The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-01
THs STORY PIEcED OUT,

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THE OLD MAN LEAPED TO HIS FEET ANr
THRUST HIS HANDS INTO HIS VEST POCKETS
Mr.. Eustace was evidently much aston
lsheo ana impressed by the positive tone Of
the old detective.
/ Why. What do you know"
me old man ignored the question, but
asked another:
Did you never hear nything more on the
subiectl'
YES. A year later. in letter 20 me a,
Paris, Dorison said that he did not know
he himself would be compelled to demand a
return of these securities, but [ never
heard more from him on the subject"
VI am inclined TO believe" said Cathcart,
after some moments of thought, THAT that
unfinished letter was intended to be ad-
dressed to you"
TO me. Can you mean itl'
"4 es, do; and the more | think of it the
more confident l am. See lie gave those
bonds in trust for person whom he pro-
tected by not handing them to her, but to
you. The necessity for her possession of
them did not arise during his life. If he
were to approach death, then he meant to
give the order to her, but he was carried
OH without moments warning. But that
is not my direction. He knew they were
in your hands, recoverable by him at any
time. He intimated in one letter to you
that he might be compelled to demand pos
session Of them himself. What is that letter
you have read but an explanation of the
reasons why he wanted them. Had he
been permitted to finish that letter he
would nave wound up with demand for
| their return and for further assistance
from you.'
''And he should have had it,n said Mr..
Eustace fervently. II owe everything TO
! him.
II see it clearly now. He had hypothe-
Gated all his securities. They were in
danger of lapsing. He wanted the pro
ceeds OF these bonds and your assistance to
redeem them. His real estate was mort
gagged to its full value; his other means
were exhausted and so, without the aid of
those bonds and your assistance, he could
not redeem the pledged securities By his
sudden death they did lapse into the hands
Of those who had advanced him money!
"But what did he do with all the money he
raised." asked MIR. Eustace, bewildered
and astonished.
"He tells you in that unfinished letter.
You ask mo how l know no demand will
ever be made upon you. l will tell, and in
so doing will piece out the tale you told me.
! First, there is no one to make the demand.
They are dead. The woman Mr. Dorison
married, only to ind she was not his wife,
was Mrs. Emma Parish, living at No. =
East Sixteenth street; the two children, of
which Mr.. Dorlson was tne father, were
a boy and a girl. The girls name was
Annie; the boys name believe to have
been Harrold-of that l am not quite GER
TAIN"
How long have you known this?,
asked Mr.. Eustace in open establishment.
''Since you told me your tale"
81 cannot comprehend"
Possibly not. l have been studying,
searching, delving, dreaming and working
on the case for TWO months, and have
only just comprehended it."
Then these bonds which Dorison in
tended for this woman, should, if ner ideu
tity be established, go to her gu
That is impossible"
"Why, indeed 2"
"She is dead; so is her daughter
'Ohw
"Haye you forgotten the Parish rnur.
der?"
"Great heavens! Are those the people
were they the victims of that horrible
butcnery gu
1.-THE same Now see how marvelously
the affairs of this life are adjusted. l am
employed by the young Dorison to endeayor
to explain the riddle of that letter, which
has covered him with disgrace. These
murders are committed, and am solicited
by the police authorities to hunt
the murderer or murderers down.
l have two cases On my hands as
widely separated, you would say, as they
could we'll be. take my first step. In the
room where the daughter is killed por-
trait Of MIR. Dorison and his seal ring are
found, and in one of the hands of the muir.
dered girl scrap Of paper torn from let
ter; another on the floor. They are both
in the handwriting Of the elder Dorison.
My first determination Is what2 Why,
have not two cases on my hand but ops-to
reveal the mystery of one is to reveal the
mystery OF the other. How shall you &C
count for these things. A man in west.
ern city sets me to work in New York in a
case concerning him alone, and coming
here with some reputation the police en-
ploy me on the murder, and 10 they are in
effect the same case"
'The ways OF Providence are past find
ing OUT" said MIR. Eustace solemnly,
aghast at the information forced upon him.
But where is the SOM" he asked, sudden
ly and eagerly.
II don't know" replied Cathoart. s.He
disappeared from his home when about
eighteen, and, l should say, mysteri-
ously.'
"Oh!" said Mr. Eustace, cast into pro-
found thought by the answer.
Il am quite certain said Cathcart,
that those murders had their origin in an
endeavor- Phew-
The old man leaped TO his fset with
long, low whistle, and thrusting his hands
into his vest pockets began treadng the
floor, saying to himself: Let me think
Let me think! Ho, ho! let me think Ho,
no let me lnink.''
Mr.. Eustace startled by the abruptness
OF Cethcart, began to ask him questions,
but the old detective waved him to silence
with an imperious gesture. Thus he con-
tinued to tramp for fully ten minutes.
Then he took mis- seat.
NOW listen" he said bending forward
earnestly. Inquiry has determine that
the murders were not committed for the
sake VI robbery. that is for the sake of
obtaining jewels and money, but in order
t. to obtain possession Of certain documents
1t Ia clear, apparently, that among those
desired documents were letters from
Dorison, since we have frag-
ments torn from them in
struggle which preceded the murder
OF the daughter. But this murder of the
daughter, from whom those letters were
wrested, did not yield what wes wanted,
and 30 the mother was killed and some
thing torn from her breast, where abe
had concealed it. What was desiredi The
order Of the bonds of one hundred and fifty
thousand in your hands, the existence OF
which the murderer had knowledge of, and
OF the way to obtain them2 And as Dori-
son talks Of defalcations and forgeries
committed by son, were evidences of
those forgeries, existence OF which were