Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-13
A STUDY IN SCARLET.
By A. CONAN DOYLE.
CHAPTER VII.

uuG W AlN II t4tN N@t4LaG NAANIR' W SN no occasion for oUr ty.,:s V. A higher Judge l.: -;: t@c lu;:.l,-.. hand, and JefTcr>,l l.,!.c had ben r;.a.ro:. te- fore n tribunal here strict JGst!v,. N.. d be mCtud Int to ljm. On the vt2E lhE. ..t | after his capture the ;:l.>urlsm H;l r, and he was fcus:l ia the lu,rnjnG stretched upon the lluur uf the cell, with ,I placid smile upon his face, as though he had been able in his dying moments to look back upon 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:"
 II don't see that they had very much to do with hls capture. answered. What you do in this world is mat ter of no consequence, returned my What can you make people believe you have done: Never mind. he continued more brightly after pause, II would not have missed tho investigation for anything. There has been no better case within my recollection, Simple as it 1 was, therc were several most instructive points about it. '
 'Simpio!" rjurulated,
 Well, really. it can hardly be de- scribrd as otherwise, said Sherlock Holmes, smiling at my surprise The proof of its inuin<ic simplicity is that without any hclp save very few or dinary deductions, I was able 10 lay my hand upon the criminal within three days, "
 | That iS true. " said |
 ] Il have already explained to you that I wh&t iS cut of thc common is usually 1 guide raiG,r than hindrauCe, In solv- l irG q lroHli III of this So-r the grand thing k 10 be allu 10 1oas n backward. | Tint k very useful c>omplishment and a vcry cisy onr, hu; people do not i practice 1T much In the everyday af- l fairs If life il Is more useful to reason | forward, and so the other comes to be | neglected. There arc 50 who can reason >yUthrtlrally for one who can reason 1 anaIytically.
 Il confess. said l, that do not 1 quite follow you.
 Il hardly expected that you would. 1 Let mo see if l can make it clear. Most | people. if y0U describe train of events to them. will tell you what the result would le They can put those events to- Grthvr ill their minds and argue from them that something will como to pass. l There are few people. however. who, if you told them result, would be able to evolve from their own inner con- | sCiuusneSS what the steps wore which lei up 10 that result. This power is what mean N ..~uning backward, Nv <,
 II uni r~:a...
 NOW, th}S v.;~ :, ....-, ln :, hich you were given th,. IT,. ..,:G !.,l 10 find everything q. :. ,, ~~ylt LOW, let mo onI;Av t.,,, -.. Jn ,,:!fercnt steps ill my rra,. ... 'rpl>~-,l at the beginning. l arfs>"!,..,t | house., as you know, cH ....d M..& ny mind entirely free tr,:u all l:u!!> <>lonS. l naturally rc;an Y ,NANsiu!ag the road way, aL,i :.n;.. '. l have already eX- plaincd 10 y, l S,w clearly tho marks of c..h, Wi!j,h, "Srtrtaiuti by in quirv. I'M; a..vo b,ln there during the night >,.;i,j!cd myself that it was a cab and uc; private carriage by the narrow eau=o of the wheels. The or diuary LouUon crowior is considerably less Vviio than \ ctntleman's brougham. This was t-c first ToinU gained. l then v...::l slowly down tho garden p2tb, w..llI happened 10 bo coGpOsed Of q clay :H.l p,tul;.,rly suitable for talk ing impressions, No doubt it appeared to you to L. a y.srn tramped line of siuSh. lUt tu Iav trained eye every mark upon i.S >uriA"e had a meaning There is m h-:.:!ch If detective science which is so il.;I .2ry,.ut and so much neglected aS IL" art CE tracing footsteps. Happily Eayc "iWavS land great stress upon il. and much practice has made it second nature h I::C 1 saw tho heavy foot mayGS tE t.:o crEs:Ihlts, but l saw also th, trari.S 0f t!3e two mon who had first Passed through llo garden. IL was easy to tvN that they had been before the Oth- CTS. bGvauS2 i'll places their marks had been entirely ohlitora;etl by the others coming upon the top of them. In this way r,y scc>nd link was formed, which told Iao t!.at the nocturnal visitors were two in number, O,!o remarkable for his height, as 1 calculated from the length of his stride. and the other fashiouably dressed. to ludSc from tho small and l CAS Ss+L-N A4t s5t NNS'4N4l 4NAk Ah HIN DCN'AS.
 On entering the house this last in ference was confirmed My well booted
 man lav E,furo me Tho tall one, then, had done the murder, if murder there
 was. Th,ro was no wound upon the
 dead mans person. but tho GSitatcd cx
 preSsiou upon his faCc assured mo that
 ho had forC seen his fate before it came
 upon hiI1. Mon who die from heart dis
 caso CT any sudden natural cause never by any chance exhibit agitation upor
 their features. Having sniffed the dcat , mans lips. l detected n slightly soul
 smell. and came to the conclusion tha :; he had had poison forced upon him ) Again, I argued that it had been forced
 upon him from the hatred and fear ex pressed upon his face. By the method O
 exclusion I had arrived at this result
 for no other hypothesis would meet tn
 facts. Do net imagine that it was yer.
 unheard of idea The forcible adminis
 tratiun of poison is by no means a nev
 thing lH criminal annals. Tho cases O }. Dolsky in Odessa and of Leturier il
 Montpelier will occur at once to an. }, toxiCOlosiSt
 And now came the great question q ' IO luc TSASOu why. ROOuSIJ H0u uO
 been the object of the murder. for noth !. ing was taken. Was it politics, then. 0 - was it woman? That was the Questio which confronted me. I was incline from the first to the latter suppositiou
 Political asSassins are only too glad |
 do their work and to fly. This murde ,a had, on the contrary, been done mos 1t deliberately, and the perpetrator had lei
 his tracks all over the room, showin
 that he had been there all the time.