The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-26


The man gave a hoarse cry of grief,
which rang through the house
You're crazy" he cried fiercely. 1T
was he that was hurt not she. Who
would have hurt little Elsie? / may
have threatened her-God forgive met
out would not have touched a hair
cf her pretty head Take it back-you!
Say that she is not hurt,''
She was found. badly wounded. by
the side OF her dead husband"
He sank with a deep groan on to the
srttse and buried his face in his mana
cied hands. For five minutes he was
silent Then he raised his face once
more and spoke with the cold compo-
sure of despair.
Il have nothing TO hide from you.
gentlemen, said he. ''If 1 shot the
man ne had his shot at me, and there's
no murder in that. But if you think
could have hurt that woman then
you don't know either me or her. l
tell You there was nsVer a man
IN this world loved wo-
man more than I loved her
had a right TO her She was pledged to
me years ago Who was this English
man that he should come between us?
l tell YOU that l had the first right to
her, and that I was only claiming my
OWN"
%She broke away from your inf1u-
enee when she found the man that you
are, said Holmes. sternly. "She fed
from America to avoid you, and she
married an honourable gentleman in
England You logged her and followed
her and made her life a misery to her.
IN order to induce her to abandon the
husband whom she loved and respected
IN order TO fly with you. whom she
feared and hated You have ended by
bringing about the death of a noble
man and driving his wife to suicide
Ihat Is your record in this business,
MI Abe Slaney, and you viii naswer
for it TO the law
IF Elsie dies. I care nothing what
becomes Of me-" said the American. He
opened one of his hands. and looked at
note crumpled up in his palm. See
mere. mister" he cried. with a CLEAN
Of suspicion in his eyes. you're not
trying 10 scare me over this. are YOU &?
If the lady is hurt as bad as YOU say
who was il that wrote this note?" He
tossed 1T forwards on to the table.
Il wrote il, to bring you here"
GU wrote it? There was no one on
secret OF the dancing men. How came
you to write it2'
What one man can invent another
can discover" said Holmes. There is
a cab coming to convey you to Nor
wich, Mr.. Sfaney. But, meanwhile
you have time to make some small
PREPARATION for the injury you have
wrought Are you aware that Mrs
Hilton Cubitt has herself lain under
grave suspicion of the murder of her
husband, and that it was only my
presence here, and the knowledge which
[ happened to possess. which has saved
her from the accusation? The least
that You owe her is TO make il clear
TO the whole world that she was i'm no
" ind
for his tragic end"
Il ask nothing better" said the
American. Il guess the very best case
/ can make for myself is the absolute
naked truth
1t is my duty to warn you that it
viii be used against you" cried the in
spector, with the magnificent fair play
OF the British criminal law.
Slapey shrugged his shoulders.
I'll chance that said he First of
all. 1 want you gentlemen to under
stand that I have known this lady
since she was a child. There were
seven of us in a gang in Chicago. and
Eisie's father was the boss of the
Joint He was a clever man. was old
Patrick. 1t was he who invented that
writing, which would pass as a child's
scrawl unless you just happened to
have the key to it. Well. Elsie learned
some of our ways. but she COULDN'T
stand the business. and she had a bit
of honest money of her own, so she
gave us all the slip and got away TO
London. She had been engaged to me.
and she would have married me, | be-
lieve, if had taken over another pro-
feSsion, but she would have nothing, to
do with anything on the cross. 1t was
only after her marriage to this Eng
lIshman that I was able to find out
where she was. I wrote to her but
got no answer After that I came over.
and, as letters were no use. 1 put my
messages where she could read them.
We'll, L have been here a month
now. 1 lived in that farm. where 7
had room down below. and
could get in and out every
night, and no one the wiser I
tried all 1 could 20 coax Elsie
away. / knew that she read the mes
sages, for once she wrote an answer
under one of them. Then my temper
Sot the better OF me. and I began to
threaten her. She sent me a letter
then. implcring me to go away and
saying that il would break her heart IL
any scandal should come upon her hus-
band She said that she would come
down when her husband was asleep II
in the morning. and speak with me
through the end window if I would 20
away afterward and leave her in peace.