The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-08
SECTION THREE.
By
SIR A. Conan Doyle


to Napoleon. IL was Holmes who saw
them first, and he stood pointing with
look of triumph over his face A
mans track was visible beside the
horses.
cried
HulO. what is this?'
The double track turned sharp off
and took the direction of Kings Ply
land. Holmes whistled, and we both
followed along after it. His eyes were
on the trail, but 1 happened TO look a
little to one side and saw TO my sur
prise the same tracks coming back
again in the opposite direction.
"One for you, Watson said Holmes,
when I pointed it out. You have saved
Us a long walk. which would have
brought US back on our own tracks. Let
US follow the return track"
We had not TO go far. 1t ended az
the paving of asphalt which led up 10
the gates of the Napoleon stables. As
/ We approached, a groom ran out from
them
I'VE don't want any loiterers about
here" said he.
Il only wished TO ask question ~
said Holmes, with his finger and thumb
in his waisteoat pockets. should / be
too early TO see your master, Mr.. Sllas
Brown, if I We're to call at o'clock
, tomorrow morning."
| BLESS you, sir, if anyone IS about
| he viii be, for he is always the frs
stirring. But here he is, sir, to answer
/ your questions for himself No, sir.
no; it is as much as my place is worth
TO let him see me touch your money.
! Afterwards, if you like"
! As Sherlock Holmes replaced the half
| crown which he had drawn from his
/ pocket. a fierce-lOOking elderly man
| strobe out from the gate with a hunt
| ing-crop swinging in his hand
What's this, Dawson" he cried.
! No gossipingi Go about your bust
ness, And you, what the devil DO you
| want here?"
/ Ten minutes talk with you, my good
| SIR said Holmes in the sweetest of
| voices.
'Tve no time to talk to every CAD
about. We want no strangers here. Be
off, or you may find a dog at your
heels"
Holmes leaned forward and Whis-
| pered something in the trainers ear.
He started violently and flushed to the
temples.
Its a Her' he shouted; IAN in
fernal lier'
very good. Shall We argue about
it in public or talk it over in your
parlOr?"
"Oh. come in if you wish To-"
Holmes smiled. Il shall not keen
you more than a few minutes. Wat
son.. said he. Now. Mr.. Brown. 1
am quite at your disposal" t
! 1t was twenty minutes, and the reds
had faded into grays. before Holmes
and the trainer reappeared. Never
had / seen such a change as had been
brought about in Silas Brown in that
/ short time. HIS face was ashy pale
Deeds of Precipitation shone upon his
brow, and his hands shook until the
hunting crop wagged like branch IN
the wind. His bullying, overbearipg
manner. was all gone, too, and he
[ cringed along at my companions SIDE
like a dog with it's master.
Your Instructions viii be done. IT,
shall all be done" said he
There must be no mistake, said
; Holmes. looking round at him. The
other WINGED as he read the menace
in his eyes.
"Oh, no. there shall be no mistake
It shall be there. Should / change it.
first or not?"
Holmes thought a little and then
burst out laughing. NO. don't said
he L shall write to you about it, No
"Oh, you can trust me. you can
trust me,''
Yes. ! think I can. Well. you shall
+ hear from ne tomorrow" He turned
upon his heel. disrsgarding the trenI-
bling hand which the other held out
to him, and we set off for Kings Ply
land.
"a more perfect compound of the
bully coward, and sneak than Master
Silas Brown I have seldom met with.
remarked Holmes as we tTudged alOng
together.
He has the horse, them"
He tried to buster out of it, but [
]
actions had been upon that morning
that he is convinced that l was watch
ing him. OF course you observed the
peculiarly square toes i'm the impress
sions, and that his own boots exactly
cOrresOnd to them. Again, Of
/ course no subordinate would have
, dared do such a thing. described TO
him how, when according to his Gus
tom he was the first down he per
ceiVed strange horse wandering
over the moor How he went out 10
It, and his astOnishment at recogniz-
ing, from the white forehead which
has given the faVOrite its name, that
! chance had put in his power the only
horse which could beat the one uDon
which he had his money. Then /
: described how his first impulse had
been to lead him back to Kings Ply
z land ana now the devil had shown
him how he could hide the horse until
the race was over, and bow he had led
ID back and concealed IL at MaDletOu.
= it 10 and thought only Of saving his
own skin.
, "But his stables had been searched ?'
, "Oh, al old horse fakir like him
2 has many 2. dodge
, But are you not afraid to leave the
z horse IN his power now, since ne has
} every interest in injuring ito"
, NV dear fPIlOW no will onqT0 il a
! the apple of his eye. He knows that
: his only hope of mercy is TO produce il
! safe"
Colonel Ross did not impress me as
man who would be likely to show
l much mercy in any case"
} 1.-The matter does nor rest with
/ Colonel Ross. I follow my own
: methods. and tell as much or as little
as choose That is the advantage Of
being unofficial. / don't know whether
t you observed it, Watson but the
: colOnePs manner has been Just a trile
cavalier 10 me- I am inclined now to
: have a little amusement al his eX-
pense. Say nothing TO him about the
. horse"
] Certainly not without your per
] mission
E And of course this is all quite a
. minor point compared to the question
\ of who killed John Straker."
S And you viii devote yourself to
e that?"
/ ION the contrary. we both go back
- TO London by the night train.
2 I was thunderstruck by my friend 3
: words. We had only been a few hours
: in Devonshire. and that he should
n give up an investigation which had
e begun 50 brilliantly was quite incom-
: prehensible to me. Not word more
Y could / draw from him until we We're