The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 28, 1913, Image 3
A STUDY
IN SCARLET
By Sir A. Con an lk>yle.
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CHAI'TKK VII.
Light in til? Darkness.
The intelligence with which Lestrade
greeted us was so momentous
and so unexpected that we were all
three fairly dumfounded. Gregson
sprang out of his chair and upset the
remainder of his whiskey and water.
I started in silence at Sherlock
Holmes, whose lips were compressed
and his brows drawn clown over his
eyes.
"Stangerson, tool" he muttered.
"The plot thickens!"
"It was quite thick enough before,"
grumbled Lestrade, taking a
chair. "I seem to have dropped into
a sort of council of war."
"Are you?are you sure of this
piece of intelligence?" stammered
Gregson.
"I have just come from his room,"
said Lestrade. "I was the first to discover
what had occurred."
"We have been hearing Gregson's
win f 4 ^ " 11 M
ui (.utj iuaiier, iioimcs observed.
"Would you mind letting us
know what you have seen and done?"
"I have 110 objection." Lestrade answered,
seating himself. "I freely
confess that I was of the opinion that
StangerBon was concerned in the
death of Drehher. This fresh development
hns shown me that I was completely
mistaken. Full of the one
idea, I set myself to find out what
had .become of the secretary. They
had been seen together at Euston
Station about half-past eight 011 the
evening of the third. At two in the
morning Drehher had been found in
the Brixton Road. The question
which confronted me was to find out
how Stangerson had been employed
between S:fiO and the time of the
crime, and what had become of him
afterward. 1 telegraphed to Diverpool,
giving a description of the man,
and warning them to keep a watch
upon the American boats. I then set
to work calling upon all the hotels
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Euston. You see, I argued that it
Drebber and his companion had become
separated, the natural course
for the latter would be to put up
somewhere in the vicinity for the
night, and then to hang about the
station again next morning."
"They would be likely to agree on
some meeting-place beforehand," remarked
Holmes.
"So it proved. T spent the whole
of yesterday evening in making inquiries,
entirely without avail. This
morning I began very early, and at
eight o'clock I reached Halliday's Private
Hotel, in T.ittle (leorge Street.
On my inquiry as to whether a Mr.
Stangerson was living there, they at
once answered me in the affirmative.
" 'No doubt you are the gentleman
he was expecting,' they said. 'He has
been waitinsr for n centlpmn.n for two
days.'
" 'Where is he now?' I asked.
" 'He is upstairs in bed. lie wished
to be called at nine.'
"It seemed to me that my sudden
appearance might shako his nerves
and lead him to say something unguarded.
The Hoots volunteered to
show me the room; it was on the second
floor, and there was a small corridor
leading up to it. Tho Hoots
pointed out the door to me, and was
about to go downstairs again, when I
saw something that made me feel
sickish, in spite of my twenty years'
experience. From under the door
there curled a little red ribbon of
blood, which had meandered across
tho passage and formed a little pool
along the skirting at tho other side.
I gavo a cry, which brought the Hoots
back. He nearly fainted when ho
saw it. The door was locked on the
inside, but we put out shoulders to it
and knocked it in. The window of
the room was open, and beside the
window, all huddled up, lay the body
of a man in his night-dress. He was
quite dead, and had been for some
time, for his limbs were rigid and
cold. When we turned him over the
Hoots recognized him at once as being
the same geiftleman who had engaged
the room under the name of
Joseph Stangerson. The cause ol
death was a deep stab in the left side
which must have penetrated the
heart. And now comes the strangest
n v f r\f h a n ff e i r \.\7 h q t rl a vrm ann.
I / < I I I- U I *11^7 CI II (1 I I I T T i I U L V*V7 J V VI n VI p
pose was above the murdered man?'
I felt a creeping of flesh, and s
presentiment of coming horror, ever
before Sherlock Holmes answered:
"The word 'Radio', written in let
tors of blood," he said.
"That was it," said Lestrade, in ar
awe-struck voice; and we were al
silent for a while.
There was something so methodi
cal and so incomprehensible abou
the deeds of this unknown assassin
that it imparted a fresh ghastliness t<
his crimes. My nerves, which wer<
steady enough on the field of battle
tingled as I thought of it.
"The man was seen," continue!
J,estrade. "A milk-boy, passing 01
^ his way to the dairy, happened t<
walk down the lane which leads fron
the mews at the back of the hotel
He noticed that a ladder, which us
ually lay there was raised against on
of the windows of the second floor
N, which was wide open. After passing
he looked back and saw a man de
scend the ladder. Ho came down s
luiotly and openly that the boy imagined
him to bo some carpenter or
joined at work in the hotel. He took
no particular notice of him, beyond
thinking in hie own mind that it was
early for him'to bo at work. Ho has
nn impression that the man was tall,
bad a reddish faco, and was dressed
In a long, browning coat. He must
have stayed in the room some little
time after the murder, for we found
blood-stained water in the basin,
where he had washed his hands, and
marks on the sheets where he had
deliberately wiped his knife."
I glanced at Holmes on hoaring the
description of the murderer, which
tallied so exactly with his own. There
was, however, no trace of exultation
or satisfaction upon his face.
"Did you find nothing in tlio room
which could furnish a clew to the
murderer?" he asked.
"Nothing. Stangerson had Drebber's
purse in his pocket, but it seems
that this was usual, as he did all the
paying. There were eighty-odd
pounds in it. but nothing had been
taken. Whatever the motives of
these extraordinary crimes, robbery
is certainly not one of them. There
wore no papers or memoranda in the
murdered man's pockets, except a
singlo telegram, dated from Cleveland
about a month ago, and containing
the words, 'J. 11. is in Europe.'
Tlmre was no name appended to this
message."
"And was there nothing else?"
Holmes asked.
"Nothing or any importance. The
man's novel, with which ho had read
himself to sleep, was lying upon the
bed, and his pipe was on a chair beside
him. There was a glass of
water on the table, and on the window-sill
a small chip ointment box
containing a couple of pills."
Sherlock Holmes sprang from his
chair with an exclamation of delight.
"The last link!" he cried, exultantly.
"My case is complete."
The two detectives stared at him
in amazement.
"I have now in my hands," my
companion said, confidently, "all tin.
threads which have formed such a
tangle. There are, of course, details
to bo filled in, but I am as certain of
all the main facts, from the time that
Drebber parted from Stangerson at
the station up to the discovery of the
body of the latter, as if I had seen
them with my own eyes. I will give
you a proof of my knowledge. Could
you lay your hand upon those pills?"
"I have them," said Lestrade, producing
a small white box; "I took
them and the purse and the telegram,
intending to have them put In a place
of safety at the police station. It
was the merest chance my taking
these pills, for I am bound to say
that I do not attach any importance
to them."
"Give me them here," said Holmes.
"Now, doctor, turning to me, "are
those ordinary pills?"
They certainly were not. They
were of a pearly gray color, small,
round, and almost transparent
against the light.
"From their lightness and transparency
T should imagine that they
are soluble in water," I remarked.
"Precisely so," answered Holmee
"Now, would you mind going down
and fetching that poor little devil of
a terrier which has been bad so long,
and which the landlady wanted you
to put out of its pain yesterday?"
I went downstairs and carried the
dog unstairs in my arms. Its labored
breathing and glazing eye showed
that it was not far from its end. Indeed,
its snow-white muzzle proclaimed
that it had already exceeded
tho usual term or canine existence.
1 placed it upon a cushion on the rug
"I will now cut one of these pills
in two," said Holces; and, drawing
his penknife, the suited the action tc
the word. "One half we return into
the box for future purposes. The
other half I will place in this wineglass,
in which is a teaspoonful ol
water. You perceive that our friend
the doctor, is right, that it readil>
dissolves."
"Ibis may be very interesting,
said Lestrade, in the Injured tone ol
one who suspects that he is being
i laughed at. "I can not see, however
' what it lias to do with the death o!
Mr. Joseph Stan person."
"'Patience, my friend, patience!
Yon will find in time that it lia:
everything to do with it. I shall nov
add a little milk to make the rnixtur*
P palatable, and on presenting it to th<
, dog we find that he laps it up readilj
i enough."
As ho spoke he turned tho con
tents of the wineglass into a sauce
and placed it In front of the terrier
t who speedily licked it dry. Slier
i lock Holmes' earnest demeanor hav
far convinced us that wo all sat ii
- silence, watching the animal intent
1 y, and expecting some startling ef
1 *fect. None appeared, however. Th
1 dog continued to lie upon the cush
ion, breathing in a labored way, bu
- apparently neither the better no
t worse for its draught.
, Holmes hart taken out his watch
:> and as minute followed minute with
3 out result, an expression of the ut
, most chagrin and disappointment ap
poared upon his features. He gnaw
1 ed his lip, drummed his fingers upo
i the tahle, and showed every othe
3 symptom of acute impatience. S
i great was his emotion that I felt sir
1. cerely sorry for him, whilo the tw
- detectives smiled derlvely, by n
e means displeased at his check whic
he had met.
"It can't ,bo a coincidence," h
i- cried at last, springing from his chal
o and pacing wildly up and down th
room; "It is impossible that it should f
be a moro coincidence. The very a
pills which I suspected in the case of <J
Drebber are actually found after the s
death of Stangerson. And yet they v
are inert. What can it mean? Sure- v
ly my wholo chain of reasoning can- t
not have been false! It is itnpos- e
sible! And yet tins wretched dog is d
none the worse. Ah, 1 have it! Ia
have it!" With a perfect shriek of i
delight he rushed to the box, cut thv.
other pill in two, dissolved it, added f
milk, and presented it to the terrier, s
The unfortunate creature's tongue
seemed hardly to have been moisten- 1
ed in it before it gave a convulsive j
shiver in every limb, and lay as rlgiu t
and lifeless as if it had been struck q
by lightning. t
Sherlock Holmes drew a long t
breath, and wiped the perspiration
from his forehead. r
"I should have moro faith," he t
said; "I ought to know by this time
that when a fact appears to be op- i
posed to a long train of deductions it ?
invariably proves to be capable of f
hearing some other interpretation.
Of the two pills in that box one was j
the most deadly poison and the other }
was entirely harmless. I ought to \
have known that before I ever saw \
the box at all." \
This last statement appeared to me ?
to be so startling that 1 could hardly (
believe that he was in his soher |
senses. There was the dead dog,
however, to prove that his conjee- ]
ture had been correct. It seemed to (
me that the mists in my own mind |
were gradually clearing away, and 1
began to have a dim, vague percep- ,
tion of the truth. (
"All this seems strange to you,"
continued Holmes, "because you failed
at the beginning of the inquiry to
grasp the importance of the single
real clew which was presented to you.
I had the cnnrl fr?rtnt?r> cui?n
nw w,. . w. v M l?\ I V? OV l/i\J ll|/V/ll
that, and everything which has occurred
since then lias served to con|
Arm my original supposition, and, indeed,
was the logical sequence of it.
Hence, things which have perplexed
you and made the case more obscure
have served to enlighten me and to
strengthen my conclusions. It is a
mistake to confound strangeness with
mystery. The most commonplace
crime is often the most mysterious,
because it presents no new or special
features from which deductions may
be drawn. This murder would have
been indefinitely more difficult to unravel
had the body of the victim
been simply found lying in the roadway
without any of those outre and
sensational accompaniments which
have rendered it remarkable. These
strange details, far from making the
case more difficult, have really had
the effect of making it less so."
Mr. (iregson, who had listened to
this address with considerable impatience,
could contain himself no
longer.
"Look here, Mr. Sherlock
Holmes," he said, "we are all ready
to acknowledge that you are a smart
man. and that you have your own
methods of working. We want something
more than mere theory and
preaching now, though. It is a case
of t akin if t h n mnn 1 lmvn mewl a mv
case out, and it seems I was wrong.
Young Charpentier could not have
been engaged in this second affair.
Lestrado went after this man, St.angerson,
and it appears that he was
wrong, too. You have thrown out
hints here and there, and seem to
know more than we do, but the time
lias come when we feel that we have
a right to ask you straight how much
you do know of the business. Can
you name the man who did it?"
"I can not help feeling that CJregson
is right, sir," remarked Lestrade.
i "We have both tried, and we have
both failed. You have remarked
> more than once since 1 have been in
i the room that yau have all the evi!
donee which you require. Surely you
will withhold it any longer."
"Any delay in arresting the as,
sassin," I observed, "might give him
r to perpetrate some fresh atrocity."
Thus pressed by us all Holmes
showed signs of irresolution, lie conf
tinned to walk up and down the room
r with his head sunk on his chest and
, his brows drawn down, as was his
f habit when lost in thought.
"There will be no more murders,'
! ho said, at last, stopping abruptly
3 and facing us. "You can put that
r consideration out of the question.
3 You have asked me if I know the
3 name of t lie assassin. I do The mere
r knowing of his name is a small thing
compared with the power of laying
- our hands upon him. Thjs I expect
r very shortly to do. I have good hopes
, of managing it through my own ar
rangements; but it is a thing which
,i needs dilicato handling1, for we have
11 a shrewd and desperate manto deal
- with,who is supported, as I had occaslon
to prove, by another who is as
e clever as himself. As Ion# as this
man has no Idea that anyone can have
t a clew, there js some chance of securr
of managing it through my own aring
him; but if he had the slighest
i? needs delicate handling, for we have
i- a shrewd and desperate man to death
> four million inhabitants of this great
city. Without meaning to hurt either
of your feelings, I am bound to say
n that if I consider these men to he
r more than a match for the official
0 force, and that is why I have not asked
your assistance. If I fail I shall
0 of course incur all the blame due to
? this omission; but that I am prepared
h for. At present I am ready to promise
that the instant I can communicate
e with you without endangering my
'r combinations I shall do so."
e Gregaon and Lestrade seemed to be
ar from satisfied by this assurance,
>r by the depreciating allusion to tlie
letective police. The former had fluhed
up to the roots of his flaxen hair
vbilo the other's beady eyes glistened
rith curiosity and resentment. Neiher
of them had time to speak, how.
ver. before there was a tap at tno
loor and tlie spokesman of the street
,rabs, young Wiggins, introduced his
nsignificiunt and unsavory person.
"Please, sir," he said, touching liis
orehead, "1 have the cab downtairs."
"Good boy," said Holmes, blandy.
"Why don't you Introduce this
>attern at Scotland Yard?" ho coninuod,
taking a pair of steel handuffs
from a drawer. "See how beauifully
the spring works. They fasen
in an instant."
"The old pattern is good enough,"
emarked Lestrade, "if we can lind
he man to put them on."
"Very good, very good," said
lolmes, smiling.. "The cabman may
is well help me with my boxes. Just
isk him to step \ip. Wiggins."
1 was surprised to find my oomlanion
speaking as though lie were
i,bout to set out on a journey, since
le had not said anything to mo about
t. There was a small portmanteau
11 the room, and this he pulled out
md began to strap. Ho was busily
engaged at it when the cabman entered
the room.
".hist give me a help with tills
bucfcle. cabman," he said, kneeling
aver his task, and never turning his
head.
The fellow came forward with a
somewhat sullen, d< f.ant air, and put
down bis Uo'ids to ruscb'. \t that
instant there was a sharp click, the
jitngnug 01 mown, una mhtiock
Holmes sprang to liis feet again.
"Gentlemen," he cried, with Hashing
eyes, "lot m<' introduce you to
Mr. Jefferson Hope, the murderer of
Fnoch Drehbor and of Joseph Stangerson."
' The whole thing occurred in a
moment?so quickly that I had no
time to realize it. 1 have a vivid
recollection of that instant, of
Holmes' triumphant expression and
the ring of his voice, of the cabman's
dazed, savage face, as he glared at
the glittering handcuffs, which had
appeared as if by magic upon his
wrists. For a second or two we
might have been a group of statues.
Then, with an inarticulate roar of
fury, tho prisoner wrenched himself
free from Holmes' grasp, and hurled
himself through the window. Woodword
and glass gave way before him,
but before he got quite through
Gregson, Lestrade, and Holmes
sprang upon him like so many staghounds.
Ho was dragged hack into
the room, and then commenced a terrific
conflict. So powerful and so
fierce was he that the four of us
ware shaken off again and again. He
appeared to have the convulsive
strength of a man in an epileptic fit.
His face and hands were terribly
mangled by the passage through the
glass, but loss of blood had no effect
in diminishing his resistance. It was
not. until Lestrade succeeded in getting
his hand inside his neckcloth
and half strangling him that we
made him realize that his struggles
wore of no avail; and even then we
felt no security until we had pinioned
his foot aa well as his hands.
That done we roso to our foot,
breathless and panting.
"We have his cab," sr^id Sherlock
Holmes. "It will serve to take him
to Scotland Yard. And now, gentlemen,"
he continued, with a pleasant
smile, "we have reached the end of
our little mystery. You are very welcome
to put any questions that you
like to me now, and there is no danger
that T will refuse to answer
them."
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STEAMRK WRECKED.
Ship "State of California" Strike?Alaskan
Rock.
The steamer "State of California"
of the Pacific Coast Company, is r
total loss in Gambler Hay, Stephen'?
I'assage, Alexander Archipelago, AI
a ska. Mrs. E. C. Ward, wife of th<
assistant manager of the company
and her daughter perished. The ves
sel was bound from Seattle for Skag
way.
Seven members of tlie crew als(
lost their lives. Miss Llllle B. Ward
(laughter of the assistant genera
manager, was alive when picked uj
on a raft, hut she died from exposure
The tragedy resulted from the ves
sol's striking an uncharted rock
Twenty-five passengers of the "Stati
of California" are dead, it is report
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Have Narrow Escape.
Thirty-five workmen, caught -14<
feet under ground in a section of th
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near Now York, wlion fire broko on
in tho shaft house overhead Thura
day night, woro found unharmed tw
hours later when tho fire was con
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Ten big battleships and all th
torpe 'o boat destroyers now attacli
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parting October 25 and returning t
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A rescue party hurried to
the scene, but on arriving there could
find no trace of the young men or of
Ti .1 ....
uicn imicnu, 11, WHS UlOUgni lIKIt
their bodies had been carried out to
sea by the powerful tide.
Money firing l'laced.
The Southern States were selectod
for the first deposits of the government
crop fund on account of tho
early movement of the cotton crop,
which has a^gpady begun. Tho first
(ieposits of the government's $f>0,ftfiA
--1 '
</i/v',vw iiuiu iu cini crop movements
will bo made I. tho Southern States
In August and September.
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ltiid Hrcaks Hword,
One thousand miles, from Abilene,
Tex. to Fort Wayne, Tnd., in 20 hours
20 minutes and six seconds, actual
flying time is tlie remarkable record
set by a homing pigeon, belonging to
O. Anderson, of Fort Wayne, Ind. The
second bird was ten hours behind tho
winner.
llad Many Operations.
George D. McDowell died in Baltlmoro
Thursday after undergoing 500
operations for a growth in his throat,
lie was a farmer of tho Boiling
Springs section of Spartanburg county.