Tit '" ,. i'' 2- ASTUDY -In Scarlet '" "When K lintl lilni fuirly Inside my cab my hunrt jumped so with joy that I feared lust nt this last mutnunt my aneurism might 'ki wrong. I drovo nlonp fdowly, weighing in my own mind whut it wus best to do. I might tiiko lilni right out Into the country, uml there in homo deserted lnnu havo my last Interview with him. I lind nlmost decided upon thin, when he Rolvcd tho problem for me. Tho crafts for drlnlc hnd hcl.ed him ngnln, nnd ho ordered mo to pull up outside n gin pnlnce. Ho wcntln, lenvlng word that I should wait for liim. There hu retuninud tin til closing-lime', uml when ho cnino out ho was bo fur gone that I knew tho guino was in my own hands. "Don't imagine that I intended to ltlll him in cold blood. It would only havo been rigid justice if I had dono ,o, but I could not bring mydclftodo it. I hud long determined that ho 'should huvo ti show for his life if ho chose to tnUo ndvuntngo of it. Among tho niiuiy billets which I have filled in America during my wandering life, I waHonro n janitor nnd sweep-out of tho laboratory at York college. Ono day tho professor was lecturing on poisons, and ho showed his students soma alkaloid, as ho called it, which ho had extracted from homo South American arrow poison, and which wns so powerful that tho least grain meant instant death. I spotted tho bottle in which this preparation was kept, and when they were .nil gone I helped myself to a little of it. I wns a fairly good dispenser, mi I worked this ulkalold into small, soluble pills, and each pill I put in u box with a similar pill made without poison. I deter mined at tho time that, when I had my chance, my gentlemen should each havo u draw out of ono of those boxes, while I a to the pill that remained. It would bo quite as deadly, ami n good deal less noisy than tiring across a handkerchief. From that day I had always my plll-boxcs about with me, and tho time had now como when I wns to ubo them. "It was nearer one than twelve, nnd a wild, bleak night, blowing hard nnd raining in torrents. Dismal as it wits outside, I was glad within so glud that 1 could havo shouted out from pure exultation. If any of you gentle men havo ever pined for u tiling nnd longed for it during twenty long years, ntut then suddenly found it withjn your reach, you would understand my feelings. I lit n cigar nnd puffed nt it to steady my nerves, but my hands were trembling and my temples throb bing with excitement. As I drove, I could see old John Ferrier anil sweet Lucy looking nt mo out of tho dark ness and smiling at me, just as plain ns 1 sec you nil in this room. All tho wny they wero ahead of me, tnio on each sidcof tho horse, until 1 pulled up nt the house in tho llrixton road. "Thoro. was not n soul to be seen, nor n sound to bo hoard except tho drip ping of the rain. When 1 looked in at tho window I found Drebber all hud dled together in n drunken sleep. I shook him by thouriu. 'It's time to go out,' I said. " 'All right, cabby,' sum ho. "I suppose ho thought wo hud como to tho hotel that he had mentioned, for ho got out without another word anil followed me down the garden. I had to wnlk beside him tokcephlm hteady, for ho was still u little top-heavy. "When we camo to the door I opened it and led him into tho front room. 1 "UK OA7.l:i) AT ME WITH Ill.KAUED imuxKr.x i:vr. a JioiinxV givo you my word that, nil tho way, tho father anil daughter wero walking in front of us. " 'Ifw infernally dark,' snid he, Btnmpiug about. "'We'll soon havo n light,' I said, striking a match and putting it to a wax candle which I had brought with roe. iv, Enoch Drebber,' I con tinued, turning to htm, and holding tho light to iny own face: 'Who nin I?' "Ho gazed at mo with blenred, drunken eyes for it moment, and then I saw a horror spring up in them and convulse his wholo features, which bhowed mo that ho knew me. Ho staggered back with a livid face, and I saw tho perspiration break out upon his brow, while his teeth chattered. At tho sight I leaned my back against tho door and laughed loud and long. I hnd always known that vengeance would bo hweet, but had never hoped for tho contentment of soul which now possessed me. " 'You dog!' I Miitl; 'I havo hunted you from Salt Lake City to St. Peters burg, and j on havo always escaped mo. Now at last your wunderings hnvo come to an end, for cither you or I shall never seo to-morrow's sun riso.' He shrank still farther nwny ns I upoko, and I could beo on his face that ho thought I was mad. So I wns for tho time. Tho pulses in my temples bent lileo sledge-hammers, nnd I be lieve I, would hayoJiudufjtof some THE RED CLOUD sort if the blood hnd not guslica irom my noso nnd relieved mo. " 'What do you think of Lucy Fcr rier now?' I cried, locking tho door nnd shaking tho key in his face. 'Pun ishment has been slow in coming, but it has overtaken you at Inst.' I saw Ills coward lips tremble ns I spoke. IIo would havo begged for his life, but ho knew well it was useless. " 'Would you murder mo?' ho stam mered. " 'There is no murder, I answered. Who talks of murdering a mad dog? What mercy had you upon my poor darling when you dragged her from her hlnughtcrcd father nnd boro her nwny to your accursed and shameless harem?' " 'It was not I who killed her father,' ho cried. " 'Hut it wns you who broko her in nocent heart,' I shrieked, thrusting tho box beforo him. 'Lot tho high Ood judge between us. Choose and cat. Thcra is death in ono nnd lifo in tho other. I shall tnko what you lenvc. Let us bco if there is justico upon tho earth, or if wo aro ruled by chance.' "Ho cowered nwny with wild cries and prayers for mercy, but I drew my knife and held it to his throat until ho had obeyed mc. Then I swallowed tho other, nnd wo stood facing each other in silence for a minute or more, waiting to seo which was to livu nnd which wns to die. Shall I ever forget tho look which cntno over his face when tho ilrst warning pangs told him that tho poison was in his system? I laughed as I saw it, and hold Lucy's murriugo ring In front of his eyes. It was but for u moment, for tho uction of tho alkaloid is rapid. A spasm of pain contorted his features; ho throw Ills hands out in front of him, stag gered, and then, with a hoarse cry, fell heavily upon tho lloor. I turned him over with my foot and pluecd my hand upon his heart. There was no move ment. Ho was deadl "Tho blood hnd been streaming from my nose, but I had taken no notice of it. I don't know whnt it wns that put it into my bend to write upon tho wnll with it. Perhaps it wus soiuo mis chievous idea of setting tho police upon n wrong track, for I felt light-henrted und cheerful. I remembered a Uer- 'UK COWKRKD AWAY WITH MM CRIES AM) l'RAYKKS FOR MKRCY." man being found in Now York with 'radio written up above him, nnd it wus urgucd nt tho time in the newspa pors that tho secret societies must have dono it. I guessed that what puzzled tho New Yorkers would puzzle tho Londoners, so I dipped my linger iu my own blood and printed it on a con venicnt place on tho wall. Then 1 walked down to my cab and found that there wns nobody about, nnd that tho night was still very wild. I had driven some distance, when I put my hand into tho pocket in which 1 usual ly kept Lucy's ring nnd 'ound that it was not there. I wns thunderstruck nt this, fcr it wns tho only memento that 1 had of her. Thinking that might havo dropped it when I stooped over Drebber s body, I drove back, nnd, lenving my cnb in n side street, 1 went boldly up to tho house for I wns rendy to dare anything rather than loso tho ringl When I arrived thcro I walked right into tho nrms of n police ofliccr who wns coining out, und only man aged to disarm Ills suspicions by pre' tending to bo hopelessly drunk. "That wus how Enoch Drebber enmo to ills end. All 1 had to do then was to do ns much for Stnngerson, nnd so pay oft John Ferrior s debt. I knew that ho was staying nt Hall Iday's pri vate hotel, and I hung about nil day, but hiv never camo out. I fancy that ho suspected something when Drebber failed to put in nn uppcarnncc. Ho was cunning, wns Stangerson, and al ways on his guard. If ho thought ho could keep mo off by staying indoors ho was very much mistaken. I soon found out which wns tho window of his bedroom, nnd early next morning I took advantage of some ladders which were lying In tho lauo behind the hotel nnd so nuido my way into his room In tho gray of tho dawn. I woke him up nnd told him that the hour hnd como when ho wns to answer for the lifo ho had taken so long before. I de scribed Drcbber'8 death to hlin, nnd 1 gav him tiio muho choice of tho poisoned pills. Instead of grasping at tho chance of jfoty which that offered him, ho bpraug from his bed nnd flew nt my throat. In solf-defcnso I stabbed him to the heart. It would hnvo been tho Mime In nny case, for Providence would never hnvo allowed his guilty hand to pick out anything but tho poison. "I have little inoro to say, nnd it's ns well, for 1 inn about done uf. 1 went on cubbing it for u duy ur so, intend ing to keep nt it until I could savo enough to tnko mo back to America. I was standing in tho- yard when n nigged youngster usked if there wns u cabby there called Jefferson Hope, and eatd thut his cub was wanted by a goa-1 CHIEF, RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEB.2B, 1894. tlcinan at -Mill linker street. I went round, suspecting no harm, and tho next thing I know, this young man hero had tho bracelets on iliy wrists, and ns neatly shackled ns ever I was in my life. That's tho wholo story, gentlemen. -You may consider mo to bo u murderer; but I hold thnt I nm just ns much un ofllcer of justico us ypu nrc." So thrilling hud tho mnn's nnrrntlvo been, nnd ills manner wns so impres sive, thnt wo had sat silent and ab sorbed. Even tho professional detec tives, blaso as thoy' wero iu every de tail of crime, nppenred to bo keenly in terested in tho man's story. When ho finished wo snt for somo minutes in tv stillness which was only broken by tho scratching of Lcstrndo's pencil ns ho gnvo tho finishing touches to his shorthand nccount. "Thcro is only ono point on which I "I DESCRMED DREDnKIl'S.UKATn TO IIIM." should like n little moro information," Sherlock Holmes said at lust. "Who wus your necompllco who enmo for the ring which I advertised?" The prisoner winked at my friend jocosely. "I can toll my own secrets," ho said, "but I don't got other pcoplo Into trouble. 1 saw your advertise ment, und I thought it might bo a plant, or it might bo tho ringl wanted. My friend volunteered to go nnd bco. I think you'll own ho did it smartly." "Not a doubt of thnt," snid Holmes, hcnrtlly. "Now, gentlemen," tho inspector rc ranrked gravely, "tho forms of tho lnw must bo complied with. On Thursday tho prisoner will bo broughtbeforo tho magistrates, nnd your nttendanco will bo required. Until then I will bo re sponsible for him." Ho rang tho bell as ho spoke, nnd Jefferson Hope was led off by a couplo of warders, whllo my friend and 1 made our way out of tho station and took a cab back to linker street. CHAPTER VII. TUB CONCLUSION. Wo had all been warned to oppenr beforo tho magistrates upon tho Thurs day; but when tho Thursday camo there wus no occasion for our testi mony. A higher Judgo hnd taken tho matter iu hand, nnd Jefferson Hope had been summoned boforo a tribunal where strict justico would bo meted out to him. Un tho very night after his capture tho aneurism burst, nnd ho wns found in the morning tjtrctehcil upon tho lloor of the cell, with n plucld binilo upon his face, as though ho had been able in his dying moments to look back upon a useful lifo und on work well done. "(Jregson and Lcstrado will bo wild about his dcuth," Holmes remarked, as wo chatted It over next evening. "Where will their grand advertisement be now?" "I don't soo that they had very much to do with his capture," I answered. "Whnt you do in this world Is a mat ter of no consequence," returned my companion, bitterly. "Tho question is, what can you make pcoplo belicvo that you havo done? Never mind," ho con tinued, moro brightly, after a pnuse,"I would not hnvo missed tho investiga tion for anything. Thcro has been no better caso within my recollection. Simple as it was, thcro wero several most instructive points about it." ".Slmplol" I ejaculated. "Well, really, it can hardly bo do scribed ns otherwise,' said Sherlock Holmes, smiliug nt my surprise. "Tho proof of its intrinsic simplicity is thnt without any help, bave a few very or dinary deductions, I wns able to lay my hand upon tho criminal within three iluys." "Thnt'ls true." said I. "1 havo already explained to you that what is out of tho common is usually a guide rather than a hin drance. In solving n problem of this bort, tho grand thing is to bo able to reason backward. That is a very use ful accomplishment and a very easy one, but pcoplo do not practice it much. In tho everyday affairs of lifo it is moro useful to reason forward, and so tho other comes to bo neglected. There nro fifty "who nun reason syn thetically for ono who can reason an alytically." "1 confess," said I, "that I do not quite follow you." "I hardly expected that you would. Lot me seo if 1 can make it clear. Most people, if you describo n train of events to thein, will tell you whut tho result would bo. Thoy can put thoso events together In their minds, and arguo from them that something will como to pass. There aro few people, how ever, who, if you told them n result, would bonblo to ovolvo from their own inner consciousness what tho stepH wero which led up to that result. This power is whut I mean when I talk of reasoning bnckwnrd, or analytically." "'I understand," said I. ''Now, this was a enso in which you wero given tho rcbiilt nnd had to And everything else for yourself. Now, lot mo endeavor to show you tho different bteps in my reasoning. To begin nt the beginning: Inppronoliedthohouso, as you know, on foot, und with my mind entirely frco from nil impres sions. I naturally begnn by examin ing tho roadway, nnd there, ns I have fllrcudy explained to you, I saw clearly the murks of a cab, which, I ascer tained by inquiry, must havo been there during tho night. I satisfied myself that it was n cab and not a pri vate carriage by tho narrow ffautro of the wheels. Tho ordinary iosflov growler is considerably less wiilo than i a gentleman's brougham. I "This was tho first point gulned I i then walked slowly down the garden path, which happened to bo composed of n clay soil, peculiarly suitable for taking impressions. No doubt it ap peared to you to bu n mere trampled lino of slush, but to my trained eyes I every mark upon its surface had n meaning. Thcro is no branch of de tective sclenco which is so importunt I and so much neglected as tho nrt of tracing footsteps. Happily, I have nl- wnys Inul grent stress upon It, nnd much practice has mndo it second nature to mo. 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