The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-29

documents in the extraordinary case OF
the Gloria Scott, and this is the mes
sage which struck Justice of the Peace
Trevor dead with horror when he read
it,"
He had picked from drawer lit
tie furnished cylinder, and, undoing the
tape, he handed me a short note
scrawled upon a half-sheet of slate
gray paper
THE supply Of game FOR London is
going steadily up il ran. Head
Keeper Hudson, We believe. has been
now told TO receive all orders for fly
paper and FOR the preservation OF your
hen pheasants LIE
As l glanced mp from reading this
euigmatical message, l saw Holmes
chuckling az the expression upon my
face.
You look a little bewHdered," said
he
Il cannot see how such a message
as this could inspire horror il seems
to me to be rather grotesque than 9TH
erWise.'
VERY likely. Yet the fact remains
that the reader, who was a fine, ro-
bust Old man, was knocked clean down
by II as If II had been the butt end OF
pistol"
You arouse my curiosity" said I.
But why did you say just now that
there were very particular reasons why
2 should study this case?"
= Because it was the first in which |
y was ever engaged"
l had often endeav0red 10 elicit from
my companion what had first turned
his mind in the direction of criminal
research, but had never caught him be-
fore In communicative humOr. Now
he sat forward in his arm chair and
spread out the documents upon his
knees. Then he lit his pipe and sat
for some time smoking and turning
them over.
You never heard me talk of Victor
Trevor he asked. He was the only
friend / made during the two years
/ was at college. ] was never very
sociable fellow. Watson, always rath-
CT fond of moping in my rooms and
working out my own little methods OF
thought. so that ] never mixed much
with the men of my year. Bar fencing
aud boxing, / had few athletic tastes,
and then my line of study was quite
distinct from that of the other fellows,
so that We had no points of contact
at all, Trevor was the only man L
knew, and that only through the acct
dent of his bull terrier freezing on TO
my ankle one morning as / went down
TO chapel.
1T was a pTosaic way of forming
friendship, but il was effective. l
was laid by the heels for ten days, and
Trevor used TO come ia 10 inquire after
me. AT first it was only a minutes
chat, but soon his visits heightened and
before the end of the term we were
close friends He was a hearty, full
blOOded fellow, full of spirits and en-
ergy, the very opposite to me in most
respects. but we had some subjects ia
common. and il was a bond of union
when 1 found that he was as friend
less as I. Finally, he invited me down
% his fathers place al DOnnithOrpe,
In Norfolk, and / accepted his hOspi-
tally for a month of the long vaca-
ton.
"Old Trevor was evidently "A man of
some wealth and consideration, "a j.
p, and a landed proprietor. Donni-
thorpe is a little hamlet just 10 the
north Of Langmere in the country of
the Breads. The house was an old
fashioned widespread, oak beamed
brick building, with a fine lime-lined
avenue leading up 10 il. There was
excellent wild duck shooting in the
fens, remarkably good fishing, "A small
but select library, taken over. as l UNI
derStand. from a former occupant. and
"A toierabie cook so that he would be
IA fasti0iOus man who could not put
Yin a pleasant month there.
tTTevO< senior was a WidOWer, and
my friend his only son
There had been daughter. I heard,
but she had died of diphtheria while
ON a visit TO Birmingham. The father
interested me extremely. He was a
man of little culture but with a con-
siderable amount Of rude strength,
both physically and mentally. He knew
hardly any books, but ne had travelled
far, had seen much of the world and
had remembered all that he had
learned. In person he was a thick-set
burly man with a shock of gTiZZled
hair, a brown, weather beaten face.
and blue eyes which We're keen 10 the
verge Of fierceneSs. Yet he had
reputation for kindness and charity on
the countryside, and was noted for the
lenienCy of his sentences from the
bench
zone evening. shortly after my ar
rival, we were sitting over a glass Of
port after dinner. when young Trevor
began To talk about those habits OF
observation and inference which I had
already formed into system. al
though l had not yet appreciated the
part which they we're to play in my
life The old man evidently thought
that his son was eXaggerating in his
description of one or two trivial feats
which ! had performed.
" Come, now. Mr.. Holmes said he
laughing good-humoredly. I'm an ex-
cetient subject, if YOU can deduce any
thing from me-
- fear there is not very much l
answered: I might suggest that YOU
have gone about i'm fear of some per-
,sonal attack within the last twelve
month
THE laugh faded from his lips. and
he stared at me i'm great surprise.
Well, that's true enough, said he
You know, Victor, turning 10 his son.
when we broke up that pOachiug
gang they swore 10 knife US. and Sir
Edward Holly has actually been at
tackled I've always been on my guard
since then, though ] have no idea how
you know it
You have a very handsome stick,
I answered. BY the inscription l OBJ
served that you had not had IL more
than year. But you have taken some
pains to bore the head OF it and pour
melted lead into the hole 50 as To make
il a formidable weapon. l argued that
YOU would not take such precautions
unless YOU had some danger to fear
d" Anything else" he asked smiling.
&c You have boxed a good deal in your
youth
Right again. How did YOU know
il? Is my nose knocked a little out Of
the straight
=" No said I: ii is your ears. They
have the peculiar fiattening and thick
ening which marks the boxing man.
Anything else2'
You have done a good deal of dig
cling by your callOusities.'
Made all my money at the gold
fields
'' You have been in New Zealand