The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-01-23
CHAPTER x.


Early the next morning, even before
he had breakfasted. Doiison sought the
old detective at his room
''Have you found your glovemaker??'
asked Cathcart us he entered.
IL have something much better" re-
piled Dorison. THE man with tho
thumb"
You are expeditions" said the old
man, SO coolly as to dampen the artlor of
the younger one. who rather anticipated
an outburst Of surprise and excitement.
''It WAS purely by accident" he said.
well. tell me the story, and begin at
the beginning"
Thus adjured, his enthusiasm repressed
by the total lack of it in the other, Dori
son began with his entrance into the
theater. emitting no detail.
When he had finished, Cathcart shook
his head obviously.
"What is wrongw anxiously queried
Dorison. "Do You think erred in per
hitting the young fellow to get away
without learning his name?'
mo: that can be easily obtained. But
distrust the conclusions of your infor
nation"
Dorison was puzzled and said so.
81 mean this" said the old detective
"Not only did you find hand which
answers perfectly to the one want. but
son found an exact mate to the glove
which you examined yesterday morning
You have found too much. If you had
found the hand without the glove. or the
glove without the hand, would feel bet
ter satisfied. You have found so much
It the first blush, which being establish
ed would almost justify immediate ar
rest, it shakes my confidence. | am
afraid your imagination ran away with
YOU"
mot in this instance" said Dorison
highly displeased and disposed to resent
meut. "There could possibly be no mis-
take"
my sensation is one Of disappoint-
ment. and give great heed to my sens,.-
tons. Perhaps you may be entirely
right. But let me present u considera-
ton to you. You do not doubt that the
man who lost the glove failed to discover
his loss. do your"
mo"
''Then having done 80. recollecting
where he removed it, and havin. COM
mitted the murders, don't you think he
would be worried over the loss and
would fear that by it he had given a
clew to q search for himself"
''Very probably"
do you think man SO worried
would don an identically similar pair
and 10 into 30 conspicuous place ~ u
theatey:"
"Well. what do you argue then?"
Either that you have been grossly
mistaken, or that the man with the
thumb is not the man wanted"
"You are discouraying
81 do not mean to be so: we must DO
cautious in 50 important matter us al
arrest"
"You must see the man yourself then
replied Dorison, much nettletl II can
do no more than tell you have found
man whose right hand corresponds pre-
cisely in every particular. even to the
peculiar prominence of the second
knuckle, to the hand you want. and
who wears glove precisely similar to
the one saw yesterday morning Now"
continued Dorison, growing more ear
nest. ''when examined that glove paid
less attention to the form of the hand It
indicated than to the make, kind and
color Of the glove-particularly the
color. accepted your description Of
the hand as true. On seeing it saw it
was one of the kind man Of fashion
would wear in the evening""
''Ah!" cried Cathcart. interested
Follow up that point. Tell NE what
you mean"
1.-The man who wore it was in full
dress. Fashions laws are inexorahle
II nrasent it nrescribes lust that lind