The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-22

bah beneath,
1T has been touch and go with
1 him." said /, but he'll live now. Just
open that window and hand me the
! water carafe." I undid his collar,
poured the cold water over his face,
and raised and sank his arms until he
| drew long. natural breath. It's only
a question of time now" said l, as
| turned away from him.
Holmes stood by the table, with his
hands deep in his trousers pockets and
his chin upon his breast.
u suppose We ought TO call the police
in now" said he. And yet 1 confess
that I'd like to give them complete
case when they come"
'gt's blessed mystery TO me-" cried
Pycroft, scratching his head. What
ever they wanted to bring me all the
| way up here for. and then"
Pooh! Al that is clear enough, .
said Holmes, impatiently. 1T is this
last sudden move"
You understand the rest, then?
81 think that it is fairly obvious.
| What do you say, Watson"
| 1 shrugged my shoulders. II must
confess that I am out of my depths,
said I.
"Oh, surely. IL you consider the events
= at first they can only point TO one con-
| clusion"
What do you make of them?"
| We'll, the whole thing hinges upon
! two points. The first is the making of
| Pycroft write a declaration by which
! he entered the service of this prepos-
/ ferrous company. Do you not see how
| very suggestive that is?''
| II am afraid / miss the point"
well, why did they want him TO do
arse Ter. fsaFaf
| arrangements are usually verbal, and
| there was no earthly reason why this
| should be an exception. Don't you see,
| my young friend. that they were very
| anxious 10 obtain a specimen Of your
handwriting. and had no other way Of
doing it?"
And why?"
quite so. Why? When we answer
that we have made some progress with
our little problem. Why? There can
be only one adequate reason. Some
one wanted to learn TO initiate your
writing, and had to procure specimen
of it first. And now if We pass on to
the second point we find that each
throws light upon the other. That
point is the request made by Primer
that you should not resign your place,
but should leave the manager of this
important business in the full eXpecta-
ton that a Mr.. Hall Pycroft, whom he
had never seen. was about TO enter
the Office upon the Monday morning"
My GOdt' cried our client, what
blind beetle l have been!"
Now you see the point about the
| handwriting. Suppose that some one
! turned up in your place who wrote a
completely different hand from that in
which you had applied for the vacancy,
- L haaT1
up. But in the interval the rogue had
| learned to initiate you, and his position
was therefore secure. as ] presume
that nobody in the office had ever set
| eyes upon you.
Not a soul" groaned Hall Pycroft.
Very good. OF course, il was of the
utmost importance 10 prevent you from
/ thinking better Of il, and also TO keep
/ YOU from coming into contact with any
one who might tell you that your dou-
/ bic was at work in Mawson's office.
/ Therefore they gave handsome adj
vance on your salary. and ran you of
/ to the Midlands, where they gave you
enough work to do to prevent your
going TO London, where you might have
burst their little game up. That is all
plain enough. -
But why should this man pretend to
| be his own brother?"
well, that is pretty clear also. There
are evidently only two of them in IT,
/ The other is personating you at the
/ Office. This one acted as your eDgager
and then found that he could not find
! you an employer without admitting a
third person into his plot. That he was
most unwilling to do. He changed his
appearance as far as he could and
/ trusted that the likeness, which you
could not fail to observe, would be put
down to a family resemblance. But
for the happy chance of the gold stuff
! fing, your suspicious would probably
never have been aroused
Hall Pycroft shook his clinched hands
in the air. Good Lordp' he cried,
while 1 have been fooled in this way.
what has the other Hall Pycroft been
doing at Mawson's? What should we
do. Mr.. Holmes? Tell me what to do"
I'VE must wire to MawsOn's.
"They shut at l. on Saturdays"
Never mind. There may be some
doorkeeper or attendant"
"Ah, yes, they keep a permanent
/ guard there OH account OF the value OF
the securities that they hold. I remem-
Der hearing it talked of in the city"
Very good; we shall wire 10 him.
and see IL all is well. and if a clerk of
your name is working there. That is
! clear enough; but what is not 50 clear
is why at sight of US one of the rogues
| should instantly walk out Of the room
| and hang himself"
/ THE paperw croaked a voice behind
us. The man was sitting up, blanched
| and CHASTITY. with returning reason in
his eyes, and hands which rubbed nerv-
ously at the broad red band which still
| encircled his throat,
THE paper OF course! yelled
Holmes. in a paroxysm of excitement.
idiot that I was! I thought so much
OF our visit that the paper never en-
tered my head for an instant. To be
! sure, the secret must lie there" He
hattened it out upon the table, and q
cry of triumph burst from his lips.
Look at this Watson" he cried. 1T
is a London paper. an early edition of
the Evening Standard. Here is what
we want. Look at the head lines:
| Crime in the City. Murder at Nav
son < Williams. Gigantic Attempted
Robbery. Capture of Criminal Here
Watson, we are all equally anxious to
! hear it, so kindly read it aloud TO US.
| 1t appeared from its position in the
paper to have been the one event OF
importance in town, and the account
of it ran in this way:
a desperate attempt at robbery, cul-
minating i'm the death of one man and
inc capture OF lne CRIMINAL, OCcuIISo
this afternoon in the city. For some
time back Mawson & Williams, the
| famous financial house. have been the
guardians of securities which amount
in the aggregate TO a sum OF consider
ably over d million sterling. So con-
! scious was the manager of the respon-
sibility which devolved upon him in
! consequence of the great interests at
stake that safes of the very latest con-
struction have been employed. and an
armed Waterman has been left day and
night ia the building. 1t appears that
last week a new clerk named Hall Py-
| =