The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-03

your own theory as to what took
place."
well, really. l came to seek a
t4ny~y,- not PROFOUND one. / have given
y5n All the facts. Since you ask me,
however, I may say that it has oc-
CURED to me as possible that the ex-
element of this affair the conscious
ness that she had made so immense a
social stride, had the effect of causing
some little nervous disturbance in my
wife"
I'm short, that she had become sud-
denly deranged?"
Wei, really, when l consider that
she has turned her back-I will not say
upon me, but upon so much that many
have aspired to without success can
, hardly explain it in any other fashion. -
well, certainly that is also a con-
| ceivable hypothesis" said Holmes,
smiling. And now, Lord st. Simon.
think that l have nearly all my data.
May / ask whether you We're seated
at the breakfast table so that you
could see out of the wondow?"
We could see the other side Of the
road and the park"
"Quite so. Then I do not think that
/ need TO detain you longer. I shall
communicate with you"
Should you be fortunate enough to
solve this problem" said our client,
rising.
4 have solved it,"
! ? Eth? What was that?"
Il say that l have solved it,
Where, then. is my Wife?"
THAT is a detail which I shall
speedily supply
Lord ST. Simon shook his head. II
am afraid that it will take wiser heads
than yours or mine" he remarked and,
bowling in a stately. old fashioned
manner, he departed.
1T is very good of Lord ST. Simon
to honor my head by putting it on
level with his own" said Sherlock
Holmes, laughing. L think that l shall
have a whisky and soda and a cigar
after all this cross questioning. l had
formed my conclusions as to the case
before our client came into the room"
My dear Holiness"
II have notes of several similar
cases, though none. as I remarked be
fore, which were quite as prompt My
whole examination served to turn my
conjecture into a certainty CiTcum-
stantial evidence is occasionally very
convincing, as when you find a trout
in the milk, 10 quote Thoreau's ex-
ample"
But l have heard all that you have
heard"
pre-eXlsting cases which serves me so
well. There was a parallel instance I'm
Aberdeen some wears back, and some
thing on very much the same lines at
Munich The year after the Franco
E.rns SlaIl= war Il Is 50ue-sIf these cases
but, hello, here is Lestrade. Good
afternoon, Lestrade. You win find an
extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and
there are cigars in the box"
a., j.
pea-jacket and cravat. which gave him
a decidedly nautical appearance, and
he carried a black canvas bag in his
hand. With a short greeting ne seated
himself and lit the cigar which had
been offered to him.
What's up. them" asked Holmes,
with twinkle in his eye. You look
dissatisfied.
And I feel dissatisfied. 1t is this
Internal ST. Simon marriage case. I
can make neither head nor tail of the
business "
Really. You surprise me-
Who ever heard OF such a mixed
affair? Every clue seems to slip
| through my fingers. I have been at
work upon it all day"
And very wet it seems to have
made you" said Holmes, laying his
hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket.
Yes, | have been dragging the Ser
Dentine'
In heavens name. what for?"
In search of the body of Lady St.
Simon"
Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his
chair and laughed heartily.
Have you dragged the basin of Ira
falgar square fountain?" he asked.
Why? What do you mean"
Because you have lust as good
chance of finding this lady in the one
as in the other"
Lestrade shot an angry glance at my
companion. Il suppose you know all
about it," he snarled.
We'll. [ have only Just heard the
facts, but my mind is made up"
'Oh. indeed. sThen you think that
| the Serpentine plays no part IN the
matter?"
Il think it very unlikely"
Then perhaps you Will kindly eX-
plain how it is that we found this in
it?" He opened his bag as he spoke
and tumbled on to the floor a wedding
dress of watered silk, a pair OF white
satin shoes and a brid IS wreath and
veil, all discolored and soaked in water.
There, said he, putting . new we'd
ding ring upon the top of the pile
There is little nut for you to crack,
Master Holmes"
"Oh, indeed" said my friend. blow
ing blue rings into the air You
dragged them from the Serpentine?"
mo. They were found floating near
| the margin by a parkkeeper They
have been identified as her clothes. and
1t seemed to me that If the clothes
were there the body would not be far
Of"
BY the same brilliant reasoning,
every mans body is TO be found in the
neighborhoOd Of his wardrobe. And
pray what did you hope TO arrive at
through this?"
AT some evidence duplicating Flora
Millar in the disappearance"
I am afraid that YOU viii find il
difficult
Are you. indeed, now?" cried Les
trade. with some bitterness. 81 am
afraid, Holmes, that you are not very
practical with your deductions and
your differences. You have made two
blunders in as many minutes. This
dress does implicate Miss Flora Mil
lar"
"And how?"
On the dress is a pocket In the
pocket is card case. In the card
case is a note. And here is the very
note" He slapped it down upon the
table in front of him. Listen to this:
You will see me when all is ready.
Come at once. T. II NJ Now my
theory all along has been that Lady
St Simon was decoyed away by Flora
Aiillar, and that she with cOnfeder-
ates, no doubt, Was responsible for her
disappearance. Here, signed with her
initials, is the very note which was no
doubt slipped into her hand at the
door and VII lured her within their
reach.
AtrVery good. Lestrade." said Holmes,
| laughing You really are very fine
/ Indeed. Let me see it, He took up
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