The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-26
Continued from Pane

Wuuiu speedily nave been in n blaze.
entirely destroying this discriminating
evidence. Note the craftiness of it. The
barrel hoods the light. precluding OBJ
servation from outside, and prevents
draft from extinguishing the candle
Very long candles of this kind can east
~ be obtained, long enough TO burn for
Twelve hours. How easy for an incen-
diary TO fire a stable I'm this way ana
Deny having been near Il for a day at
least"
Internally clever" muttered Cole
man. THE candle is about half burned
out. Who can have extinguished it?"
did" laughed Boyd, II happened
out here yesterday morning and found
IL burning. i have an idea that the
would-be incendiary will show up
later to learn why his scheme failed
and to plant second candle"
Good heavens. Boyd, whom do you
suspect of this?''
Dickens fears that he has secret
enemies, and il may be their work"
said Boyd drily Possibly we shall
learn. Have a look at this loose page.
Jimmie. What do you make of it?''
BY all the gods. Boyd, II Is a leaf
from a dictionary"
The dictionary from which Dickson's
patchwork letter was made" chuckled
Boyd. quiet dear fellow There is
no knowing when visitors may arrive.
III replace this head, and II viii be as
sumed that the candle accidentally ex-
pired, possibly being averse to such i'm
famous knavery as arson. That's as
we found IT, Now to cover, Jimmie,
for long and silent wait"
In the intense gloom OF the stable
they patiently waited minute after
minute. never speaking, oftentimes
scarce breathing. until nearly two
hours had passed.
Then their tireless vigil was reward
cd and the supreme cleverness Of Mr.
Felix Boyd demonstrated side door
of the stable was quietly opened and a
man bearing a dark lantern cautiously
entered
He listened for several moments then
approached the barrel and examined It.
Then he removed the partly burned
candle and got another. fully twenty
four inches long, from stall near by
This he adjusted in the barrel. as be-
fore, then struck a match and lighted
II. As he did so. bending above the
open barrel, the two watchers saw that
he was a stout fellow, with red hair
and beard Having lighted the candle
he replaced the perforated barrel head
snd stole out Of the stable by the way
he had entered.
Boyd laid a warning hand on Cole
mans arm, checking him until the in
cendiary had closed and locked the
door. Then he murrnured softly:
This way. Jimmie. this way Care
fully-nOt a sound!"
Moving quickly. yet with the utmost
caution. they opened the rear window
and reached the ground outside. Then
Boyd led the way around the stable
hugging the side wall, and gazed to-
ward Dickson's house. The incendiary
barely discernible in the darkness, was
then emerging from a shed near the
dwelling. around the corner of which
he quickly disappeared.
After him, Jimmie," whispered
Boyd Quietly"
Both started across the open grounds
but had covered hardly rod when the
night air was rent with such a wild
shrek for help that their blood fairly
curdled. Then came a pistol shot. in
stanti" followed by another and an
other.
A muttered oath broke from Boyd
and his face grew hard as flint.
BY God, the game is orr he fiercely
cried, rushing toward the corner of the
house around which the bearded man
had disappeared. This way, Jimmie
Use your gun! Drop any man you lay
eyes on
His voice rang like trumpet on the
night, and was echoed by startling
cries from beyond the dwelling AS
Boyd turned tbs cb'ner Of it three men
We're fairly flying across the grounds
and already nearing the strip OF woods
previously mentioned. A fourth man,
the one with a red beard. lay PROSTATE
on the earth. shot through the breast
and breathing his last.
Boyd followed the three men. firing
shot after shot at them as he ran: but
the darkness prevented any accuracy
and within half minute all three had
vanished in the woods. Pursuit OBJ
viously would have proven only vain
and Boyd dashed back 70 look after
their victim.
He found Coleman raising the strick-
en- man, who was bleeding profuSely
from a gaping wound in his right
breast; and as Boyd kneeled beside
him CHASTITY enough I'm the starlight
the dying man drew his final breath
gasping with last convulsive effort:
'Wy-wy-wy-"
Then he was gone. with the unf1n-
ished phrase or word. perhaps, silenced
on his dead lips. Coleman dropued
him. dead weight. upon the ground
and drew from his clenched hand sew
eral small packa ges tied with braid
which he was convulsively gripping
BY all the gods Felix" he cried. as
he felt their contents The stolen
diamondsi"
Boyd passed his hand across the dead
mans face. sweeping away the REG
beard and wig with the movement.
Just as ! thought, Jimmie." he said
coolly. Behold"
The dead man was Nathan Dickson
the diamond dealer of Maiden .lanel
".
The details OF what followed that
fateful evening are not essential. and II
was not until the next morning that
Felix Boyd, seated i'm his office. dis.
closed TO Coleman the remarka biz
thread OF deductions by which ne had
accomplished his great work.
1T was a curious case. Jimmie" SAID
he. over his pipe; "and not entirel,
satisfactory. Yet We recovered the dia.
monds. and so saved their rightfu
owners from serious losses
Il should say So" declared the cen
trail Office man. But YOU beat me
Felix, on my word Pm blessed il
see how you fathOmed it."
Il will tell you how" said Boyd