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3 II 9 I ' Hi -'!! I ii i ji : i ! I 5 . r 7 ? T aT, T4 T ? ? s A STUDY IN SCARLET BY A. CONAN DOYLE. ' , PART II Chapter VI -Continued. "He gazed at me with bleared, drunken eyes for a moment, and then I saw a horror spring up in them and convulse hit whole features, which showed me that he knew me. I "I had always known that ven geance would be sweet, but had never hoped for the contentment of soul which now possessed rne. I "You dog' I aald, "I hava hunted you from Salt Lake City to St. Pet ersburg, and you hava alwaya escaped me. Now at last your wanderinga have come to an end, tor either you or ( shall never see tomorrow's sun Use. - "He shrank still further away as I spoke, and I could aee on his face that he thought 1 waa mad. So I waa for the time. The pulses in my tem ples beat like sledgehammers, and I believe I would have had a fit of some Sort It the blood had not gushed from my nose and relieved me. "He staggered back with a livid face, and I aaw the perspiration break out unnn Mo hm wMlo hla tpfth shat tered. Al ma sight. I leaned my back against the door and laughed loud and long. - , "'What do yon think of Lucy Fer rier now?" I cried, locking the door and shaking the key In hla face. 'Pun ishment haa been slow In coming, but It has overtaken you at last' "I saw his coward Upa tremble aa I spoke. He would have begged for hU life, but he knew well that it waa use less. ""Would you murder met he stam mered. "There Is no murder,' I answered. Who talks of murdering a mad dog? "- What mercy had you upon my poor darlinghen you dragged her from her slaughtered, father and bore her away to your accursed and shameless harem r - 'It was not I who killed her father.' he cried. " But It was you who broke her in nocent heart,' I shrieked, thrusting the box before him. 'Let the high God Judge between us. Choose and eat There is death in one and life in the other. I shall take what you leave. Let us see it there is Justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.' "He cowered away with wild cries and prayers for mercy, but I drew my knife and held it to his throat until he had obeyed me. "Then I awaaowed the other, and we stood facing each other, in silence for a minute or more, waiting to see which was to live and which was to die. "Shall I ever forget the look which came over his face when the first warning pangs told him that the pois on was in his system? I laughed as I saw it, and held Lucy's marriage ring in front of his eyes. "It was but for a moment, for the action of the alkaloid is rapid. A spasm of pain contorted his features; he threw his hands out in front of him, staggered and then, with a hoarse cry, fell heavily . upon the floor. . . "I turned him over with my foot and placed my hand upon his heart. -There-was no .movement. He waa dead! "The blood had been streaming from my nose, but I had taken no no tice of it I don't know what it waa that put it into my head to write up on the wall with it "Perhaps it was some mischievous idea of putting the police upon a wrong track, for I felt light hearted and cheerful, I remembered a Ger man being found in New York with rache' written up above him. and it was argued at the time in the news papers that the secret societies must have done it. "I guessed that what puzzled the New Yorkers would puzzle the Lon doners, so I dipped my finger In my own blood and printed it on a conven ient place on the wall. Then I walked down to my cab and found that there was nobody about and that the night was still very wild. I had driven some dis tance, when I put my nand into the pocket in which I usually kept Lucy'i ring, and found that it was not there. "I was thunderstruck at this, for it was the only memento that I had "f her. Thinking that I might have dropped it when I stooped over Dreb ber's body, I drove back, and leaving my cab in a side street I went boldly up to the house for I was ready to dare anything rather .than lose the ring. ,.,!''"'"' "Whon T arrived there I walked Tlgtit Into the arms of a police officer who was coming out, and only man aged to disarm his suspicions by pre tending to be hopelessly drunk. "That was how Enocn Drebber came tn his end. All I had to do then was to do as much for Stangerson, and so pay off John' Ferrier's debt "I knew that he was staying at Hal llday's private hotel, and I hung about all day but he never came out, I fancy that he suspected something when Drebber failed to put in an ap pearance. "He was cunning, was Stangerson,' and always on his guard. If he ; thought he could keep me oft by stay ing In doors he waa very much mis taken. ' I soon found out which was the window of his bedroom, and early next morning I took advantage of some ladders which were lying in the lane behind the hotel, and so made . my way into his room in the. gray of the dawn. "I woke him up and told him that the hour had come when he was to answer for the life he uad taken so long before. I described Drebber's death to him, and I gave him the same choice of the poisoned pills. Instead of grasping at the chance of safety which that offered him, he sprang from his bed and flew at my throat In self-defense I stabbed him to the heart It would have been the same in any case, for Providence would never have allowed his guilty hand to pick out anything but uie poison. "I have little more to say, and it's as well, for I am about done up. I ' went on cabbing it for a day or so, intending to keep at it until I couli save enough to take me back to America. ' "I was standing In the yard when a ragged youngster asked if there was a cabby there called Jefferson Hope, and said that his cab was wanted by ' a gentleman at 221B Baker street. "I went round, suspecting no harm, and the next thing I knew, this young man here had the bracelets on my wrists, and as neatly shackled aa ever ! was in my life. "That's the whole of my story, gen tlemen. You may consider me to be Wa?a!MWSM?W &i&?4a????u7 9 a murderer, but I hold that I am Just as much an officer of Justice as you are." So thrilling had the man's narra tive been, and his manner waa so im pressive, that we had sat silent and absorbed. Even the professional detectives, blase as they were in every detail of crime, appeared to be keenly inter ested In the man's story. When he had finished we sat for some minutes in a stillness which was only broken by the scratching of Lea trade's pencil aa he gave the finish ing touchea to his shorthand account "There is only one point on which I should like a little more informa tion," Sherlock Holmes said at last "Who was your accomplice who came for the ring which I advertised?" The prisoner winked at my friend Jocosely. "I can tell my own secrets," he said, "but I dont get other people in to trouble. I aaw your advertisement and I thought It might be a plant or it might be the ring I wanted. My friend volunteered to go and see. 1 think you'll own he did it smartly." "Not a doubt of that" aald Holmes, heartily. "Now, gentlemen," the inspector re marked, gravely, "the forms ot the law must be complied with. On Thursday the prisoner will be brought before the magistrates, and your at tendance will be required. Until then I will be responsible for him." He rang the bell as he spoke, and Jefferson Hope waa led off by a couple of warders, while my friend and I made our way out of the station and took a cab back to Baker street CHAPTER VII. We had all been warned to appear before the magistrates upon the Thursday; but when the Thursday came there was no occasion tor our testimony. A higher Judge had taken the mat ter in hand, and Jefferson Hope had been summoned before a tribunal where strict justice would be meted out to him. On the very night after his capture the aneurism burst and he was found In the morning stretched upon the floor of the cell, with a placid smile upon his face, as though he had been able in his dying moments to look back upon a useful life, and on work well done. "Gregson and Lestrade will be wild about his death," Holmes remarked, as we chatted it over next morning. "Where will their grand advertise ment be now?" "I don't see that they had very much to do with his capture," I an swered. "What you do In this world Is a matter of no consequence," returned my companion, bitterly. "The ques tion is, what can you make people believe that you have done? Never mind," he continued, more brightly, after a pause, "I would not have missed the Investigation for anything. There has been no better case with in my recollection. Simple as it was. there were several most instructive points about it" "Simple?" I ejaculated. "Well, really, it can hardly be de scribed as otherwise," -said Sherlock Holmes, smiling at my surprise. "The proof of its intrinsic simplicity is that without any help, save a few very or dinary deductions, I was able to lay my hand upon the criminal within three days." "That is true," said L "I have already explained to you that what Is out of the common is us ually a guide rather than a hindrance. In solving a problem of this sort the grand thing is to be able to reason backward. That is a very useful ac complishment and a very easy one, but people do not practice it much. Ir. the every day affairs of life it is more useful to reason forward, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason syn thetically for one who can reason an alytically." "I confess," said L "that I do not quite follow you." "I hardly expected that you would. Let me see if I can make it clear. Most people, if you describe a train of events to them, will tell you what the result would be. They can put those events together in their minds, and argue from them that something will come to pass. There are few peo ple, however, who, if you told them a result would be able to evolve from their inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that re sult This power is what I mean when I talk of reasoning backward, or analytically." v "I understand," said I. "Now, this was a case in which you were given the result and had to find everything else for yourself. Now, let me endeavor to show you the dif ferent steps in my reasoning. To be gin at the beginning. I approached the house, as you know, on foot, and with my mind entirely free from all impressions. I naturally begun by examining the roadway, and there, as I have already explained to you, I saw clearly the marks a cab,' which, I ascertained by inquiry, must have been made there during the night I satisfied myself that it was a cab and not a private carriage by the narrow gauge of the wheels. The ordinary London growler is considerably less wide than a gentleman's brougham. "That was the first point gained. I then walked slowly down the garden path, which happened to be composed of a clay soil, peculiarly suitable for taking Impressions, No doubt it ap peared to you to be a mere trampled line of slush, but to my trained eyes every mark upon its surface had a meaning. "There is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps. Happily, I have always laid great stress upon it, and much prac tice has made it second nature to me. "I saw the heavy footmarks of the constables, but I saw also the tracks of the two men who bad first passed through the garden. It was easy to tell that they had been before the others, because in places their marks had been entirely obliterated by the others coming upon the top of them. "On entering the house this last in ference was confirmed. My well-booted man lay before me. The tall one, then, had done the murder, if murder there was. "There was no wound upon the dead man's person, but the agitated expression upon his face assured me that he had foreseen his fate before it came upon him. Men who die from heart disease or any sudden natural cause never by any chance exhfc.t agitation upon their features. "Having sniffed the dead man's lips, I detected a slightly sour smell, and I came to the conclusion that he had had poison forced upon him. Again I argued that it had been forced upon him. from the natrea ana rear ex pressed upon his face, "By the method of exclusion I ar rived at this result for no other hy pothesis would mwt the facts. Do not imagine that it was a very unheard-of idea. The forcible adminis tration ot poison Is by no means a now thing in criminal annals. The casea ot Dolsky, in Odessa, and ot Leturier, in Montpllcr, will occur at once to any toxlcologlst "And now came the great question aa to the reason why. Robbery had not been the object of the murder, for Lathing waa taken. Waa it politics, then, or waa it a woman? "That waa the question which con fronted me. I waa inclined from the first to the latter supposition. Politi cal assassins are only too glad to do their work and to fly. "It must have been a private wrong. and not a political one, which called for such a methodical revenge. When the inscription waa discovered upoa the wall I was more inclined than ever to my opinion. "The thing was too evidently a blind. When the ring was founcl, however, it settled the question. Clearly the murderer has used it ;o remind his victim ot some dead or ab sent woman. "I had already come to the conclu sion, since there were no signs ot a struggle, that the blood which covere l the floor had burst from the murder's nose in his excitement "I could perceive that the track of blood coincided with the track of his feet It is seldom that any man, un less he is very full-blooded, breaks out tn this way through emotion, so I hazarded the opinion that the crlmlntf was probably a robust and ruddy faced man. Events proved that I judged correctly. "Having left the house, I proceeded to do what Gregson had neglected. 1 telegraphed to the head of the police at Cleveland, limiting my inquiry to the circumstances connected with the marriage of Enoch Drebber. The an swer was conclusive. "It told me that Drebber had ap plied .for the protection ot the law against an old rival In love, named Jefferson Hope, and that this same Hope was at present in Europe. I knew now that I held the clew to the mystery In my hand, and all that re mained was to secure the murderer. "I had already determined in my own mind that the man who had walked into the house with Drebber was none other than the man who had driven the cab. "The marks in the road showed me that the horse had wandered on in a way which would have been impossi ble had there been any one in charge of it "Where, then, could the driver be, unless he were Inside the house? Again, it is absurd to suppose that any sane man would carry out a de liberate crime under the very eyes, as it were, of a third person, who was sure to betray him. "Lastly, supposing one man wished to dog another through London, what better means could be adopted than turn cab driver? All these considera tions led me to the Irresistible conclu sion that Jefferson Hope was to oe found among the jarveys of the me tropolis. "If he had been one there was no reason to believe that he had ceased to be. On the contrary, from his point of view, any sudden change would be likely to draw attention to himself. "He would probably, for a time at least, continue to perform his duties. There was no reason to suppose that he was going under an assumed name. "Why should he change his' name in a country where no one knew his original one? I therefore organized my street arab detective corps, and sent them systematically to every cab proprietor in London until they ferreted out the man that I wanted. "How well they Succeeded and how quickly I took advantage of It are still fresh in your recollection. The mur der of Stangerson was an incident which was entirely unexpected, but which could hardly In any case have been prevented. "Through it, as you know, I came into possession of the pills, the exist ence of which I had already surmised. You see, the whole thing is a chain of logical sequences without a break or flaw." "It is wonderful!" I cried. "Your merits should be publicly recognized. You should publish an account of the case. If you wont, I will for you." "You may do what .you like, doctor," he answered. "See here!" he con tinued, handing a paper over to me; "look at this!" It was the Echo for the day, and the paragraph to which he pointed was devoted to the case in question. "The public," it said, have lost a sensational treat through the sudden death of the man Hope, who was sus pected of the murder of Mr. Enoch Drebber and of Mr. Joseph Stanger son. "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 Mormonlsm bore a part. "It seems that both the victims be longed, in their younger days, to the Latter-Day Saints, and Hope, the de ceased prisoner, hails also from Salt Lake City. If the case had had no other effect it at least brings out in the most striking manner the effic iency of our detective force, and will serve as a lesson to all foreigners that they will do wisely to settle their feuds at home, and not to carry them on to British soil. "It is an open secret that the credit of this smart capture belongs entirely to the well-known Scotland Yard of ficials, Messrs. Lestrade and Gregson. The man was apprehended, it appears, in the rooms of a certain Mr. Sher lock Holmes, who has himself, as an amateur, shown some talent in the detective line, and who, with such in structors, may hope in time to attain some degree of their skill. "It is expected that a testimonial of some sort will be presented to the two officers as a fitting recognition of their services." "Didn't I tell you so when we start ed V cried Sherlock Holmes, with a laagh. . "That's the result of all our Study in Scarlet to get them a testi monial!" "Never mind," I answered ; "I have all the facts in my Journal, and tho publie shall know them. In the mean time you must make yourself con tented by the consciousness of suc cess, like the Roman miser " 'Populus me slbllat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi slnul ac nummos con templar in area.'" . THE END, LONE TRICE OF ESKIMOS There has been discovered upon one of the islands ot the Hudson Bay, the rvmnnnt ot a lost tribe of Eskimos, a community which has been for centu ries without tutercoura with any oth er representatives of the human spe cies, and whose member never, uutlt quite recently, had an opportunity of seeing a white man. The facts of the discovery are well established, having been reported to the Federal authorities at Ottawa by the Rev. A. W. Bucklaud. Mr. Buckland says that these strange people will virtually tlvt iu the stone age, knowing no metals. Their habi tations are built entirely of the skulls of whales. The home of the tribe is upon South amptou Island, a piece ot water-gtrt land nearly aa large as the State ot Maine, lying at the extreme north end of Hudson Bay. These people or their ancestors have undoubtedly Inhabited the island ever since pre-Columbian days, and at the present time they ex ist exactly as they must have done then. Having been Isolated for so loug a period it Is natural that they should possess many peculiarities. A very re markable collection of their utensils, weapons ot the chase, and other ob jects, was secured by Mr. Buckland, but to the great regret of the Canadian authorities, it was allowed by him to pass Into the hands of private persons. The huts on the Island are built by putting together the great jaws of whales and then covering them with skins. In the middle of the primitive dwellings Is a Blight elevation, on which stands the stone lamp, employed for lighting, heating, cooking, aud melt. Ing snow and drying clothes. This lamp Is nothing more than an open dish ot whale oil, with a wick of dry moss soaked in fat The whale is the chief means of subsistence of these poor people. They use the bone for many purposes, mak ing plates aud cups and toboggan-like sleds. They also' manufacture sledges of walrus tusks, with deer antlers for crosspleces. The members speak a di alect peculiar to themselves and they are the most daring of hunters. Not more than sixteen members of the trlbo now survive. Mr. Buckland agrees with the explor ers who believe the story that Audree was murdered by the Eskimos. He has lived for years with these people In their tents, and can not say too much for the kindliness of disposition and readiness to assist strangers. He explains the finding by them of instruments and other property by the hypothesis that they belonged to the Tyrell brothers, who in 1SW, nearly lost their lives near Marble Island, Hudson Bay, and left many valuable articles behind, Including their cameras, plates, etc.. Mr. Buckland Is confident that An dree will never again be heard from. When he was asked by the Norwegian government last year to undertake a search for him, he declined, believing that to do so would simply mean a waste of time and money. New York Sun. " "' THIS ELEPHANT IS NOf REAL Here is a "freak" photograph. At first glance one would suppose that it was a picture of a young lady riding on a baby elephant But it is not a real elephant It is a mere silhouette cut out of boards and is intended for an advertisement A sign being painted on It The lap-robe of a carriage is thrown over the sign to conceal It and the young lady is managing herself with difficulty on the sharp edge of the elephant's back for all that he looks comfortable. The photograph was taken in the out skirts of the City of Washington, the elephant being set up by the roadside. A Convenient Deafness. Mrs. llall was just wishing she had some one to send down town after a spool of silk with which to finish her sewing, when her neighbor's little six-year-old boy came in. "Well, Bobbie," said Mrs. HalL "If I pay you 8 cents will you go down to Stone's and get me a spool of silk?" Robert was very willing to go and waited while Mrs. Hall wrote the num ber and color of the silk she wanted, and as she handed him the slip Robbie said: "Mrs. Hall, I guess I must be a little hard of hearing, but did you say 4 cents?" Little Chronicle. Aluminum as a Substitute for Paper. It is stated that experiments with aluminum as a substitute for paper are now under way in France. It is now possible to roll aluminum Into sheets four-thousandths of an inch in thickness, in which form it weighs less than paper. By the adoption of suit able machinery these sheets can be made even thinner and can be used for book and writing paper. The metal will not oxidize, is practically fire and water proof, and is indestructible by worms. Like Papa. "I saw Klumsey's baby yesterday. It's a regular chip off the old block." "Why, I couldn't see any resemblance atalL" "No? Well, when I saw the kid it had Just opened Its mouth and put its foot in lt"-Phlladelphia Press. 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