The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-13
SECTION THREE.

! the goose, and how came the goose into
/ the open marketZ Tell us the truth.
I for there lies your only hope Of safety.
Ryder passed his tongue over his
! parched lips 7 viii tell you it just
! as it happened, sir" said he. When
( Horner had been arrested il seemed TO
I me that IL would be best for me TO get
away with the stone at once, for did
4 not know at what moment the police
might take il into their he'd IS to s.sarcn
/ me and my room There was no place
/ about the hotel where it would be safe
] I went out as if on some commission
I and made for my sisters house She
/ had married a man named OakshOtt-
and lived in Brixton road, where she
/ fattened fowls for the market. All the
/ way there every man 1 met seemed
| TO be a policeman or a detective; and
/ for all that 1t was cold night the
/ sweat was pouring down my face be-
4 fore came to the BrixtOn road Ally
| sister asked me what was the matter
| and why 1 was so pale; but told her
1 that 1 had been upset by the JeWel
robbery at the hotel. Then went into
! the back yard and. smoked a pipe and
/ wondered what it would be best TO 90
Il had friend once called Ma1Idsley,
| who went to the bad. and has Just been
| serving his time in PentOnVil1e. One
! day he had met me and fell into talk
about the ways OF thieves ana now
they could get rid OF what they stole
/ knew that he would be true 10 me- for
f., I knew one or two things about him
| so I made up my mind to go right on 20
| Kuburn, where he lived, and take him
| into my confidence He would show me
/ how to turn the stone into money But
| how TO get to him in safety 1 thought
| of the agOnies had gone through in
| coming from the hotel I might at any
| moment be seized and searched, and
| there would be the stone In my waist
| coat pocket was leaning against the
/ wall at the time, and looking at the
! geese which were waddIing about round
/ my feet, and suddenly an idea came
/ into my head which showed me how
I I could beat-the best detective that
| ever lived
| My sister had told. me some weeks
/ before that might have the pick of
| her geese for a, Christmas present and
| 1 knew that she was always as good as
| her word. L would take my goose now.
! and in it I would carry my stone to
/ Kuburn- There was a little shed in ths
/ yard, and behind this ! drove one OF
| the birds-a fine, big one, white, with
/ barred tail. I caught it and prying its
I bill open I thrust the stone down it's
! throat as far s my finger could reach
( The bird gave Gulp, and I felt the
stone pass along its gullet and down
! into its crop. But the creature tapped
/ and struggled, and out came my sister
! to know what was the matter, AS 7
/ turned to speak to her the brute broke
loose and fiuttered of among the 9th
ers.
Whatever were YOU doing with
! that bird. Jem2' says she.
/ Well. said I, you said you'd give
me one for Christmas, and was feeling
| which was the latest"
/ Oh says she. we've set yours
| aside for yOu-Jem's bird. We cali it.
It's the big white one over yonder.
! There's twenty-siX of them. which
makes one for you, one for us and two
dozen for the market
Thank yoUs Maggie says I; but
| If II is all the same TO YOU, I'd rather
have that one L was handling just
now
',rhe other is a good three pound
! heavier said she, and we fattened it
! expressly for you
Never mind I'll have the other,
and i'll take it now said l.
oh. just as you like said she. a
little huffed- Which is it you want,
. them?
g That white one with the barred tail.
right in the middle of the flock
oh. very well Kill it and take it
wen, I did what she said. Mr..
! Holmes, and / carried the bird all the
/ way to KilbuTn- I told my pal what
/ I had done, for he was a man that IL
was easy to tell q thing like that TO-
/ He laughed until he chOked. and we
/ got a knife and opened the goose. Ny
! heart turned TO water. fox there was
/ no sign of the stone, and 7 knew that
/ some terrible mistaIe had occurred
-
! and hurried into the back yard. There
was not a bird TO be seen there.
! " Where are they all, Maggie? I
cried
Gone to the dealers, Jem.'
| Which dealer's?'
81 eBreckinridge. of Covent Garden
| But was there another with a
| barred. tail?' asked, the same as the
| one I chose2
Yes. Jem; there were two barred
! tailed ones. and could never tell them
apart
| "Well, then, Of course, saw il all.
| and I ran off as hard as my feet would
/ carry me TO this man Breckenridge: but
! he had sold the lot at once, and not one
/ word would he tell me as to where they
( had gone You heard him yourselves
/ tonight. Well, he has always answered
me like that. Ny sister thinks that I
/ am going mad. Sometimes think that
| I am myself. And now-and now 7 am
| myself a branded thief. without ever
/ having touched the wealth for which
/ I sold my character God help me.
/ God help mel" He burst into conzul-
/ sive sObbing, with his face buried in
I his hands.
There was a long silence, broken only
! by his heavy breathing, and by the
measured tapping OF Sherlock Holmes
! finger tips upon the edge Of the table
! Then my friend rose and threw open
the door.
"Get outl' said he
/ w nat, SIR On, heaven bless your
| mo more words. Get outt''
| And no more words were needed
/ There was a rush. a clatter upon the
! stairs. the bang of a door and the crisp
| rattle of running footballs from the
| street.
after all. watson said Holmes.
reaching up his hand for his clay pipe,
! Il am not retained by the police to
supply their deficiencies. Il Horner
| were in danger il would be another
! thing; but this fellow viii not appear
| against him. and the case must collapse.
I suppose that 7 am commuting
! felony, but IT is just possible that 7 am
| saving soul This fellow will not go
] wrong again: he is too terribly fright
ened- Send him to jail now, and YOU
| make him a jail bird for life. Besides.
/ it Is the season of forgiveness. Chance
! has put in our way a most singular and
whimsical problem. and its solution is
its own reward. If you viii have the
| goodness TO touch the bell, doctor, we
viii begin another investigation, in
which. also. a bird viii be the chief
feature"