The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-19

friend to be in better form,
both. mental and physical.
than i'm the year '95. His
increasing fame had
brought with it an i'm
- meuse practice, and /
should be guilty of an in
discretion if ! were even to hint at the
identity Of some of the ilIustrious eli
ents who crossed our humble threshold
in Baker street. Holmes, however, like
all great artists. lived for his arts sake.
and. save in the case OF the Duke of
JIOlderneSse. l have seldom known
him claim any large reward for his in
estima BILE services. So unworldIy was
he-OT so capricious-that he frequently
refused his help to the powerful and
wealthy. where the problem made no
appeal to his sympathies. while he
would devote weeks of most intense
applications the affairs of some hum
BILE client whose case presented those
strange and dramatic qualities which
appealed to his ina gination and chaI-
lCUEed his ingenuity.
I'm this memOra bic year 80 curious
aud homogeneous succession of asses
had gagged his attention. ranging
from his famous investigation of the
sudden death Of Cardinal Tosca--an in
quiry which was carried out by him at
the express desire of His Holiness. the
Pope-doWn to the arrest of Wilson.
the notorious Cauary-tTainer, which
removed a i'ld2 le-S spot from the eaSI
end of London. Close on the heels of
these two famous cases came the ira g
edy Of Woodlands Lee and the very
obscure circumstances which surround
cd the death of Captain Peter Carey.
No record of the dCings of Mr. Sherlock
Holmes would be complete which did
mot include some account of this very
unusual affair
During the first week Of July, my
friend had been absent so often and
80 long from our lodging that I knew
1c had something on hand The fact
that several rOugh-lOOking men called
during that time and inquired for Cap
tain Basil made me understand that
Holmes was working somewhere under
one of the numerous DISCUSSES and
BameS with which ne concealed his
own formidable identity. He had at
least FIVE small refugees in different
parts Of London, in which he was able
so change his personality He said
nothing of his business to me, and It
was not my Ia bit to force a conference.
The first positive sign which he gave
me of the direction which his investi-
cation was taking was an extra ordiu-
Fry one. He had gone out before
breakfast, and I had sat down to mine
when he STROBE into the room, his hat
upon his head and a huge barbed-
headed spear tucked like an umbrella
under his arm.
AToO1 gracious tttlllFS- fT1tI.
''Yo on don't mean to say that You have
been walking about London with that
thing"
II drove to the butchers and back"
The butchers -
And I return with an excellent ap-
l1ptite- There can be no question: my
dear Watson. of the value of exercise
before breakfast But I am prepared
10 bet you that you viii not guess
the form that my exercise has taken
II VIII not attempt 1t.
He Chuckled as he poured out the
coffee
IF YOU could have looked into Al
lardyces back shop. you would have
seen "A dead pig swung from "A hook in
the ceiling. and "A gentleman in his
shirt sleeves furiously StabbinE at it
with this weapon I was that energetic
person. and have satisfied myself that
by no eXertion of my strength can I
trausfiX the pig with a single blow.
Perhaps you would care to try?'
Not for worlds. But why are you
doing this
Because it seemed to me TO have an
indirect bearing upon the mystery Of
your wire last night. and I have been
expecting you Come and join us"
our visitor was an exceedingly alert
man, thirty years of age, dressed i'm a
quiet tweed suit but retaining the err
Get bearing Of one who was accustomed
- official uniform. 1 recognized him,
at once as Stanley Hopkins. Il young
police inspector, for whose future
Holmes had high hopes. while he i'm
turn profeSsed the admira ton and re-
Epect of a pupil for the scientific meth