The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-14
Continued from Page 8.

Inc particulars or this affair soon
enough"
Il think, Jimmie Boyd now said,
partly closing the door, "that you had
better slip down and get an officer or
two"
so 1 think. and 1 must also send
word to headquarters. Will YOU remain
here while / am gomez"
Yes" nodded Boyd Meantime, I
VIII make an examination on my own
hook. Stop bit"
sWer?"
While you are below. Jimmie. just
break the news to Mrs. Getchel, will
your
That's disagreeable job" growled
Coleman
Som ebody has TO do it, and I prefer
YOU, Jimmie, for I wish you TO make
sure that she is kept away from this
office during my Investigations. Send
her home, Jimmie, and say that the
body viii be properly forwarded"
We'll, I'll do it, Felix, since you ask
it of me-
That's very good of you, Jimmie
One thing more
What's that?''
Send Mrs. Dobson home also, saying
that We find no trace of her husband.
but will send word TO her as soon as we
have anything to report"
by Jove" muttered Coleman abb
ruptly. Isn't 1t probable that the
missing janitor did this job?''
AT least possible. Jimmie, if not
probable replied Boyd "I' wish 20
make quick study of these rooms,
and with no intruders about. So get
rid of both women by some means.
shall be here when you return
I'll not be away long," said Coleman,
as he withdrew.
In artfully imposing these several OBJ
len ~
Felix Boyd had a secondary object
that OF gaining time in which TO make
a secret examination of the two Of
fees, in search of any evidence bearing
upon the crime.
AS Coleman departed, Boyd stepped
briefly into the corridor, and again adj
dressed Mr.. Warner.
Have you seen Dobson, the janitor
this morning. he asked.
81 have not seen him for several
days" was the erply.
Think a moment" said Boyd. Can
YOU state just when you last saw
him.
why, yes, think So said Warner.
Il saw him Thursday afternoon, as
was starting for home"
Here in the building?"
Yes; he came down to this floor in
the elevator. and left it just as 1 got
in TO go TO the street"
turned after leaving the elevator"
HE came this way, 1 am quite sure
And 2bOut what time was it,"
Between half-past and ;. i cannot
say precisely
Thank you. Mr.. Warner"
Boyd bowed and returned to the Of
flee, the door of which he now FASTENED
10 close ana lock, with the key previ-
ousiy used.
Then he glanced at his watch.
Ten minutes-I cannot hope for
more he grimly muttered Il must
have done in that time. I must get on
their track-and accomplish it unseen
He darted to the nearest window and
looked out
He was about TO begin his investiga-
tion- and, had there been an observer
during the next five minutes, he would
have witnessed a most extraordinary
scene He would have -beheld Felix
BOYD as no man ever yet beheld him,
with his strenuous mental operations
depicted in his changing countenance,
and evinced in his every rapid move
ment He would have seen persona
fled the relentless sleuth of blood stir
ring fiction, the man metamorphosed
into the hound, with both the hunter
instinct and the human acumen stimu-
lated TO supernatural activity
With lips compressed, with features
drawn and white, with eyes that
cleaned dzglittered as if with fever
under his knit brows, Boyd threw open
the nearest window and looked out He
found it unlocked, and glance gave
him the external surroundings.
The window was on the third floor,
and was nearly forty feet from the
ground IT was in the rear wall of the
building. as previously stated, ana
about midway of the block. Back of
the block was an unpaved pdssageWdy,
tan ar
nv which trucks and drayS had access
TO the freight elevator and lower stores
Across this court rose the unfinished
rear wall of the new building previously
mentioned.
Rovd took in these pertinent features
with q single glance, then quickly
closed the window. Next he darted into
the inner room, glanced first at the
1-ifIed safe. then at the CORY body OF the
murdered man: but upon neither did he
bestow any further attention
Dropping to his hands and knees
llpon the floor he took lens from ms
poc<et and began to study the carpet
inch by inch. foot by foot, yard after
ard he wriggled over the floor. with
tho lens at his eyes and his face nearly
touching the carpet
Now and then he fingered over some
particular spot; now and then NUT
tered word escaped him, or an nnpui-
SlVe gesture, haiSo .''o -. -
mental activity; yet for the most part
his work was done with amazing
rapidity and in utter silence.
presently he leaped to his feet again,
then studied with his lens the sill OF
the window. and then the stone coping
outside; and he was thus engaged when
Inc knob of the door was forcibly
t,,rned followed by commanding
knock on the panel
Royd instantly resumed his hapitual
.ir and aspect. Quietly closing the
,yindov. he thrust the lens into his
n6cl<et. then approached and opened
the door. -. ~.
b. .blandlv inquired. with a nod and
s1,ile. II decided that would lock
This door to exclude intruders, pending
Your arrival"
E'olIowed by Coleman and three more
~ his detectives, the famous chief OIL