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

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pleasure TO be derived. It is pleas
ant 10 me to observe, Watson. that YOU
nave so far grasped this truth that in
Ihese little records of our cases which
You nave been good enough 10 draw up.
ana 1 ana bound to say. occasionally
u embellish, you have given prorni-
hence not so much To the many causes
TeiebIes and sensational trials in which
nave figured, but rather TO those in
Currents which may have been trivial
IN themselves, but which have given
room Tor those faculties Of deduction
ana OF logical synthesis which 1 have
made my special province"
And yet said 1, smiling. Il cannot
quite hold myself absolved from the
Sharge or sensatiOnalism which has
oeen urged against my records"
hOu nave erred, perhaps" ne OBJ
served, taking up a glowing ciuder with
the tongs and lighting with it the long
cherry-WOOd pipe which was won't TO
replace his clay when he was in a dis
putatlOus rather than a meditative
mood-'yOu have erred perhaps i'm at
tempting TO put color and life into each
OF your statements instead of confin-
ing yourself TO the task of placing up
on record that severe reasoning from
cause 10 effect, which is really the only
notable feature about the thing"
II seems TO me that l have done YOU
full justice in the matter" / remarked.
win some GOODNESS, for / was repealed
Dy the egotlsm which l had more than
once observed TO be a strong factor i'm
my friends singular character.
No, II not selhshness or cOnceit."
SAID ne, answering, as was his won't
my thoughts rather than my words.
II claim full justice for my art il is
: because it is an impersonal thing-a
thlng beyond myself. Crime is COM
mon. Logic is rare Therefore it is
upon the logic rather than upon the
crime that you should dwell. You have
degraded what should have been a
course of lectures into a series of
tales"
1t was a cold morning of the early
spring, and We sat after breakfast on
either side of a CHEEKY fire in the old
room at Baker street. A thick fog
rolled down between the lines of dun
Colored houses, and the opposing win
doWs doomed like dark, shapeIess blurs
through the heavy yellow wreaths.
Our gas was lit and shOne on the white
cloth and glimmer of china and metal
Tor the table had not been cleared vet
Sherlock Holmes had been silent ali
che morning, dipping continuously in
10 the advertisement columns of a sue
cession of papers, until at last having
apparently given up his search. he had
emerged in no very sweet temper TO
lecture me upon my literary shortcom-
ings
AT the same time" he remarked.
after pause during which he had sat
puHing al his long pipe and gazing
down INTO the fire, you can hardly be
open TO a charge of sensatiOnalism, for
out OF these cases which YOU have
been SO kind as to interest yourself in.
fair proportion do not treat of crime,
IN its legal sense, at all. The small
matter in which 4 endeaVOred 10 help
the King OF Bohemia, the singular eX-
perience of Miss Mary Sutherland. the
problem connected with the man with
the twisted lip, and the incident of the
noble bachelor. were all matters which,
are outside the pale of the law. But
In avoiding the sensational ] fear that
you may have bOrdered on the trivial"
THE end may have been SO" / an
sWered, but the methods / hold TO /
have been novel and of interest"
'Pshaw, my dear fellow. what do the /
public, the great unobservant public, /
who could hardly tell a weaver by his |
tooth or d cOmpOsitOr by his left thumb |
care about the finer shades of analysis |
and deduction, But, indeed. if you are
trivial, 1 cannot blame YOU. for the (
Qdg = Oh the great cases are past. Man, /
or at least criminal man, has lost all /
enterprise and originality. As To my
own little practice il seems 10 be de- !
generating into am agency for recover /
ing lost lead pencils and giving advice 1
10 young ladies from boarding schools. /
think | have touched bottom at last, /
however. This note i had this morn /
ing marks my zerO-point, 1 fancy. |
Read it, He tossed d crumpled letter |
across TO me.
II was dated from Montague place
upon the preceding evening. and ran /
thus;
Dear Mr.. Holmes-I am very anx-
ious 10 consult you as to whether 1 /
should or should not accept a situation /
which has been offered to me as gov /
erness. 1 shall call at 1890 tomorrow. !
il do not Inconvenience YOU. Yours /
faithfully, VIOLET HUNTER"
DO you know the young lady?" !
asked.
mot J."
1T is 1890 now"
Yes, and L have no doubt that is her
ring"
1T may turn out to be of more in
terest than YOU think. You remember
that the affair of the blue carbuncle.
which appeared 10 be a mere Whim at
first, developed into a serious investi-
cation. 1t may be SO i'm this case,
also"
"Well, let us hope so. But our doubts
will very soon be solved. for here. un-
less / ann much mistaken, is the person
In question"
As he spoke the door opened and d
young lady entered the room. She was
plainly but neatly dressed, with a
bright. quick face. freckled like d
plover's egg, and with the brisk man
ner OF a woman who has had her own
way TO make in the world.
You viii excuse my troubling you
am sure" said she as my COMPANION [
rose to greet her, but 1 have had
very strange experience. and as / have
no parents or relations OF any sort
from whom / could ask advice.
thought that perhaps YOU would be
kind enough to tell me what / should
10"
Pray, take a seat, Miss Hunter. I
shall be happy To do anything | can 10
serve you"
could see that Holmes was favor
ably impressed By the manner and
speech OF his new client. He looked her
,ver in his searching fashion. and
hen composed himself, with his lids
irooping and his finger-tips together,
o listen 10 her story.
Il have been "A gOVerness for five
ears" said she, lin the family of Col.
Spence Munro. but two months ago the
Colonel received an appointment at
Halifax, i'm Nova Scotia, and took his
hildren over to America with him, so .
hat / found myself without a situa- ,
ion. L advertised, and / answered ad-
-ertisements without success. At last /
he little money which l had saved be- .
IAN TO run short, and 1 was at my ,
Wits end as 10 what / should do.
There is a Wel-known agency for ,
-overnesses I'm the West End called }