The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17

due at W 'nCheSteF at II 30.
That will do very nicely. Then per-
haps l had better postpone my analysis
of the acetOnes. as we may need to be
at our best in the morning"
/ By II O'Clock the next day We were
we'll upon our way TO the old English
capital. Holmes had been buried in the
morning papers all the way down, but
after we had passed the Hampshire
border he threw them down and began
/ to admire the scenery. 1t was an ideal
spring day, a light blue sky hecked
with fieecy white clouds drifting across
| from west to east. The sun was shin
/ ing very brightly, and yet there was an
/ exhilarating nip in the air which set
an edge to a mans energy. All over
! the countryside. away 10 the rolling
/ hills around Aldershot, the little red
/ and gray roofs of the farm steadings
peeped out from amid the light green
! of the new foliage.
Are they not fresh and beautiful"
/ / cried with all the enthusiasm of
man fresh from the fogs of Baker
street.
But Holmes shook his head grave
/ ly.
do you know, Watson" said he,
that it is one of the curses of a mind
with a turn like mine that must look
own special subject. You look at these
scattered houses and you are impressed
/ by their beauty. I look at them and
the only thought which comes to me is
a feeling of isolation and of the inn
punity with which crime may be COM
United there"
Good heavens" l cried Who
would associate crime with these dear
old homesteads?"
/ They always nil me with a certain
horror. 1t is my belief, Watson, found
ed upon my experience, that the lowest
and vilest alleys in London do not pre-
sent a more dreadful record of sin than
does the smiling and beautiful coun-
tryside."
You hOrTify me-"
But the reason is very obvious, The
pressure of public opinion can do in
the town what the law cannot accom-
plish. There is no lane so vile that the
scream of a tortured child or the thud
of a drunkard's blow does not beget
sympathy and indignation among the
neighbOrs. and then the whole machin-
cry of justice is ever so close that a
word of complaint can set it going, and
there is but a step between the crime
and the dock. But look at these lonely
houses. each in its own field filled for
the most part with poor. ignorant folk
who know little of the law. Think OF
the deeds of hellish cruelty. the hidden
wickedness which may go on, year I'm,
year out, in such places, and none the
wiser Had this lady who appeals TO
us for help gone 10 live in Winchester.
| should never have had fear for her.
II IS the five miles of country which
makes the danger Still. il is clear that
she is not personally threatened"
NO. If she can come TO Winchester
TO meet US she can get away"
Quite so. She has her freedom"
What can be the matter, then? Can
you suggest no explanations"
Il have devised seven separate ex-
plantations, each of which would cover
the facts as far as We know them. But
which of these Is correct can only be
determined by the fresh information
which we shall no doubt find waiting
for us. Well, there is the tower of the
cathedral, and we shall soon learn all
that Miss Hunter has To tell"
The Black Swan is an inn of repute
in the High street. at no distance from
the station, and there We found the
young lady waiting for US. She had
engaged a sitting room, and our lunch
awaited US upon the table.
Il am so delighted that you have
come" she said. earnestly 1T is so
very kind of you both; but indeed. do
not know what / should do. Your ad-
vice viii be altogether invaluable to
me-"
Pray tell us what has happened to
you" II
have promised Mr. Rucastle to be