The Red Cloud chief., 1894-02-23
CHAPTER VII.

fiji CONCLUSION
We had all been warned to appear
before the magistrates upon the Thurs.
day; but when the Thursday came
there was no occasion for our testi-
mony. A higher Judge had taken the
matter in hand, and jefferson Hope
had been summoned before q tribunal
where strict justice would be meted
out to him. On the very night after
his capture the aneurism burst, and he
was found in the morning stretched
upon the floor of the cell, with a placid
smile upon his face, as though he had
been able in his dying moments to
look back upon q useful life and on
work well done.
"Gregson and Lestrade will be wild
about his death" Holmes remarked, as
we chatted it over next evening.
"Where will their grand advertisement
be now?"
81 don't see that they had very much
to do with his capture" l answered.
what you do in this world is a mat
ter OF no consequence" returned my
companion, bitterly. 1.-THE question is,
what can you make people believe that
You have done? Never mind" he con-
tinued. more brightly, after a pause,'I
would not have missed the investiga-
ton Tor anything. There has been no
better case within my recollection.
Simple as it was, there were several
most instructive points about It,"
simpler l CALCULATED.
"Well, really, it can hardly be de-
scribed as otherwise said Sherlock
Holmes, smiling at my surprise. 1.-THE
proof Of its intrinsic simplicity is that
without any help, save q few very or
binary deductions, l was able to lay
my hand upon the criminal within
three days"
THAT is true" said I.
IL have already explained to you
that what is out Of the common is
usually q guide rather than a him
drance. In solving a problem of this
sort, the grand thing Is to be able to
reason backward. That Is a very use
full accomplishment and a very easy
one, but people do not practice IL
much. In the everyday affairs Of life
Il is more useful to reason forward,
and so the other comes to be neglected.
There are fifty who can reason syn
t~hetically for one who can reason an
alytically."
II confess" said I, "that I do not
quite follow YOU"
II hardly expected that you would.
Let me see If ! can make it clear. Most
people, II you describe a train of events
to them, will tell you what the result
would be. They can put those events
together in their minds, and argue
from them that something will come
to pass. There are few people, how
ever, who, IL you told them q result,
would be able TO evolve from their own
inner consciousness what the steps
We're which led up to that result. This
power is what ! mean when / talk of
reasoning backward, or an~alytically."
~ understand" said /.
"Now, this was q case in which you
were given the result and had to find
everything else for yourself. Now, let
me endeavor to show you the different
steps In my reasoning. To begin at
the beginning: approached the house,
as you know, on foot, and with my
mind entirely free from all impress
sions. j naturally began by examin-
ing the roadway, and there, as l have
already explained to you, | saw clearly
the marks of q cab, which, ! ascer-
tanned by inquiry, must have been
there during the night. 1 satisfied
myself that 1t was a cab and not a pri-
vate carriage by the narrow gauge Of
the wheels. The ordinary -LoY6ov