Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 16 February 1895 — Page 4

By A. COKAN DOYLE.

'-Hadn't you better roservo that tor your trialV" asked tlio inspector. "I may never be tried," ho answered. "You needn't look startled. It isn't suicide 1 am thinking of. Are you a doctor?" He turned his fierce, dark eyes upon me as he asked this last question. "Yes, I am."' I answered. "Then put your ha:: 1 here," lie* said, with a smile, motioning with his manacled wrists toward his chest.

I did so and became at once conscious of an extraordinary throbbing and commotion which was going on inside. The walls of his chest seemed to thrill and quiver as a frail building would do inside when some powerful engine was at work. In the silence of the room I could hear a dull humming and buzzing noise which proceeded from the same source. "Why, I cried, "you havo an aortic aneurism!" "That's what they call it," he said placid iy. "I went to a doctor last week about it, and he told me that it was bound to burst before many days passed. It has been getting worse for years. I got it from overexposure and underfeeding among the Salt Lake mountains. I've dono my work now, and I don't, care how soon I go, but I should like to leave some account of the business behind me. I don't want to be remembered as a common cutthroat."

The inspector and the two detcctives had a hurried discussion as to the advisability of allowing him to tell his story. "bo yon consider, doctor, that there is

immediate danger?'' the former asked. "Most certainly there is," I answered. "In that case it is clearly our duty, in the interests of justice, to tako his statement," said the inspector. "You are at liberty, sir, to givo your account, which I again warn you will be taken down." "I'll sit down, with your leave," the prisoner said, suiting tho action to the word. "This aneurism of mine makes me easily tired, and the tusslo we had half an hour ago has not mended matters. I'm on tho brink of tho grave, and I am not likely to lie to you. Every word I say is the absolute truth, and how you use it is a matter of no consequence to me.

With theso words, Jefferson Hope leaned back in his chair and began the following remarkable statement. He spoke in a calm and methodical manner, as though the events which he narrated wero commonplace enough. I can vouch for tho accuracy of tho subjoined account, for I havo had acoess to Lestrade'a notebook, in which the prisoner's words were taken down exactly as they were uttered. "It don't much matter to you why I fiated these men,'' he said. "It's enough that they wore guilty of the death of two human beings—a father and a daughter—and that they had therefore forfeited their own lives. After the lapse of time that has passed since their crime, it was impossible forme to secure a conviction against them in any court. I knew of their guilt, though, and I determined that I should be judge, jury and executioner all rolled into one. You'd havo done the same, if you have any manhood in you, if you had been in my place. "That girl that I spoko of was to have married mo 20 vears a®). She was forced into marrying that same Drebber and broke her heart over it. I took tho marriage ring from her dead finger, and I vowed that his dying eyes should xest upon that very ring, and that his last thoughts should be of tho crime for which he was punished. I have carried it about with me and havo followed him and his accomplice over two continents until I caught them. They thought to tiro me out, but they could not do it. If I die tomorrow, as is likely enough, I die knowing that my work in this world is done, and well done. They havo perished, and all by my hand. There is nothing loft for mo to hope for or to desiro. "They were rich and I was poor, so that it was no easy matter for me to follow them. When I got to London my pocket was about empty, and I found that 1 must turn my hand to something for my living. Driving and riding are as natural to mo as walking, so I applied at a cab owner's offico and soon got employment. I was to bring a certain sum a week to tho owner, and whatever was over that I might keep for myself. There was seldom much over, but I managed toscrapo along somehow. Tho hardest job was to learn my way about, for I reckon that of all the mazes that ever wero contrived this city is the most confusing. I had a map beside mo, though, and when onco I spotted tho principal hotels and stations I got on pretty well. "It was somo time before I found out Where my tw^ gentlemen were living, but I inquired and inquired until at last I dropped across them. They wero at a boarding house at Camberwell, over on the other side of tho river. When once I found them out, I knew that I had them at my mercy. I had grown my beard, and thero was no chance of their recognizing lrfe. I would dog them and follow them until I saw my opportunity. I was determined that thoy ahould not escape mo again. "They wero very near doing it, for all that. Go whero they would about London, I was always at their heels. Somotimes 1 followed them on my cab and sometimes on foot, but tho former was the best, for then they could not get away from me. It was only early in the morning or late at night that I could earn anything, so that I began to get behindhand with my employer. I did not mind that, however, as long as I could lay

my hand upon the men I wanted. "They wero very cunning, though. They must have thought that therawaa

some chance of their being followed, for they would never go out alone and neyer after nightfall. During two weeks I drove behind them every day and never onco saw them separate. Drebber himself was drunk half the time, but Stangerson was not to be caught napping. I watched them late and early, but uever saw the ghost of a chance, but I was not discouraged, for something told mo that the hour had almost come. My only fear was that this thing in my chest might burst a little too soon ai?d leave my work undone.

At last one evening I was driving up and down Torquay Terr.ice, as the street was called in which they boarded, when I saw a cab drive up to their door. Presently some luggage was brought out, and after a time Drebber and Stangerson followed it and drove off. I whipped up my horse and kept within sight of them, feeling ill at ease, for I feared that they wero going to shift their quarters. At Euston station they got out, and I left a boy to hold my horse and followed them on to the platform. I heard them ask for the Liverpool train, and the guard auswered that one had just gone, and that there would not be another for some hours. Stangerson seemed to be put out at that, but Drebber was rather pleased than otherwise. I got so close to them in the bustle thatj could hear every word that passed between them. Drebber said that he had a little business of his own to do, and that if the other would wait for him he would soon rejoin him. His companion remonstrated with him and reminded him that they had resolved to stick together. Drebber answered that the matter was a delicate one, and that he must go alone. I could not catch what Stangerson said to that, but tho other burst out swearing and reminded him that he was nothing more than his paid servant, and that he must not presume to dictate to him. On that tho secretary gave it up as a bad job and simply bargained with him that if ho missed the last train he should rejoin him at Halliday's Private hotel, to which Drebber answered that he would be back on the platform before 11 and mado his way out of the station. "Tho moment for which I had waited so long had at last come. I had my enemies within my power. Together they could protect each other, but singly they were at my mercy. I did not act, however, with unduo precipitation. My plans were already formed. There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him. I had my plans arranged by which I should have the opportunity of making the man who had wronged mo understand that his old sin had found him out. It chanced that some days before a gentleman who had been engaged in looking over some houses in the Brixton road had dropped the key of one of them in my carriage. It was claimed that same evening and returned, but in the interval I had taken a molding of it and had a duplicate constructed. By means of this I had aocess to at least one spot in this great city where I could rely upon being free from interruption. How to get Drebber to that houso was the difficult problom which I had now to solve. "Ho walked down the road and went into ono or two liquor shops, staying for nearly half an hour in the last of them. When he came out, he staggered in his walk and was evidently pretty well on. There was a hansom just in front of me, and he hailed it. I followed it so close that the nose of my horse was within a yard of his driver the whole way. We rattled across Waterloo bridgo and through miles of streets, until, to my astonishment, we found ourselves back in tho terrace in which he had boarded. I could not imagino what his intention was in returning there, but I went on and pulled up my cab a hundred yards or so from the house. He entered it, and his hansom drove away. Give me a glass of water, if you please. My mouth gets dry with tho talking."

I handed him the glass, and ho drank it down. "That's better," he said. "Well, I waited for a quarter of an hour or more, when suddenly thero came a noiso liko people struggling inside tho house. Next moment the door was flung open, and two men appeared, ono of whom was Drebber, and the other was a yjpung chap whom I had never seen before. This fellow had Drebber by the collar, and when they came to the head of the steps ho gave him a shove and a kick which sent him half across tho road. 'You hound!' he cried, shaking his stick at him. 'I'll teach you to insult an honest girl!' He was so hot that I think he would have thrashed Drebber with his cudgel, only that tho cur staggered away down the road as fast as his legs would carry him. He ran as far as tho corner, and then, seeing my cab, ho hailed mo and jumped in. 'Drive mo to Halliday's Private hotel, said he. "When I had him fairly inside my cab, my heart jumped so with joy that I feared lest at this last moment my aneurism might go wrong. I drove along slowly, weighing in my own mind what it was best to do. I might tako him right out into the country, and there in some deserted lane havo my last interview with him. I had almost decided upon this when he solved tho problom for uifl. The craze for drink had seized him again, and ho ordered me to pull up outside a gin palace. He went in, leaving word that I should wait for him. There he remained until closing time, and when ho came out ho was so far gone that I know the gamo was in my own hands. "Don't imagino that I intended to kill him in cold blood. It would only have boon rigid justico if I had dono so, but I could not bring myself to do it. I had long determined that he should have a show for his life if he choso to take advantage of it. Among the many billets which I have filled in America during my wandering life, I was once a janitor and sweeper out of tho laboratory at York colloge. One day the professor was lecturing on poisons, and he showed his students some alkaloid^ as he

called it, which he had extracted from some South American arrow poison, and which was so powerful that the least grain meant instant death. I spotted the bottle iu which this preparation was kep| and when they were all gone I hel[%d myself to a little of it. I was a fairly good dispenser, so I worked this alkaloid into small, soluble pills, and each pill I put in a box with a similar pill made without poison. I determined at the time that when I had my chance my gentlemen should each have a draw out of one of those boxes, while I ate tho pill that remained. It would be

quite as deadly and a good deal less noisy than firing across a handkerchief. From that day I had always my pill boxes about with me, and the time had new come when I was to use them. "It was nearer 1 than 12, and a wild, bleak night, blowing hard and raining in torrents. Dismal as it was outside, I was glad within—so glad that I could havo shouted out from pure exultation. If any of you gentlemen have ever pined for a thing and longed for it during 20 long years and then suddenly found it within your reach, you would understand my feelings. I lit a cigar and puffed at it to steady my nerves, but my hands were trembling and my temples throbbing with excitement. As I drove, I could soo old John Ferrier and sweet Lucy looking at me out of the darkness and smiling at me just as plain as I see you all in this room. All the way'they were ahead of nie, one on each side of the horse, until I pulled up at the house in the Brixton road. "There was not a soul to be seen, nor a sound to bo heard, except tho dripping of the rain. When I looked in at tho window, I found Drebber all huddled together in a drunken sleep. I shook him by the arm, 'It's time to go out,' I said. 'All right, cabby,' said he. "I suppose ho thought we had come to the hotel that ho had mentioned, for he got out without another word and followed mo down tho garden. I had to walk besido him to keep him steady, for he was still a little top heavy. When wo came to the door, I opened it and led him into tho front room. I give you my word that, all the way, the father and daughter were walking in front of us. 'It's infernally dark,' said he stamping about. 'We'll soon have a light,' I said, striking a match and putting it to a wax candle which I had brought with me. 'Now, Enoch Drebber,' I continued, turning to him and holding the light to my own face, 'who am I?' 'He gazed at me with bleared, drunken eyes for a moment, and then I saw a horror Bpring up in them and convulse his whole features, which showed mo that he knew me. He staggered back with a livid face, and I saw the perspiration break out upon his brow, whil« his teeth chattered. At the sight I leaned my back against the door and laughed loud and long. I had always known that vengeance would be sweet, but had never hoped for the contentment of soul which now possessed me, 'You dog!' I said. "I have hunted you from Salt Lake City to St. Petersburg, and you have always escaped me. Now at last your wanderings have come to an end, for either you or I shall never see tomorrow's sun rise.' He shrank still farther away as I spoke, and I could see on his face that he thought I was mad. So I was for the time. Tho pulses in my temples beat like sledge hammers, and I believe I would have had a fit of some sort if the blood had not gushed from my nose and relieved me. 'What do you think of Lucy Ferrier now?' I cried, locking the door and shaking the key in his face. 'Punishment has been slow in coming, but it has overtaken you at last.' I saw his coward lips tremble as I 6poke. He would have begged for his life, but he knew well that it was useless. 'Would you murder me?' he stammered. '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 slaughtered father and bore her away to you accursed and shameless harem?' 'It was not I who killed her father!' ho cried. 'But it was you who broke her innocent heart!' I shrieked, thrusting tho box before him. 'Let the high God judge botween us. Choose and cat. Thero is death in one and life in tho other. I shall tako what you leave. Let us see if there is justice upon the earth or if wo are ruled by chance.' "Ho cowered away with wild cries and prayers for mercy, but I drew my knife and held it to his throat until he had obeyed mo. Then I swallowed the other, and wo stood facing one another in silence for a minuto 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 poison 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 hoarsocry, fell heavily upon tho floor. I turned him over with my foot and placed my hand upon his heart. There was no movement. He was dead! "Tho blood had been streaming from my noso, but I had taken no notice of it. I don't know what it was that put it into my head to write upon the wall with it. Perhaps it was some mischievous idea of setting the police upon a wrong track, for I felt light hearted and cheerful. I remembered a German being found in New York with 'Racho' written up abovo him, and it was argued at the timo in the newspapers that tho secret societies must havo done it. I guessed that what puzzled the New Yorkers would puzzle the Londoners, so I dipped my finger in my own blood and printed it on a convenient place on the wall. Then I walked down to my cab and found that there was nobody about, and that tho night \vas still very wild. I had

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driven somo distance when put my hand into tho pocket in which I usualiy kept Lucy's ring and found that it was not there. I was thunderstruck at this, for it was the only memento thn£ I had of her. Thinking that I might have dropped it when I stooped over Drebber'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. When I arrived there, I walked right into the arms of a police officer who was coming out and Dnly managed to disarm his suspicions by pretending to be hopelessly drunk.

(To be continued

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