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0 ft A STUDY IN SCARLET. Fy Sir A. Conan Poylr. Chapter Xll 1. he found evil Udlnft evaltlnf him. There had been a schism among the <" trou People a few months before, so of the younger members of the <•: ji h having rebelled against the Mttlit dty of the elders, and the result v 'ja ;joj oj pottnu'Biu paq jeqqajQ ;• li | <}jod.*j jouiny enoil paq Caqj a Mdinf ouo on paa uosjaRuv^g uia had been the seeeH.ron of a certain nirnber of tho malcontentH, who had left Wtah find become (lentlles. Among thee*' had been Drebber and “Married yenterdav—that’s what those flags are for on the Endowment House. There was some words be tween young Drebber and young Stangerson as to which was to have her. They'd both been in the party that, followed them, and Htangerson had shot her father, which seemel to give him the best claim; but when they argued it out In council Dreb- her’s party was the stronger, so the ] “ophet tr:• ve her over to him. No one won't have her very long, though, 1 r I -aw (bath in her face yesterday f :>• j- mere Mke a ehost than a w >- t t \re von of. then’" *V« - I'm e'f " sab! Je T erS'in Ifop*. v he le t ri'-i <> from 1,i seat f . j. It!' m .mi ! 1 o ;l • ' ni lrt/tc. > turd and so s-d . - ' ■ n. v. !-,!•• ! , e;.... 1 g > >■ <1 with a iiaiei ul iiKht. “Where are you going'’'' “Never mini,'' he answered; and, slinging his weapon on hts shotil ter. strode off down tho gorge and so sway into the heart of the mountains to the haunts of tiie wild boa*?* Among 'hem all there was none • > flsrre snd so dangerous as himself Tho prediction of the Mormon was osly too » el 1 fulfilled W tie? her I'j i was the terrlbls dra’h of h> r fs?her m th« offsets of the ha’eful msrrlsgi' ( Into which ahe ha! tH.en forced, ;*>or \.%rj ne>er he'd up her teat again j Sat plnet away an 1 J ed w!’h n a tnoBlh Her antt.ah hushant > had married her principally for (hr •aka of John t errier a pr<>;>a*»y ? 1 BOt Bffee* anv feat C r ?e' *• fit re<B*ea>«nt hut tlt« t'r' srw B. o u r n ed over her ant aa' up • * h k*W he C f . t ha' r e ’.he t irta aa « tka M‘'rm 'tj r*s*oro Ther »efr. •rostp*.} found Ih* bier n the ear 1 turar* of (ha a. - > r B : B g ah an to t *i *■ r laaa P ’ ••• b a 'ear as! aa? ■ r ’ a ' tr r • • tka * as * .B| epe aa 1 a an a4• Ic'k'Bg aaa'her ^ea'an n as 'r tat'are*! aarmee?* a'frje rwom u? a t ar a er a »>>• to tka rw.aerlag %o3-ee be • a be* j* is tka • h!' a s’ae; I flg j fa » ‘•vb fc*? OS cm roa(a oad (I'a pu'a »>«! ef I n • f I'Wrlef H(o«.p!a g »«f bar ha praaa •4 his Mpa faveran? f her c. .} f^rwhaal ao ! i.'.ao ana I rg up * ef kBS J S a ? r>.. i the • a d! c ( ' S g ' »■ > X ker Sr. gaf ""•ha #^. a! a • ‘u» birind n '‘a 1 ka rrla J •" h a ferr # sear' an? f<w« aa a a-m fou.d t-o ral*ad aprarg 4awr. 1 ha stairs ant • aa g re s •trae f e *1,} e' v as " • e a ’e tka’ t*a w a' befa r g*' ha»e • , - • of s> fora boob rlrramstancws pr*T*nt- onar aald. slowly "I wsnt to t»U rd kls iBBTiAf t hs oUasw for B«*rly yos ger 11 am an stl about it " fl?*. At tb* rnd of tbst ttms. how- "Hadn't you botter rrsorr* thst for •▼rr, bis m«aory of bis wrosgs snd your trial aaksd tkr Inapartor bis cravings for rrvongB wars quits "I may nrvar bs trird,'' hr snawrr- as koon as on that mrmorable night od. “You nooda't look startled. It whrn bs had stood by John Frrrier's isn't sulclds I am thinking of. Are grsve. Disguised, and undsr an as- you s doctor?’* turned name, bs returned to Salt He turned his tsree. dark eyes I^ake City, careless wbst became of upon me as be asked this last ques- bls own life as long as he obtained tlon. There what he knew to be justice large part of his property Into money, snd that he had departed a wealthy man, while his companion, Stanger- son, wan comparatively poor. There was no clew at all, however aa to their whereabouts. Many a man, however vindictive, would have abandoned all thought of revenge In the face of such a diffi culty, but Jefferson Hope never fal tered for a moment. With tho small competence he possessed, eked out by such employment a* he could pick up, he traveled from town to town thru the i’nlted States in quest oi his ene mies. Year passed into year, his black hair turned to grizzled, but still he wandered on. a human blood hound, with his mind wholly set up on tho one object to which he had devoted his life. At last his perse- vt ranee was rewarded. It was but a g'ance of a faro in a window, but that cue glance told him that Cleveland, in Ohio, possessed the men whom lie was In pursuit of. He returned to his miserable lodgings with his plan «»f v< ?;geance all arranged. I? chanc ed. howewr, that Drebber, looking ’'?-" n his w indow, had recognized the W'g'.,... ; n 1 1,,, s’r'-ft and had real *i■ ,mi'■ r in liis oy< s He hurried be fore a Jucticp of the peace, accom panied by Stangerson. who had ! o- corne bis pr;\a?o secretary, and rep resented to Mm that they were in danger of their lives from the Jeal- ou*v and ba'-< 1 of an old rival That e?. nlng Jefferson Hope w.is taken Into custody, and. not bo‘nr a* !e to ’’n 1 sure' <•* » a « de'a'ne,) for seme week* When »t las? he s as M hers ted it waa onlv to fin! tha* Drebber * house * xs <1 eaert**d, and thst tie and his •c're'ary had depart rd 'er Europe ».-••• wan 1 g »»r “Yes, I am." I an*wered. “Then put your hand here,” he aaid, with a amlle, motioning with his manacled wrlata toward his chest. I did *0, and btcame at once con scious of an extraordinary throbbing and commotion which was going on inside. The walls of his chest seem ed 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 have aortic aneurism! ” “That’s what they call it,” he said, placidly. “I went to a doctor last week about It, and he told me that it was hound to burst before many days passed. It has been getting worse for years. I got it from over-expo sure and underfeeding among the Salt Take mountains. I’ve clone my work now, and I don’t care how soon I go, but I should like to leave some aceount of the business behind me T don’t want to be remembered as a common cut throat.” Tile inspector ami the two de'ec- thes had a hurried discussion as to the advisability of allowing him to (Hi tils c tory, "I)o vou ron>-i ! all that t o « v the* Bovjid bho■ t Ixiadon I * •• aiaa)* at :heir h*< 1* Sometime* | followBd thBOi on my cah. and ao:r*t!ii>«*« on foot, hut the former was the be«t. for thea they could not get away from me It w aa only early In tb« morning or late at nlgkt that I could earn anything, bo that I begat to get behindhand with my employer. I did not mind that, however, aa long a* I could lay my baad upon the men I wanted.’’ “They were very canning, though. They mu*t have thought that there was Home chance of thetr being fol lowed, for they would go out alone, and never after nightfall. Dur Ing the two weeka I drove behind them every day, and never once aaw them separate. Drebber himself was drunk half the time, but Stangerson was not to be caught napping. I watched them late and early, but never saw the ghost of a chance; but I was not discouraged, for aomething told me that the hour had almost come. My only fear was that this thing in my chest might burst a little too soon and leave my work undone. “At last, one evening, I was driv ing up and down Torquay Terrace, as the street was called in which they boarded, when I saw a cab drive up to their door. Presently some lug gage was brought out, and after a time Drebber and Stangerson follow ed it and drove off. I whipped up my horse and kept within sight of them, feeling ill at ease, for I feare 1 | that they were going to shift their quarters. At Knston Station they got out, and I left a hov to hold m* horse and followed them on to the I platform I heard them ask for the! rak. h# halted b>b ead Jam pad la [ T>rl*« m» to HaiII4ay t PrtvBta Hotel, aaid ha “Whea 1 had him fairly tnalda my cab my heart Jumied ao with joy that I feared icat at thla laat moment my aneurism might go wrong. I drove • lonf slowly, weighing la my own mind what It was beat to do I might Lake him right out Into the country, and there In some deeerted lane have my l.iat Interview with him. I had almost decided upon this, when he •alved the problem for me. The craze for drink had seized kim 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 remalnejl until closing time, and when he came out he was so far gone that I knew the game was in my own hands. “Don’t Imagine that I Intended to kill him in cold blood. It would only have been rigid justice If I had done 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 chose to take advantage of it. Among tho many billets which I have filled in America during my wandering life, I was once a janitor and sweeper-out of the laboratory at York College. One day the professor was lecturing on poisons, and he showed his stu dents some alkaloid, as he called it, which he had extracted from some South American arrow poison, and which was so powerful that the least (train meant instant death. I spotted the hottle in which this preparation was kept, and when they were all gone I helnod myself to a little of it thorn \ .1!] irn medial* it mor a>k*‘l. ■ M-.-t cTtaniy - ! ' In that ra'o it u in I'm |n>.<■,«•« o' )*’ i' ••tnen ? '' •■aid t h * ar« at 1 b-rty »;r to giro count » * I' h ! again 'Arirn ho ’ikcfi I an" I o!t !< » n vk ' 1 V.. • r,. r »4 t *, ' . » r d TV 4 a no •'«■ tnak'-a n - t r«*.! at | » ' »1 !..•»' an t.nu r ar i ! t »•?<• r« I m ■ ‘ • 1 «- * • a i o • • ! ! a ' M • DDerpon! frtiln. red ? , 'f' guard an- or. dnrt, r t'm? a v\ eroq that one ha 1 just gone. and larger'’" th** for- there would not be a no’ h ■ r for some h-'ur* S*angers*.n (*••< •".<> 1 to be pv thoro is. ’ I an (■lit v »'| 11 but Dr* 11 ber was rather p'- n 1 'Mm <•?*■. rvx!s»> I got SO r 1 • ■ a r 1 v n ir du f v. ' ! ■.■•(■ to th. :u In '.he bu *?:*■* that ! 1 o oV<* hli (■Ml Mar * v - v u or 1 ' 1 l’ p l« J * 1 toot dart lag skaa gad kar from k«r alaugbtwrad fifthdr aad borB bar away ta your aoctra* and shaaatoM haramV “ *lt waa not I who ktll»d bar fath er.’ ha crlad “ Hut It was yoa who broka innocent heart.’ I shrieked. thrBfll the box before him. I^et tba hi God judge betwaen us. Choojs auc eat. There Is death In one a|d life In the other. I shall take whbt you leave. Let us see If 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 hla throat uAtll he had obeyed me. Then I swallow ed the other, and we stood facing each other In alienee for a minute dr more, waiting to see which waa to live and which was ta 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 ^ saw it, and held Lucy’s marriage ring in front of his eyes. It was but fofi a moment, for the action of the alkaloid is rapid. A spasm of pain contorted his fea tures; he threw his hands out In front of him, staggered, and then, with a hoarse cry, fell heavily upon the floor. I turned him oyer with my foot and placed my hand upon his heart. There was no movement. He was dead! “The blood had been streaming from my nose, but I had taken no no tice of it. I don’t know what it wss that put it into my head to write upon tho wall with it Perhaps it t ' !' » a I V ns a fair! - .’ good dis penser, so I was some miscievous idea of setting wor k 1 t his a'ka’oid intt small, solu- the police upon a wrong tra-’k, for I Me Pil Is. and '■ a h pill I put in a box felt light-hearted and cheer ful 1 ro- W 1 ’ 1 i n : i 1 a r p ’ 11 xx i t b o ut poison I membered a German being fonn 1 in det* ru iin • d at the time that, when I New York with ‘Rache’ wri tten upon 1 ad n. \ i hum •• , my gen'! emen should above him. and it was arg' el at tho * v 11 ru e a di aw out of one of !hese time in the newspapers tha t the geg-J bo. ■ *, \N Mb* I eat the ; ill that re- r*t »oc]et!«* must have done it. 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Then they adopted the precaution of never go ing out alone or after nightfall, and of having their houses guarded. Af ter a time they were able to relax these measures, for nothing was elth- bt heard or seen of their opponent, and they hoped that time had cooled hi* vlndlctlvenegs. Far from doing so, it had, if any thing, augmented it. The hunter's mind was of a hard unyielding' na ture, and the predominant Idea of rovenge had taken such complete pos- aeaalon of it that there was no room for any other emotion. He was, how ever, above all things practical. He Boon realized that even his iron con stitution could not stand the inces sant strain which he was putting up on It. Exposure and want of whole some food were wearing him out. If be died like a dog among tho moun- tAins, what was to become of his re venge then? And yet such a death wm aure to overtake him If he per sisted. He felt that that was to play hla enemy’s game, so he reluctantly retained to the old Nevada mines, there to recruit his health and to tmam money enongh to allow him to ••me hla object without privation. •' Jgli Intention had been to be absent VfMT the most but a combination man nn! bin li.irk, sun'oitm-! far*' boro nn '■xpm*«lon of <l('ft'r?ninii ,l on and rrmrgv which was as formidable as his personal strength. “If there's a vacant place for a chief of the police, I reckon you are tho man for it." ho said, gazing with undisguised admiration at my fellow- lodeor. “Tho way you kopt on my trail was a caution." “You had bottor oomo with me.” said Holmos to tho two detectives. “I can drive you,” said Lestrado. “Good! and Gregson can come in side with me. You too, doctor; you have taken an Interest in the case, and may as well stick to us.” I assented gladly, and we all de scended together. Our prisoner made ^.o attempt at escape, but step- ped calmly into the cab which had been his, and we followed him. Les- trado mounted the box, whipped up the horse, and brought us in a very short time to our destination. We were ushered into a small chamber, where a police inspector noted down our prisoner’s name and the names of the men with whoso murder he had been charged. The official was a white fared, unemotional man, who went through his duties in a dull, mechanical way. “The prisoner will be put before the magistrates In the course of the week,” he said. "In the meantime, Mr. Jefferson Hope, have you anything that you wish to say? I must warn you that your words will b« taken down and may be used against yon." “I’ve a good deal to My," our pria- as Is likely enough, I die knowing that my work in tills world Is done, and well done They have perished, and by my hand. There is nothing left for me to hope for or to desire. “They were rich and I was poor, so that it was no easy matter for pie to follow them. When I got to London my pocket was about empty, and I found that I must turn my hand to something for my living. Driving and riding are as natural to me as walking, so I applied at a cab-owner’s office and soon got employment. I was to bring a certain sum a week to the owner, and whatever was over that I might keep for myself. There was seldom much over, but I manag ed to scrape along somehow. The hardest job was to learn my way about, for I reckon that of all the mazes that were ever contrived, this city is the most confusing. I had a map beside me. though, and when once I had spotted the principal ho tels and stations I got on pretty well. “It was some time before I found out where my two gentlemen were living; but I inquired and Inquired until at last I dropped across them. They were at a boarding house at Camberwell, over on the other side of the river. When once I found them out I knew that I had them at my mercy. I had grown my heard, and there was no chance of their recog nizing me. I would dog them and follow them until I aaw my oppor tunity. I waa determined that they tbonld not eeeepe me afain. "They war* vary near doing It, far ’* a* Lou*" w.n the difficult problem u M' h I now ha 1 to solve ' !!“ walked flown the road and went Into one or two liquor Minim, -tayir for nearly half an hour in the last of ’hem When he came out he staggered In his walk, and was evi dently pretty well on There was a hansom ’ust 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 Dridge and through miles of streets, until,.to my astonishment, we found ourselves bark in the terrace In which he had boarded. I could not imagine 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 the talking.” I handed him the glass, and he drank It down. “That’s better." he said. “Well, I waited for a quarter of an hour or more, when suddenly there came a noise like people struggling Inside the house. Next moment the door was fljjnj^qjien and two men appear ed. one/of whom was Drebber and the othci* was a yming chap whim I had never seen before. Thte fellow had Drebber by the collar, and when they came to the head of the steps he gave him a shove and a kick which sent him half across the road. ’You hound" he cried, shaking his stick at him. Til teach you to insult an hon est girl" He was so hot that I think he would have thra*hed Drebber with hi* cudgel only that the car dagger ed away down the road aa faat aa hla legi would cAiry him. Ha ran as fax as th# comer, aad than, —sing my " 1 «’n’\ • g I '• 'A - I! I stnklnv a nnt< h and putting !t j w ax I in 1 !*» v* h:i h I hail brought ^ me ‘Now. limn h Drebber.' 1 tinned, turning to him and j | 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 spring up In them and convulse his whole features, which showed me that he knew me. He staggered back with a livid face, and I saw the perspiration break out up on his brow, while his teeth chatter ed. 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. Peters burg, and you have always escaped me. Now at last your wanderings have come to an end, for either you or I shall never see to-morrow’s sun rise.’ He shrunk still further away as I spoke, and I could see on his fare that he thought I was mad. So I was, for the time. The pulses In my temples beat like sledgehammers, 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 Fer- rler now?’ I cried, locking the door and shaking the key in his face. ‘Pun ishment has been slow In coming, but it has overtaken you at last.* I saw his coward lips tremble as I spoke. He would have begged for his life, but he knew well that It was useless. '* ’Would yon murder me?* he stammered. ** ’There 1* no mnrder,’ I answer ed. 'Who talks ef murdering * mad dog? WluU mercy had yon n v Into ki* room in tba <( !*•• lawn I »ok«* h'm up. i]>] bin] tba? th» hour toi l • omo he wa» to anawr for th*> 'v long before 1 <*, ‘ d.-at h av? t !.*» n.i mo i ho; • of the JnxtcaJ of graaping o of saVt\ who h tbat of- h»* sprang from his bed my throat In *•.•!f de- • d him tot lit' lo'.i rt 11 boon tho samo In any ho had tak*-n ao r be ! Dr* ! I g a v »> him poisoned at tho chanr f'-rod him. and flow at ft-neo I stall would havo caso, for Providence would never have allowed his guilty hand to pick out anything but the poison. “I have little more to say, and it’s as well, for I am about done ,up. I wont on cabbing it for a day or so, In tending to keep at it until I could save enough to take me back to A.merica. I was standing In the yard when a ragged youngster asked if there was a cabby there called Jeffer son Hope, and said that his cab was wanted by a gentleman at 2 2 21 B Baker Street. I went round, suspect ing no harm, and the next thing I knew this young man here had the bracelets on my wrists, and as neatly shackled as ever I was in my life. That’s the whole of my story, gentle men. You may consider me to be 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 was so im pressive, that we had sat silent and absorbed. Even the professional de tectives, blase as they were in every detail of crime, appeared to be keen ly Interested In the man’s story. When he finished we sat for some minutes In a stillness which was only broken by 5 the scratching of L^ trade’s pencil as he gave the flnishir touches 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 mho came for the ring which I advertised?” The prisoner winked at my friend Jocoeely. . (To be continued.)