Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 7 February 1895 — Page 4

A STUDY IN SCARLET.

By A. COM DOYLE.

"I really hog your pardon," said my companion, who had milled the little man's temper by bursting into an explosion of laughter. "You certainly have the credit of being the first, of us to find this out, and, as you say, it bears every mark of having been written by the other participant in last night's mystery. I have not had time to examine this room yet. but with your jjerniission I shall do so now.

As he spoke he whipped a tape measuro and a large, round magnifying glass from his pocket. With these implements ho trotted noiselessly about the room, sometimes stopping, occasionally kneeling and once h'ing flat upon his face. Ho engrossed was ho with his occupation that lie appeared to have forgotten otir presence, for he chattered away to himself under his breath the whole time, keeping up a running fire of exclamations, groans, whistles and little cries suggestive of encouragement and of hope. As I watched him I was irresistibly reminded of a pure blooded, well trained foxhound as it dashes backward and forward through the covert, whining in its eagerness, until it comes across the lost scent. For 20 minutes or moro he continued his researches, measuring with the most exact care the distance between marks which were entirely invisible to me and occasionally applying his tape to the walls in an equally incomprehensible manner. In one place he gathered very carefully a little pile of gray dust from the floor and packed it away in an envelope. Finally lie examined with his glass the word upon the wall, going over every letter of it with the most minute exactness. This done, he appeared to be satisfied, for lie replaced his tape and his glass in his pocket. "They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," ho reniarked, with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work."

Gregson and Lestrado had watched the maneuvers of their amateur companion with considerable curiosity and some contempt. They evidently failed to appreciate the fact, which I had begun to realize, that Sherlock Holmes' smallest actions were all directed toward some definite and practical end. "What do you think of it, sir?" they both asked. "It would be robbing yon of the credit of the case if I was to presume to help you, remarked my friend. "You are doing so well now that it would be a pity for any one to interfere." There •was a world of sarcasm in his voice as he spoka "If you will let me know how your investigations go, "he continued, "I shall be happy to give you any help I can. In the meantime 1 should like to speak to the constable who found the body. Can you give me his name and address?"

Lestrade glanced at his notebook. "John Ranee," he said. He is off duty now. You will find him at 46 Audley court, Kennington Park Gata

Holmes took a note of the address. "Como along, doctor," ho said. "We shall go and look him up. I'll tell you one thing which may help you in the case," ho continued, turning to the two detectives. "There has been murder done, and the murderer was a man. He was more than (5 feet high, was in the prime of life, had small feet for his height, woro coarse, square toed boots and smoked a Trichinopoly cigar. He came here with his victim in a four wheeled cab, which was drawn by a horse with three old shoes and ono new one on his off fore leg. In all probability tho murderer had a florid face, and the finger nails of his right hand were 'remarkably long. These are only a few indications, but they may assist you.

Lestrado and Gregson glanced at each other with an incredulous smile. "If this man was murdered, how was it done?" asked the former. "Poison," said Sherlock Holmes curtly and strode off. "One other thing, Lestrade," he added, turning around at tho door. 'Raclie' is the German for 'revenge,' so don't lose your time looking for Miss Rachel."

With which Parthian shot ho walked away, leaving the twro rivals open mouthed behind him..

CHAPTER IV.

It wa« 1 o'clock when we left 8 Lauriston Gardens. Sherlock Holmes led me to the nearest telegraph office, whence ho dispatched along telegram. He then hailed a cab and ordered the driver to take us to the address given us by Lestrado. "Thero is nothing like first hand evidence, ho remarked. "As a matter of fact, my mind is entirely made up on the case, but still wo may as well learn all

that is to be learned "You amazo me, Holmes. said I. "Surely you aro not, as sure as you pretend to hoof all thoso particulars which you

gave."

"There's 110 room for a mistake," he -answered. "Tho very first thing which I observed on arriving there was that a cab had made two ruts with its wheels close to the curb. Now up to last night we had no rain for a week, so that those wheels, which left such a deep impression, must havo been thero during the night. There wero the marks of the horse's hoofs, too, the outline of one of which was far more clearly cut than that of tho other three, showing that ^that was a new shoe. Since the cab was thoro after the rain began and was not there at any time during the morning—

I havo Gregson's word for that—it foltfws that it must havo been there durfmg tho night, and, therefore, that it -brought thoso two individuals to tho Jkonso." "That seems simple enough," said I "but how about the other man's hoight?" "Why, tho height of a man in nine «ases out of ten can bo told from the length of his stride. It is a simplo cal «ulation enough, though there is no uso jms boring ^nn with figures. I had this

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fellow's stride both on tho clay outside and on the dust within. Then I had a way of checking my calculation. When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write about the level of his own eyes. Now that writing was just over six feet from tho ground. It was child's play." "And his age?" I asked. "Well, if a man can stride 4W feet without the slightest effort, he can't be quite in the sere and yellow. That was the breadth of a puddle on the garden walk which be had evidently walked? across. Patent leather boots had gone around, and square toes had hopped over There is no mystery about it at all. I am simply applying to ordinary life a few of those precepts of observa-f tion and deduction which I advocated in that article. Is there anything else that puzzles you'.-" "The finger nails and the Trichinopoly," I suggested. "The writing on tho wall was done with a man's forefinger dipped in blood. My glass allowed me to observe that the plaster was slightly scratched in doing it, which would not havo been tho case if the man's nail had been trimmed. I gathered up some scattered ash from the floor. It was dark in color and flaky, such an ash as is only made by a Trichinopoly. I have made a study of cigar ashes—in fact, I have written a monograph upon the subject. I flatter myself that I can distinguish at a glance the ash of any known brand either of cigar or of tobacco. It is just in such details that the skilled detective differs from the Gregson and Lestrade type.'' "And the florid face?" I asked. "Ah, that was a more daring shot, though 1 have no doubt that I was right. You must not ask me that at. tho present state of the affair.

I passed my hand over my brow. "My head is in a whirl," I remarked. "The more one thinks of it tho moro mysterious it grows. How came these two men—if there were two men—into an empty house? What has become of the cabman who drove them? How could one man compel another to take poison? Where did the blood come from? What was tho object of the murderer, since robbery had no part in it? How came the woman's ring there? Above all, why should the second man write up the German word 'Rache' before decamping? I confess I cannot see any possible way of reconciling all these facts

My companion smiled approvingly. "You sum up the difficulties of the situation succinctly and well," he said. "There is much that is still obscure, though I have quite made up my mind on the main facts. As to poor Lestrade's discovery, it was simply a blind intended to put the police upon a wrong track by suggesting socialism and secret societies. It was not done by a German. The 'a,' if you notioed, was printed somewhat after the German fashion. Now, a real German invariably prints in the Latin character, so that we may safely say that this was not written by one, but by a clumsy imitator, who overdid his part. It was simply a ruse to divert inquiry into a wrong channel. I'm not going to tell you much more of the case, doctor. You know a oonjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick, and if I show you too much of my method of working you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual, after all." "I shall never do that," I answered. "You have brought deteotion as near an exact science as it will ever be brought in this world.

My companion flushed up with pleasure at my words and the earnest way in which I uttered them. I had already observed that he was sensitive to flattery on tho score of his art as any girl could be of her beauty. "I'll tell you ono other thing," he said. "Patent leathers and squaro toes came in the same cab, and they walked down the pathway together as friendly as possible—arm in arm in all probability. When they got inside, they walked up and down the roo*, or rather patent leathers stood still while square toes walked up and down. I could read all that in tho dust, and I could read that, as he walked, he grew more and more excited. That is shown by the increased length of his strides. He was talking all the while and working himself up, no doubt, into a fury. Then the tragedy occurred. I've told you all I know myself now. for the rest is mere surmise

and conjecture. We have a good working basis, however, on which to start. We must hurry up, for I want to go to Halle's concert to hear Norman Neruda this afternoon."

This conversation had occurrod while our cab had been threading its way through a long succession of dingy streets and dreary byways. In the dingiest and dreariost of them our driver suddenly came to a stand. "That's Audley court in there," he said, pointing to a narrow slit the line of dead colored brick. "You'll find me here when you come back.

Audley court was not an attractive locality. The narrow passage led us into a quadrangle paved with flags and lined by sordid dwellings. %e picked our way among groups of dirty children and through lines of discolored linen until wo came to 40, the door of which was decorated with a small slip of brass, on which the name Ranco was engraved. On inquiry we found that the constable was in bed, and we were shown into a little front parlor to await his coming.

He appeared presently, looking a little irritable at being disturbed in his slumbers. "I made my report at tho office," he said.

Holmes took a half sovereign from his pocket and played with it pensively. "Wo thought thr^wo should like to hear it all from your own lips," he said. "I shall ho most happy to tell you anything I can," the constable answered, with his eyes upon tho little golden disk. "Just let us hear it all in your way, as it occurred

Ranco sat down on tho horsehair sofa and knitted his brows, as_ though de­

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termined not to omit anything his narrative. "I'll tell it ye from the beginnin, he said. "My time is from 10 at night to 6 in the mornin. At 11 there was a fight at the White Hart but, bar that, all was quiet enough on the beat. At 1 o'clock it began to rain, and I met

Harry Murcher, him who has the Holland grove beat, and we stood together at the corner of Henrietta street a-talkin. Presently, maybe about 2 or a little after, I thought I would take a look around and see that all was right down the Brixton road. It was precious dirty and lonely. Not a soul did I meet all the way down, though a cab or two went past me. I was a-strollin down, thinkin between ourselves how uncommon handy a four of hot gin would be, when suddenly a glint of a light caught my eye I in that same house. Now I knew that them two houses in Lauriston gardens was empty on account of him that owns them, who won't have the drain seed to, though the very last tenant that lived in one of them died o' typhoid fever. I was knocked all in a heap, therefore, at seein a light in the window, and I susI pected as somethin was wrong. When I I got to the door"— "You stopped and then walked back to the garden gate," my companion interrupted. "What did you do that for?"

Ranee gave a violent jump and stared I at Sherlock Holmes, with the utmost amazement upon his features, "Why, that's true, sir," he said, "though how you come to know it heaven only knows! Ye see, when I got to the door, it was so still^md so lonesome that I thought I'd bo none the worse for some one with me. I ain't afeard of anytliin on this side o' the grave, but I I thought that may bo it was him that died o' the typhoid inspectin the drains what killed him. Tlie thought gave me a kind o' turn, and I walked back to the gate to see if I could see Murcher's lantern, but there wasn't no sign of him nor of any ono else. "There was no one in the street?" "Not a livin soul, sir, nor so much as a dog. Then I pulled myself together I and went back and pushed the door open.

All was quiet insido, so I went into tho I room where the light was a-burnin. There was a candle flickerin on the mantelpiece, a red wax one, and by its light I saw"— "Yes, I know all that you saw. You walked around the room several times, and you knelt down by the body, and then you walked through and tried the kitchen door, and then"—

John Ranee sprang to his feet with a frightened face and suspicion in his eyes. "Where was you hid to see all that?" he cried. "It seems to me that you knows a deal more than you should."

Holmes laughed and threw his card aoross the table to the constable. "Don't get arresting me for the murder," he said. "I am one of the hounds and not the wolf. Mr. Gregson or Mr. Lestrade will answer for that. Go on, though. What did you do next?"

Ranee resumed his seat, without, however, losing his mystified expression. "I went back to the gate and sounded my whistle. That brought Murcher and two more to the spot "Was the street empty then?" "Well, it was, as far as anybody that could be of any good goes." "What do you mean?"

The constable's features broadened into a grin. "I've seen many a drunk chap in my time," he said, "but never any one so cryin drunk as that cove. He was at the gate when I came out a-leanin up agin the railin's and a-singin at the pitch of his lungs about Columbine's new fangled banner or some such stuff. He couldn't stand, far less help." "What sort of a man was he?" asked Sherlock Holmes.

John Ranee appeared to be somewhat irritated at this digression. "He was an uncommon drunk sort o' man," he said. "He'd ha' found bisself in the station if wo hadn't been so took up." "His face, his dress. Didn't you notice them?" Holmes broke in ly"I should think I did notice them, seeing that I had to prop him up, me and Murcher between us. He was a long chap, with a red face, the lower part muffled round"— "That will do!" cried Holmes. "What became of him?" "We'd enough to do without lookih after him, "the policeman said in an aggrieved voice. "I'll wager he found his way home all right." "How was he dressed?" "A brown overcoat." "Had he a whip in his hand?" "A whip—no. "He must have left it behind," muttered my companion. "You didn't happen to see or hear a cab after that?" "No." "There's a half sovereign for you," my companion said, standing up and taking his hat "I am afraid, Ranee, that you will never rise in the force. That head of yours should be for use as well as ornament, "You m^ght have gained your sergeant's striped last night The man whom you held in your hands is the man who holds the clew of this mystery and whom we are seeking. There is no use of arguing about it now. 1 tell you that it is so. Come along, doctor.

We started off for the cab together, leaving our informant incredulous, but obviously uncomfortable. "The blundering fool!" Holmes said bitterly as wo drove back to our lodgings. "Just to think of his having such an incomparable bit of good luck and not taking advantage of it. "1 am rather in the dark still. It is true that the description of this man tallies with your idoa of the second party in this mystery. But why should he come back to the house after leaving it? That is not the way of criminals." "The ring, man, the ring. That was What ho came back for. If wo have no other way of catching him, we can always bait our lino with the'ring. I shall have him, doctor. I'll lay you two to one that I havo him. I must thank you for it all. I might not have gono but for you aud so havo missed the finest

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study ever came across. A study in 1 scarlet, eh.1' Why shouldn't we use a little art jai-gon? There's tho scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein ot lite, and our duty is

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to unravel it and isolate it and expose every inch of it. And now for lunch I and then for Norman Neruda. Her attack and her bowing are splendid, What that little thing of Chopin's she plays so magnificently. Tra-la-la lira-lira-lay I ^Leaning back tho cab, this amateur bloodhound caroled away like a I lark, while 1 meditated upon the many sidedness of tho human mind.

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Our morning exertions had been too much for my weak health, and I was tired out in the afternoon. After Holmes' departure for tho concert. 1 lay down upon the sofa and endeavored to get a couple of hour's sleep It was a useless attempt My mmd had been too much excited by all that had occurred, and tho strangest fancies and surmises crowded into it Every timo that 1 closed my eyes 1 saw before me the distorted, balloonlike countenance of the murdered man. So sinister was the expression which that face had produced upon me that I found it difficult to feel anything but gratitude for him who had removed its owner from the world. If ever human features bespoke vice of the most malignant type, they were certainly those of Enoch .1 Drcbber of Cleveland. Still 1 recognized that justice must be done, and that the depravity of the victim was no condonemeut in the eyes of the law

The more 1 thought of it. the more extraordinary did my companion's hypothesis that tho man had been pdlsoned appear 1 remembered how he had sniffed his lips and had no doubt that he had detected something which had given rise to the idea. Then, again, if not poison, what had caused the man's death, since there was neither wound nor marks of strangulation. But, on the other hand, whose blood was that which lay so thickly upon the floor? There was no signs of a struggle, nor had the victim any weapon with which he might have wounded an antagonist. As long as all these questions were unsolved felt that sleep would ba no easy matter either for Holmes or myself. His quiet, 6elf confident manner convinced me that he had already formed a theory which explained all the facts, though what it was I could not for an instant conjecture.

He was very late in returning, so late that knew that the concert could not have detained him all the time. Dinner was on the table before he appeared. "It was magnificent, he said as he took his seat "Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood." "That's rather abroad idea," I remarked. "One's ideas mu6t be as broad as nature if they are to interpret nature," he answered. What's the matter? You're not looking quite yourself. This Brixton road affair has upset you. "To tell the truth, ithas, I said. "1 ought to be more case hardened after my Afghan experiences. 1 saw my own somrades hacked to pi*es at Maiwaud without losing my nerve. "1 can understand. There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination. Where there is no imagination there is no horror Have you seen the evening paper?" "No." "It gives a fairly good account of the affair. It does not mention the fact that when the man was raised up a woman's wedding ring fell upon tho floor. It's just as well it does not.

Wny?"

"Look at this advertisement, he answered. "1 had one sent to every paper this morning immediately after the aflair."

He threw the paper across to me, and I glanced at the place indicated. It tvas the first announcement in the "Found" column. "In Brixton road this morning, "it ran, "a plain gold wedding ring found in the roadway between the White Hart tavern and Holland

grove. Apply Dr Watson, 221b Baker street, between 8.and 9 this eveninsr." (To be continued.)]

Onr Two Opinions.

Us t'vo Y\*U7. boys when wo fell out, Ni.i to the age uv my youngest now Don't rec'iect what 'twuz about

Soirio small diff'reuce, I'll allow. Lived next neighbors twenty years, A-hatin each other, mo 'ncl Jim, He bavin his opinyin uv me, 'Nd I bavin my opinyin uv himl

Grew up together 'nd wouldn't speak Courted .sister.-i and marr'd 'em, too 'Tended same meet in house oncet a week,

A-hatin eaeh other, through 'nd through. But when Abe Linkern asked tho west F'r soldiers we answered, me 'ml Jim, He havin his opinyin uv me, 'Nd 1 havin my opinyin uv him!

Down in Tennessee ono ni^ht Ther was sound uv flrin fur away, 'Nd the sergeant allowed ther'd be a fight

VTith the Johnnie Robs sometime next day, 'Nd as I was (hitikin of Lizzie -!jid home. Jim stood afore me, long 'nd blim, He liavin his opinyin uv me, 'Nd I liavin my opinyin uv him!

Seemed lilco wo knew there wuz goin to l)a Serious trouble f'r me 'nd him.

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Us two shuck hands, did Jim 'lid ine,!.'-'S:* But never a ord from me or .Tun. He went his way, 'nd 1 went mine, SBS?as-:a 'Nil into the battle's roar went we, I ha/in my opinyin uv Jim, 'Nd he havm his opinyin uv me!

Jim never came baC-k from the war again, Hut I hain't forgot that last, last myhtM When, waiti. f'r orders, us two men

Made up and shuck hands at ore tho fight, 'Nd after it all it's soot hill to know That, here 1 be 'nd Ji/iider's Jim, He havin his opinyin uv me, 'Nd I havin my opinvin uv himl

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