la his dying momenta to look
driven the cab.
back upon a useful life, and on work
“ The marks in the road showed me
well done.
that
the horse bad wandered on in a
"Grecami sad Lestrade w ill be wild
way which would have been Impossi
about his death. Holmes remarked,
as w e chatted it over next morning. ble had there been any one in charge
of i t
"W here w ill their grand advertise
“Where, then, could the driver be,
ment be now?"
unless he were Inside the house?
“ 1 don’t see that they had very
much to do with his capture,” I an Again, it is absurd to suppose that
any sane man would carry out a de
swered.
"W hat yon do in this world la a liberate crime under the very eyes, as
it were, of a third person, who was
matter o f no consequence.” returned
sure to betray him.
my companion, bitterly. “ The ques
“ Lastly, supposing one man wished
tion la, what can you make people
to
dog another through London, what
believe that you have done? Never
mind," he continued, more brightly, better means could hk adopted than
turn cab driver? A ll these considera
after a pause, “ I would not have
tion« led me to the Irresistible conclu
missed tha Investigation for anything.
There has been no better case with sion that Jefferson Hope was to oe
in my racoOaetion. Simple as it was, found among the Jarveys of the me
tropolis.
there w ere several moat Instructive
" I f he had been one there was no
points about it.”
reason to believe that he had ceased
“ Simple?“ I ejaculated.
“ Well, —wily u. can hardly be de to be. On the contrary, from his
scribed as otherwise." said Sherlock point o f view, any sadden change
Holmes, smiling at my surprise. "The would be Ukely to draw attention to
proof o f its intrinsic simplicity Is that himself.
“ H e would probably, for a time at
without any help, save a few very or
dinary deductions. I was able to lay least, continue to perform his duties.
my hand upon the criminal within There was no reason to suppose that
he was going pnder an assumed name.
three days.”
“ W hy should be change his name In
"That is true," said L
" I have already explained to you a country where no one knew his
that what Is out o f the common is us original one? I therefore organized
ually a guide rather than a hindrance. my street arab detective corps, and
In solving a problem o f this sort, the sent them systematically to every
grand thing Is to be able to reason cab proprietor in London until they
backward. That la a very useful ac ferreted out the man that I wanted.
"H ow well they succeeded and how
complishment and a very easy one.
but people do not practice It much. qnlckly I took advantage of it are still
Ir. the every day affairs of life it is fresh In your recollection. The mur
more useful to reason forward, and der o f 8tangerson was an Incident
'so the other comes to be neglected. which waa entirely unexpected, but
There are flfty who can reason syn which could hardly in any case have
thetically for one who can reason an been prevented.
"Through It, ag you know. I came
alytically.”
“ I confess,” said L “ that I do not Into possession of the pills, the exist
ence o f which I had already surmised.
quite follow you."
“I hardly expected that you would. You see, the whole thing Is a chain of
Let me see if I ' can make it clear. logical sequences without a break or
Most people, if you describe a train flaw."
" It Is wonderful!” I cried. "Your
o f events to them, will tell yon what
the result would be. They can put merits should be publicly recognized.
those events together in their minds, You should publish an account of the
and argue from them that something case. I f you wont, I will for you.”
"You may do what you like, doctor."
will come to paas. There are few peo
ple, however, who, if yon told them a he answered. "See here!” he con
handing a paper over to me;
result, would be able to evolve from tinued.
-■lnnk a t V illa ' ”
their inner consciousness what the "look at th is !”
It waa the Echo for the day, and the
steps were which led up to that re
sult This power Is what I mean paragraph to which he pointed waa
when I talk o f reasoning backward, devoted to the case In question.
“ The public,” it said, have lost a
or analytically.“
sensational treat through the sudden
“ I understand," said L
**Now, this was a case In which you death o f the man Hope, who was sus
pected o f the murder of Mr. Enoch
Drebber and of Mr. Joseph Stanger-
oon.
“ The details of the case will prob
ably never be known now, though we
are Informed upon good authority
that the crime was the result of an
old-standing and romantic feud. In
which love and Mormon Ism bore a
part.
“ It seams that both tha victims be
longed. fat their younger days, to the
Latter-Day Saints, and Hope, the de
ceased prisoner, halls also from Balt
Lake City. I f the ease bad had no
other effect. It at least brings out In
the moot striking manner the effic
iency of our detective force, and will
serve as « leaaon to all foreigners
that they will do wisely to settle their
feuds at homo, and not to carry them
on to British soil.
"It Is an open secret that the credit
o f this smart capture belongs entirely
to the well known Scotland Yard of
ficials. Messrs. Lestrade and Oregson.
The man was apprehended. It appears.
In the rooms o f a certain Mr. Sher
ao branch o f detective
lock Holmes, who has himself, as an
h Is so Important and ao
led as the art o f tracing amateur, shown some talent In the
applly. I have always laid detective line, and who, with such In
»tractor», may hope In time to attain
npon It, and much prac-
some degree o f their skill.
o it second nature to me.
"It Is expected that a testimonial of
» heavy* footmarks of the
some sort will be presented to the
two officers as a fitting recognition of
their services."
"Didn't I tell you ao when we start
ed ?" cried Sherlock Holmes, with a
laugh. "That's the result o f all our
Study In Bearish-*to get them a testi
monial!"
"N ever mind,“ I answered;/“ ! have
an the facts la my Journal, and tho
public shall know them. In the mean
time you must make yourself con
tented by the consciousness of suc
cess, like the Homan miser—
" 'Populu* me slbllat. at ml hi plando
Ipse doml slnul ac nnmmoa com
templar Is area.'"
TH E END. .
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